I've been fighting with.... errrr I mean I've been using the Create Locator tool in 2.4 for the past few weeks and find it to be challenging. (Trying to be nice here....). The match out of range thing is a mystery to me. Mine have worked without passing a city, but when I create the locator, I only field map those fields I want, so I don't check anything I that is 'zone' related. No Neighborhood, No Metro Area, No City and so forth.
Here is a copy of the parameters I use in an address point role:
Parameters
Country or Region USA
Primary Table(s) AddressPoints PointAddress
Field Mapping
'PointAddress.HOUSE_NUMBER AddressPoints.ADDR_HN';
'PointAddress.STREET_PREFIX_DIR AddressPoints.ADDR_PD';
'PointAddress.STREET_NAME AddressPoints.ADDR_SN';
'PointAddress.STREET_SUFFIX_TYPE AddressPoints.ADDR_ST';
'PointAddress.STREET_SUFFIX_DIR AddressPoints.ADDR_SD';
You can capture this info when the tool completes: I use it so I can script creating locators.
Calling Eric Anderson ; are you there?
That should just about do it....