All delivery trucks disappeared, tried everything, does not comeback.

[StormtrooperDan 0]

I'm pretty far along my city and I have a nice processor/tv/monitor + trade port/depot. Everything was going well until I started to try to build the space center, I was senting fuel + alloy + computers. I noticed something was funky were my city had missions for the alloy and computer but I didn't have it for the fuel even though i was delivering it.

 

At this time all my production stopped because I assume all my trucks were delivering to the space center. Around this time I also got the recycling bug, where I demolished it once but I kept it around the second time it happened because I didn't think it would do any harm.

 

Once I had delivered all the alloy to the space center, I was looking forward to get all my production going again, but I noticed all my trucks have disappeared. 

 

These are the things I've tried:

- demolish all delivery truck garages, quit game, come back, rebuild garages. No trucks came.

 

- demolish trade depot, rebuild trade depot. Had 5 trucks come out of my trade port but then they disappeared again.

 

- demolish rebuild processor plant. No trucks.

 

- stop supply missions to the Space Center. Still no trucks.

 

- looked around in region view to see if I can find my trucks. I see 2 or 3 trucks, but they belong to another city. I had 30+ trucks!

 

- exit and come back into the game repeatedly.

 

 

 

I'm hemorrhaging money fast, so I have the game on pause for now. Has anyone encountered this and know of a fix that isn't abandoning the city?

[WJ_Webhog 12]

Hi,

 

I was also building the space center and had issues with trucks.

What is stupid is that they priorize the construction of the space center instead of your local business. You should be able to say how many trucks are dedicated to the construction so they don't all go pickup alloy and fuel and set off to deliver it...

 

At some point in noticed my trucks were also gone, but it seems that they were stuck in the space center. They eventually came out.

At another occurence, on their way out, they were stuck on the road coming out from the space center and leading to the highway. As if there was a traffic jam their. They were progressing slowly. After a while they finally returned...

 

Maxi(mum)s(adness)...

 

Cheers 

[Tassos_T 0]

Was having an issue with the solar farm myself. Had Trade port set to "Use Locally", but once I started sending Plastic, alloy, and processors to the Solar Farm, the Processor factory stopped getting platic and alloy, it was sending EVERYTHING to the solar farm. Once I disabled delivery of Plastic, and Alloy to the Solar Farm everything went back to normal. I'm thinking focusing on one material at a time to a great work might be a safe bet until a fix is issued.... I mean IF a fix is issued.

[NeoAcario 0]

I've seen a similar bug for a second time tonight...  all of my mass transit units have vanished.  Busses and Streetcars.. gone.  Sounds like the exact same issue.  I've tried the same things as you... nothing seems to be working.

 

Up to 140mil.. 250k pop... I'm min/maxing buildings.. wonder where all the traffic is coming from.. and all of my mass transit is gone.

 

Well.. there went 3 days of work.

 

If anyone finds a solution to this.. I'd be thrilled to hear it.

~Steve

[NeoAcario 0]

Hey Dan, got something for you to try.

 

I was playing with my Bus station... wondering if maybe it was a similar issue with the recycling bug.  Turns out it kind is.

 I built a new station... I've done this before, but I didn't only build and destroy.. I've been playing around with the power.  Turning the building on and off, the first one on and off, the individual modules...

 

I'm starting to get buses to come out!  I'd suggest you try something similar with your depots.

 

Just a thought,

~Steve

[NeoAcario 0]

Ok, well scratch that idea.  I can't even get a full set of metro units out if I don't have 3 of the stations... streetcars or buses.  This is so fucking stupid.. guess I'll have to rebuild this 4.5mil profit a day city from scratch and restart the entire region.  Oh well, I kinda wanted the international airport anyways.

 

~Steve

 

Just be damn careful in the future to never destroy a road with ANY service vehicle on it.  Delivery truck, bus, trash/recycling.. etc....

 

for $%&^! sake EA/Maxis.. please fix this $%&^!.

[wokisan 9]

I have had issues with this bug with Fire and Police Departments, Hospitals, and Streetcars. Now I believe I am having a variation of it with landmarks and casinos for the first time. I basically bulldozed an entire city (1st making sure to turn off services first and then waiting for all vehicles to return 'home'). Along the way I wiped out 3 casinos (2 gambling houses and a Sci-Fi). Now as I am rebuilding I can't get ANY tourists to show up in any casino or any landmark I plop. In fact, I don't have any tourists citywide. The city traffic is much better than it was previously, I have tons of mass transit, a train station but I can not get any tourists to show up at all.

[bifordus-maximus 16]

I may have had the same problem as you guys and I believe I have found the problem (at least for me). In my case It appears they are stuck in gridlock on the highway. If you build an intersection too close to the highway onramp, it causes massive amounts of traffic and gridlock. Simply removing any intersections - say 2 blocks worth should fix the traffic flow problem and the vehicles should come back... In say aabout 2 or 3 months game time. Keep in mind that one citys traffic problems will affect other cities as well. Hopefully this relates to your problems.
 

I think the cause of dissapearing vehicles is massive highway traffic. Each car represents a person or persons going to wherever. After a while when traffic starts to build up - first it goes back through the road but at a certain point the vehicles pile up on themselves giving an incredibly false reading on traffic. For some reason utility and service vehicles get stuck at the back of the traffic while cars have the priority to go in front of them. After finding and fixing the traffic problem All the vehicles eventually came back after about 2 months of in game time for me.