Rob's Guide to SimCity 4 - Lesson 3 - Transportation

[@nedim_guitar]

For those of you who are watching this in 2022 (or later), the traffic simulation settings don't exist in the newer versions of the network mod. They've made the settings internal and optimised them, though you lose the ability to really dive into the settings yourself. The average player is all set now.

[@thecanadianpolitic5547]

Thats good to know. Here I am all worried about it. My game keeps crashing. I set it so it runs of the one processor..

[@gamelover1779]

so what do you mean exactly?

[@nedim_guitar]

@@gamelover1779 It means that you don't have any traffic simulation settings, but the traffic issue is resolved internally in the network mod, meaning that traffic isn't a horrible problem but you cannot do any detailed traffic settings.

[@cubicinfinity2]

Rob talks in these tutorials like he's giving a presentation in a tech conference, and I love it.

[@mdandrews]

When i played this in my young teens you could pretty much start a countdown from when I loaded a region to when my city when inevitably collapse 😂 hopefully being older, smarter and after watching these I can actually be a competent mayor.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

That was my experience too! (although I was in my early 20s when SC4 came out)

[@PS-oy9xr]

@@RobsRedHotSpot so you're like over 40? would never say!

[@whicked_stone7566]

Downtown abandonded due to commute time. Huge power export, loads of nuclear power plants. Lack of fire fighters. Many casulties

[@Shok3r123]

Crazy how much of a beautifully complex game this is. For a game that came out in 2003, I am in awe.

[@cygnus_XI]

Back in the 90s and 2000s EA had the best standards! :) There were several colleges and universities around the Vancouver area so EA Canada had great selections for game designers and programmers coming out of college.

[@beng7845]

​@@cygnus_XIProblem is with EA they simply bought successful software houses like Maxis and ran them into the ground. Killed Westwood, Maxis, Bullfrog and many more over the years 😢

[@cygnus_XI]

Yup, that's what happens when EA got taken over by big-wig corporate executives who don't care about games. Used to be a time when they and other companies were run by gamers themselves.@@beng7845

[@gregoryhenry8464]

Your videos are amazing, I didn’t know what I was doing when I played as a kid so now I can do real strategy

[@zp577]

Never made any serious attempts at playing a city builder and saw SC4 Deluxe was like $5 during a sale on steam so I decided to give it a shot. My first city was a disaster that couldn't get past 4k people. My second city is at 31k in half the time after watching some of this lesson and the first two. I appreciate you putting these together and sharing your knowledge man.

[@Latitz]

I tried doing games tutorial and didn't help at all. Maybe basics. I managed to burn my whole tutorial town and now that i watched these first 3 videos i believe i can actually manage city now.

[@zp577]

@@Latitz I got one up to 500k but it required a whole overhaul of the public transportation system and it was too much of a pain in the ass 🤣

[@dezraq1984]

Every time I watch your channel I immediately play sim city afterward, love it, keep up the good work!!

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

That's hilarious. Glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@AngloAm]

Same here.

[@jordangordon2350]

i love the way you explain things. way simplify while still being detailed. I had no idea this game actually simulated all these variables. just getting into it as someone coming from 250 hours of cities skylines

[@LDdrums20]

Very good insights for city design. I came back to the game after 15 years when I used to play. This brings back so many memories. I was not near as advanced as this though.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I had a similar trajectory. Like many games, a much younger version of me played this one unmodded not long after it came out. It's in the past 5-6 years that I've come back to it as an adult (also having studied urban planning in university) and tried to understand the nuts and bolts of it.

[@felipearellano2811]

Alright, I've been stealthly watching this series, just taking it in to apply later, but this episode in particular was so in depth and so full of details and ideas I've never thought before, so I have to leave a comment. Amazing work you did on this guide, I'll have to watch it two times, maybe even more to get all the tips you gave lol

[@Gobzon]

Just wanted to say big thanks for this guide! I still play SimCity myself, and my students have ditched their phone games in favor of this. They've just figured out how to tackle air pollution, and now they're experimenting with rail and correct placement of train stations.

