Job Bug

[Zarp 0]

Neighboring this city, I have another city with about 15,000 industrial jobs.

At some point, that avenue had about 3.500 cars going to the other city. But then out of the blue, people started to get unemployed and the cars going to the other city started to drop, and kept dropping until it reached zero! The population dropped as well.

Here is a picture:

Any ideas?

[Bumdark 3]

Sounds like something happened to one of the cities, or maybe even both. Recheck everything: did you change anything just prior to the problems arrising (funding, deleting or adding zones, etc.)? Is the connection holding up for both sides clearly?

I gotta admit, this is intriguing, the first I've ever heard of this situation. I can't see how a city could suddenly stop working with a neighbor...

If you could post any and all info you can dig up about this problem, your game, etc.; I'd be happy to pursue this, as would many other experts. For now, I'm baffled, never heard of this.

On a sidenote, I'M BEGGING YOU... how are you managing to run SC4 in a window like that? I've heard of the so-called "Window Mode", where you add the little "-w" in the shortcut's "Target" field, yet I just get the bottom taskbar to show, it's not in a window per se... How did you do it? Lucky devil!

Looking forwards to hearing from you soon. Sorry I can't help that much... YET.

[Zarp 0]

Well, as I said before, it was totally out of the blue. Things were going fine, till the unemployment started to show.

The other thing I could tell that might interest is that I actually had this very same problem before, on a similar situation. People who had jobs got unemployed, population dropped. But the game fixed itself, in like 5 years the unemployment stopped and the city flourished again. Here is a picture of when the "bug" happened and how the city is nowadays:

Back when it bugged.

Now:

The thing is, that my other city isn't recovering. It has passed over 10 years and it is STILL with the problem. I really am, what can I say, stressed about it.

My windows XP is in Portuguese, so I don't know what the names are in the English Version.

But I'll try to help. In order to play on the window mode, you should right-click on your Sim City shortcut, go on properties, click on the "Shortcut" option on the top of window. On the "Destiny(or directory)" gap, there should be something like this: "C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\Simcity4.exe"

What you should do is add and -w on the end, outside the "", so the directory gap will look like this: "C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Apps\Simcity4.exe" -w

Good luck doing it!

[Bumdark 3]

I guess you've just hit a bug, an in-game glitch, concerning jobs... SimCity may be close to perfect. but it's well known, even notorious, for having some rathet glaring bugs. Most are innocent little graphics bugs that are eliminated with a few clicks, while some others can get very damaging... If there aren't any known causes, and ESPECIALLY if the game can fix itself like that, than that's what it seems to be for me.

And for the Windowed mode, that's exactly what I did, and am doing... but all that happens, is the game sort of replaces the Desktop.

[His Divine Hand 244]

Zarp, are you using any Road Top Mass Transit stations, or Bus only/No Truck lane lots along the main connecting route between the two cities?

[Zarp 0]

No, that city has no mass transit at all.

Bumdark: Now you're already on window mode. You should now go on the Options inside the game and change the resolution of the game to something smaller than your desktop resolution.

For example: You're desktop is set to 1024x768

Set the game to 800x600

[Bumdark 3]

*Sniffle sniffle* ... it's so beautiful! *sobs*

Thanks so much! I can NOT believe it was that simple all along... I'm ashamed, I usally find these trivial things myself, I can't believe I'D ACTUALLY THOUGHT OF DOING IT BEFORE but thought it wouldn't work! Thanks so much! Owe you one.

And now, I'll be busy for a while... hopefully making the next NYC... Cheerio!

(And BTW - How the hell can you expect any city of that size to prosper adequately without Mass Transit? Shame on you, too! If you don't have much cash, at least plant a few Bus Stops around the place! MT isn't just for calming down traffic woes, it does scores of great things to and for your cities - decreases pollution from cars and vehicles, some MT networks are cheaper to build, and they have much, much higher capacities compared to Roads.)

[Zarp 0]

the big city does have mass transit, the smaller one doesn't =p

the problem fixed itself after a while, just like it did the first time

thanks everyone for their help (l)

ps: sorry for the delay, I had no internet for some days >.>