Grayham

City population: 867,895 R$: 230,000 R$$: 550,000 R$$$: 100,000 CS$: 16,500 CS$$: 110,000 CS$$$: 43,000 CO$$: 100,000 CO$$$: 200,000 I-HT: 75,000 I bulldozed all my Dirty and Manufacturing industry. I do not use the CAM (I haven't heard of it before) Zone view of main city: Region View (transportation): The large tile city on the western edge of the main city has 32,636 industrial jobs and a population of 3,933 (the northern part is occupied by farms), the medium tile above it has 40,276 industrial jobs and 0 population. But the medium tile city above that has 74,070 population, 32,224 commercial jobs and 0 industrial jobs. It's not connected with the city west of that.

I already have large areas of high tech industry within the city on the western side. If the way out of town is shorter (faster?) than the way to those jobs, Sims normally look elsewhere for jobs. I don't see how that could be because they have to travel through these areas to get to the other cities.

I already have large areas of high tech industry within the city on the western side.

My city's education level is about 180, the education data view is green apart from a couple of very small areas on the most eastern edge* and I've got plenty of educational facilities (including the university, main library and art museum) The people that commute out of city still live in very green areas on education data view.

The Sc4devotion wiki lists the air pollution effects of (nearly) all the parks but doesn't say anything about the effectiveness of trees. Do trees reduce air pollution as much as parks?

https://screwpile.wordpress.com/screw-pile-exchange-spex/maxis-files/ Can someone tell what these ones are? What are "Dependencies"? At the bottom of the Lots list is "Living Mall" but I thought that came with the original game anyway? Tools / Updates SC4 Lot Editor SC4 BAT Installer SC4 BAT Update Texture Problem Fix Plugin Manager with Unicode Fix Transportation Update Dependencies Building Prop Vol 1 Building Prop Vol 2 Day of Peace – Flag Prop American Flag Canadian Flag

Do any of the landmarks from that page require dependencies? Also for some of the landmarks, when you go to the menu in the game it says things like LM96x96_AdlerPlanetarium_0489. Is this meant to be like this?

So if I'm not going to design new lots or buildings, I don't need the dependencies?

I only installed the traffic simulator. The traffic simulator configuration tool doesn't load up either, a black DOS text screen just flashes up and disappears before I can even read any of it. No, I'm not on a Mac and I previously installed the most recent official update patch (for Europe)

Before I installed the NAM, the graph line was at 70 - 80, after the NAM it was line went down a bit and the scale now said 1.0 and 0.5. It seemed very much like 60 had became 1.0 so you can see how I thought it had gone from minutes to hours (the line didn't drop from 70 or 80 to 1!) Speaking commuting to other cities, another strange thing the game does is where I have a railway and road connection to a neighbouring city (with lots of industry), some of the Sims decide to get off at the last station and walk across the border! (naturally I have stations on the other side)

Thanks, I have looked at some of it, but there is quite a lot to read there!

Before the NAM is installed, I believe the graph looks like this http://www.wuphonsreach.org/Games/SimCity4/WR1/Album/Kirkenes/Kirkenes-2212-Rebuild2Graphs-1-Commute.jpg Then after the NAM is installed 60 becomes 1.0, so naturally I assumed it went from minutes to hours, and I was getting a bit worried because I tried it was taking people 8 hours to get to work.

I believe that the fact that the commute time graph is irretrievably broken has been mentioned many times in various forums. I would forget that and just play the game. You don't think perhaps it becomes broken after the NAM is added?

After Ganaram's advice I took off Sc4config and went back to NAM. This is what my commute time graph looks like. I first added the NAM 40 years before this point and this is after I changed the traffic config tool settings to Basic Network Capacity Ultra and Mass Transit Usage Medium (American) and fast forwarded 2 years. Before it was on Ultra and High/European. This is also after a number of changes using the Traffic Config Tool. City population: 640, 421

The commute time graph, is it measured in hours? What would you say are the ideal mass transit usage settings? What happen if you just made it 100% Fastest for each wealth class?

Now I've lost all my high capacity stations (because I uninstalled the NAM mod thinking it might conflict with Sc4config)

I've downloaded and unzipped Sc4Config. Does it have to be in the Simcity 4 Plugins folder?

If you are interested only in modifying traffic simulation parameters then you can try the tool by Goaskin for have a more effective control. Look for SC4Config in http://sourceforge.net/home.html Does this also improve commuter pathfinding?

Actually garbage seems to be stuck at the same level (30) I export all garbage to another city.

In Properties for "NetworkAddonMod_Traffic_Plugin_Z_Ultra_Custom.dat", Read Only is unselected and in Security under Permissions for System, Full Control, Modify, Read & Execute, Read, and Write are ticked. Special Permissions is unticked and when I click Edit it won't let me tick it.

I went into the Network Addon Mod folder in the Plugins folder and deleted the DAT file my Traffic Config Tool mentions when I start it up. Then I was able to create a new file. But after I save it and exit the Traffic Config Tool, it still won't let me save any changes I make after that (the same error message pops up). So I guess I'll just have to do the same again if I want to change it. I am logged in as an administrator as well.

Yes, it still says this when I've first switched my PC on. How??

I played it last night with the Base Network Capacity set to Ultra and the Mass Transit Usage set to Very High. I built a lot more monorail track and increased the size of my city to over 600,000. Congestion is low of course, but the commute time has shot up to 8 hours (I think the graph is measured in hours anyway). The Traffic Sim Cofig Tool still won't let me change the settings (still says "Error deleting file(s). Simcity 4 is probably running."), so I don't know what to do apart from uninstall/reinstall the NAM again (doesn't take long but I'd like to know how to fix this)

How fast is each mode of transport? (trains, subway, road, monorail) In the Traffic Sim Config Tool, it shows roads and avenues as having the same capacity. Does an avenue have twice the capacity of a road because it's like two roads alongside each other?

I checked Windows Task Manager and Simcity 4 isn't on the processes list (is this what you meant?) I've just switched on my computer for the first time today, though I'd left the CD in the drive (I tried ejecting it but that made no difference) EDIT: I just tried shutting my computer and starting it up again without the CD, hasn't worked.