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ROAD TOP MASS TRANSIT  1.0

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*** UPDATED: Aug 17, 2007 ***

The bus and subway stations in SimCity require a 1x1 tile to be built. This not only takes up valuable space and makes very hard to build them after the lots have been developed (esp in downtown areas) but it is also unrealistic, as in most places in the world the bus stops are placed on sidewalks.

So, some community members have made a set of bus stops and subways that can be placed directly on roads, known as "Road-Top Mass-Transit". The two earlier versions were made by Darkmatter, Teirusu and CJMarshall (CJM). This new version has been named Version 3.00.

Credits:
- Special thanks to cjmarshall for granting permission to build on his own work, and for the help he has provided.
- Special thanks to memo and Andreas Roth for their modding advice and their commenting/reviewing.
- Special thanks to Diggis and Daeley for the Menu-Management Lot.
- Special thanks to RippleJet, Andreas Roth, AcE-cOdEr, Ennedi, Rayden, sebes, BarbyW, ebina, dmscopio, vester, ExiLe, Marco Berzacola and ussagus for their translations.
- Special thanks to mcdrye; he has made a model specifically for the purpose.
- Many thanks to Antoine, Gascooker, gshmails, NOB, Pooty, Porkissimo, RalphaelNinja, and SimGoober for granting permission to use their models in the package.
- Many thanks to Thorvin, Swamper77 and Tropod for the help and the information they have provided.

New Features in this Version:
This plugin has been based on the previous work made by CJM but incorporates many additional features. The new key features are listed below:

- Realistic Buildings and Props: the lots now have buildings and props that are likely to lie around mass-transit stops and stations, for example bus stop shelters and phone booths instead of benches and planters.
- Selectable and Interchangeable Buildings and Props: they can be selected by the player (in any combination, rather than in "themes"). The building set can also be extended. So, it is possible to build a transit system in your own, very special and customisable style.
- Revamped texturing system: the stations now have separate textures for the sidewalk/pavement and the road markings (now implemented as overlay textures), making their appearance customisable and compatible to the Euro Roads Textures Mod (or any other road textures scheme) and allowing to use custom road markings.
- NAM- and CAM-Compatible Capacities: capacities have been modified, so as to match the different capacities of NAM and CAM. There are separate .dat files for each capacity configuration.
- Non-Roadtop Stations: the package now includes three non-roadtop stations (bus, subway, combo); they use the same models and props and have common design principles.
- GLR-in-Avenue Stations: new stations for the Avenue/GLR dual network puzzle pieces of the new NAM. These include not only busstops and subways, but GLR stations as well (all combinations).
- Translations to German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Japanese and Chinese (both traditional and simplified).
- Menu-Management Lot (MML), hiding menu buttons, and enabling them again by plopping a Construction Lot.
- Additional improvements concerning the plop and maintenace cost consistency, hover and click queries, menu buttons and descriptions, lot sizes, wealth settings etc.

Change Log:

- Aug 30, 2005: V3.00, Release. If you have this version pls download again!
-Aug 31, 2005: V3.01, Included locale file (was left out mistakenly)
-Oct 14, 2005: V3.02, Updated documentation
-Jan 28, 2006: V3.10, Added 2x1 Stations for Roads, added German Translation, updated Documentation (pls check the readme)
-Aug 17, 2007: V3.50, Added GLR-in-Avenue Stations, MML, translations to the most SC4 languages, CAMpatible capacities, additional props/models, improved behaviour on slopes.

All updates till now are backwards compatible, ie all lots plopped using an older version are compatible to the new versions. This means that you don't need to bulldoze anything when installing a newer version.

Add-ins (these are NOT dependencies):

- Sep 22, 2005 Additional Subway Entrance Props  
- Nov 1, 2005 UK Bus-Stop Road-Markings - Updated!
- Nov 20, 2005 Berlin Mass-Transit Theme  
- Jan 30, 2006 German MT Road Markings - Updated!

If you have trouble installing this pack, please check these Installers.

- This plugin has multiple configuration options. Please check the documentation and take the little time necessary to CONFIGURE YOUR INSTALLATION properly. Also download and install the few dependencies required, so as to avoid BROWN BOXES.
- If you already have a RTMTV3 installation check the readme for update instructions.

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I think this is not bad at all. It just needs a bit more polishing. But so far, this is the best bus and subway stop. Compact and simple.

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I really like this, and I understand giving credit to the people who made the models, but seriously, what is the point of releasing it with so many of the models missing? Annoying to track them down.

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Putting the models in and saying in the read me whose models are whose is more than sufficient credit. People get way too worked up over the idea of ownership and credit. Most, if not all, have some form of stolen property on their computers as it is; they shouldn't really complain.

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Many roadtop station packages have been released on the STEX, but this one is the BEST IMPLEMENTED, leaving little or no space for further improvement!!!

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Excellent work! 9/10, but I really don't like the bus station blocking the entrance of the zoned area. Plus the installation is too complicated..for me. I think I'd rather wait till nam with the developing bus line release.

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good job 10/10 but i got one question before i download, if i place this in front of a RCI building will a no road zot appear?

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Outstanding Job. If you want to expand these, I'd include diagonal versions. There is a set of sample diagonal MT lots in a thread somewhere, rotate your great looking props and they could look like a nice set. Thanks again!

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shaunathan, no actually not in this maner, big yellow words on the road that say SUBWAY and BUS STOP, lol, you have this mistaken with the bus lanes that are designated in cities.

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Very very nice. To all: The best work around I have found for zone blocking is to place the stop next to lots parallel to the road, not perpendicular lots.

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Do these solve the age-old problem of all road and pedestrian traffic passing over the stop being miscounted as passengers by the stop--and therefore also accumulating too much revenue?

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newyorkrunaway, actually shaunathan is correct, my own city has 'bus stop' written in big yellow letters in front of the bus stop. i take the bus every day. its an indication that there can be no parking or stopping in that space. excellent work by cogeo...an instant hit in my cities.

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jUST WHAT i WAS WAITING FOR. i USE THE ROAD TOP A LOT AND LIKE THEM, BUT i DISLIKED THE (sorry capslock on) irrealistic look. Your lot changes that. Thanks for all the work and effort put into it. (THREE THUMBS UP)

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Gotta be the most inovative idea on the STEX!!! Why didn't MAXIS do this??? If I could rate it as a 100, I'd give it a 101.

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Guest hooleo398

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awesome i have been waiting for a transit lot that has a bit more character

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If only all readme files could be this well put together. I've not even used this package yet, but the readme is a pleasure, and I am sure the package will be just as easy to use.

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