SuperPenguin

I guess I'm just a rebel. I had experienced problems in a much larger city before. After doing some reading, I learned that Sims drive incredibly (and unrealistically) slow. So, I decided to give it a whirl in one of my newer cities, before it reached critical mass. Maybe I'll try a different plugin, or I'll just make due without. Thanks.

Your idea gave me an idea... It would be nifty if the music that played somehow matched the climate of the game. Got a recession going on? Houses abandoning? It plays the blues. Conversely, a prosperous economy and building boom yields really upbeat music. Of course, I'm a big believer that everybody's life should have a soundtrack.

I had the standard (no modification) traffic plugin before. So yes, it was a drastic change. I ran the city for about 10 game years after the swap, however, and my Sims never seemed to figure themselves out. I had full employment before the change, maybe one zot every now and then. After the change, the zots swept all over the city. The residential buildings would go abandoned for a while, come back with residents for a month or two, then get zots again, abandon, and repeat the process. A whole bunch of my industry and commercial also abandoned. *shrugs* I swapped out the new plugin for the old one, and it more or less resolved itself. Maybe my DAT was corrupted somehow?

The old traffic plugin, is there more to it than just the .dat file? I did manually remove that, but if the NAM installer placed something somewhere else, I may not have caught it.

Okay, so I had the NAM installed. I wanted to go back and add in the 10x commute time, 10x commute speed option. Reinstalled with that option. (Unfortunately, I had to overwrite all of the other NAM files as well, because apparently there's no way to selectively add or modify features after the fact???). Anyway, I do that, start up SC4 again, and I get waves of no job zots sweeping all over my city, abandonment left and right, and 8 hour commutes. What gives? It's basically destroyed my city.

Wonderful, thanks. And sorry about the double post, I haven't a clue how that happened. I posted once, it was fine, and now I come back hours later and there's a clone. Creepy.

Just a quick need for clarification (and reading 63 pages of thread is rather intense)... Subway cannot cross the big dig subway lines, which I understand. Can surface rail cross over top of the tunnel/subway lines? Also, the readme said that bus and freight traffic does not cross the tunnel. Does that mean it does not go through the tunnel, or it cannot cross on a surface road over the tunnel? Thanks. This looks like it'll be an amazing mod to use!

Just a quick need for clarification (and reading 63 pages of thread is rather intense)... Subway cannot cross the big dig subway lines, which I understand. Can surface rail cross over top of the tunnel/subway lines? Also, the readme said that bus and freight traffic does not cross the tunnel. Does that mean it does not go through the tunnel, or it cannot cross on a surface road over the tunnel? Thanks. This looks like it'll be an amazing mod to use!

The point of any drill is to make sure that you know the procedures and can perform them without fail every time. That's why late night fire drills are essential, especially at colleges. If you've just moved into an unfamiliar room in an unfamiliar building, you're going to be at a disadvantage. If a real emergency occurs, will you be able to wake up, orient yourself properly, find the correct exit, and so on, all while coming out of a deep sleep? Panic, confusion and disorientation are natural human responses to some situations. They can be overcome by drills. Saying "it's only a drill" and failing to act is a conscious choice. You must make the conscious choice to respond to every alarm as if it's real.