Half my park disapeared

[Dis-member]

I had an indoor reptile house/restaurant looking at my crocs (the whole part was reptile themed)
i was making a new different part of my zoo and when i was looking around i noticed my entire reptile house and restaurant was gone. the croc habitat was still there but the exhibits where also all gone. I'm not really sure what happened...

only 2 things i can think that happened is it either disapeared because of a bug or i somehow accidentally clicked in in the background and then accidentally deleted it while working on this part but that seems extremely unlikely.

[Merc]

Originally posted by Dis-member:

I had an indoor reptile house/restaurant looking at my crocs (the whole part was reptile themed)
i was making a new different part of my zoo and when i was looking around i noticed my entire reptile house and restaurant was gone. the croc habitat was still there but the exhibits where also all gone. I'm not really sure what happened...

only 2 things i can think that happened is it either disapeared because of a bug or i somehow accidentally clicked in in the background and then accidentally deleted it while working on this part but that seems extremely unlikely.

That's weird. Have you checked your autosaves to see if there was a save recently that you can load and retrieve any of what you lost?

[Park501]

I'm not sure how much time there was between builds, but if it took place over several sessions, I'd like to add a possibility that you loaded an older save before you built it?

another possibility is that you may have been building in blueprint mode, than when you started the new build, you hadn't fully left the old blueprint when you started the new one, making the new build a part of the old (have done this plenty of times myself, surprisingly easy to do, always need to make sure that I have left blueprint fully when moving onto new ones), than when you started the new building you may have deleted what you had made not knowing that it was attached to the old building, which would explain what happened

One thing I would check is to see if any exhibit animals have been moved to storage (in the case of deleting the exhibit, I believe they are autosold, so if CC looks higher than it should be that could explain as well, though I could be mistaken on that, and even if correct than CC amount gained would quite small maybe to small to notice)

But I'd say accidentally deleted is most plausible, over 1000 hours myself and never had the game randomly delete something without it being my fault (but have deleted things by accident plenty of times)

but best fix I can think of, is to see if there is a autosave from when the building was around, if so, create blueprint and copy to latest save of your park

otherwise, rebuilding will be a pain, but at least you know what you have already done, so will take less time the second time, and can even try things you hadn't the first time

[grampers62]

I can't remember any problems with items being removed from a zoo without user input to do so. Most likely as mentioned above you accidentally deleted them from continuing to build in a building group and at some point deleted what you thought was a single building but it was attached to those items that got deleted. I expect at some point all players will do that to some degree.

[author]

I'm sorry this happened to you. I had something similar happen when I was working on a tapir habitat and I didn't like the result of my rocks and terrain, so I clicked Ctrl Z several times to undo the last few things, but I apparently clicked it too many times and it wiped out half of the lemur habitat that I had been working on just before I turned my attention to the tapirs.

[Dis-member]

Originally posted by Park501:

I'm not sure how much time there was between builds, but if it took place over several sessions, I'd like to add a possibility that you loaded an older save before you built it?

another possibility is that you may have been building in blueprint mode, than when you started the new build, you hadn't fully left the old blueprint when you started the new one, making the new build a part of the old (have done this plenty of times myself, surprisingly easy to do, always need to make sure that I have left blueprint fully when moving onto new ones), than when you started the new building you may have deleted what you had made not knowing that it was attached to the old building, which would explain what happened

One thing I would check is to see if any exhibit animals have been moved to storage (in the case of deleting the exhibit, I believe they are autosold, so if CC looks higher than it should be that could explain as well, though I could be mistaken on that, and even if correct than CC amount gained would quite small maybe to small to notice)

But I'd say accidentally deleted is most plausible, over 1000 hours myself and never had the game randomly delete something without it being my fault (but have deleted things by accident plenty of times)

but best fix I can think of, is to see if there is a autosave from when the building was around, if so, create blueprint and copy to latest save of your park

otherwise, rebuilding will be a pain, but at least you know what you have already done, so will take less time the second time, and can even try things you hadn't the first time

if i'm in franchice mode. where can i find autosaves?
i thought franchice mode only had one save of your park.

[j.starkey65]

you forgot to save.

[Dis-member]

Originally posted by j.starkey65:

you forgot to save.

neh that didnt happen. the animals i got after i made the thing got defaulted to my trade centre