[@jdayala-wright8875]

I love your strategic of combining one way corridors with an elevated train in the middle to develop a strong hierarchy of impacts and land uses to ensure that the train gets utilized and increase efficiency. I use it all the time in my cities that have over 200K Sims

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Yeah I'm a fan. I'd like to play around with el-train over road in the new NAM 37 but the one-ways on either side is a good solution for now.

[@Keychain696]

No wonder no one ever used the alternative methods of transportation I laid out in my cities. I was putting them way too far away from one another.

[@Oshidashi]

I thought I was fairly decent at this game after playing it in bursts for 10+ years, but OP's video's on the game have teached me so much, while at the same time having me stoked to play more!

[@Shaniiiiice]

These tutorials are amazing but I need to watch them in stages as I go because it's just so much useful information OMG! Thank you!

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Glad you like them!

[@StatickyCat]

Your strategy on tunnels is total and complete genius. I never would have thought of that myself. Now I'm gonna use the living heck out of it lol. Thanks a lot Rob, that'll solve a millennium of space consumption problems!

[@kevinclifford4018]

Having spent the day ignoring all of the pressures and vicissitudes of life I instead tried to figure out this game Simcity 4. I struggled using the sink or swim method which gave me some basic familiarity with the controls, then spent a few hours searching for articles explaining the underlying mechanics of the game. Those I found were helpful, maybe, a little bit though they were superficial and none of them addressed much beyond the obvious. Until I found this video. I have only watched 12 minutes but I am delighted. Bravo! Most excellent!. I love the comparisons of mass transit use between the USA, Europe and Tokyo. Thank you for your time and effort. Next stop Patreon.

[@Tr3nchJDemonie]

I've been summarizing lesson 1 and 2, but this one took me 10 minutes to just enter the table of contents. Awesome.

[@StatickyCat]

Your explanation on superblocks and simple grids is interesting. I found that the city I live in (Winnipeg if you're curious) has the simple grid in the older parts of the city while it uses superblocks in the newer, outer areas. It's definitely weird seeing how the city planning techniques change as you go around different parts of your city that were built in different eras and recognizing the differences.

[@SlimzzCierraMist801]

I used to play this as a kid and I recently got it again. I tried to make a city twice and failed. Watched some videos. Failed lol. I watched your first 2 lessons and part of this one. BOOM. My city is growing and I’m actually making money! YOU. ARE. AWESOME.

[@SiriusSam]

Great job on the video. I got a ton to catch up on and review all the Mods and updates.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Cool, thanks!

[@holybell000]

Thanks for the guide! Transportation was always a feature I felt was underutilizing. I also use NAM. Can't wait for that tutorial.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Hope it's helpful!

[@Baleur]

@@RobsRedHotSpot Please get that NAM tutorial up =D I still have NO clue how their puzzle pieces and FTL LAMP PTFTRARUwhatthehellisgoingonwithacronyms systems are or how to get the new roads to drag-build or anything xD

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

@@Baleur I will do a NAM tutorial soon for sure! Maybe in the next week or so. Keep in mind, I don't use every feature of the NAM, but I do use a fair number, and I'm always learning about new ones. Let me know if there's a particular feature you'd like to see covered. My first video on the topic will likely be on a specific set of NAM tools, and then I'll do more after that.

[@RemitheDreamfox]

god I wish I had these videos like 20 years ago xD

[@SiriusSam]

This game is soo much fun. I bought this and Rush Hour when it came out but never had time to play and then sat in my closet all these years. I'm amazed how big the Mod Community has did all sorts of updates for this game, It's like a whole new universe

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I also bought a copy not long after Rush Hour came out. At the time my computer actually ran it slow! Modding and the NAM in particular have totally reinvented SC4 for me

[@SiriusSam]

@@RobsRedHotSpot Funny, I think I bought them at Comp-USA back in the Hey-Day. Just never had time to fully play it and sidetracked with other things at time.

