Education mod-patch

[Mudder 0]

Hello,

one of our modders (Okeanos) has found some interesting information about the game and its structures. He developed a mod-patch to improve the quality of education services.

We allready sent this patch to Monte Cristo, in the hope that they will correct their own errors or simple release the changed files as patch.

Okeanos analayzed the building structures and exportet a structure table and found out that every building has special effects, range values AND a "group" where its working on.

As simple example the retail stores. Every store has a retail-effect on his neighborhood (+200). If two (same) supermarkets where placed/build direct to each other there will be only a retail-value of 200, because both of them sold the same. If you place a supermarket and a electronic store, both will produce 200 Retail and the citizens where more satisfied with the retail-services in your city.

The big problem/bug with the educations-services are that MC placed all services in the same group. So a childhood and a universitiy don't add to each other. Only the higher service (universitiy) will show a affect to the citizens. (im sure nearly nobody can understand it with my english)

Perhaps some of you where interessed in the patch (forum-thread | direct link) and the builings stats. We stand in contact with Monte Cristo and we hope that they will fix their bugs with this patch.

For other questions, we are currently translating CitiesXS into english (no i have somebody who can speak english much better than me). So perhaps visit aus under www.citiesxs.com

Greetings Mudder

[GlobexCo 33]

Don't worry about english. We understand quite everything and we make errors sometimes (me too).

So, thank you for this information!

During the beta the community (thanks to nilo and fredizzimo, sorry but I remember only these names) developped a mod/patch starting from a thing like that structure table.

Like in the early days of the SC4 modding, there were only modifies about the game values. So this is a new start!

Thank you for sharing it with us.

So, this is something like a custom content. Is it time to add a STEX for CXL, where your friend (?) can post his work?

Or maybe this thread should be in the custom content forum...

[HeroIV 0]

Hey Mudder!

Thanks for the info/translation.

Anywho... I have been thinking about translating those posts from Okeanos on CitiesXS... but then I realized I wouldn't know how to explain the mechanics exactly if/when people asked for it.

I was hoping there would be other geniusses... genii... ...smarter people then me who could do that.

off-topic: strange how such a fundamental issue has been overlooked by MC. And from what I got from the original post by Okeanos, the fix isn't that complicated.

[Androv 6]

So that explains why my citizens are always whining! I hope they can adjust this in a patch and make the education services additive

[mirrors20 0]

One of the reasons this game is so attractive is the community made mods ! I can't wait to get my copy and play it with loads of mods