Not sure if this is a bug

[wolfpost 0]

My cities just start bleeding money after I get about 500k population. I noticed the last 2 days when I logged on all my trades had been cancled out even though I just made them yesterday. All the trades were with my secondary cities that I wasn't on with after the trade. Also even though my trades are cancled the freight says it's near or maxed out. how can my freight be maxed out if my trades are canceled? Yesterday when i reached about 620k population for no reason at all I started losing money at a fantastic rate. At one point it was 175k/turn. Nothing I did wotked and eventually I was 2.5 million in debt. I took out a bunch of schools and raised the taxes. made a few trades, At first it wouldn't let me trade but after awhile It did. best I could get it the losses was 110k/turn. then after awhile for no reason that I could see It started getting better until I was now making up to 70k/ turn. I hadn't touched the controls for 15 minutes and it made a 250k/turn change. I logged out with all my trades in place with my secondary cities and making about 20k/ turn. I logged in today and all my trades were canceled again with the freight maxed out but I was still making about 7k/turn. Within 5 minutes that had dropped to losing 50k/turn without me doing anything. WTF?

I wanted to start the Statue of Liberty but I'm negative money again with no reliefe in sight. I don't believe I'm doing anything that is causing this. Maybe some mistakes but not enough for such a rapid cash loss so quickly without doing anything to the game. And this happens every city I make a city  over 500-600k  population. I mean come on I shouldn't have to log into a perfectly fine city finacialy when I left it and within 5 minutes I'm a million dollars in debt.

[morriswalters 16]

Look at your satisfaction panel and make that your numbers are good.  You could have citizens immigrating due to low satisfaction.  When the population goes down enough satisfaction improves and  they will start to move back in. This will cause your trades to fail or be suspended which locks up your freight capacity.  Just an idea.

[Stef42 0]

It might be a bug, because it has been mentioned before at this forum, i thought at the topic 'the ever increasing list of bugs'

[wolfpost 0]

It makes sense what you say morriswalters but how am I to combat that when I'm hit with it as soon as I log on each day when everything was fine when I logged off? Also I don't really notice the population dropping until after the economic freefall. Then As I said I take out alot of stuff the people want to combat the cash problem. This helps the money somewhat but you would think it would piss off the people even more. Then it drops to a certain point and just turns around by itself.

So even if it's something I'm doing wrong the game should have some kind of safe gaurds that stop my city from tanking finacially while I'm not on line. I mean to go from around plus 20k/turn when you log off to minus 150k or more per turn as soon as I log on is impossible to stop from happening. Especially when the trade window is either giving me false information or not letting me trade.

My trade window says I need 13 oil, 11 heavy factory, 11 food. I had just traded with my other cities before I logged off to address the deficit. I had a few extra coming in for each item. I log back in the next day and it says I'm short all the stuff I justed traded for when I logged off. I try to re establish the trades and either the trade dosn't show up for my other city or it says the trade is still going on yet I'm still short the stuff. Or it the botton to put the trade in place won't light up. Then after say 30 minutes I'm able to get one of the trades through but not the other two. Then it sometimes regiters as trading sometimes not. The whole time it's saying my frieght is near or at max. yet I have no trades. I build more trade roads and the max goes up but I'm still un able to trade until random;ly it seems the game lets me.

Just very frustrating as this is my 6th city that I have started and the same dam thing happens around the same point every time. I saw others 2 days ago complaining about the same thing and it seems Stef42 is having a similar problem. I have St. Patricks about half done and i want to start the Statue of Liberty before it expires but I'm 350k in the hole and still plummeting and you need 300k to start the statue. I was thinking of taking out alone just so I can start the staue but that I'm sure will screw my city for good.

thanx for any help though just releasing my frustration as I have a blast playing the game until this happens every time.

[morriswalters 16]

Blueprints are very tricky.  They require you to run high unemployment in some cases. And they tie up cashflow.  You might consider stopping work on them until you figure out your problem.  Good luck