Was i hit by an earthquake?

[texico11 3]

I was just watching the city animation when i decided to make a few small suburbs. paused the game, added in some low-density residentials in the corner of my city, added a wind power plant as i didnt want to add to the mainstream, unpaused, and about 20 seconds later power literally cuts, sending my entire city to a stop. whats more is several buildinds in random places are destroyed, and roads throughout my city have also been destroyed. at first i thought it was a graphical glitch, then i noticed that there where random roads in the middle of nowhere that where still there, whereas large chunks of my transit where gone!



does anyone have a clue what an earth happened? my power was dependant on a neighbour connection. i noticed that the electricity pylons connecting me to that city was gone. i reistablished that connection but im not given the option to buy power from them anymore. this is crazy? i cant enter live-mode in this current state. theres a good chance i have to totally re-lay all my roads, power lines, water supplys, and then build a power plant that can relieve my 24k demand. thats another annoying factor. nuclear power comes into the game when your power demand is 25k. i was approaching 25k when those suburbs started to build, but cos of this power cut the power demand has dropped to 0, so if i dont reistablish neighbour connections, i have no sutable power supply that can meet my massive demand without horrible cost or pollution.

[nihonkaranws 88]

Whoa! That's weird man! Maybe SimCity 4 just mixed something up in the disasters and caused an earthquake. I honestly don't know! Only thing I recommend is save your city every five minutes so that if something like that does happen, you won't loose that much effort...

[His Divine Hand 244]

I have seen something like this when I used a cheat to change the sea level in a city, deleted powerlines, bridges, random roads (especially NAM pieces), but as far as I could see, no buildings harmed. It also disrupted power generation, even though the power plant was in fine condition. Does this relate to your problem? Maybe, could have just been a glitch, but it wasn't an earthquake since it did not leave a fault line.

[texico11 3]

i didnt even know you could get earthquakes in sim city 4. it doesnt appear in the disasters list. i DID try and create a few hills, which freezed the game for about 20 seconds, but i didnt notice anything as i was zoomed right in, so i ignored it.

[Tropod 144]

There is a cheat, Riskymoney, if used to much will actually cause the game to trigger earthquake. Just like Funds (or whatever it was) in previous versions.

The pic does look unusual though; doesn't appear as if any buildings have been damaged, only roads but not all of them? That's quite odd indeed.

[Joetropian1 1]

A city-wide riot might cause this, but even with 100% red mayor rating a riot can't get THAT bad. Pus, you would hear about it and it could be stopped with a sufficient police force. But your rating looks fine and your city seems fine.

Tropod: I never heard of that cheat. Is it sercret or new or something?????

[Hahayoudied 3]

That happened to me before when I  was using the god mode cheat. I clicked this one button that roughens the entire city area. As a result, most of the roads, parks, and subway stations disappeared. Good thing I saved before using the god mode cheat.

Did you use any cheats while building the city?

[texico11 3]

God mode cheat? all i did was create a small slope for some residential. i hit CTL-ALT-DEL and clicked god mode, but its the same as doing it on mayor mode isnt it? thought that was just for the trees.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Originally posted by: texico11 i didnt even know you could get earthquakes in sim city 4. it doesnt appear in the disasters list.quote>

 

What do you man it doesn't appear in the disastermenu? Heck, did you ever look? I have it, so you must have it too.

mrb

[Prophet42 1,501]

That is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in SC4.  It can' t be an earthquake.  Earthquakes can only be triggered in God mode and on purpose.  Plus earthquakes are not that selective in their destruction.  Must have been caused by a bug or triggered by a cheat.  Scott the 3rd sure seems ticked about it though.

[Hahayoudied 3]

Maybe you acidently clicked on the buttons in god mode that affects the entire land in the city. I am thinking it maybe a bug, if a earthquake was triggered, it would had destroyed some of the buildings.

EDIT: There is this one cheat that unlocks all the buildings that haven't been unlocked yet. The cheat code is, you don't deserve it.