Building without roads.

[arieboom]

I am working on my first serious city, screenshots on my profile.

I have an elevated part, next to a lake I made.
I would like to put some parks there, but without roads so that the sims have to walk there.

Problem is that everything has to be connected to a road.
I tried dirt roads, but I would like to see NO cars.

Any ideas?

[ForesterSOF]

you can use the pedestrian paths and then use https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2389414419&searchtext=zone to make it zonable for building.
You will have problems with garbage, deaths and emergency vhicals so would make all pedestrian pathes with a slow speed limit so you have less trafic to deal with foreing ped paths are the way to go.

[MaxFX]

Originally posted by arieboom:

I am working on my first serious city, screenshots on my profile.

I have an elevated part, next to a lake I made.
I would like to put some parks there, but without roads so that the sims have to walk there.

Problem is that everything has to be connected to a road.
I tried dirt roads, but I would like to see NO cars.

Any ideas?

Do you own the 'Parklife DLC'?

With it you can create park area's. These area's have a 'main gate' where cims enter the park. Only the gates of the park have to be connected to a road. The rest of the park (including all kinds of buildings) can be placed alongside paths instead of roads.

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If you do not have the DLC, then you can make it look like a park, by placing trees, paths and other stuff, but you won't get many cims there. The park from the DLC is considered an attraction (a place to visit) cims go to. But a decorated island (as good as it might look) will only be visited by cims traveling from A to B, with the park being somewhere across their route.

[Scoup]

As said, you can create a park if you have dlc or you can use invisible road
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1199685642

[numbat]

I built some parks and tourist attractions on a short piece of unconnected road, then used paths to get the cims to them. The problem with this was when there was a death at such sites, the hearses couldn't get to them.

You could use TM:PE to restrict traffic on those roads, but I don't recall if hearses and other city services can still use them or not (someone else could answer this one).

That invisible roads mod, coupled with TM:PE might do the trick.

Cheers,
Chris.

[arieboom]

I don't have DLC's yet, so that option is out for now.

I guess I have to settle for a dirt road, or an invisible one.
I will play with that mod tonight and see how it looks.

I might try an invisible bus road, since emergency vehicles use those if needed.