Civic building relocation bugs & AI mayor management issues

[eleaza]

I was playing with city management, and AI mayor does a very poor job of planning a city layout, it will spawn civic buildings all over the map seemingly random, and after awhile somehow I can not even relocate these civic or sports buildings to new places, the AI is just bad, but can not relocate city building, but destroy and rebuild really hurt the city's service quality, all the training gone.

The other issue is about auto-building and budge management, since AI did such a terrible job of city planning, I want to be able to manually setup civic buildings, and tell the mayor to adjust their budget automatically to a specific %. But right now it's a package deal, either have a very lousy city layout and move around these buildings manually and destroying them every so often, or I have to manually adjust the budget of every building myself every few month, where both take a lot of time micromanaging, and defeat the purpose of a mayor. I don't even need them to manage apartment or commercial building rent, since an all across the city rent percentage is pointless considering different location have different attraction and require different level of rent. And never ask AI to auto build apartments, it's a nightmare to clean them up, especially in new cities they just spawn even at worse location than civic building. (This is especially true for new found city, I never seen AI manage to not get broke by itself)

The only thing sort of useful is managing media firms for the city, however it usually doesn't matter, since by the time I have the money to build a new city, I already have enough cash to build those media firms myself and pocket all the profit, only the starting city's media firm somehow useful if my party get elected in the starting city, which might take years, and once elected I just transfer the media firms to my own corporation anyway.

Right now the city simulation system only serve me 2 purpose, one is the specialization of research in university, and the other is expanding population to have more profit base. Other aspect of the city planning although start as fun, but I want not only a coverage map for individual civic building, which can not be visualized in the main screen, the small map just showing coverage just doesn't track with the real map view, I can not tell which building is covered by which. If there's a way for each apartment to show if they are covered by what kind of services like in a Simcity game will be very useful.

[eleaza]

I rant too much about AI mayor's management ability in this post, but there is a bug I mentioned in the beginnning. Where the relocation of civic building stop working after certain years. This happened between this two saves, one in 2025 relocation still works fine, but later in 2027 relocation stop working. I am not sure what caused it

[David]

Our programmer has fixed this bug and the fix will be available in v4.2.04.