Nexis Mini Utilities

[dahemac]

Years ago I started using Nexis Mini Utilities to cover large areas in mostly rural cities. I noticed today that they were not functioning correctly. For instance the Nexis Mini Emergency Dept. has only 1 truck not 2. Then I went into my plugins folder and could not find any plugin that could be the Nexis Mini Utilities. So, it was odd that they are in my SC4 menus at all. So, I found a download for them again on the STEX (http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=1847) and downloaded the ZIP. The ZIP contained four files with no file extension that I assumed were supposed to be .dat files. I put these into the plugins and there is no change in the not-working quite right properties of the Mini Utilities. Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there any alternative lots I could use?

[dahemac]

EEEK! I added the .dat file extension to the files and restarted the game. The Utilities went disasterously south. There funding kept changing on me and the coverage area was insignificant. Fires! Crime! Strikes! Chaos! I sure would like to sort this out.

[RippleJet]

EEEK! I added the .dat file extension to the files and restarted the game. The Utilities went disasterously south. There funding kept changing on me and the coverage area was insignificant. Fires! Crime! Strikes! Chaos! I sure would like to sort this out.

That's a sign of the Phantom Funding Sliders Bug.

Since DAT files are always loaded last (after all other files in that folder),
it is obvious that you do have other (older?) versions of the same utilities in your plugins.

It also seems as if Fred (mrbisonm), or somebody else (?), at some stage has changed the funding of those utilities,
and that the two versions you've now got have different monthly fundings.

[dahemac]

Thanks RippleJet. Wherever the DAT is that is already there it doesn't have the same name as the ones I just downloaded. I guess I will be going through my plugins folders one file at a time.

[dahemac]

SOLVED!
It is the THL Realistic Civic Mod that I have installed and it includes modded versions of the Nexis Lots. That is why they have different attributes and that is why I couldn't find the DAT. Sigh!