simcity-2013
I'm starting to work with processors (getting a Processor Inc. soon), and i layed out a second processor factory. It's getting all the alloy and plastic, but the old one is getting no alloy or plastic. Turning off the active and new one doesn't do anything. I'm in multiplayer, and i have a little over 1,600,000 Simoleons (oh, and i spent 575,000 of these before on the Empire State Building, pretty tall. i also spent that in the Willis Tower.).
Here is what I have found so far on this topic:
A small amount of sims will travel between cities for tourism/work on a daily basis, this is the 200ish that you are seeing.
If you want to do some level of massive commute then you need to provide an appropriate interface in both of the cities within the region. What I mean by this is if you have a ferry in one town then you must have one in the other town as well in order to have them be put to proper user. This goes for the other modes of commuting as well; the air port and the bust terminal (Not the shuttle bus, that is travel within the city).
Hope this helps.
To send resources to your great work, zoom out to the region view and click on the great work site - this will show you a status screen detailing each of the resources required to build the great work and the quantity of each resource that has already been supplied.
To enable your city to send resources to the great work, you will see on this screen that underneath each resource is a 'power button' (it looks the same as the power buttons to disable buildings). Turn this on and you will start sending resources to your great work site.
Every city in the region that is within range of the great work site will have their own controls for sending resources to the great work site, allowing for a group of people to participate in building a great work, with each potentially providing a different type of resource.
The frequency of delivery of the resources to the Great Work depends entirely on the availability of the resource at the Trade Depot(s) and the number of delivery trucks available to take it there.
As of patched version 10.3, the Trade Depots (resource sink) suffer from a bug that allows the delivery trucks to park at an alternate resource source as well as drive out of the city to an unknown destination and not return. Therefore, if your delivery truck garages at your Trade Depot are empty (no trucks parked inside), then you should bulldoze the empty garages, rebuild them and they will begin delivering from the Trade Depot again.
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If there are multiple possible destinations for something, it generally ends up flowing to whichever is closer to the source until it is full, and only then moving on to the next-closest one. To control this manually you have to disable one of the destinations' ability to "Accept Local Deliveries"; this will stop it from taking any more of a particular resource until you enable it again.
But you could have avoided this issue altogether, at least for now. It's hard to tell in the screenshot, but you appear to have put down a second Processor Factory without first adding as many assembly lines as the first one can hold. Adding parts to an existing building is usually more effective than adding a second building, especially as in this case it would have kept the number of alloy- and plastic-eaters at one.