Simcity 4 deluxe mod
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This means more detail is viewable for each Data View, as evidenced from the Land Value comparison between the Maxis default and this custom modified version (see top pics). Where applicable, the color legends have been expanded to the maximum of 9 colors on 14 Data Views, with extra breakpoint values for more distinct differences represented.
Again, blues are the mid-range and grays to white represent the other end of the scale. Then for consistency, the other data views have been modded with yellow representing the negative end of the scale, such as High pollution or Low land value. Then blue would be the mid-ranges, leaving grays and white as the least measured Volume. Starting with the Traffic Congestion, it was decided the most intense yellow would best represent the highest Traffic Volume. These were included to have additional variations should anyone with trichromatic vision (not color blind) also wish to use these mods.
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Since Deuteranopia is a color blindness resulting from insensitivity to green light, that means the full color spectrum translates to distinctly different colors of yellows, blues, and shades of gray.įrom the modding side, greens and pinks were also included which become yellows and grays from a Deuteranopia perspective. But after a while the difference they make intends to be one which improves the clarity of UI elements for representing city data. Like anything significantly different, the new colors might take a bit of getting used to. To simulate the appearance of how Deuteranopia compares, an open source Color Oracle program has been used to help develop suitable shades. They are then more distinguishable from one another than the default schemes used. Through editing the game's data files, the idea is by modifying the color scales of key Data Views, a couple of Graphs, along with the Zones view. Hopefully allowing the game to be seen in a much clearer way, and really make it more enjoyable to play. However for those who do have Deuteranopia or similar forms of partial color blindness, the combined adjustments made here might be extremely beneficial.
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Understandably each person sees color slightly differently, and so these mods likely won't be useful for everyone.
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In our 3rd official CoriBoom™ release to the STEX, and I are pleased to present a mod which transforms the game's UI elements, for greater optimal contrast for those who have Deuteranopia color blindness. (Which might be useful for other people too.) And we do not support the upgrades that you want to do in game.A set of mods to help people with Deuteranopia color blindness enjoy SC4 better. "The reason why mods are not working on your copy is because we do not support mods for the title. "The game that you bought from us is working as intended and it is not broken," the rep explained. Tarkus also linked to a SimTropolis forum post from earlier this month in which an EA support rep acknowledged the limitations of the Origin version of the game, but insisted that it's behaving as it's supposed to. "Origin’s digital version of SimCity 4 Deluxe is not just unpatched, it’s unpatchable." In effect, this forces the user to remain at Version 1.1.610, deprived not only of the full function of the wide array of custom content available for the game, but of basic fixes to the game that have been available for 10 years," NAM developer Tarkus wrote.
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"This modification, however, changes the checksum of the executable, just as the NoCD hacks did, which not only causes it to be rejected by the NAM installer, it also prevents the EP1 Update 1 patch and the BAT Nightlight patch from being installed, as well as the official first-party content creation tools, like the Lot Editor and the Building Architect Tool (BAT).
But the a href="">Origin is not capable of being updated because it modified the unpatched version of the game, 1.1.610, to replace the SafeDisc copy protection with Origin's online DRM. But the maker of the Network Addon Mod says gamers should be careful about where they buy it: The version of the game being offered by Origin is the unpatched retail release, and because of changes to its copy protection it cannot be updated, nor can it take full advantage of custom content and mods.Īs explained on the SimCity 4 site SimTarkus, the Network Addon Mod (NAM) requires a minimum of SimCity 4 version 1.1.638, the version that results from applying the EP1 Update 1 to the retail version of the game. SimCity 4 is more than ten years old, but given the relative dearth of SimCity games since it came out, it remains a popular way for fans of the franchise to get their fix.
Turns out that the unpatched version sold on Origin cannot be updated because of changes to its copy protection.
The maker of the Network Addon Mod for SimCity 4 has warned gamers against buying the game from Origin.