2 garbage trucks per facility

[dufus]

Hello. My city is drowning in it own garbage, and all my plentiful garbage facilities will only put out two garbage trucks. I was really hoping this would have been dealt with on by the recent patch as I have seen this complaint from others after the second last patch, but no. I am getting rather annoyed and have stopped playing the game until this is addressed.

[MarkJohnson]

This is as intended. The 2 truck limit is a game mechanic to let you know you are overloading your service. But the mechanic is for the base game 9-tiles.

So, going over 9-tiles (or too many service stations) will limit each station to 2 vehicles per station.

The workaround is to just spam extra stations somewhat equally around your districts. Do not clump any together.

Some DLC have better service station, like the Waste Transfer facility/process facility. It seems to do better. I don't use it much. But the times I did, it was doing better on collecting. I had about 16 tiles mostly full.

[dufus]

You are correct about me using more tiles than un modded, as in all of them. THis only started happening recently, when the city got to about 70 K. I have sprinkled a bunch of these waste transfer stations about and they were all working as I thought they should, until the second last patch I think. Thank for taking the time to address my issue!

[MarkJohnson]

Yes, 70k is manageable in 9-tiles. I was able to mange easily at 280k and 9-tiles. It was a challenge of course, at first anyway, but you soon learn the balancing act and not to make too much excess.

But waste transfer should be working as intended.

But you can run into balancing issues as soon as 20k all of the way to 665k. That was my unmodded limit (25-tile with unlock, that can be removed and tiles stay unlocked, as they are meant to be unlocked. The outer 81-tiles are not meant to be unlocked, so you need the 81-tile mod for them to stay unlocked.

[Clunk]

Could always try going into the Budget panel and 'upping' the Garbage which will increase vehicles per garbage facility. That's if you like to play straight.

On the other hand, it's things like this which can spoil the game for you, depending upon your point of view.

Another alternative is go on the workshop and search for Block Services. Many types exist for all services and more. These can be placed cost free without having ridiculous numbers of service buildings all over your city. Use Move It! to hide them beneath other buildings.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1691801543

[kristofburger]

My gut feeling is the devs actually have nothing to address and it's a mod.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Clunk:

Could always try going into the Budget panel and 'upping' the Garbage which will increase vehicles per garbage facility. That's if you like to play straight.

Increasing the budget will add the ability to spawn more vehicles, but it will only actually send out 2 vehicles at max, from over spamming garbage for a 9-tile city.

So, surpassing 9-tiles will leave you to permanently have all garbage station sending only 2 garbage trucks each.

As far as modding goes, if you don't want to deal with garbage, you can just subscribe to a "No Problem" type mod and the game will ignore garbage and will be essentially turned off.

Otherwise, you only need to spam a few extra stations per tile, at max.