Scary Story!

[soldyne 111]

Ok so I was playing SC4 just a few hours ago and was working on my biggest and best city to date; 270k, large tile, halfway developed, with a stable population growth with about 10 hours of work so far (I like detail).  This is also my main downtown city for my CJ.  I have not yet taken any pics of this city so it is a very important city for me.

so I hit save and exit to region like a good player, and then I get an IM through Yahoo, and for some reason my game minimizes on me.  I thought no problem, i'll just say hi to my friend and go back in and shut the game down (I needed a break anyway).

So I alt tab back to SC4 and my city square is blank!!!!!!  no development, not even terraforming, just wiped clean as though it had been deleted...

My heart rate doubled almost instantly.  I kept thinking "It must be a glitch, It must be a glitch, it must be a glitch"

so I click on the city square, and to my surprise, there are all my city stats, city name, city population, and current funds all right where they are supposed to be, but still no image.

I click play city.  and in the load screen there is also a blank city...."retracting phong shaders" displayed ominously at the top of the screen.  I stared with impatient fear as it loaded.  the seconds seemed like hours

and then finally.....

my city was displayed right where I left it...phew!  it WAS just a glitch.  I saved and exited to region again and my city was back to normal.

what a ride.  just thought I would share that with you all.

[Homeless_Hobo 0]

It's happened to me before, but with individual zones, very weird

[hamsterTK 93]

its happened to me too, unfortunately, you were lucky. mine city was toast. and that particular city tile was corrupted and the second the god mode was finished and you clicked the mayor hat to name the city the game would crash. I had a big hole in my nice region.

I think i might want to back up my region now that i think about it...

[SpecialEddie 3]

HOW SCARY! Someone turn on the lights! *huddles in corner* Ok that happened to me before but on a medium city tile (no worries, it was safe). I always think to myself, "It'll be ok" and I try not to make it such a big deal, since if I relax, maybe the computer senses fear, so it'll save my game, but sometimes it's not always that way. Sometimes, the computer senses my fear, and it doesnt save on me. Ooook. Now that I've just expressed my nerdiness, I shall now call my GF for a reality check.

[Shinnie02 17]

if i go off my simcity and get back on, all i see is boxes....so annoying. also i see the planes releasing blue smoke... I always make sure i have backup files of the city. i make stuff then i save. get out of simcity, copy my region file and paste it on my desktop.

[Peorth 17]

That's why I always have a backup of my cities, sometimes on a daily basis if it's undergoing heavy development. It's kinda like the System Restore in WinXP, which allows you to restore at certain restore points.

[ScruffyDeluxe 0]

Being connected to the internet while using a fullscreen app is asking for trouble! It's like giving someone control over your [Win] key.

I pulled those wretched buttons off my desktop PC's keyboard.

[newyorkstate 6]

Its happened to me too. It happens a lot. Scary! Oh Yes!

[1ajs 49]

happend to me to but tg i had made a back up the day befor....

[Shinnie02 17]

HOLY.....!! you've got giant holes in your region...man thats scary