Show Us Your Failures!

[TheMurderousCricket 5,107]

I'm not entirely sure if this is a failure or just a learning curve...

Anyways, I am trying to figure out the ways in which I can create the actual starting points for highways. Everyone is making all these nice intersections, overpasses and switch lanes, but every highway just needs to start somewhere, right?

So, all in all, my goal was to try and start a highway from a suburban road intersection and then use widening tiles to make it diverge into RHW. Does it look like a reasonable setup to you?  This is also literally the very first time when I use RHW!

[Haljackey 17,398]

So I lose my progress. Not from a crash but a lack o cash.

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EDIT: Twice in one day?

Built this BTM station and I guess it bankrupted the city

 

[simmering 2,743]

I think this topic is a great idea, @Haljackey. So here is one of my recent failures: I keep running my city at cheetah speed and lose sight of the power stations. So they blow up and devastate my industry, which is close by.

But then I discovered, it is much worse. I used @KOSMO*'s Electrical substation. I think it looks really great. Only when it explodes it leaves a radioactive wasteland which shows very clearly in the desirability of the dirty (!) industry.

Somewhere I read, it takes 10000 years to clear up. Fair enough.

I am sure I will have more to contribute on the subject of failure in the future.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,107]

On 20.04.2024 at 9:53 PM, simmering said:

Somewhere I read, it takes 10000 years to clear up. Fair enough.

Pretty bad stain... Have you tried Clorox already?

[kschmidt 6,223]

3 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

Pretty bad stain... Have you tried Clorox already?

Toroca No radiation award should help, aswell Fatherted   Radiation destroyer but only if it's there before the nuclear disaster afterwards no use !

  Edited April 22, 2024 by kschmidt  
furthur info

[simmering 2,743]

On 22/04/2024 at 7:27 PM, kschmidt said:

Toroca No radiation award should help, aswell Fatherted   Radiation destroyer but only if it's there before the nuclear disaster afterwards no use !

It turns out, there is a solution that works even if implemented after the disaster: Simmaster's Extra Cheats DLL has a cheat code called SievertBeGone. It removes all radiation and that did the trick:

  Edited April 27, 2024 by simmering  
Replaced the image and slightly changed the text so the post becomes clearer by itself. Before it only made sense together with two quoted posts.

[Haljackey 17,398]

Err

Mod used-

 

[Haljackey 17,398]

I should use this thread more often- usually complain on discord but that gets lost to time

Forgot about overhang

(fixed)

Luckily I caught it before I started to develop the area

 

[Haljackey 17,398]

My marina got flooded

 

  Edited October 26, 2025 by CaptCity  
Added a modified image for display on Home page.

[Haljackey 17,398]

Impressively terrible

[TheMurderousCricket 5,107]

2 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Impressively terrible

Are you sure you're running SC4 or rather 1990's "Stunts"?

[kschmidt 6,223]

5 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Impressively terrible

Natural or dig hol error, terraforming of maxis boulevard so unpredictable in ruth terrain !

[Haljackey 17,398]

Well this made the crash more fun

 

 

@Terring this mod is amazing - add so much joy for me!

(I use the more 18+ version )

 

[Null 45 3,116]

1 hour ago, Haljackey said:

Well this made the crash more fun

Windows detecting SC4 as not responding is unsurprising due to all the single threaded work it does. Windows doesn't like it when apps stop processing OS messages for long periods.

Adding to the text mod discussion from that mod's reviews:

On 11/18/2025 at 7:41 AM, Haljackey said:

will it mingle with other text loading mods?

On 11/19/2025 at 12:46 PM, Terring said:

I don't know if it's possible to have more than one loading text mods and do be honest I've never tried it.

It should be possible to use multiple text loading mods by redoing some of the IID values, but that would use more memory when loading a city.

The way the game loads those text strings is that it starts with TGI 0x2026960B, 0x4A5CB171, 0x0A6DEB35, and keeps incrementing the IID by 1 until it encounters a LTEXT resource that does not exist or possibly some other error. The first non-existent TGI in the base game is 0x2026960B, 0x4A5CB171, 0x0A6DEC0D.

[Haljackey 17,398]

My Sims need to learn the zipper merge