Show us your Oddities!

[Starglow 45]

No, though I reduced funding on the waste to energy plant it leads to after the fact.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Yes, that's one of the quirks of SimCity: connect a power line to an underfunded power-generating facility (power plant, WTE plant, etc.), and the power line will begin to spark and smoke. Quite illogical IMO, and it can be rather annoying.

[BugeyedDragon 412]

3 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

Yes, that's one of the quirks of SimCity: connect a power line to an underfunded power-generating facility (power plant, WTE plant, etc.), and the power line will begin to spark and smoke. Quite illogical IMO, and it can be rather annoying.

Very interesting, I've never seen this happen before. All the new stuff about Fractionally Angled powerlines and being able to stick them through zones and now them fizzing out? What's next, build them high enough to make them turn into ski jumps????????

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

Merry Xmas! Got snow (in your cities)?

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Silly Mayor.

 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

Cori I think your town hired the engineer my town fired

[matias93 7,535]

I have the feeling that this guy is gonna be extasic when discovering the wide radius curves...

[Haljackey 17,302]

Lane discipline

[Compdude787 916]

Wow, you sure don't see that in real life!!

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Yeah, except for that situation where there's ONE car in front of you - driving slower than permitted on the overtaking lane. Those drivers can be very disciplined when it comes to keeping to the (wrong) lane.

[matias93 7,535]

Sorry for being grim, but it could be a funeral procession...

[JP Schriefer 5,590]

Or there was a snail on the lane, it happens some times

 

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

Punch line: "Look at that 'S'-car go!"

[Haljackey 17,302]

12 hours ago, matias93 said:

Sorry for being grim, but it could be a funeral procession...

Something like that happens here. When there's a fallen soldier a convoy carries the body from the airbase to the coroner's office. The stretch of highway that links the two is known as the 'Highway of Heroes'.

 

More info if interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_401#Highway_of_Heroes

 

 

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

not sure whose idea it was to build 2 Chuck E Cheeses back to back to one an another but at least all the adults will be able to go get legit good pizza from the Pizza Place next door. 

[simmytu 605]

Looks like everyone got sacked from Microsoft HQ...

 

Edit: After a close inspection I discovered that the public transport suddenly ceased to exist for some odd reason..
Hmm looks like EA released an undocumented DLC called: City Wide Stike Add-on.

[huzman 445]

Getting into NAM35, I trying to build road runabouts for avenues and here is what happened :

Note the name of the .bmp

ugly roundabout.bmp

Darn ! I wanted to show the image instead of the file but couldn't find a way around it. Sorry folks...

  Edited February 17, 2017 by huzman  

[rsc204 21,808]

On 21/01/2017 at 0:52 PM, simmytu said:

Edit: After a close inspection I discovered that the public transport suddenly ceased to exist for some odd reason..
Hmm looks like EA released an undocumented DLC called: City Wide Stike Add-on.

There is a bug that causes this. If one transit station reaches somewhere over 400% of capacity, the entire network using it will cease to function. You should check your stations for any that really low numbers (very common in the early days of SC4 modding). You can update them though or simply remove the offending content. More info on this problem here:

1 hour ago, huzman said:

Darn ! I wanted to show the image instead of the file but couldn't find a way around it. Sorry folks...

Possibly because it's a .BMP. The only format for uploading images should be JPEGs, which are compressed and much more efficient for bandwidth.

As for the avenue, when you connect up-supported networks, the roundabout tile converts back to regular avenue, which is what you are seeing here. You can connect roads/OWR, but only to the outer tiles.

[matias93 7,535]

Hate when that happens, the 4x4 roundabout only connects with roads\owrs on the corners.

And about the image, you have to load it on a image server (photobucket, imgur, flickr, etc.) And to paste the image link (the one ending in the extension, please use jpg) here, where it will be converted on the image

[rsc204 21,808]

1 minute ago, matias93 said:

Hate when that happens, the 4x4 roundabout only connects with roads\owrs on the corners.

The code for making that transition is probably hideously complex. If you want to do this, drag Ave one tile from the Roundabout and use an Ave-Road/Whatever transition.

[Yarahi 1,816]

2 hours ago, rsc204 said:

If you want to do this, drag Ave one tile from the Roundabout and use an Ave-Road/Whatever transition.

For OWR it's also possible to remove half of the Avenue and connect the remaining stub (right?)

[rsc204 21,808]

30 minutes ago, Yarahi said:

For OWR it's also possible to remove half of the Avenue and connect the remaining stub (right?)

I don't think so, because if you delete one of the tiles from the stub with the bulldoze tool, it will delete the roundabout. You can use the RHW disconnector, but it leaves a bit of a mess behind. Whether the pathing would work is anyone's guess. I'm also forgetting that the Ave to OWR transition no longer exists either, so that's not really an option. Best to connect to the outside and use a OWR S-Curve or some such setup.

[Yarahi 1,816]

1 minute ago, rsc204 said:

because if you delete one of the tiles from the stub with the bulldoze tool, it will delete the roundabout. You can use the RHW disconnector, but it leaves a bit of a mess behind

What about the "rail to bulldose"- trick?

[rsc204 21,808]

Again I'd have to try it before answering, but it's possible I suppose.

[huzman 445]

Thanks for your tips you all.

I always wondered why SC used .bmp when it's obvious that JPEG or even PNG is better. So here's a jpg file.

So, back to drawing board and OWR

 

 

[rsc204 21,808]

3 minutes ago, huzman said:

I always wondered why SC used .bmp when it's obvious that JPEG or even PNG is better. So here's a jpg file.

Not really, it depends on what you want an image to do.

JPEGs are compressed, great for use online (smaller files). But that means hardware has to be dedicated to uncompressing them before you can see them properly. Generally speaking there is a loss of quality too.

PNG files are not commonly used for games, they are usually very large files, but can be re-sized/rescaled without loss of quality.

BMPs are most common in games. They have a balance between quality, filesize and can use dedicated alpha channels which can be very useful. That said, SC4 uses an EA/Microsoft format called FSH for compressing everything you see in game, although all source textures (like BAT models), usually start out as BMPs. Many modders prefer PNGs because the transparency is part of the image. But, having dedicated (i.e. separated) alpha channels brings many benefits and isn't really any more work to create. For example all the automated tools I'm working on rely on features supported by BMPs that aren't really possible with PNGs.

[huzman 445]

 

9 minutes ago, rsc204 said:

Not really, it depends on what you want an image to do.

Aw... all right then. My only grief about BMPs is the size of them.

[Haljackey 17,302]

Cow!

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

17 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Cow!

Right out of the movie "Twister".

 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

Has anyone ever have this happen? Even though the grid is off there was a small area that the grid did not turn off, similar to when hovering a lot over the tiles appear but the mouse was no where near and I even used the in game camera

See the circle and water near the circle and waterfall, notice on the rock cliff no grid