Breetai69

When I first started playing SC4, I was all like: "A mod with mainly transit options? Boring."<br /><br /><br />Then I actually used it once.<br /><br />I now consider vanilla SC4 to be essentially broken, and Rush Hour to be the (rather expensive!) bugfix.

NAM is worth the download if only for the highway-Avenue transition. This one little added ability cuts down massively on the space you need to get your sims on and off the highway, and is the one thing that I'm sure I couldn't do without.

I like building a central highway ring, with "trees" branching off them. Viz:<br /><br /><img alt="" src=" " /><br /><br />This is best achieved if you have NAM installed, as it allows for a direct transition from highways to Avenues.

I tend to start with a long avenue connecting a large residential zone to a large industrial zone, with my dirty power plant in it. This is usually in the corner, so as to take advantage of the fact that pollution that bleeds over the edge of the map is essentially lost. Up the right-hand-side of the avenue I'll zone low-density commercial, so as to take advantageof the hhigh volume of traffic up the Avenue.<br /><br />I also tend to plonk down a nonfunded W2E plant to take care of all garbage problems in exchange for a little pollution, and to put down elementary school coverage right off the bat - it might be 50 years before I put down anything higher than elementary, but the minor investment is so worht it once you want to start moving away from dirty industry.

It would help if you posted a screenshot of your city/region, so that we know where you're at. Also, how many sims are there in your region total - not just the city you're working on? There are certain levels of population that need to be reached region-wide before the REALLY big buildings start popping up.