Problems.... :(

[fredinno 54]

This is my region. There are a few questions I have with it.

1. How come my ferries are actually seeing use despite the bridge (Which also has bus service)? There is only one real destination, and that was already covered by bridge ( I built one between Aicadea's Step and sikigrat).

2. Should I remove my rial line for monorail? I mean, most of it IS passenger rail...

3. The highways of Aicadea's Step are all overcrowded. How would I solve this? Only the highways have overcrowding (and yes, I AM using NAM).

4. Is there any way to make road overpasses without the NAM puzzle pieces? Because I hate them. A lot.

5. Is there any way to make rivers and creeks coming down from mountains?

6. I can never put a seaport in the sikigrat industrial district shoreline. I'm starting to think it's impossible...

7. Any suggestions to do in this region?

 

(BTW, all Elevated rail is monorail. As you can see, the ferry routes are VERY strange. some go off to areas WITHOUT CITIES.... BTW, only Valencia, Aicadea's Step, Exsri Pass, and Sikigrat have significant work to them...)

Note: Valencia is a mixed (slums) residential with a small amount of man. industrial. It's mostly a sleeper community, for Sikigrat and Aicadea's Step.

Exsri Pass is almost entirely sleeper community high density residential, with a small amount of commercial for the sims to shop without having to go downtown. Prices are pretty expensive there tho, since it's only about 4 5x5 blocks in area...

Aicadea's Step is mixed commerical and residential (with a small manufacturiing industry I'm slowly displacing)- but has about 2x more jobs than people.

SIkigrat is almost entirely industrial and commerial. I made it a major High-tech capital- sort of a "Silicat Valley", in a sense. There is a small amount of residential, but not much, and not very sucessful. It's failed to attract many, and it's almost entirely slums.

[fredinno 54]

also, can you build a monorail over a highway?

[CorinaMarie 29,614]

This seems to be a near duplicate of your post here. Since both are listed as 4 hours ago, I'm not sure which was first, but might I suggest one thread is sufficient for this?

[fredinno 54]

8 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

This seems to be a near duplicate of your post here. Since both are listed as 4 hours ago, I'm not sure which was first, but might I suggest one thread is sufficient for this?

I made a duplicate because I thouught people wouldn't look on that thread since it tecnically was a new question....

[CorinaMarie 29,614]

2 hours ago, fredinno said:

I made a duplicate because I thouught people wouldn't look on that thread since it tecnically was a new question....

I can certainly understand that. There'll be lots of little things you will learn as time goes on.

The way it works is when you are looking at the list of topics, a little dot over to the left of the title will be blue as soon as a new reply is added by anyone. So, speaking for myself, I just glance at the list and any with a blue dot tells me there is something new. When I see that I click said blue dot and it takes me to the first post I have not read yet. One nice caveat is that if I have replied in (or was the creator of) the thread myself the dot is a star instead of a dot. It also goes blue or gray depending on if I'm caught up with reading.

There's also a feature in your profile settings where you can have the board automatically subscribe you to threads you start and/or threads in which you reply. I've enabled those options and love it. Anytime anyone replies in a thread I'm subscribed to, I get beeped. Or in more techy terms, I receive a notification.

Another thing that took me a while to figure out was how to do selected quotes of what someone has said. Turns out it's super easy. Just highlight the text you want to quote and a little black arrow box pops up with the word Quote in it. Click that and it puts it in the reply box for you. If I plan to quote more than one thing like that, I then hit an x and then enter before I quote the next thing. That adds some space in which I can reply without having to get my cursor in the right place to add the new line later.

I was new and confuzzled here when I joined so I hope this helps.

Btw, welcome to Simtropolis. It's by far the best and most friendly site I've ever been a member of. The members, mods, and admins are all wonderful and helpful peeps.

[fredinno 54]

6 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

I can certainly understand that. There'll be lots of little things you will learn as time goes on.

The way it works is when you are looking at the list of topics, a little dot over to the left of the title will be blue as soon as a new reply is added by anyone. So, speaking for myself, I just glance at the list and any with a blue dot tells me there is something new. When I see that I click said blue dot and it takes me to the first post I have not read yet. One nice caveat is that if I have replied in (or was the creator of) the thread myself the dot is a star instead of a dot. It also goes blue or gray depending on if I'm caught up with reading.

There's also a feature in your profile settings where you can have the board automatically subscribe you to threads you start and/or threads in which you reply. I've enabled those options and love it. Anytime anyone replies in a thread I'm subscribed to, I get beeped. Or in more techy terms, I receive a notification.

Another thing that took me a while to figure out was how to do selected quotes of what someone has said. Turns out it's super easy. Just highlight the text you want to quote and a little black arrow box pops up with the word Quote in it. Click that and it puts it in the reply box for you. If I plan to quote more than one thing like that, I then hit an x and then enter before I quote the next thing. That adds some space in which I can reply without having to get my cursor in the right place to add the new line later.

I was new and confuzzled here when I joined so I hope this helps.

Btw, welcome to Simtropolis. It's by far the best and most friendly site I've ever been a member of. The members, mods, and admins are all wonderful and helpful peeps.

No, I know how to use the forum software.. it's just- well, I probably should have deleted the other thread post.

[Cyclone Boom 16,909]

To keep discussion contained, I'll close this as a duplicate topic:

Thanks!