Lost Public Transport and Easy Money Files

[CorinaMarie 29,875]

This topic has been created to make these lost SC13 files easier to locate.

Please see CB's post below for more info.

My original enquiry post was:

Hiya. I've received a couple messages via the Contact Us thinger. These two linkys are tossing an error:

• https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29451-public-transport/
• https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29429-easymoney/

And ideas what they are or where they went will be appreciated. (It might take @Cyclone Boom using his magic to peek under the hood.)

I did find easymoney.dat mentioned in the RCImulti - MODpack for SC4 Delux/RushHour description.

[kschmidt 6,202]

10 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

Hiya. I've received a couple messages via the Contact Us thinger. These two linkys are tossing an error:

• https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29451-public-transport/
• https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29429-easymoney/

And ideas what they are or where they went will be appreciated. (It might take @Cyclone Boom using his magic to peek under the hood.)

I did find easymoney.dat mentioned in the RCImulti - MODpack for SC4 Delux/RushHour description.

Google say´s 29451 is used by the Realistic trucking forum at Simtropolis ?

Don´t know these numbers are used or reused for the database ?

Sincerely yours,

kschmidt

[CorinaMarie 29,875]

2 minutes ago, kschmidt said:

Don´t know these numbers are used or reused for the database ?

Taking a peek at that thread it's stored in the Topics sub folder whereas the missing file should be in a Files sub folder. I'm relatively sure the numbering sequences are independent of each other.

[gwada971 1,891]

@CorinaMarie  For the fisrt apparently it's a mod for SimCity 2013 from Nico Robin, see this topic : 

but has disappeared from the content of this member.

 

The second is from the same member @Nico Robin see here :

 

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

Please Note
If you've arrived at this post from clicking a file link (which I've made redirect to here), you may be looking for one of the following:

• Mod Pack including Public Transport  (7.69 MB)
• SC13_Easy_Money_1.2.zip  (4.81 kB)
• SC13_RCI_Boost_High_Money_1.2.zip  (14.2 kB)
• SC13_RCI_Boost_Low_Money_1.5.zip  (1.38 MB)

(See below for more info on how these files have been salvaged.)

 

20 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

I'm relatively sure the numbering sequences are independent of each other.

That's correct. Content items are separate in that they have their own IDs and are recorded in their own database tables. That means a forum topic can have ID 29451 and also there can be a STEX file with the same, and also the same for a member profile. So therefore any correlation would simply be a coincidence.

 

20 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

And ideas what they are or where they went will be appreciated. (It might take @Cyclone Boom using his magic to peek under the hood.)

Looking into this from the database side and from the useful leads @gwada971 posted above, I've come across this file they shared which is described as a mod pack of their creations. This so happens to contain "Public Transport" and possibly others too which are no longer available. Perhaps they requested the deletion with them being available individually, since I've found other posted links to their files which reference IDs not on record. They also used to be named "HyugaHinata" before changing their username in October 2015. Then their latest posts were about Cities Skylines, which hints at a switch in focus away from SC13 modding.

Upon testing the download to take a look, I found it threw a 2D161/1 file not found error. Then checking the file record and I noticed it was referring to an incomplete path which had been truncated. Then the expected name had a fancy letter ã with the tilde on top. I've delved into our newly discovered file archive backup in the deep depths of the server, and managed to locate it in the corresponding folder. Then I uploaded it to the live path and updated this as the target so it downloads properly.

I found this file too which might be a related one (by a different author): Public Transport Stops

For the "Easy Money" file, it's interesting how that "Boost RCI" mod has the same ID there. As with the other transport file, this also is no longer on record in the files table. However based on the ID which says this was submitted 22 files before, it suggests an upload was made within the past month or so.

I searched through the wallet folder for any money, and came across 3 uploaded in May 2014 which are seemingly no longer associated with any STEX files. These I've renamed and repackaged into new zip files since they didn't open on Windows (but 7-Zip was fine). I suspect because they were originally in another compressed archive format such as RAR, and on the server these are listed with the .ipb file extension as the forum software did back then which masks the true format.

Anyhow, I've reuploaded them to the server as linked atop this post.

From the name I think it'll be the first one they're after, and the other 2 sound like what was in that "Boost RCI" topic.

Hopefully this helps.

  Edited November 26, 2018 by Cyclone Boom  
Cori Edit: Fixed tiny typo, but mostly re-saved to beep gwada971. CB Edit: Added heading to post and moved download links up there too for easy access.