I have an oil city with 150K residences with unemployment of 3K low wage sims. 3 other cities in region with access to rail and bus terminals. My city had 2k unemployed low wage sims, yet would only export about 200 per month.
As a side note, it appears bus terminal busses from neighbor cities are clogging the hell out of my city. They should only go to the Local Bus Terminal, not to each bus stop in my city.
to have your sims commute to other cites you
have to make sure that the roads connecting to your other cities are med dense to high
also make sure one of your town halls has a transportation add on moduel and each city has to have a connection to a train or bus
it takes about 30 mins to see the affects take place *in each city* (so you going to have to play 30 mins for each city you want to see this change to)
also this is very important if one of the cities has enough jobs your sims will not leave your city to commute to an industrial city to find a job
so make sure that if you have two cities that have industrial but your main city has none but has commercial you must remove half the work force
and you will see that sims will have no choice but to leave your current city to travel to another to find a job
so step by step
one make sure city one has no jobs for sims to work for
two make sure roads connecting to the main outlet road are med density
three make sure you have a department of transportation set and bus station and stops all around and or train station
make sure your other cities have bus stations and stops to job sites
and you should see progress in 10 mins or more
i have three cities two are industrial and one is just plain residential
my resident city has all the schools and my other two cities have ppl pouring in to come to school in my resident city
cause i have the only school in the region catch is plop school bus stops in the cities with no schools and the other will pick up the slack
it goes the same for any other zone
my industrial cities have ppl pouring in from my residential city for work cause i have no source of jobs in residential city
hope this works out for yall
when you want to give utilities to other cities in need
you have to be in the city you started the service you want to provide to your other cities for a few mins
make sure that the city you started the service such as power is on and running also make sure that it is supplying power
once you have made sure the following is set you may now go to your other city and see if the service is set up to buy
this takes about a few mins of game time
its best if you set the speed up to two arrows to make sure time is going by quick
remember ppl one city can handle a work load for two connecting cities
so you could plop one town hall with all the upgrades and add ons
and just plop a regular town hall witn no upgrades and such
and that one city that has the fully upgraged town hall will run your other two cities
it just takes 30 mins for it to see this
also helps if you visit or play each city for 30 mins
as each city takes 15 mins to refresh it self
Also, I tried everything you proposed for the utilities, it still doesn't work. Thanks for the effort though.
Waste, so you can't just have your sims commute using cars? That's odd.
you can have em travel by car but you will have to upgrade your roads to higher density its not worth it
causes to much traffic and there is alrdy a traffic bug i notice from 34hrs of game play
I think you're one of the lucky ones, Waste. My game is definately bugged. None of this works for me.
@gameismyname wrote:Waste, so you can't just have your sims commute using cars? That's odd.
They will commute using just cars. I know because I have multiple cities where this has been the case.
