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I was lacking power. The other city was shown as having a tenth of its actual population. A bunch of other elements were also out of sync. You're trying to make it sound like I don't know what the hell I'm doing. The game has bugs, is that so hard to accept?

That's not how it behaved on my region. I'd be unable to buy power from a city with 100MW of extra power with the game telling me the city was actually lacking power! Likewise, I had trash issues when I'd assigned two trucks to my city from another city (they weren't shown anywhere on the first city). People aren't dumb, guys. There are very real issues here. EDIT: And just as I say this, it's finally decided to fix itself

Yeah, I'm having terrible region sync issues right now. My private sandbox region just won't update properly: I have a residential city and an industrial city and they each see the other as very old copies (both have around 9k Sims, but when I am in the industrial one and hover on the residential one in the region view, it says there are only 400 Sims living there). Water, power, garbage also don't get updated properly (can't buy power from my industrial city as the game says it's needing power even though when I am in it it's making 100MW excess). I'm not sure what's wrong, but this makes regional play hopelessly broken. If that was supposed to be the band-aid to smaller city sizes, it's really not working.

I've also run into this problem, running the latest Firefox. Cleaning cookies and cache would not fix the issue. Using a remote computer, however, did work, which makes me believe the site is filtering by IP and somehow failing to decrement its concurrent downloads counter when one completes. In addition, I have been getting frequent problems with the site and I believe they may be related. I am getting periodic error 500 pages (in this case, server over capacity errors), page load is very slow and five of my downloads are corrupted, so I assume that those five downloads are still considered "active" and thus stop me from downloading anything else. I can tell you that these errors are not related to my ISP; all other sites load just fine and I have 30Mbps down with excellent latency. Furthermore, the error code that is being cited (#10863) is an Invision PowerBoard error message, which is the software you are currently using. A university or school filter would not cause such errors to pop up. Likewise, the error 500 messages I am seeing are clearly Simtropolis messages (5xx error codes are only sent by the remote server). All of this makes me believe that the problem might not be so much with the software as it would be with the hardware. If the server is overloaded and thus cannot complete downloads, the software will be unaware said downloads have been stopped and will consider them to be "active". I assume that a periodic reset of the counters is what lets people hop back on after a certain time has elapsed. Hope this helps!