Modding Fun with SYS.PAK

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

The SYS.PAK file, located under SimCity 3000 Unlimited/Apps/Sys/, is an archive that contains a myriad of uncompressed game configuration files. While some files contain mostly hexadecimal mappings and generally undecipherable information, quite a few of them include readable and interesting game parameters that are fairly easy to view and modify. Some of the things you can do include:

• Alter area-of-effect stats from buildings, including crime, pollution, and land value generation
• Change the plop costs, capacities, and general life expectancy rates of utility buildings

For my example here, I've modified the effective lifespan of the fusion power plant. Always thought it was a little odd that the most expensive and futuristic plant (by far) is hampered by the shortest overall lifespan. Also, comic sans? Really? 

OPENING THE ARCHIVE

Please ensure that you create a backup of SYS.PAK, in the event that you repack the files and the game no longer functions.

To extract SYS.PAK, you will need to download SC3KPAK (windows only). Place the SC3KPAK.exe and Sc3kpak.lng (thanks @CorinaMarie) in the Apps/Sys/ folder and run command prompt. cd to the working directory of SC3KPAK and run the following command: 

sc3kpak e sys.pak

This will extract the contents of the archive to the current working directory.

Now you're ready to begin the editing process! Open any of the .ini files in your favorite text editor and begin tweaking some values!

CONTENTS

I'll try to update this post periodically once I've perused the files a bit more.

SC3ComLayer, SC3IndLayer, SC3ResLayer: These files seem to define certain constraints for the RCI model. The ResLayer is significantly more comprehensive.

InitialConnectionSupply - This looks to be the initial maximum commercial and industrial capacities, without any cap relievers. Default is 25,000 and 70,000 respectively.
ExternalFunSupply - seems to be the same thing for residential, sitting at a default value of 25,000.

SC3Tune: Controls parameters for several different portions of the simulation. Also contains stat values for a lot of the civic buildings, garbage disposal and the water treatment plant.

MaxDistFromTransport - Indicates the maximum tile gap from a transportation network tile (road, subway, rail, etc.) a zone will develop. Defaults are 2 for commercial, 3 for residential and 4 for industrial. I'd imagine setting this value to something like 255 would result in some super clownly development.

[Higher/Lower][LandValue/Density]RedevelopmentPct - Sets bias for the simulation's redevelopment of areas. Default is a even split for residential and commerical and a 30/10/30 split for industry. Modifying the percents here would help skew development to favor a certain type over others I'd imagine.

SC3LandValue: This SC3000 knowledge tree article does a very good job outlining practically everything found in this file. You have control over the city center, elevation, water, building and ordinance effects on citywide land value.

[Res/Com/Ind]CityCenterEffect - This is the city center effect bonus described in the plots from the above link. The initial values in each section is displayed as 45+80 for residential, 45+60 for commerical and 10+100 for industrial. The value left of the plus sign is the base land value, while the right value denotes the percentage of the map from the center where you'll get the bonus land value. As you develop your city you may find your geographical city center constantly shifting. If you've ever experienced having your commercial zones fade out in land value as your city grows, the shifting city center combined with the limited 60% bonus radius is the culprit.

The AgentIDModifiers section describes the individual building effects on land value.

Yes, by changing that -90:R to 100:R, you can make it so that your rich sims won't mind if their nice mansions are right next to that disgusting coal power plant. You can go even further by changing the AirPolluteFactor and GarbagePolluteFactors to positive numbers for a positively silly result.

Similar files to this one include SC3Pollution, SC3Aura, SC3Crime. You can also control how frequently these data layers update in-game by changing the UpdatePeriod parameters

SC3DisasterLayer: Controls parameters associated with disasters and the parade. Looks like a fun way to cause some extra chaos!

SC3BudgetLayer: Controls budget items, which includes plop costs, tax income and loans.

LVTo[Res/Com/Ind]TaxTransmogrifier - From my understanding, this is a multiplier applied to the land value of the particular RCI tile. The product of that formula is the tax revenue you earn. Naturally, the higher this value, the higher the amount of money you earn from taxes. Default values are 35 for residential, 45 for commercial and 50 for industrial.

A city of 465,000 people that was earning approximately 62,000 simoleans a year was now slated to earn 216,000 after doubling each respective value.

SC3PowerLayer: Controls most power utility statistics, including lifespan and capacity.

