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SimCity Casino Overhaul - Casino Upgrade  1.0

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This mod attempts to make casinos a little more fun! It balances and upgrades all of the SimCity Casinos. It also gives larger casinos more of a competitive edge and makes them a worthwile investment.

 

Features

 - Balance and Upgrades to all 5 Casinos and Modules, including Gambling HQ

 - Helps boost the larger casinos to make them easier to maintain and invest in

 - Includes a chart breakdown of all of the upgrades and changes to each building and module

 - Significant increases to module limits (8 to 48, 4 to 24, etc)

 - Includes package files for each casino (allowing you to pick and choose casino upgrades)

 - OPTIONAL: Doubles the plop region (distance from main building) for standalone Casino modules

 - OPTIONAL: Includes Special Edition Las Vegas Metro Police vehicles to complete your casino city

 

Technical

 - Significant increases to module limits (more than double on some, quadruple on others)

 - Huge increases to casino tourist capacity (gamblers) able to play inside the casino

 - Increased sign and marquee limits to 2, 3 and 5 depending on available plop points

 - Balanced building costs and maintenance fees, based on available tourist capacity

 - Fixes to a few current casino bugs (sleek marquee maintenance fee too high, sci-fi had too many jobs, etc)

 - Increase plop distance from 200 units to 500 units for all building modules

 

Please see included Chart.png for more information and exact value changes for each building and module.

 

 

Planned Future Versions

 - Separate "God Mode" Scripts which remove maintenance costs, reduce construction cost and lower resource consumption (for experimentation)

 - More Balancing and Upgrade Abilities (with help from the community suggestions)

 

Installation Instructions: Casino Overhaul

 - Install by copying the .package file into your ...\Origin Games\SimCity\SimCityUserData\Packages\ folder (not the \SimCityData\ folder)

 - Be sure to include the most recent versions of the SimCity EcoGame Scripts. I have provided them for convenience.

 - If you already have the EcoGame scripts, make sure they are up to date. No need to have duplicates.

 - You may alternatively use the individual package files in the "IndividualFiles" folder to select which casinos to upgrade.

 

Please see included Folder.png screenshot if you are still unsure on how to install this mod.

 

 

Installation Instructions: Casino Plop Extension

 - Install by copying the .package file into your ...\Origin Games\SimCity\SimCityData\ folder (not the \SimCityUserData\Packages\ folder)

 

 

Installation Instructions: Las Vegas Police Vehicles

 - Install by copying the .package files into your ...\Origin Games\SimCity\SimCityData\ folder

 - For each vehicle, there are three versions; Police Station, Police Precinct and French Police Station

 - You may install one vehicle for each Police HQ (up to three files total)

 - Do not install more than one file per station type, this may crash your game

 

 

Warning

 - This script is intended for OFFLINE MODE. Using it on Online Mode may cause issues

 - Modifying files is still experimental and might lead to city rollbacks

 - There is no official statement from Maxis nor EA about using mods, so use at your own risk

 - For more information on EA modding policy: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9729407.page

 

Related Overhaul Mods


 

 

 

In light of my recent trip to Vegas, I decided to take my experience and apply it to SimCity Casinos. Like the Power Overhaul mod, I wanted to give a nice twist on Casinos without affecting the balance negatively. If you have suggestions for the mod, please comment below or message me. Don't give a bad rating if you don't agree with certain aspects of the mod. Instead, contact me and let me know what your concerns are about the balance, let's work together on it. If you notice any problems, please report them in the comments and I will look at the issues as soon as possible. Be looking for more mods like this very soon! Thanks for your support. Happy Modding :)

 

Parker

 

 

 


Skyestorme Review:


 

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Author: Parker W Young - http://www.parkerwyoung.com/

License: CC Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

You may modify and re-distribute these mod files only with appropriate credit given.


 

 

Special thanks to Oppie, creator of SimCityPak: http://simcitypak.codeplex.com/

Special thanks to Johnathan_Tycoon for initial request and testing

Special thanks to Skyestorme for an awesome YouTube review!
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Hey, release those police vehicles into their own mod, they probably are files within your scripts, but it would be nice to have them as a mod vehicle collect set. 

 

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Hey, release those police vehicles into their own mod, they probably are files within your scripts, but it would be nice to have them as a mod vehicle collect set. 

 

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Hey IdealCastle, I will add them to my Police Vehicles sets when the next update rolls around. Enjoy!

 

Parker

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Nice mod :) you beat me to a casino mod or something of this sorts. Good luck and congratulations! :D

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Simcity doesn't seem to want to launch after I tried installing the files. I put them into the "simcity data" folder, but when I launched the game, nothing! And then when I got rid of the files the game booted up just fine. Suggestions?  

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Simcity doesn't seem to want to launch after I tried installing the files. I put them into the "simcity data" folder, but when I launched the game, nothing! And then when I got rid of the files the game booted up just fine. Suggestions?  

Just messaged you, let's solve this issue!

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Simcity doesn't seem to want to launch after I tried installing the files. I put them into the "simcity data" folder, but when I launched the game, nothing! And then when I got rid of the files the game booted up just fine. Suggestions?  

Just messaged you, let's solve this issue!

 

Yes, it works now! Thank You very much for clarifying that! 

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i suggest that u lower the number of modules a bit it feeels like u wont have enough room for many independet casinos anymore

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yeah cool

 

thansk for the mod now i can build a simcity las vegas :)

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i suggest that u lower the number of modules a bit it feeels like u wont have enough room for many independet casinos anymore

It takes a little self control and proper planning.