[@SoloTravelBlog]

Thanks for the video!! Super blocks are so interesting

[@KimtaetaeK]

this is sooooooo informative and you explain it in a very clear and simple way. appreciate that a lot. nice vids

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

Wolf laptops from HP would be fun. Make sure to view the City planners.

[@memebowdashpoposhy1699]

I kinda wish you went into more detail with some of the things, i ended up spending hours trying to learn how to deal with NAM's system of railway, considering its a pain in the ass to get it to work with slopes and other odd angles.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I have a basic NAM tutorial up. I'd like to do more eventually when I get time!

[@jonathanaikman5751]

EXCELLENT videos sir! Very well done and presented. Maybe at the end of the tutorial city, instead of exiting without save, run a full-on disaster during the closing commentary. That'd be fun. Thanks for posting these though, keep up the good work!

[@stifflermclovin]

what are you talking about, diagonal avenues are amazing, I always use a mix smal street grid/superblock system and use a diagonal avenue to cross it (not too centered) and place a bus stop at each end of it and it's always the most used ones, and it helps sims move from one end to the other way faster than taking all the inticrate network of roads

[@jdayala-wright8875]

24:00 elevated & monorail has a key advantage in SimCity4 without the NAM mod is that the visibility when running through a commercial corridor helps build and increase the customer base and pedestrian foot traffic which increases transit fares and revenue for your city. I usually build on a 8x9 or 7x8 tile grid network and run the elevated trains right down the middle of the grid so that there is room for the bigger 4x4 and 3x3 commercial high rises. I find that I make more $$$ in a mix elevated/subway compared to a subway only system because they are hidden from view.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Are you sure that's not the case with the NAM as well? It's something I've heard before as well. In real life, I think elevated systems tend to have slightly lower land values around them because of noise (depending on how quiet the system is. Although the difference between elevated and subway is probably marginal.

[@jdayala-wright8875]

@@RobsRedHotSpot The key question is how quiet the system is. If there a large skyscrapers or highrise apartments sandwiching the elevated train that will create a soundwall for the area. However anecdotally elevated in my cities with that configuration produce 25% more money. I do it replacing the same elevated with a subway in the CBD area and there is a drop in revenue from transit fares for some odd reason. BTW I don't have the NAM because when I did have it, it cause my computer to crash often

[@nicknguyen6016]

You are a good professor in transportation.

[@gabrielanderson8767]

So informative, I feel like I can finally tackle this game in a far more focused fashion

[@munsters2]

At 48:21 with the superblock there are many dead end streets. Not sure about Sim City4 but in 3000U the dead ends seem (visually) to cause a great amount of congestion. You can watch the vehicles traveling on a main road turn onto a dead end, go all the way to the end, then back out to the main road and continue in the same direction they were going originally as if they are lost or sightseeing. Since they often have to stop before re-entering the main road, the dead end often gets plugged up with a line of stopped traffic. Another downside to the superblock is if you want to drive from your house 2 tiles from the main road to get to a friend's house or a store which is 2 tiles on the other side of the main road, you mau have to worm your way around many side streets (maybe 20-50 tiles) to reach that spot which is only 5 tiles away; so it creates more traffic mileage and pollution.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

The disadvantage of the superblock is mostly for pedestrians (in real life). You have to walk a long way along indirect routes to get from A to B, and often along boulevards that are designed for cars. From a driving perspective, intersections are what slows down traffic. The whole point of the superblock was to create fast, high capacity roads on the edge of the town with quiet residential streets in the middle. This works if everyone drives everywhere (and no one walks to the corner store lol). Most progressive urban planners today are not designing cities using the superblock model, and instead using more pedestrian-friendly designs.

