GI RESPONSE TO POPULATION ISSUE. OFFICIAL.

[greensmith]

I think I found a way around the population max problem. I deleted buildings until I was under the 360 maximum at 304. Then I started building two Multi-Level Buildings, a Mansion and three Car Dealerships all at once:

When they built I had a population of 492/360:

Yes, if you want to add a new reward building you have to delete, then rebuild. But at least it's an option.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[flip123]

yes greensmith, it is a short term solution. I found out friday and put a post somewhere to find out someone beat me and already posted it on thursday

The problem is a lot is not for sale because they are quest related (brazillian cottage and villa, romantic cafe etc on passenger side)(campsite, post office, farmer market, universities, etc on commercial side) so if you delete the wrong buildings you still can't rebuild.....

 

[Bali Hi]

Stop-gap measure, works only if you have lots of coins to spare.
But eventually, you need to balance your population & buildings.
And I'm sure GI will put a stop to this work-around.

 

[Blackcloud]

Well a permanent fix is for those with root access and able to manipulate their game file to adjust the population level but that would be cheating.

 

[Lakino the Great]

I like your take on this, Blackcloud. I know many people don't like the idea, but the road and town hall would become a moot point of the game if gi doesn't do this. Also the +20 reward buildings. Not that i really support it, in fact I'm neutral about it since gi is the maker of the game. I know commercial buildings do have population from when i started playing, but again as i said gi didn't enforce that part of the game before. Gi suddenly enforces it now and gi can't blame people for getting angry about it.

I have to agree with RFO. I've found it odd that we've been able to get away with the lax population count limit. It's clearly shown that each commercial building costs population count. I do understand and empathize with folks who've really built out their cities--and I've seen some MASSIVE cities--but this was a true bug in their game that they finally fixed/patched up. This had to be done but it's also reality that many players would be very pissed off at this sudden change.

 

[greensmith]

If you want to know which buildings add to maximum population and maximum passengers, here's a new thread:
https://www.airportcitygame.com/threads/buildings-that-increase-maximum-population-passengers.5019/
Happy New Year!
Tom

 

[Uncle Mans]

1. Until they "change" it, the Research Lab has a 0 population and you can build it if you are over.
2. I challenge them to show me the 8 people who want to live in a Cemetery. Heck, Santa's house should have 2 people (Santa and Mrs. Claus, not 6 people). How do 8 people live on a Skating Rink?

 

[Lakino the Great]

1. Until they "change" it, the Research Lab has a 0 population and you can build it if you are over.
2. I challenge them to show me the 8 people who want to live in a Cemetery. Heck, Santa's house should have 2 people (Santa and Mrs. Claus, not 6 people). How do 8 people live on a Skating Rink?

lol. You should do stand up comedy Uncle Mans.

 

[InCoNvEnIeNtE]

 

[Bali Hi]

1. Until they "change" it, the Research Lab has a 0 population and you can build it if you are over.
2. I challenge them to show me the 8 people who want to live in a Cemetery. Heck, Santa's house should have 2 people (Santa and Mrs. Claus, not 6 people). How do 8 people live on a Skating Rink?

I guess the cemetery has a caretaker & wife with 6 kids.
Santa & wife also has 6 elves (elves count as people?)
The Skating Rink has a row of shops inside selling hotdogs and refreshment.

 

[Cosmic Blue]

actuaslly a cemetary has the caretaker, administration and burial staff.

 

[Uncle Mans]

I guess the cemetery has a caretaker & wife with 6 kids.
Santa & wife also has 6 elves (elves count as people?)
The Skating Rink has a row of shops inside selling hotdogs and refreshment.

Can you picture the cemetery kids: Fred Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers....

 

[InCoNvEnIeNtE]

lollol

 

[RMac]

My population level is below the maximum and I still can't build new buildings? I wonder what that is all about?

 

[greensmith]

My population level is below the maximum and I still can't build new buildings? I wonder what that is all about?

RMac,
Is your current population plus the population of the building you want to place above the max pop? It's the only thing I can think of.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Cosmic Blue]

My population level is below the maximum and I still can't build new buildings? I wonder what that is all about?

Take a look at your max population again, some people have reported that the first digit is hard to see as it is partial covered.
Especially the digit 1, it may look like part of the box surrending the population box.

 

[RMac]

Could be, what the population numbers look like to me are 960/1040

 

[RMac]

RMac,
Is your current population plus the population of the building you want to place above the max pop? It's the only thing I can think of.
Cheers,
Tom

My current population plus the population of the building I want to place does not place me above the max pop

 

[Cosmic Blue]

Could be, what the population numbers look like to me are 960/1040

I suspect that your population is 1960/1040. That is maybe one of the reason.

The other reason is you do not have enough electricity to complete the builsing but the game should tell you that.