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Anonymous
12 years ago
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Re: Education bug? (enrollment drops to ~55%)

This bug has been exist from the release day. The problem is that some buildings stop producing kids and students. The maximum number of students is calculated based on the number of residence buildings you have. When some buildings doesn't produce students at all, the error occurs. Usually this bug appears when you have more schools than one. There has been several threads in Simcity forum considering this issue but I haven't ever seen that EA or Maxis has ever bothered to reply those threads.

You can temporary fix  this issue by removing the bugged buildings during the school day.

Anyway, this is very known bug and it's called as ghost town phenomenon. This includes phantom students, phantom barbage, phantom recycling bins, phantom criminals, phantom homeless sims etc...

I think they won't ever fix this bug but maybe we can get another expansion soon and more regions instead!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    I remember discussing the ghost buildings a while ago, perhaps early summer? I think one of the patches had addressed the situation, but perhaps only partly, like it happened with the cities not loading.

    I'll talk with bazajaytee and see what the status is on this one.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    Well.. that was unexpected. Thank you for your reply eafrancois. Maybe there is still hope that bug will be fixed one day.

    @brandonee

    You can see the correct garbage amount when you check out the garbage status just at the same time when the garbage collection shift starts. The right number is there just one second or something like that until it changes to that misleading ghost number. So the right value is still there somewhere but for some reason the value is updated to that false one.

  • MaxisBazajaytee's avatar
    MaxisBazajaytee
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    12 years ago

    We have managed to reproduce the education issue you are describing and are taking a look at what we can do to fix it now.

    Can you confirm you have neighbouring cities? It is possible your students are being picked up by neighbouring city student buses.

  • TashAureus's avatar
    TashAureus
    12 years ago

    is there an ETA for this fix? one of my cities is about to be overrun due to ground polution from a very preventable nuclear meltdown had my sims been educated the way they should have been.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    Just lost a city due to meltdown too... Went from 3 gears and 4 hats to 0 gears and 1 hat from one moment to the other... Kindly fix, oh and try and playtest your fixes before releasing this time, so it won't be like the many times where you've broken other stuff while fixing some stuff...

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    I have at least half a dozen neighboring cities.  I have developed mostly University towns there, as well.   I thought that I read on the EA blog that the 8.1 update was supposed to fix the education bug.  I have already taken 9 hours to restore my  data, but no use--still seeing same problem as before.

    Server:  North America East 3

    City Name:  McKenzie Point

    Origin ID:  Lake_Lord

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    I have had this problem a few times. In each case I had adjacent cities in the region with either university, highschool, or both.

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