Simcity 4 deluxe Saved cities disappear from regional map when getting back into the game

[j-c.bailly]

As per my title, I experienced twice this phenomenon when I played and saved two cities proposed as tutorials that I took over to play as a normal game.

When I returned the next day to the starting map, the scenario was gone and even the map tile was totally green where the city was previously located, the river was gone too...

Any help would be appreciated.

[Stracci909]

When you click on the city, can yo load and play it with everything there as it should be? SC4 has a well known glitch where if you change focus away from the game while saving, the thumbnail that shows the city in region view glitches, causing what looks like a blank flat tile.

[j-c.bailly]

Thank you. I did click on the flat empty tile and it loaded... a flat and empty tile asking me which name I want to give this new city. On the regional map, two tiles are left flat, green and empty covering also the river.

[awsxdrf]

i had the same error. i checked the sim city regions folder and voila: icloud removed the city files from my local drive. reloading my files repaired the region

[NetPCDoc]

Under certain circumstances cities may get kicked from a playable region folder to the downloads region folder ...

If cloud settings don't fix your issue, see if you can import the saved city from the regional downloads folder?

BTW - somewhere there is a reset for the tutorial cities (but this should put the original, unplayed, cities back into the region).

[MGB]

Originally posted by NetPCDoc:

Under certain circumstances cities may get kicked from a playable region folder to the downloads region folder ...

Specifically, all SC4 content, save files, plugins/mods/etc all rely on unique IDs to function. The file name isn't used internally, only these IDs.

So, if you end up with an ID conflict, where two save files (one per city exits), have the same ID, that's when the game will move those conflicts to the Downloads folder under Regions.

This issue usually only occurs when using the regions that come with the game, since those have fixed IDs. When you have duplicates of either a city of region, but with different file names, that causes the problem. You need to remove the duplicates, specifically those undeveloped cities, then replace them with the archived ones from the Downloads folder.