Way to get property to abandon

[Zeck180 18]

Is there any other way to get property to abandon other than having a nuclear meltdown, because for my next CJ I'm thinking about doing a ghost town (City) of sorts.

[-JD- 41]

Just take out your power stations and water pumps (or towers) and viola!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Is there any other way to get property to abandon other than having a nuclear meltdown, because for my next CJ I'm thinking about doing a ghost town (City) of sorts.

In a large tile, put all the residentials on the right side and connect to the jobs in the next tile over with a single street. No amenities except power and water.

[Zeck180 18]

Just take out your power stations and water pumps (or towers) and viola!

I do this all the time when I feel like being a dictator, and I still get growth

[z1 566]

Sims won't live or work in buildings without power.

  Edited November 3, 2011 by z1  

[Halen Of Dania 350]

Z1: he wants the city or city's (I don't know???) to abandon he dosen't probaly care about no power zots cause he can take them out with photoshop assuming that you use that program for cj pic's

[DavidB_ 83]

Z1: he wants the city or city's (I don't know???) to abandon he dosen't probaly care about no power zots cause he can take them out with photoshop assuming that you use that program for cj pic's

Or you can use TastyZots cheat (Ctrl-X>"TastyZotsz") to remove 'em much more quickly. I tried a ghost town when I got fed up with one of my cities, reducing all funding to zero, but it didn't work, strangely enough!

  Edited November 3, 2011 by DAB_City  

[Jack³ 291]

First add everything you need. Water, power, etc. Then completely lower all of the monthly payments to maintain roads, hospitals, police, schools, and everything else. If you do that you will get something like this:

Then use the tastyzots cheat and the zots are gone and so are your sims! Leaving ugly, abandoned buildings.

[Zeck180 18]

Sims won't live or work in buildings without power.

Not true unless you use the cheat: fightthepower

@jack3oh3 I don't know why I never think of the easy things.

[z1 566]

Sims won't live or work in buildings without power.

Not true unless you use the cheat: fightthepower.

That cheat allows them to work without power. But you can get all the effects that jack3oh3 demonstrated simply by turning off the power, either by bulldozing your power plants or defunding them (and not using the cheat).

  Edited November 4, 2011 by z1  

[Jack³ 291]

^Right, instead of bulldozing water and power, just fund them fully, then cut off funds completely!

[z1 566]

You don't even have to cut off the funding for water. Without power, the pumps don't work.

[Jack³ 291]

^Hah! Of course! Just simply cut of funding for power!

[Zeck180 18]

tried it yesterday and it worked, made a city of about 30K and with in three in game months went from 30K to 0. Then I unleashed the fire upon the poor city

[Kifflom112 355]

I have the perfect look and way. Okay now listen...well read:

First, build a realistic or nice looking town with mods. Then, when you get it working and nice STOP paying for everything, lower all of your expenditures to $0 and delete any water sources like pipes or towers as they will break and cause irritating problems. Then, I recommend that when all of the buildings are on their first stage of crappy looks, stop, because that's when it looks realistic. Then you got a good abandoned city to take pics of.

P.S: This is really important you get the Plopamatic or Plopmatic 9000 from the Stex to make your city look goood.

[Zeck180 18]

I have the perfect look and way. Okay now listen...well read:

First, build a realistic or nice looking town with mods. Then, when you get it working and nice STOP paying for everything, lower all of your expenditures to $0 and delete any water sources like pipes or towers as they will break and cause irritating problems. Then, I recommend that when all of the buildings are on their first stage of crappy looks, stop, because that's when it looks realistic. Then you got a good abandoned city to take pics of.

P.S: This is really important you get the Plopamatic or Plopmatic 9000 from the Stex to make your city look goood.

You mean this broken file?

[z1 566]

You mean this broken file?

The file is not actually broken; it downloads and installs just fine. All that message means is that some user was unable to install it; this is very often due to user error.

Personally, I think the CAM is much better at generating cities with healthy demand, especially when used in conjunction with the NAM.