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Guess those tips didn't help you =\ But anyways, here's what I know: Speech bubbles are just things your sims say. They may praise you for things your doing right, or complain about things your doing wrong. They don't do anything themselves, but green bubbles are good, red are bad, and yellow-orange are kinda middle ones. The icon of the bubble refers to what there talking about. I'll list a few icon meanings but imo you should try to get an english version of the game because there is a lot of details that you will be missing. Knowing what an abandoned building is doesn;t help if you don;t know why it was abandoned. Lightning Bolt: Power Water Faucet: Water Sewage Pipe: Sewage Roman Pillars: Government, like City Hall Trash Can: Trash Fire Hat: Fire Medical Sign: Health Police Badge: Police Book and Pen: Education Bus and Bus Stop: Transportation Tree: Parks and Recreation Other Signs Red Bulldozer: Rubble. You should bulldoze this Yellow House with X: Abandoned Building. You should bulldoze this. Red Lightning Bolt: No Power Red Water Faucet: No Water Red Flame: Building on fire Green Fire Extinguisher: Building was on fire, but was saved. Orange Face: Sick Sim Red Bandaged Man: Injured Sim Red Skull: Dead Sim Smiley Faces: Come in varying colors, green to red. Show Sim happiness. Yellow Smokestack and Smoke: Air Pollution Brown Puddle: Ground Pollution Red Head with Glasses: Criminal Green Handcuffs: Criminal stopped at a crime in progress. Yellow Hand and Crowbar: Shoplifting in progress. Red Flame and Match: Arson in progress. *note: there are more types of crime but there less common if your police force is anything but non-existant. I would imagine these are the basics, but again, you really should get a language you can read, as the info panels give you so much info to help your city but only if you know what its saying xD

I really love this game, but took a break cuz some of the bugs were starting to get annoying. I came back from a 2 month hiatus and started a new city on the new map Mason Hill within the new region Edgewater Bay. I'll admit the game feels a lot better now. Traffic issues are gone, phantom pollution has been nixed, and that stupid mass homeless "out of money" bug is gone.I had a good time building up my 1 city region slowly but about the 100k pop mark I'm starting to see some serious issues start to crop up, and I'm pretty sure there bugs but would like confirmation. First off, my Garbage and Recycling seem to be increasing at an alarming rate each day, without any increase in population. From what I remember, garbage collection runs from I think 5am and stops sometime in the early afternoon (4pm?) but my trucks seems to be running all day. The problem is the trash counter says i'm only collecting about half the trash but the detail map shows all trash collected, with my trucks running laps all over for no reason. My Sims are also complaining that my trash isn't being collected. I can't post a screen shot, but its currently 9:00 PM in game and there are no "Trash Bars" over peoples homes in the detail view, but the counter is still saying 4,413/8,637, and recycling is at 3,444/6,833, both are in the red. My collection trucks are also still running laps at this time. The second issue I'm noticing is that my delivery trucks for my trade depot and port don't seem to be working all of a sudden. I have 1 Raw Ore mine and 2 Smelting Factories. I also have a Trade Depot set to "Import" for raw ore with 3 delivery trucks and currently 20/20 tons of Ore, and a Trade Port set to "Use Locally" for raw ore with 2 delivery trucks and currently 40/100 tons of Ore. Neither are delivering to my Smelting Factories, which are literally across the street from the depots. My 1 Mine though is shipping directly to the empty factories. The third issue I'm having is with my education. I have 2 High Schools on either side of my city, each with 8 School Buses. My road and bus stop layout allows for about 95% of my students to get to school, but for some reason only 3 of the 16 total buses are even spawning, and when they do they act just like the garbage trucks, making loops all night long. My understanding is school runs from 6am and lets out at 3pm, which is shown when students leave the schools at 3pm, but watching the "Education Map" there's students waiting at bus stops even past 5pm! One last bug that isn;t as crippling as the others, just really annoying, is that the game keeps telling me my alloy reclamation line at my recycling center is full, but when I click on it it is no wheres near full. I do know you can look at the individual reclamation lines to see there status, but the one that's warning me doesn;t even visually look close to full. If I am doing something very wrong with my city I would greatly appreciate the advice. If these are genuine bugs, is there anything I can do to (hopefully) reverse them? Or is my city doomed to eventually run itself into the ground? The trash issue alone has already put my approval rating down a ton Thanks in advance for any input!

@ pareblenta i just wanted to comment on your video. It is excellently done and documents the bugs in a very clean and professional way. Hats off to you sir.