Can't Level (or change terrian up or down)

[Kitsune]

I have a tile that if I try to level an area of land using road, street tiles or just the plain level tool it CTD's.. and I'm even having this problem with an empty plugins folder.. has anyone had this problem before? I can upload the tile if someone wants to play around with it too.

[catty]

...has anyone had this problem before? ...

I haven't but I remember reading a topic from someone on this site who was having the same problem ... I think and this is a very much a guess that it was SC4BOY who reported it.

I don't think it was solvable and I think he just ending up putting trees? or something on the effected area.

-catty

[Kitsune]

First let me say the region I'm using is the bordertown region... this might impact a lot of people as my original bordertown region has this bug. However I did some more indepth investigations... and discovered atleast two ways to fix this:

1) Launch a volcano over the area... you'll be able then to level the land.
or 2) Paint the area in Tornado debris... this for some reason allows you to level land afterwards. The bad thing in my case is there are other area's affected.. which still prevents me from using the set sea level cheat.

Interestingly... meteor strikes lead to a CTD too. So Volcano's and Tornadoes are doing somthing interesting to the land.

[catty]

1) Launch a volcano over the area... you'll be able then to level the land.
or 2) Paint the area in Tornado debris... this for some reason allows you to level land afterwards...

interesting, I don't normally play around with the disasters, except the meteor strikes ... you can get some interesting landscapes after a few meteors

-catty

[Wiimeiser]

So Volcano's and Tornadoes are doing somthing interesting to the land.

That would probably be the lava/tornado model.

[Kitsune]

Well I solved it: Back in August I was experimenting with a new tree controller. I removed the old one without removing the trees... and I didnt get any brown boxes, so I thought the trees had deleted (killed?) themselves. I re-installed it because I needed it for another region last weekend... and today I loaded the region with the bug again to fiddled around the downtown core. To my surprise, the old trees re-appeared and I no longer had the issue... problem solved it seems.

[mrbisonm]

Sorry that I am late and come while the problem is solved already, but I had that problem too. As a matter of fact many times until I learned that you have to remove the trees before you remove the controller.
So, now that you learned the hard way like me, you'll know better what to do when it happens again. Good luck.

Fred