In recent versions of sim-exp it appears, including version 9.2, that I can never grow or can never get skyscrapers or a real downtown, in the large cities. It is just suburbia for miles upon miles.
I do not have this problem with a semi-recent nightly in standard.
I am using pak128.
~Michael
Ahh, I think that the issue is that Experimental uses a different algorithm for city growth that needs somewhat different tuning to Standard. Have a look in cityrules.tab at this parameter:
# chance for renovation versus new building (bigger number => less sprawling)
# Note: the rougher the desired landscape, the lower that this number should be.
# Note: this value is automatically reduced by a factor of three if quick_city_growth
# is enabled in simuconf.tab.
renovation_percentage = 38
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Try increasing the renovation_percentage in the pak128 cityrules.tab and see whether that helps.
Thanks