TheEddevilish: Yep, time only passes in the cities you are playing.

What happens when you go back to your first city after playing on a neighbouring one is that the demands and jobs will shift to accomodate to the changes you made in the second city. For example, let's say you zone some residential in City 1 with a road connection to City 2. In City 2 you zone some industrial. When the industrial buildings develop, they will create some demand for residential. If you then go back to City 1, the residential demand will increase appropiately and your population will commute to the jobs in City 2. By zoning more resdiential and industrial in each city they can grow in tandem.

tinyE: Now if I can just figure out a way to join cities over water using a bridge but without having a to place land on the border for the bridges to meet.

Seraphin84: You can't build bridges to the other side, if there is no land on the border of that part of the map. That's what ferries are used for. ;-)

Seraphin84: Sorry, there is no way to get a bridge without having land on the other side.

If it must be a bridge, you would need to fill as much land on the border, as you need to build a bridge in the regular way. But such a small island wouldn't fit to your original situation too.
*edit* After having a closer look on the photo, it may fit as the river is quite smaller at the bridge than at the other parts of the river */edit*

An absolute individual modding solution would be a ferry port designed as eye-candy bridge for both sides of the river. I don't think there is something like that yet, but you may search for something like that anyways.

I think, the best solution would be a map where both sides of the river would be on the same map tile, but the river as whole placed just next to the border of one map tile.

tinyE: I'll figure something out. :P Thanks for lending an ear, I could talk about this stuff all day.

wongheiming: I'm new to SC4 but have a idea on this.
How about place a small island on the edge in both maps to serve as the landing point? (Pretend it is the bridge tower in the middle of the river.)

tinyE: I've tried that and it does work but it is kind of a pain. Still if you don't mind the effort it is a good idea and (if I may kiss your ass for a second) not an idea prone to come from someone "new to SC4" but rather someone who knows the game pretty well.

tinyE: I've tried that and it does work but it is kind of a pain. Still if you don't mind the effort it is a good idea and (if I may kiss your ass for a second) not an idea prone to come from someone "new to SC4" but rather someone who knows the game pretty well.

Spinorial: I actually checked up on this yesterday,