herbigharo32

The freeze on game save seems to occur with very large city files. Some of my saved cities are in excess of 20 mb file size. I back up my region files to Google drive several times a week as a precaution. I have had several CTD during save process and lost work down since last save. I make it habit to save frequently given how easy it is to lose hours of progress by failing to do so.

Sometimes the game and desktop freeze up just after the game is saved. This necessitates in having to log out then back in or rebooting. Does anyone have a good idea of why this happens?

It appears trash and bodies just has to be handled locally. In Sc4, I would have a utility district for every 500k peeps. One solution for bodies is have churches rather than crematories and cemeteries. Trash can just be handled in a few back allys behind retail stores.

I don't see your garbage solution but will guess it is one of the parks visible. Thanks for the heads up!! I'll try some of these things out. I am quite attached to Sc4 but even with some fixes in place, it is inevitable the game will no longer work at all some day. Really need a new one My biggest gripe is needing 100's of trucks in a medium size city. That is just insane!! I called the waste management company for the city I live in and asked how many trucks are used for my area with 55k people. The answer: 13 . The guy laughed when I told him why the question was being asked... LOL Speaking Sc4, I was able to get it to run by setting display size to 1920X1080 from the display properties manager then going into Steam game launch settings and adding this to options: -intro:off -CPUCount:1 -f -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 .

There has to be a way to disable garbage and dead bodies in Cities Skylines. Bottomline, having to place incinerators, landfills, and graveyards in EVERY district/neighborhood makes a city look like total $%&^!!! With Sc4 there were meaningful alternatives to disposing trash. Problem with computer sims is there are not enough map real estate to process garbage over centuries (game time clock). I understand it is for the sake of realism. But for those who wants to play in sandbox style and emphasize creativity, this feature all but destroys the fun in the game. Until there is an option to turn off garbage / bodies in Skylines, it appears I am without a city sim, unfortunately. I enjoy Simcity 4 but sadly, technical limitations of running on a single core and no ultrawide support makes running it no longer feasible. I tried Skylines twice and ended up not liking it much. If there is a good mod to somehow remove trash or somehow make it disappear, please let me know. I would love to play this game now that there are 1000's of new buildings in the Steam Workshop.

Really love Cities Skylines and see much potential in it. The only thing holding this game back is garbage and dead people.... It's like you need an incinerator and crematorium on every street corner or city dies. Tried trucking the trash and dead people to outermost corner of map and that does not seem to work well. My wish for modding is the ability to export all the trash and dead off the map entirely. Or, remove trash and dead handling from the game. Reason for considering removal from game is there appears to be lag between pickup and processing of garbage. This appears to be a CPU limitation more than anything else.

I could always download off Steam again. Since it is likely a single plugin causing the crashes, the plugins folder would have to be rebuilt from scratch. Not sure if I really want to spend the time on it. Freeing up SSD space is a good thing. The archival copy of SC4 and plugins is still on network drive.

Cities Skylines it is. I just threw SC4 out. I think it is a plugin causing it. Several options are just build a new city without plugins at all. Or attempt to 'root' out the cause. 4 GB of plugins renders such VERY time consuming and probably nearly impossible. A new city should be a new game, in my opinion.

So "Save upon Exit" application is possibly causing corrupted city saves? Is it being suggested I should pause, save, exit to region, then close app? I do maintain a backup but the hitch is restoring a city means losing several hours of progress on that map.

Simcity 4.... I've always loved it....if it actually works! Played for a bit back in 06' then came back 8 years later. Same drill, city files routinely gets corrupted leaving only one option...load from backup thus losing several hours of work. This makes me really not want to play. So, time has come to dump Sc4 and just replace it. Which city sim is the best one in your honest opinion? Skylines looks pretty good and so does Cities XXL.

Making a whole map as a landfill has severe limitations due to limited capacity to import. Peg has a chut where you can just toss it all off the edge of the map. Then there is the hyperspace disposer; at 9 million creds to buy, a middle class city is one that can afford it so the trash gets sent to 3 out of 12 cities currently on map.

Thanks for the tips bros!! My premade burb is coming along nicely :-) This will make populating the city much easier. Suburbia usually looks mostly the same anyways and each map could easily be retweaked while buildings grow.

Hello there. I am building a premade suburb for multiple use in a large city. The idea is build everything out, make copies of the city for import. When ready to use, simply turn the power on and allow buildings to grow. The problem I am having is when importing the city, the game merely moves it. What I want to do is use the same prebuilt suburb more than once. How would I go about this as the game seems to not allow use of same city more than once, even between regions. The idea is put about 6 copies of this suburb on my map. Each is designed to hold 150,000 - 350,000 sims, depending on demand / socioeconomic. Please view the screen shot in link. The city in the most lower right corner is the one being made for multiple use. Notice how the connections are perfectly centered to allow for ease of network hookups to other cities. https://www.flickr.com/photos/herbigharo32/15177552212/in/photostream/lightbox/

@JessiLaurn, I really like the cliff terrain and radial street layout. Makes for an interesting mix! Downtown Shattrath City. Been working on this city for 6 months now. Lots to show. Perhaps I should frequent these threads more often. Here are my first screen shots. Of course the first signature skyscraper is from my hometown in Dallas, TX, the Bank Of America plaza. Where I live, it is called "The green giant". Enjoy. https://www.flickr.com/photos/herbigharo32/15007068406/in/photostream/lightbox/ When making new screens, most recent will always be on top of list via Flikr.

There is a building called "Sanchez Imports" growing like weeds in my cities. Not only that, it is coming up as brown boxes. Can anyone tell me where this bat file was created? It appears to be part of a package. Problem is finding it in the plugins folder is like fishing a brown needle from a barn full of hay. If anyone can point me to the creator and download link, finding it should be a snap. Thanks Much.