What could cause a elementary school to turn bright green?

[stevenoon 0]

Hi all,

I just started a small city with one elementary school.  I've loaded up the game today and I've noticed that the school has turned bright green.

I'm running SC4DE, I've installed the patch and NAM and I've also download a few plugins.

Is there anything specific that causes this problem or could it be something to do with a plugin that i've used?

Many thanks,

Steve.

[Maxis92 11]

That a good questino. This has happened in my cities to all the laerning institutions as well.

[projectadam 0]

Is it a custom school or a Maxis one?

I have noticed that occasionally when you are queried on something (such as education) and exit or save the next time you come back in the school or educational facilities will stay highlighted even though they are not. It has happened to me once with a freight station.

[stevenoon 0]

I forgot to mention - I tried demolishing and re-building the school in the same location but the school was bright green again.

I created a new region with a small residential zone, power, water and an elementary school which appeared fine.

I will try going back to the original region/city and building another elementary school to see what happens.

Steve.

[stevenoon 0]

It's the default/standard Maxis elementary school you get when you first install the game (SC4DE).

Might be a long-shot but I'll also try demolishing the school, saving, reloading and re-building the school - just a thought.

Steve.

[stevenoon 0]

Would you believe it - I've just loaded up the city in question and the elementary school appears fine now.

[jjune4991 1]

this happens to me too sometimes. its weird. could be a bug in the game. and it happens to high schools too. dont worry about it though, cause it works fine still, dont demolish it or anything.

[stevenoon 0]

I've just noticed the same problem - same region, different city - whilst placing water facilities - any existing water facilities turn bright green when placing other water facilities nearby. If you change to place a different item, like a road or change the view the water buildings return to normal.

[Trak 0]

The green highlighting when placing utilities is just the game showing you where buildings of that type are already located.

[His Divine Hand 244]

The highlighting has to do with the dataview panels, such as the ones to visually see EQ (school effects), fire risk, traffic, garbage, etc. When you click on these, they highlight any civic facilities that affect such things in green. I don't know why, but sometimes the game will randomly highlight a certain group of facilities (trash collection is the one my game likes the most). The best way I found to fix it is simply switch through a bunch of dataview screens, as this will un-highlight the affected facilities.

[_MostlyHarmless 17]

I get that sometimes...it's just a glitch with the dataview. If you get green buildings with school, hospitals, or police/fire stations, just go into dataview, check the appropriate category, and check it back off...should be fine

[DanWalker8 3]

i've had that happen with just about every service structure. It even sometimes shows bright green dots on the regional view. I don't really mind that much - eventually it goes away