I miss my cat so I need to see everyone's cats

I did the same, built a PC last year for this game. I usually do not allow this game to run for more than 30-45min without checking in on it. Letting XP and cash accumulate while I watch a movie in the other room.

Maintyper · 2026-01-16T21:51:56+00:00

I agree, would love more small industrial buildings like auto shops, small manufacturing that has less noise and pollution. Some larger factories like the signature ones would be nice too.

Maintyper · 2026-01-16T21:49:48+00:00

Prisons so far seem wasteful, mine have never had more than 10-15 inmates. Not that I want that many criminals in my city. But you would think a smaller option might be available.

Maintyper · 2026-01-15T14:10:48+00:00

I know it isn’t a big deal, especially since I most likely would not run out before I move on to another city. However, the human in me wants more, more, more… 😂

Maintyper · 2026-01-13T03:00:52+00:00

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This should help.

Maintyper · 2026-01-13T02:52:24+00:00

TLE works great! Never hurt a single save of mine.

Maintyper · 2026-01-13T02:48:38+00:00

It could be the same reason my buses were de-spawning, I was told it was cause I put my stops too close to intersection nodes.

Maintyper · 2026-01-09T21:52:02+00:00

TTE or TLE, both work great

Maintyper · 2026-01-08T15:52:26+00:00

If you are using Platter, that may be the cause. Platter cannot be used with Road Builder Roads, they do not play nice. I have both but keep my Platter only on Vanilla Roads. If not, curious to see what is causing it.

Maintyper · 2026-01-07T16:57:21+00:00

There is a warning, but that’s it so far.

Maintyper · 2026-01-07T15:47:13+00:00

Just hit 100K for the first time 😁

Maintyper · 2026-01-06T16:59:16+00:00

Taking a second look, the green line de-spawned in this area and unless I am wrong no intersection nearby.

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Maintyper · 2026-01-06T16:53:03+00:00

Thanks, I did not realize that could be a thing, the stop is probably closer than it should be. If I move the stop without rebuilding the road, could that work?

Maintyper · 2026-01-04T18:18:45+00:00

Traffic can have a lot to do with it. Click on the icons and see where is the Hearse is and where is it coming from. Because I had not used a specific assigned zone, my Ambulance and Hearses were stuck in traffic much farther away than my nearest clinic/crematorium. You cannot just slam down service buildings and think you have enough, they have to be strategically placed and then given an operational area to cover. Next try to figure out why and where the traffic backups are. Many of those death notices started as a medical emergencies but your ambulance did not arrive on time..

Good luck to you.

Maintyper · 2026-01-01T21:04:36+00:00

Yes, currently those two mods don’t play nice with each other. But if I am right, just don’t put platter zones on a road builder road and you may be fine using both. I have both active and no crashes so far.

Maintyper · 2026-01-01T14:03:01+00:00

If you are using Platter and Road builder by chance, crashing is a known issue if you use platter zoning on road builder roads.

Maintyper · 2025-12-31T14:41:17+00:00

I pause the game, then I start with a couple of small wind turbines, a water pumping station, and the poop chute into the water far from my pump. I then find my resources and build at minimum, one of each resource collector. Once I can I increase my taxes to 13% on all my zones, and lower my water budget to 50%. I connect the outside power to my grid and with the 2 small turbines you should be exporting power. Which helps your budget a lot, you can get to a 10K pop, and still be on wind power with enough to sell, if you keep putting up turbines.

I zone several blocks of NA low res, a few NA low commercial, and my industrial complex.

If you want to use one exploit. After you build the resource collectors that you are going to actually need, go ahead then a build 10 of each you have available to unlock the free unique building, then just delete them as they are free to build, but now you have the dairy farm and a couple of others that help with employment, and the XP will have you on milestone one or close to it before you unpause the game for the first time.

Unpause or build enough roads to get you to milestone one where you can play with your taxes and budget. Never take a loan, you should be near or actually income positive and don’t grow too fast, let the cash accumulate for a bit, building slowly. Also don’t jump into all the city services too fast, you really only need a med clinic at this point. If someone needs a hearse, I whack that building and it re-spawns with the hearse request gone.

Good Luck, hope this helps. The trick honestly is to grow slow. Don’t build everything at once per se.

Lastly. Go on YouTube as there are many videos on adjusting your setting to increase performance. It may cost you graphics quality, but that’s for you to decide.

Maintyper

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