Monday, July 11, 2011

SimCity Deluxe (iPad): Sims constantly ask for water. Why?

Question

I'm having trouble keeping my cities water supply up. I can build some pumping-stations and water-towers which solves the problem, but only for a very short period of time.

I have now reached a point where almost the entire coastline is covered with pumping-stations and I also have truckloads of water-towers. I'm starting to think it is a bug but maybe somebody sees some obvious flaw with my water-pipe layout:

SimCity water pipes

This is how the city looks like:

Simcity town

There are some high-density residential and industrial zones, but nothing that would require that amount of pumping-stations? There must be about 120-180 pumping-stations on that map.

Answer

Apparently there's nothing wrong with the water-supply and as comments to the question suggest, a city of this size should never require that many pumps and water-towers. So I'll try to answer this question myself and claim that it's a bug.

I did some searches and as it seems I'm not the only one with this problem. Here's a forum post and here's another one suggesting that there is indeed a bug regarding water supply. So I guess the only hope is waiting for an upcoming patch to fix this.

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