Can cities still be connected through roads or can they only be connected with highways?

[Illicitpie]

When I created a new town next to my capital I noticed the roads from the capital that were supposed to be connected to the neighboring town weren't there. I'm not sure if i need to connect them with a highway since I don't have any highways so far.

[Citystate_Andy]

Any type of road will connect and appear correctly on the neighbor city when you open it.
Most likely you might have mistaken the side of the city you built the roads on. If you can't make it work send me screenshot so I can have a look at it at least visually, might be a bug or something.

[omnius]

Worst idea possible is to connect cities, it just isn't worth it has never worked properly. It's just a cheat as the employees supposedly hired by another city have no real jobs.

[MobiusTheEagle]

I've had this issue as well - only the four-lane avenues show up as a connection on the other sides, and none of the other roads (can't vouch for highways) even have the arrows in the first city.

[omnius]

If you're running a low unemployment percentage then this useless feature will drop it to being too low. The employees do not generate income as far as I could tell so a very useless feature to be avoided at all costs.

[Professor Hardknocks]

Originally posted by omnius:

If you're running a low unemployment percentage then this useless feature will drop it to being too low. The employees do not generate income as far as I could tell so a very useless feature to be avoided at all costs.

And to punish you further, the other city loses employment slots but doesn't gain taxpaying residents.

[omnius]

@Professor Hardknocks - I didn't see the other city effect of losing employment slots. Did you verify this with Andy or were you able to verify that in your other city? It wouldn't surprise me if that happens. A feature Andy didn't do correctly which is why I make sure to not let it trigger ever again.

[Professor Hardknocks]

I went to my other city, and maybe I miscounted, human error is always a component - it looked to me like I had some employees who didn't live there, so the only conclusion is, they live in one city where they count as a resident and work in the other city where the same "person" counts as an employee. If I am wrong, it might be because my game save itself is kinda old and I've just been opening new cities for the updates instead of starting over like I should.

[omnius]

Tough to make cities and understand how a game works when it's going through updates that change how things work. Let me be blunt intercity employment is a sham scam as employees aren't given real jobs or make actual money, I proved that to myself once when I did have connected cities. I had a pretty much finished city with about 5% unemployment. After Andy announced he had fixed the intercity unemployment I found that my unemployment dropped to under 3%. I tried bulldozing lots of business and replacing them with residential, killed 30K to 40K of jobs and added a good 120K of population and the unemployment percentage dropped to 2% the exact opposite effect that should have happened except that the poorly programmed intercity employment is broken and should never be used.

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[asaphx]

Will a port-less city benefit from being connected to a port city?

[defakto]

Originally posted by omnius:

Worst idea possible is to connect cities, it just isn't worth it has never worked properly. It's just a cheat as the employees supposedly hired by another city have no real jobs.

Quite suprised you're here.

[Emelio Lizardo]

Watching the video the policies seem a bit odd. I don't see how economic freedom and civil rights are opposing. In fact they are mutually necessary.