Re: SimCity buildings in holes

So I can't delete the road without deleting the building. The buildings can only be placed on a road, so they are bulldozed when the road is bulldozed automatically. 

I'm not using any mods. I'm a bit old school and like to play offline as much as possible. 

There also is no way, that I'm aware of, to create a tunnel or bridge in the game. Bridges will automatically appear when you pull the road across water or hills, but I don't know of a way to create a bridge on flat land. That would be glorious though. 

Here are a couple close up pictures of the hole, and highlighted areas that indicate where the house (in this case) was and outline around the road which does appear to sink into the hole. 

Maybe there is an issue with my graphics???

Thanks for your help!

I also don't see anywhere when I right click the icon that says 'Repair Game.'

Most of the solutions I've found online so far have given me similar suggestions that seem to be unrelated to the version of the game I'm playing...

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@KStamp18 wrote:

So I can't delete the road without deleting the building. The buildings can only be placed on a road, so they are bulldozed when the road is bulldozed automatically. 

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Right - I thought you were deleting only the buildings. My suggestion was to delete the roads themselves (which will also delete the buildings)

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@KStamp18 wrote:

There also is no way, that I'm aware of, to create a tunnel or bridge in the game. Bridges will automatically appear when you pull the road across water or hills, but I don't know of a way to create a bridge on flat land. That would be glorious though. 

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I must not have explained clearly enough in the first reply - Draw the road, then without releasing the mouse button, Press M to raise roads & make bridges; Press N to lower them & make tunnels. It does take some finesse to get the road to go all the way to the top or bottom because it creates a slope at the start and end point, so you may want to experiment a bit. I just think it's possible that while you were drawing the roads you unknowingly hit the N button and lowered them. It might not be apparent until you get rid of the maglevs and try to draw a road crossing over them. 

I don't think it's a graphics problem, that is exactly the type of graphic I get when I run a road lower than the terrain and then build on it. I could be wrong, of course. What shows up there if you look at some of the data maps - like the transportation or population maps? Just curious if there's a clue there. If you still can't find anything, please reply back with the name of the region & city plot that you're building on and show me a screen shot of the entire city from above. I can try to reproduce in my game. 

Holy cow! I had no idea you could make tunnels and bridges. And I've been playing this game for a long time! 

I really don't think that's the issue, but I'll investigate further. Here's a picture of the ground pollution map. You can see that it's part of the road and part of the building. The second picture has 4 holes. But you can see that they are partially on the road too...

The road looks like it's all the same height here...but there's a hole on that corner.

And look what happens when I drag the maglev over the road that has holes!

@KStamp18 - Yep, it still looks like a sunken road to me 🙂

I'm having a hard replicating the exact "look", although I've seen it many times. Here are a couple of quick, sort of similar looks:

When I place parks on the sunken road, the park sinks the land to a flat surface. Then, the surrounding zones can look like they're elevated, or sometimes cause the "hole" look you're seeing. If you're placing over water, it will sometimes look different, sort of like water. Here I captured the road disappearing and the water underneath suddenly appearing:

In your pictures, it looks to me like the maglev station is higher up on the road, and the land beside it is sunken.

Did you make a copy of your save and delete the roads & maglev? I think if you do that, then redraw them (keeping them level with the land), the issue will go away. Or you might see there's something underneath that is causing it. The power map might be the best one to look at to see if there's something underneath. If there's no power flowing on something, it will at least blink.

Let me know what happens - I'm interested if you can figure it out

So if it's the roads that are causing this issue, why then does the problem go away when I delete the building but not the road? Also, if the roads are always off on their height, why do a quarter of the buildings in my city sink all at the same time? Why wouldn't they always be in the holes from the first building that goes up on that spot? I'm still investigating, but I don't see how that could be the problem. Also, the odds of me accidentally hitting the m or n button that many times is highly unlikely. Just saying...

Did you delete the roads & maglevs? You can do a "file > save as" & just use a copy to see what happens. Or delete them & redraw, and if you don't see a change, then exit without saving. 

There are times when the residential or commercial buildings won't sink, but those parks or maybe the maglev stations will, causing it to look like the buildings are raised next to the area. Your resolution might have something to do with the way it looks so dramatic, too. I don't know how else to describe it. 

I built this new section of my city yesterday. Today I logged in and almost all the buildings have sunken. Plus, I have other abandoned buildings because they are supposedly not getting power or there's too much sewage. Neither the power or sewage are an issue though. 

I have deleted the roads and buildings. Once I delete them and they are re-built it doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. The minute I delete them, the land goes back to regular and the new building builds at the correct height. 

The sunken buildings are also telling me they don't have power and the sewage is backed up...

Yep. All the sunken buildings are abandoned because they don't have electricity or sewer. So that's a new clue.

I'll say it again, it's very strange. It seems like you have a bunch of roads that are sunken underneath the roads you're building, somehow. No power or sewer would be because the roads are not attached. The thing is, it's very difficult to get a road underneath the ground - it generally turns into a tunnel, unless you go through a very painful process of drawing and redrawing while lowering the road each successive time. To do it accidentally would be highly unlikely, as you said earlier.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe your N key was stuck? Trial and error when drawing / redrawing, then deleting portions of the road might have left some pieces underneath the city? 

In any case, if you delete and redraw and it fixes it, I guess that's your solution. I would view the power data map and bulldoze all parts that are showing red (no power) & redraw