Sim City 2000 dispatch bug?

[avder42 0]

Hi all

 

Lately I've been playing Sim City 2000 for the first time in a long while, and I decided to play on hard mode with disasters enabled.  Since this means a lot more disasters (seriously, I'm getting tired of earthquakes all the time and that damn monster showing up every 10 years), I've built a lot more fire stations than I normally build, and I seem to have come across some kind of bug.

 

I have 25 fire stations in my city, fire departments are funded 100%, but for some reason I can only dispatch around 8 or 9 of them.

 

I've tried several things to fix them, the most drastic of which was bulldozing all of them, waiting a game month, saving and reloading, waiting another game month and then rebuilding them all.  Still can only dispatch 8-9.

 

It's the same way with police.  I have over 50 police stations in town because I want to be touch on crime.  I started a riot to test and I could only dispatch 7 or 8 of them.

 

The only two things I can think of that could possibly be having an impact would be my microsimulation count, and the fact that during disasters the game likes to set civic structures on fire frequently, which includes my police and fire stations.

 

The inability to dispatch doesnt hurt me too much, considering that the strategy I usually employ is bulldozing everything around fires that have broken out, but it really slows down cleanup when I've got a good 30 or so tiles that are on fire and only 8 fire engines to get there.  It's also severely hampered my ability to deal with chemical spills, which happen rather frequently.

 

Has anyone ever experienced this?  I tried googling the problem and found nothing.

 

I'm running the dos version of the game in dos box, if that makes a difference.

[catty-cb 4,402]

I'm running the dos version of the game in dos box, if that makes a difference.

 

It could do ... there are two versions of SimCity 2000, the original and then the Network edition, both of these had patches, the first patch is v1.2, the second for the network edition is v1.1, there are also some demo versions of the game available.

 

-catty