Show us your Oddities!

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

6 hours ago, SimCoug said:

Yep, throw in a toxic waste dump and those sims do end up going ballistic (or the opposite as far as mayor rating is concerned).

It's in there. The ~ -30 was the best (er, worst) I could do before I plopped the Toxic Waste Dump, Federal Prison, Alcatraz (-2), Missile Base, Area 51, Army Base, and Casino. The Mayor graph in my pic is showing what those did for me. Notice the little uptick in rating about 6 months prior? That was cause a Riot torched a building and I plopped a fire station to put it out and forgot it while I dealt with another riot. Then I went back and bulldozed it when I noticed the rating going up a wee bit. After that I let the rating trend lower again before getting the screenshot. This was done on Hard difficulty, btw.

6 hours ago, SimCoug said:

I owe you a lot...

Did I really win? I got the impression that @euverus's simcity4201303200332521.jpg might have shown a negative rating. Tho @paulytools's follow-up comment, " I still can't believe you had to try THAT HARD to get a 0% mayor rating.", makes me wonder it if was just plain zero. The pic has gone missing, so only those who saw it at the time would know.

If I really did win your Grand Prize, then I'm not sure what to request. I don't really have a handle on what a Lot is compared to a Bat. I get the impression a Lot is the ground and props that uses a separate building (Bat). But, if it works out such that the query tool in game would show Cori's Place, that'd be just wonderful. Some low or medium wealth house built like in the 1850s to 1900s with a detached garage would be ideal. Surprise me if you follow thru.

[11241036 5,097]

Oh, well, perhaps I should read it better. Congratulations on your hard work to displease your sims and even doing this on vanilla SC4.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Today's oddity is Porches and More's model home designed by Professor I.M. Cillie:

 

[Haljackey 17,302]

Phantom bridge

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Overheard:

I'm not so concerned about it following us, but I am worried what'll happen if it hits a fan.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Something isn't right here. I think measures could be taken to increase accessibility in both directions.

[rsc204 21,808]

9 hours ago, Thin White Duke said:

Something isn't right here. I think measures could be taken to increase accessibility in both directions.

It's a safety feature, it'd work better than any give way sign you might care to put there

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Overheard:

Walk?!? All the way to work???

[Compdude787 916]

Yep, sims are SO lazy!!!

[raynev1 1,886]

@CorinaMarie But it's so far .

[TakemeThere 5,833]

I think my trees are on fire, but not sure...

 

[Toby Ferrian 873]

???

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

This sort of thing is bound to happen if you listen to some silly girl in chat who says you need more room between boat piers. See, then the Sim Captain saw it and says: Hmm, I can now fit mine in there...

[SecretMbr_735754 2,157]

I've seen this oddity twice now in laying out a large grid of medium density residential and growing it at cheetah speed with no amenities or parks.  It looks like SC4 has a commie housing algorithm buried in its locked source code.  It doesn't look too bad with the use of the realism mod that adds parked cars and more trees to the streets.

 

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Uhm, sorry boss. I spilled coffee on all the other blueprints...

[philforhockey51 4,211]

@Jolteon parking in NYC is tough even on the water

[Toby Ferrian 873]

this happened after i rendered some 3d stuff, it's not because my GPU is dying don't worry

[philforhockey51 4,211]

[TakemeThere 5,833]

@philforhockey51 What a mess... looks like the inside of my apartment.

[Haljackey 17,302]

...Tar?

 

 

[TakemeThere 5,833]

4 hours ago, Haljackey said:

...Tar?

Or maybe a new custom terrain mod? "Black hole" would be an appropriate name for it.

[Toby Ferrian 873]

more graphical weirdness

[matias93 7,535]

Have you bought recently a railway to heaven?

[metasmurf 705]

Some imagery from a non-adult oriented bulding from Simgoober's Chicago w2w package . Typical good old Simgoober.

[CT14 2,486]

Someone managed to sneak a US Air Force nuclear powered tunnel boring machine into my rail freight automata...

It must be headed to...

 

[APSMS 1,892]

On 5/13/2016 at 2:11 PM, kingofsimcity said:

I have no idea how I managed to drag out the one on the left right... FA 0.75?

So I saw this post recently after not checking this forum section out for a while.

I'm not entirely sure how easily replicated this is, but it seems to involve some bit of autoconnect with the power lines and a little bit of fiddling. Also, it appears we need to have the hideous overlapping diagonal pylon effect, which ironically is made worse by the pylons that I enjoy using more.

That would be, by the way, FA1.33 (in your example; mine appears to be FA3), since FA is determined by run over rise, so that 1 is diagonal and everything not diagonal is greater than one. This is obviously contrary to typical rules of slope, but was done presumably because FA3 is easier to say than FA One-Third or 1/3 or whatever. Fortunately the math works out to give the resultant angle whether you put in 1/3 or 3 (or any other nomenclature and its reciprocal), since the Tangent function (that you would use to determine the angle) is cyclical over 90 degrees.

EDIT: This is very hard to replicate.

EDIT2: and again. This showed up twice (I accidentally deleted the first pole it was connected to, but it connected to a different FA aligned pole a moment later, again appearing to be some kind of autoconnect bug. I don't know how KOSC induced this behavior, but I did it by having a bunch of powerpoles dotting the area and waiting until a random drag would produce the effect. Normally the game draws the lines after the poles are placed, but in this case the lines appeared before the build command was finalized (the FA powerlines were visible in the preview).

[Haljackey 17,302]

Traffic for seemingly no reason

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

1 hour ago, Haljackey said:

Traffic for seemingly no reason

Turnout for the 4^th annual coniferous tree viewing festival was phenomenal.

[raynev1 1,886]

On 11/1/2016 at 5:56 PM, CorinaMarie said:

Turnout for the 4^th annual coniferous tree viewing festival was phenomenal.

That and they wan't to see how smooth the new roads are before they start spending on development  

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

@APSMS: I eventually figured out the pattern and have a post on it here. I vaguely recall there being some other bizarre conditions depending on which direction you're dragging relative to the city tile (north/south etc.).

BTW, those power lines replacements look sharp and awesome - where did you get those?