How do you get 15,000 poeple??!! I've been at this one game for about 3 months and I only have 12,000 people, I've run out of stores too. How do you beat this game??

idk. who cares this game is lame

if ur a true sim fan ull have it... i have it and feel like reinstalling it! lol

As i know for now offices are the best way to gain high population, if I get over 12K, I'll tell you so.

This is an easy game.

Build office after office until you can't move your arm. Seriously.. build a tower about 28 offices wide before you get escalators build stairs til the Sims don't use them then use elevators by the first sky lobby you should have about 2184 people. build the stairs at the very far edges, and skip the middle two office til you get escalators then put them in the middle and put offices in behind the escalators and have them go up 6 stories. the Sims will travel that many of them, and use two elevators on the edges having them switch off floors one do evens the other do odds. by floor 75 the escalators will only go up to bout 4 floors above the sky lobby but that's OK because the last section is only ten floors.. by 75 you should have most of the offices still blue and 12000 people!!(I have a save game with a very good elevator system if anyone is interested.) Also I have a FAQ here that has this and blended another system I was trying to use in it.

Build all shops and leisure facilities underground with restaurants. Dedicate around five floors for Hotel suites. build no more than 5 floors of offices every 30 floors. Build as many condos as possible keeping them seperate from other unit types because of noise pollution. You can get up to 3 stars on the first 30 floors.

The problem with condos is, they don't hold hardly anyone. Using Offices you get hundreds of people per floor instead of like 50 or so. 6 people vs 3. Also if you do skinny towers you can shrink the usage of elevators to 2 per section, and only go 15 floors, and use escalators up the middle to about the 75ish floor. Lots easier.. (Use my FAQ on this site, I'm actually still fixing some of it, but it will basically say that)