Zones do not recognize NAM pieces

[gayleau]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum but I hope you can answer my question. I have asked this on a couple of different sites now. I am relatively new to Sim City. Yesterday I installed NAM and built a network of tram-on-road and tram-on-avenue within my zones. But when I unpause the game I get a heap of 'no road connection' symbols. It seems my zones won't recognize the NAM pieces as being real roads etc. Have I done something wrong? If they don't recognize them are they going to be able to use them for traveling? I love the versatility of NAM so I do want to use them if possible. Can you please tell me how to get my Sims to recognize the roads etc?

[wes.janson]

If you are zoning along along the tram pieces the arrow of the zone will rotate 180 degrees away from the road/avenue.

Try holding the ctrl button down as you zone along the tram-in-road and avenue-glr. This will force the zone arrow to stay along the road and also allows you to control the size of your zones.

[gayleau]

Thanks wes.janson, I will give that a go.

[Diggis]

If the pieces are puzzle pieces then residential lots will not recognize them as networks, which sounds like your problem.

[Andreas]

Hint: You can plop GLR-in-Avenue and Tram-in-Road puzzle pieces directly on avenues or roads. If you use "normal" avenues and roads first, you can zone with the orientation arrows automatically aligning ot the avenues and roads, and later, you can plop the puzzle pieces on top of them.

[gayleau]

Thanks everyone, really appreciate the help. I have it all working fine now. Now my only problem is Sim itself. I will go looking for some advice on how to educate them. Schools everywhere and they still want more, but that is for another forum I guess.