ultramegatiny

Firstly, I sincerely apologize for resurrecting a two month old thread and secondly, I also apologize for the length of what I'm about to write. Okay. I first began "playing" sc4 when nam 32 was released. In fact, hearing about the complexity of the nam and the wonderful modding community was what drew me to the game. Due to many RL ups (mostly ups, btw, got married, bought a house) and downs, I've been away for a while. Tonight I decided to catch up and now I'm super excited about nam 33. I've been reading all the threads about it in anticipation of downloading the prerelease. I wanted to watch all the youtube teaser tutorials and inform myself on all the details of the update before downloading it. You wanna know why I'm doing this? Why I'm spending hours just reading about it before I even consider installing it? I'll tell you why. BECAUSE IT'S AN ENORMOUSLY COMPLEX THING AND I KNOW THAT I HAVE TO TAKE MY TIME WITH IT OR I WILL BE OVERWHELMED. Sorry for shouting. But seriously, jeez oh man! I understand how overwhelming this all is. I just got into it around February of last year! I'm a total n o o b!! It never even occured to me to complain about it being too complex. I saw that there is a wonderful community of very knowledgeable people who are here on this forum every day who want to help newcomers. That's another thing that brought me here! I've always taken it upon myself to find my own answers in the nam documentation. If, and only if, I really, really didn't understand something, did I come here to ask for help. And every single time I've come to these forum, I've found that my question had already been asked and answered. The fact that it's so complex is actually one of the things I love about it. And I do love it! This "game" has provided me with not only countless hours of fun, but also dearly needed and deeply appreciated escape from my stupid real life. I go to work. I earn my pay. I spend time with my loved ones. Other than that, I find this planet to be an extremely annoying place. This game and the wonderful community it's spawned have acted as a pressure valve for me. And I thank you all. Reading Tarkus' first response on this thread really upset me. Tarkus, to you and the whole nam team, I say THANK YOU. It's amazing to me that all the years of effort you've devoted here could be so thoughtlessly underappreciated and dismissed. Your work has and will always have a very special significance in my life and I THANK YOU. In my daily grind, I'm nobody. But when I use the tools you developed for SC4, I'm the king. I make little happy worlds full of little happy people. Worlds where there is no war, no poverty, no horror or pain. It may not sound like much to most people, but to me it's a wonderful escape. Above all else: THANK YOU!

This is truly inspirational! Fantastic!

Sorry for chiming in so late, but I figured I'd add my two cents if Tikkytik is still interested. I was in the exact same boat as you just a couple weeks ago. New to NAM and extremely confused. My advice is this because it worked for me: Install Project Symphony/Maxis Highway Override and play with it a little. It looks better than vanilla and it's about halfway between vanilla and RHW in terms of ease of use. I was fed up with trying to "get" NAM, so I tried Project Symphony. After an hour or two of messing around with the relatively simple Project Symphony, I had a big eureka moment where I totally got the way the whole thing works. Haven't touched Maxis Highways or the override since. Now that I get it, I can't imagine going back. Takes just a minute to make a really cool, not too intricate interchange. The learning curve is definitely a little steep, but once you get it, it's really not that difficult. Anyway... my two cents. Cheers!

Sorry if this has been dealt with elsewhere. If it has been, I couldn't find it. Here's the details: I'm playing a large tile and I loaded my game and a bunch of AVE-4 puzzle pieces and SAM roundabouts were just missing along with a few random sections of road and OWR were also gone. I thank you in advance for any replies.

Thanks!

Hello! I've been scouring the stex for traditional style asian lots. I'm talking about stuff like jijdlswns's Korean Palace Modular Set, not modern looking stuff. Growable and ploppable are both equally important to me. I just want as much "traditional-looking" Asian stuff as I can get. I can't help but feel as though I may have missed some lots. I've tried finding a list of such lots without success. I was hoping to perhaps create such a list here. So does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you in advance for any and all advice and responses!

Thank you Indiana Joe! That's the ticket! All I can say is... derp. I'm new. And thanks to everyone else who responded! I learned something new from each reply. I love simtropolis!

Hi! I'm having a difficult time replacing the defaullt MHW with replacements. I have the lasest NAM installed ans the Project Symphony content isn't working at all. My MHWs remain at default. I've tried the Highway Restyling Mod both with and without the "HRS texture set complete" file. This is the mod I've had the most luck with. The ground highway and all elevated interchange pieces are retextured and look great, but the elevated highway remains at default. I also tried the older Asphalt Highway Textures mod with and without the additional "NAM fix" file. This one didn't appear to do anything at all. I have all my plugins in the My Documents folder, I put the mods in a subfolder, I only used one at a time, and I put enough Z's in the folder name to make sure it loads after NAM. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

I want to live in that village! Looks great!