goldsoundz
Member
It is becoming an annoyance, but sadly because of all the other issues this is probably near the bottom on Maxis' list of priorities.
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It is becoming an annoyance, but sadly because of all the other issues this is probably near the bottom on Maxis' list of priorities.
Metalmurphy
Member
I've been here for ages, and all the city is covered. I've already started working on the first great work.
Mhmm... are your school buses constantly stuck in traffic and can't take your students to the schools? Check your population tab, check how many of your people actually go to school? Or if you have a massive influx of students from other regions taking away all the space or sth.
Gaming Truth
Member
I would say do it. It's a great backup server if US East 1 never comes back and it also gives us a chance to start over.
Last night, I spent the two hours online and $50,000 rehabilitating the ground pollution I caused when I bulldozed my city. Not a great use of my time, but I was showering and making/eating dinner during that time. It took two hours and hundreds of dead trees to completely clean a polluted area. However, one of the two oil regions is gone and is never coming back. That's surprisingly because I've only played for like two hours or so. Resources disappear extremely quickly for something so integral.
goldsoundz
Member
lol I was having this problem earlier in my city, and eventually (like, 3 hours after I had an elementary school, high school, community college, and university) they shut the fuck up and then started to complain "we don't have enough room to ship our freight!" despite there being tons of empty space in my trade depot. I got so pissed off that I bulldozed about half of the industry businesses, community college, and university, then de-zoned the area.
Felix Lighter
Member
Suddenly my Fuel isn't being exported from my trade depot. It's full and it's killing my economy. I have no idea why. It's set to export and the supply depot has plenty of trucks. It just stopped being trade out of the blue.
I'm not exporting nearly as much as I could, because my city is a complete traffic disaster. It sucks, because I need to export more to be able to allow the trade port to export fuel via train/ship instead of cars, which would get me SO much more money. But I just can't make traffic disappear GAH.
I'm getting 15k of workers as influx :lol. More than I even have residents... need to rezone some industrial to residential I suppose
27k jobs, 11k residents :lolTrade Depots can't actually export freight, they can only store it. Only Trade Ports (and the airports) can export freight, AFAIK
krameriffic
Member
So I built the Arcology, now I can't send water or power to it, so it's roughly a 100 million Simoleon paper weight.
This game man.
This game man.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Does anybody know what the latest update does?
Felix Lighter
Member
I'm not exporting nearly as much as I could, because my city is a complete traffic disaster. It sucks, because I need to export more to be able to allow the trade port to export fuel via train/ship instead of cars, which would get me SO much more money. But I just can't make traffic disappear GAH.
I'm getting 15k of workers as influx :lol. More than I even have residents... need to rezone some industrial to residential I suppose
That's what it is. The traffic coming into my city is backed up for miles and miles. Ugh.
There you go. If you find a solution, tell me, because I'm losing it too :lol. All my depots are constantly full and I can't export
SOMEONE in the region GAFtopia PLEASE build a Petrolium HQ... DEAR GOD PLEASE. I'd be eternally thankful. I need those trade port oil exports :'(I think it broke traffic. I was not having this big of a problem last night and now my whole city is just a huge traffic jam. It's all slowly burning down, trash is everywhere, and criminals are on the loose!
storybook77
Member
Sounds like Oakland!
Conciliator
Banned
Think I'll start a new region on North America East 4 if anyone's interested. It shall be called "Spring Forward GAF"
EDIT: BadKeyMachine on Origin if you need an invite.
EDIT: BadKeyMachine on Origin if you need an invite.
I haven't been able to get in, nor to my alt city on NA EAST 3.
Are you sure they haven't actually just fixed regional interactions? I'm now seeing far more tourists and commuting which is impacting traffic.
Forsete
Member
Bros..
My large city (around 120k people) is having massive water shortages. The pumping station I built for the city is running dry, and the few water "hotspots" that are left are under my glorious highrise buildings.
So my smaller city has built these massive water pumps in order to supply the big city. The big city is buying the water but there are areas of the city which still dont get any.
What gives? Advice before my metropoils starts crashing down.
My large city (around 120k people) is having massive water shortages. The pumping station I built for the city is running dry, and the few water "hotspots" that are left are under my glorious highrise buildings.
So my smaller city has built these massive water pumps in order to supply the big city. The big city is buying the water but there are areas of the city which still dont get any.
What gives? Advice before my metropoils starts crashing down.
Bros..
My large city (around 120k people) is having massive water shortages. The pumping station I built for the city is running dry, and the few water "hotspots" that are left are under my glorious highrise buildings.
So my smaller city has built these massive water pumps in order to supply the big city. The big city is buying the water but there are areas of the city which still dont get any.
What gives? Advice before my metropoils starts crashing down.
Beg your neighbor to build more water, buy it from him.
