newbie question about greatworks

[Talki 0]

playing since a few days, i decided to build a solar farm. now im curious, why cant other cities cant use the power from it? can only access with the city, which built it.

i thought every city in the region can use the benefits, if its connected.

do i have to build it again or what?

 

thanks for the answers.

[CarloTheCurious 3]

They can't use the power, or they can't see the great work?

[Talki 0]

1 city can see it, and it also use the power (it isnt even the nearest one)

but some cant even see (and cant even use ofc), even if they are near the great work

[tnobles 38]

I'm having the same problem. Hopefully they will add a fix to 6.0.

[Lot Creator 304]

The problem... is that EA never finished the GW implementation.... Cities will never get the GW even if they are sitting right next to it, because it does not exist. EA constructed SC13 so fast, they did not implement dynamic staistics, by which I mean is that if City A built the wonder, and there other cities such as B, C, and D, they will never know of it because the wonder is not dynamic. The game engine is not programmed to reccognise this simple, yet dynamicaly  nesesary feature. Patches... dunno if that will fix it.

[Noobi-Wan 22]

I had a similar issue with the solar farm where I started it in one city then moved to another city to complete it.

For about half an hour I couldn't see the great work and then out I nowhere it appeared.

The only thing I would suggest is to play the other cities for a while and see if it materialises.

[Jons511 12]

It takes a few days of in game time. Keep playing and it will work eventually.

[moosc 2]

I was trying to build the space port in my region but despite putting in loads of materials the amounts needed always differed between the towns and was never consistant. Sometimes more was needed sometimes less.

 

Very Frustrating. never finished it and don't consider that they ever can be completed and if they are even worthwhile from what I've read here.

 

Opinions?

 

Neil W

[Talki 0]

thanks for the answers. now i know why do ppl cry on some forums, that game is unfinished.

 

about playing other cities : im playing the other one, its already may @ year2, could really use that power

[CarloTheCurious 3]

It takes a few days of in game time. Keep playing and it will work eventually.

If you're lucky. I've played cities for years of gametime and the work never shows up.

 

Great works are pretty buggy still. Even when they do show up they're very erratic in terms of receiving their required workers/power/whatever, or what output your cities get. At the moment they seem to be mainly yet another place for your trucks to get lost in .

[Ghetzi 1]

It's a known bug that the GW projects are not syncing properly.  In some cases they are not showing up in every city in the region at all, regardless of how long you wait.  Very hit and miss, which is an obvious problem considering the time and investment it takes to get one going.  Recently one of the dev's acknowledge the problem on the EA Answers board and said they were working on a solution, but there's no timeline on when that might happen.

[Ghetzi 1]

do i have to build it again or what?

 

 

I'd advise against it.  If the GW isn't showing up at another city, the game will still allow you to initiate a build.  If you do so, it will take the million but the project will remain in pending endlessly.  I learned that the hard way.  Built an Arcology in one city, the project completed but didn't show up in some of the other cities in the region so I initiated another Arcology from a different city.  That was about a week and half ago and that city has still not synced up with the Arcology and I don't suspect it ever will.  That issue may resolve once a fix is implemented, but I've seen other bugs get fixed by EA at the expense of bulldozing and replopping.  If that's the case here, then it's possible the GW will remain in pending even after the fix is distributed.  Why risk it? 

[Durandal799 0]

Sounds like my issue with 5 cities working on an Arcology, but three of them it still says "pending." Sigh.

[tnobles 38]

Should still be able to build it. Once the two cities deliver enough to get it to stage two, all five should join in on the last level.

[Durandal799 0]

Oh yeah, tnobles? OK, we'll see. I keep running out of money in the cities I'm importing raw material to so I can make TVs and send to the arcology. They are being funded because I can sell TVs in the cities that are coming up "Pending." I hope this works, because I've been playing for about two months now, and haven't been able to create a GW yet! Getting bored.