Help! Locked out of one city

[sim-ple 1]

I have been playing a 3x3 grid region for about 10-days now. You will find my CJ called Many Firsts . I ran into a problem yesterday wherein I can no longer access my main industrial port city called Portside in the upper right square. Whenever I try to load the city it crashes to the desktop. All other cities (the remaining seem to be fine.

 

Does anyone have any clues as to how I can get this city back? Since it the main source of industrial jobs in my region I am kind of stuck and not sure if I should continue or not. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Did you add any plugins lately? If so, back them out and retest them one at a time.

Other than a heavy industrial city, does it have any other peculiarities? Does it collect garbage for other cities?

Does it have any downloaded lots in it, any BATs?

Do you have the NAM?

[sim-ple 1]

Q. Did you add any plugins lately?  If so, back them out and retest them one at a time.
A. I did not add any plugins after the last save of that particular city.

 

Q. Other than a heavy industrial city, does it have any other peculiarities?  Does it collect garbage for other cities?

A. Portside is all industrial and commercial. There are no residential zones in the city at all. The commercial is confined to the borders of the adjacent city while the balance of the city is zoned Industrial. It is a sea port by design. There are no connections with other cities other than the transportation network (roads, avenues, highways, rail and subway).

 

Q. Does it have any downloaded lots in it, any BATs?
A. Yes. The city has several ploped downloaded lots. The latest one added was the seaplane base. But the city was opened and played after the lot was added.

 

Q. Do you have the NAM?
A. Yes; I have NAM installed. I have SimCity4 Delux version, european edition.

 

The city was heavily terriformed in God mode before I started so I could get the wharf area configured properly with squared off land forms, breakwaters and piers/wharfs.

 

The file must have gotten corrupted during the last save. It occurs to me that I could always download the region once again, take the city square from the new install and copy it over and start over again but eh-gads, the thought of going back to square one and starting this city from scratch, including the terriforming turns me off. I am not sure if there is any way for me to get back into this city unless smarter and more creative people on this forum give me some ideas.

[ricb 19]

Did you build any airports last time you played that city? And if so, did you use the older SWAP (Sim Wings Airport Pack)?

[sim-ple 1]

I built the CdS Seaplane Base by ripptide (30) . you can see the base  on page 2 of my CJ

 

I did not use Sim Wings Airport Pack.

 

After using the seaplane base, I exited and re-entered the city at least once, perhaps twice. So the seaplane base does not seem to be the problem.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Try a defragmenter run. If the save is damaged this won't help but if you are having extent trouble in your file system, it will.

If the file is on your disk, see if it will open with the SC4tool (download from entry page).

[Swamper77 90]

Date: 2/7/2006 12:10:37 AM Author: sim-ple

I built the CdS Seaplane Base by ripptide (30) . you can see the base on page 2 of my CJ

I did not use Sim Wings Airport Pack.

After using the seaplane base, I exited and re-entered the city at least once, perhaps twice. So the seaplane base does not seem to be the problem.

I do hope you installed my Airport Support file from the STEX. Without it, the CdS Seaplane base will not function correctly.

-Swamper77

[sim-ple 1]

Yes, I did install the support file in your read me file and since I did not have any other airport BATs installed I did not have to uninstall any of the files you mentioned.

BTW... I like the looks of your seaplane base. It works well in an industrial/commercial setting.