I tried calling my local Walmart this afternoon because my grandmother lost her wallet in the store. I hung up multiple times and called back and tried multiple options on the phone menu... rang and rang for 20 minutes and nobody ever answered!
I decided to just give up and drove the \~25 minutes there, went to customer service, and someone had turned in her wallet! Great! But why can't they answer the phone!
I tried calling my local Walmart this afternoon because my grandmother lost her wallet in the store. I hung up multiple times and called back and tried multiple options on the phone menu... rang and rang for 20 minutes and nobody ever answered!
I decided to just give up and drove the ~25 minutes there, went to customer service, and someone had turned in her wallet! Great! But why can't they answer the phone!
I have a city with 544k population. I haven't really seen much of a performance increase with the new update... But maybe my city is just too big to try to notice a difference! I'm seeing smooth speeds around .2-.3. I have played for 3-4 real life hours so far.
My school is celebrating its 100th anniversary next school year. Several teachers have been going through archives and some included decades of our school newspaper. I have been there for 11 years and it has not been in existence at all in this time. I have decided to attempt to revive it, and my principal thought it was a great idea!
I'm not sure where to start, though. Aside from finding interested students, I'm looking for ideas for the format. I am thinking something digital but that they design as a PDF, as if it were to be printed. Maybe it will have a website component as well, but I was looking more towards the publishing aspect of it. Of course, since it has been dormant, there is no budget.
The Yearbook teacher told me we have access to Canva. Would we be able to design and layout from scratch with Canva? When I write for my high school and college papers, graduating in 2009, we used Adobe Pagemaker and then In Design. I assume this would be the most logical, but it may be late in the budget process to get access to these. Are there any alternatives? I am assuming Google Docs would not be robust enough for doing layout. Not sure if Word would be, either. There is Publisher, but of course that is sunsetting in October.
Any and all suggestions welcome! Maybe I'm crazy for taking this on in 2026, but there is still a need for journalism and print/digital versions of newspapers do still exist. (I teach math by the way 😂)
I've been trying to understand the industrial traffic. I've been playing this game since launch and it's something that has baffled me, especially recently.
I have 2 large industrial areas in my city. Both struggled with the same thing: basically, traffic grid lock. There are, at random times, so many trucks trying to enter the area all at once that it completely backs up 4 lanes of traffic on my highways for literally half the map. I greatly improved access to the area and added two additional off ramps, two of which are sunken highways that run the length of the industrial area. Just when I think it's working, the traffic all flocks to a different intersection which just causes the same problems over and over again! I'll work on that area and then it just repeats somewhere else.
Should I not group industrial together in such large areas? Or completely obliterate and redesign all of the roads? Traffic seems to flock to tiny warehouses that spawn on literally the worst parts of the grid, often near an intersection.
Also, if I run bus lines through the area, would that help the "not enough workers" messages? So many are lacking workers and yet my residential demand is low / non existent.