[@HarryParkin]

I think the "superblock" design is a similar concept to what's used in the UK a lot. We have "Ring Roads" in many cities, the most famous being the M25 motorway (highway) that encircles London- they allow many people on different journeys to take the same high capacity route

[@atrpntime]

freight stations are not needed you can directly zone adjecent to tracks and industry will use them

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

Superblocks are being used in Barcelona combined with pedestrianisation. That way cars can only circulate through the exterior border of the superblock while people walk through the inside. Combined with public transport it works quite well.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Barcelona superblocks is a different and more recent use of the word than how I'm using it here. In North American urban planning, "superblocks" refers to large, high-capacity roads (mostly in suburban areas), that surround residential neighbourhoods, which typically use low capacity cul-de-sacs and crescents. Barcelona superblocks are a much more pedestrian-friendly approach to inner city areas.

[@pauloviniciusmaya4067]

You're the best! Thank for all the help!

[@Baleur]

1:29:00 are you sure about that? I built a ferry terminal on the western bank on the vanilla San Fransisco region, and another on the weastern bank. There's a huge mostly river plot in between the two. Yet when i "made a city" in the river plot, just plopped a ferry station as a mid-point and nothing more, no houses no work, the sims started moving from the eastern to western part of the region, across 3 plots.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I was pretty sure until you asked and then I checked. So with the NAM traffic simulator it seems sims will cross as many tiles as they need to get to work. It would seem that commute time and not distance is the limiting factor. The max trip time is set by default to 600 and increasing it in the NAM config tool has no effect. You can also tweak the commute time scaling value although the NAM modders claim that time scaling was implemented poorly in the engine. Any commute to another tile is considered "long" as well, so I imagine that Sims won't travel too much further than one large tile away (ferries are a fairly fast mode of transportation IIRC so they might go further with that mode). I'll make a note of this comment and mention the error in a future video. Thanks for the heads up, though!

[@olerasmussen72]

@@RobsRedHotSpot all is about commute time, when you build up more fast travel opportunities the sims travel long no problem, but be careful eternal commuters

[@ConscriptDavid]

It's always fun to see how in-depth this game is, and compare it to more modern city builders - Don't get me wrong, I love skylines, and it has it's own nifty things especially with DLC's but lacks a certain depth to the management simulation and it also lacks of character and personality.

[@anduonghoai9983]

Thanks Rob. I had a headache with it

[@UncleMinecraft]

Loved the video. So useful thanks!! 👍👍👍

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mcshamer]

Rob, late to the party but warching your videos and going to be playing it for the 1st time. I was in my early 30s when this game came out with kids running around, never had a chance to play with it. would love to see a video or guide for a mod build for playing in 2022. From Montreal, keep up the great material and survive Montreal's urban planning ;)

[@erwankainardi8155]

Hi Rob, I have some questions.. if you connect elevated rail and subway, does it mean people can get on train by the elevated one and then drop off at the subway station? Also if i choose to build 2 subway station, does the rail need to be in circle pattern? Or just one end-to-end line would do?

[@InferAGoodTime]

BE ADVISED: At present if you install the most recent version of NAM (NAM 45), the TSCT has been discontinued and will not be included or function.

[@rachapongwatana3868]

Amazing Tutorial , Thanks for your guide . It's very useful information !

[@TheWhufc4ever]

This is a great series

[@roflomaozedong]

omg THE TRAFIC SIMULATOR IS SOOOO COOOL

[@geggy310]

that one way roads on each side of the elevated subway line is genius, idk why you can’t just put the elevated parts over an avenue

[@nicche511]

I'm just dipping my toes into SC4 and found this tutoiral since I want to start building cities with population > 25k. and seeing the vanilla highways automatically make overpasses and clover intersections BLEW MY MIND. In City Skylines you have to build that all manually which is very tedious and not fun!!

[@randyrando2029]

You mentioned that sims only walk ~8 cells to travel between bus stops. Does that rule also apply to subways and rail stations and other forms of transportation?

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Yep!

