How to get heavy traffic

[Apolo br 9]

 

While everyone is trying to reduce problems with traffic in the city, such as traffic jams, large car queues and such.
I'm going in the other direction.
I want to see the streets of my city clogged with cars, lots of cars
To try to solve the problems consequent of this greater flow.
I have the MAN 35, but I do not know how to use the Traffic Controller that comes along.
I also have CAM.
Someone has a tip that works.
No mod that increases RCI demand (unrealistic).

[matias93 7,535]

@Haljackey is your shepherd, of nothing you will lack.

Basically, the denser the edifications you allow to grow, the more traffic you'll have. Surely the Colossus Addon Mod will be a handy addition to your plugins (keep in mind is a hard-to-use mod, is not just to put it on the folder and see the magic disenvolves)

[CorinaMarie 29,574]

There are also a couple of mods you can use to have the game show more traffic. By default the cars, trucks, and buses fade away after a short amount of time. These mods do not affect RCI in any way.

Ofc, only use one and read the description as you will have choices for how much traffic you want to show and which .dat file to use.

 

[rsc204 21,806]

32 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

There are also a couple of mods you can use to have the game show more traffic. By default the cars, trucks, and buses fade away after a short amount of time. These mods do not affect RCI in any way.

If you are a NAM user, I would advise not to use these mods. An Equivalent Persistent Automata Mod exists as part of the NAM installer. In addition to special "Radical" variant which will greatly increase the number of cars you see in game. Use of a mod may conflict with those from the NAM. In short, the NAM makes them redundant.

Note however, more automata does not equal more cars. Automata are just a visual thing, whilst it's somewhat relative to the number of sims using the streets, adding such a mod won't actually increase the number of cars the simulation has driving about.

The real solution (although I think you'd like the Persistent Radical Automata setting), is to grow your cities which is simply a matter of time. I'd be careful not to rush this process too much, but if you are building new things, it will happen sooner or later. Use of CAM and very large buildings will surely help here.

[nos.17 5,112]

While the best solution would be to grow your cities and plan networks carefully so they are highly utilized by cars, there are also things called traffic generators, which do generate purely visual automata. As rsc explained, this will have zero impact on network congestion - everything you see is simply visual representations.

 

[TekindusT 3,809]

I guess the adequate solution will depend on why do you want to have heavy traffic in the city. If you want to have your traffic network overloaded, that will come along when you start densifying your city and with neighbor connections. Setting the persistent automata option in the NAM is a good thing, removing bridges and things like this helps a lot. If you want gridlock and jams only for the visuals for CJing, for example, or just to take a nice picture of a jammed area, you can use traffic generators like those posted by nos.17. They are useful when the entire city is not functional, just plopped, but you just want the aesthetics of it.

[NCGAIO 562]

Since you do not even use the NAM for the paths then  maybe be more interested  for one self-explanatory separate controller to adjust the game features more according to your preferences.

Try this one -  SC4CONFIG

 

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

Also, whenever pursuing visual effects, be sure that your graphics setting is at maximum detail (and hasn't slipped due to any patch, reinstall or upgrade since the last time you checked).

[Apolo br 9]

On 10/03/2017 at 11:10 PM, rsc204 said:

Se você é um usuário NAM , eu aconselho não usar esses mods. Um Equivalent Persistent Automata Mod existe como parte do instalador do NAM . Além da variante "Radical" especial que aumentará muito o número de carros que você vê no jogo. O uso de um mod pode entrar em conflito com os do NAM . Em suma, o NAM torna redundante.

Observe no entanto, mais autômatos não é igual a mais carros. Os autômatos são apenas uma coisa visual, embora seja um pouco relativo ao número de sims que usam as ruas, acrescentando que uma modificação não aumentará o número de carros que a simulação está dirigindo.

A solução real (embora eu acho que você gostaria que a configuração Persistent Radical Automata), é crescer suas cidades, que é simplesmente uma questão de tempo. Eu teria cuidado para não apressar esse processo muito, mas se você está construindo coisas novas, isso vai acontecer mais cedo ou mais tarde. Uso de CAM e muito grandes edifícios certamente irá ajudar aqui.

 

 

My city is expanding fast. Soon I will have many problems with the transit yes. This mod, even not inflating the traffic graphics, already helps me a lot, just for visual reason ta good. Thank you!

[matias93 7,535]

I have to confess: it was very strange to see MGB talking in Portuguese

[Apolo br 9]

6 minutes ago, matias93 said:

I have to confess: it was very strange to see MGB talking in Portuguese

 

I am Brazilian I'll talk to you with the help of a translation tool. I had translated the text.

[NCGAIO 562]

Just now, Apolo br said:

 

I am Brazilian I'll talk to you with the help of a translation tool. I had translated the text.

Like several here ...

Just disable automatic translation of the browser on the page when you are posting or wait for the translation to end and click on the translation icon on the url bar and choose original view.

Sometimes the translation can occur as soon as you send the post.

[CT14 2,486]

Try using all streets instead of Roads. Upgrade to roads only when streets are beyond full.