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kexi6g296b9r
New Traveler
1 day ago

Emergency services (fire, police, health) Overlap Issue - Workaround

Bug in Services 2.0 when emergency services (fire, police, health) Overlap:

This issue is being widely reported on Reddit & Discord, but I couldn’t find a thread about this issue on this forum, so I am adding here.  The issue is when fire, police or health building coverage area overlaps.  Initially the capacity is more than adequate for the buildings/population within the coverage area, but after a period of time, when the game is restarted or you move to a different region and back again. The service is suddenly showing in red, even though there has been no building upgrades or population increase.  Instead the game shows one service building not meeting the demand, while the overlapping one has minimal demand.  The problem can be immediately fixed by simply lifting the service building and replacing it in the same place.  This step forces the overlapping service building to meet more of the demand, so the replaced building then provides adequate coverage.  This is ridiculous and causes a drop in happiness and abandoned buildings.  If one building has over-demand, then residential buildings  should look for alternative coverage. 
Attached images clearly show the before and after of this bug, by simply lifting and replacing the building.

5 Replies

  • Doesn’t work. Infact the game constantly freezes on fire upgrade. Ridiculous.

    Time to look for another game 🤬

     

  • kexi6g296b9r's avatar
    kexi6g296b9r
    New Traveler
    19 hours ago

    The lift and replace a service building only works if you had enough coverage to start with (that’s coverage AFTER the services 2.0 release).   If some residentials are within the coverage area of two service buildings, the game seems to randomly put too much demand on one service building, while the second service building has plenty to spare. In this case, lifting and replacing the over-demand service building forces the second building to pick up the extra coverage. 

  • klmk56's avatar
    klmk56
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 day ago

    Yes, same, WTF! Services 2.0 sux arse 

  • Vernissa's avatar
    Vernissa
    Seasoned Ace
    1 day ago

    I have the same issue. Overnight it goes from 100% to the sims screaming about not enough services when nothing has changed. Why is this happening?

  • dap333lebpb0's avatar
    dap333lebpb0
    Seasoned Novice
    1 day ago

    sorry but this didn’t work for me,  I lifted the service building and then put in back, nothing changed ! In fact I went from 83 to 62 happiness