Tourists suddenly stop coming.

[jdawg323]

It's January 6th and I just had the same problem. Literally overnight i went from making 14k+ to losing 8K a hour. Nearly a year that this bug has existed. Has anyone found a solution yet?

[Mac_fanatic]

I am playing the game too. It is January 6th/7th and I have just went from 8k to -6k. I have zero low wealth tourist in my city. They literally vanished from places. My city is going under now, and I am becoming very frustrated since I just bought the expansion pack. I figured the game should not still have game bugs such as this by now.

[Rakdoos]

 

here is the quick solution.

 

go to city specialization pick tourism

click in left down corner on tourism filter (small camera).

Now you will see in color only tourists, tourists attractions and commercial zone hotels (blue ones).

This hotels should have a bar showing you how many visitors stays in.

Now pick bulldozer tool and destroy this hotels.

After a moment tourists will start visiting your city again.

 

If tourist still not coming, try to close all your mass transit and reopen it, tourists will coming back after a little while

[dvonstein]

THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME TODAY 2/16/2014   HOTELS WERE LOCKING TOURISTS... BULLDOZE HOTELS AND ALL TOURISTS RETURN... HOW HARD COULD THIS BE TO FIX I MEAN COME ON.

[LividViv]

I tried rakdoos work-around and it worked.  I had to do both the bulldozing AND reseting my transportation.  Silly bug but thankfully this idea worked!  Thanks rakdoos!

[jde33]

The ferry terminals are bugged.

They work for a while but after a time curse ships will no longer drop off high wealth tourists only medium. Once this occures your high wealth tourists will drop to 0. I don't know if the ship gets stuck up river or what but you can turn off the Cruse Ship Terminal for a bit and turn it back on and that will give you a few ships of high wealth tourists again, but eventually it will stop. It pretty much makes high wealth tourism impossible at any high level. You can leave the cruse ship terminal off and airports will work again.

You can see this problem on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7313Essj3g

Also the cruse ships themselves take a lot of CPU resources when they turn. Someone at EA needs to check that out.

[rmjohnson144]

Try bulldozing the ferries at the docks.  Then plop them again.  It should get it working again.

The region is completely borked still.  Anything having to do with the region will always give you issues in some sort of fashion.  Usually involves bulldozing regional buildings or garages, or terminals, or other things (et cetera)

Since region is now on our system in offline mode, maybe they can fix it easier.

ps, why do you think the cruise ships themselves hog cpu resources?   That isn't trackable as far as I know.

I think it is just the massive tourists causing the resource hogging that the cruise ships bring into your city.

pss.  What happened to spell check?  It used to be a button, then it was auto-spellcheck, now nothing.

[blondasek1993]

Great! We have 2018, Maxis is already closed and nobody fixed that problem. Thank you, the shittiest comapny on Earth.

[BlackjackWidow]

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@blondasek1993 wrote:

Great! We have 2018, Maxis is already closed and nobody fixed that problem. Thank you, the shittiest comapny on Earth.

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There are so many variables for this game, and particularly casinos/tourism. I'm not saying that the game is perfect, there are some bugs that remain that are really maddening, but there are some workarounds, too. I don't know if you followed all of the tips given by nargacugarex or demolishing hotels tip by Rakdoos. It's just my opinion on this, but I think a lot of these problems are due to the transportation/pathing bug, which exists whether it's a casino city or not. There was a bug with casino draw back in the beginning when this thread was started, but they were re-tuned with a patch and its no longer an issue.

Make sure you're supporting the wealth type you're trying to attract. Zone the appropriate wealth commercial within walking distance from the hotel. I don't use casino hotel rooms, let the commercial build hotels within walking distance. For instance, if you're building high wealth casinos, you want to avoid medium wealth tourists and shopping. The biggest issue with a casino city failing in this manner is that high wealth tourists will leave if they have no nowhere to stay. If there are no high wealth hotels nearby they will leave, and if the high wealth transportation isn't within walking distance, then they get in taxis and clog the roads up. Or they get stuck in hotels and can't get back to the casinos, resulting in the need to demolish the hotels.

Watch your tourism maps and the traffic flow. Do the tourists walk to hotels? Is your transportation clogging up? Are all the utilities working properly (enough power/water/sewage)? How's the commercial and casino staffing? You don't ever want a casino to be closed due to no workers; again, a lot of times this can be because of traffic. I had to do a lot of reconfiguring of traffic flow in a city I did with casinos once, just because I couldn't get enough staffing to one of them. I had all high wealth casinos, but not enough low wealth workers to staff them. An arcology and mass transit for the low wealth workers, plus redoing roads to eliminate traffic jams, eventually solved the problem.

There are a lot of good videos out there on building casino cities, and how to deal with some of these issues. I really like Skye Storme's Let's Play Series. The part on building "Pleasure Island", the high wealth casino resort city, might help give you some ideas, tips and tricks. 

[blondasek1993]

Hey.
Of course the game is not perfect.
Yes, I have checked everything. It is annoying, that for no reason the game is always finishing in the same way - bugs are making it not playable at all.
Traffic is always the same, no matter if I have every possible transport type, or only one.

Thank you for your reply, but please do not cover it like that. Demolishing the infrastructure to fix the bug is just pity.

Have a great day!