Disappearing Cars

[gc6164 36]

Do you think that they will still have cars disappearing to no where like the previous versions in the next simcity?

I hope that they can have the cars park in the driveways and also if they go to work or to a business to buy something, they park their car in the parking lot.

[meowza 230]

Cars won't disappear from roads. As far as I know they can park within lots, and it will be visible to the player. Though the animation I saw was only a prototype, so the cars behaved in an awkward fashion, hopefully devs will work more on it. Same concept goes for pedestrians.

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  Edited March 23, 2012 by meowza  

[johndoh4 13]

I believe it was mentioned in the Reddit article that that was one of the issues they intended to fix. They also mentioned wanting players to be able to understand the underlying logic behind the game instead of it just being a mystery. But I believe the disappearing cars was a technical limitation at the time SC4 was released.

  Edited March 23, 2012 by johndoh4  

[Ocram's Razr 963]

Fortunately for you (and all of us), cars will not randomly disappear because cars will be agents carrying real resources (including workers) and will drive into the lots instead just being a statistical representation of traffic on a road. Is that not wonderful?

[City Planner 121]

Yes indeed, that will be a welcome change I think. I hope they can pull it off properly.

I seem to remember Moneycristo telling people that in CXL the cars would not just disappear either, and that they all had a starting and ending place, yet strangely enough, many of us witnessed cars still disappearing in the middle of a road somewhere where there was no business for a citizen to be. Obviously Maxis is not Moneycristo but still... I hope that Maxis can pull it off properly. I think it was one of the more annoying aspects in SC4 (at least to me and the few friends that I have that play SC4).

[gc6164 36]

Fortunately for you (and all of us), cars will not randomly disappear because cars will be agents carrying real resources (including workers) and will drive into the lots instead just being a statistical representation of traffic on a road. Is that not wonderful?

Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Ocram's Razr 963]

City Life had individually tracked citizens and early Cities Unlimited data did as well but Cities XL ended up dumbing down the system.

[The_City_Builder 299]

City Life had individually tracked citizens and early Cities Unlimited data did as well but Cities XL ended up dumbing down the system.

Also, cars during the CXL 2009 beta didn't disappear.

[Pandemic 32]

I'm really interested in seeing some large traffic jams, heh.

[snuus 0]

I dont mean to go off topic its just im at my whits end so I thought id ask some pros, any idea how to fix the dissapearing cars in sim city 4? they dissapear 2 to 3 meters infront and vanish and I cant find anything at all on t'interweb

[~Dee~ 215]

I must admit I always hated when cars disappeared for no reason, at the moment I'm playing Cities in Motion and I thought all cars had a destination and wouldn't just disappear, but I was wrong.

99.9% of the cars have a starting and end point and get there but I noticed yesterday when the traffic came to a standstill, a car disappeared.

I had tram lines on the road and a tram tried to turn right but a car slipped past it just before and couldn't go any further, because the tram was in the way, all traffic stopped.

I was looking at the screen for a minute or two without any traffic going anywhere and thought I need to get rid of the tram, when the offending car suddenly disappeared and the traffic started to flow again.

I must admit in situations like that I don't mind, it's rather niffty.

[Mootilda 76]

I dont mean to go off topic its just im at my whits end so I thought id ask some pros, any idea how to fix the dissapearing cars in sim city 4? they dissapear 2 to 3 meters infront and vanish and I cant find anything at all on t'interweb

It makes far more sense to ask a question like this in one of the SimCity 4 forums.