Cannot demolish building cause road connection doesn't exist?!

[Sky_walker]

I removed a road from a tight spot, now I cannot connect a buildings there to the road nor can I demolish them, cause the Demolition Office shows "Road connection with construction office doesn't exist".

I'm stuck... how can I fix it?

[esbenmf]

Disable Realistic Mode, demolish, and enable Realistic Mode again.

[Sky_walker]

Oh... so it's only realistic mode where buildings cannot be demolished without roads? Why? It seems so... unrealistic. Nearest road is like 10 meters away, but they still don't want to cross it unless there's a direct path from a road to a building's entrance... kinda insane.

[GuyMonkey]

Can you connect a footpath to the building?

[Barracuda]

I guess this is still somewhat doable, but if you end up with factory connection getting stranded you have no other option :/

[vinc49]

I had the same experience with a heat pipe, I demolished the road and the building attached to it, so now I'm stuck with a little piece of pipe. I think the only solution is to use a demolition office with helicopter but I didn't try for now.

Originally posted by esbenmf:

Disable Realistic Mode, demolish, and enable Realistic Mode again.

Sorry but "cheating" is not an acceptable solution to a gameplay issue. The game should give to the players all tools needed, If not I don't see the interest to play in realistic mode.

[esbenmf]

Originally posted by vinc49:

Sorry but "cheating" is not an acceptable solution to a gameplay issue. The game should give to the players all tools needed, If not I don't see the interest to play in realistic mode.

Or it may be a user issue, as you removed the road first, instead of removing the building first.

[Sky_walker]

Originally posted by esbenmf:

Originally posted by vinc49:

Sorry but "cheating" is not an acceptable solution to a gameplay issue. The game should give to the players all tools needed, If not I don't see the interest to play in realistic mode.

Or it may be a user issue, as you removed the road first, instead of removing the building first.

lol
Oh come on, that's a silly excuse. If I cannot re-connect building to a road that previously existed then it's 100% issue with the game, not a user error.

I should be able to build a dirt road that connects to the building, but somehow it just doesn't seem to be the case when stuff is squeezed closely to eachother.

[vinc49]

Originally posted by esbenmf:

Or it may be a user issue, as you removed the road first, instead of removing the building first.

Even if a player is doing an error or don't use the gameplay in a good way, it's the job of the game designer to make sure the player never get stuck and always have options to go back in the right path.
If the only solution is cheating or restart, that mean something is broken.

[Citycop]

August of 2024 and this game breaking bug still exists. Realistic mode is unplayable.

[ling.speed]

Its not that gamebraking. You can afaik fix most issues without cheat mode or switching difficulties.

Just need to *plan* infrastructure (yellow outline, but not started) that connects back do disconnected element (pipe, bulding etc). Let the demolitions be done and remove the plans. There is one or two exceptions that cant be done this way but cant remember what it was - that would be good to be able to fix.

[Delle(DK)]

The bug is rare now a days.
in most cases you can reconnect a road or walkway and reach the thing that you cannot delete.
The devs made changes to things some time ago and when you delete a road now then it will convert from example a gravel raod to a dirt road that you then manualy have to delete afterwards. This prevent bad things from happening.
( you can also try and use workers to demolish the thing instead of explosives maybe that help )

A few days ago the bug did also hit me, i had build something on a hill with very short roads and a conveyer connecton.. I could not delete the convery and there was a tiny bit of road that i also was unable to reach. I gave up and just let it be.
Just saying these situations are rare.
In the past i also had it happen to the tram system and only way to delete it was to press ESC and then turn off demolition and the garbage system and then quick delete things.
ofcourse that was annoying.. ( and thogh i connect to what i wanted to destroy then it wasent possible for anyone to find a path there. )

[Cpt_Beefheart]

Originally posted by vinc49:

Originally posted by esbenmf:

Or it may be a user issue, as you removed the road first, instead of removing the building first.

Even if a player is doing an error or don't use the gameplay in a good way, it's the job of the game designer to make sure the player never get stuck and always have options to go back in the right path.
If the only solution is cheating or restart, that mean something is broken.

Well that sounds completely ridiculous. Nothing is broken and those aren't the only solutions.. The only broken part has nothing to do with the game. Player states they took away road access in a tight spot where it could not easily be remade. Therefore solution is player needs to now demolish part of that road, or other connections to it such that they can re-attach a dirt road allowing demolition access.

Calling realistic mode unplayable because of an apparent desire for off road waste trucks is not realistic.

[Sky_walker]

Originally posted by ling.speed:

Its not that gamebraking. You can afaik fix most issues without cheat mode or switching difficulties.

Just need to *plan* infrastructure

This must be trolling. No way it's a serious answer

Originally posted by Cpt_Beefheart:

Calling realistic mode unplayable because of an apparent desire for off road waste trucks is not realistic.

I think the desire is to be able to reconnect the road, no? 👀

[Cpt_Beefheart]

Originally posted by Cpt_Beefheart:

Calling realistic mode unplayable because of an apparent desire for off road waste trucks is not realistic.

I think the desire is to be able to reconnect the road, no? 👀 [/quote]

Exactly. I used the sarcasm about the off-road reference to make it more humorous because a comment called it a bug and stated that realistic mode is unplayable. It's quite an extreme declaration to make, which I just says that at some point they simply chose not to re-tool a road temporarily so that they could connect their demolition site to it and achieve their goal. Plus I gave you the solution so I think a lil tongue in cheek to a pure complaint comment that offered no help is apt. lol

[Stele]

Unifying footprints of everything so that construction order does not matter would be nice overall. Besides such rare incidents, it's much more common with power lines and underground pipes that also allow for placement much closer to road or rails depending on order placement.