Bumblegrum

I am relatively new to the game and, in looking through the wonderful content available for this game, am somewhat in awe of those who have the ability to develop and produce specialised items for inclusion in the game. Having said that, I note with some considerable concern, that some developers include in their readme files a note that their creation is not compatible with some other creation. Wny? If someone develops an item surely they expect that others in the game may take advantage of it in their cityscape and yet, in my case, a developer publishing an item I would love to include in my city who tells me it is not compatible with "xyz" absolutely has the effect of either baulking me or telling me to give it the big miss and look for something else. If it baulks me, I then need to spend a lot of time working through everything I have in my game to establish whether or not I have incompatible items and from there make a decision whether to download it or not. If the game is to be split between illegance to one "inompatible" party or another then it is not worth playing. To be honest I am rapidly losing interest because I have to spend more time vetting content than I can allocate to playing the game.

Thanks for the feedback guys. They will help me a lot while I work out what to do.

I am reasonably new to the game (played around with it but never got serious) and now would like to start building a city/region from scratch but starting with a major (not necessarily large but something with "everything") train freight area and building from there to create a city over a number of neighbouring areas. I've downloaded quite a few lots and a humungous load of dependencies but find that when I try to put them together very little works. Most of them don't connect to streets and roads and in one case, less than half the items included in the download appear anywhere in the menu. For some strange reason, it also appears that a few Lot Developers have a weird idea of where their developments should appear in the game menu system (which is abysmal to say the least before we start) BUT, honestly, WHY would anyone put a train station in the PARKS menu? I've spend the past 2 weeks trying to sort out a decent Freight area without success. Has anyone achieved what I would like to? If so is it possible for you to send me pictures and/or information on how you managed to achieve it?

I am reasonably new to Sim City and have taken advantage of the opportunity to download some of the brilliant items posted on Simtropolis but I am finding extreme difficulty in locating some files when playing the game. As a "for instance" I downloaded 3 different transport hubs - buildings that handle more than 1 transport mode. Common sense (to me) says that these would show up in the Transport menu but alas that is not the case. I can't find 2 of them and the 3rd appears in the Rewards menu. This is not an isolated case and it seems to me that some people who develop these items - and I most sincerely thank them for their efforts - appear to give little thought to where their items should appear in the game menu. Being new to the game, I would assume that anything to do with trains, trams, aircraft, boats and cars would be available under the Transportation menu. Similarly I would expect to find Education related buildings (schools, colleges, libraries, museums etc etc) under the Education menu item but again it's a case of hit and miss. I am assuming here that the item developer is the person who says where their item appears in the menu. I fully realise that different people have different ideas on where their items could/should be appear in the game menu which leads me to think that Maxis have given little thought to providing a comprehensive menu system within the game to make it easy for players to select appropriate items for their cities. Am I correct in this assumption? Is there a way in which players can allocate downloaded material to a specific (and perhaps expanded) game menu item for ease of access or must we endure inappropriate allocation by item developers?