Region view traffic information?

[Eryx 17]

Hello, fellow city builders!

 

I hate to bother you asking questions and I'm not even entirely sure this is the right place to post this, but I've been working on my first CJ and I'd like to know how to view the traffic data highlighted on region view. I've been googling but that didn't help very much. All I get are the usual cheatcodes and a bunch of videos of tutorials.

 

I've seen some guys have traffic views on their regions and it seems like they type in a cheat code to get that. How can I do the same?

 

I know that when playing in my city I can just press the question mark thingy on the console, but there's no such thing on the region view and that's what I've been trying to find. If there are any other useful tools I can use on the screen, I'd like to know about them too!

 

Thank you in advance.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I am afraid you are out of luck.  The region view doesn't have the data summarized at all, and you have to open each city.  The region view is just a tessellation of snapshots of the city tiles and I don't think it contains much data.

[z1 566]

If you just want the traffic view, then click on the leftmost of the three top buttons in the region view, and select "Transportation Map" on the right.

[APSMS 1,892]

Of course, this transportation map lacks the in-city version of the map, with traffic volumes, congestion, etc, but something makes me think that that isn't quite what you want.

[infamousjbe 592]

Kind of sounds like the Extra Cheat's "Draw Paths" command.

 

If so, you'll want to start off with installing the mod. Make sure to read the Read Me. 
 

[Eryx 17]

If you just want the traffic view, then click on the leftmost of the three top buttons in the region view, and select "Transportation Map" on the right.

 

Thanks, that's precisely what I was looking for. I never noticed the button!

 

Kind of sounds like the Extra Cheat's "Draw Paths" command.

 

If so, you'll want to start off with installing the mod. Make sure to read the Read Me. 

 

 

Great, thank you! That's also close to what I was thinking of. I already had the extra cheats mod, I just didn't know what the cheat code was. Thank you both!

[z1 566]

 

If you just want the traffic view, then click on the leftmost of the three top buttons in the region view, and select "Transportation Map" on the right.

 

Thanks, that's precisely what I was looking for. I never noticed the button!

 

It took me a couple of years to notice it.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Glad you solved it.  It is amazing the number of people that play this game but don't explore its capabilities to the fullest.  Most don't even look at the installation let alone try all of its options.

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

It took me a few months to realize there was more than one region.  Some of the game's features aren't very well-explained.

[APSMS 1,892]

I got lucky. A friend introduced me to the game back in 2006. I didn't actually get the game until 2008, but a lot of the stuff he showed me stuck, even out of context.

 

There are some elements of the game that tend to be hidden by the game's graphic design style. The My Sim mode where they tell you how they feel is especially useless, since i think I can understand about two of the multiple complaints/praises they say in their little though bubbles.

[Eryx 17]

I got lucky. A friend introduced me to the game back in 2006. I didn't actually get the game until 2008, but a lot of the stuff he showed me stuck, even out of context.

 

There are some elements of the game that tend to be hidden by the game's graphic design style. The My Sim mode where they tell you how they feel is especially useless, since i think I can understand about two of the multiple complaints/praises they say in their little though bubbles.

Also, regardless of how close they are to schools or hospitals, they tend to still complain about not having enough of them nearby. Or they complain that the commute is impossible when the average is simply too low for that to be explainable. And also complaints about not having a job and needing to go to a different city for it, then complaining that it's impossible to commute to the other city, even when there's an excess of jobs and they live on the edge of the region. These sims are impossible to please!