[Min/Max]OverworkMonths - Range in which an overburdened power plant can prematurely explode.
MaxLifeSpan - 12x the maximum number of years a power plant can operate before it explodes. (ex: value of 1200 = 100 years)
DeclineAge - 12x the year when the power plant starts operating at less than 100% capacity. (ex: value of 768 = plant starts aging at 64 years)
PercentageVariationInLongevity - randomizes the maximum lifespan of the building within this percentage of its MaxLifeSpan. In essence, it turns MaxLifeSpan into an average (15% longevity at 1200 = 85 - 115 years) 

SC3WaterLayer: Controls most water utility statistics, including lifespan, capacity and consumption (no treatment plant). Interesting properties:

WaterFromPipe - The maximum amount of tiles from a pipe that water will reach. Default is 7.
DefaultLeak - Seems unused. My theory is that the aging water pumps were supposed to 'leak' and cause something bad to happen. Rather, aging functions much like power and garbage utilities with gradual capacity decrease over time.

Another interesting tidbit I noticed is that several files contain a reference to a 'Launch Arcology' building. I'm guessing this was supposed to be a reward building in a similar vein to the arcologies of SC2K but was ultimately cut from the game.

PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER

Once you're done editing, open the command prompt back up. In your current working directory, type:

sc3kpak a

This will automatically package the configuration files into a new SYS.PAK. If you're working with the archive in a separate folder from the Apps/Sys/ folder, simply copy your new SYS.PAK back into there. Otherwise, start the game and see the fruits of your labor!

[CorinaMarie 29,626]

Whoa! That's way cool.

I hurried up and downloaded it since the net is so ephemeral. I can see myself having lots of fun with that tool. Thanks for posting it!

 

Edit:

32 minutes ago, kingofsimcity said:

Place the .exe in the Apps/Sys/ folder

You also need the Sc3kpak.lng file there too or you get: RDClanguage C++ class error! a zillion times.

 

Edit 2: The NeighborDeals.ini looks like fun:

Spoiler

[Admin]
Enabled=ON
[DEAL_RATE_CONSTANTS]
POWER_BUY_RATE=8
POWER_SELL_RATE=8
WATER_BUY_RATE=8
WATER_SELL_RATE=8
GARBAGE_EXPORT_RATE=5
GARBAGE_IMPORT_RATE=5
DEAL_RATE_VARIABLE=5
[BASE_DEAL_QUANTITIES]
BASE_POWER=1000
BASE_WATER=1000
BASE_GARBAGE=1000
PercentPopForSell=25
PercentPopForBuy=10
PowerUnitsPer1K=500
WaterUnitsPer1K=200
GarbageUnitsPer1K=650
[MINIMUM_DEAL_COSTS]
MIN_POWER_BUY=30
MIN_WATER_BUY=25
MIN_GARBAGE_EXPORT=20
[DEAL_PENALTIES]
BASE_DEAL_PENALTY=500
DEAL_PENALTY_MULTIPLIER=25

 

[Michael RT 1]

Hello all,

I'm trying to get this to work but keep running into a "sc3kpak is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file." error message. I'm able to change the directory to where the SC3KPAK.EXE is located but that's as far as I've gotten.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!

[CorinaMarie 29,626]

Hiya, Michael RT. Welcome to Simtropolis!

 

5 hours ago, Michael RT said:

I'm trying to get this to work but keep running into a "sc3kpak is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file." error message. I'm able to change the directory to where the SC3KPAK.EXE is located but that's as far as I've gotten.

Here's how I did mine.

1. Create a new Folder called Test off of the root of Drive C
2. Copy the SC3KPAK.EXE and Sc3kpak.lng files (from wherever you extracted them) into the Test folder.
3. Copy the SYS.PAK file from \GOG Games\SimCity 3000 Unlimited\Apps\Sys folder into the Test folder.

Now run a command prompt. (The following pics are from XP, but after the 1st one yours should look similar. The difference is where different versions of Windoze places you when you get to the simulated Dos environment.)

 

Now type in: cd \test and press enter (to change to that folder)

 

Type: dir and press enter just to check that you have the 3 requisite files.

 

Next type: sc3kpak e sys.pak

 

Press enter to see:

 

Then type: exit (and press enter to quit the command prompt window)

 

Then in your Windoze File Explorer, go to the test folder and there will be all the extracted INI files to play with.

[Michael RT 1]

15 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

Hiya, Michael RT. Welcome to Simtropolis!

 

Here's how I did mine.

