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Those look great. Functional lots would be neat, but eye candy is almost as good. Thanks for the help tracking those down!

Hello. Sorry for the request topic, but I'm trying to find some nice looking parking lots that can serve as extensions to buildings, such as a train station or commercial area. All I've been able to find is parks, amusement parks, park trails...basically everything except what I'm looking for. I tried SC4 Devotion as well, more of the same. So my question is: can anyone who uses some good old paved paradise, ground level parking lots point me in the right direction?

Requesting the following three puzzle pieces to be put to NAM: El-Rail corner over Road T-Intersection El-Rail T-Intersection over Road T-Intersection GLR across ground rail I've enclosed pictures of the situations where the pieces would be used. E-Rail corner over road t-intersection E-Rail T-Interesection / Road T-intersection: GLR across ground rail: If these exist and I'm just missing them, I'd appreciate that information as well.

Just an update - I managed to get it to work with a 1900 x 1200 wallpaper. So I'm really at a loss as to what causes the issue. And in response to forcing it into a different resolution - it loads in 1600 x 1200 fullscreen. But only sometimes, and as near as I can tell that sometimes is dependent on what wallpaper you're using for your desktop. There's no forced resolution required (which I understand was the fix - but I didn't like the smaller resolution much). So far my game is batting .500 with 1900 x 1200 wallpapers, and 1.000 with 1024 x 768. My monitor itself is a 23'' widescreen.

I had this issue awhile ago, where SC4 wouldn't load on my Windows 7 machine. After I fried my hard drive, I found a solution quite by accident. The game installed and ran fine, without anything special done. Ran fine in maximum resolution, no lagginess, nothing. However, I alt-tabbed out to find a new wallpaper as I had done a full, fresh install, and after I had done so Sim City 4 no longer loaded properly. I haven't done a full spread of monitor sizes, but my monitor is 1920 x 1080 and Sim City 4 won't load if I have a 1920 x 1080 background. It will, however, load, if a default Microsoft background is used, or a 1280 x 1024 background. Hope this helps someone who had the same problem.

Here's a switch I made in an attempt to make a realistic railroad. Using the NAM FARR and 45degree diagonal components, this switch occupies 13 x 11 squares, the longer being in the direction the switch "opens" towards. 1.) Lay out a 13x11 grid: 2.) Place a FARR turnout. Using a FARR turnout creates an ease-in into the corner itself, making it easier to negotiate for trains: 3.) Place a FARR to diagonal conversion: 4.) Place a 45 degree diagonal curve: And that's it. I've filled the remainder in with zoning & parks in this picture:

A suburban passenger route in Olleta:

Two suburbs from my current city. Mostly vanilla content.

New highway I'm working on building. No traffic yet as it's not finished.

Hope this is still of use to someone. Just installed Sim City 4 Deluxe on a Win7 64 bit machine. * nVidia GTX260 card * 6GB ram * Core i7 'Bloomfield' (2.66ghz?) processor Game wouldn't boot standard. Tried XP SP 2 & 3, as well as Vista vanilla & SP2 compatibility modes. Didn't work. To get the game running, take the following steps: 1.) Create a shortcut from the Sim City folder on the desktop. 2.) Right click the new shortcut, go to "Properties" 3.) Under the "Shortcut" tab will be a box labeled "Target" and should include the pathway for running the game. 4.) At the end of "\SimCity 4.exe" hit space, once, and then paste the following without the quotes: "-w -r1280x1024" 5.) Game should now run. I only ran it for 5 minutes, but it appeared to be free of crashes and graphics glitches.

Thank you for all the suggestions. I downloaded the I-HT mod and started taxing the heck out of R$$$ to cut back on how eager they are to abandon houses in my city. Hopefully that will help.

$$$ Sims in all of my cities lately have been having problems finding jobs and staying employed, and their patchy lawns are starting to bother me! I have tried resolving this issue with a clean run of SC4 and the problem is similar -- the houses continue to dilapidate once my city hits the 'high tech' phase of growth, when expensive offices and high tech industry are in demand. I have tried supplying all of my Sims with jobs by driving my $$CO, $$$CO, $$CS, $$$CS, and IHT demands as low as they will go (without going negative) but the issue persists. Has anyone who has had this problem found a way to keep the wealthies employed?

Look for the April version of the Network Addon Mod (NAM). It's included in there.

I believe that road and rail connections have decreasing returns. Let's say the first rail connection adds 10 demand cap relief, the next one only adds 8 or something, for 18 total instead of 20 if it was a set value. That means at some point additional connections would give out. Actual transit across the connection should not affect the demand cap. I'm not positive though, feel free to correct me. I would think it would be VERY easy to mod a 1x1 park lot to give insane ID demand cap relief, but I'm not good at ze modding so someone else may need to do it for you.

I've been using EL-Rail a lot now that it can be placed above roads. Now if there could just be an above-road station it would be perfection. But if you get the latest NAM you'll find that EL-Rail is a LOT easier to work with.