Tourists suddenly stop coming.
Anyone have any idea why tourists would suddenly stop coming to my town? I have no crime/health/garbage/sewage issue, there's an expo center with events regulaly going, 2 fully upgraded gambling hall...
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Despite wonderful advices of nargacugarex, which are mostly coincide with my experience, and for which we should thank him, the whole tourism situation is just a bug/disbalance.
The airport alone won't help much, I've had one :-). And couple of bus depots. And streetcars. And a freaking train staiton. The fact is, at some point, tourists just stop coming by themselves.
So, until I order some shows in Expocenter AND Pro Stadium, which means bringing in around 15000 people for the evening, I'm in red. If I forget to do this one day, or ocassionally do not have enough money for that, I'm bankrupt in one day.
So yeah, in the end you can still be in green by reserving & spending like 60K every day. And you should be pretty lucky (or pretty good planner, as nargacugarex said) just to reach that situation. That, or to build ANOTHER city by yourself to get your first city moving (if that will ever work, of which I'm not sure considering other people's complaints on the forum. Oh gosh)
whats the most frustrating is the poor math attached to the tourist attractions that don't offer shows...
Eiffel Tower and the Empire State = stated both were getting $20k profit every HR
now go to your balance sheet - City Specialty row the expenses DOMINATE the income...
There has to be some sort of calculation glitch going on, because if this is the case, there is no reason to build a tourist attraction that doesn't offer a show or sporting event - I notice you do in fact receive the funds stated when clicking on the attraction
anyone else notice this?
A fix
If you see your visitors per day start dropping, it is time to demolish hotels, it seems that there is a bug with hotels trapping tourists. After demolishing you'll see an influx of tourists from your train/bus/airport/ferry stations. However hotels will trap tourists again, so you'll see this constantly and you'll need to demolish hotels every 2-3 days or something.
Have already destroyed the hotels, but I shouldn't have to. I shouldn't have to go through all the commercial buildings, demolishing more than half. I shouldn't be fixing problems I don't create myself and have almost no influence over except for being able to destroy when it goes wrong. Where is the tutorial that tells me "Oh by the way, we messed up programming this engine, so when it goes south, and it will, have your bulldozer ready"
The first post in this thread is how old? And it still isn't fixed?!
Am now going back to stutter vision (turning off more buildings) in the vain hope that it's salvageable... I doubt it though.
@khankalili wrote:Have already destroyed the hotels, but I shouldn't have to. I shouldn't have to go through all the commercial buildings, demolishing more than half. I shouldn't be fixing problems I don't create myself and have almost no influence over except for being able to destroy when it goes wrong. Where is the tutorial that tells me "Oh by the way, we messed up programming this engine, so when it goes south, and it will, have your bulldozer ready"
The first post in this thread is how old? And it still isn't fixed?!
Am now going back to stutter vision (turning off more buildings) in the vain hope that it's salvageable... I doubt it though.
Don't shoot the messenger ok? Cheers, it will keep your city working untill Maxis get a fix out.
I also have the bug where tourists suddenly stop coming. It has really crippled my cities.
Edit: I tried replacing my mass transit buildings but it didn't fix the tourist bug for me.
@akazukinchan wrote:I also have the bug where tourists suddenly stop coming. It has really crippled my cities.
Edit: I tried replacing my mass transit buildings but it didn't fix the tourist bug for me.
Well it is most likely due to the fact that your city is so disgusting that no one wants to visit!
And also this is a known issue that has somewhat been fixed for casinos but not entirely for all tourism features.
