Full Sandbox for Solo only 1.0.2

[moaku 74]

Name

Solo Sandbox

Version

1.0.2

Author

Moaku

Last Change

01/21/2010

Type

Mod

Languages

EN/FR/DE

Description

- Provides money cheats

- All ressources are available everywhere for every map.

- Give the possibility of dynamically choose omnicorp sell and buy prices thru the Cheat menu.

- Only affects Solo mode.

Supported Versions

- Compatible with all versions of Cities XL.

- Should be compatible with all other mods.

Installation

Unzip into your Cities XL\Paks directory.

History

1.0.2:

- Fixed bug making game crash when changing specific omnicorp price with Manufacturing.

- Code cleanup. the file should now be a bit smaller.

- Added 2 prices options: 175 and 200.

1.0.1:

- Fixed compatibility with Okeanos trade mod

- Added possibility to set omnicorp price for specific tokens.

- Fixed Omnicorp Price choosing that added a second back button instead of going back to previous menu.

1.0.0:

Initial Release

Notes

- Omnicorp Buying price is the price at which omnicorp buys stuff from you. So it's the price you sell them to them.

- Bats are not unlocked, this is voluntary, please don't ask for it. Use "Expert mode" for bat unlocking.

- Thanks to nashville nelson and Andre090904 for the german translations.

- For those who requested it, I tried to make the "ressource sandbox" part of this mod togglable thru menu, but unfortunately, the game seems to load them only once when loading the city, so it's not dynamically changeable.

mod_moaku_sandbox.zip

[DazzaDazza 29]

You don't know how happy I am you have crated this, I love it, and I can build farms anywhere I like. My creativity sensors are going mad. You rock moaku

[ACEH 0]

I don't have patience to try the mod. Thanks a lot moaku!!!

[Asheroo 53]

Brilliant work Moaku! Finally, I can collect resources from anywhere! One question, ok so I'm obviously going way down in profit, is it possible for me to still buy resources off from Omnicorp without having an overall income in my budget?

[GlobexCo 33]

Why buildings and landmarks can't be unlocked? If this is a "full" sandbox, it should be possible...

Anyway, since this isn't SC4, they aren't bats (the name come from Building Architect Tool, developed by Maxis for SC4), but buildings .

Nice work, more "clean" that mine .

[Kingdom of Hispania 4]

Thanks. this is a great way to start this new year!!!

[moaku 74]

@Ashy: No, it do not affect what the game checks during trading, so if you have negative cashflow, you can't buy. However, you may set Omnicorp Sell Price to 150 and Omnicorp Buy Price to 25 from cheat menu if you are in a such situation and really need to trade.

@Globex: because full unlocking may unlock buildings it's not supposed to, and because i'm too lazy to ensure it's not the case yet, and because I don't want MC to restrict modding in a future version... So better no feature than untested / unsure feature. Anyway it's possible that I add it in the future, but not without ensuring it's "safe"... and even if it don't unlock everything, I find Expert mode a pretty fair deal for unlocking...

Oh, and yeah, Happy New year everyone

[GlobexCo 33]

Originally posted by: moaku

@Ashy: No, it do not affect what the game checks during trading, so if you have negative cashflow, you can't buy. However, you may set Omnicorp Sell Price to 150 and Omnicorp Buy Price to 25 from cheat menu if you are in a such situation and really need to trade.

@Globex: because full unlocking may unlock buildings it's not supposed to, and because i'm too lazy to ensure it's not the case yet, and because I don't want MC to restrict modding in a future version... So better no feature than untested / unsure feature. Anyway it's possible that I add it in the future, but not without ensuring it's "safe"... and even if it don't unlock everything, I find Expert mode a pretty fair deal for unlocking...

Oh, and yeah, Happy New year everyone quote>

There's a list at Cxs , all the buildings that aren't blueprints should be good...

[mr. d 0]

awesome!!!

Thanks moaku!

[buildsolid 4]

This is great!!! Thanks a lot.

[Asheroo 53]

Hey Moaku, the resources all over all the maps isn't working for me. I'm still getting the usual coverage. Is there any way of fixing this?

[moaku 74]

Humm, it seems to work... I just tested right now again...

Just a few reminders:

- It don't work in PO, this is not a bug, it's a feature

- Unpause your game when activating a building tool (fuel pumps for example) until you have the layout shown, otherwise the layout will not load (this also apply without the mod)

If reading this don't solve your problem, please tell me which map you are using and what resource layouts you tested "not working"... but I did them all, so if 1 works, all should work...

