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Hey, long time lurker, first time post. Please be kind with me if I break any unspoken rule. TL;DR I've got a bug where I'm making too much money in my R$$$. What's going on, but more importantly should I be worried? I've been having this weird problem that I'm having problems tracking down the cause of. I did a search for it on here (and via a Google site search) and didn't find anything about it. Sometimes in some of my cities the R$$$ tax goes crazy. It keeps my current tax %, but shows EXTREMELY high income, despite not having that many R$$$ buildings. Like, we're talking millions each month if I set it at 9.0% and even at 0.1% we're talking hundreds of thousands. Sometimes it stays through reboots. Sometimes it goes away even while playing the file (and/or comes back). At first I thought it was related to some (gshmails, I think?) minor league stadiums I had installed and had used (as that was the first time I saw the bug), but I've had it in other cities w/o them and even other regions w/o those files, so that can't be it. It didn't happen for a while and then started up again. I've got a gazillion BATs so I can't be very helpful there. (If there's a way to auto generate a list of all plugins, let me know and I'll supply the info if needed.) I didn't install anything new or different. I am running the SPAM (although it started before that), but I'm not running the NAM or any other thing like that. I'm running the App Store version on a 2013 Retina display MacBook running High Sierra 10.13.3. (I used to play this on Macs back in the early 2010s both w/ and w/o BATs and never had this problem, and also used to play it on PC back when the game first came out w/o this problem, but I never used any BATs then.) I've tried to narrow it down... it *MIGHT* only be in cities with Ag lots (first time I saw it was then), but it's certainly not in every city with Ag lots. I'm not sure if it's only in large lot cities. (2 of the ones I can think of are like that, but I can't guarantee they all are.) While I'm not exactly complaining about too much money, it feels a little like cheating, plus I do have some concerns. I guess my questions are: 1.) has anyone else seen it? Knows what causes it? How to make it stop? (Or start? it IS convenient when I need money!) 2.) Does anyone know if there's an upper limit to the amount of money a city can make? Or, even worse, some kind of buffer overflow problem if I let my cities accumulate too much money? (Like a rollover to 0 or, even worse, negative money?) I always set my taxes to 0.1% just in case, but it would be nice to know for sure. And most importantly... 3.) Is this going to corrupt my files at some point and make them unplayable? Will I lose my cities? Attached are pics of it happening in one of my cities. As you can see, there's only 14,000 ppl, so the numbers don't make any sense. Thanks folks! Love you all! EDIT: Not 5 minutes later, I got one of my questions answered. Although I lowered the amount of taxes so it wouldn't make too much money, it went hardcore negative and ended my game. See attached below. (Note, that's the first time that has ever happened.)
