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Originally posted by: Hahayoudied The sims are picky and can't make up their mind sometime. I had trouble stopping the sims in my main city from clogging up the road when there are subway stations in front of every residental and commercial buildings. I noticed that the high wealth dislike using the mass traint the most. To fix the problem, I bulldozed all the road connections between the residental area and the commercial area. That finally got most of sims to use the subway. However, a few of the sims perfer to use the bus and some few sims still travel by cars.quote> With the prepackaged traffic simulator, the sims prefer cars and you absolutely can't get wealthy sims on mass transit. In that case, highways are pretty much your only option. You really need the NAM to get mass transit to work .

I am using SC4D with NAM. At some point, I switched to the new NAM simulators. Supposedly lower class sims like rail while upper class like monorail, and my EQ is around 175 The rail emptied out when I introduced bus/subway service, suggesting that one or the other (probably bus) is the best way of moving poor sims. You probably only need simple road connections when you at the poor dirty industry phase. Then start up monorail when you get wealthier sims. Then roadtop subway/bus stations come when the city starts crowding and you need to relieve congestion on the monorails.

Monorail seems to be the king of intercity transport. Remember that the trains can't make 90 degree turns, so you'll have to make mini interchanges at intersections. But they still take only a tiny fraction of the land hogged by a highway cloverleaf. In any case, I've got two monorail lines and 8-10 subway lines running between my residential/industrial city and my commercial one. Additionally, there is a fair amount of car and bus traffic. They appear to be very well connected. Edit: I started with simple road connections and then put in a monorail line. Once my residential/industrial city grew across the map, I put in the second monorail line. As density increased, I then put in roadtop bus and subway service. I also didn't mention the rail service I put in along with the monorail. However, the monorail was always much more popular. At this point, hardly anyone bothers with the rail line anymore so I'm about to rip it out since its the most land hungry of my systems.

Of course I'm using RTMT in residential districts. Your traffic tends to go residential <-> commericial/industrial, after all. In any case, the CTRL trick is pretty handy. I'm not sure if I need to be careful to limit myself to zone sizes for buildings that actually exist. If my zone is too large, will it get broken up or will it not develop at all?

Let me put it another way. Say I zone a 3X6 commercial section. I could get 6 3x1 lots or 3 3X2 lots or 2 3x3 lots. Is there anyway I can control which one I get? This sometimes becomes an issue when laying out transport networks. Especially when you are using roadtop pieces.

When you're zoning, you can get zones that are either one, two, or even three squares wide. Is there any way to control this?

Thanks!

Originally posted by: nihonkaranws Freebot, do not post twice, edit your first post. The spaceport is in the rewards menu, near the bottom.quote> Just deleted the first post as it implied my question without directly stating it. I am well aware how to build the spaceport. I'm just asking for NIMBY/YIMBY and radius info so I can make an informed decision as to where I should build it. It is not listed in Cheese's rewards thread. Edit: @ Swat-Medic: If it positively affects hi-tech, doesn't that imply an effect radius? Or does it simply affect all hi-tech throughout the city tile?

I think that the NAM removes monorail pollution.

In other words, does anyone have NIMBY/YIMBY and radius info on the Spaceport?