BOOM! No more trade.

[Ephphatha 0]

Ok, I was happily playing along, trying to manage my industrial estate and my residential lot (20k people and 14k jobs, woo!) When I realised my indutrial are was fast running out of water. I put in a water pump and upped the export deal in my residential tile. Went back to the industrial tile and continued expanding.

I hopped back and forth a few times, and all went well till I started to expand west. I built 6 new 36 tiles industrial zones, connected the roads, and extended the pipes, then BAM! Red. No water. None. I looked on the neighbour deals panel and saw that Southton (the industrial area) was still selling power to Midton (residential area) but I had no buy options from Midton. My water deal had gone kaput and I can't figure out how to fix it. Unfortunately I jumped back to midton to see if I was maybe using too much water myself, but no, that wasn't it, and then I realised I'd saved the industrial estate... And my problem.

I'm running Vanilla SC4, patched. I do have a pipe connection between the two towns. I have no mods. And this is the first time I've had something like this happen. (I actually had a small problem before where I couldn't buy or sell more than 1000 units of anything, but that was solved by cancelling the deal and redoing it. But I can't do that this time, as I don't even get the menu option.)

[Sim_Jesse 1]

Do you mean you sell water like this:

I R R R I I = Industrial city R= Residential city So you transport water from the one ind. to the other?

Or is it like this:

I -> I So, immediatly?

If you sell water or power or whatever to a city tile that is to far away from the tile that is selling water, simcity can't do that. It's just the way maxis made it I think.

Hope that helped.

[Ephphatha 0]

I have two cities. They are sitting right next to each other.

[R]

[ I ]

Pipe hits the same point on the border in both cities, the water transfer was working, then it just stopped.

[tchaos713 5]

Have you tried building a new pipe connection?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Check your outgoing pipe connection and make sure it still shows the arrow.  If not, run over it again.  Also, make sure the supplier has enough water for your connect plus 120% of the annual requirements of the host city.

One more thing.  A break in financing can cancel a deal, even if it is momentary.  You may have missed a payment.

[Ephphatha 0]

I've relaid the pipe connections twice, and it still won't work. I'm thinking I might have to just build water pumps in the industrial city, which I really don't want to do as my res city actually makes money off that deal. I guess maby they've wised up?

Anyway, here's a picture that shows what is going on. You can see the no water zots, and there is a pipe connection right next to the powerline. I forgot to put it into underground view.

http://img186.imageshack.us/my.php?image=water2tn.jpg

[Sam 163]

If you could also post a picture of your underground pipe layout, including the neighbour connection and with the city grid switched on, that might also help us figure out what is going on.

The no water zots actually seem to be very localised. You appear to have the same kind of buildings to the right of the unwatered ones, and they don't have the zot. When you lay water pipes are you laying them no further than 12 tiles apart? When you lay the mains, it only waters six tiles to each side. You may just have your pipes to far apart at that particular place.

Have you also tried setting up a totally new pipe connection to the neighbour city?

Other than that, it might also help if you showed us what the excess water capacity in the neighbour city is (an image from the graphs section) and from the city that has the problem.

[Ephphatha 0]

The no water zots haven't spread, because the city is paused. There is an excess of about 20000 units in the res city, and my piping in the ind city currently covers the entire area. The pipes are 13 tiles apart, with the deadzone being a road tile. And I have tried a totally new pipe connection twice.

Anyway, I don't think this is going to matter, as I just got deluxe today, so I'm going to be wiping the simcity folder and starting over. If the bug happens again, I'll dig this thread up.