Bugged buildings?

[ManOfMistery 0]

Last few days I've been having some problems with some growable buildings...and would get a sound when the bug hits too. While working on my city, I would get a sound all of a sudden as if I'm placing a landmark. Then when I look around, I'll notice a building look as if it's under construction. But when it's finished, the building isn't there, just the lot it's supposed to be on. If I do a 'query' on the lot, it tells me the name of the building that's supposed to be there and even shows it doing business with people in it, but the building itself isn't there. All the buildings it's been effecting so far have come both with growable and ploppable versions and thought maybe deleting the ploppable versions from my plugin might've fixed the problem (or hoping anyways), but no such luck. I've got the 2 maxis updates, which i'm not sure if it really matters or not. Any way I can fix this problem? I would do a screenshot and put it up to show what I'm talking about but I don't know how to do that.

[CaptCity 4,669]

Welcome to Simtropolis...

Sounds like the "Growing Empty Lots" problem. More information can be found here. They are fixable if you're familiar with using ILive's Reader.

Note: You'll need to scroll down the posts. The links on the first post don't work and haven't been fixed yet.

[ManOfMistery 0]

I checked the page but the building mod in particular isn't listed on there...though the creator (Dusktrooper) of the building i'm using has several of his other buildings on that list. And I'm pretty new at this stuff so don't know anything about using the reader. The building is called 'Chipotle Type ONE'.

[CaptCity 4,669]

Perhaps it's a new find. They do crop up every once in a while. Don't know what else it could be given the symptoms you described.

[ManOfMistery 0]

Ok, running into another strange problem. The building I had mentioned that was bugging me, I decided to just delete the whole thing from my plugin's folder, growable and the ploppable versions both. And I even emptied my recycle bin, but for some reason I'm still getting that landmark placing sound from time to time just to find that same building trying to construct and I'm pretty stumped as to why.

[Yarahi 1,816]

Two things to ask:

1) Have you tried using the immortal lot killer on the problem area

2) Did you demolish all buildings of that type in your city before removing it from the plugins folder?

[ManOfMistery 0]

I always pause my game and check my map over to delete all bugged buildings before deleting their plug-in files and it's only that one building that's doing it. Any other building i was having problems with building, I would just delete their proppable version and not have any other problems with them. It's just this particular building that doesn't wanna give up for some reason. And it's not just in the same spot. Wherever there is enough spot to grow it, it'll sometimes try and use it. And I've never heard of that immortal lot killer...not sure what it is but will check it out.

[ManOfMistery 0]

Hmmm I checked out that immortal killer and doesn't appear to be related to my problem. I can easily destroy the bugged building that tries to grow and it never effects any of the neighboring buildings It just keeps on trying to grow in open lots from time to time. I figured this should be impossible with all it's related files deleted. I probably should try taking some screenshots and linking them to show exactly what I'm talking about.