City Builders- How do you deliver stuff that the town doesnt accept?

[CaptNemo]

In one game, the town required mail but, I could NOT build any stations that would accept mail.

In another game, the town required coal but there was no power station so the town wouldn't accept coal.

It said :COAL 0/4: STORAGE 0

I tried to transfer and unload all and it would never grow because they just would not accept coal.


How to you get them to accept things that they require to grow?

[CaptNemo]

Okay, so I figured out that your HQ will accept mail. That problem solved.

How do you deliver things like coal when the town doesn't accept it (and a power plant costs $1.5M)?

[2TallTyler]

Save up the money to fund a power plant.

The real problem is Goods. If a town can't grow without it, but the town doesn't currently accept it, that's a design problem with the script, in my opinion. My house set, ITL Houses, includes a building in every town that accepts Goods and Food, to avoid this issue.

[CaptNemo]

I just loaded your ITL set. I like it better than the default.

Do you have other mods?

[2TallTyler]

Yes, although they're very different from ITL Houses, which is simply a "vanilla+" house set.

If you're feel like trying something radically different, you can try two of my industry/economy replacements: Improved Town Industries and/or Industries of the Caribbean (both available in the in-game content downloader, these links are to the gameplay guides for each).