lifestyle needs in creative mode

[Tace]

im producing furs on same island i have investor houses on... but in 'lifestyle needs' its not acknowledging them. i have full stock of 1900. can anyone tell me what im missing please? it doesnt say "need not demanded" either... like it does for engineer residencies regarding chocolate. furs are available and demanded but arent being used.

[Hundinger]

I never played creative mode, but as much as I know there are no real needs. You can build whatever you want without having to care about fulfilling needs or having enough workforce, money or materials. It's creative mode, it's all about building the city of your dreams and maybe trying out layouts which you can stamp for later usage in a regular game.

edit: you know what, I'll try it out real quick, just to make sure I'm not mistaken.

[Tace]

yes youre right... needs dont have to be fulfilled. but im starting on my second island and i was going to produce the needs for the first island there. basically i was wanting to build something which would produce something needed.

[Hundinger]

I just tried it out. Needs are there but they are purely cosmetic. They have the usual unlock conditions though. So I just unlocked the farmers lifestyle needs for flour by building the right number of workers. Did you allow your people the lifestyle need for fur? It's not allowed by default and you need to press the play button to give them access.

[Tace]

yes i pressed unlock but it still says none produced.

[Hundinger]

Okay. But you have the furs in stock on that island, yes? Well, might be a mistake, don't worry about it. Is it important to you to see that green line? Don't know if they will fix something like that since it's not really relevant. But you can write to support of course.

[Tace]

yes the stock is full and i am producing them on the same island. haha yes the green line was important to me... ive been waiting to progress to next island only when all needs are met. it must be a bug because it explains on other needs (chocolate right now, for instance) the reason it isnt available yet... which is not enough of (insert name of foreign workers!)

[Lumina]

A similar bug happened to me 2 times ( normal game mode). One time the statistic screen didn't show the green bar, another time it was the blue bar. I solved it both times by destroying the houses or factories, after rebuilding them the green and blue bars appeared.

[Hundinger]

Well, sorry to hear that. Maybe you can just treat the need as fulfilled, would be too bad if this problem would keep you from getting on.

[Tace]

Originally posted by Lumina:

A similar bug happened to me 2 times ( normal game mode). One time the statistic screen didn't show the green bar, another time it was the blue bar. I solved it both times by destroying the houses or factories, after rebuilding them the green and blue bars appeared.

Ah right. i'll try that. thank you.

[Tace]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Well, sorry to hear that. Maybe you can just treat the need as fulfilled, would be too bad if this problem would keep you from getting on.

yeah at least im not losing anything!