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I created a new region with one city. I have like 20 industrial buildings and the only source that are producing air pollution is my waste treatment and the industrials. Is this a bug or is something I have done wrong?

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    I'm not sure I understand the question. Industrial buildings and waste treatment generate air pollution... If you are getting air pollution from these areas then it's not a bug; it's the game working as intended?
    – Rapitor
    Commented May 7, 2013 at 13:56
  • You could say it appeaars out of thin air?
    – legacy
    Commented May 7, 2013 at 14:03
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    @legacy That was awful and you're a horrible person. :) Commented May 7, 2013 at 14:41
  • @JLaBella The problem appears to be that the buildings that ought to be generating pollution aren't and the ones that should be cleaning it up instead are. Which is apparently a known bug Commented May 7, 2013 at 14:42
  • @Shadur I do try.
    – legacy
    Commented May 7, 2013 at 14:50

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In previous SimCity games, pollution sources would be placed at the map edge to limit the area affected by the pollution. This time around, in addition to the normal air pollution of the building, there is a regional pollution level. Regional pollution drifts in with the wind. If your region has a high amount of polluting buildings, you will still get some regional pollution - that's normal.


There was a bug in patch 2.0

It was fixed in patch 3.0 on 2013-05-08

Air Pollution: Fixed more issues where cities that placed air polluting buildings received large amounts of air pollution from unknown sources.

The bug in patch 2.0 was that a very low number of polluting buildings could cause massive regional pollution. I played one city where 4 low density industry buildings caused so much regional pollution that the germ map was fully lit up and two (maxed) clinics couldn't keep up with the death.

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