RHW neighbor connection not working

[Sum Ting Wong 0]

I am expriencing a very frustrating problem trying to connect two cities via an RHW road. I should add that I also searched for help with this problem and tried everything but I still have not solved it. I thought I had done everything right but my neighbor connection is not working, so now I'm not so sure. I an using an RHW type 8C road (four lanes in either direction). I placed the RHW 8C starter piece and dragged out a real highway to complete it. I want to connect one primarily residential city with some high tech industry, and one primarily commercial city. These two cities are really part of one city-state that I'm creating, and the different cities in my region are actually going to be different neighborhoods. Kind of like Singapore I think. My commercial city is going to be the CBD (Central Business District) for the whole region.

 

I needed three single-tile 2-lane RHW roads to complete it and make it into an 8-lane road. I dragged each one to the edge of the map on the border of the city I wanted to connect to. Each time the neighbor connection dialog box came up and I said yes to a neighbor connection. I then placed the right neighbor connector piece for that type of road. I made sufficient entrances and exits for the highway so all the sims could get on the highway in the residential city to commute to the commercial city, and come back in the evening. I then went to my commercial city and repeated the exact same steps as above, making sure the roads lined up and the NC pieces were all in place. I also made sufficient entrances and exits for the sims. But they still will not use the road at all. For now I have several backup roads serving as connections that the sims use to commute to the city. They're pretty congested. If I bulldoze all these roads, all the houses get no job zots and eventually people start leaving in droves. 

 

I changed the game to drive on the left side of the road (LHD traffic) and I installed the LHD version of the NAM and RHW mods. The region I'm working on is a fictional former British colony inspired by Singapore and Hong Kong, so I wanted a sort of "British" feel to it but with Asian buildings and roads. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling these plugins again, making sure I had the right versions, but no luck. 

 

I am trying not to give up, and I want to explore all the possibilties of this great game, so I would really appreciate the help!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

RHW hasn't been a separate mod for some time.  You should install NAM 31.2 (current release) which includes RHW.  Neighbour connections do require separate special linking puzzle pieces for some RHW.

[Sum Ting Wong 0]

I have NAM 31.2 installed. I'm not sure what you mean by "special pieces", I placed the RHW 8C neighbor connector piece over the tiles connecting to the edge of the map at both ends.

 

Here's a quote from the RHW manual:

 

"When making an RHW neighbour connection, remember that the overrides do not carry  over  into  the  neighbouring  city.  In  other  words,  you  will  need  to  replace starters into the neighbouring city"

 

I don't know what is meant by "overrides" in the context of neighbor connections here. I tried looking this up in the manual and I'm still lost...

[CaptCity 4,919]

Overrides are when a new network 'overrides' the older network on which it is based. The sentence above means the you must enter the connecting city to place the new network. It doesn't automatically carry across the city boundary. If you place an RHW 8C connection and then enter the neighboring city, you'll see that the network coming in is three RHW 2 roads. You'll need to place a RHW 8C starter and drag it to the connection to get the new network.

 

As for your connections, did you drag the RHW 8C network to the edge of the city and establish a connection? After doing that place the 8C Connection piece on top of the existing RHW 8C route. You will need to do this on both sides of the neighbor connection.

[Sum Ting Wong 0]

That's what I did. In both cities I placed the starter piece, dragged it to the edge with three RHW 2 roads, established a connection, and placed the neighbor pieces.

[CaptCity 4,919]

Hmm...Been working on a couple neighbor connections using the 8C and 8S connections. The 8S works fine, but when I change it to 8C, it breaks. It seems that either there's some issue with the 8C connections or else we're doing the same wrong thing. I'll move this to the Transit forum for the NAM Team to see it.

[Tarkus 6,934]

The C-type connectors have had issues for awhile now, and they're not easy issues to fix, because of the layout of those networks.  Traffic likes to jam onto the center tile no matter what, which is also what it'd do with no neighbor connector piece.  Technically, it's still functional, but not optimal.

 

-Tarkus

[CaptCity 4,919]

Thanks Tarkus. I went back and started from scratch, making a simple route/connection in two new city tiles. This time it seemed to function. Perhaps using an existing more complicated route and doing all the transition changes caused something else to happen that I didn't notice.

[Sum Ting Wong 0]

Tried replacing my 8C highway with an 8S. Did the same thing on both sides. STILL no luck. It's like the Sims don't even acknowledge the existence of the road. Eventually I get tons of no job zots and people leave my city until I fall into massive debt. I really must be doing something wrong.

 

Sometimes in the past, when I went to the neighboring city, before I connected the road I bulldozed the road with the arrows on it. I then tried starting a new RHW piece and hooking up all the RHW roads, accpeting the connections and placing the NC pieces. I made sure it was lined up with the road in the other city. But this didn't work. So once I tried not bulldozing them and simply hooked the RHW highway witht the appropriate NC pieces. It still didn't work. With the 8S I made sure to use the invisible loop connector.

 

I tried starting two new cities, one industrial and one residential. I connected them both with an RHW 8S highway, with all NC pieces and all requisite exits and entrances. I saw only freight trucks moving in and out. When I went to the residential city, for a little while I saw ordinary cars using the highway but then at the edge of the map they just fell into the ground and disappeared. Some of them appeared to loop around to the oncoming road and then disappear.

[Tarkus 6,934]

 

Some of them appeared to loop around to the oncoming road and then disappear.

 

 

Yes, "spider cars" are normal--as is all the disappearing.  The automata are not necessarily representative of the functionality of the network.

 

-Tarkus

[Sum Ting Wong 0]

So it's working fine then?

[wasso38 10]

 

 

Some of them appeared to loop around to the oncoming road and then disappear.

 

 

Yes, "spider cars" are normal--as is all the disappearing.  The automata are not necessarily representative of the functionality of the network.

 

-Tarkus

 

yes. that is a normal bug for RHW. in Building A City From Scratch. he showed the multi-RHW neighbour connection. and i can see the bug. i don't know what part. and that's the reason why i'm not using the RHW.

[Tarkus 6,934]

 

yes. that is a normal bug for RHW. in Building A City From Scratch. he showed the multi-RHW neighbour connection. and i can see the bug. i don't know what part. and that's the reason why i'm not using the RHW.

 

 

"Spider car" is a pretty minor issue.  How often are you staring at the very edge of your city tile, anyway?

 

At any rate, played around with the C-type NC pieces on the developmental end, and I managed to get them working quite well.  The improvements (which have also been copied over to the NWM triple-tile networks) will be in the final release of NAM 32.

 

-Tarkus

[Sum Ting Wong 0]

The two cities I connected seem to be working now. I will have to start over again with my other cities and start the connection from the beginning. Thanks for the help!

[zainkool 5]

On 12/29/2013 at 6:42 AM, Sum Ting Wong said:

The two cities I connected seem to be working now. I will have to start over again with my other cities and start the connection from the beginning. Thanks for the help!

How where you able to fix this, as I am having the same issue. Resident seem to ignore my RHW and I tried everything you mentioned above in connecting each city with the RHW and the NC pieces.