Show us your Oddities!

[Joey Auburn 150]

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

First of all...
 

The local mayor proudly accepted plans to construct a small statue, which was built accordingly to replace a 1x1 plaza beside their house of residence.

So a small crowd gathered to celebrate the grand unveiling, presumably featuring ribbon cutting, polite applause, and of course lengthy, lengthy speeches...

 

Then once the ceremony concluded, all of a sudden they randomly started following a red Mini.

 

The crowd quickly began parading up and down, before taking a seemingly rehearsed march down the street "follow the leader" style.

 

The Mini disappeared. Then after a grey pickup and blue scooter drove on past, the mayor shortly arrived in their trusty armoured limo.

They waved wildly while wearing a beaming grin, and ordered their PA to toss a few campaign leaflets out the window. But shortly, not stopping for autographs and without a steam train in sight, the townsfolk reached the end of nowhere in particular street, turned 180° and strolled on back the way they came. How very strange.
 

Spoiler

I'm currently not using the NAM in this 2x2 test region, which may or may not make this a rarer or more common oddity.

 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Hahaha, I've never watched such a crowd gathering so closely. However, I doubt that NAM has much influence on it. The crowd itself is caused by a property called "landmark ogle" or something similar that is added to any lot with landmark properties by default (but can be removed). The remaining behaviour should simply be as the automata/traffic visualisation in SimCity dictates.

[Haljackey 17,302]

....What is going on here? Stap!

I don't have many at grade rail crossings, I guess my sims do not know how to use them! Even my rails look beat up from all the chaos here, and funding is at 118%!

[redfox85 659]

Road Hazard:

 

.... I was wondering why it was so hard to make out the highway.

[c4bl3fl4m3 405]

On 1/31/2018 at 3:52 PM, Joey Auburn said:

[Traffic congestion map shows green everywhere except for WalMart, where it's bright red.]

 

I don't see what's wrong here. That's pretty standard for my Wal*Mart, esp. if I go on Sunday. ;-) (We won't even talk about the parking lot at the Whole Foods. *shudder*)

[c4bl3fl4m3 405]

I brought this here on @CorinaMarie 's request.

No, cow! You can not take the subway! Go back in the pen with the other cows! (Also notice another cow halfway through the fence, escaping the same way the first cow did. Apparently in the universe of SC4, matter can exist simultaneously in the same space and time as other matter.)

(I remember reading something about a specific farm BAT, if zoned too small, the cows would walk through the fence. I wonder if this file used the same plugin? Or if this is just a general SC4 or SPAM cow bug?)

[rivit 3,391]

[c4bl3fl4m3 405]

Okay, @rivit, I have to know where you got the van. My cities have a strong NEED for them. (I did a search for hippy van, hippie van, and peace van and couldn't find it.)

[rivit 3,391]

One of mine from a while back

[T Wrecks 10,209]

You know what would be a great vehicle in that vein? The Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo!

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

This is one busy farm:

 

Just a typical game oddity. After several more in game days it recalculated to:

Car: 10
Bus: 26
Train: 2
Freight Train: 10

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

I've never seen the inset traffic congestion map do this before:

 

Other tiles are normal. Even leaving and coming back this one shows all the weird red.

[BossDragon 220]

Just a typical day in the city. I didn't realize how many tanks the army base could actually spawn.

 

 

[AsimPika3172 1,136]

Too much.... DINOSAURS!!!!

[BossDragon 220]

11 hours ago, AsimPika3172 said:

Too much.... DINOSAURS!!!!

it’s for national defense purposes.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

And that house stayed fine even after running the game for years.

[BossDragon 220]

Nobody told me it was orca mating season:

 

[BossDragon 220]

No fear.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

The oddity here is merely that someone (me) would even mod this. (I'm learning more about using Reader for real things, but this was a test as the proof in the pudding.)

Maxis farms growing parking lots:

 

Or growing some wavy brick pattern:

 

[matias93 7,535]

Hey, but those 'car fields' indeed exist! At least here, where there are no auto factories, their sellers keep huge numbers of them parked on fields as selling stock.

I'll look for some photos later...

[blade2k5 1,523]

3 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

The oddity here is merely that someone (me) would even mod this. (I'm learning more about using Reader for real things, but this was a test as the proof in the pudding.)

Maxis farms growing parking lots:

 

Or growing some wavy brick pattern:

 

At least your sims can't complain there's nowhere to park.

[matias93 7,535]

As what's promised is debt:

And a close-up:

[Haljackey 17,302]

Gotta sow the seeds somewhere

[Haljackey 17,302]

The City of Toronto is copying my play style.

Big highway + grass + forest + high-rises

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

2 minutes ago, Haljackey said:

The City of Toronto is copying my play style.

You should've copyrighted it!

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Btw, those grown parking lots will not have any automata appear since it's just a texture replacement. Also, there's the water bug with them since they are intended as an overlay texture and not a base.

Now, this one isn't really an oddity, but it fits my current testing and it turns out I like it so well I might just add it as one of the selectable fields:

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

On a somewhat related note, here's mine using the template Cori edited in the exemplar file...

Here we see a friendly farmer who constructed a load of soccer goals, helping their national team practice penalty kicks for the World Cup:

For some, the scarecrow was borrowed as the goalkeeper.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

While you're probably aware of the possibility, I'd like to chime in and mention what I did when creating a farm field that was supposed to be a traditional orchard (Streuobstwiese), where you have fruit trees planted in an irregular pattern, at varying distances, on grassland:

I picked two or three of the seamlessly tiling Maxis grass textures (or their single-wealth counterparts from the BSC packs) and assigned all three texture IIDs as REPs to the lot exemplar. Then I searched for the lines in the lot exemplar that represented the fruit tree props (three in my example), and added many REPs pointing to an empty (invisible) dummy prop exemplar in order to ensure that, in most cases, only one or two (very rarely all three, and often none) of the possible spots would actually have a tree growing there.

The result was quite nice IMO: Randomly textured grassland sprinkled with randomly positioned trees. Breaks the grid nicely.

While awareness for prop families is definitely there, I often find that awareness of the ad-hoc type of prop families is somewhat lower, and the potential of ad-hoc "texture families" is hardly tapped into at all - which is a shame IMO.

[nycsc4 5,250]

Not sure if this counts as an oddity or not, but it's a first for me.

Do you see it?

Not yet?

8/4/2018.

Also, I've been having some major traffic crashes lately: