Thy had to change EVERYTHING? Even electricity/water connections?

[DavesBrain]

I've been through the tutorials. They tell me *what* to do but not *how* to do it.

I can't seem to connect water lines or electrical lines *to* anything or *from* anything. Where are the connection points?

A city doesn't start running without those things so it's pretty critical to get that nailed.

[DiabloMuerto]

The blocked electricity thing is annoying, that's just a stupid feature to even have. Hope there will be a mod to disable it. That is crippling my city right now and I can't fix it, I managed to fix it once then it came back when I relocated my power plant. No matter how many transformer stations I drop or how many line diversions I build around the back up it just persists or if it resolves in one area it then shifts down to another. Got so annoyed trying to solve I gave up last night. I'm 43 years old, in my entire life there has not been a single time where we've had a power outage that wasn't directly linked to some substantial weather event. Even in places that have blackouts there's usually a tangible reason. Modern power grids don't just back up randomly and require you to build entirely new infrastructure to fix. Some made up nonsense and I don't like it.

[DavesBrain]

You are already ahead of me. Nothing connects to anything. There's no connection points. I try to click on a pumping station (somewhere on it at random) and then drag a line to somewhere else (anywhere) and it wont lay the pipe. There's no connection points.

Same with electricity.

(And why is everything invisible!!!)

[Sacb0y]

I'm a little surprised people have so much trouble with this, it was a bit weird at first but I pretty much stopped having issues later.

Only thing thats weird is i tried using a power station to connect areas, but it didn't work, a battery station tho did work...

[DavesBrain]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3064640273

[DavesBrain]

Originally posted by Sacb0y:

I'm a little surprised people have so much trouble with this, it was a bit weird at first but I pretty much stopped having issues later.

Well thanks for the zero help.

[PickledDragon]

You guys do realize that the way it handles it is far more realistic than the CS1 model, right? Power connections can only handle so much throughput before the wattage moving through them simply overpowers the cable itself. It would be great to have modularity in the size of cable/capacity you can build, but it's better than just having a single underground street line or telephone pole carry enough electricity for 30,000 people...

The reason you don't experience blackouts IRL from this kind of thing is because the power grid is meticulously and carefully designed explicitly to avoid that situtation

[PickledDragon]

Originally posted by DavesBrain:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3064640273

Try pressing the "i" key with the pipes selected, that looks like it might be a bug preventing you from seeing the connection points. Otherwise, the freshwater pumping stations and groundwater stations connect to the grid automatically if you build a road to it.

[Coffee4Blood]

Where is your water source? is it a ground water pump or an in water pump? Connect those lines to a road system (bc they naturally have piping) or to the nearest pump. Then you gotta place an outflow pipe and connect it to the nearest road

[River]

Originally posted by PickledDragon:

Originally posted by DavesBrain:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3064640273

Try pressing the "i" key with the pipes selected, that looks like it might be a bug preventing you from seeing the connection points. Otherwise, the freshwater pumping stations and groundwater stations connect to the grid automatically if you build a road to it.

Thanks.

[sethtriggs]

Originally posted by gamer:

Originally posted by PickledDragon:

Try pressing the "i" key with the pipes selected, that looks like it might be a bug preventing you from seeing the connection points. Otherwise, the freshwater pumping stations and groundwater stations connect to the grid automatically if you build a road to it.

Thanks.

I had an issue like this, I think it is because of the parallax when you build on an angle. So I heard elsewhere that in the future another way to prevent this is to build at a higher angle. (And there may be some snapping for tihs?)

The other thing with blocked connections is you will need high voltage lines + transformer stations elsewhere, so use high voltage to travel to major sections of the city, and give each section a transformer substation to connect this high voltage to. As long as the substation is on the grid it should work.

[DavesBrain]

Originally posted by PickledDragon:

You guys do realize that the way it handles it is far more realistic than the CS1 model, right? Power connections can only handle so much throughput before the wattage moving through them simply overpowers the cable itself.

You misunderstand. I am literally trying to hook up my very first city block.
My town of, like, 12 people have no electricity and no water because I literally cannot run lines or pipes.

[DavesBrain]

The yellow screen I am getting is not normal. It is a bug. When first starting the game it is impossible to know whether it's a bad design decision or a bug.

I suggest running through this troubleshooting list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKYyAGVO1Hs

It did not work for me, but this did:
https://www.gameskinny.com/tips/cities-skylines-2-how-to-fix-yellow-screen-when-placing-roads/