Hello. Before I ask the questions, I need to do a fast myself presentation. I am a guy who used to be experienced, but stopped to play Sim City about 5 years ago. This year I decided to come back. However, I had 3 troubles during my way back, and here they are (from weakest problems to stronger problems):
1) Night lighting: My Sim City is updated, and have the lights patch. Most of BATs lights do work. The problem is that some buildings are not showing its lights. If they were BATs its ok, could be BATS with no nightlights. But that do not happen: Some Maxis buildings deny to show their lights. Some of them say that they are running out of power, but they are neighbor of a powered building. And the power station is completely ok, not working at full capacity. What can I do to make the building accept the power?
2) Generating Traffic: I do some cities by just ploping. My traffic doesn't appear naturally, I have to force it. Several years ago, I used the traffic plazas, which were plazas that generated traffic. However, today, I dismiss the plazas because they are making my cities look ugly. However, I pay the price: I couldn't find any way to create traffic. Is there anything around the STEX that can create traffic without using parks?? I tried to generate traffic by zoning around the area but that didn´t worked fine.
3) Crashing cities: About 5 years ago, I´ve downloaded my last plugins folder. Instead of downloading it slowly, I´ve downloaded it all in a row. I divided it into building styles - for example, "Dutch" is a paste for dutch style. That made a lot practical because I didn't need to use my plugins folder fully to do a city - I just needed a part of it. I don´t need London-style buildings to create a village. So, I just had the essential pastes and no more than that.
That should be ok, but not. A heavy problem appeared. When I came back, I started my first city. At about 75% of the work done, it just crashed. Than, I restored some backups, but it didn´t matter what I do (except if I do nothing), the city always did came to a crash statement. I decided to have another shot, but the same happened. Looking around the web, I discovered that I had a building incompatibility problem: If I plop two buildings which aren't compatible with other, they just crash the whole city. Since I got dozens of buildings, it would require hundreds of trials to discover which combination of buildings are crashing the citys. And worse than that: Even if I get one combination, another one could exist. And maybe even more. So, do someone have a way to detect incompatible buildings?? Is there any possible way to detect them?? I already tried the technique (forget the name, so here it is a short description): Divide my plugins folder into two parts, find the part which doesn´t open the city, then divide the non-working part into two parts again, find the broken part of the two parts again, and continue until find the broken plugin. When I tried this, I became with two parts which could not open the city. Tried tree, four parts and none of them could open the city.
PS: I dont let any brown box appear into my city. I always destroy one when it comes.