 

Personally I like what's been done here, thank you Parker. It be cool to have all building module ploppables spaced as far as this mods' casinos are.

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This is great,   Can you do a amusement park overhaul???  I would like to build a city with just amusement park.  :)

 

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Awesome Mod !!! Love every aspect of this mod ... except one, previously when I used only elegant casinos in my city, it would attract huge numbers of high wealth tourists and keep the medium wealth to a minimum ... now that the elegant casino can accommodate 500 medium wealth tourists each, medium wealth tourists flood my city ... so yeah that's what's buggin me, except that this is a very welcome change ... if you could maybe make a config file or something similar for us to alter the values or just release another update addressing this issue it would be much appreciated ... Keep the mods coming :)

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Awesome Mod !!! Love every aspect of this mod ... except one, previously when I used only elegant casinos in my city, it would attract huge numbers of high wealth tourists and keep the medium wealth to a minimum ... now that the elegant casino can accommodate 500 medium wealth tourists each, medium wealth tourists flood my city ... so yeah that's what's buggin me, except that this is a very welcome change ... if you could maybe make a config file or something similar for us to alter the values or just release another update addressing this issue it would be much appreciated ... Keep the mods coming :)

The closest thing to a config file you will be able to get is using SimCityPak to open the mod and change values inside. If you don't like the changes to the Elegant Casino in particular, you can install the individual files and remove Elegant Casino. Hope this helps!

 

Parker

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 - OPTIONAL: Doubles the plop region (distance from main building) for standalone Casino modules

Just a slight issue with this feature. I'm still getting the same spacing distance as default plopable modules. So far I only tested with the Elegant and Roman casinos.

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 - OPTIONAL: Doubles the plop region (distance from main building) for standalone Casino modules

Just a slight issue with this feature. I'm still getting the same spacing distance as default plopable modules. So far I only tested with the Elegant and Roman casinos.

 

Make sure you installed the CasinoPlopExtension file in \SimCityData\ folder, not alongside CasinoOverhaul package. This should fix the issues!

 

Parker

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 - OPTIONAL: Doubles the plop region (distance from main building) for standalone Casino modules

Just a slight issue with this feature. I'm still getting the same spacing distance as default plopable modules. So far I only tested with the Elegant and Roman casinos.

 

Make sure you installed the CasinoPlopExtension file in \SimCityData\ folder, not alongside CasinoOverhaul package. This should fix the issues!

 

Parker

 

Oh... duh. That would be the issue.

 

Thanx.

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Having a problem with the mod. I double-checked, and I think I have everything in the right directories. WIll this mod work for already built casinos? I have a city with four casinos and a fully upgraded Gambling HQ and loading it with this mod does bad things. Parts of my casinos have gone invisible. Some casino modules are acting like independent buildings (though I can't delete them). Clicking on any moded structure brings up info panes with nothing but placeholder names and no data. I am able to build new casinos with multiple modules per the mod parameters, but they have the same problems with their info panes, and I don't think they are working correctly.

What could I have missed? I have many other mods installed, but no others that have to do with casinos.

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Awesome Mod !!! Love every aspect of this mod ... except one, previously when I used only elegant casinos in my city, it would attract huge numbers of high wealth tourists and keep the medium wealth to a minimum ... now that the elegant casino can accommodate 500 medium wealth tourists each, medium wealth tourists flood my city ... so yeah that's what's buggin me, except that this is a very welcome change ... if you could maybe make a config file or something similar for us to alter the values or just release another update addressing this issue it would be much appreciated ... Keep the mods coming :)

The closest thing to a config file you will be able to get is using SimCityPak to open the mod and change values inside. If you don't like the changes to the Elegant Casino in particular, you can install the individual files and remove Elegant Casino. Hope this helps!

 

Parker

 

DONE !!! Thanks for the mod again ...

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Love the mod, only there is one thing. All the casinos appear to be closed. They all say: "Closed by Mayor". I placed all files in the right directories. It's on Sandbox offline mode, with Procskalone's BOC mod. Any ideas?

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Parker,

very nice mod, the one i have been waithing for.

just some troubles here. After installing your mod i see that i can expand cansino's with 24 in stead of 6 hotels, pokerrooms etc.

But when actually putting them in my city, i can not put more than the original 6.

 

Also your mod only works when i place a casino, delete it, and replace it. Only the second time it will give me the new stuff.

Any chance of solving this?

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Love the mod, only there is one thing. All the casinos appear to be closed. They all say: "Closed by Mayor". I placed all files in the right directories. It's on Sandbox offline mode, with Procskalone's BOC mod. Any ideas?

I do believe that BOC will have conflicts with this, since it affects the casino modules. This may be part of your issues. Let me know if you get it solved!

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Having a problem with the mod. I double-checked, and I think I have everything in the right directories. WIll this mod work for already built casinos? I have a city with four casinos and a fully upgraded Gambling HQ and loading it with this mod does bad things. Parts of my casinos have gone invisible. Some casino modules are acting like independent buildings (though I can't delete them). Clicking on any moded structure brings up info panes with nothing but placeholder names and no data. I am able to build new casinos with multiple modules per the mod parameters, but they have the same problems with their info panes, and I don't think they are working correctly.

What could I have missed? I have many other mods installed, but no others that have to do with casinos.

Just messaged you, let's chat there.

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hi 

 

hmm this mod is not loading..so i tried to find a reason. I found that my mac is recognizing mods of some modders as "document" (these are working) and some modders mods are recognised as "Unix Executable File" (like yours) and they won't be loaded?!? Can this be possible?

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