lordfly

Hmm. Here is my R$, R$$, and R$$$ graph. I have nearly quite a bit of my population being either R$ or R$$. My tax rate was %9.0 across the board; RCI demand is now rather violently negative after setting it ti 8.8. I suppose it doesn't help I just built another huge (250k) city to the south...

Originally posted by: z1This sounds very strange indeed. I've never seen a situation with zero bus usage, either. Which bus stops are you using? Assuming that you have reasonable car traffic, it would help if you would post the following: 1) Your Traffic Volume Graph with a five-year period; 2) your Traffic Volume Data View for cars; 3) your Zones Data View; 4) your RCI Demand Data Graph. I would think that there would be a clue in at least one of these.quote> Here you go. Hopefully this attachment thing works. edit: Apparently not. Let's try photobucket.

Originally posted by: z1Which traffic simulator are you using? In your NAM folder, it's a file that begins "NetworkAddonMod_Traffic_Plugin_".quote> NetworkAddonMod_Traffic_Plugin_Z_Medium, with a modified file version of June 19, 2009, so not sure which version that would be.

Originally posted by: VashTS240Not sure exactly how your network is, but in general, pedestrains go from R to C and I for work. Your bus stops would need to be along the route they take for them to be used. Parking garages only help on the R side as when they get off the bus, they walk. That is my understanding of the bus system. Never really got to using one effectively yet. If I'm wrong or I'm missing something, don't hesitate to post.quote> Well, granted I just slapped them down willy-nilly; however, because the I and C zones are all over the map (and I placed the bus stops in the middle of the clusters), at least SOME of the people should be riding the system, right? At the very least, the people on the far end of the clusters. Alas, nothing.

Right, so I've started a new city on Hard difficulty. It's a completely flat, large size city. Being that this is a "casual" playthrough for me, I'm really just slamming zones down like crazy without much thought to planning (making the city pretty comes later). With the settings I installed (can't remember, been a few months since I've installed), the streets have a lot of excess capacity. Regardless, I've been getting a few traffic issues along streets. Especially along those areas where the high-density buildings start coming in. Inevitably, these huge buildings get built, complain about lack of jobs, and then abandon. I thought perhaps placing a bus station in these areas (and stations in C/I zones) would do the trick. Alas, the bus stations are completely and utterly unused, even with parking garages attached. Does NAM disregard transit options until the roads are jammed with traffic? I've never seen ZERO bus use; there's plenty of pedestrian traffic, and I have no highway system; not even an avenue!

Oh, I agree... I guess I'm just a stubborn curmudgeon when it comes to this stuff... something like a community-organized here, you need this stuff to enjoy 80% of the content here link, or a webpage of some of these BAt teams with all of their buildings for download as packs... or something. I dunno, just ideas.

I was afraid those were the answers I was going to get I just hate digging... I love being able to be like why yes, I'd LOVE to download 4000 high quality buildings at once and wabam, instant gratification. Thanks for the suggestions... I'll start digging.

Okay, so pardon my severe ignorance, and I'm almost positive it's somewhere on the website, but to be perfectly honest, navigating Simtropolis gives me a gigantic headache Anywho, I've been itching to upgrade my SC4 installation with about a bajillion new growable lot files. The problem is, almost every one I download has a list of dependencies that I also have to download. And they all have different ones. And each one of them is tucked away elsewhere on Simtropolis's site, making veins throb in my head. I guess what my main stab at a question is.. where/what/who do I need to download in order to be able to enjoy these beautiful buildings painlessly and effortlessly? I'd love to expand the variety of buildings that pop up in my city... heck, even lot megapacks would be helpful. No cheating ones, though... office buildings that provide 50,000,000 jobs and 40 million dollars a minute need not apply. Can anyone help? Thanks, LF

I'm an urban and regional planning undergrad at Eastern Michigan University... unsure of what I want to focus on, but Urban Design seems keenly interesting. Like others here, I want to focus more on physical design, and less on politics and dealmaking. I hope to eventually get a degree in Architecture, too, but that's a ways off. LF