[@randyrando2029]

@@RobsRedHotSpot You should do a video where you answer miscellaneous questions like mine about obscure game mechanics. Here's just a few more, unless you don't mind answering more ;) 1) Do sims hop between multiple transport types in order to go from point A to point B (say, for instance, a sim knew that a monorail station was really close and that station happened to bring them to another station which was within walking distance to their job which was in another city, but they could use a bus to get closer to the monorail)? If so, is there a limit to how many times they will do this? 2a) I have heard of such a thing as a *regional* population cap. I have known, and witnessed, development caps within individual cities (small high-rises will only appear when a specific population is reached, and skyscrapers will only appear once the population has grown to a specific, even larger size than that at which small high-rises appear). What is this regional population cap, if it exists? 2b) Is it just the same thing as the development stages that are shared across the region as determined by total regional population? 2c) Even if I start seeing skyscrapers in a city, is there a limiting factor that will stop more skyscrapers from appearing *even if I have enough demand to see more* unless I increase the regional population significantly more? Is this the same thing as the regional cap, or is there no such thing as a regional cap and there is some other factor within my city preventing skyscrapers from developing even though demand is sufficient for them? 3) In your video where you plan the regional development for Digby, you plan in such a way that the infinite commuter bug could appear (3 or more inter-connected, adjacent cities is all it takes to get the infinite commuter bug). Are you aware of this fact? If so, how do you counteract it? 4) Does each wealth class of sims--low(R$), medium (R$$) & high (R$$$) travel varying maximum distances to a destination before they require transport? In other words, will R$ walk a shorter distance or drive a shorter distance than R$$$ before they give up? 5) What are the best tax rates, and when would I know to set them? Are there various stages of the game where tax rates should be changed?

[@marcusmauck3735]

this was a very informative episode

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BlueEyeTableRockLake]

Came back to SC4 and loaded NAM. Now my railways have issues when upgrading an old city. Is there a tutorial I should watch on the changes to railways? At some point I'll start over on a region, but wanted to experiment with the NAM changes on my old cities first. I've found lots a stuff on roads and the NAM, but not railways.

[@Jimjolnir]

Can you install NAM without the extra roads/etc.? I want smart sims that take the shortest route by time, but other than that I want a vanilla game. Vanilla, with sprinkles.

[@canubeetquad]

I need to know how you did the street grid trick at 21:13. I have never seen that before.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Oh I'm afraid that was "the magic of television". (not a real trick)

[@cybernet3000]

Your professor was talking about the Turcot Interchange, wasn't he? ;) Seriously though these videos are great, I really appreciate all the work you've put into helping explain this game that I always found honestly pretty intimidating...

[@soufianefal7379]

Thanks bro, very nice 👍

[@kennethdarcy514]

Your videos are just great!!!

[@gamelover1779]

i love the music of this game

[@GreatSpot8608]

I've always thought it weird that you can't build elevated rail directly on top of roads/streets, like you see in Chicago. I would have thought that was the primary advantage of the system, otherwise why not just have normal rail?

[@hnorrstrom]

I guess it is for esthetics but also elevated connects to sub system and it is easy to build roads under. Kind of how I remember it in Paris sometimes in the 90's. But I agree it messes up the blocks a lot also.

[@byron916mauck]

What should the freight rail connect to..Other industrial areas? Commercial? And would you use them to connect to other regions with Commercial/industrial or within the same city..please help

[@patbenjamin503]

I'm new to computers so I downloaded this mod and apparently when I'm playing SimCity 4 it's not running do I need to do something other than just downloading it?

[@jamesmacdougall9862]

was the spaghetti junction l'echangeur turcotte? I lived in Verdun for awhile. Got out before they started rebuilding the champlain bridge.

[@KeepChessSimple]

Classic roundabouts would be nice

[@Shootskas]

I remember the first sim city you could use rails instead of roads...I made some huge cities without any roads...

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I used to do that in SimCity 3000 all the time!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Do you know if there is a visual bug (I'm thinking I had this years ago as well) when you'll see a queue of traffic (2 buses are stuck in this) yet looking at the data view for traffic, there is no traffic problem on that route. I get round it by deleting 1 square of road then rebuilding. Just wondered if anyone has come across this before? Have NAM running.

