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About This File
With the release of the new 2009 NAM, Simulator Z has officially become part of the NAM. While Simulator Z was in alpha and beta test, I included with it a modified version of one of the RTMT station files to better support Simulator Z. I am including here a more complete patch.
For the next release of RTMT, we are going to have exactly two versions of each station - Low and High capacity. The Low capacity version is designed for rural areas and/or small- or medium-sized towns; it is basically designed for regions where there will never be a need for a traffic simulator with a capacity higher than the Hard version of Simulators A or B, or the Low version of Simulator Z. In numerical terms, this translates into a road capacity of about 2500. The High capacity version of RTMT stations is designed for all regions above that limit. The High capacities were originally designed to be sufficient for the old CAM simulator, which has capacities not too far from the Easy level of Simulators A and B, but testing has shown that these capacities are sufficient all the way up to the Ultra level of Simulator Z. This patch includes versions of these files that have been modified to work with RTMTV3.
The included files are changed in the following ways from the original RTMTV3 files:
- The file RTMTV3_Stations_NAMCapacity_High.dat has significantly higher capacities for streets, roads, and plain avenues than any of the existing capacity files.
- There are now Low and High versions of the NonRoadTop files (both US and UK), which use the same capacities as the Roadtop versions. You should use these files only if you have the NonRoadTop stations installed, and if you use them, you should use either the US or UK version, depending on what you currently have installed.
- There are now Low and High versions of the GLR Capacity files. You should use these only if you have the RTMT GLR stations installed.
- With the new files, hovering the cursor over one of the RTMT Menu buttons will show you the same capacity you see in the station's query.
- All the roadtop stations previously caused a small amount of congestion around them, which was occasionally a problem if the road became congested. Simulator Z unfortunately magnifies this problem as a side effect of increasing the intersection and turn effect. The new roadtop stations included in this patch do not cause any additional congestion around them.
This patch affects only newly plopped stations. Existing stations are unaffected, and may coexist with the newly plopped ones. If you are having no trouble with your existing stations, you can leave them alone. But if you find that they aren't of sufficient capacity, or if you're having trouble with the congestion effect, bulldoze the affected existing stations and replace them with the equivalent new ones.
This patch has been superseded by RTMT Add-On Pack V3.60.
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