My Environment bar is completely red.

[City Planner 121]

Hi,

I've never had my environment bar go completely into the red and stay there without at least a little bit of a hint of the green arrows indicating that it's trying to come back to the green, so it could be a plugin that I've added to the game or I'm just really not playing like I used to.

 Any hints or tips on what I can do or what I can add to my city to make the environment bar start returning to the green?  I really don't have that much dirty industry, and the High tech has started to show up as of late so I'm thinking that things are going okay, but the environment bar is solid red without even a hint of green.

 Thanks,

 As a non related question...

Is there a mod that will prevent the advisors from popping up with new messages while I still have the building they just rewarded me with on the end of my cursor?

 As it is now, there are a lot of times that the advisor pops up and gives me a building reward and while I'm looking for a place to put the building, the advisor pops up again with another award building to be placed, so obviously if I click on the new popup windows link for the new building I loose the other one off my cursor.

 I suppose it wouldn't be that big of a deal to find these reward buildings after I'm done placing the last one they gave me if I didn't have 3.7GB of plugins, so theres a huge amount of items in every menu list making it really tough to find the reward buildings.

 Thanks again.

[TekindusT 3,809]

This enviroment bar thing happens to me since the beggining without any apparent reason. Despite having this bar through the floor, I've been able to build successful cities of 800.000+ pop; so I wouldn't worry about this.

Please, correct me if there's a solution for this.

[Rionescu 14]

And for your second question you can change it in gameplay settings.

[IlikeSC4 2]

One Thing you could try is planting trees in the houses (LOTS), and in every space you can they are useful and make look your city a little prettier

[kingdiz_55 12]

The environmental bar going mad is pretty normal.. However, it could affect your city. It acts as a sort of turn off for citizens. You can reverse the environmental bar by having a sort of cheat lot (depolluter?). Sort of like a money tree except this would target pollution. I do this all the time with my cities. This should work for you, too.

[seekhunt 0]

For my city it has not helped at all on the bar. Mine too is just RED. and has always been there.

i dont know what small og big industry is. But i would say i dont have a lot and they are all located in a cornor of the map with no poluting what so ever on the rest of the map. Theres some small poluting on my bigger strees in my city but that would always be there i think.

But apart from that i'm in doubt about the "god mode" trees makes polution go down or the normal "1 plop" tree makes it go down. any way i have trees all over my map but the bar is still solid RED. I only think the environment bar will go up again if i delete my Heavy industry or have the tax at 13% or something so i vil have minimum durty and maybe some more high tech. But for now i dont see anyway the bar will get green. But at a city of 100K+ it dont seem to affect my peoples either only the message sometime that "air not breathable" or what the message now says :-)

[Mithrik 562]

Try with the trees, fauna, and maintain low a much as possible the pollution.

I don't have this problem, I start every city with the bar totally green.

The environment not only affects your sims, also the land value, that's why having a low environment will difficult the arrival of R$$$ & CO $$$ lots.

[bigthing 35]

I have found that if your using some kind of pollouting power plant then it can make the bar plummet, even if it is miles away from "civilisation". Try just generally going greener, cleaner power plants, recycling plants (they are not as effective at garbage disposal as told but thye will help the bar and general "aura") avoid landfills (plenty of non-polluting lots on the STEX) and have quite a few trees, parks and green space within the city. This should keep the bar and your sims happy :-D

[City Planner 121]

Originally posted by: Rionescu
And for your second question you can change it in gameplay settings.quote>

I fail to see this option.  I don't want to turn them off entirely I just want to make it so that if I've already got a reward building on the end of my mouse cursor the other rewards that are in queue to popup, hold their horses and wait until I place the building that I'm currently rewarded.

 

I've tried to smother my city with trees using the mod that allows me to open up god mode but that doesn't seem to help, the red bar isn't budging, I also make sure to never use dirty power plants, I've always played with either wind power or power plants that the user says is green that I find in STEX.

[slystone2 20]

city planner -

Have you looked at your pollution overlay to see exactly where the worst of it is coming from? It's a good way to see your worst pollution culprits, sometimes it can be a plugin with poorly balanced stats, i.e. unrealistic pollution from certain custom industrial lots or power plants

also, Jasoncw has some cool Air Filters that you can plop, they work really well for me in my dense industrial zones

I always put my power plant and landfills in an adjacent "throw-away" city as well, that can really help keep pollution down

[Yonk 2]

High traffic volume creates a good deal of localized pollution, too. I've had many commercial cities with low environment even though it's all forests, clean industry, and clean power plants, and the only pollution comes from the cars. Encouraging mass transit can help with this problem (though I ignore the environment bar, anyway).

- Yonk

[tungston 19]

Originally posted by: City Planner

Originally posted by: Rionescu

And for your second question you can change it in gameplay settings.quote>

I fail to see this option.  I don't want to turn them off entirely I just want to make it so that if I've already got a reward building on the end of my mouse cursor the other rewards that are in queue to popup, hold their horses and wait until I place the building that I'm currently rewarded.quote>

If you turn off the advisers, you still have the ticker to keep you informed.  Otherwise you are stuck with the interruptions.

[magnet152 0]

A major Nuclear Radiation leak caused by a nuclear powerplant exploding can also make this red So dnt build nuclear

[Nuclear550 3]

The reason why the envoirment bar is low is because you need to place more recreational parks. IT won't be all the way green, but it will help with lots of pollution and demand factors.