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I'm not even sure the numbers add up correctly. I have a city that sits comfortably around 200k population or so. If I watch the Waste Disposal Map all of my trash and recycling gets picked up. The trucks will often return to the center before the shift is over because there's nothing left on the map for them to collect. Nothing is getting missed, yet according to the numbers they're only picking up 10k bins out of 30k.

Now that we can create tunnels I'm more interested in how commuters use trains. I understand that commuters will drive to a train station, but what happens when they get off? Do they have to be able to walk from the station to their destination? Do they transfer to local transportation? Would love some more info so I can start planning some more commuter rail.

I've just gotten the train station bug I read about in a different thread. One of my stations now has 2000 people currently waiting with 870 minutes as the current wait time yet it also says 0 commuters per day. I bulldozed the station for now. Previous to this I think but am not sure that the rail connection to the Trade Port had stopped working. Sigh.

I have a region with three cities in it, all about 100 - 150k in population. Got the university in my education city and researched the Solar Farm, then started building it. Two of the three cities see that it's being built. The third got the "Solar Farm unlocked" message, but shows an empty great works site. I can't send any resources from that city. Tried letting it run while I read for almost an hour. Still shows an empty GW site - no Solar Farm being built. Anyone know a fix or workaround?

Does this hold true for Great Works as well? Meaning power for the Solar Farm will only supply the four cities its near in a 16 city region?

You'd think in a world where teleportation is available they'd have abandoned the foldable cars a long time ago. I guess some people will always hold on to the past...

Now that I have my rail system up and running, does anyone know why I have a train with a recycling symbol on it coming into my city? I didn't know rail had anything to do with recycling.

Thanks for the info Spline. I've got a nice simple rail connecting two cities right now, and tunnelling under one to get commuters from the far end of the city as well as connecting to the trade port. It's working great!

I abandoned my old region and started a new one after patch 7 came out. I built the Solar Farm with my first city before starting any other cities in the region. Just added the second city a few days ago and it got access to the farm right away.

This is great. Thanks!

I had the same problems with garbage trucks and recycling trucks but I found that bulldozing the garages and re-adding them helped. Traffic is much improved but my issue with one of three cities in my region not seeing the Solar Farm continued so I decided to start a new region. Besides it will be fun to build from scratch knowing I can make bridges and tunnels. Here's a screen of my new city. Starting slow because I don't like to borrow cash. The curved road at the far end ot the avenue outlines the coal deposits. My plan with this one it so make money exporting coal to support an education system so I can research the solar farm and build it before making other cities. Hopefully the screenshot shows. Never hotlinked a shot from G+ before.

I like both SimCity 4 and the new SimCity. I think the new one is worth getting, especially with the traffic improvements and raise/lower roads options added in the new patch. The launch for the new SimCity was a disaster and I'm glad they keep working on patching it and addressing bugs. SimCity 4 without NAM or any mods was basically unplayable, and about a third of the amount of time I spent on SC4 was spent researching and downloading mods to make the game decent.

Thanks. Man, now I'm all impatient. "When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?!?"

Was just playing now and got an in-game message that the SimCity service would be going down in five minutes and to please exit the game. Hoping this means they're rolling the update out now.

Ooh. Nice. There's also this, which I found the link from their Twitter feed: "The raise/lower road tool is releasing with Update 7 tomorrow! While you wait, check out these cities built by our Community Dev Testers." Pics are here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151832349669866.1073741847.160156464865&type=1

I had a similar problem with the Solar Farm in another region in the past and the whole reason I abandoned that one and started a new one is because I could have sworn I read something in one of the recent patches about "better syncing for Great Works." I'm gonna let the Farm finish building and see if the odd city out catches up, but otherwise it's yet another new region for me. Ugh.

Well the best is not to click Build It from another city at all. Only wait for it to be completely Built by one city, let the server recognize it and save the region data online, ----- then go to other cities, wait and let the server sync on its OWN. Don't click Build it again or game will send another faulty buggy command to the server and the game gets confused. That;s what I'm hoping for . It's building properly in two of three cities. Hoping when it's up it will sync with the third.

sethisuwan, I appreciate your detailed response but my situation is somewhat different. I didn't click Build It from the bugged city. I clicked Build it in one city, a second city in the region was able to acknowledge it and help with the building. The third still won't recognize the site is being built upon but I haven't clicked Build It in any city but the first. I haven't played much since yesterday. I will let it run again for a while and hope that I'm not screwed. I spent a lot of time building the cities in this region and don't want to start another.

Yeah it's been several hours and no sync. Can someone at the data center jiggle the cord?

Thanks for the reply, Noobi-Wan. I'm gonna load up the game and see if it's synced yet.

Does the trade headquarters give you any benefits that a fully upgraded headquarters for a particular resource doesn't? For example, if I have a fully upgraded Metals HQ in a region then I don't need a Trade HQ with a Metals Division in another city because I already have access to the Trade Port bins I need via the Commerce Division on the Metals HQ. Is that right?

I'm especially looking forward to the traffic updates. I hate watching my recycle trucks not bring in valuable stuff because they follow each other in circles.

Patch 7 is supposed to help with some of the traffic/agent issues.

I'm looking forward to either an awesome part 2 or a fantastically executed rickroll...

Quick question: if I bulldoze an HQ I don't have to re-upgrade it when I plop it right?