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Ahoy all, Apologies for the thread bump. Interesting read, although I didn't go through all of it (rather lengthy). After not playing SC4 for ages, I picked up the Deluxe Edition while in America last year and installed it (previously I had purchased my SC4 here in NZ). The game plays okay, although I think I'm due for an upgrade! Anyway, I'm having the issue of long commute times and abandoned buildings. I'm a guy that likes to do things a little differently; I have Residential, Commercial and Industrial, all on one map. I lay out mass transit right from the beginning, and before I place anything, I separate the residential/commercial from the industrial by something, usually a hill, so the pollution doesn't spread. I have rail, motorways and subways connecting the aforementioned zones, mostly through tunnels (although some rail goes over the hill). I find that my Sims have an extremely low tolerance for commuting to work, despite me having puh-lenty of transport options available other than their cars! I used to use the NAM that had best pathfinding capacity and 10X commute capacity (from memory). I've installed the new NAM, and selected what I thought was the best, the 5X increase, but I'm getting buildings abandoned all over the show. My industrial seems quite slow to develop too (unless that's normal?) I'm at a bit of a loss at to what to do, as everything worked really well with the old NAM, but the new one doesn't seem to be helping commute time/pathfinding issues, it just seems to be making them worse. If any screenshots or version numbers are required, I'm happy to post them (can't do so currently as I'm at work), but if anyone has a suggestion as to what I should be using instead based on what I've explained above, please feel free to comment. Thanks in advance

Hello, I've been away from here for a while, mostly due to my hard drive dying. I've reinstalled Windows (previously I was running SC4 Deluxe on Windows 2000 just fine, now I'm using XP). I've got the game up and running, but I can't seem to reinstall my regions with cities on them again. I've found instructions on loading a new region just download (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R) but when I try to install/load a region with cities on it, it just sits there on the main map and doesn't do anything, despite me waiting for ages. I've copied the two folders with the regions over to the correct folder too. Anyone able to tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I've tried loading the config.bmp file, the green and grey versions of the map, still nothing happening... Help!

Ack. I had it in another "Regions" folder, not the My Documents one. Cheers for that. Is there a way to have the regions only in one place, not My Documents?

Hmmm. I can't see it in my cities I downloaded the plugin and that works fine for streets, but it doesn't seem to work for roads.

Also. Being able to provide a cul-de-sac at the end of a dead end road (not a street) would be nice too

I'd like to be able to setup cellphone towers and possibly AM/FM radio and TV transmitters. You would have to provide coverage to everyone, and that could be a real challenge for some hilly/mountainous cities. You could also check the coverage on the maps (like you can with the police, etc at the moment) and install new sites as necessary.

Thanks Vester. To make sure I have the right NAM file, I unzipped it and this is what I have inside: Traffic_Plugin_Files LEFT_HAND_VERSIONS_ONLY_Additional_Plugin_Files Automata_Plugin_Files 1.0 OPTIONAL PLUGINS NetworkAddonMod.dat (This is a file, not a folder, unlike all the others). Which one contains the GLR mod?

Hi, (Hopefully I've got this in the right thread this time). I'm keen to try out the GLR mod, but I downloaded the latest NAM to this computer here (which doesn't have Simcity at all, so no previous NAM versions to remove) and it's not present in the NAM .zip file...unless I'm missing something here... (probably) ? Do I need to download something else, apart from just the network addon module, or is it part of it??? Please excuse my ignorance :/

(Sorry for the delayed post to this thread, I just found it)... Query: where does one download that deluxe railway station etc?? the one in nonessentialnoodle's pic? Thanks all