Spoonie

Originally posted by: MrFingers *imagines how many buildings around it suffered as meteors rarely are right on target*quote> Major damage MrFingers, but I didn't care. Just wanted to get rid of the "black box bug".

Well, I finally got rid of the black boxes by making a direct meteor hit on them.

Tried the "surround & bulldoze" method DOXXP29, no luck. It's probably a bug as Barby W mentioned. Check this picture out. I can even run roads through the blocks!! I'll probably bury it under a hill again.

In the attached picture, you'll see two (2) black boxes. When queried, the upper one shows "City Owned", the bottom one shows as unzoned. To remove, tried: Removed all plugins, demolish, dezoned, rezoned, all disasters, teraform, plop on top.... The area was an old part of my city, that I decided to redesign. The "boxes" were hidden under a hill.

Why not install water treatment plant & air purification to see if they fully clear up the area. Then make your adjustments from there.

Originally posted by: N_O_Body @Spoonie: Welcome to our conversation. How did you solve this problem in fact? Was it a bad lot or modd?quote> Thanks for the welcome N_O_Body. I only started "playing" SimCity 3 weeks ago, so I can't tell you if it was a bad lot or modd that caused the problem. As a matter of fact, I'm still reading your forums to learn the game. (Great site by the way!) I had a new city with apx. 50K sims with light residential, commercial, and ID, zoned. Heavy street traffic, went to roads, then avenues,..... still congested. Well, time to experiement with MT, using a monorail system. Configured the monorails around existing structures..., decieded to change monorail direction. When I bullldozed the rails, a med-center was slightly to the right of a rail section. "Dozed" the center several times, but it came right back. Tried to rezone over it, dezoning it, & rebooting computer. Nada! So I destoryed the surrounding buildings and continued outwards, until program allowed me to destory it. I noticed the med-center had a darkish brown color to it, as if abandoned . The only modd I'm using is the Network Addon Modd. I think you guys call it "NAM"? Is that right? Is it a lot or modd problem? Or just a game quirk? Thanks System specs: SC4D-RH P4 2.80 Ghz, 2Gb DDR Ram, 800 Fsb, 260 Gb Hd, XP Pro

I had a similar problem with a med-center next to a monorail line. Had to destory everything around the center, including 4-5 sections of the line.