CoriBoom Local Hospital Pockets Picked and Other FUN Dialog Boxes

[Cassalett 16]

Very useful and good mod, my health and education advisor is at least more bearable now. 
One thing I would like to report, I get underfunded alerts for private schools. Since you can't adjust their funds, is that supposed to happen? I can't place more private schools so there's no way to avoid a red alert every now and then.
 

[CorinaMarie 29,922]

30 minutes ago, Cassalett said:

I get underfunded alerts for private schools. Since you can't adjust their funds, is that supposed to happen?

Oh, my! We didn't even think to test with the private schools.

I have a feeling that's not changeable in our mod as the trigger is simply the school's grade (number of apples).

Might be better using the Private Schools with Sliders mod. (If you do install that, be sure to follow the instructions which mention bulldozing existing private schools before installing the mod. Otherwise it'd prolly lead to the phantom slider bug.)

[avenumaster 39]

well, this is a definite yes from me. maybe just maybe in 2023, we will get the sourcecode, or an upgraded 20th ann. version of the game. either way this is super awesome to see. we need more looking into the message system. perhaps you can give alternates to mr Jamil "chaos of Cars" Herd, so he isn't so repetitive, and perhaps there's more messages that are unfinished. thanks for posting this, i will have to try it soon.

[BallOpener 10]

Yay! A mod that actually makes the advisors more useful (except for the city planner, he's the only one I think is useful). I don't know why a mod like this took so long, but it's a welcome one. 

It could be great to extend the mod to make the other advisors more "useful". Good starters would be the financial and environmental advisor and maybe change their behaviour to be more like SimCity 3000 or something? Most of the time, the financial advisor got nothing to say to me. Am I going a good job? 

[trar 336]

This, truly, is a fun mod.

[simster007 398]

don´t know if this is helplful: in the first quick test the pause options don't work. Game keeps on runnning. i´m using the "urgent" version level in the city tile is easy

but anyway: thx for your work! just realized underfunding of museums/ libraries

[CorinaMarie 29,922]

2 hours ago, simster007 said:

don´t know if this is helplful: in the first quick test the pause options don't work.

Feedback is always helpful.

One thing about the Pause Toggle is if the game is already pause then that actually starts time going again. Is it possible that's what happened?

[simster007 398]

nope, game was running. i tested it a few times more yesterday and iit never toggled to pause. Everything else works fine. could the reason be that i´m using a mac version of the game (and also an old one, the actual version does not support MacOs 10.11. anymore)?

[CorinaMarie 29,922]

3 hours ago, simster007 said:

could the reason be that i´m using a mac version of the game (and also an old one, the actual version does not support MacOs 10.11. anymore)?

Seems like that could be a probable cause. Perhaps the code for the Pause was changed in one of the patches which were never incorporated into the Mac version. I'll take a peek at the UI code for the pre-expansion UI and see if it's different.

 

Edit: I've checked now and both UI versions use 0xc998bb81 which corresponds to the game.tool_button(3382229889) we use in the LText. I'm at a loss for what causes that other than to just blame the Mac version since I've no way to test that.

@simster007, I've added a beep in case you might not have seen my edit.

[simster007 398]

thx corinamarie for your research. actually I don´t mind that little error. everthing else works fine and i like it!

i just thought it could be helpful to report this - the tool is still a beta version, am i right?

[CorinaMarie 29,922]

10 hours ago, simster007 said:

i just thought it could be helpful to report this

We're glad you did. I wish there was something we could do about it. Prolly the only option at this point is to mention the non-Pause as a Mac bug.

 

10 hours ago, simster007 said:

the tool is still a beta version, am i right?

As far as we know, it's completely ready for prime time (other than the Mac related bug) meaning there's nothing on our agenda to change.

[11241036 5,115]

Just stumbled upon this thread now and got to test it. It works fine so far, and is really useful, I'm also frequently suffering from that bug that my advisors occasionally show me the wrong schools if one out of many schools has a strike.

I just wrote a German translation, in case you're interested, and attached it to this post. I hope everything is fine, it's sometimes difficult to type in the text with all the code and I might have accidentally deleted an important character.

Please note: I've taken the liberty of sometimes changing the default Maxis German translation - either in order to improve it, or because it was necessary to fit this mod, or because I thought the default English text was funnier.

Also please note that in some cases, I couldn't find a way to express myself with less (or shorter) words, which means that you have to scroll through the message in order to find all of the text.

Fixed Underfunded Notices (FUN)_German Translation.dat

[hugues aroux 3,875]

And here is the French version. I have taken some liberties to keep the text as short as possible. But I kept the spirit!

 

Couldn't we remove the underline? I did try style="text-decoration:none" in the <a> tag but to no avail!

21/02/22 - Sorry ..I have corrected a small error in the file.

FUN_by_CoriBoom_v1_FR.dat

[CorinaMarie 29,922]

10 hours ago, hugues aroux said:

Couldn't we remove the underline?

Prolly not. This semi-html code is a simplified version even for back when the game was released. For the most part Maxis used the linkys within a text paragraph and the underline is deliberate to emphasize that is something to click.

For this FUN mod, we are using them more like a menu, but that prolly wasn't really how the designers envisioned them.

[hugues aroux 3,875]

Hi hi ... That's what I thought. What was it ... an HTML 1.0 base ? ;-)  I'll look at an old doc to see if there was a solution to this question. You never know! But I'm afraid not.