1. Create a new Folder called Test off of the root of Drive C
2. Copy the SC3KPAK.EXE and Sc3kpak.lng files (from wherever you extracted them) into the Test folder.
3. Copy the SYS.PAK file from \GOG Games\SimCity 3000 Unlimited\Apps\Sys folder into the Test folder.

Now run a command prompt. (The following pics are from XP, but after the 1st one yours should look similar. The difference is where different versions of Windoze places you when you get to the simulated Dos environment.)

Hello Corina!

Thank you so much for the step-by-step! However, I'm now unable to change the directory to the test folder. I put the test folder in my User folder, as shown below. I tried a few other locations but still ran into this new error. ???

[CorinaMarie 29,626]

Ok, the cd \test is an explicit command to go to a folder directly off the root.

So for your:

You have Test below Garrett. In this screen above do: cd test

Without the \ in there that's the command to go down one folder to the one you specify. Once in there your prompt should look like:

C:\Users\Garrett\Test>

And then you can pick up from my instructions of Dir and so on. Let me know how it goes.

[Michael RT 1]

3 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

You have Test below Garrett. In this screen above do: cd test

Without the \ in there that's the command to go down one folder to the one you specify. Once in there your prompt should look like:

C:\Users\Garrett\Test>

Aha! A noob move on my part, I must admit! Everything worked and I'm tweaking the INI files as we speak. Thanks Corina, greatly appreciated!!

[CorinaMarie 29,626]

26 minutes ago, Michael RT said:

I'm tweaking the INI files as we speak.

When you get done tweaking you then need to pack the ini files back up with the command @kingofsimcity listed for that. ( sc3kpak a )

Now keep in mind you will need to copy your new SYS.PAK file from the Test folder back to where you got it originally. (And, ofc, be sure you've made a back up of the original in there before you do.)

(And, btw, feel free to call me Cori. It's what I go by IRL.)

[adamoteentitans 18]

okay i did it

thank you so much  

 

[CorinaMarie 29,626]

1 hour ago, adamoteentitans said:

okay i did it

To put this in perspective for other readers: It was working with the command prompt that got done.

As you prolly noticed it was in this thread that I first learned these .ini files were available and could be tweaked. Peeking inside SC3Tune.ini it looks like the place you'd want to tweak to make a demand mod. I have no idea which lines to alter or by how much having not gone on to test any of them. (I only play SC4 now-a-days so while this was interesting for me, I didn't pursue it.)

[adamoteentitans 18]

6 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

To put this in perspective for other readers: It was working with the command prompt that got done.

As you prolly noticed it was in this thread that I first learned these .ini files were available and could be tweaked. Peeking inside SC3Tune.ini it looks like the place you'd want to tweak to make a demand mod. I have no idea which lines to alter or by how much having not gone on to test any of them. (I only play SC4 now-a-days so while this was interesting for me, I didn't pursue it.)

i would have to contact @kingofsimcity it seems i don't know which variables to change too

so i would leave it alone for now , until i contact him and know which valuable to change so

for 

A) to always have super high demand 

B) to always have high land value 

 

hello  king of SimCity

my name is adamo teen titans , i am new here

i am a SC3000 player

i followed corina's and your instructions on tweaking the game 

and the files appeared 

i am trying to make

A) super high demand all the time 

B) super high land value for everything 

so which variables in  files should i change or tweak to achieve this ? and what number should i change the variables to?

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

@adamoteentitans: Hello, and welcome to ST!

As far as I know, super demand is not something you can control from editing these files.

However, super high land value is easily achievable! Start by opening SC3LandValue.ini and take a look at the [TuningParameters] section. Pay attention to the bolded part of the following 4 parameters.

WaterPolluteFactor=100,-9000,100
AirPolluteFactor=400,-7000,250
GarbagePolluteFactor=0,-400000,0
CrimeFactor=25,-1900,200

If you've played the game long enough you'll definitely know that crime, water pollution and air pollution will cause a general decrease in land values. Garbage however is insane! Your entire city's land value would always end up dropping to "Very Low". To ensure you have peak land values at all time, you can simply change the negative effects to 0. You can even make the numbers positive so that pollution and crime is desired by your populace! Talk about one messed up parallel world. 

The next few properties concern how terrain elevation and water affect land values.

WaterEffect=62
WaterEffectRadius=6
HillEffect=45

Since these are already net positives, you can just increase the value of each significantly. Want your surface water effect to reach 30 tiles inland? Simply change WaterEffectRadius=30 and watch nearby zones skyrocket in value.

