District issue probable causes of no raw material issues

[SteveR]

Hi,

I honestly don't bother writing posts but this game deserves it .

I would say I'm a pretty experienced player, I have played many enjoyable maps so far but recently played a game and experienced sudden issues with 'No raw materials', a issue that's mentioned a lot online.

I knew something was weird as I had clean direct connections from my industry to the outside, even had cargo stations which were not being used. Even had power plants (Coal/oil) not receiving materials.

After a bit of experimenting I found that when I erased all my districts (one of which I had set a heavy traffic ban'), this policy seem to be then applied globally across my map. I get this impression as when I then created a new generic district this 'heavy lorry ban' policy was enabled by default.

As soon as I disabled this policy from this newly created single district, things seem to go back to normal across the map. All Industry areas started receiving raw materials from the outside as per normal.

Very strange, hope it helps

 

[MarkJohnson]

What does a, "Heavy Lorry" ban do exactly?

 

[SteveR]

I meant 'Heavy Traffic' ban.
In this situation mentioned above with this option applied it seem to have stopped any incoming & outgoing trucks in every industrial area

 

[MarkJohnson]

That's what I thought you meant, but isn't that what the ban is suppose to do? Just make sure it isn't set globally.