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You should look at the crime in the city. I have noticed that a lot of my hotels and businesses are decaying due to crime. I speculate that this is the reason why I have a sea of yellow cabs/cars leaving my tourist city at the moment. I'm hoping that my investment into Lawdrones will help as traffic is really bad and my MT need all the law enforcement as possible. Also hoping that the Space Center will save the day as it's suppose to draw tourists to cities in the region for launch day. After 3 years of playing this game I've still not successfully built this GW. I always run out of money trying to produce the resources. I'm 1/3 of the way there now with the resources this time around. Slowly doing all of the coordinated efforts this time.

@UncleSim, this must have been fixed by now... I HAD a system in place like the OP and now mine too is broken. One city was collecting from the other two. The major city of the three wasn't being serviced enough so I start a 2nd recycling plant in another city since it has more open space and could afford the expenses. Soon, the newer plant just stopped working. In fact the garbage map doesn't even show recycling in that very educated city. The number of cans collected has been "stuck on 11 of 4000K for many many sim months if not years at this point. My other two cities are still working as expected, so I just turned off the newer recycling plant. Maybe the bug will work itself out before I get bored with the game again.

Just for my own knowledge base, what does "DLC" mean? (DownLoadable Content?). Just curious.... Thanks...

What I discovered helped me with a very similar problem was to locate the depot(s) close to the industrial area(s). Maybe your freight trucks from the factories are running into too much traffic before they are able to dispense their freight accordingly. Freight always seemed to "disappear" from the depot once it was dropped off from the factories. Watch your factory freight trucks a few times to see if they are completing their freight cycle(s). Someone posted much more info about this tactic on this forum a while ago when I was having issues. Good Luck!

Yeah, that tends to happen from time to time even in some of my well established gambling and cultured cities. Often, I just begin closing things in an effort to minimize the bleeding of $$$$$... For me, I speculated that the issue was due to traffic so I began focusing my efforts on getting tourist on various modes of transportation in/out of the tourist areas closer to map exit point(s) too.

I've found that placing the Uni. works regardless where it's placed. Like you, I wanted to create a nice high tech business park and am off to a very good start thus far. However, I would suggest that you go about this type of adventure very slowly and start off with a college first. Otherwise, you could go broke! For me, I "envisioned" that the upgrading of the college to the Uni. would occur when the cost of running the college was equivalent to the Uni. alone. Even then, I waited until my education level was maxed out and the tech level was at stage 2 of 3. The I plopped the Uni. and kept a close eye on the industrial factors as they began converting over to high tech. In an effort to get ahead of the "lack of worker" messages, I began closing destroying said factories so that the sims would redistribute themselves to other factories to boost the tech levels. It took a while but I finally ended up with a handful of high tech factories at the max building size. This was down from a much larger sprawling section of the map of low and medium tech factories. Good Luck!!

You are able to purchase it once you log into Origins.

I've been playing this game for about 2 years myself and just as recent as last month I discovered something "new". If you hover the pointer over the gauges for the meters, you will get some useful information related to what the gauge is displaying. Maybe you're not generating enough water in Windy City that registers enough to move the gauge closer to the green area of the gauge. You might have to cycle through your cities to have the game update itself before the effects of the new water source(s) are registered. Good Luck!!

I have the same issue and just figured it was a graphic card issue on my end. The system I have is sub-ideal to play the game but it works!! I've settled for less optimal for a while on this system but am now thinking of finally upgrading things and get all excited again about SC2013.

Isn't the OP's inquiry in the wrong forum as well the tip given for assistance. Otherwise, I didn't even know it was possible to find out the age of the Sims in SC2013!! Learning something new everyday and all the time!!

I know what I want to be "next" on the "fix-it" list. I'm all for having the education bug fixed now that EA has provided an update this month to fix the issue with the rocket launching GW project. There's hope!!

It's been my experience that if I start out with the community college as the sole "school", things do indeed work. But eventually I start to see messages from $$ and $$$ residents "demanding" education or complaining they miss going to school. After following them around and noting things like traffic not effecting them from driving to the college, I plop down a grammar school with no bus stops near by and the students walk to school and the message eventually go away... That's how I've solved my education problems along with the advice I gave previously.

I'm no expect on this matter, but I do know that there was a list of GW and regions that are known to be incompatible. Maybe your GW isn't compatible with the region. I for one have been wanting to build the rocket launch facility but several regions I've started and are well developed are incompatible for it. I've lost the list now but am hunting it down now as I have renewed interest with SC2013 for the moment. If I find it again, I'll post the link here. Cheers!

I bet your issue is with the known Education bug of student disappearing when they're taken to neighboring cities. I for one have started to play using grammar schools to the fullest upgraded extent possible then, when financially feasible, switching over to a HS but not using those busses that come with it. It's these busses that are able to leave your cities and never return students. I also noted that it's these busses that go into the MT's as well even in cities that I've intentionally not placed school bus stops too. After getting the HS up and running, I turn off the excess upgrades at the grammar school and funnel the overflow of students to the HS. So far it's been working for some new cities I've started. But lately, I've been going back to some older cities to best as possible reverse the lost students to bring education levels back up in these cities. I tend to destroy homes that gave no educated students when the time is 5:55 AM. And slowly, student enrollment and education levels are on the rise at the time. Best of Luck!!

Ditto.... In the market now to finally get a computer that will be able to properly handle SC2013. On the fence if I should just go with Windows 8 or jump all in and go for the current version of Windows 10 at this stage since the latter has been out for some time at this point. Thanks!!