Demands falling to 0

[Panlukinekk 1]

Hey guys. 

I have a problem. I reinstalled my game like 10 times and every time there is the same problem with demands.

Rights after starting a news city demands fall to 0 or even negative. Almost nothing builds. What can i do? I can't play like at all..

My taxes are normal and even after changing, even after setting all od them to 0% nothing changes. 

I have plugins installed but all of them are just buildings. 

[CorinaMarie 29,857]

Hiya,  @Panlukinekk.

How about a screenshot showing the demand graph open and as much of your city in the background as you can fit? Then maybe we might see something to comment on.

[Panlukinekk 1]

I will try again because i had a problem with adding one @CorinaMarie

[CorinaMarie 29,857]

Ok. That actually looks very, very normal for early on. Zone and grow a bunch of agricultural farms.  

[Panlukinekk 1]

Before i coppied all my plugins, everything used to build very quickly starting with small buildings and now even after i tried to grow the city nothing changes. There are no Sims living there. Houses dont build. Event after adding Police, hospitals or schools. I Play this game for 10 years and i have never had such problems before. 

I had a format of my computer. 

I knows there are problems with growing cities after they are big but that's not it. 

[CorinaMarie 29,857]

It sounds like in the past you might've grown a large, interconnected region which then adds a bunch of demand to any connected new city tile so it would then be true you'd have a ton of demand right from the start.

I believe you'll need to build that up again.

What happened in this city tile when you grew a bunch of farms? Did the R$ demand go up?

[Panlukinekk 1]

Nothing works even after i added a lot od farma.  Does it depend on my plugins? Before loading my buildings lot etc. After reinstallation SimCity 4 Deluxe I tried without Any plugins files. Gam works corectly like always. Every RCI zone builds normally....

I was looking for  any suspicious bat, lot etc. But  I just have typical buildings... 

I have SimCity 4 Deluxe ver.1.640.

I don't understand this situation and I am crying that I can't play anymore 

At the beginning I thought that there is a problem with NAM but it's not.

 

Ps. RCI used to be -6000 🥺😮 

[doady 1]

Maybe you hit the demand caps? Have you built and any neighbour road/rail connections, recreation facilities, etc?

[Panlukinekk 1]

I built a few connecting roads. 

I tried it on 3 maps..

After I added my plugins nothing builds but without them everything works fine.

I have 2gb od plugins, but I checked them all and I saw that they are all just buildings. I didn't instalki NAM. But even when I did nothing changed. 

[CorinaMarie 29,857]

1 hour ago, Panlukinekk said:

After I added my plugins nothing builds but without them everything works fine.

This is very good evidence it is indeed something in your plugins which is the culprit. I suspect you might have a Maxis Buildings Blocker, but without enough Custom Content Replacements. 

There's a method called the Binary Search which is used to find a plugin that's causing a crash, but you can use the very same process to narrow down which ones are stunting your city's growth. @nos.17 made a nice flow chart of the method:

On 9/16/2023 at 3:11 PM, nos.17 said:

Just a quick update this thread with a new flowchart based on @A Nonny Moose's instructions in the first post.

And for the "Does the game crash?" question, you'll play a bit and ask "Is the growth still blocked?".

There's also the original narrative version as the first post in the topic where I grabbed that quote.

[rsc204 21,859]

In the first instance start a new region having removed all your Plugins temporarily. If demands are working as expected, then somewhere you have a mod that is causing the altered behaviour. Then the Binary Search method is the way to find it.