Lastly, I want you to take a look at the [AgentIDModifiers] section. This is what controls the land value effect generated by individual buildings. 

Let's take a look at one of the entries:

1002=-5:R,40:C,-4:I            Stock Exchange

The part I put in bold tells us the global land value effect that this building has. In this case, a Stock Exchange will lower residential land values by 5, raise commerical by 40, and lower industrial by 4. Since your objective is to attain supremely high land values, the best thing to do is simply go through all of the AgentIDModifiers and eliminate any negative values. This will ensure everything has a positive effect on your city.

Hope this helps!

[adamoteentitans 18]

51 minutes ago, kingofsimcity said:

@adamoteentitans: Hello, and welcome to ST!

As far as I know, super demand is not something you can control from editing these files.

However, super high land value is easily achievable! Start by opening SC3LandValue.ini and take a look at the [TuningParameters] section. Pay attention to the bolded part of the following 4 parameters.

WaterPolluteFactor=100,-9000,100
AirPolluteFactor=400,-7000,250
GarbagePolluteFactor=0,-400000,0
CrimeFactor=25,-1900,200

If you've played the game long enough you'll definitely know that crime, water pollution and air pollution will cause a general decrease in land values. Garbage however is insane! Your entire city's land value would always end up dropping to "Very Low". To ensure you have peak land values at all time, you can simply change the negative effects to 0. You can even make the numbers positive so that pollution and crime is desired by your populace! Talk about one messed up parallel world. 

The next few properties concern how terrain elevation and water affect land values.

WaterEffect=62
WaterEffectRadius=6
HillEffect=45

Since these are already net positives, you can just increase the value of each significantly. Want your surface water effect to reach 30 tiles inland? Simply change WaterEffectRadius=30 and watch nearby zones skyrocket in value.

Lastly, I want you to take a look at the [AgentIDModifiers] section. This is what controls the land value effect generated by individual buildings. 

Let's take a look at one of the entries:

1002=-5:R,40:C,-4:I            Stock Exchange

The part I put in bold tells us the global land value effect that this building has. In this case, a Stock Exchange will lower residential land values by 5, raise commerical by 40, and lower industrial by 4. Since your objective is to attain supremely high land values, the best thing to do is simply go through all of the AgentIDModifiers and eliminate any negative values. This will ensure everything has a positive effect on your city.

Hope this helps!

thank you , thank you so freaking much !!!

[adamoteentitans 18]

1 hour ago, kingofsimcity said:

@adamoteentitans: Hello, and welcome to ST!

As far as I know, super demand is not something you can control from editing these files.

However, super high land value is easily achievable! Start by opening SC3LandValue.ini and take a look at the [TuningParameters] section. Pay attention to the bolded part of the following 4 parameters.

WaterPolluteFactor=100,-9000,100
AirPolluteFactor=400,-7000,250
GarbagePolluteFactor=0,-400000,0
CrimeFactor=25,-1900,200

If you've played the game long enough you'll definitely know that crime, water pollution and air pollution will cause a general decrease in land values. Garbage however is insane! Your entire city's land value would always end up dropping to "Very Low". To ensure you have peak land values at all time, you can simply change the negative effects to 0. You can even make the numbers positive so that pollution and crime is desired by your populace! Talk about one messed up parallel world. 

The next few properties concern how terrain elevation and water affect land values.

WaterEffect=62
WaterEffectRadius=6
HillEffect=45

Since these are already net positives, you can just increase the value of each significantly. Want your surface water effect to reach 30 tiles inland? Simply change WaterEffectRadius=30 and watch nearby zones skyrocket in value.

Lastly, I want you to take a look at the [AgentIDModifiers] section. This is what controls the land value effect generated by individual buildings. 

Let's take a look at one of the entries:

1002=-5:R,40:C,-4:I            Stock Exchange

The part I put in bold tells us the global land value effect that this building has. In this case, a Stock Exchange will lower residential land values by 5, raise commerical by 40, and lower industrial by 4. Since your objective is to attain supremely high land values, the best thing to do is simply go through all of the AgentIDModifiers and eliminate any negative values. This will ensure everything has a positive effect on your city.

Hope this helps!

hmm i don't know 

i did everything but i am just not feeling anything spectacular 

like i see the land value and some of it are light blue and some of it grey near a power plant and stuff , it doesn't skyrocket :/

and is a superdemand even possible anymore?

