CAM - General Discussions

[aestiva]

Thanks for replying:

Desirability isn't a factor.  And two of my cities have populations approaching 200k.

Maybe I have to change my usual mode of play. If I zone Hi-density over a large area can I expect more and faster development of the same?  Or will I still get annoying "FleaMkt" lots?

[Filasimo]

keep in mind that creating a thorough and comprehensive transit system in your city is very important and also to make sure demand is met. this is a new way to play the game but at a more challenging level

[platyfish124]

You should zone dense commercial on top. There is no guarantee that the flea markets will stop coming, but after you rezone the lots, then CAMelots may will grow.

[aestiva]

Transportation advice from a NAM guy, I'm humbled.  In reply however, I have a pretty diverse transport network and I have had some CAM buildings appear.   One of the reasons I was intrigued by the CAM was that most of my cities stagnated in the low 200k's , and I was hoping this might allow for ease of growth well beyond that number.  In addition, as I'm sure many of you can relate I can get city growth to that stage in just a few sessions of game play. Maybe I'm being impatient.

[Filasimo]

aestiva, give it time for the city to grow into the higher stages it takes a while for it to reach into the later stages, just make sure you maintain and expand your city transportation network even try to build residential areas in the regions around your city and connect them to your transportation network that way itll further solidify the CBD area in your main city. by experimenting with that will you be able to reach the higher stages

[aestiva]

Thank you for all the advice, I'll give it a couple of hours of game play and see what happens.

BTW, I'm really glad I came back here.  Thanks everyone. You really do have the best stuff.

[Filasimo]

no problem! if you have any other questions well be on the lookout in this thread, i forgot to also mention that if u loaded the CAM with an existing city itll be a year or so to adapt to the new CAM not sure about the specifics, also make sure u visit the CAM threads for more useful information
good luck! 

[Toblakai]

Right,

I've managed to grow the kwai chung state stage 1 very quickly. Here are some pics:





Don't know if you also need pics of the stage 2 but that one is proving quite elusive to grow. I am zoning an entire R$ region with dirty industry, but that will take me some time. Anyhoe, if these picures are any good PM me and ill cut out something from the original images for the pic with the upload.

I'm back to growing that stage 14 kwai Chung Estate Stage 2,

Toblakai

[bixel]

Ohh very nice!! You dont need to post a pick of Phase 2. I just want to see if it grows or not. 12120 is quite a lot of sims, I want to know if its possible.

[RippleJet]

Ok, I thought you wanted pictures as well, so here are some more...
These have not grown though, they are plopped with the help of Buggi.

The first two pictures below contain two blocks of Kwai Chung Phase 1 and two blocks of Kwai Chung Phase 2 (day and night view).
The second two pictures contain three blocks of Kwai Chung Phase 2 (day and night view).




However, I have to say that I was surprised to notice they do not have nightlighting.
I think you should fix this before uploading.

Another thing that needs fixing are the props.
If you leave the props as they are, their hover query will not work:



For each prop, two properties need to be added/corrected:

User Visible Name Key must be added and set to 0x0,0x0,0x0
Query as Main Buiding must be changed to True, unless you want the prop to have its own name (e.g. Garage, etc.)

More about this can be found in the tutorial Names and descriptions of buildings and props.
This is an error in the "X Tool" as well, that has been pointed out, but we are still waiting for Wouanagaine to return from his RLS...

PS.
All pictures are sized 500×376 (exactly 200% of the size needed for the LEX)

[dioangel]

*Jaw drops on the keyboard*

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SWEEEET!! 

[bixel]

I do not know why the props are not working properly, that is odd.  I double checked them and they seemed ok to me. Oh well. Please  post if anybody has successfully grown the larger Phase 2 lot. No pic needed.

Anyhoo, I did a BUNCH of CAM lots, here they are http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1087
if anybody has any problems of bugs please pm and I will try and correct them. 

[joeynymets]

Can anyone help me?  I downloaded the CAM and in my agricultural city the farms stopped growing after i installed the CAM

[BigSlark]

Do you have CAM farming lots installed? What about the BSC No Maxis mod?

More information is needed before anyone will be able to help...without it no one is able to diagnose the problem.

Cheers,
Kevin

[joeynymets]

No i dont have either of those installed, do i need them installed?

[BarbyW]

You don't need to have the CAM farming lots installed but you will not get any farms above stage 3 growing with out the BLS Farms pack and the BLS, SG and CSX fields packs and the CAM farms.
Do you have the CAM counters? If so it would help if you showed an image of that status of your city. The Census Repository image would also help.

[Diggis]

Are there any stage 4 and 5 farms released?  I have the 6 and 7 farms, but didn't see any 4 or 5 set.

[BarbyW]

There are a couple in my farm pack and also in the BLS D66 pack I posted.

[Diggis]

Hmm, might have to go check them out....  Great work, will see what effect this has on my city this weekend

[Pat]

OK im at a total loss here im getting sparatic growth with CAM nothing like i was when i first installed everything for it... At first all was great then i had troubles with CTD's then i restructed my plugins had CAM out and then i put cam back in after my restructer... Good news no CTD's but now im not having really any CAM growth... I even went into a new region and still im at a loss...