Services Not Working

[Mixin' Nixon]

People are complaining that Police aren't getting to their houses, garbage isn't picking up their trash, and that several buildings are burning down. This city was going super well, and then all of the sudden there was a HUGE economic downfall. What is this games allergy to working services?

[OneJasonBradly]

Without any information I would suspect you are facing traffic flow or road design issues.

[Mixin' Nixon]

Traffic isn't quite the issue. What I'm trying to say is that the services literally won't work. No vehicles spawn, and then people get mad at me. There's one building with high crime, and I put 5 police stations on a not high traffic area, and still nothing happened. If it is traffic though, how exactly do I fix traffic, especially in a grid laid city?

[BucketBrain]

What is your population size ?
Maybe you´ve hit the agent limit for vehicels ?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2712549268

[MaxFX]

There could be several issues;

- Hitting the game's vehicle limit as mentioned by Bucketbrain is one of them.
- It's also possible that through the use on one-way roads, lane arrow directions and/or lane connections the service vehicles cannot establish (find) a route to their destination. So even if traffic is looking fine, the service vehicles cannot get there.
- Mod related; if you use mods than it's possible one of its settings causes this issue. One example: If you use the 'Advanced Vehicle Options' mod you can choose which vehicles spawn, and which do not spawn. Using this mod it is possible do disable the Vanilla vehicles and make sure vehicles from the Workshop are used.
- If you use a so called 'Prefab Skip list' with the Loading Screen Mod, then you can use the list to prevent certain vehicles from loading into your game, thus preventing them from spawning.

[Mixin' Nixon]

I have a completely vanilla, no DLC game, so there are no conflicting mods. But can you link me to the ones that let you control what vehicles do and don't spawn?

[MessengerOfRage]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1548831935

make sure to never disable all vehicles in a category.
e.g. if you disable all farming trucks no more farming goods can be moved.

[buda atum]

Did you check if your services have workers?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2827937553

[WhiteKnight77]

Have you tried to place a bus route from the service to the building and back? If you cannot make a route, then you have a road issue. Do you like to use one way roads?

[Mixin' Nixon]

No, I've never really been... Good at bus routes, to say the least. I could give it another try. How do buses help with services? If someone's sick, for example, they can get on the bus and head over to the hospital?

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by Yoshi m 60:

No, I've never really been... Good at bus routes, to say the least. I could give it another try. How do buses help with services? If someone's sick, for example, they can get on the bus and head over to the hospital?

If your bus route cannot make it back to where you start it from, especially due to the use of one way roads, then your services will not work.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Yoshi m 60:

People are complaining that Police aren't getting to their houses, garbage isn't picking up their trash, and that several buildings are burning down. This city was going super well, and then all of the sudden there was a HUGE economic downfall. What is this games allergy to working services?

The simple, and quickest, solution is to share a saved game to the workshop and link it here. It is a very simple solution that should take little time to solve.

Originally posted by Yoshi m 60:

No, I've never really been... Good at bus routes, to say the least. I could give it another try. How do buses help with services? If someone's sick, for example, they can get on the bus and head over to the hospital?

If you have trouble with sick cims, then you are poisoning your residential with pollution. Residential can't stand any pollution and will die from it if not removed. Medical can treat it to a small extent, but it will continue endlessly until you get rid of all forms off pollution (noise, ground, water) from residential areas If the sickness is city wide, it is likely water pollution as it spreads swiftly through the water pipes all across your city.

[Mr. Monday]

Originally posted by Yoshi m 60:

No, I've never really been... Good at bus routes, to say the least. I could give it another try. How do buses help with services? If someone's sick, for example, they can get on the bus and head over to the hospital?

No. What WhiteKnight means is for you to build a bud depot near your service buildings that aren't dispatching vehicles (like your garbage service for example). You then start a bud route near your service building and see if you can place the next stop all over your city. You're not actually making a route. What you're doing is checking that the game's pathfinding will allow you to place anywhere (and everywhere) in your city when it starts from the service building. If you get to a street (or a bunch of streets) that won't allow you to place the stop then you've narrowed down where your road network is broken. St that point you need to start checking that area for stuff like one-way roads not allowing access into an area, TMPE lane connectors or lane arrows that block turns into those areas, and so forth.