[@byron916mauck]

Is rail used from residential to commercial & industrial only or will it boost university/tourist trap/stadium attendance? Guess my question is what should I surround my public transportation hub with?

[@skyfuzzball8312]

How can I solve issue named Long commute? Some sims started to getting this problem!

[@cmont016]

where do you go to open the traffic simulator configuration tool?

[@LucarioBoricua]

On the traffic simulator's volume settings I never use classic because it's unrealistically low (all the neighborhood streets which aren't culs-de-sac become roads or else nothing can move). As a rule of thumb for the other levels (low, medium, high, ultra): * Low: best representation of hourly volume capacities prior to the onset of congestion * Medium: best representation of a single commute period's volume capacity (what might go through in 2-3 hours on each rush hour) * High: best representation of half a day's worth of volume capacity * Ultra: best representation of the average daily traffic volume capacity

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

That's a really good breakdown of the traffic volume settings! I always use ultra, because I find it the most realistic on a regional scale. The lower settings are kind of interesting from a gameplay standpoint because they force you to solve little problems as they come up sooner, but I still prefer ultra.

[@tyguy104]

you can use the buggy vanilla seaport even though it doesn't raise the demand cap. The workaround to this is when you finally suffer from "seaport industrial stagnation' pave a road or lay rail out of the city to temporarily raise the demand again, when industry builds up again to your liking, bulldoze the road or freight train station to force them to the seaport again and you can build more than one this way. It works fine, instead of downloading a plug in to fix this with a million dependencies, no thank you

[@MorganaDevina80]

My SIm City 4 is purchased through the App Store, can I still download and use a NAM?

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I think that should work fine. You'd just have to find out where the App Store puts the Plugins folders. Probably under User/Libraries/Application Support or something like that. If you have trouble, you should ask around on Simtropolis. On a side note, as a former Mac user I advise against App Store game purchases. A Steam or GOG copy can be used on any system.

[@TheCloakedTiger]

Sadly the NAM mod does not work if you bought the game online from Origin. :(

[@saulgoodman9278]

What about gog?

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I don't use GOG for SimCity 4 but it seems to be supported by the NAM team and I know a lot of people use it. Probably perfectly fine. If you have an Origin copy, just buy the game again on Steam or GOG. It shouldn't cost you much more than $10

[@DokisKalin1]

@@RobsRedHotSpot ughhh that's so annoying. I now know never to buy anything on Origin ever again.

[@nikimilky]

In 57:53 you talk about going to collage to learn about urban design. You tell that you didnt become an urban designer afterwards. Why not? what direction did you take after collage?

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I took Urban Studies as a major in my bachelors and started, but never finished a Masters degree in the same topic. To work in the field in my area, I would have had to do an apprenticeship, and most of the available jobs at the time were in suburban areas and places I wasn't really interested in moving to. I mostly when to school to learn about things that interested me, though, rather than to get a job. I also studied English and French literature for the same reason :).

[@nikitatyuryayev7538]

Great vid man

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Thanks!

[@latbat58]

can sims use multiple mass transport? like use bus to reach a monorail station??

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

yes.

[@KrunoslavSaho]

TSCT has been removed due to improvements to the simulation. I can't post the link to the patch notes, but if you look at them on the NAM site it will let you know.

[@stephenpeltier2639]

Thanks so much for the very comprehensive guide! Quick question: I installed the NAM 36 mod, but I can't seem to find this traffic simulator anywhere within the game or in the NAM folders...

[@stephenpeltier2639]

I'd also really REALLY love an entire video on just the mods you use / where to find them / installation process / and how to use in gameplay! :)

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Hey! For the Traffic Simulator it should come up if you press windows key and type "traffic simulator " otherwise it may not be installed. Try reinstalling the NAM and looking for an install option? It's been awhile since I installed it. I'll check simtropolis for a forum topic too. I will be doing a video on my mod setup shortly!

