Problems with Default Regions

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Since i purchased a new copy of the game (1,1,641) by digital download, I have had no end of problems trying to play on the default regions, New York and Fairview. I have a correspondent who reports the same difficulty with Fairview.

The program does a CTD very soon after starting any city in the regions. At one point, in trying to reconcile edges in a Fairview city, the game went down in God mode.

Current new regions are functioning correctly.

Diagnostics:

My correspondent tried recovering the regions from a copy of the game loaded from disk. No soap.

I tried reloading the regions from my original SimCity 4 vanilla disk. Similar results.

Hypothesis:

In addition to applying the published patches for EP1 and Nightlights, EA has also made the game diskless. This was not properly QA'd with the result that they have stepped on the .exe and this is causing trouble.

Conclusions so far:

EA strikes again!

[Magneto 316]

Have you tried to tweak the default regions from your disc with a terraformerthing tool then import them in the game like you would do for new regions?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Have you tried to tweak the default regions from your disc with a terraformerthing tool then import them in the game like you would do for new regions?

Why? They are files, and they just copy. I really don't have any use for programs written in Python and no longer maintained.

[Magneto 316]

Ah, my bad, I thought you wanted to add those regions to your new region folder. Nevermind

Cheers

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Ah, my bad, I thought you wanted to add those regions to your new region folder. Nevermind

Cheers

I don't think what I wrote lacked clarity. Why would you think that? I've been running this game since the original came out.