Show us your games oddities

[emgmod]

Just a little light rail traffic jam. I got this by leaving a UDI tram waiting on the track.

[kbieniu7]

Maybe some accident, and tram traffic is blocked?

[Bobbi]

I think my sims wanted to promote ecological transport

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/3010/pieszy2.png

They want to protect the environment

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Where's the land?




In fact, I'm working with a special land.

[TheTeaCat]

Now thats weird 

[kbieniu7]

This place should have name "Horisont"

[bob56]

that would look really cool if it was zoned. You could have a 'cloud city' type design.

[canyonjumper]

Interesting Bobbi. How did you get that?

[Terring7]

What is this?

[bob56]

This isn't an oddity as much as something I didn't know existed. To save money, I lowered water funding. As a result, I got a new type of emergency-pipe burst. To fix it, you have to go into pipe mode and re-draw the pipe. I just thought this was something funny that I've never encountered before.
Has anyone else encountered this 'emergency'?



--Grif

[canyonjumper]

That does occasionally happen, bob56, especially when you're too cheap to pay for proper funding jk

                             -Jordan

[jonno]

I recently learned of it too.  I figured that since the power lines spark when you lower the funding, but nothing ever happens, why should the water be any different.  I was wrong.  It's an entertaining disaster for sure.

[bob56]

sorry to post so soon after my last one,but I have something new. I just built a new train station to encourage mass transit. I checked to see if it was being used, and it is. But what surprised me is how its being used.



My stations only use is to allow sims to cross the tracks to get to work!! I'm sure the train drivers love the herds of civilians commuting illegally across the tracks... 

--grif

[RadicalOne]

What is this?

That is a sprite that is part of the research lab; it could be classified under the same "silly effects" category as the "fairies" or whatever they are in the cemetery.

This isn't an oddity as much as something I didn't know existed. To save money, I lowered water funding. As a result, I got a new type of emergency-pipe burst. To fix it, you have to go into pipe mode and re-draw the pipe. I just thought this was something funny that I've never encountered before.
Has anyone else encountered this 'emergency'?

I have, and had the misfortune of having the pipe rupture directly underneath a landmark - the Bank of China tower - costing me a fortune. What's next, under the nuclear plant?

[thingfishs]

I figure this is a known problem but it's new to me. I placed the regular maxis town hall (the cheapest one) and this happened.
What's the deal?

[Diggis]

Not one I've seen before, but it looks like a prop family has had an extra model inserted into it... weird.

My stations only use is to allow sims to cross the tracks to get to work!! I'm sure the train drivers love the herds of civilians commuting illegally across the tracks... 

--grif

What train drivers?  There are no trains.

[semi_crazy]

Here is a bug: In the evening, Many sims thought: "Why not taking a walk?"

They all park their car at a small parking lot at the station and walk home.
The story is even stranger; in the morning they take their cars FROM HOME  and go to work! That's weird.

I dont have any pictures, but in one of my cities people drive 3-4 tiles to the elevated rail, ride it 10 or so tiles to the next station, get off and drive 2 tiles to a parking lot, walk across the parking lot, then drive 2 tiles to work. they do the opposite to get home. Must have one of those folding cars

[frdrcklim]

This isn't an oddity as much as something I didn't know existed. To save money, I lowered water funding. As a result, I got a new type of emergency-pipe burst. To fix it, you have to go into pipe mode and re-draw the pipe. I just thought this was something funny that I've never encountered before.
Has anyone else encountered this 'emergency'?



--Grif

Wow, that's actually new to me as well. This disaster is understandable, but I'm just surprised I've never thought of that before.

[Monorail Master]

At least the pipe burst doesn't have the "Brown Stuff" effect    If so: Good manure for agriculture areas, and horrible mishap in other areas. Trust me, sewer pipe burst in VA Beach, VA on my street in 2003. Smell stayed there for 2 months.

[thingfishs]

OK well after the earlier strange incident (see a few posts above) this week, I've had another one, starting to think something may be up. This one involves the most peculiar variety of plant I've ever come across.



I say plant because it's clearly something to do with the tree controller, they only "grow" at a certain height.



I mean, I know there's a lot of snow to move but this is ridiculous...



A nice patch of a different species.



Plus another shot of the town hall and it's much bigger friend. For starters I assume this is a maxis building, does anyone recognise it?

Is there a link between these problems, what the heck is going on?

[mightygoose]

the town halls bigger brother is if im not mistaken the new hope highrise? if not its the hamster tenements...