SimCity 2000 Water Pump Problem
Michael Hartman
Quadra 700 using System 7.5. I have a regular problem where I place a new
water pump, give it power, and check that its pipes are light blue
indicating "flowing". But when I connect additional pipe to it, that pipe
never turns "flowing". To make sure it wasn't a general water shortage
causing a strange effect, I even started a city with just a power plant
and two water pumps, and the second one had the problem. It does seem
especially common when I lay a pipe under power lines, but it happens
without them, too. This is severely hampering my ability to get a city
thriving. Has anyone else seen this?
Michael Hartman
Stephen Jonke
(Michael Hartman) wrote:
Yes, and it frustrated me enough that I gave up on the game. I think it's
a bug and one that Maxis apparently either doesn't know about, or does,
but doesn't plan to fix. I've tried adding gazillions of pumps and
nothing works. This was on a IIsi, and occurred some time ago. I'm not
sure what version it was, but definitely not the absolute latest.
Steve
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Chris Wilson
Steve...@gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) wrote:
I haven't had this problem. Try to keep your pumps near water, as they
will pump much more h2o. Also, read the manual. It says something about
water flows from the center or some crap like that. Can't remember and
I'm too lazy to look it up for you :)
Chris
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Uwe Trenkner
Water Pumps
"I keep adding pumps, but I don't see water in this part of my city!" Water does not flow from pumps (it does in reality, but not in SimCity 2000). It flows from the center of your city (more or less). Zoom out and view your entire city to see if the pumps/towers/etc. you have just added are having any effect. Also, remember that pumps need to be powered and connected via pipes to the rest of your water network to contribute.
Hope it helps
Steve...@gsfc.nasa.gov
> I'm running SimCity 2000 v1.1 (patched from 1.0 using the updater) on a
> Quadra 700 using System 7.5. I have a regular problem where I place a new
> water pump, give it power, and check that its pipes are light blue
> indicating "flowing". But when I connect additional pipe to it, that pipe
> never turns "flowing". To make sure it wasn't a general water shortage
> causing a strange effect, I even started a city with just a power plant
> and two water pumps, and the second one had the problem. It does seem
> especially common when I lay a pipe under power lines, but it happens
> without them, too. This is severely hampering my ability to get a city
> thriving. Has anyone else seen this?
Yes, and it frustrated me enough that I gave up on the game. I think it's
a bug and one that Maxis apparently either doesn't know about, or does,
but doesn't plan to fix. I've tried adding gazillions of pumps and
nothing works. This was on a IIsi, and occurred some time ago. I'm not
sure what version it was, but definitely not the absolute latest.
Steve
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Kyle Patterson
> Quadra 700 using System 7.5. I have a regular problem where I place a new
> water pump, give it power, and check that its pipes are light blue
> indicating "flowing". But when I connect additional pipe to it, that pipe
> never turns "flowing". To make sure it wasn't a general water shortage
> causing a strange effect, I even started a city with just a power plant
> and two water pumps, and the second one had the problem. It does seem
> especially common when I lay a pipe under power lines, but it happens
> without them, too. This is severely hampering my ability to get a city
> thriving. Has anyone else seen this?
The water part is a very annoying part of this otherwise great game. THe way
I go about solving the pump problem is to build a 'complex' of pumps. I
start by building a 2x2 block of water. I then surround this square with
pumps. I then put another ring of water around the pump ring. I have never
seen this arrangement fail to output water.
Good Luck,
Kyle
Mark Phaedrus
What you're doing will very probably solve the problem, but it doesn't
exactly _explain_ the problem. SimCity 2K doesn't calculate the flow from
every water pump to every location; I don't even think it checks to see
whether the entire water grid is connected. Instead, it figures out how
much water your entire system is producing, then starts supplying that water
to connected buildings (where "connected" means "connected to any water pump",
not necessarily "connected to the whole city water system"), starting at the
center of the city. In other words, if your water system won't fill the
demand of the while city, then the outskirts of the city will be where
the shortages are felt; if you place a water pump and a residential zone
together at the edge of the map, then the residential zone still won't get
water--even though the water pump is working, and even though the residential
zone is the only thing the pump is connected to--because the pump's water
is going to the center of the city.
The pump complex described here is very efficient; if you use enough of
these complexes, you'll have no water problems, because the water needs of the
city will be completely met.
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