If no neighbor, BUILD WATER CITY.
Here's the problem with so many servers...I can't remember which one I was on yesterday. Was it East 3 or West 3...or was it a 4.
Bros..
My large city (around 120k people) is having massive water shortages. The pumping station I built for the city is running dry, and the few water "hotspots" that are left are under my glorious highrise buildings.
So my smaller city has built these massive water pumps in order to supply the big city. The big city is buying the water but there are areas of the city which still dont get any.
What gives? Advice before my metropoils starts crashing down.
Someone told me sewage treament dumps water out, so you should build your water pump beside it.
I think it has been working for me.
Bros..
My large city (around 120k people) is having massive water shortages. The pumping station I built for the city is running dry, and the few water "hotspots" that are left are under my glorious highrise buildings.
So my smaller city has built these massive water pumps in order to supply the big city. The big city is buying the water but there are areas of the city which still dont get any.
What gives? Advice before my metropoils starts crashing down.
IIRC, high rises suck up water than any decent size town. That's how it was in SC4.
CAW
Member
I decided to create another city in the region I'm playing on, and tried to buy power, sewage and water services from my other city (which has over 90k residents). The option to buy is there, and I can click buy, but when I go back into my new city no power is flowing and it doesn't show as an expensive via the city budget window. Am I missing something?
Forsete
Member
I already built a service city, but it has not solved the problem. Service city produces ~290k liters per hour or whatever the measurement is. The large city is buying around 170k liters, it should be enough but the water does not reach all the buildings.
I already demolished my sewage treatment facility, the service city is taking care of the sewage for me. I needed the space which it was occupying.
Thanks Maxis, for giving us these large areas to build on. Now I cant build everything I want. Bastards.
Metalmurphy
Member
Bros..
My large city (around 120k people) is having massive water shortages. The pumping station I built for the city is running dry, and the few water "hotspots" that are left are under my glorious highrise buildings.
So my smaller city has built these massive water pumps in order to supply the big city. The big city is buying the water but there are areas of the city which still dont get any.
What gives? Advice before my metropoils starts crashing down.
I was having the same problem, so I crashed it down.
Forsete
Member
Glorious!
Really, there is no solution? Ugh.
Well I guess it works the same way in real life. Cities like Las Vegas do not exist. Right Maxis?
TheGreyHulk
Member
NA East 1 "available"
clicks play & upon reaching the main menu in game
"Unable to connect to the SimCity servers. Please try again"
:|
I just want to play my VW3 city i spent 5 hours on last night... grrrrr
@Herpes: if you ever create another VW3 on a diff server, let us know plz! NA E1 seems to always have issues
clicks play & upon reaching the main menu in game
"Unable to connect to the SimCity servers. Please try again"
:|
I just want to play my VW3 city i spent 5 hours on last night... grrrrr
@Herpes: if you ever create another VW3 on a diff server, let us know plz!
NA E1 seems to always have issuesOh gawd I am addicted. When the game has no sever issues, it is great fun and highly engrossing. I wonder if all those sites and magazines that market it lower will re-review it again? Probably not.
OK, can anyone explain how the recycling works. I have a well educated Uni city with all manner of bits in it. So I plot down the recycling plant and it sits doing nothing. Am I missing something basic?
OK, can anyone explain how the recycling works. I have a well educated Uni city with all manner of bits in it. So I plot down the recycling plant and it sits doing nothing. Am I missing something basic?
It should tell you in the budget panel on the right side. Under "Recent Transactions".
Neuromancer
Member
How do I stop embezzlement?
Also how do I make sure my metal goes to the arcology? Do I select explore at the trade center or something else?
Also how do I make sure my metal goes to the arcology? Do I select explore at the trade center or something else?
Metalmurphy
Member
I was getting a whopping $0 on mine for some reason. I even had helicopters on patrol.
Why exports don't count towards your hourly income I do not know. I've got -5k on my city, and I'm raking money in, just because all of it is from exporting.
Set it to local use I would have thought.
For such a little city mine is giving me a shitload of trouble. Buildings being abandoned everywhere for tons of reasons (fires, lack of shoppers, crime, health) despite lots of things in place to address the issues like a large police and fire station, tons of clinics, etc.
Despite having a pumping station with tons of excess water, water is a supposed problem too. I don't make much money as a commuter city with light tourism, so to diversify I needed to raise taxes to fund it...which meant even more abandoned buildings. Population has fluctuated between a high of 130k to 90k. A recent city I built close by as a heavy industrial hub is making good money, but not enough people are commuting from the bigger city and this city seems to be bringing tons of crime to it.
