Garbage Truck Capacity

[D]

This is an issue which keeps bringing my large cities to their knees. The garbage trucks can only hold about three building's worth of rubbish. I have more than thirty incinerators, all around the city.

My garbage budget is at 150% but each one will only send a maximum of two trucks. Amusingly, even buildings NEXT DOOR to the garbage centres will abandon because of rubbish.

Even if I build a hundred, if each one only sends out two trucks, I'm struggling.

The only solution I see is to increase the garbage truck capacity by tenfold. I'm assuming this can be modded, but I'm not really sure where to start.

Is anyone else facing the same issue?

[BlueSteelAU]

educatd people produce less rubbish , and i've had trucks travel down entire streets collecting as they pass a lot more then 1-2 buildings / truck. also there are more than 1-2 trucks per garbage collection site. I have them queueing to get in / out of the garbage depositing areas

[Peter Pan]

How is your traffic?

[BlueSteelAU]

comes and goes , I have quite a few one way streets in industrial and commercial areas , 2 way in res , all my dumps etc are in industrial area but in range of my res areas . go by the greem markings on the roads to make sure that they are in range

[abc1]

Garbage truck capacity cant be modded atm. The best solution atm is to create super incinerator plant that have "pick up radius" up to 50.000 or more in assets editor. Editing number of trucks will only create another traffic problem (i have only 40 trucks per plant).

My city is now 100k+ , only using 4 incinerator plant @40 truck each and @pickup radius 75.000..

Notes : I dont know whats the max val for pickup radius btw....

[Stardog]

They need to hold more garbage. 80% of my traffic comes from tons of garbage trucks piling up.

[D]

Traffic is not an issue at all. I've spent countless hours planning intricate highways. The dead bodies are picked up fine, ambulances and fire engines get to where they need to be perfectly too.

Pretty much no one in the city travels by car, the only things on the road the public service vehicles. I have to keep on the unlimited money cheat, or else I can go from $5m+ and a 280,000 population to bankrupt with a 100,000 population in just a couple of minutes.

I'll see if a centre with a modded range helps, but I'm not sure whether it will actually make the centre spit out more than 2 trucks. I believe I have enough trucks anyway, it's just that they fill way too quickly.

[BlueSteelAU]

you guys do realise just how little real garbage trucks can hold, don't you ???

[D]

Originally posted by BlueSteelAUS:

you guys do realise just how little real garbage trucks can hold, don't you ???

They can hold more than just three or four houses worth. If I go by what I can see IRL, they can easily do my whole estate of 10 buildings and each one is 28 stories high.

[BlueSteelAU]

in my games they are doing 2-3 streets(or more) full heavy res not just individual houses . like i said before they are traveling up the streets (one way) picking up garbage from both sides

[D]

I think my city is just bugged beyond repair. Whatever facility I build, I just cannot get any more than 2 trucks to come out.

'Mega' Incineration Plant
http://pbrd.co/1CK8n7v

Garbage Overview
http://pbrd.co/1CK8pwc

Traffic
http://pbrd.co/1CK8z6A

As you can see from the second picture, they're scattered literally everywhere but they just don't send out any more than 2, ♥♥♥♥ gets abandoned, and my city dies. You can see in the screenshot it's dying badly.

[Bisqwit]

The problem is there is a global total limit to the number of vehicles and other actors. When you get close to 200000 population, this limit starts preventing your service buildings from creating vehicles.