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Originally posted by: N_O_Body Transportation is a touch and go situation as it is one of the central features of SimCity 4. I generall set up residential clusters with a main station which leads to a junction not easitly reached by road. Bus stations at the RR points are good. If you are on a large map, consider using either elevated trains or monorail. For downtown think of using GLR connected to the RR startions by pedestrial plazas.quote> Thanks. Would you happen to have any screen shots of what you mean? I am not quite following you...plus, what does GLR mean?

Ah, so the best settings on NAM may not really be the best? Have to give that a try. To the other posts: I understand the shortest path principle, but what confuses me is the fact that I can have six stations, either right next to each other where I see the bottleneck or scattered about and they still always just hammer one of them while the rest go unused.

Hi all, I have a region with about 6 cities, average res. size is about 40k with a (sickly) bussiness district. in the works. I have been trying to alleviate the growing traffic problem (I already use NAM on the best settings) with rail. I tried Subways but it seems only the "rich" like to use it so I have been messing with passenger trains. What I am seeing is, no matter how many stations I put in, the sims will only use one of them in each city, and they pound the crap out of it. I mean like %600-%700 usage, while 3 or 4 empty stations right next to them go unused. Why is this?! Why do they all insist on standing in line at one station when there are several others a stones throw away? And moving them doesnt matter either, all it does is move the bottle neck somewhere else

Is there some sort of mod being used here? Because I don't see any bus stops but they are mentioned in the beggining...

Originally posted by: Metropolis Good grief, why couldnt I find those?!? I mean I am not new to forums and I know how to search, I even posted my search results. What am I missing? quote> You were probably looking in the STEX. When you want to look for modds, looks in the modds and downloads section quote> Hmmm, I tried both. And just to be sure, I tried again; I really want to understand what I am missing here so I do this: Ok, I go to Modds and Downloads here: https://www.simtropolis.com/modding/index.cfm?page=1&view=all (is that the right place?) I see a "Keyword Search" on the left. Looks like the best place to search for something, no? (Is that where I should search?) Ok, I found out in this thread that the hole digger lot is actually "Hole Digging Lot". So just to convince myself that I am not crazy or just plain stupid I search again , three different attempts with three different keywords: Hole Hole Digging Lots Digging All retrun results like this (replace Digging with the keyword) Viewing: "Digging", All Categories, All Types (0 records, page 1 of 0) In other words, even if I take the EXACT words off the name of the mod, using that keyword search in the Modd files section returns nothing. I did the same tests with some of those other mods I was looking for; once the page was located a few posts above, I used those words for the search. Nothing is ever returned. Zip. Nada. *extremely confused*

Originally posted by: Vandy Hi, Encrypted. [ Hope this helps you. Regards, Vandyquote> Good grief, why couldnt I find those?!? I mean I am not new to forums and I know how to search, I even posted my search results. What am I missing?

Somebody, anybody, PLEASE help me find these mods! I see these mods recommended all the time yet I have not been able to find a single one: hole digger lots bridge height mod tunnel slope mod jerroni's streetside mod Toroca's Opera house fix Less Dilapation City Hall Fix I have searched for each one of them in every section on this site and I get results like this: Viewing: "Digger", All Categories, All Types (0 records, page 1 of 0) (All that turns up is mods by digger313) Viewing: "Hole", All Categories, All Types (0 records, page 1 of 0) Viewing: "Bridge Height", All Categories, All Types (0 records, page 1 of 0) Viewing: "Tunnel", All Categories, All Types (0 records, page 1 of 0) Viewing: "City Hall Fix", All Categories, All Types (0 records, page 1 of 0)

Originally posted by: Duke87 Am I the only one that doesnt see any screen shots?! quote> Are you using Internet Explorer? If so, you may not be able to see png images. However, if you use Firefox, you should have no trouble with it. Plus it's safer! And more customizable!quote> Long time Firefox user here, I only use Explorer if I am forced to. I go to a lot of image laden sites and dont have any problems....not sure what the deal is here. :/ This is what I see: ============ this is highly unusual /idealbb/files/oddness.JPG happy sims eh? /idealbb/files/happiness.JPG iraqi oil fields lol =============== No image, no link, nothing. And what kind of a url is /idealbb/files/oddness.JPG ?? Thats not even a valid address and would only work if I was local on the host.

Am I the only one that doesnt see any screen shots?!

Ah, my turn! I have been getting advice to get mods by Simgoober. I found gobs of mods by Simgoober and started downloading them until I cam across some sort of "Combo Pack". The name escapes me right now since I did this at home and I am at work (Shhh! Dont tell anyone!). I d/l it and extrated to my plugins directory and read the readme, which was very sparse. All it said was something like "If you already have these files delete them or this wont work". Thing is, I have NO idea what effect this is supposed to have; will I start seeing new buildings grow up now? I didnt see anything new in the menus. Another thing that confuses me is a lot of time people talk about "plopable" mods; I d/l a few of these too because they look interesting and again, I dont know how to make use of them as I have no indication that they are even installed. FYI, I have the NAM mod installed and I can tell its working because I have new options for roads and such, but so far out of about the 10 or so mods I have downloadwed that is the only one that gives me a clue that it is actually part of the game now... Also, the tutorial for working with Hills in the Omnibus says to place "grass" in some areas to make hills behave. I have never seen a way to just drop grass somewhere, is this some sort of mod?

Originally posted by: Furious M Open the region.ini file in the region folder in notepad, and change the name in there. I've never tried in on a populated region, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. Might want to create a backup before you try, just in case.quote> Ah, that sounds good. I will give it a shot. Thanks!

I'm wondering if there is a way to take one of the existing regions and either save it as something else, or copy it and rename it? Is this possible?