No cars or people in new city

[Swasko]

I have had this issue for a couple of days now. Whenever i start a new city, and zone residential/commercial/industrial, buildings are getting built, but no people or cars appear in my city. I see them driving on the (starting) highway, but they don't turn into my city.

Alrea deleted local content & all mods/savegames/maps and did a fresh install, but still the same issue. See screenshot for more info.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=525641634

Any tips?

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Tougher than Knuckles:

I don't really understand your screenshot

The empty roads are pretty self-explanatory?

Originally posted by Tougher than Knuckles:

The solution is to properly connect to the highway, both ingoing and outgoing routes. Have a road from the ingoing going to your city as well as the outgoing going to your city.

They clearly already did based on said screenshot? :)

[Poddu]

Just wait a bit. You don't start seeing traffic until your population raises above about 200 - 300. So at the very beginning it looks like its not working or aomething, but just wait and the cars start appearing.

[Phileksa]

Originally posted by Swasko:

I have had this issue for a couple of days now. Whenever i start a new city, and zone residential/commercial/industrial, buildings are getting built, but no people or cars appear in my city. I see them driving on the (starting) highway, but they don't turn into my city.

Alrea deleted local content & all mods/savegames/maps and did a fresh install, but still the same issue. See screenshot for more info.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=525641634

Any tips?

Depending on the length of the expressway your city is connected to, it can take a few days for people to get there from the ends of it. I've seen a few cases where this has occurred.

Also, there's a mod you might need to get that allows you to edit your cars. If you're using workshop vehicles (vehicles found on the workshop), some of them have "accelleration" and "braking" set to 0. They move, but very very very slowly. Almost like some cosmic joke, really. I think this is mostly older vehicles. If you can find the mod (I don't remember it just now ... will someone please mention it if you know?) you can go through your vehicles one at a time until you find the offending vehicles and give them some accelleration and braking. That could be the problem and could resolve it. :-)

[Stealthy]

I found that advanced vehicle control mod breaks my games and nothing moves after that is on. I think it also caused on new game trucks not to appear and industry / power plants to run out of stuff. So try with -NoMods -Noworkshop switches enabled on start parameters.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Tougher than Knuckles:

There is no indication that the power grid is connected properly, or that the water is either.

Except for the complete lack of complaints about either.

[nlindstrom]

Mansen, Did this problem EVER get resolved. My game has completely stopped spawning traffic in new cities. The old ones seem fine. I've also turned off all mods. Is this something to do with an update?

[CrazyGraham]

yes i had the same thing happen to me just now ive been pulling my hair out however when i found this it got me thinking and its a very quick easy fix.

Advanced vehicle has been installed in the past also subd to nice new models of cars from the workshop so not wanting to see the cars that come with the game they had been disabled all assets have been cleard from the workshop leaving only the normal cars available for the game. so when mods are loaded back on and you start a new city the game has no cars to span as they have been disabled in the past . removing the mod and reinstalling it will not reset it as it must save the info for the disabled vehicles so all you do is load the game go into advanced vehicle options and turn them back on so they can span again cars back within 30 seconds.

[Evanduril]

I'm digging this.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1110545594


I have similar problem - no cars on map default highways, no train on map default rails, no people moving to city, new buildings showing up, no new people coming to town.

I have several connections to intercity roads, i even have both rail stations.

Tried creating several new cities - problem remains.

I have few mods active, including:
- Network Extensions
- Automatic Bulldoze
- First-person Auto-walking
- Traffic Manager: President Edition
- few less important

I HAD:
- Extra Train Station Trakcs
- Advanced Vehicle Options
- City Drive

.. but i've disabled them to test if something has changed.

What is weird - i saw FLYING trucks with wood and other cars in air.

It's like they went to air instead of road/rails...

[barrygreybeard]

Use Network Extensions 2 as the original is no longer working. Be aware that disabling some mods is not good enough, some are active whether they are on or off, best to test with the noworkshop launch option or unsubscribe the mods. Restart the game and steam too to test.

Maybe share a saved game in the workshop to see if others have the same problem?

[Evanduril]

Ok, i've upgraded to Network Extensions 2. Still no luck. I'm going to check if -noworkshop works.

Edit: running the same save with --noworkshop adds traffic back...

I wonder which mod is making this mess...

[barrygreybeard]

all you have done it make roads... no zoning no power no water no sewage...thats why

[Evanduril]

No, that save was corrupted because i was using Network Extensions, and all roads connected to map highway are gone. I've removed save, it's pointless.

I've tested game with both launch options. --nomods still allows to ppl come to city, traffic works (so assets is not a problem). When i remove --nomods and uncheck all mods - problem is back again - does this mean mods are interfering with game even if not activated ?

What option do i have? Unsubscribe from all mods and add one mod after one to check which one is corrupting traffic ?

[barrygreybeard]

some mods are active even if they are turned off so your best bet is to unsubscribe from them one at a time (or 2 or 3 if you have a lot) , when you unsub the faulty one traffic will come back, so you can add the others back that you eliminated...

[Stealthy]

You can also share your outputlog.txt file online and we can have a look if there is any errors listed there. That way it could be easier to pinpoint the problem.

[Evanduril]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442167376&searchtext=
breaks traffic from outside map, thus making it impossible to get people to city.

Every time i install it and fiddle with car capacity, traffic is gone.