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RCI Query Upgrade Mod  1.2

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This is a mod I wrote after becoming frustrated with the demand cap situation in one of my cities.  I realized I had no idea what the cap status was until the desirability began to fall and buildings began to dilapidate and abandon.  As a result, I took the game's three primary developer queries (residential, commercial, and industrial) and added some details and statistics to them, and that's what you have here.  The most important information this mod features relates to the demand caps.  These caps limit growth in your cities, and the percentage you have filled is shown in all 3 'upgraded' queries.  For complete information on how demand caps work, and how to read the data in the queries, consult the enclosed HTML readme file.  It explains them all in depth, based on information from the Prima strategy guide.  Also found in the queries are somewhat simpler stats like the number of each density zoned in the active city, and the demand for the developer type, but reflective of your cap status.

 

These queries replace the default residential, commercial, and industrial queries.  You don't need to do anything other than plop 'em in the right folder for them to work (see the readme file!).  This means that both the queries for the growable buildings and the plopables with jobs (both Maxis-default and STEX-downloaded) will have these new queries, unless they have their own custom one defined.

 

I owe a big thanks to Daeley - without his assistance and question answering, I never would have been able to write any sort of custom UI file.

 

Version 1.2 (November 12th, 2004): new readme format, STEX description updated to account for the 4.0 upgrade-induced 'bugs'.  Not much else has changed.

What's New 1.2


Released

Cori Edit: Fixed missing images.

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Equinox
This affects all lots that reference the default queries. This includes plopables from the STEX.
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nooneatall
Hmm... I've been wondering who made this awsome mod, I have had it for a week or so now, great job anyways :)
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Simor
Very useful,i really like it but i have a minor problem: I play the polish version of Simcity, and "mayor rating" is translated as "uznanie dla burmistsza" wich is longer and gets over the text and look ugly
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Equinox
Okay ... download the Ilive reader, open the residential file, right-click on the UI file, and hit "text view". Find the line that contains "caption="(MRating)" and delete the entire line. That should fix it.
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Simor
Thanks for your help, its better now. Took me 3 times before i realised that i have to click "apply" after making the changes for them to be saved ;)

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STR
This is definately something that Maxis should have shipped with the game.
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Piel Morena69
Very nice, so this replaces the queries that came w/ the game?, sorry for the question. Either way I LOVE THIS!!!
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