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As weird as it may sound, an upgrade to NAM 32 prerelease 1 seems to have solved this issue. I could build a few railway bridges and none of them was too low for ferries.

Thank you for your reply. I downloaded this prerelease and will try it tomorrow. I really like RHW. MHW is often not looking realistic, but sometimes you don't have a real choice when there's not enough room for RHW )especially on/off ramps, intersections, etc.)

Hi all, I have an issue with railway bridges. No matter what I try, they never seem high enough to allow ferries to cross underneath them. I tried a lot of stuff but nothing seems to work. Any solutions?

Ok folks , My CJ got a big delay and here's why: The first reason was a reinstall of my PC, the second and most important reason is that I first intended to use only RHW (no MHW anymore). Although I really like RHW with all its flexibility and possibilities, it turned out that RHW also has it shortcomings. I'm not saying this to criticize the NAM-team. I think they do a wonderful job. I've been testing and trying out RHW for quite some time, Diagonal overpasses and on/off ramps on diagonal RHWs that have more than 2x2 lanes still don't seem to work. Besides, on/off ramps and intersections between highways take a lot of space. Not a problem in a rural area, but in big cities this causes problems. I've now decided to use MHW in areas where I can't use RHW and I will use RHW where I can. The other NAM feautures are great and I will use them wherever I can (nice curves, NWM, Tuleps, etc.). I will start my CJ or better said, my region journal soon. I built a lot of stuff already and made some screenshots.

Sorry for my late reply, but that doesn't appear to make any difference. The transportation map still looks weird. SC4 runs very fine, no CTD's or whatsoever. Fully patched, latest NAM (31.2)

WOW!!! Looks good to me. Great job.

Looks promising. Can't wait to see some more .

Hi all, Just a question: I have the lastest NAM installed (31.2). It's a custom installation. Of course RHW and NWM are included and I also made the choice to override the Maxis standard highways. I was just wondering if there are any bus stops and toll plazas (booths) available that work fine when using RHW and NWM (and no, I don't mean the standard very oversized Maxis bus stops). I have always used a bus stop mod that replaced the Maxis bus stops (well, not really a replacement but an add-on) and that looked really nice on streets, roads and avenues, even on diagonal ones. These bus stops don't seem to work anymore when I use NWM. The same applies to toll booths (they don't work when I use RHW, of course I could get them to work on a four lane RHW by replacing a bit of the RHW by a standard Maxis avenue and then plop the booths there, but it looks ugly). I'd really like to know.

Your imagination and your computer specs (after applying the 4GB patch) are (at least part of) the limit. But, with all due respect, I don't think you would like to rebuild Texas. It would cost you ages and even your great grandchildren would be playing to finish that SC4 region I'm now working on a 20x20 large city tiles region and I know this will take me at least some years of my spare free time. I really like this game but to spend the rest of my life's spare free time to build one SC4 region would be too much for me .

When I'm busy with one of my cities I save every time after I finish some editing (like upgrading a road, some new zoning, adding schools or changing funding). It's annoying and costs some time, but at least nothing is lost if the game crashes (which is very rare right now, Haven't experienced a SC4 crash for months). When I save a city and want to return to the region, I always use save and then exit to region without saving. It's a ritual that comes from the times that SC4 regularly crashed. If your region is really large, like mine, you should apply the 4GB patch which is part of the latest NAM. If you don't apply that patch the game may crash when you want to save a city. Also make sure that you use the CPUCount parameter in your SC4 shortcut if you're using a multicore processor.

I always try to find some nice names for my mayors, something like Mr. Smith for my city named Garden City and Mrs. Elliott for a city named Golden Bay. Each city has its own mayor and that means that each mayor should have his/her own name. I make an exceptions for metropolises. All boroughs will then have the same mayor (the same for New York City where Mr. Bloomberg is the mayor of all of the city). It's not realistic when all cities share the same mayor.

Cheers! SC4 deluxe rules and it is still such a great game today! I really like it. The mods like nam and all other addons are so great. A big thank you to all people who worked had to provide us with great mods and addons!

Hi all, The transportation map here often looks weird. Distorted colors, etc. Satellite view works OK. I have the latest NAM installed and the game is fully patched. At first I thought power deals might have something to do with this, but some tests showed no difference, Parts of the map look ugly, distorted colors (like some white and black layer on an avenue), The game itself runs perfectly. No CTDs. It's not really important, but if this could be fixed, that would be great.

Well, The problem fixed itself more or less. I hadn't been playing SC4 long enough and forget about solutions for this particular problem. The problem has been resolved and the receiving city has enough capacity to deal with the garbage. I had to construct some recycling and waste-to-power plants to deal with all that garbage. Right now they're complaining about education, etc. Anyways, my CJ will start soon. I'm looking for a place to post pictures.

Hi all, OK, here's the problem: neighbor deals are just working partly. The city I'm working at now can perfectly sell water and power to neighboring cities, but collecting and recycling garbage appears to be a problem. The sims in that one particular city are complaining about garbage, but I can't make a deal with that city. I know some plugins can cause this type of behavior. I removed AutoToggleOrdinance and RadicalOrdinance. This helped me fix power and water problems before, but right now I don't know what to do. Anyone some hints?