Armybase

[Keln 0]

My army base keeps exploding, always within a few minutes of placing it if not a few seconds. It looks like the tanks are shooting at each other on the road and blowing everything up. This a bug?

[Zegai 0]

LOL. Thats awesome.

[Barbarossa 51]

Sorry, can't help you, but I'd love to see a screenshot!

Barbarossa

[Dark_Jedi06 13]

I seem to remember that happening to me a while ago...I haven't place an army base in a while, though.

[DOXXP29 5]

Damn, Keln...I wish mine would've done that to save me the cost of bulldozing! Never heard of that one. I'd like to know how it happens myself. May give it a try next time I build one.

[Keln 0]

Well, I have placed them before in other cities and it never happened. This one I earned with Dr. Vu missions in my growing city of 600,000 souls, and since I've never had financial troubles in this city, it is a belated entry. There isn't anything spectacular about it, just kind of like plop the AB down, and then all the buildings fall down and a teeming mass of tanks and army trucks that had been on the road by the AB disappear, leaving only an outline of an army base to bulldoze. Keep rebuilding, and it keeps re-falling. It had actually lasted a year or so in the city before this started happening. The only change I have made in the general vicinity is to bulldoze a ground highway I had put in to better manage traffic to that far, industrialized, corner of the map. It was sandwiched betwixt two roads...one road directly connected to industries, the other to the armybase. The hwy had been there before I plopped the armybase. Since nobody was using the thing, I decided to get rid of it so as to free up more space for zoning IHT. It wasn't long after I had removed the highway, zoned the IHD/HT, and restructured the roads, that the armybase started handing me it's DD214 over and over again. I didn't really change the road by the base at all. I don't get it.

[Revjbro 1]

Your's sounds like a glitch or a bug. I had an army base in one of my cities. I had placed it way out on the edge of the map and couldn't see it from where I was playing. I was playing along like normal and all of a sudden you could hear an explosion and the screen shook. The dispatch those fire trucks message came up. I clicked it and it zoomed in on my army base which was on fire. Before my trucks could get there it had burned to the ground. Unfortunately I don't know what actually happened out there because I didn't see the explosion.

[dominohobbes 27]

I would say your best bet is probably avoiding an army base in the first place. It won't earn you much money and sims don't like it anyway.

[Keln 0]

But I like the army base.

[Slyguy3129 5]

Maybe its terrorist? You never know, might be on of the easter eggs Maxis put into the game

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I assume this is the standard, in-game reward we are discussing.  I've never had that happen.  What conditions in the city cause this?  Do we have a group of pacifists trying to destroy the base?  Did it somehow get defunded?

[GMT 389]

hm... sounds cool. make a video of it.

blockbuster! in a very literal sense... attention, black humor running around

[Keln 0]

I rebuilt the ground highway and the armybase is fine now. Some strange NAM bug maybe.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

What was the relationship between the base and the highway?  If this is some kind of compromise, it must be an easter egg in the base.  It would be nice to know how to activate it.

[Keln 0]

Well, I had originally had 2 roads sandwiching a rail line. This runs north to south my entire industrial sector on the western part of the map. It's a big map, the eastern main section of New York. Eventually, there were alot of traffic problems up in that northwest corner, so I decided to build a ground highway parallel and to the east of the road/rail/road combo. I did this, and also added another road parallel to the east of the highway. This combination runs together from about mid-map western edge up to the northener edge and to another town. Eventually I received the army base as a gift from doing UDI missions (evil ones). I decided to place it in this northwest corner right next to the eastern road that runs parallel to the aforementioned ground highway. Next to the Army base, I finally placed a fire dept airstrip. All went well like this for a good while. I dunno, probably a year or two.

Well, I began to survey my transportation schemes as I do from time to time and figured out the ground highway was barely being utilized. So I bulldozed it and zoned some more ID/HT. No sooner was I finished with this project than the Armybase just collapses into nothing but an outline of the grounds of the army base (ie. the buildings disappeared with a loud noise). I was kind of confused, but I just bulldozed the remains and rebuilt the AB. It didn't last a second or two. I kept trying this. Everytime I set it down, dozens of tanks and army trucks appeared in like a huge traffic jam on the road by the base. I cannot be sure, but I swear I saw them shooting for no reason. It is my theory that this cased the destruction of the base in each case, but as to the why, and the correlation of such a thing with the removal of a ground highway 3 spaces away and not actually in contact with the base is a complete mystery. Seems to me that if this is an easter egg, it would be quite difficult to duplicate it. I think, more likely, it is a 1-in-a-million error or "bad instance" caused by an alignment of the right things. Somehow it depended on:

a) The previous exsistence of a ground highway 3 spaces away.

b) A connection with said ground highway to the road coming into contact with the spaces on which the army base is built.

c) Building an army base on those exact tiles after a and b were in exsistence.

d) Possibly the NAM modification being installed

e) A base full of poorly trained tank drivers, maybe...

I honestly don't know. I tried restarting the game, and my system and all of that, and as long as the highway is gone, it blew up. As long as I keep the highway (as well as all above stated details) privates will be peeling potatoes and scrubbing latrines forever in my city.

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Hmmm.....Strange, but very funny. I occasionally have random buildings in my city explode for no apparent reason. I enjoy it.