CAM files & Remove File

Ryan12320 · July 10, 2009, 10:18:38 PM

Hey, ive been a SC4 addict fora long time and ive been dling small amounts of content. I took a look at CAM and realized how amazing it was so i decided to spend 3 (yes,three) days downloading every file here > http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=2039.0

Im just wondering if there are more CAM lots that i should be getting. I love the work that i have seen and things are looking great in my city. when i downloaded the gig and a half worth of cams on that list I installed them all pretty reclusly and my plugin folder was a mess. so i spent some long hours cleaning everything up and now i have most of the dependencys for all my plugins BUT i deleted all my remove files. i realise now that i need them since now i have alot of files that are useless. If there are any "master remove lists" would somebody be able to direct me to them.

To sum things up i am looking for
-more CAM files
-large or "master" remove lists.

thanks in advance to anybody that can help me

BarbyW · July 11, 2009, 12:38:15 AM

There is a link to a master CAM Cleanitol list in the first post of the CAMelots - Linking all Lots thread.

Ryan12320 · July 11, 2009, 06:46:11 AM

Hahaha thanks alot, i have no idea how i missed that!

Ryan12320 · July 12, 2009, 01:33:10 PM

If there are anymore large remove lists could somebody please post them.

Also is there i way to empty out all the files (non maxis) that are in my landmark file without having to delete each file individualy?

TheTeaCat · July 12, 2009, 01:48:18 PM

you could try this
should be what your looking for

TTC

Ryan12320 · July 12, 2009, 02:25:34 PM

Hey, i dled and looked at the file and its not what i am looking for. Im looking for somthing that could get rid of the custom content that got stuck in the reward, parks, and landmark menus. Im thinking there wouldent be somthing for this, and id have to go and find each file and delete them individualy.

Still looking for "master Remove lists" ... i was not so smart and got rid of all my remove files when i dled all my cam files

RippleJet · July 13, 2009, 05:02:41 AM

Quote from: Ryan12320 on July 12, 2009, 02:25:34 PM
Im looking for somthing that could get rid of the custom content that got stuck in the reward, parks, and landmark menus.

That would have to be created by someone who has downloaded all available rewards, landmarks and parks available in the SimCity community, not only on LEX or STEX, but on all other sites as well...
Not very likely someone would want to undertake that task...

Ryan12320 · July 13, 2009, 08:27:15 AM

Quote from: RippleJet on July 13, 2009, 05:02:41 AM
That would have to be created by someone who has downloaded all available rewards, landmarks and parks available in the SimCity community, not only on LEX or STEX, but on all other sites as well...
Not very likely someone would want to undertake that task...

agreed, nobody would have the time anymore to take on a challenge like that

oh well i guess im just going to have to spend a day getting all of the files names and sorting though my plugin folder

M4346 · July 13, 2009, 08:38:52 AM

Quote from: Ryan12320 on July 13, 2009, 08:27:15 AM
oh well i guess im just going to have to spend a day getting all of the files names and sorting though my plugin folder

This is why I am quite obsessed with proper organisation of my plugins. I usually place the above-mentioned files in either a) Landmarks and Rewards, b) Parks and Recreation or c) Civic folders.

You may want to take this opportunity to revisit your plugin organisation generally

Mine, as of right now, is as follows:

Ryan12320 · July 13, 2009, 10:34:37 AM

its hard to sort alot of files you dl since they come with install files that do everything

after i finished dling everything its already sorted my maker generaly, then i delete readme's image files and other non-sc4 files but alot of the sc4 files are horribly named so its hard to tell which file is which sometimes.

M4346 · July 13, 2009, 10:41:23 AM

Landmarks should, if modded correctly anyway, have either CV, LM or PLOP in their names.

Ryan12320 · July 13, 2009, 10:49:33 AM

Quote from: M4346 on July 13, 2009, 10:41:23 AM
Landmarks should, if modded correctly anyway, have either CV, LM or PLOP in their names.

humm

after i finished dling like 1.5 gigs of files on the link in my first post, i did a search in my plugin folder for any file with the words, Landmark, Plop, reward and a few others that i cant remember right now. but ill try CV and LM to see if anything comes up but i did get alot of plopable files and landmark files out

BarbyW · July 13, 2009, 11:50:13 AM

Normally simgoober and jestarr name their ploppables SG_xxx and jes_xxx with the growables showing the type, wealth, stage etc like this - R$$_3_2x2_xxx.
That should help a bit too.

Ryan12320 · July 13, 2009, 12:36:16 PM

ya i notived that and it helped alot in finding some of the ones i dont need, but other files like this "0x5ad0e817_0x2d636146_0x30000.SC4Model " i dont even know what to make of it.

i will probably just delete anything that looks like this since if i cant tell what it is, it isnt that important

sorry for taking long to reply, biked up to my school to get my report card

M4346 · July 13, 2009, 12:40:04 PM

Quote from: Ryan12320 on July 13, 2009, 12:36:16 PM
"0x5ad0e817_0x2d636146_0x30000.SC4Model "

Deleting .sc4model files will lead to brown boxes. What you want to be deleting are .sc4lot and .sc4desc files. Only delete models if you know what lot they go on.

Ryan12320 · July 13, 2009, 12:44:59 PM

Quote from: M4346 on July 13, 2009, 12:40:04 PM
Deleting .sc4model files will lead to brown boxes. What you want to be deleting are .sc4lot and .sc4desc files. Only delete models if you know what lot they go on.

>< thats great, its the only file in its folder, i guess if i delete it, ill go and wait for brown boxes and just delete the .sc4lot and .sc4desc files with the building name

going to take some work to get some things working right ><

Ryan12320 · July 13, 2009, 07:14:34 PM

Hey something else that is confusing me a bit.

Right now (and for the last 10 years) my residential demand has been in the negatives. According to this pic (for my understanding) it is saying that I have 157,744 jobs available. I do not understand why I have so many jobs available but my residential demand is so low. I do not have any dilapidation or abandonment ether. Can somebody help me with this problem?

RippleJet · July 13, 2009, 11:29:32 PM

Quote from: Ryan12320 on July 13, 2009, 07:14:34 PM
According to this pic (for my understanding) it is saying that I have 157,744 jobs available.

That's the balance in this particular city. All demand is based on regional supply though.
In the region as a whole, you have an unemployment of 170,995.

This is all due to the bug where the game simulator sees a doubled regional residential capacity and workforce when using CAM.

Ryan12320 · July 14, 2009, 07:52:08 AM

Quote from: RippleJet on July 13, 2009, 11:29:32 PM
That's the balance in this particular city. All demand is based on regional supply though.
In the region as a whole, you have an unemployment of 170,995.

This is all due to the bug where the game simulator sees a doubled regional residential capacity and workforce when using CAM.

Is there a way to fix this? My region only has 3 citys. This one, another one of the same size and one with only 10k pop and farms.

In my other large city my Census report looks pretty much the same.

RippleJet · July 14, 2009, 08:56:43 AM

Quote from: Ryan12320 on July 14, 2009, 07:52:08 AM
Is there a way to fix this? My region only has 3 citys. This one, another one of the same size and one with only 10k pop and farms.

The only way appears to be to use DatPacker and merge ColossusAddonMod_1.0.dat with SimCity_1.dat.
There was recently a discussion about this in Where are my residents!!!

However, if you'd go for that option, please note that you'd probably better start with a fresh region.
Otherwise demand might be rather unexpected, and most likely negative across the board...

Also remember to backup SimCity_1.dat before doing anything!

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