Show us your Oddities!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

One more glitch and I think it's kind've a cool one, night lights staying on during the day.

The Empire kindly welcomes you to the Darth Vader building;

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

When you mess up one portion of one color channel in your C code of your map generating program:

^ Grid on deliberately for this last one to give a better perspective.

[Terring 6,473]

This will be a great base for a futuristic city, like those cities that are basically "small" buildings on top of bigger buildings on top of even bigger buildings.

[Lucario Boricua 7,028]

Or for open pit mines! Those are built with benching (those terrain ledges) to provide slope stability and delay the progress of landslides. All it needs are earthen ramps to go between the different levels!

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

11 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

^ Grid on deliberately for this last one to give a better perspective.

 

Even though it was unintentional, that's a very cool effect which sure makes a rare sight in SC4.

As @Dragonxander observed, an open-pit mine is a fairly decent representation as a human-made landform. The formation of the terraced craters with the sloped incline (and centre stage) reminds me ever so slightly of a Roman amphitheatre:

Given the rows are more spaced apart, maybe the one in Cori's test region could be where The BFG goes to watch theatre performances.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

@CorinaMarie Unintended but still very cool!

Nothing earth-shattering, but was left wondering what in the cow is going on here
Looks like some kind of prop, just showed up out of nowhere. I had used the flora off cheat shortly before, seems it has a few weird little side effects

[Handyman 765]

Looks like the Sim scientists have been mashing genes
It appears we now have horse-goats and bear-goats.

And...is that a llama or a cow-goat?

[matias93 7,535]

On 01-03-2019 at 4:21 AM, Takingyouthere said:

@CorinaMarie Unintended but still very cool!

Nothing earth-shattering, but was left wondering what in the cow is going on here
Looks like some kind of prop, just showed up out of nowhere. I had used the flora off cheat shortly before, seems it has a few weird little side effects

My guess is that is a conflict between the props on Fantozzi's farm pack and the cars

[yaboydennis 210]

Idk if this only happened to me. It wouldnt disappear until i closed the game entirely.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

When your pie has only one undefined filling:

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

@Lucario Boricua I noticed your confusion on my above oddity picture so here's the back story to it:

Over in SC4 General Discussion in an ongoing convo with @Noobville Mayor I've created a mod for them (which I'm now using myself as well) which converts the Maxis line graph for the Jobs and Population distribution into a bar graph.

So instead of this:

 

It shows this:

 

And because I was poking around in Reader to do that I noticed the Graph type property (0xaa4c0d1b) has the comment: Type of the graph to be shown (line, bar, etc.) Since I know that type 1 is the line graph and type 2 is the bar graph I wondered what type 3 (the etc.) might be. Turns out it's an unfinished pie chart option with no way to assign the data to it.

[tails2489 350]

First time seeing this!

[Silur 3,304]

@tails2489 You may have removed some plugins from the previous record. The Plugin folder has been changed... I think so.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

On 2019-03-10 at 3:06 PM, matias93 said:

My guess is that is a conflict between the props on Fantozzi's farm pack and the cars

Ah that makes sense. Thanks for the heads up, had no idea what mod that prop came from.
 

On 2019-03-29 at 6:41 PM, yaboydennis said:

Idk if this only happened to me. It wouldnt disappear until i closed the game entirely.

Definitely a weird one

[mattb325 28,880]

The moment when two drag-racing ferries decide to attack a cruise ship....

[Lucario Boricua 7,028]

Does anyone else have issues with lazy lardball commuters?

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

8 hours ago, Lucario Boricua said:

Does anyone else have issues with lazy lardball commuters?

From my pre-slope mod days:

[matias93 7,535]

And that's why I custom-fixed the traffic simulator...

[Terring 6,473]

Horse-drawn carriages of 19th century in a city of 22nd century

[powerfullshammy 81]

It's weird city still wanted more Agricultural after I'm getting level 8 CO$$ and CO$$$ and level 8 Residential without cheat lots

[Lucario Boricua 7,028]

   Now I wonder if there's any ulterior motives for Mew having some naturally protected areas be off-limits to the general public...   

 

֍ MEW'S TOY HOARD PILE ֎
IT CONTINUES GROWING!

 

 

Mew: Myah nyah-nyah miau-nyah!!

(Translation: My best-kept secret!!)

 

Just 1 more day and a few hours for the next CJ entry! Preparations have been going wonderful!

[powerfullshammy 81]

I'll post mine later after dinner Hehehe a theme park

[AsimPika3172 1,136]

@Lucario Boricua Nice pokemon theme park!  

[Naomi57 2,985]

The moment I regret not reading the fine print, when I planted some "Small Cypress" under my L2 MHW at Hendrix Creek, East New York:

"Grows to 30 meters" .... ooops.  That elevated L2 MHW is just 15 meters, isn't it!  

Notice the automata seem to have no trouble with the extra foliage.  

[Hotwheeler 409]

Looks more like the attack of the Triffids

[Naomi57 2,985]

Tacking Practise

Those who have been following my posts, will know that I have a perennial LOVE of Ferries, in SimCity 4.  One of the little things that I love about Ferries, is that they liven up the water ways with extra automata, like these little yachts!  

This one materialised inside that little creek, between the beach and the highway.  It couldn't get out, so it tacked endlessly back and forth across it's two water tiles.  

[The Edge 215]

That looks really cool but I always thought the trees stopped the motorway from working correctly?

[Naomi57 2,985]

56 minutes ago, The Edge said:

That looks really cool but I always thought the trees stopped the motorway from working correctly?

Nope, the motorway works fine, can be confirmed with the Route Query tool.  I'm not keen on the look, though.  I've encountered this problem before, when I planted some Maxis vanilla "Noble Fir" and "Blue Spruce" under a L2 elevated highway.  Very wild look, but the sims were all still happy to drive on it!

This time, I thought I was safe with "Small Cypress" ... ooops.  

[Naomi57 2,985]

We've just started a related thread, which might interest those who like oddities.  

 

[Haljackey 17,302]

Enough zots?

I think I get it.