Booster Buildings (is that what they are called?)

[tmfm2000 0]

hey there..

been looking through these forum for over an hour now, finding alot of great mods (great work every one!) but missing one. It's been bugging me that you can only place like three or four of those star-buildings you get for each resource after you've reached a set amount of that resource (like that little skyscraper for the waste treatment, those tripple-towers for the farm industry, the black highrise for the heavy industry etc...) I have quite a few cities where I could place almost every one of these by the amount I have of each resource, but as I said, after I've placed (I think) four of them I can't place any of the others. Same with the big education facilities (the red brick building with a park surrounding it). After two of them the rest get locked out. I know unlocking these would have been considered cheating in the online mode, but now that MC closed down and the online game went offline with them, wouldn't there be possible to make a mod for this? I've tried looking at that PakUnpacker thingie but I'm really no programmer. I don't get it one bit

So, if any one knows how to make this adjustment (or maybe it would be a cheat), consider this a challenge and a request!

[mayorsushi 0]

You could use the unlocker mod with moakus sandbox mod. There i comes with a cheat menu where you can unlock all buildings and build how many times you want.

[kiwispanker 1]

i was unaware that the sandbox mod could do that; i actually think it can't (though i've never really paid much attention). in some simtrop thread there were comments about the max amount of "special buildings" that one could place in a city; i believe the max number is five. early on i tried looking for the code that defined that but had no luck. i guess i could look again though.

another route would be this: i, or someone else, could make a mod that puts each of those special buildings in the T4 slots for each of the industries (except farm would just go with the whole bunch). By T4 i mean the special submenu below the large plots of land. I've made some of those mods before but probably deleted them. They would be quick and painless to make again.

also, others have been requesting "super-buildings" and these buildings could also serve that purpose.

[mr-tom 2]

Unlocker coupled with sandbox works. You can place as much as you want re specials.

[unholycowgod 0]

No the unlocker doesn't work that way. I used those special education buildings to create a big university in my CJ but once you build 2 of them the rest are removed from the buildings list. I even tried pausing to fool it into thinking they weren't built yet but no luck. I was actually planning on asking for some advice on how to work around this. I looked into the .class files of the buildings but didn't see anything that looked promising. However I will admit my modding skills are less than adequate.

[GlobexCo 33]

There are three stages of special buildings (booster buildings?)... the first and the second are already included in this version of my unlocker, while the last one is already included in the next update of my unlocker... didn't tried how many of them you can build, but you can build them!

[unholycowgod 0]

ok I'll recant my last statement. I had previously been using only GlobexCo's unlocker mod and I was only able to build 2 of the academic-looking boosters and 2 of the lab-type boosters. I d/l'd several of Karel's unlocker mods from citiesxs and am now able to build as many as I like, to include multiples of each type. Same goes with special leisure buildings. I can now build multiple football (american) stadiums and such.

[mr-tom 2]

Yep. It's unlocker PLUS sandbox that you need.

[tmfm2000 0]

hello and thank you every body for the tips!

Does any one have links to those mods? Where should I look for them?

thanks!

[GlobexCo 33]

Originally posted by: tmfm2000

hello and thank you every body for the tips!

Does any one have links to those mods? Where should I look for them?

thanks!quote>

You can use our modding index.

The mod we were talking about is the CXL Unlocker, in the Unlockers section...

(pay attention to the dependency when you download it)