bwavin

When the number of students attending education starts to decline in my cities I check first to see if in fact all students are in the city. The school day starts at 06:00 so I pause the game at 5:55 or thereabouts, by that time all students ought to be at home and show up as educated (green) or as kids (purple), looking at the education map. You can quickly spot the buildings with no kids or students. If you install "The Extended Worker Data Mod" you can see the figures there. You ought to be able to find all students, if you can't they have left the city. To get them back demolish the buildings with no or few students, let the game run and you ought to see the numbers of students attending schools etc. increase. Of course this doesn't solve the reason for the students disappearance and after a while the numbers will begin to fall again. The only way I have found to stop their emigration is to close down the regional bus service, demolish all bus-stops. I did this successfully with a city with a pop of over 350k and had no major traffic problems, surprisingly. B.

I think it is something to do with citiesxl crashing, I isolated mine to using the Notre Dame blueprint, it reached a certain level then the prog froze with that error message. Demolishing the blueprint and the game played fine. My experience anyway! Barry

They do state on their support pages, quote "Is it possible to play Cities XL on two different computers? Yes it is. Once you have created an account you can use it for playing with Cities XL on every computer where the game is installed. If you wish to keep on playing with your cities you will need to back-up and copy your savefiles in the correspondent folder on the new computer." Barry

I had one line which was always broken after I restarted the game. What I would do is locate the stretch of road where the line was broken and delete one of the side roads that connected to this stretch. . For some odd reason that would repair it and the line would appear again and work. Until the next restart. Odd but..... Barry

Yes its very frustrating! One tip, if you make a mistake you can exit the game without it doing a save by using Alf-F4. Make sure you do it before it auto saves tho I have also created a shortcut on my desktop to zip up the solo directory so I can back track if I need to. Its a good way to let you try different strategies and always fall back to your starting point. I used this a lot with SC4 too so i could always go back in time with my city if I needed to. Barry

you can always evolve your city which is what I am attempting! if you're an old simcity player you'll have fallen into the trap I did so I am slowly demolishing heavy industry and building up my high tech and offices at the same time pulling down the unqualified areas to make way for the other residents types. Of course you need to make enough money to buy in the industry that you need to support the high tech etc. Its a long process but Rome wasn't built in a day Barry

having the same problems tonight, I must say its the first time. have submitted a ticket so see what they say.

many thanks Zwabberaar I will try it! Barry

is it possible to connect subways and GLR directly rather than connect GLR to EL then to subway? thanks Barry

I'm finding SC4Tool very useful but it seems to have some quirks. Two problems I have come across. The first is the Exemplar Editor, if I change the Transit Switch(s) and then save, the tool then cannot read this new versions transit switches, it crashes. However I can change them in the TE Editor. The Second problem is editing the Item Name and Item Description in the Exemplar Editor. As soon as I click on the field to edit it reverts to a Hex number Many thanks tho, Barry