2013-09-09 03:27 AM
I've add crim prevention, detective wings, full cop car lots, and some how have in one city had over 100 criminals at large with only a hand ful of arrests. This city is educated, and has no gambling. I have experienced this issue in several city.
With what I'm about to say, it may make the subject of this one seem a bit inaccurate...
This could be related to another issue I've been seeing which is, if you drop a new fire truck garage, more cop car lots, more ambulances, more wellness vans, etc, that the very problem you dropped them to solve skyrockets in frequency.
2014-01-07 09:13 AM
Not only do I have the same problem with the same setup, but my city is now showing over 200 criminals at large. And I have not only the precinct, but multiple Safety Levels on several of the megatowers and the number just keeps going up and up and up and up. :<
2014-01-07 11:00 PM
Too much unemployment will cause excessive criminals.
2014-01-07 11:10 PM
I'm having the same problem (200+ criminals at large), I think it may also have something to do with being "overworked".... but I'll add more homes and they'll complain about lack of jobs... there's definitely some type of weird bug going on.
2014-01-07 11:26 PM
IM sitting with 560 criminals at large no matter how many police precincts I have decked out and education I have let alone reycling as well I maxed that out as well and show picking up 3000 and 500 not getting picked up as well as trash EA get o the ball and fix this
2014-01-07 11:34 PM
Unemployement is non-existent in these cities, and I've tried excessively to tone down any overworked issues. Unfortunately that'll be almost impossible to fully fix and make the game remotely fun until the whole 10% of the population is classified as workers issue. Yes I believe it is an issue and not a feature.
2014-01-08 12:45 AM
Did you plop down Vu's Tower? I deployed his henchmen one time and from then on the criminals at large went up. That's the only time I recall encountering this kind of problem.
2014-01-08 02:23 AM
I was also about to ask this. Are the criminals coming in from a neighboring city?
-MaxisGeorge
2014-01-10 03:07 AM
Each city shows 500 criminals at large no matter what city your in yet it shows no crimes commited per day
2014-01-13 11:29 PM
@maxisgeorge wrote:I was also about to ask this. Are the criminals coming in from a neighboring city?
-MaxisGeorge
I had the same issue. 200+ criminals at large with a region total of maybe 50 criminals at large within 2 other occupied cities.