Starting Over

[Matthias King 348]

So I had a catastrophic hard drive failure over a week ago. I'm back up and running with a new drive and a fresh install of Windows, but I lost everything. Has anyone else had to start over? What do I do? How do I get my subbed assets back without going through every asset in the workshop?

Also, longshot question. Has anyone else had any problems with 32 gigs of RAM? My computer is acting weird with 32, like the performance is actually worse and less stable than it was with 24. I have Windows 7 Pro, so it can handle 32, and my motherboard is supposed to be able to handle it just fine.

Anyway, thanks in advance.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

Yes, I have had to start over a few times, fortunately, I found some backups from before my last time I had to start over.

[Judazzz 1,936]

Your subscriptions are tied to your Steam account, so the game should download everything you had automatically once you've re-installed the game. Local/private assets and resources, config files and mod settings will all be lost however.

An incident like you experienced (sorry about that, btw  ) is the reason why every once in while I make a back-up of the entire C:SL folder in App_Data (basically all my local stuff) as well as all the mod config/settings files in the game's main folder. Assets and mods will be re-downloaded automatically, but local content and mod data are lost forever without a back-up.

[Matthias King 348]

Thanks.

As always happens, I'd been intending to do just that. I kept thinking I need to make a backup of my local files, but I never did. My city wasn't all I lost. Luckily I had a fairly recent backup of my other work. There were a lot of other files and stuff I didn't get backed up though.

I haven't given up entirely on the drive yet. I'm going to seek some help in recovering the files. I'm not holding my breath, but I have maybe 5% hope I could access the drive again and pull what's left.

I wondered about the subbed assets. Is there any way to control that? I'm not crazy about the idea of it blasting hundreds of subbed assets onto my drive all at once. Plus I was thinking of taking the opportunity to do some spring cleaning of my subbed assets while I'm at it. Is there any way to do that?

Thanks again.

[Judazzz 1,936]

5 minutes ago, Matthias King said:

I wondered about the subbed assets. Is there any way to control that? I'm not crazy about the idea of it blasting hundreds of subbed assets onto my drive all at once. Plus I was thinking of taking the opportunity to do some spring cleaning of my subbed assets while I'm at it. Is there any way to do that?

I'm not sure what harm "blasting hundreds of subbed assets" could do, because it's nothing more than a whole lot of small, separate downloads (bread 'n' butter stuff for everything with more computing power than a toaster oven). If you want to clean out your collection, I'd do that before you install the game (it will download your subscriptions automatically once the setup is completed) - just go to that atrocious Subscription overview page in Steam and plough the those dozens, if not hundreds of pages of subscription - no easier way of doing it, unfortunately.

[rovapasi1 53]

Also you can use the fantastic loading-screen mod to get a list of assets used in the current map.

[Judazzz 1,936]

59 minutes ago, rovapasi1 said:

Also you can use the fantastic loading-screen mod to get a list of assets used in the current map.

Afaik. that mod is broken since Natural Disasters was released. Or has it been fixed by now? I really miss that mod, it had so many useful features.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

28 minutes ago, Judazzz said:

Afaik. that mod is broken since Natural Disasters was released. Or has it been fixed by now? I really miss that mod, it had so many useful features.

It's been updated. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=667342976

 

EDIT: Tried it and it freezes on loading. :/

  Edited December 9, 2016 by Ronyx69  

[rovapasi1 53]

Yeah, its fixed. I wouldn't have mentioned if not.

[Judazzz 1,936]

Aight, great news!

[Matthias King 348]

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I appreciate it. I'll check out the sub page and see if I can cull through all my subs.

On a side note, is there a list anywhere of the mods broken by Natural Disasters?

[Matthias King 348]

Anyone happen to have a local copy of an asset called 'John Player & Sons' saved somewhere?

It got removed from Steam a while back. I had a local copy saved myself, but with my drive crash, I lost it. So if anyone has it, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

10 minutes ago, Matthias King said:

Anyone happen to have a local copy of an asset called 'John Player & Sons' saved somewhere?

It got removed from Steam a while back. I had a local copy saved myself, but with my drive crash, I lost it. So if anyone has it, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

http://smods.ru/archives/11358

[Matthias King 348]

Nice. Thanks.

[Roadman20 601]

I've made this collection work in my Seattle saves since 1.6 release, refined over this weekend.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=816886190

[Matthias King 348]

The picture at the top of that list is really something. Is that from your Seattle build?

[Roadman20 601]

Yes it is.  Gives inspiration to people when they sub and be like "Whoa, I can build this with mods?!?"

The thumbnail is a different story with the image of the LOD toggler with the trollface with the PC on fire.  Subbing to all these mods does have its consequences...

EDIT: I almost forgot all the support mods/buildings required for MOM, I had to throw those in there as essential equipment.

[Matthias King 348]

I just subbed the MOM mods, but haven't had a chance to load up a city and put them to use. It sounds very interesting. It's essentially what I've wanted to see since the beginning.