Elamite
10-01-2006, 04:24 AM
Original message posted at: http://forums.vugames.com/thread.jspa?threadID=32845&tstart=0
I shall call this a glitch as I find no other word more fitting.
When I lay down "plaza" on top of the roads and hit the undo button while its still available the plaza disappears as its suppose to. But when I look at the desirability overlay the effect of the positive effect of the plaza still remains after I have removed it. I have also tried laying a plaza on a road and then deleting the whole road all together with the plaza, I noticed the effect still remained.
The effect actually remains the entire game and does not disappear. Now, I don't know if its only a visual glitch (meaning: there is no actually effect but it is only shown to still exist without effect) or whether it does actually effect the area as desirability is suppose to effect its surrounding (this seems to be the case).
I noticed this first in the demo. When I got my full copy I imediately tested it and the glitch was still present. I tried letting some time go by but the glitched area didn't seem to go away.
I have also tried building other beautification buildings within the glitch region suspecting that maybe this would cause the region to be refreshed in memory and correct itself, but it still persisted.
I do not want to indulge into how this could be exploited, but I've got a few ideas. This is not a big problem really as it doesn't cause any harm, but it does take away from the challenge of the game if used and can even get in the way of city replanning and reduce the challengingness of the game, unwantedly.
If this matter was not addressed by the multiplayer patch, then the matter is more serious and needs to be looked into.
Awaiting your thoughts and comments.
I shall call this a glitch as I find no other word more fitting.
When I lay down "plaza" on top of the roads and hit the undo button while its still available the plaza disappears as its suppose to. But when I look at the desirability overlay the effect of the positive effect of the plaza still remains after I have removed it. I have also tried laying a plaza on a road and then deleting the whole road all together with the plaza, I noticed the effect still remained.
The effect actually remains the entire game and does not disappear. Now, I don't know if its only a visual glitch (meaning: there is no actually effect but it is only shown to still exist without effect) or whether it does actually effect the area as desirability is suppose to effect its surrounding (this seems to be the case).
I noticed this first in the demo. When I got my full copy I imediately tested it and the glitch was still present. I tried letting some time go by but the glitched area didn't seem to go away.
I have also tried building other beautification buildings within the glitch region suspecting that maybe this would cause the region to be refreshed in memory and correct itself, but it still persisted.
I do not want to indulge into how this could be exploited, but I've got a few ideas. This is not a big problem really as it doesn't cause any harm, but it does take away from the challenge of the game if used and can even get in the way of city replanning and reduce the challengingness of the game, unwantedly.
If this matter was not addressed by the multiplayer patch, then the matter is more serious and needs to be looked into.
Awaiting your thoughts and comments.