Plugin Pack Number

[Madame Mayor 4]

When loading a city I get a dialog box saying a plugin is needed which is no longer available, then it only gives a long number for the missing file. How do I equate this number with the file in the Plugins folder? It doesn't seem to correlate to a number in the files at all, much less trolling through the folder for it. Searching doesn't help either.

While on the subject, clicking on red/green stripes (brown boxes) also doesn't give me the name of the file that is incomplete or missing dependencies, only a cryptic name with a letter and number like 2fd. I can tell it's a residential house in the suburb, but how do I find the house using only that number?

Thanks for your help. You guys have been awfully nice in the chatroom.

[tungston 19]

The plugin number needs to be converted to hex. It is something you have removed from the plugins folder, so if you deleted it you won't find it with the number.

[SlimShady 1]

I too am getting this message for two of my cities. The last thing I removed from the program plugin file was the default background and replaced it with Ennedi's night background. Could the game be searching for the old files?

[tungston 19]

No, the background is not saved with the city file. The message generates when you have a lot in the city, and you remove the lot, or props of a lot from the plugins folder. If you remove a plugin and even if it is not in the city, but has the props that other lots depend on, then you get the error mesage.

[SlimShady 1]

Well the weird thing is that I got that message on a newer undeveloped city. I have places all my zones and roads and highways then exited that city to goto my other city, then went back to the undeveloped to let it grow then that message popped up right away.

The game says my older city has two missing plugins and the newer one only has one missing. I wonder what could be missing? Or could it be double plugin files conflicting each other causing this to happen?

[Aro0w 1]

Whenever this happens to me, I just destroy the messed up looking buildings...

that solves it for...

[SlimShady 1]

I use Peg's flag replacement for the brown boxes and I didn't see any empty lots with a flag anywhere. I have 2.38 gig in my plugin folder and most of it is datpacked.

[tungston 19]

Peg's "oops" mod is good in most cases, but it can be too small in others. It can be concelled by larger props, or buildings. Switch it off and then check.

[SlimShady 1]

I'll give it a try.