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[SimCoug 5,972]

@9gruntsand1hammer
Must be a special on egg McMuffins...  

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Currently experiencing technical(or is it technicolor?) difficulties. Please stand by...

[Compdude787 916]

Whoa, what the--?

[philforhockey51 4,211]

 This is a great club.. 

   What?

  This is a great club..

   What?

  This is a great.. ohh forget it

.

   What?

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Check out the railways latest technological innovation - Invisible coaches!
Yeah, not sure sure that's a good thing...

 

@Compdude787 Its actually caused by the light replacement mod, can't seem to get it to work normally

[matias93 7,535]

10 minutes ago, takemethere said:

Check out the railways latest technological innovation - Invisible coaches!
Yeah, not sure sure that's a good thing...

 

@Compdude787 Its actually caused by the light replacement mod, can't seem to get it to work normally

It usually happens when the train coach hits another automata (generally a car in a level crossing). Instead of crashing the entire train, as when the locomotive crashes, it just erases the coach.

[Fusboden 34]

SimCity4 + Sleep Mode on Windows 10 =

[TrickyMario76543 67]

Recently when I was in UDI mode, I saw one of the railroad crossing signals were triggered by a subway train which was running under the crossing!

[HayleyRenaNemeth 465]

On 1/6/2016 at 8:32 PM, Haljackey said:

Uh

 

noooooooooooooo lighthouse you have so much to live for!! 

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Ok, so now I know why they call it a fire truck.

This was like my 2nd or 3rd day of playing the game.

[TrickyMario76543 67]

I think I found a glitched ghost car.

[Edvarz 1,984]

Someone decided to just ditch their cabin on the road (also, a self-driving runaway motorcycle)

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

6 hours ago, Edvarz said:

Someone decided to just ditch their cabin on the road (also, a self-driving runaway motorcycle)

"...I know, honey, but it will shorten my commute time to work if we buy it."

 

Edit: I was in the wrong thread with what else I was posting.

[TrickyMario76543 67]

Yeah, That's totally a long commute...

[Fatjuice 253]

2 hours ago, TrickyMario76543 said:

Yeah, That's totally a long commute...

 

Those are probably the poorer sims that are commuting, before they all move out

[11241036 5,097]

Talk about long commuter time... My sims obviously like nothing more than taking a plethora of different sorts of traffic to get to the railway station...

then, after one station, they get off the train and walk all the way through the forest to get to work because of the rumors about the big human-eating monster lurking in the railway tunnel (which is, BTW, actually fully working AND in use).

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

On 4/10/2016 at 6:37 PM, 11241036 said:

... the big human-eating monster lurking in the railway tunnel (which is, BTW, actually fully working AND in use).

Yikes! I too would avoid monsters, rumored or not. The part which concerns me is the fully working part. Is that referring to the monster or the railway tunnel?

 

In my world I just sorta made this while learning my very first how-to make and import a grayscale image. (Well, just the import part. I did not make the grayscale image. It's an actual location in our solar system. Mars, methinks.)

So, here's what I loaded into my VistaPro landscape thinger:

After a brief discussion about its 257 x 257 pixel size and a stated preference for 1025 x 1025, I tweaked it and got this:

And I went: OMG! (and other things in RL) when it appeared. Now, obviously, the things which look like roads were the section dividers and the rows and rows (and rows) of pine cone shaped mounds were the, uhm, something-or-other. Nevermind that, I've decided this is an alien, desolate planet in one of my universes. I just might play this.

[philforhockey51 4,211]

This town either holds a bus race or they love their public transportation.

[Terring 6,473]

On 4/10/2016 at 7:25 PM, CorinaMarie said:

That's a great accident, you know 

[TrickyMario76543 67]

I don't know if that's suppose to happen.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

The city probably became too heavy, causing the square tectonic plate on which it sat to tear off at the edges and fall into the void over which SimNation floats. This is a common problem with heavily developed tiles.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

1 hour ago, T Wrecks said:

The city probably became too heavy, causing the square tectonic plate on which it sat to tear off at the edges and fall into the void over which SimNation floats. This is a common problem with heavily developed tiles.

I love it when something online makes me giggle IRL.

[TrickyMario76543 67]

I saw a police car repeatedly switching lanes on the two most outer lanes on a RHW 8S. Couldn't get any picture proof of it sadly.

[Haljackey 17,302]

My Sims must like to play tennis

 

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,195]

Apparently the game thinks none of these zones have a road connection.

This only happens on large city tiles for me when I'm playing the same city for more than 30 years. It only happens to residential zones too. 

This first pops up after running the simulation for 6 months than these zots go away after six months but that means these zones won't develop for a full year. 

If a 2x2 residential building is built on these the no road connection zot will come up again and the building will abandon. Only buildings that are the same size as the zones created will not abandon after the no road connection zot shows up. I think this might be a bug in the game because this happens on every large city tile that I play on for more than 30 years.

[TrickyMario76543 67]

The Greensfield city tile has disappeared again! Wonder what caused it this time?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

On 3.5.2016 at 7:40 PM, 9gruntsand1hammer said:

Apparently the game thinks none of these zones have a road connection.

This only happens on large city tiles for me when I'm playing the same city for more than 30 years. It only happens to residential zones too. 

This first pops up after running the simulation for 6 months than these zots go away after six months but that means these zones won't develop for a full year. 

If a 2x2 residential building is built on these the no road connection zot will come up again and the building will abandon. Only buildings that are the same size as the zones created will not abandon after the no road connection zot shows up. I think this might be a bug in the game because this happens on every large city tile that I play on for more than 30 years.

All of the following is speculation, but:

• It kinda makes sense that the problem affects residentials only because these need a route calculation to determine whether the occupants will find employment - and if so, where their jobs will be and how they'll get there. Pretty much all traffic originates from residential buildings. Industry also generates traffic (freight trucks), but this only affects desirability. Even industrial buildings without any way to the map edge (the destination of all freight traffic) will persist, with their desirability (and hence, capacity) slightly lowered due to "long" freight trips. Residential buildings, however, will abandon if nobody finds a route to a sutable job. Industrials won't abandon even if nobody actually works there.
  tl;dr: The game probably needs to run more route calculations on residential zones than on anything else.
• Only on large tiles makes sense, too - larger tiles tend to have the most development, which leads to the highest number of buildings for which traffic routes need to be calculated. To make matters worse, large tiles also occupy the largest surface, complicating the pathfinding calculation.
  tl;dr: Larger tiles hold more zones and have longer distances
• The fact that the problem only appears after about 30 years may be due to some kind of calculation buffer filling up until capacity is maxed out and false no-road zots appear because the calculation no longer finishes within the allowed time window
  tl;dr: Some kind of buffer may be full after ~30 game years on your particular PC (threshold may vary depending on PC specs)
• 2x2 buildings abandoning may be explained by the fact that the game needs to repeat the route calculation for the freshly combined zone => the cycle restarts. For buildings that grow on an unchanged existing zone, the calculation has already taken place and won't have to be restarted.
  tl;dr: A combined zone is treated like a new zone, resetting the calculation process.

 

[Compdude787 916]

Yeah, I get this same issue that @9gruntsand1hammer gets on my large city tiles all the time. It's just that it takes the traffic simulator a long time to update when you add new roads and zones. 

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Appraiser replying to AMC ordering department rep: Wait. You say the duplex has a 3 story tall basement? There ain't going to be any comps for that! Maybe if you double the fee, I'll consider taking the assignment...

 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

I don't think I've ever seen that before, there are buildings that will create windows in the retaining walls?  This is why I'm glad some people still play around with the vanilla SC4, you get to see some of the things Maxis snuck in.