Strange Lot Size Bug

[Shadowstrike 21]

I'm getting a strange bug, and I was wondering if someone could help me understand what's going on here. I used the Reader to edit SimGoober's Hardun Heavy Metals lot, to change the LotConfigPropertyZoneTypes down to I-Medium (to get it to work with the IRM). When I load the game, it crashes once I get into my city. Now, when I go back into Reader to look at the lot, the Lot size property has changed to a single number (13), instead of the lot's actual size (5x10). Figuring this is what's causing the crash (since the game is looking for two numbers under lot size, but finds just one), I try to change it back to 5x10, but the interesting thing is that even though Reader saves the file OK, when I re-open the file, the lot size changes back to 13. Other properties can be changed and saved just fine. I figured the file has been corrupted somehow, so I delete and reinstall the lot, make the same modification as before, and boot up the game. Again, it crashes, and again, the lot size has been changed to "13", and cannot be altered.

 

Now, I can live without this particular building, but I'm mystified why this is happening (and whether it might happen to other lots). I've edited a whole bunch of lots in Reader before and never had this problem. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?

 

[Magneto 316]

Sounds like you're using one of the latest versions of ilive's reader - possibly V1.4? If that's the case consider getting which is by far more stable and less prone to odd glitches.

[Grumbs64 27]

I tried it and can confirm that it appears to be a bug with iLives reader 1.4.   I changed the zone type to medium with reader 0.9.3 and with SC4Tools and the lot size stayed 5x10.