Secret zone type in SimCity 3000!

[I. Lostalim 589]

Still play this classic! One thing I stumbled upon during a scenario; I was playing the pre-made city Seoul, Korea. In the left uppermost corner of the city is an empty zone. The color resembles the industry zone, but much darker.

 

 

 

 

When I use the query tool and click on the zone, in the description it states: “Planets not aligned.”

 

 

 

 

Could this be a special zone? Or could it an Easter egg? Would it develop?

Does anyone know what this is?

[catty-cb 4,413]

The only thing I could find said

 

 

Another fairly useful new feature is being able to tell why a building has being abandoned, or a zone isn't developing. When you Ctrl click to get information on such a tile, the reasons vary from silly, random things like "Planets not aligned" to more constructive explanations like "lack of demand for this zone", "no power" and the like.

 

-catty

[I. Lostalim 589]

The only thing I could find said

 

 

Another fairly useful new feature is being able to tell why a building has being abandoned, or a zone isn't developing. When you Ctrl click to get information on such a tile, the reasons vary from silly, random things like "Planets not aligned" to more constructive explanations like "lack of demand for this zone", "no power" and the like.

 

-catty

 

 

I wonder why this zone has a different color though? I have tried to see if it would develop, but nothing wants to grow. Also, the zone was already there with the pre-made city

[Terring 6,476]

It's a missing landmark. I encounter this in a user-made map as well. This map required a few extra landmarks. If you don't have those landmarks, those zones will appear in the position of the landmarks. Something like the brown boxes which will appear if you miss a dependency. It seems that Maxis forgot to add an important building in Seoul.

[I. Lostalim 589]

It's a missing landmark. I encounter this in a user-made map as well. This map required a few extra landmarks. If you don't have those landmarks, those zones will appear in the position of the landmarks. Something like the brown boxes which will appear if you miss a dependency. It seems that Maxis forgot to add an important building in Seoul.

 

That seems like a good explanation. Would someone know which missing building/landmark it might be? I have SimCity 3000 Unlimited, which as I remember, the complete package with everything e.g. Scenario creator and Building architect Plus.

 

Did Maxis have any extra downloads at their website years ago?

[catty-cb 4,413]

 

Did Maxis have any extra downloads at their website years ago?

 

I've got them all on my website

 

http://citybuilders.co.nz/index.php/cbex

 

sorry you have to be registered user to download, I did try public access and then about a week ago got clobbered by something or someone downloading the same files over and over again, so have restricted access and am going to shift them to another program that will give more security to the exchange

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

My only explanation for that is it's either high-density industrial or as others before me have said, a missing building. Might be because you could be playing the original(SimCity 3000) and not SC3k Unlimited(Which comes with the Seoul landmarks, i think(Someone please correct me)) with the Seoul map installed......

[catty-cb 4,413]

My only explanation for that is it's either high-density industrial or as others before me have said, a missing building. Might be because you could be playing the original(SimCity 3000) and not SC3k Unlimited(Which comes with the Seoul landmarks, i think(Someone please correct me)) with the Seoul map installed......

 

I'm playing SC3 Unlimited (UK Version) also have the Seoul map, plus I've installed all the official maxis landmarks that used to be on their site, and I have the same thing as I. Lostalim has in the Seoul map even get the same query

 

-catty

[I. Lostalim 589]

 

 

Did Maxis have any extra downloads at their website years ago?

 

I've got them all on my website

 

http://citybuilders.co.nz/index.php/cbex/official-downloads/SC3K%20Downloads

 

sorry you have to be registered user to download, I did try public access and then about a week ago got clobbered by something or someone downloading the same files over and over again, so have restricted access and am going to shift them to another program that will give more security to the exchange

 

 

Thanks, I will check that out1

[+Guest]

It is a missing landmark, it happens when you load a SC3U .sc3 file in SC3K for example.

[THijSCiTy 141]

There seems to be a korean release of this game, this game release contains the missing objects, there is no file called OccupantAttribs_Korea.IXF in sc3Ku but I found online some proof this file should be present in the korean edition of this game, its the reason I found this topic. hopefully I can get it

[catty-cb 4,413]

On 13/07/2013 at 1:22 PM, I. Lostalim said:

Thanks, I will check that out1

After discussions with the Simtrop staff a few years back I transferred the contents of my website over to here, then closed my site down.

All the SC3k files are here, a small number of SC3 original files are not but the Simtrop staff have copies of them and have released them when needed.

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/category/42-sc3k-maxis-files/