A question about region and city groups...

[happyrobbie 0]

Take a 16-city region for example. Normally by the connectivity of highway these cities are grouped into 4 connected components each of which has 4 cities. Sometimes two groups of cities having no highway connections might have railway connection, sometimes no.

 

So my question is: What are the effects across different city groups? For example, I know that criminal from one city can go to another by highway. Can they also enter another city by railway? Or, can they magically go to another city group with neither highway nor railway connections?

 

And the same question for tourists, effects of university.... They are region shared or city group shared?

[CosmicSpeed 28]

In my 16-City Region of Carolina, I have 4 established cities connected by road. The Northern 2 cities are connected by rail as well with a new 5th city I just created.

 

Because there are no road, I cannot share any of the civil services, but because I have unlocked all the town hall modules, people are commuting by train to my city. However, it is not large enough to have any freight commerce yet.

 

Also, I have had to put in the usual services to appease the masses and police was my last plop. I noticed crime was up in the area and the only connection to civilization was by rail., I didn't see any Notifications in the upper portion of the screen but I could have missed them (stepped away for 10 minutes and a Zombie Outbreak occured...)

 

I want to experiment more with this in regards to tourism as well with no roads. My two southern cities in the group of 4 are also connected by rail with another group and I want to see if a gambling city will crime by rail.