[+Guest]

There is a cheat detection engine by Maxis and on SC3000.com, so I wonder if the cities that are made with this patched sys.pak are considered to be cheated.

[Brandon Cross 0]

can you link it for me, I have a hard time finding it

[CorinaMarie 29,626]

13 minutes ago, Brandon Cross said:

can you link it for me, I have a hard time finding it

The tool discussed in this topic is linked in post # 1 and is still available for download. Here's the relevant part of said post:

On 6/9/2017 at 10:13 PM, kingofsimcity said:

To extract SYS.PAK, you will need to download SC3KPAK (windows only).

The part where @HackDown mentions a cheat detection engine is likely referring to the internal code when the game is running rather than a separate item to download.

 

Btw, welcome to Simtropolis, Brandon.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,057]

After building three successful cities fair and square over the past four months, I switched to cheating this tool and I love it.

The changes I use now:
- Capacity of power plants increased to 175 - 200% of nominal value
- Capacity of water pumps increased to 3x the nominal value
- Commercial can be build 4 blocks away from a road 
- Traffic congestion slightly decreased
- Aura effect of trees slightly decreased

I just felt like too much space was wasted for power plants and water structures, especially in the case of island cities, where space is definitely an issue. Also, it is not realistic even for a big city to have, say, twenty coal power plants. Warsaw, which is roughly a two-million city, has only six (mostly coal, I guess?) power plants. Something that would probably translate into 20 in vanilla SC3000.

In any case, one needs to be cautious as too many changes run the risk of completely derailing the game.

[SimCityHawk 194]

On 23.11.2020 at 11:49 AM, TheMurderousCricket said:

- Commercial can be build 4 blocks away from a road 

Jeeeez....... Is this possible?  It would be complete game changer for me, lol.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,057]

1 hour ago, SimCityHawk said:

Jeeeez....... Is this possible?  It would be complete game changer for me, lol.

It is. If you like, I can check my files and let you know what exactly has to be modified. 

[asasnat 216]

I noticed a few interesting things in SC3DisasterLayer.ini. The file has whole sections devoted to the "plane crash" and "smite" disasters, whatever those are. The plane crash one is pretty obvious (its obviously supposed to be a plane crash disaster), but I've never seen it in SimCity 3000 (maybe because all the versions I've messed with were produced after that, uhh... thing, you know). But "smite"? What the hell is that? Also, the file mentions "visitations" and "abductions", and also "crop circles"! WERE THOSE EVER IN SimCity 3000!? CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN?????

God.

SYS.PAK truly hides some treasures we never got (and likely never will get) to witness.

sorry for necro btw

[AtkinsSJ_ 7]

Crop circles were definitely included! If you ever managed to have farms develop (which was pretty tricky) and then have the UFO disaster, you'd get crop circles appear in some fields. No idea about the others though. I think the visitation/abductions might be news ticker messages that come before a disaster? If I remember right you'd get subtle warnings about any random disaster that was going to happen.

[asasnat 216]

On 3/31/2021 at 10:51 PM, Bruh Man said:

I noticed a few interesting things in SC3DisasterLayer.ini. The file has whole sections devoted to the "plane crash" and "smite" disasters, whatever those are. The plane crash one is pretty obvious (its obviously supposed to be a plane crash disaster), but I've never seen it in SimCity 3000 (maybe because all the versions I've messed with were produced after that, uhh... thing, you know). But "smite"? What the hell is that? Also, the file mentions "visitations" and "abductions", and also "crop circles"! WERE THOSE EVER IN SimCity 3000!? CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN?????

God.

SYS.PAK truly hides some treasures we never got (and likely never will get) to witness.

sorry for necro btw

Uhh, I made some assumptions about what some of these things (might) mean.

Plane Crash - it might be possible that the plane crash disaster was originally in the game, but then got removed following the... "things" that happened in 2001. Or maybe they just never even added it in for one reason or another.

Smite - maybe this is just referring to the earthquake disaster. Maybe.

"Visitations" and "Abductions" - I think that in the early game, the UFOs will just visit your city and fly around for a while, without destroying anything. Then, as you progress later into the game, they become more and more aggressive, with the first visitation being possible from 1900 onward, the first abduction being possible from 1950 onward, the first crop circle being possible from 1975 onward, and the first attack being possible from 2000 onward.

