I wouldn't even mind if the whole city vanished and I had to start from scratch. But the city can't be loaded. The program freezes in the loading process and I have to shoot it down. When I go into another city the region there is no skyline of the unplayable city on the horizon. In a previous region I was able to get a city back by abandoning it, then going into another city in the region, then seeing, to my surprise, that the skyline was back, and reclaiming the abandoned city.
But this time when I do that, while the skyline does, indeed, reappear after abandonment, when I try to reclaim the malfunctioning city the entire game crashes and I get the message "SimCity (TM) has stopped working."
So that now means the region is down one city that can never be gotten back. I can't even erase it and start from scratch any more. There is a resource-hogging, unplayable city in my permanently scarred region that won't be able to contribute to Great Works projects and nothing.
I can forgive everything but not that. Until this problem is solved I've stopped playing, because what's the point? Why would I want to build city after city in a region if even half of them inevitably turn into a black hole at some point past 150,000 residents? It's unacceptable. And statistically it's more than half the cities to which that happens.
Same problem. Mine seem to die any time after 100K pop. I noticed random buildings start flickering. Then, boom, sooner or later, my city gets nuked by EA, never to be seen again.
