Cannot import any more than 3,500 units . . .

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Memox

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Hello, i'm playing the latest version with Mass Transit and Parflife DCLs.

I have a small city of 35.000 that i'm trying to push without pollution, so i have no industry except for forestry and farming. I am running into the dreaded "not enough goods to sell" problem. . . . something's wrong with commerce not importing goods. My imports have capped at 3500 units, pretty low. The roads and rail networks are working great, no congestions, no backed up trains, there's just not enough trains spawning. When i click on a commercial building with the no goods icon, i see it's not really trying to import anything. I have two cargo train stations, extensive road access with good flow . . . it's just not working properly. No matter what i do, imports won't go further than 3500-3600 units.

I have tried adding more cargo stations, but they are just not getting any trains at all. Also tried disabling all mods and letting it run, disabling assets, clearing all traffic, clearing parked cars . . . i am well bellow the vehicle limit count. It seems all i can do is add local industry (no sea lines to add a harbor), but i used to be able to create cities with over 250.000 without any problem importing goods. Any idea what else i can try?

Here's what my current city looks like at 35.000 pop.:
I shared a clean save where i deleted the assets i had placed (sewage treatment plants and recycling centers) and replaced them with their vanilla counterparts. I hate sewage drains!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1483189397
 

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I'm suspecting the map you're playing on (Pine Rivers) has a bug because you're not the only one having strange import/export issues. Check an episode of this vanilla let's play by Ezilii, notice the "Not enough buyers for products" icons.


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I don't think its a bug as such but the map only has one rail and one highway outside connection which would limit imports/exports.
 

Memox

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For anyone who might be experiencing the same issue: it was indeed the very limited outside connections. With bloody penguin's mods I managed to create two more road and one more rail connections. Now to handle all the traffic . . .