What is SC4's most essential custom content plugin?

[Ramona Brie]

Debate: which of these is the most important SimCity plugin or assistant application of all time?

[Pat]

The by far most essential download IMHO is the NAM

[spa]

The NAM is an obvious one, but I picked the datpacker since it has allowed me to keep growing my plugins folder, elminated crashes on my machine and reduced load times to a fraction of what they were. A must for anyone with an obsese plugins folder.

[FrankU]

NAM!

Without it the game would be boring!
It's the base of all traffic related content.

And the poll is mean: you sum up the X-tool, but as far as I know this is not available to everyone. At least, I have never found a download of it.

[BarbyW]

As far as I know Tracker doesn't have the X_Tool either. IINRFR

[FrankU]

And where is Ilive's Reader? Where would we be without it?

[MandelSoft]

Well, to me there are four important CC plugins:

- NAM
- BAT
- LotEditor
- Ilive's Reader

[Luke09]

NAM,CAM and LE 

[bob56]

NAM, RHW and DATpacker

[Andreas]

Well, without any doubt, the NAM is the single most essential mod that is our there. Apart from the NAM, the Euro Road Textures Mod is my favorite.

[wes.janson]

Well, without any doubt, the NAM is the single most essential mod that is our there. Apart from the NAM, the Euro Road Textures Mod is my favorite.

Way to toot your own horn! 

I am going with the NAM and all it's associated addons. I spend more time building roads and highways then I do actually playing.

[Ramona Brie]

I don't have quite a few, but I know that a lot of the most influential of these do, and I thought "What do they think?"

The X Tool, from what I've read, has been quite the big thing for modding.

[JoeST]

NAM and ILives reader are the staple things.

[cogeo]

You forgot RTMT, lol! 

[Andreas]

Way to toot your own horn! 

Well, while it is true that I maintain the ERTM at the moment, and also created a number of Euro textures, other people should get the large part of the honor - esp. thorvin, who initiated the mod, frimi, who supplied about 80% of the textures, and the current NAM modding/texture guys, like Chrisim, dedgren, Schleicher68 and RogerRon91 (and everyone else who I forgot).

[nerdly_dood]

It's clear that the NAM gets the vast majority of votes (my own included). 

As far as gameplay goes, the CAM does seem to have a good shot at being very influential, although from my experience with it, all it does is just allows CAMpatible buildings to grow (since performance did not change from its already very slow jerkiness, that was all i really noticed.) I can't say whether it improved or worsened performance because it seemed the same after I installed it as before - the reason I mention this is because most people who've tried it either love it or loathe it, and I seem to be the only one whose opinion isn't near either extreme.

The ERTM is indeed an excellent mod, receiving updates as appropriate with new features of the NAM; however as it does not add many options but simply changes the appearance of roads, I don't think it rates as the most essential. (I do highly recommend it though, even as an American)

[z]

You forgot RTMT, lol! 

You most certainly did!  Even though I think the NAM is unquestionably the most essential custom content plugin, I think that RTMT ranks high on that list.

Of course, some people may think that I am biased.   

[JoeST]

its a pity that the DAMN isnt used more, its an excellent addition.

[XiahouDun]

Wow, shocked the DATpacker isn't getting more love. Since I started using it I haven't had a single CTD that wasn't my fault.

[knuckleball]

This is a tough call.  The NAM adds a lot to gameplay, but the DatPacker has helped me out a lot with stability issues.