THE_Chris

Having highways, roads AND rail connecting cities is natural and looks good in region view, but all that happens even with the NAM is the roads and rail get jammed to bits and the highways sit there empty.

Thanks a mil Uploaded a few more region shots to show off SC4 to a music forum, might as well lash them up here too Added a big airport since with the original airport as parkland, still a work in progress, but its getting there

haha was just about to say it was going the wrong direction That setup would work for a British city (with left hand driving set in the NAM). I did it once, thought it was pretty realistic that it broke the commuting.

Originally posted by: mrbisonm It is easy to do what you want when you have freeplay, but in GRV (official) it is different, there you only do what is told you to do, which makes it a lot harder but also more challenging and fun.But I still say, you should have participated in the official GRV Challenge, because I see some good points here..... Nice going and nice use of zoning. mrbisonm quote> Yeah I'm kinda regretting not joining it now, cant join now either because with an airport, a highway and big cities I'd have to demolish half of my region I'll probably join The Rock in the autumn though

Looks good! I'd have left the bumpy airport runway though, it looks suspiciously like the runway at the airport near me!

Damn these are looking good. Love that hydro power plant. Updated my unofficial GRV work, interesting to see what you can do without restrictions and challenges https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/categories.cfm?catid=36

Thanks folks, here comes the promised update Firstly, heres another region overview with area names. Glendale is an interesting area.... its the dividing line between the rich city folk and the poorer rural agricultural area. Nestled in the Ledge Mountains, ribbon development along country hill streets is commonplace. People here commute to Brill Caves or further to Cobsleigh for work. Its a nice quiet drive to work - there is no motorway onramp/offramp in this area to generate traffic. Another overview of this part of Glendale, showing the popular South GRV Line. This line is at capacity and takes about 1000 per day into the urban conglomeration to the east. Travelling east to the outskirts of Brill Caves, the M1 Ring Road had to be placed in a cutting to avoid awkward highway curves and environmental desecration. While this was carried out, the local roads and South GRV Railway were placed in the cutting also. Spot the old road snaking the hill to the south. Moving Northwest, the M2 motorway cuts across the river in the district of Lean. Two bridges are present, as a one span crossing proved awkward from both an environmental and aesthetical point of view. Unfortunately the few residents of the island now have a highway traversing their land. Early plans are being drawn up for replacement of the main GRV South and North railway lines - a possible high speed monorail link through this area. (Anyone know how to get rid of the annoying dip in the centre of this? I tried everything I could think of) A small lake exists in Lean, to the south of the M2 Toll Booths. It has attracted much one-off housing development and is a quiet getaway for holidaymakers from Rogers Island and Fork Mountain. Finally for this update, we look at the northern area of Hoffmans Ranch. The local road network and GRV North Railway cross the river here. The road and rail crossings both date back 60 years. Before the construction of the M2, this was the main route to the east of the GRV. Calls for replacement of the bridge have been met with stiff opposition due to the beauty of the crossing. Note also the Ranch Hotel to the bottom right. Ok thats it for another update, hope ye liked! Any more areas you'd like to see let me know. I'd better get building again!

Fun to get a high wealth one, get them a sports car and got on the rampage on the highway with it.

Looks fantastic.

Done a lot of work since I updated last! The famous highway is now a ring road and is being extended across the map. I'll do an update tomorrow with some rural areas I'm very happy with. For now, heres a region preview!! Update tomorrow like I said. Any requests for bits ye want to see, post here!

@Super Monkey - Heh nice one Roundabouts are standard NAM stuff Drag roads/streets to make a box gives you the basic one. The bigger one is done by making a bigger box of one way streets (3 tiles each side leaving one free in the middle). Plopping the mayors statue in the middle makes it look good

I think its actually one of the songs. Also if there is wildlife in the woods it growls too.

The NAM will make cars APPEAR on the UK side of the road if you select that option when you install. In my install anyway, commuting tracks from the route query appear on the UK side too. But the arrows which indicate a highway connection to a neighbour, say, appear wrong. Its still pretty good, it gives the outward appearance of left hand driving anyway. Make sure though that if you use NAM one way road roundabouts that you check which way they go around, cos if they're wrong noone can drive on them!

@Joe90. Thats a savage street map of the region. Did you use a program to do that or just good ole Paint/Photoshop?

Ah Put them into My Documents/Sim City 4/Plugins Only use one of them (whichever is suitable, probobly the American one for driving on the right), pop it in that directory. Then in the Parks menu of the game you'll see the traffic generators mixed in. Plop them down next to the road and cars appear