A Radio Station Bug!!

[nanwu80 0]

   I have a building that has a look of a radio station and a small airport tower. It just pop out of nowhere and it overlaps my other building in the city. When I hover query it, it writes" radio station", but when i click on the weird building, it shows information of a residential place with 1xxx residents in it!!!! Because it overlap my other buildings and roads, it just can't demolish it......it stays there forever!! Does anyone konw how to fix this bug????

[Jumpthefence 74]

Eventually, everyone's going to be asking for a picture, so if you can, provide a picture.

The cause of the problem might be transit enabled lots that usually come with the NAM. The transit enabling (usually in ped-mall tiles or roundabouts) is the culprit. When built over another object, it deletes the lot, but not the building. You may have built something like a roundabout over the radio station. The radio station would still be there, but it would have no purpose. You could still build whatever you wanted in the space.

There is probably no risk to the game, as in crashing, freezing or any type of damage. Though the existence of the station may be irreversible, it's (probably) a common bug that is trying to be fixed.

[TekindusT 3,809]

I have had the same problem twice. The first time, I was constructing a new highway interchange (I have NAM installed as said above) and I did it over an existing commercial building. If I try to demolish it now, I can't do it and if I try to query it, the game crashes. It happened me the same with a railway station, I plopped a puzzle piece over it by accident and I have the same problem.

Solution: If you have saved the game, just pretend anything happened and plop a park or something like this in the damaged lot.

[Vahr 341]

Have you tried zoning over it, letting it develop, then take the demolish and dezone tools to remove the area?

[Livin in Sim 83]

Hi, nanwu80,

Welcome to Simtropolis.  This sounds more like the Immortal Lot Syndrome than a problem with the NAM or a puzzle piece.  This occurs when a custom building's dimensions are larger than the lot it is on, so it overhangs the lot and can't be demolished.  It's a sticky problem.  If Blue Lightning's suggestion doesn't work, it sometimes works to plop the same building all around the indestructible lot, then demolish all of them.  If this is a growable lot, though, as you say it popped up, this will be tough to do.  Will it let you plop parks or something all around it instead, then demolish all?  That might work.  Or you might be able to use the Lot Plop function of Buggi's Extra Cheats DLL, the link is in first post to install.  After installation, press CTRL-X for the cheat window, right click on the cheat window, and select LotPlop from the menu.  Look for the residential building name in the Lot Plop list.  Then select it and plop it all around as previous instructions.  However, it could be hard to find in the list, and might not be the actual building.  This sounds like a badly modded plugin, and if you can get it demolished, you will need to find it and remove it from your Plugin folder.  If you can, please let us know the name of the plugin so that either the creator can fix it, or we can avoid it in the future.  If it's from the EA Exchange, we have been wary of these lots for some time.

Good luck with your problem.

--Liv