coachmcguirck

What do you do when a fire or a riot breaks out?

I don't know if this has been done already. My idea would be a Dept of Transportation building (or similar name) that gives you the exact numbers of transit riders on different modes of transit, number of people who use tolls, how many road tiles are over capacity, how much your city has taken in cash for tolls and transit fares, number of subway/rail tiles over capacity, and anything else you can think of that I haven't listed. And also the number of commuter to/from Simnation, as well as regional ridership, and all other things. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or skills to make it myself, but if someone wants to make it, have at it

I have played TrafficGiant and Simutrans, but I was wondering if there were any others. Both those games are fun, but have pretty bad flaws: TrafficGiant, for example, has a real messed up way of routing, and with Simutrans it is impossible to analyze trip paths.

They keyword in my post is "competitive" TrafficGiant had the option of competing against up to 3 other CPUs, for example @walden: That looks interesting, I think I may try that

I wonder if anyone has developed this?

I recently loaded up a city, and found that my one school which had just 400 kids in it suddenly needed 5000 desks. I built another school, but that one became 200+ students overfilled, then I tried building 5 more, and they were all overcrowded. I kept building and building, but demand was never satisfied. What is causing this?

I love the RTMT, and that would be an awesome addition! Especially if you can put that Traffic Volume graph into actual numbers

Pretty cool there. Is that a photoshopped Amtrak logo?

What sort of lots/mods/etc are available for those things? I have the Census Repository right now

Where is the ugly building?

@SC4BOY: I see what you're saying, but what is happening is there are actually more people going to elementary school than there are people in the city. And about commuting from SimNation to my SimCity schools, I do not think that is possible since there is a radius of schools' effectiveness. Anywho, after I test out decreasing the radii, I'll post the result

Originally posted by: Cleaner475 @coachmcguirck - are the region tiles around this city developed - maybe thats were there coming from? Don't know if that can happen but if it happens with jobs etc. why not? Richardquote> Actually, I wonder if this can happen, as that would explain it. The tiles around the city are developed and may not have a school.

Shoot, I forgot to mention that the schools I use are custom ones from Simtropolis and LEX and the rest. They have capacities of 8000, yet they are ALWAYS overcrowded, even in a city of 45,000 when I have about 8 or 10 of these schools. Where are all these students coming from?

Where can I find different transportation maps for my region view?

are there none on SImtropolis except for one other one? I would like one that especially focuses on transit

Awesome, thanks!!

Originally posted by: Benedict Sign at Lighthouse Station on the Port Sinclair Monorail: quote> How do you make the 45-degree angles smooth instead of sharp?

Easy way to make these maps in photoshop is to master the Pen Tool

For example, I want to load up this region: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=5368 (Buffalo, NY if link doesn't work). I save the image as a .bmp or .jpg, create a new city, load the config file, then use CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+R to load the image file, but the game crashes. I am using Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T6400 @ 2GHz (though I only use CPU 1 when playing) 4GB RAM 64-bit OS Rush Hour

Does no one else have this problem?

Well, it doesn't crash in the middle of rendering, it crashes immediately after I command the game to open and render the image

I see this in some cityjournals. But how is it done?

I think I understand. So, after building enough farmland and whatnot, I go into eating up that farmland with RCI (like in real life of course), but zoom down so close that city block takes up nearly the whole screen? (or act like it does)?

In SimCity DS, there are several maps with some sort of problem (too much traffic, pollution, etc.) and it is up to you to solve this problem in a time frame without raising taxes. I was wondering if any SC4 users have made maps like these (either on accident or on purpose) and uploaded them for others to solve? Sometimes just making your own city gets boring

I like making diagonal roads, so this would help me and a bunch of others I'm sure. And for that matter, how about diagonal bus blockers?