McLaren3465

Shot me an invite, McLaren3465. What server are you on?

As far as traffic impeding trade, I was experimenting with the Large Trade depot (trade center, don't remember the exact name) and I ended up using that with a freight rail connection that exports alloy and stores factory freight. It is working out very well for me. In addition I set up two regular trade depots, one for ore, another for coal (maxed out both) and to supply my coal power plants and smelting factory If I ever fill up one of the small depots I have it stop accepting local deliveries until their is space, and have all the excess sent to the large trade depot where it also gets exported by train. Requires a bit of more management but it ends up being worth it.

I have done something along the same lines. I did not do it in a "U" shape but I have the sewage plant (from dept. of utilities, not the basic outflow pipe) with the max. snap-ons, then my water filtration plant with the max. filtration snap-ons (not standard water pumps), and my dump on the other side (water plant in the middle, sewage and dump adjacent). At 100k+ populaton and water intensive industry (mining) it is meeting all demands.

Same here. I built 2 low end casinos to get the HQ. I then demoed them, built one SciFi casino and some Landmark buildings + expo center. All of them are in close proximity with a train station, ferry/cruise ship terminal and bus terminal and it is working out so far. May expand to a high wealth casino once the region population increase or I can get an airport in the great works.

I'm not 100% sure but I think you need a Bus Terminal for travel between the region, this requires a dept. of transportation add-on to at least one city hall in the region.

I'm working on my second city now and it just broke 100K. My first one (after learning how the game works in its entirety) topped out at 145K and eventually my specialty of oil and tourism stopped providing enough cash flow and the servers would not let me back in so I moved onto a new city. I have found that a dept. of utilities should be the first or second add-on to city hall as the sewage treatment and water (purification) pumps are essential. My second city is a mining/trade city, the ore and coal mines + smelting factory use a lot of water and I needed a full water treatment plant (all addon pumps) at around 70K population. Also, I put the sewage treatment plant and water purification pumps (not standard pumps) next to each other as the sewage plant provides treated sewage to the ground water, and the purification pumps keep that water clean and it provides a continuous refill to the water table (discussed in other threads). Short version, a dept. of utilities is essential for keeping a city of 100K+ running because the outflow pumps and water towers only have so much capacity. If you are going to outsource your water sewage then make sure you neighbor has a big hole for sewage and a large water supply far away from that hole, or a similar (or larger) setup to what I noted above.

Add me, McLaren3465. My "home" server for now is North east 3 as that is the one I can connect to on a semi-consistent bases.

I was able to connect to NE3 (yay!) Sent you a friend request Swaex.

I'd love to join if I can get online. my origin is McLaren3465.

I added you as a friend, what server are you on?