PATCH 7 - New Trash and recycling bug/problems

[Darmok 34]

Problems with trash and recycling

Since "Patch" 7 (if you can call it that..) the trash AND recycling collecting is going south.

TRASH

First, citizens are teed of because they say the trash isn't collected, so I look at the Waste disposal menu and map, first it indicates that I collect MORE garbage than there is in "reality", 6,399 of 6,003 garbage cans collected!!! So I collect almost 400 MORE cans than there is !!!, and NO I don't volunteer trucks to other cities…

Second looking at the map the amount of garbage is LOW (very light brown) NO high or overflowing anywhere on the map. And still they are complaining.

RECYCLING

Déja-Vu…
Followed the recycling (waste) menu/map for an entire game day, NOT ONE of the 32 Recycling Collection Trucks went out!!! NOT ONE! Needless to say thay both of my Recycling plants have stopped production, and moreso they have in Storage Plastic, Alloy and Metal and won't deliver it!!!

Anyone having those quirks?

Thanks for any input you can give.

P.S.
I'm beginning to feel sick and tired of those supposed "patch" that create as much problems as they're trying to solve!

[Locutor 0]

Try to demolish the trucks stations in the Recycling plant. There is a chance to get it working again.

[SockoJr53 51]

You need to demolish and rebuild all the truck garages at the dump and recycling center. The Patch messed them up for some reason. Rebuilding them with reset them.

[Darmok 34]

Thank you both, Locutor and SockoJr53, that was the solution, altough now either the stats displayed in the garbage map are incorrect or the map itself is incorrect because the map show NO garbage left at ALL after the garbage trucks have made their rounds, BUT the statistic says that they have collected only 1400 of 4400 cans ! ! !

The recycling map and stats have the same problem, almost no recycling left to be picked up according to the map, but the numbers says otherwise, around 6000 cans collected of 55 000 ! ! !

Before update 7 garbage AND recycling were in the green, now in the red....

Oh well, I'll try to find a workaround, just hoping I won't have to abandon this city!

[SockoJr53 51]

Give it a few game-days. Now that your trucks are working again, the numbers should re-adjust themselves.

[Darmok 34]

There definitely IS a problem with the garbage/recycling collection.

Sure, demolishing and rebuilding the garages, "reactivate" the trucks… (which we shouldn't had to do in the first place!)

But, after watching all my cities for several game days, the sad fact is, the garbage/recycling collection is NOT effective.

First evident problem, they make their round at the rush hour, while in real life they do that BEFORE, at least in every city I lived in!
Second, the routing is STILL AWFULL, every truck I followed pass in front of lots and lots of TRASH FULL buildings before deciding to stop at a small house or small commerce, then go and do a very complicated route before stopping again at a medium sized low trash building and in the process managing to pass before lots and lots of FULL trash big buildings without stopping, and after their last stop (the truck only having 1.5 tons out of 5 capacity it returns to the dump and stays there!!!! and it's not a question of not having enough time because in the meantime other trucks are still doing rounds! I guess they must be unionized!

The result, even with 32 trucks I only manage to get 6,500 out of 16,800… (and in another one of my cities 32 local trucks plus 32 from two direct neighbhor cities the trash situation is still in the red!)

Maxis needs to assess this problem seriously, because trash causes illness, illness needs to be addressed with increased health services which reduce your budget etc. etc. all because they messed up the trash routine!

Even if it was not perfect before the patch I didn't have ANY city who had the garbage situation in the red… as soon as I opened the cities after the patch the problem arose instantly there were NO time delay I.E. several game days of play, it just went from OK to VERY BAD in a blink…

I really hope they'll fix this.

[Jeza 0]

That's strange because I on the other hand find the garbage collection much more effective then before. Mind you before for me is patch 4 as I stopped playing for a while and just came back to simcity 2 days ago.

 

But still in a new region/city that I created after upgrading to 7.3 I manage to collect 5500 tons of recyclable and 670 of incinerable garbage per day with only 2 trucs for incinerable and 4 for recyclable. Before I would have needed many more of the recyclable ones for that much garbage to collect.

 

Maybe that's the trick, like with bus stops if you add too many it confuses the AI and makes trafic worse(congo lines and so on).

 

Mind you that doesn't mean that there's no bug, I mean if having more than x trucks breaks the AI than it's definitively a but and want it fixed too.

I just meant that it seems possible now to collect more garbage with less trucks and that maybe it could solve your problem.

[darkonator 0]

Hello everyone, I just want to ask if someone else has the problem with the garbage counte. On my garbage map all the garbage an recycleables is collected , but when i look at the nummer it has only collected 10,000 of 18,000 garbage and 3,000 of 20,000 recycle materials. It's already the second city where this happens in 3 days time. Is there a way to reset the garbage counter in some way? Thanks a lot !