Back from Hiatus, Still Bugs?

[Itseotle 0]

I really love this game, but took a break cuz some of the bugs were starting to get annoying. I came back from a 2 month hiatus and started a new city on the new map Mason Hill within the new region Edgewater Bay. I'll admit the game feels a lot better now. Traffic issues are gone, phantom pollution has been nixed, and that stupid mass homeless "out of money" bug is gone.I had a good time building up my 1 city region slowly but about the 100k pop mark I'm starting to see some serious issues start to crop up, and I'm pretty sure there bugs but would like confirmation.

 

First off, my Garbage and Recycling seem to be increasing at an alarming rate each day, without any increase in population. From what I remember, garbage collection runs from I think 5am and stops sometime in the early afternoon (4pm?) but my trucks seems to be running all day. The problem is the trash counter says i'm only collecting about half the trash but the detail map shows all trash collected, with my trucks running laps all over for no reason. My Sims are also complaining that my trash isn't being collected. I can't post a screen shot, but its currently 9:00 PM in game and there are no "Trash Bars" over peoples homes in the detail view, but the counter is still saying 4,413/8,637, and recycling is at 3,444/6,833, both are in the red. My collection trucks are also still running laps at this time.

 

The second issue I'm noticing is that my delivery trucks for my trade depot and port don't seem to be working all of a sudden. I have 1 Raw Ore mine and 2 Smelting Factories. I also have a Trade Depot set to "Import" for raw ore with 3 delivery trucks and currently 20/20 tons of Ore, and a Trade Port set to "Use Locally" for raw ore with 2 delivery trucks and currently 40/100 tons of Ore. Neither are delivering to my Smelting Factories, which are literally across the street from the depots. My 1 Mine though is shipping directly to the empty factories. 

 

The third issue I'm having is with my education. I have 2 High Schools on either side of my city, each with 8 School Buses. My road and bus stop layout allows for about 95% of my students to get to school, but for some reason only 3 of the 16 total buses are even spawning, and when they do they act just like the garbage trucks, making loops all night long. My understanding is school runs from 6am and lets out at 3pm, which is shown when students leave the schools at 3pm, but watching the "Education Map" there's students waiting at bus stops even past 5pm!

 

One last bug that isn;t as crippling as the others, just really annoying, is that the game keeps telling me my alloy reclamation line at my recycling center is full, but when I click on it it is no wheres near full. I do know you can look at the individual reclamation lines to see there status, but the one that's warning me doesn;t even visually look close to full.

 

If I am doing something very wrong with my city I would greatly appreciate the advice. If these are genuine bugs, is there anything I can do to (hopefully) reverse them? Or is my city doomed to eventually run itself into the ground? The trash issue alone has already put my approval rating down a ton  

 

Thanks in advance for any input!

[Noobi-Wan 22]

It doesn't sound like you are doing anything wrong to me! I must say that I have not had these issues myself (I am still flailing around with finding a natural looking road layout that doesn't choke with cars) but they sound like bugs more than game play issues.

Out of interest are any of your school busses leaving your city? Is the problem the same for grade schools? It would be interesting to see if this changes anything.

The game is far better than at launch but still has issues. Every time they fix something something else seems to stop functioning as intended.

Don't even try building a great work they are just too glitchy and tourist attractions will fill your streets with roughly four million taxis.

[specializedguy 193]

The second issue I'm noticing is that my delivery trucks for my trade depot and port don't seem to be working all of a sudden. I have 1 Raw Ore mine and 2 Smelting Factories. I also have a Trade Depot set to "Import" for raw ore with 3 delivery trucks and currently 20/20 tons of Ore, and a Trade Port set to "Use Locally" for raw ore with 2 delivery trucks and currently 40/100 tons of Ore. Neither are delivering to my Smelting Factories, which are literally across the street from the depots. My 1 Mine though is shipping directly to the empty factories. 

 

Are your smelting factories set to receive ore? Got a screen shot?

