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    Sim City 4

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by graycolor, Nov 10, 2009.

  1. graycolor

    graycolor Notebook Evangelist

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    I know this is an old game, but for those of you that remember how do you deal with a Sim not being able to commute to work?

    It keeps giving me "Feel like I'm in the Bermuda Triangle here. Mayor. I've tried every possible road to my job, but I keep coming back around to where I started. Will I be in the time of the dinosaurs soon or something? Might as well be they fired me for not showing up to work.

    I've already tried upgrading the street street to a road, but it doesn't help.

    I looked online none seem to talk about this issue.
     
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  2. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    Do you have a screenshot of your city? It would help us figure out why.
     
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  3. Petrovic

    Petrovic Notebook Consultant

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    Did you build subways and bus stops?
     
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    Not being able to commute to work either has to do with no access to transportation or too long of a commute.

    What size lot is your city and how is it laid out?

    Vanilla Sims aren't very smart, and I would highly recommend the Network add on.
     
    surfasb, Nov 11, 2009
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  5. italian.madness

    italian.madness Notebook Consultant

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    Use NAM addon and set commute time to x10 if you have a huge city.
    Feel free to contact me as that's my favourite game of all time.
    cheers
     
    italian.madness, Nov 11, 2009
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  6. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yep, NAM add-on is the way to go. The games default road capacity and sims default path finding abilities are weak. Luckily, NAM (Network Add-on Mod) allows you to customize your transportation networks.

    You can get it at Simtropolis.com, the site appears to be down at the moment so I can't provide you with a direct link.
     
    usapatriot, Nov 11, 2009
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  7. graycolor

    graycolor Notebook Evangelist

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    Is the NAM add-on a cheat?
     
    graycolor, Nov 11, 2009
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  8. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    No, it gives you a ton of more transportation options like new kinds of streets, roads, avenues, and highways + trains etc. It also allows you to modify the capacity and pathfinding efficiency of roads and sims. It's a modification, not a cheat.

    Everytime I install Sim City 4 the first thing I install after the patches is the NAM mod.

    NAM
     
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  9. surfasb

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    No. It does helps the game by improving the Sim's pathfinding algorithm.

    Edit:

    I never install the extra roads personally.
     
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  10. graycolor

    graycolor Notebook Evangelist

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    It seems destroying his house and building a bus station on top, seems to solve the problem. Hahah he doesn't complain anymore.
     
    graycolor, Nov 11, 2009
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  11. surfasb

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    Haha. Simcity is all about traffic. That's all that consumes my time now. Figuring out new Traffic networks to design.
     
    surfasb, Nov 11, 2009
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