[@stephenpeltier2639]

@@RobsRedHotSpot Awesome, okay, did a reinstall but now when I try to save my changes in the Traffic Simulator I get this error message: Error deleting files / Simcity 4 is probably running... Even though I'm not running simcity 4.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Check your task manager and search for sc4 processes. I've noticed that Steam seems to keep the process running after the game is closed. Quit any SC4 processes (and possibly Steam) then run traffic simulator

[@stephenpeltier2639]

@@RobsRedHotSpot Definitely checked task manager, GoG isn't open or anything; tried some other alternative fixes, like deleting the plugin file manually before saving a new one

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

i really do get to it and install the NAM.

[@theronin942]

How do you access the traffic simulator configuration tool?

[@4552navneet]

I am not able to use mono rail and elevated rail the railway line is not connecting with the station

[@davemacri9171]

Well done vid....

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Thanks!

[@ETBONIFACIO]

You can also earn a solar power plant by playing the mission on the monorail. You can correct me if I am wrong.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

Honestly, I never play the U-Drive-It missions so I'll take your word for it!

[@ETBONIFACIO]

Rob's Red Hot Spot thanks.

[@JohnDoe-zu2cm]

I like to imagine this is what Darth Vader does in his free time.

[@sebmome]

Bravo and thank you for all these very effective explanations and details! Have you considered running for mayor in the real world? You could receive the "World Mayor Award" in a very short time...

[@stifflermclovin]

by the way I notice you unzoned at the minute 1:18:44 but you don't need to, just put the commerical over the residential and it gets rid of the existing buildings so basically unzoning for free

[@jackrogalla1076]

If you started a city in vanilla can you continue it using a mod?

[@michaelbull144]

How much mod files/plugins can the game handle if installed in the plugins folder? I have 8.56gb currently.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I think it probably depends on what the mods are. Many GB of dependencies are probably fine. If it's all plugins that are "active" when you're playing maybe less so. I read somewhere on the forums that the game engine is really only capable of using somewhere between 3 and 4 GB of RAM, for example, so there clearly are some bottlenecks. You should ask this question on the SImtropolis forum for a more precise answer!

[@patbenjamin503]

How did you get to those traffic settings

[@kaipark4944]

Does anyone know if the HSRP Transit Hub function well in a dense city?

[@snertkriebels]

Where can i find and open this TSCT tool? I cannot for the life of me find it.. i'm a mac user

[@scottcairns1677]

Are Tunnels a viable solution to Pollution control ? IE Use a mountain to keep pollution isolated from residents, Build Industry, power plants on one side, residential areas on the other, with a tunnel through the mountain to access Industrial districts ?

[@hnorrstrom]

I like to build things like that. I think it works good and feels realistic to hide dirty things behind forest and hills.

[@eanjohnson3537]

How do I open the Traffic Simulator?

[@jeremiah-w7e]

47:45 do they really stop on their way to work? or it’s just one part of graphical render and abstract logic which don’t connected with each other. and logic doesn’t include any stops or traffic jams, that only for graphical presentation

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

where can I find that Traffic simulator tool? is it part of NAM?

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

It's in the installer package for the NAM.

[@Christian-up2uz]

Roooooooob!!!!!!

[@3dartistguy]

I’m playing the complete edition does that make a difference?

[@MrJoshRoche]

So where can i get the Network Add on Mod?

[@fatmike5038]

Wow I just learned I live in a superblock

[@TamZ4073]

Thanks for this video! I'm curious if you are currently using the NAM Version 37? I wonder if the Traffic Simulator Configuration tool still works here, since the NAM 37 has it's own installer that includes the Traffic simulator.

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I did a test install on my laptop and it worked normally. I'm going to be installing it on my main system soon and I'll make a video about the process ;)

[@TamZ4073]

@@RobsRedHotSpot That's good to know, will stay tuned for your new videos!