What will travel across regional connections

simcity-2013

For each of the regional connection types (road, rail, water, air):

What services can be shared?
What resources can be traded/consumed?
What types of sims will travel, and what causes them to want to travel?
What buildings need to be plopped to allow travel?

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Gifts and resources can be traded with any city with which you have a rail, air, road, or ferry connection. The connections are created by plopping the appropriate mass transit building in each city. Worker and shopper sims will "commute" over these connections as well but the actual commuting is a rough simulation.

Services such as power, water, garbage, police, health, etc (pretty much everything else) can only be shared with cities with which you have a road connection with.

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Does the capacity of the road influence how many agents can travel down it simultaneously

Does the capacity of the road influence how many agents can travel down it simultaneously?

No. Number of lanes and whether there are stop signs or traffic lights only affect traffic agents. They do not affect non-traffic agents.

Traffic agents include police, fire, ambulance, garbage trucks, delivery trucks, moving trucks and of course sims driving their cars.
Non-traffic agents include power, water, sewage and of course pedestrian sims.

Power and water agents are absorbed as they pass buildings with available capacity. While the agents aren't affected by road capacity, they can be depleted by passing many buildings. If you layout your city with a powerplant at position 1, it is unlikely that agents will reach buildings at position 2.

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Update: There was a sewage issue fixed in patch 1.8.

Fixed a clog in the pipes where sewage would sometimes get backed up and act jittery.

Are regions/cities sync’ed across servers

No. It is easy to check, and I just did. As North American servers are full right now, I’ve tried to log in to European server. I had no problem connecting, but once there I could only join games on that server, and start a brand new map.

That said, for the situations like this it could be beneficial to start that new game on the server on another continent so that you can still play something while your regular server is busy.

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