Ground Error

[Chrisdigital292 0]

Hiya,

I was placing a row of houses along an existing road using the auto-line tool when all of a sudden, a black hole appeared in the ground over where I was building. Like literally black into nothingness I quit the game and reloaded the city, and now the black hole has turned into a giant sink hole (screenshot 1). Also, when zooming out, my entire city has a "sunk into the ground" appearance. That light in the second screen shot does change with time of day.

The hole can be covered with plazas but it is so irritating, and this doesnt equalise the ground level. I cannot build roads or houses on top of it.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Wiimeiser 452]

Don't know CXL(Saw this in New Replies) but I think the terrain data's probably corrupted or something bad like that.

[soltangris 42]

I'm afraid it's a nasty bug, although I've never heard of anything like that happening. And indeed, the map data might have been affected - that's why you still see it after reloading the city. The only solution I can think of is you loading an earlier safe (before the appearance of the hole), if you have one, of course.

[Superbacon 380]

Does this same thing happen in other maps?

[soltangris 42]

Like I said, that's the very first time I've seen this happening. So, it must be a really rare bug, and I recon it doesn't depend on the map.

[Chrisdigital292 0]

All the other saved maps are corrupted and crash the game to desktop. Any new maps work without any bugs. really weird.