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It makes sense what you say morriswalters but how am I to combat that when I'm hit with it as soon as I log on each day when everything was fine when I logged off? Also I don't really notice the population dropping until after the economic freefall. Then As I said I take out alot of stuff the people want to combat the cash problem. This helps the money somewhat but you would think it would piss off the people even more. Then it drops to a certain point and just turns around by itself. So even if it's something I'm doing wrong the game should have some kind of safe gaurds that stop my city from tanking finacially while I'm not on line. I mean to go from around plus 20k/turn when you log off to minus 150k or more per turn as soon as I log on is impossible to stop from happening. Especially when the trade window is either giving me false information or not letting me trade. My trade window says I need 13 oil, 11 heavy factory, 11 food. I had just traded with my other cities before I logged off to address the deficit. I had a few extra coming in for each item. I log back in the next day and it says I'm short all the stuff I justed traded for when I logged off. I try to re establish the trades and either the trade dosn't show up for my other city or it says the trade is still going on yet I'm still short the stuff. Or it the botton to put the trade in place won't light up. Then after say 30 minutes I'm able to get one of the trades through but not the other two. Then it sometimes regiters as trading sometimes not. The whole time it's saying my frieght is near or at max. yet I have no trades. I build more trade roads and the max goes up but I'm still un able to trade until random;ly it seems the game lets me. Just very frustrating as this is my 6th city that I have started and the same dam thing happens around the same point every time. I saw others 2 days ago complaining about the same thing and it seems Stef42 is having a similar problem. I have St. Patricks about half done and i want to start the Statue of Liberty before it expires but I'm 350k in the hole and still plummeting and you need 300k to start the statue. I was thinking of taking out alone just so I can start the staue but that I'm sure will screw my city for good. thanx for any help though just releasing my frustration as I have a blast playing the game until this happens every time.

I have a similar problem that I stated in another thread hasoon. Except my city's economy crashes every time I get between 550k and 650k population. Then after I tanked to about 2.8 million in debt for no apparent reason I started making money at the rate of 70k/hour until I had about 300k in the bank. I did hardly anything at all. Certanly not enough for such a wide variance in cash flow. I logged on today and wit in 5 minutes my 20k/turn cash flow I left the game with last night crashed to negative 70k/turn. It says I have no trades active and I know I did at least 3 or 4 with my own cities before I logged for the night, Yet still it said my freight was maxed and it wouldn't let me make any trades. A little later I made one trade with one of my cities for 15 oil but it's not giving me the oil as it still says I need 11 oil but it says I have an active trade I'm looking for oil. But my Oil city dosn't see the request. Unrealted. I built several Large offices on the banks of a small river. It said they needed excutives so I built excutive housing on the other side of the small river and connected them with a bridge. The peeps in the new excutive zone refuse to go across the bridge to the new offices even though it is very close to each other. As soon as I built offices on the same side of the river they ran to them. I see traffic on the bridge so i know thats working. Same thing happened with that specilal hotel that helps the offices make money. Said no office to buy it services. I have like 20 large ones and a hundred medium not more than 2 inches away but it can't find them becuase they are across the bridge.

My cities just start bleeding money after I get about 500k population. I noticed the last 2 days when I logged on all my trades had been cancled out even though I just made them yesterday. All the trades were with my secondary cities that I wasn't on with after the trade. Also even though my trades are cancled the freight says it's near or maxed out. how can my freight be maxed out if my trades are canceled? Yesterday when i reached about 620k population for no reason at all I started losing money at a fantastic rate. At one point it was 175k/turn. Nothing I did wotked and eventually I was 2.5 million in debt. I took out a bunch of schools and raised the taxes. made a few trades, At first it wouldn't let me trade but after awhile It did. best I could get it the losses was 110k/turn. then after awhile for no reason that I could see It started getting better until I was now making up to 70k/ turn. I hadn't touched the controls for 15 minutes and it made a 250k/turn change. I logged out with all my trades in place with my secondary cities and making about 20k/ turn. I logged in today and all my trades were canceled again with the freight maxed out but I was still making about 7k/turn. Within 5 minutes that had dropped to losing 50k/turn without me doing anything. WTF? I wanted to start the Statue of Liberty but I'm negative money again with no reliefe in sight. I don't believe I'm doing anything that is causing this. Maybe some mistakes but not enough for such a rapid cash loss so quickly without doing anything to the game. And this happens every city I make a city over 500-600k population. I mean come on I shouldn't have to log into a perfectly fine city finacialy when I left it and within 5 minutes I'm a million dollars in debt.

Ah I see. thanx again

It says you can trade blue prints but how do you do it? I went to my on line site and I see manage your blue prints but there dosn't seem to be a button to actually trade them. Can someone tell how do i trade or ask for blue prints. Thanx

Once MC finally sent me my e-mail confirming my registration(that took a week and severale-mails/phone calls to accomplish for some reason) I have been loving the game but I have one major complaint. Could the game be a little more forgiving? After carefully molding my city over several days I reached the 500,000 plateau and Freeways. My cashflow was about 30,000 a month at the time and I had about 300,000 in cash. I had to tare up alot of my roads and some offices to place the Freeway and having never done that before it took alot of trial an error to figure it out. Just when I managed to get the Freeway down my city started hemoraging money and I was quickly in a downward spiral cash flow wise that I was unable to stop. Talk about frustrating. Losing my city because of wasting so much time trying to lay the Freeway. I just wish that your city didn't hang on such a fine thread of survival that one mistake can nullify several days work. Also it would be nice if they could tell me what trade was canceled when it happens. And why is it I see cities that want to buy my goods but no plus sign next to them? Great game though and I am off to start another city.

Well reading these post dosn't bode well for me. I have my cd key. Got it in a e-mail last week. But MC for some reason is unable to send me my registration comformation e-mail. They have tried at least twice that I know of. I get everything from them but the comformation e-mail. This the only e-mail from any one I haven't gotten. I asked a customer service rep on the phone why they can't just activate the account at their end since they have all my info and she very snottlily said "thats just not our procedure." Well their procedure isn't working for me for some reason. Now I just bet you once they get me registered that my cd key will be no good. Why this cd key just didn't come with the game like every other game I ever bough does is beyond me. Not to mention having to register the game to play the non on line contenet.

So the only way to get a new comfirmation e-mail is to e-mail them to send one? I'm thinking my spyware programs may be blocking it but I don't want to turn them off forever not knowing when MC will send the new e-mail. I can't make a new account no matter what i do short of using another computer. This is sucking big time.

I have the game and the activation e-mail but it won't activate when I register. Says basically that it's pending. That is well over an hour now. I try to reregister and it says I can't because I already am waiting on a previous registration.It said it was sending me an e-mail with firther instructions but no e-mail.

My big problem is that if I have the dam game and the regisration key why can't I play? I knew I was in trouble the minute I saw that the key had been e-mailed to me rather than on the back of the box like every other company does.We should not be stopped from playing because they want us to register on line. Hell half of us aren't even playing the dam on line game. All of us coould be playing the stand alone game while they fix the online problems but greed is messing us up and turning off customers from ever wanting to buy from MC again. This sort of crap is why computer games are dieing out to consols. Guess I will be playing Guitar hero all day on my xbox. At least that works.

Well your not alone. I am having the same exact problem you are.