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I just returned to sc4 after a long break. HSRP is new to me. I watched the tutorial and seem to follow the direction but my HSRP tracks don't work. I lay the tracks as directed then place the stations on the track, but there was no train movement, Sims did not recognize this as a form of transportation. They only walk to the stations for jobs. Am I missing something here? From a visual perspective, the tracks look fine.

Although there are some rare circumstances where the connection does not have to be complete, in general, the connection has to be there. This has been verified many times by many people. The reason for this is that the traffic simulator calculates two routes for every destination - one by road and one by mass transit - and picks the faster one. If it can't find a road connection, it gives up, even if there is a mass transit connection. There are various ways you can fool the traffic simulator into thinking that there is a complete road connection when there isn't, because the traffic simulator doesn't look too closely at the map in this phase. However, the situation pictured above does not fulfill these conditions. EDIT: Just saw your post, SilverCyric - I was typing when you added it. Thanks for the support. This is contrary to my experience, see the pictures below

This is wrong. Residents and workplaces need not be connected by road.

Station has capacity of 70k or so. Here is a picture of set up: As you can see here, sims aren't using the HSRP to travel

My house rule is to not build too many high density commercial or residential buildings.

I should have NAM 31.1 which I downloaded from here just a few days ago. I believe the HSRP stations were included inNAM. I don't remember having downloaded any HSRP stations.

I downloaded Mattb 325 regency estate (along with a bunch of other medium size residential lots): http://sc4devotion.c....php?lotGET=704 It's a nice looking building, but far, far too common. I notice that it will grow on Chicago, NY and Houston tileset if I zone medium density 1x1 or 1x2, it will almost always grow into this lot, so I ended up with a city of mostly this building. For those of you who use it in your cities, any way to limit it?

I have downloaded iLiveReader, but don't know how to edit the lot. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to use the program?

I am a veteran SC4 player, just recently returned to SC4. I have SC4 deluxe, applied the EP1 patch and the .exe is now at version 638 (indicating the EP1 patch has been correctly applied), I then run the Update4BAT update, it ran without any problem, even gave me a message saying update applied successfully, but .exe version remain at 638 (should be 640). What did I do wrong? Any suggestions?

Thanks. This will be very helpful.

tried it once, didn't work, but maybe I didn't do it correctly. I will try again when I have sometime in the next few days, given there seems to be nothing else to try.

Many thanks for the suggestions. I will check out Paeng and Madhatter106. Always good to have more variety in the cities. I am not familiar with iLiveReader, but have used DatGen a long, long time ago, maybe in 2005-2006. Was pretty good at editing files, but have become quite rusty at it now.

You heard wrong.

I see no effect on demand from tollbooth. Sometimes R demand may be lowered because commute time would become longer due to congestion at the booth.

I hardly ever get that building! You're frightfully lucky. Short of removing the plugin, there's really not much you can do. The best solutition would be to download a lot more 1x2 and 1x1 lots, which should add variety - I'm not sure I'd recommend the Skipjack ones, though - as lovely as they are, I had the same problem with them to the point I had to remove them. Thanks. Any other good 1x1, 1x2 medium lot (similar in density to row houses) you would recommend? The issue with Regency Estates is that it has high capacity (~55 sims) and is a stage 5, I believe most other row house type has a capacity of ~35 and stage 4. So if you have sufficient demand, it should almost always grow into this one.

Not pirated version, of course.

I am really annoyed by the advisor pop-ups, especially when running the game at high spped, because they come up almost every few seconds, telling me silly stuff like "Sims seeking office oppotunity" or "Mayor is a gifted administrator". I don't need to know these. If there a way to get rid of all the pop-ups except in case of true emergencies (like fire, power outage etc)???

Dependencies are a mess. Someone should compile a MEGA MEGA pack of all dependencies, the mega pack to end all mega packs, so we only need to include one such mega pack to make all buildings work.

I have SC4 deluxe, the game is updated with EP1 and then with EP2 (sc4update4bat.exe). In my prior experience this should fix the night lighting problem. But it didn't work this time, I am not sure what I missed. I even reinstalled the game, but the problem persists. I would appreciate any help.

Now I know why it isn't working. It's because I've been using a no-cd crack. I have never used a no-cd crack for SC4 until now. This is because my new gaming PC does not have an optical drive. I have found a way around this problem though

My version is 1.1.610. So the patches are not properly applied??? I will try re-applying the patch and see what happens.

I just built a new gaming rig. It plays all games including the latest ones just fine, but for some reason Simcity 4 performance is worse than the older system it replaces. Here are the stats for my new system: - AMD PII X4 3.6ghz - Radeon HD 5850 My older system was an Athlon64 3000+, the older video card was a Geforce 7800GT. Maybe Simcity 4 just doesn't like ATI cards for some reason?

I have the same problem with my city. There is a section of it on the coast that houses about 70k R$$$ people, basically the richest part of the city. There are always the same 4 buildings that have job problem. They would go from good --> no job --> abandon --> good again. It just keeps on cycling from good to abandon and back. I built tons of commercial offices in the back, even plotted down 2 giant buildings with 5000 jobs each and they still can't find job. My city only has a population of 90k, and there are more than 200k commercial office jobs available. Commute time is a serious issue in this game, I meant, I commute through several cities to work, and the Sims won't even go to work because the job is on the other side of town?

If I am not mistaken, the railroad tracks have capacity of 20,000 passengers. Can I raise this figure to like 50,000? If this is possible, can somehow please share the knowledge?

There are a total of 13 numbers on the list. I believe they are as the following, I am not sure though. 1) Road 2) Rail 3) Highway 4) Street 5) unknow, has the value 0 (maybe the ferries) 6) unknow, has the value 0 (maybe the ferries) 7) Monorail Ave. 9) Oneway road 10)Oneway Raod 11)Subway 12)El Rail 13)Ground highway If anyone has further information on this I would love to know.