[MarcusOrilius 7]

 

the game keeps telling me my alloy reclamation line at my recycling center is full, but when I click on it it is no wheres near full. I do know you can look at the individual reclamation lines to see there status, but the one that's warning me doesn;t even visually look close to full.

 

 

I get this occasionally, but I just ignore it and it seems to go away after a bit. I think that maybe the storage was full and the graphic just runs for a bit... 

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

I really love this game, but took a break cuz some of the bugs were starting to get annoying. I came back from a 2 month hiatus and started a new city on the new map Mason Hill within the new region Edgewater Bay. I'll admit the game feels a lot better now. Traffic issues are gone, phantom pollution has been nixed, and that stupid mass homeless "out of money" bug is gone.I had a good time building up my 1 city region slowly but about the 100k pop mark I'm starting to see some serious issues start to crop up, and I'm pretty sure there bugs but would like confirmation.

 

First off, my Garbage and Recycling seem to be increasing at an alarming rate each day, without any increase in population. From what I remember, garbage collection runs from I think 5am and stops sometime in the early afternoon (4pm?) but my trucks seems to be running all day. The problem is the trash counter says i'm only collecting about half the trash but the detail map shows all trash collected, with my trucks running laps all over for no reason. My Sims are also complaining that my trash isn't being collected. I can't post a screen shot, but its currently 9:00 PM in game and there are no "Trash Bars" over peoples homes in the detail view, but the counter is still saying 4,413/8,637, and recycling is at 3,444/6,833, both are in the red. My collection trucks are also still running laps at this time.

 

The second issue I'm noticing is that my delivery trucks for my trade depot and port don't seem to be working all of a sudden. I have 1 Raw Ore mine and 2 Smelting Factories. I also have a Trade Depot set to "Import" for raw ore with 3 delivery trucks and currently 20/20 tons of Ore, and a Trade Port set to "Use Locally" for raw ore with 2 delivery trucks and currently 40/100 tons of Ore. Neither are delivering to my Smelting Factories, which are literally across the street from the depots. My 1 Mine though is shipping directly to the empty factories. 

 

The third issue I'm having is with my education. I have 2 High Schools on either side of my city, each with 8 School Buses. My road and bus stop layout allows for about 95% of my students to get to school, but for some reason only 3 of the 16 total buses are even spawning, and when they do they act just like the garbage trucks, making loops all night long. My understanding is school runs from 6am and lets out at 3pm, which is shown when students leave the schools at 3pm, but watching the "Education Map" there's students waiting at bus stops even past 5pm!

 

One last bug that isn;t as crippling as the others, just really annoying, is that the game keeps telling me my alloy reclamation line at my recycling center is full, but when I click on it it is no wheres near full. I do know you can look at the individual reclamation lines to see there status, but the one that's warning me doesn;t even visually look close to full.

 

If I am doing something very wrong with my city I would greatly appreciate the advice. If these are genuine bugs, is there anything I can do to (hopefully) reverse them? Or is my city doomed to eventually run itself into the ground? The trash issue alone has already put my approval rating down a ton

 

Thanks in advance for any input!

A little bit off-topic: Did you play SimCity 4 during your break?

[Locutor 0]

1. Garbage and recycling. If you are getting garbage trucks from other city and they dont reach your city in time (it happens a lot, they turn around at the entrance of your city, and then never come back) then there is an accumulated garbage and recycling that is not deleted from the "memory" of the game.

2. Trade depots. Sometimes, unexpectedly, trucks from trade depots go outside city being lost in the traffic jam. Other times they go from one depot to the other, just follow them closely and "perhaps" you will get them working. I had this problem once, I built another depot and from them on everyting went fine.

3. I have some ideas about schools, but I think that part of the simulation is broken.

 

As you can see everyting is related to traffic, not only in your city but in the highway outside.

 

This game seems a gamble game. You have some chance to get it working as intended (0,0000001%).

 

I don't think anyone at EA has ever play/test this game.

 

Regards