I don´t understand water and electricity

[Abetus]

I played the first game and was funny and simple. But now I am playing 3 days trying to understand how yo connect everything with wires and tubes (and roads in power plants). But I cant understand how it works. I create lines and water tubes but they never connect with buildings. And how can I destroy wires and pipes? This is too hard. Help? I build a power plant to create energy but I cant connect wires, roads and water for them to the city.

[Stealthy]

You don't need to connect buildings that are next to a road. They connect automatically.

Only water facilities that are away from a road, or another part of the network that is separated via highway from the water facilities need connecting.

Same for power. At start you need to build a transformer by a road, then use high voltage line to connect it to existing connection to map edge. That's it.

Removing underground stuff, press B for bulldozer, and then select underground view from the pop up.

[RydenRLD]

Make sure you use the underground view mode. It will show you all the pipes that currently exist. When the game is running, you should see small balls rolling along the pipes to show that water and power is flowing. Wherever you don't have that animation, look for where your pipes don't connect to the ones that are flowing and either connect a road to it, which will automatically lay pipes with it, or manually add pipes to intersect and connect.

Freeways and highways don't naturally have power or water/sewage connections so you have to either upgrade the freeway to have lights, which allows power flow through the upgraded sections. You can use that to help funnel power to different areas of your city if they are separated by highways/freeways. For water and sewage you need to lay pipes down manually. Make sure to connect them to another existing pipe network so it connects properly. It might look off centered but you'll be able to tell it's connected by a small pipe that connects up from the yellow into the other yellow line, same for blue.

Destroying is the same process. If not associated with a road, go in underground view mode and use the bulldozer.

[Abetus]

Originally posted by Stealthy:

You don't need to connect buildings that are next to a road. They connect automatically.

Only water facilities that are away from a road, or another part of the network that is separated via highway from the water facilities need connecting.

Same for power. At start you need to build a transformer by a road, then use high voltage line to connect it to existing connection to map edge. That's it.

Removing underground stuff, press B for bulldozer, and then select underground view from the pop up.

Thank you so much <3

[Abetus]

Originally posted by Hajin:

Make sure you use the underground view mode. It will show you all the pipes that currently exist. When the game is running, you should see small balls rolling along the pipes to show that water and power is flowing. Wherever you don't have that animation, look for where your pipes don't connect to the ones that are flowing and either connect a road to it, which will automatically lay pipes with it, or manually add pipes to intersect and connect.

Freeways and highways don't naturally have power or water/sewage connections so you have to either upgrade the freeway to have lights, which allows power flow through the upgraded sections. You can use that to help funnel power to different areas of your city if they are separated by highways/freeways. For water and sewage you need to lay pipes down manually. Make sure to connect them to another existing pipe network so it connects properly. It might look off centered but you'll be able to tell it's connected by a small pipe that connects up from the yellow into the other yellow line, same for blue.

Destroying is the same process. If not associated with a road, go in underground view mode and use the bulldozer.

Thanks a lot :D