[CZAR ALEKSANDER 0]

it did not for me moaku not at all I played two solo games and no sandbox

[moaku 74]

Got other mods installed ? This one should take priority on all others...

If not, have you unzipped it to the correct dir ? (Cities XL\Paks)

If yes, try removing all the other mods (move them to another dir or rename them to .bak)... If this solve the problem, please provide me a list of the mods you're using so I can ensure it's compatible with all of them, even if it should...

If nothing does it, please run the game with the mod, activate a supposed-limited ressource, quit game, then send your last log file here.

[CZAR ALEKSANDER 0]

yes and the game runs fine  but when I'm in solo mod no sand box

[CZAR ALEKSANDER 0]

it now works thank you

[rujagorn 0]

Maoku you rock, you're the man!!!

Finally you gave me the most powerful tool to play with this game.

A thousand thanks for your great work.

[bootjac 0]

where's the "cheat menu"?

[moaku 74]

It's listed in the in-game main menu. Same place where "Options" and "Quit" are listed.

If you don't see "Cheats" in that menu, it means that 1) You're in PO, the cheats menu won't appear in PO, or that 2) You unzipped the file at the wrong place.

[valhum 23]

Ok, so if i only have a version that lets me play ONLY in PO, i cannot use this right?!?!

[moaku 74]

Such version do not exist. If you can play only in PO you either has the demo or beta version, or your copy has a problem... You should probably contact MC support about it (Write a ticket in "Support" tab of citiesxl.com) , there is NO "PO Only" version sold on the market.

But to answer the question, you're right, in a such version this mod will not change anything... This would be considered cheating and you'd probably get quickly banned from PO if a such mod would be done to work in both modes (technically it's easy to do... but MC would not like it if people use sandbox to cheat online, and if they don't like things, we have already seen that they "quick deal with it" by restricting modding... And no one wants to have a 100% unmoddable game, so we are cautious with the mods we release.

It's also one of the reason you won't find anyone sharing tools to "make mods you do work". "Moderated modding" not understandable by every player is still better than no modding at all.

Modding should be more accessible to "lambda players" once the "Mods folder" Mc promised a few months ago is ready, but no one knows when that will be

EDIT: Just retthinked about it... There is the "Trial" version that is online only... The one with the dvd in the game box that has a paper-case destinated to be given to one of your friends... If you're using this version, then yes, this mod is useless for you. sorry.

[City Planner 121]

Works awesome, thank you.

I didn't even know that it was working because I hadn't played enough time in CXL in the past, so I thought it was always that I could place whatever resource I wanted to extract on every land (LOL) but soon realized it was because of the sandbox for solo only mod, so thanks for this, I like it, what little creativity I have left is not stifled by the game now.

[sburningham 0]

Originally posted by: moaku

It's listed in the in-game main menu. Same place where "Options" and "Quit" are listed.

If you don't see "Cheats" in that menu, it means that 1) You're in PO, the cheats menu won't appear in PO, or that 2) You unzipped the file at the wrong place.quote>

Does this apply to the Steam version of the game?  I have a new button that allows me to start it with the unlimited resources mod, but nothing else, no money, no trade options.  Am I missing something?

Thanks!

[TommyAs 0]

guys it is not working on me! what am i doing now? money is still 400,000 and its being reduced with everything i do! please help me...do i have to do any other option or just extract it to the paks folder? Help HELP HEEELPPP

[Skimbo 304]

I think the modders are more often in the thread at CXS than here, I would post there.

[Andre090904 0]

Look at the description. It is clearly said that you need to extract the file into your installation direction and then in ...\CitesXL\Paks

When being ingame you need top open your options menu in order to see all options. Here two outdated pictures:

PS: Please download the latest version. Just overwrite the already existing one. Changes can be seen in the suitable thread of this modifcation at CXS.

[F9T 0]

So ALL buildings, including landmarks should work with this mod? Except for Blueprints obviously

[moaku 74]

no, buildings are NOT unlocked. This is clearly indicated in the main post.

The main reason is that it may cause drm issues... like giving you access to a building that, for example, should only be available if you pre-ordered the game at amazon.com and that I'm too lazy to check for every single building available if I should have access to it or not. So this will not change, or at least not soon.

[Stax11 0]

so does this work with the latest update which includes the buses?

[Asheroo 53]

Yes, I can confirm it does work with the latest version.