With all of the people raging about the broken servers, I wonder if anyone with read this.
I have been able to play for the last few hours, and have built two cities, one industrial, mining coal and ore, and one gambling city with heavy residential. The goal is obviously to get those residents to commute to my industrial city and get jobs. Unfortunately nobody is commuting, and my industrial city has taken a slide down the tubes. All the buildings are getting abandoned due to no workers, and im no longer able to sustain the city.
Now I know there are enough residents able to head over there and work, but they simply wont... has Commuting been broken in addition to cheetah speed?
Same problem. None of the inter-city interactions work for me at all on NA East 2. I built departments of utilities, transportation, etc. in one city in the region, and none of the neighboring cities recognize them. It lets me click on the "buy" buttons for power, water, etc. but no services ever arrive. Ditto for anything else you can think of (regional buses, zone demand, commuters, etc). My understanding is that the servers simulate all of the inter-city interactions, so it makes sense that these aren't functioning at all, given that every other server-related thing is totally broken. Maxis may even have turned these off intentionally to try to slash the server load as much as possible just to let people get in and play something.
