Why my resident can't go into cities if there's a city in between?

[Propfam 2,295]

Hello,

I have three cities arranged in a L position with the second city having nothing aside proper network plus another two industrial cities arranged in horizontal bar below the three cities. All cities are connected. But why my first city which is all residential plus some commercial can't go to the industrial cities? The odd is when I'm using subway, it worked but roads don't.

Another question is how can I make a pedestrian and subway only city? The challenge is in the transit switching. Ordinary station may spawn cars when switching from subway. Another challenge is the customer level, even with my mod which counts customers. I recently found out that you need higher count of peds to give the commercial buildings high customer status.

[rsc204 21,857]

3 hours ago, chfzdn said:

The odd is when I'm using subway, it worked but roads don't.

Subway is faster than road and usually much more direct, this may have an effect on Sims travel choices. In other words driving there takes too long for Sims to consider a viable job two cities away. Note the specific make-up of those roads affects the speed. Use of RHW-2 or OWR can be preferable otherwise making the route more efficient can influence things. 

[CorinaMarie 29,856]

14 hours ago, chfzdn said:

But why my first city which is all residential plus some commercial can't go to the industrial cities? The odd is when I'm using subway, it worked but roads don't.

It could be you've discovered something we were not aware of before.

The first part is known for sure and that is the city tile in between must have some jobs which can be seen by the Residential city tile before they will venture into it (while they are potentially on their way to the city tile after it).

What might be new here is if the subway in the interim city tile simply passes all they way thru with no stations at all and yet the Sims will still travel it. Ofc, if there is even one subway station in the middle city tile then that has jobs and this now falls back to the conventional wisdom of interim tiles need at least one job offered.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Hmmm... i do have a Region with this setting (out of one of my Tutorials). I´ll check it over the Holidays.

Greetings, Oliver

[City_Slider 2,716]

Thats the Situation.. a "T" arranged City Tile.

Like Cori said... it could be, that there must be 1 or 2 Lots with Jobs... if you can delete em after the Network is working? We will see... i´m going to test it also.

Have a good Day, Oliver

  Edited March 31, 2021 by City_Slider  
Forgot one "u" b;-)

[City_Slider 2,716]

Hello,

thats what i got so far: Without any Lots in the Middle City Tile (between A1 and D1= A4) are not any Traffic to see. The Railroad and the Highway are empty and not used. Ingame Time was 50 Years.

After i placed some Lots in there, the Traffic goes up rapide. Be back with Pictures soon. Bevor im going to delete all Lots in this City. Hope the Traffic will be holding.

Happy Easter, Oliver

[City_Slider 2,716]

Now im going to delete the Lots in A4... brb...

[City_Slider 2,716]

Tadaaaaaa.... without any Lots and Jobs:

Water is back:

Cool, it works 100% after 10 Years Ingame Time :-) So the Sims would Travel over more than 1 City Tile with this "Cheat" ;-)

Regards, Oliver

The Test is done... so go Ahead

[City_Slider 2,716]

On 28.3.2021 at 11:58 AM, chfzdn said:

Another question is how can I make a pedestrian and subway only city?

Check this out: 

 

[City_Slider 2,716]

On 28.3.2021 at 11:58 AM, chfzdn said:

I have three cities arranged in a L position with the second city having nothing aside proper network plus another two industrial cities arranged in horizontal bar below the three cities. All cities are connected.

Have a look to the Pictures above ;-)

On 28.3.2021 at 3:23 PM, rsc204 said:

In other words driving there takes too long for Sims to consider a viable job two cities away.

Like you can see, it wont need too long, to cross one City Tile, to get to his Work.

On 29.3.2021 at 2:50 AM, CorinaMarie said:

The first part is known for sure and that is the city tile in between must have some jobs which can be seen by the Residential city tile before they will venture into it (while they are potentially on their way to the city tile after it).

That´s right Cori. Without any Jobs, the Sims wont travel over an empty City Tile (for a little Time).