Show us your Oddities!

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

On 8/15/2016 at 11:39 PM, Takingyouthere said:

I like how the game lists the employer as Retired. No doubt that's a great company to work for

None or n/a would of been the more logical thing to do. But as much as I love the game as we can see from the images in this thread sometimes logic & simcity go together like oil and water

Yeah, that part does come across as a bit silly. Same as being retired and Cori's Work Commute A No Go like this:

She's retired. How could she not get there? Must be that Retired really is a work place.

[piercing_arrow 76]

Well, I was trying to put some TULEPs, but ended up with this instead.

[art128 4,618]

The good old magic hole to China.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Thanks to a graphics glitch, this happened. Those little Speeder cars are tough!

 

[matias93 7,535]

Is not your accustomed type of oddity, but (aside the well known quais de seine glitch) the cliff texture and the colour and transparency of the water had conspired to make the cliffs to look as reflections of the seawalls, matching almost perfectly with CAL canals and RDQ' NGB International's water mirror.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

@matias93 That 6-way road-ave intersection is quite the oddity too, but in a really good way.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Overheard:

It's a nice fence, dear, but what good is it?

[matias93 7,535]

On 28/8/2016 at 3:53 AM, Takingyouthere said:

@matias93 That 6-way road-ave intersection is quite the oddity too, but in a really good way.

Is in fact only a widening of the westbound avenue (north is downside), a way to avoid closed curves and separate neighbourhoods.

[raynev1 1,886]

Here is one from me , I posted it in the STEX Forums for help already . But it is an oddity to me .    

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

@raynev1 It's certainly colorful, whatever it is.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

On 8/15/2016 at 11:39 PM, Takingyouthere said:

I like how the game lists the employer as Retired. No doubt that's a great company to work for

Turns out it is a place to work. I have her in a different city and even tho retired she still goes to work:

[Toby Ferrian 873]

From one of my older cities.

What was I even thinking with this??

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

not exactly a glitch, but i did catch some timed directional props

 

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

On 9/15/2016 at 10:44 AM, Jolteon said:

From one of my older cities.

What was I even thinking with this??

Overheard:

Mommy, is that road drunk?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

16 hours ago, DavidDHetzel said:

not exactly a glitch, but i did catch some timed directional props

[PIC]

Hehehe, I haven't seen a pic like that in a while. I think with some older dirt paths the positioning props would appear for one day every SimYear.

Say, do you happen to remember where you got that white mid-rise building from? I like it a lot. Japanese BAT?

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

@T Wrecks Actually yes, its a Thai BAT actually, -

 

[matias93 7,535]

Thai buildings are very easy to recognise by their clever design: white paint and small windows covered with the structure, as a way to block direct sunlight and the humid heat of the tropics.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

A bear goes shopping

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

5 hours ago, DavidDHetzel said:

A bear goes shopping

That's a bare bear. Might get arrested for indecent exposure.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Jamil?!?

But, it works...

 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Technically not an oddity as I think its a faster route, but its weird seeing sims go for time over distance.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Overheard:

No, no, no! The secret basement goes under the ground.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

LOL Corina, you really need to get some better minions

@DavidDHetzel I would totally do that IRL. Taking the highway instead skips 3 intersections, 1 grade crossing and then having to make a U-turn on the avenue.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

@Takingyouthere Does default Rush Hour SC4 have sims drive the faster route or the shorter route? This might actually be a NAM feature.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

12 minutes ago, DavidDHetzel said:

@Takingyouthere Does default Rush Hour SC4 have sims drive the faster route or the shorter route? This might actually be a NAM feature.

It's a NAM feature. The base game would have the sims taking the shortest route.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Am I doing something wrong? My Sims appear to be a bit disgruntled:

 

Inspired by:

Spoiler

On 3/19/2013 at 2:42 PM, SimCoug said:

I think we have a challenge - The first person to post a picture with a negative mayor rating, and a description of how it was accomplished receives a free Lot

In this thread:

 

 

Edit: The oddity is that few, if any, peeps have seen such a negative mayor rating.

[11241036 5,097]

@CorinaMarie This happened to me once, too. In my case, I can recall having installed the JS Seawalls, which increases Mayor Rating, and I plopped lots of these, without actually knowing that they increase Mayor Rating. Then I bulldozed all of them, which seemde to cause my Mayor Rating to drop into a bottomless pit. Did you by chance install any custom content, build it and then bulldoze it? If yes, all you can do is either plop it again or just revert to God mode and start all over.

[Yarahi 1,816]

@11241036 It does seem to me that Corina did this on purpose - re: the post by SimCoug in the hidden contents and the newsticker messages indicating a total lack of anything to brighten sims lives

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

On 9/29/2016 at 10:02 PM, 11241036 said:

Did you by chance install any custom content, build it and then bulldoze it?

Nope. This is vanilla. Not even patched atm. The point is @paulytools stated it was impossible to achieve a negative rating. (See hidden contents in my post above.) Several posts later @euverus did achieve it, but the screenshot has since gone missing so I don't know how negative it was. I took it as a challenge for myself to see what I could achieve. I pretty much followed this advice:

On 3/16/2013 at 12:44 AM, Cyclone Boom said:

I'm also not sure why you'd want to do this.

But to achieve a negative mayor rating, you'll need to think like the evil arch enemy of SimCity, Dr Vu! The top mayor rating reducers include:
 

• Toxic Waste Dump (-10, radius 440)
• Army Base (-7, radius 440)
• Federal Prison (-7, radius 440)
• Casino (-7, radius 440)
• Missile Range (-5, radius 440)

 

They all have two things in common, either producing large amounts of pollution or encouraging crime. If you place any of these structures near your Sims, it's bound to negatively affect the mayor rating.

Also, build industry near residential areas, which will cause widespread pollution. Create nuclear meltdowns, reduce the funding of all services and maximise taxes. Failing UDI missions can also contribute, as a short term influence. Basically, just do everything you wouldn't normally do when managing a good city.

In short, throw the textbook out the window!

Along with a few things I knew from experience. Such as enacting the Gambling Ordinance to increase crime by 20%, Youth Curfew Act to decrease mayor rating by 10 points, and Automobile Emission Reduction Act to decrease it by 5 points. See Ordinances (Complete List). I plopped Coal Power Plants and reduced funding to $2 on all but the main one. This gave me lots of pollution at a very economical price. I un-funded Road Services and had potholes in every section of street in the whole city. Oddly, this didn't bother my Sims at all. Pulled up the Traffic Data View and the mini map was all an off colored red, but no highlighting on the actual streets. I had to increase funding to repair the roads to get the overlay congestion to show and to tick off my Sims. (That part was weird imo.) Basically, I accepted the challenge way after the fact just to see how low I could actually get the rating.

So, the above is an oddity inasmuch as very few peeps have prolly seen such a highly negative rating nor seen all those red news messages. Like this one:

^ I'll bet it's that last part. Something in their diets. Let them eat cake.

[SimCoug 5,972]

@CorinaMarie
Haha, you caught my attention
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).  

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