SteveB

I'm not sure if you understand. I started a neighbour deal again and I'll summarise the results here. Scenario A: Pumps within industrial city. Number of pumps: 3 Age of pumps: Range of new and old Pollution: Fair amount Spread from pipes: 6 Scenario B: Pumps in neighbouring city. Number of pumps: 6 Age of pumps: Brand new Pollution: None Spread from pipes: 4 at best. I'm guessing that bringing water from other cities somehow lowers the range of it from the pipes, but noone has confirmed that above, so I don't know what the problem is.

Well I currently use 3 normal water pumps when they are built within my industrial district. This is with a splash of water pollution too. When I tried to connect water from the next city, I made a dedicated supply of 4 pumps and shipped it across. Should be plenty of water to provide full coverage, should it not? I'm going to do some experimentation later.

I have power, there should be plenty of water. I've checked the budgetting and so on. I know some water gets through as some tiles get watered, just very few and tiles far from the connection don't really at all. I'm not too fond of installing mods right now, but I can't even find Brenda's Station in the listings.

Originally posted by: pnorrell If your cities haven't gotten too large yet, buses will probably suffice to connect to and from the monorail. As they get larger, subway or elevated rail makes a better network to reach out from the monorail station to the outlying areas. You might also consider limiting the road connections between your residential and industrial city, to force them to use the monorail for the commute. It's kind of an underhanded way to do it, but it will improve your commute times, traffic and pollution.quote> I actually only have 1 highway linking the two areas right now, along with the monorail. I even put two toll booths on this highway link. It's still massively overcrowded, but it does however pay for all of the cities police and medical coverage Oh - forgot about the water. Sure, you can supply water from neighboring cities but, if it is being fed to dirty industrial areas, it will become polluted when it gets to those areas. You have to build water treatment plants to keep it clean but, if your city's all industrial, I wouldn't worry about the water quality too much. Pipes distribute water 6 or 8 tiles on either side of the pipe, assuming you have sufficient water supply flowing through them (think of it like water pressure).quote> I have 4 pumps in the other city, way more than I need. I have a treatment plant, although it is on the other side of the city (does that matter?) and my water distrubution is only 1 tile in rare cases, rather than the 6 tiles I get from water pumps from within the city. Edit: Why is this thing stealing my line breaks? Works fine in Quick Reply but not in this seperate window.

Ok, I was hoping to only have the monorail, I guess I'll link it to a subway system and do like you say. I was playing after I posted and found I had 2000 passengers leaving the residential area on the monorail, but had none coming into the industrial area. Not too sure what to do about that. In the industrial sector I would usually have a train system to deal with the cargo and passengers. Since monorail only deals with the passengers, should I build a secondary rail system as well, is this the only feasible way to move the cargo? And where should the cargo be going, other industrial and commercial sectors? On a semi-related note, the industrial area is completely filled with dirty industry, which has made keeping a fresh water supply a realy problem. I tried building my pumps in a neighbouring city and connecting the pipes, but I found the coverage of the pipes was rubbish, only really being what the pipes went under. Can you not share water like that effectively? I currently have resorted to clearing a corner of the map and dumping a water cleaning thing and it just about works out. Thanks, Steve

In my nice residential area, I've built a monorail system and my sims are getting richer and it is now getting good usage. Since most of the sims need to go to the industrial section to go to work, I created a connection and put an extensive monorail system around my industry section. But the monorail is getting next to zero usage in my industrial sector. I'm guessing this is because it is all dirty and they assume people are less intelligent and therefore won't use the monorail? Can I use monorail at all like this? Is the game smart enough to see a route across two cities, or should you just create a connection and leave it at that? Thanks, Steve