In responce of Niliscro's ideas..
Block Busters huge list of stuffty ideas!I agree that there should be a lower limit for amount of properties, for a while I couldn't find a lot to buy unless I wanted to get something like a stuffty overpriced lot and then just delete and start from scratch. I also love the idea of other towns and cities besides just Mentropolis. I think if you did here would be my suggestion for some new towns:
-New towns-
Suburbs -A middleclass area purely for the houses, possible some small shops and nice houses, possibly pools?
Boondocks -A lower class area for some indestries and crappy broken down houses, no cameras and you can commit crimes and only suffer 1/4 demerits?
Lakeview -The high class place for huge houses, cottages, and mansions. Maybe some edited boats and a huge lake area?
Tradecenter -An area for the very city like area with large buildings and tall offices, high end shops, and maybe even a giant mall that you could sell out 16x16 spots inside that would generate a small amount of income and sell trinkets?
Grog -The other side of the river with radioactive pools and an area purely for industrial lots and buildings.
The outback -The country area that has really open area for places to grow crops for money and sell them. Where you can mine and cut trees. Maybe a mill to take wood and make planks that sell for more.
-New items-
Tazer -Obviously a small item that looks slightly like a gun, each one has 10 charges and it only works on people with a current wanted level
Souvener -Little shape things that you can place around your house, such as jewels, stuffed animals, and little useless things that are just ment to look
nice, also something you could throw
Crowbar -An object that can break bricks like windows or pieces instead of just doors (since most people make it impossible to break in using event) this item would break things for a certain amount of time and be a crime when you use it, aso can be used to hurt people.
Disquise -An object that will change your apperence and for half an hour make your wanted level down to two, untill the time is up or you get hit by a hammer
-Careers-
Hooker -The player starts out as a Hoe, just like a theif you click people to get money and its a crime. They also need to take special pills for their numerious deseases every other tick.
-Then the hoe can level up to hooker where they get paid twice what they steal but now need to take pills every tick
-researchstar would be the third level up where they get paid just for clicking on someone and they don't loose money, the downfall is if they don't take their pill every tick they can no longer have this job and while clicking you get a huge amount of dems.
-entrepreneur would be the final level up where they no longer take pills but instead make a nice sum of money and don't
need to take pills.
Attention whore-Start out as a backstage worker getting $20 an hour
-Ten make it to backup singer making $40 an hour
-Then make it to celeberty making $80 an hour, i mean tick ;/
-Finaly make it to attention whore and make $160 an hour
-A side note about this class is they are prone to getting robbed and are unable to use any weapons or armor.
-Some other things that don't have a catagory-
The cop bots -I know they have been talked about all the time but I'm just including that in here because i agree that it would be a good thing
A lower price on vehicles -I say this because it seems that the metropolis lacks that sense of bad drivers everywhere and all the J walkers, i know that some cars might be abused so maybe you can only use it if you have 15 or over in exp?