grk1011

When I first got the NAM I was excited to not need to worry about crime, health, education, etc if I didn't want to and I've since built some really nice looking cities. I've realized however that certain city ordinance changes will not stick. With each "year" I've found that the following will always turn themselves back on: Alternative Medicine Program, Smoke Detector Program, MT Strategy Mass Transit Only, Crime Doesn't Pay, Portable Waste to Nothing Accelerator, and Genius Acceleraton Project. Has anyone else run into this problem? I'm tired of the sims crowding my train connection with 6k commuters leaving the highway connection with only 60 cars. (the other ordinances not mentioned seem to stay at whatever I put them on)

I have a question along the same line so I'll ask it here if that's ok seeing that the original poster's question has been answered. I've built a region where the cities are only connected via train and highway with the mass transit only mod making most sims use the train. I recently built a new city and connected it via rail to a more established city (27k pop, 25k jobs). In the new smaller city (12k pop, 4k jobs) about 4k sims take the train to the established city. When I go to play that other city, 15k sims are going to the new smaller city. I don't understand why there would ever be so many going there. This seems to happen in many of my cities where for some reason the sims always clog up the infrastructure going out of the city and don't drive local commercial demand. It's not like the other city offers different jobs either.

I probably do have this eternal loop problem. I guess I just need to be more mindful of which cities connect to each other.

I couldn't find that additional file. I just removed one file that was obvious and it seems to be working like it did before the mod. After removing the mod, I've realized that I like the game better. Once you turned off the demand increasers most of the buildings became vacant due to lack of demand anyway. It was either they had to be on all the time or off.

I bought a new laptop in the past week (Windows 8, 64-bit) and I haven't had any problems either. But like others have said, always save often. Just last night I lost an hour of work after McAfee decided it was going to restart my computer for updates...

It seems that it's Radical Ordinance V2.0 that I have. I'll try disabling it for a little while and see how it goes.

Thanks, I did need it. I'll point out however, that they made it a little hard to find the 640 patch. You'd only notice it if you were looking for it specifically or read the desc of the BAT download.

I got a new laptop last week and just moved my entire "my documents" folder over. After that I put the CD in, installed it, and it's been working just like it did on the old laptop. Would I still need to download that patch or was it included in the files I moved? Like I said I haven't noticed any differences compared to how it used to be.

When I had the BAT, i noticed that there were more than one version of the city hall building that comes with the game. I think in addition to the reward one that I can always use there are maybe 2 more larger city hall buildings which were named as different "levels". I thought that maybe I would be prompted to build the bigger one in a similar way that the game prompts you to build a bigger airport, but this has not come about. does anyone know how the other city hall buildings come into the game naturally (without a cheat)?

aha thanks!

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i hate when the game builds a bunch of the same building next to each other - it looks so fake. the game randomly closes itself that sims take weird routes to work like taking the shortest distance route on a small street even though there is a highway right there. why does everyone leave for work and come home from work at the same time!

I downloaded a few different GLR (Ground Light Rail) cars, using one at a time of course, because I thought the subway cars were a little ugly to be on the street, however, every download shows the cars as colored boxes. They are in the shape of the downloaded vehicle, but each side a different color like red, green, blue, etc. I've heard of this happening before, so is there a way to fix it? I downloaded all of the dependencies as well.

I tried a few different sets all with recommendations from other users. none of them worked.

There are some other threads about this, you might want to check them out for more detail, but it seems to crash when you have a piece of track, like when you are plopping it, and move it over a transit enabled lot (ie station).

i have all of the dependencies and i think my video card is a Mobile Intel 965 Chipset Express? not sure if thats the video card or not.

if i do that then it lags like you wouldn't believe, thats why it is on software

it was a bunch of different things just trying to place pieces. Sometimes it was right when i clicked on it in the menu, others were when i tried to place it. I realized what the other posts were talking about meaning not moving the piece over a transit lot and it seems to be working ok now, but are there any plans to fix this bug?

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but it's really annoying. The GLR (Ground Light Rail) is something new to me that came with the NAM. Whenever I try to put a system in, the game just closes unexpectantly. Some times I am able to lay more track than others, but I have never successfully got a system up and running. Just now I tried three times to build the same system and the game closed three times. The game closes once in a while (about once every 4 times playing) without warning, but it closes religiously when I try to use GLR. Has this problem happened to anyone else and is there a fix for it?

it seems that another member has the same problem and has already started a thread on it here: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=105397&enterthread=y Note that the replies did not solve the problem, so more input would be great. I described it in greater detail.

I read up about how to move cities, regions, and plugins from an old computer to a new one (i got a laptop for school), but its not working right. I copied everything over into the my documents regions folder, but when I start the game there are a few cities missing. I look back at the folder and about 20 of the cities files are gone. I moved them again, restarted, and they are gone again when i start the game. Why is it doing this? Also, what is the purpose of the other "regions" and "plugins" folder in my programs if the cities and stuff are saved in my documents? Can I delete these folders? Any help would be great, thanks!

ohh. i deleted the those background plugins and the city files in the program files. that must be why the background when in a city is black lol. I guess ill put the backgrounds back.

the same thing happens to me. The GLR (Ground Light Rail) is something new to me that came with the NAM. Whenever I try to put a system in, the game just closes unexpectantly. Some times I am able to lay more track than others, but I have never successfully got a system up and running. Just now I tried three times to build the same system and the game closed three times. The game closes once in a while (about once every 4 times playing) without warning, but it closes religiously when I try to use GLR. Its not always the same pieces that I try to lay either. Sometimes its the draggable pieces, sometimes its the inroad pieces. Whichever GLR pieces I use causes the game to close.

ok nvm. someone helped me in chat. apparently i have to import the missing cities and they are missing for some unexplained reason.

what is the difference between software and hardware rendering? Mine was running slow on Vista as well.