Despite having a pumping station with tons of excess water, water is a supposed problem too. I don't make much money as a commuter city with light tourism, so to diversify I needed to raise taxes to fund it...which meant even more abandoned buildings. Population has fluctuated between a high of 130k to 90k. A recent city I built close by as a heavy industrial hub is making good money, but not enough people are commuting from the bigger city and this city seems to be bringing tons of crime to it.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
NA East 1 "available"
clicks play & upon reaching the main menu in game
"Unable to connect to the SimCity servers. Please try again"
:|
I just want to play my VW3 city i spent 5 hours on last night... grrrrr
@Herpes: if you ever create another VW3 on a diff server, let us know plz!
yeah, im having trouble logging into NA EAST 1. this is bullshit.
im taking the liberty and creating a new Viridian Woods 3 on NA EAST 4.
i'll message everyone on origin or here.
please choose the same city you were at.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
Viridian Woods 3
Region name: GAF World
Creator: viakado
server: NA EAST 4
invite only
Territory - GAF - Origin
Bamberg Basin - MKAllDay - MKAllDay
Burghausen Hills - MrCompletely - Dronehouse
Figaro Forest - DEO3 - DEOThree
Gaugin Valley - Phreaker - Phreakerz
Giovanni Woods - B-Dex - BDex84
Hohenburg Shores - Hambone - xHambone
Lancaster Pointe - mavs - hrekka
Matisse Plains - Rad- - Joninder
Monet Plateau - Gaming Truth - Ccl97* (is this supposed to be lccl97?)
Rousseau Flats - ostinatto - forsakenwins
Straussburg Isles - Dork Knight - Maxis_MD
Tosca Cliffs - TheGreyHulk - achilles_steel
Traviata Knoll - Spookie - tehspookeh
Tudor Isle - Herpes Reasons - viakado
Wessex Bend - fugimax - fugimax
Yorkshire Cliffs - Faceache - andred78
once you log on NA EAST 4, i'll be able to send invite
Region name: GAF World
Creator: viakado
server: NA EAST 4
invite only
Territory - GAF - Origin
Bamberg Basin - MKAllDay - MKAllDay
Burghausen Hills - MrCompletely - Dronehouse
Figaro Forest - DEO3 - DEOThree
Gaugin Valley - Phreaker - Phreakerz
Giovanni Woods - B-Dex - BDex84
Hohenburg Shores - Hambone - xHambone
Lancaster Pointe - mavs - hrekka
Matisse Plains - Rad- - Joninder
Monet Plateau - Gaming Truth - Ccl97* (is this supposed to be lccl97?)
Rousseau Flats - ostinatto - forsakenwins
Straussburg Isles - Dork Knight - Maxis_MD
Tosca Cliffs - TheGreyHulk - achilles_steel
Traviata Knoll - Spookie - tehspookeh
Tudor Isle - Herpes Reasons - viakado
Wessex Bend - fugimax - fugimax
Yorkshire Cliffs - Faceache - andred78
once you log on NA EAST 4, i'll be able to send invite
Neuromancer
Member
My recycling center is full up on recyclables, what do I do with them? I'm also trying to reclaim plastic, metal and alloys (partly to make processors) but those aren't going up.
Ugh, I have a massive traffic jam because school busses are unable to get in or out of my high school.
EDIT: Which I solved by closing it down for a bit. At least I didn't have to bulldozer it.
EDIT EDIT: And opening the school causes another traffic jam. FFFFFFFF
EDIT: Which I solved by closing it down for a bit. At least I didn't have to bulldozer it.
EDIT EDIT: And opening the school causes another traffic jam. FFFFFFFF
Dead Prince
Banned
my city is home to hobos lol.
Does land value correspond to the Wealth of the citizens or just the size of the buildings that will build in that area?
Dumb question but... I'm trying to get High Density Low Wealth workers.
I scrap parks to push the land value to white hoping to attract low wealth workers, thinking, if there's enough, they'll fill up the Density and build bigger buildings. But that doesn't seem to happen.
Is it ultimately the best route to get the whole city to High Land Value and let it sort itself out?
Edit: High Density roads are laid down already.
Dumb question but... I'm trying to get High Density Low Wealth workers.
I scrap parks to push the land value to white hoping to attract low wealth workers, thinking, if there's enough, they'll fill up the Density and build bigger buildings. But that doesn't seem to happen.
Is it ultimately the best route to get the whole city to High Land Value and let it sort itself out?
Edit: High Density roads are laid down already.
I think people have to assign them to you.
Something major just changed in how traffic works I think. I was having such ridiculous traffic coming to and from the freeway, I'm the largest city by population in the region. The freeway entrance had become a significant bottleneck in the freeway itself. I had to go so far as snaking an avenue with no exits around the northern top of my city to offload the people waiting in a better point than in my downtown area. The avenue acted as a buffer to keep the masses commuting out of the town off the rest of my streets. Suddenly it all disappeared. The number leaving hasn't changed but the freeway entrance takes more cars now. Bizarre.