There are some other interesting things about the UFOs as well. For example, they can (apparently) at max:

Spoiler

• make 3 abductions
• make 3 crop circles
• destroy 3 landmarks
• destroy 3 spaceports
• destroy 6 low-tech buildings
• destroy 3 high-tech buildings
• destroy 2 power plants
• destroy 12 buildings in general

(per attack)

Man, I really wish SimCity 3000 Unlimited was open-sourced so that we can look and see for ourselves what some of those less-understood parts mean.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,057]

4 hours ago, Bruh Man said:

Plane Crash - it might be possible that the plane crash disaster was originally in the game, but then got removed following the... "things" that happened in 2001.

SC3000 was released in 1999, prior to 9/11. I even remember playing it together with my friend when the world was still normal. *sigh*

I think it was simply too difficult at the time to make that disaster or... it might have been too common!

I remember that in the first SimCity ever there was such a disaster. It happened whenever the plane entered the same game tile as the helicopter. 

If the same logic would have been applied to SC3000, aircraft would be raining from the sky! 

[CorinaMarie 29,626]

I believe it was in SC2000 that one could trap the airplane between Arcologies, but that did require turning disasters off iirc.

[TogaMasterJohn 705]

Plane crashes are present in SC2000. There are two types of plane crashes: take off / landing and loss of control.

1) Take off and landing
You want to make sure that you do not have anything around the airport zone other than a police station and a fire station. Even then, make sure to place them in the opposite direction of the runway in order to minimize the chance of a crash. One thing I learned was to make a small mountain or leave a flat space with barely anything around it for 4-5 tiles [make sure no skyscrapers are there!] and zone the airport(s) there. Place the stations near the zone but not directly beside it and do not zone high density zones around the airport within 4-8 tiles [give or take; the higher the elevation, less tiles]. This will minimize the chances of a plane to crash during take off or landing. A plane crash will cause a massive and fast-spreading fire if one is not careful in responding in time.

2) Loss of control
A plane can lose control: it can spin around in a circle as it falls out of the sky and cause an explosion on impact. It will cause a massive and fast-spreading fire if one is not careful in responding in time.

The Helicopter Crash
Another thing in SC2000 that one can do is take the centering tool and click on a helicopter while it is flying around. It will fall out of the sky in a similar manner to the loss of control plane crash - it will lose control and cause an explosion on impact. And, just like a plane, it can cause a massive and fast-spreading fire if one is not careful [tried this once after saving and man, was it something!].

How can you respond to both disasters? Bulldozing surrounding buildings and/or calling the fire departments to come out and help can do the trick [unless you pause it before it happens or during the disaster... cheater!  I don't blame you though; nothing says you can't!]. If you don't want to bulldoze a lot of stuff or anything at all, make sure that you have plenty of fire stations.

Or, you can sit back if you wish to see and listen to total chaos and destruction. Note that no fires or damage will occur if the disaster are turned off. You'll only hear the explosion/bulldoze sound when it crashes.
 

It should be noted that the plane crash disaster is not available in SimCity 2000 Network Edition [I don't know if can happen via normal means though; I have yet to test that].

I believe it also emitted in some console ports, and I am pretty sure it is missing entirely on the GameBoy Advance port. I could be wrong on the last one though, but I think that port came out after 9/11 and that port was rather limited due to technical reasons (no water system, for example).

[TheMurderousCricket 5,057]

I never played SC2000, (I know - for shame) but it looks like they've taken air crash disaster to a whole new level there! 

Too bad sys.pak can only walk us through the human-language files. I'm sure we could squeeze double of what SC3000 is if we only had a "deep" access.

[tati 2]

hi guys my name is martin, im from argentina. my english is not very good, need help. i try modify the capacity of building school (3000 desktops) for example 5000 desktops, modify the file and save, the iniciating correctly but pass 2 minutes and the game exit, whats the wrong ?

thanks !!!

[catty-cb 4,402]

Sorry can't help, not something I've ever tried to do 

[TheMurderousCricket 5,057]

9 hours ago, tati said:

hi guys my name is martin, im from argentina. my english is not very good, need help. i try modify the capacity of building school (3000 desktops) for example 5000 desktops, modify the file and save, the iniciating correctly but pass 2 minutes and the game exit, whats the wrong ?

thanks !!!

You need to make sure that the sys.pak is packed back together correctly.

Most of the crashes that happen after editing sys.pak file stem from incorrect or incomplete repackaging of the file. Follow the instructions in the initial post closely - don't make any shortcuts.

Also, make sure that you didn't enter any redundant characters in the outsourced text files. Or that you didn't delete too much.