SC4 Prima Guide: Now with Links!

[ebones5 36]

Hi all,

I've already mentioned this on the Discord, but I've been working on adding working links and a basic ToC to the SC4 Prima Game Guide. While mods of course tweak many of the parameters of certain systems in the guide, the fundamentals are largely unchanged, therefore the guide remains a good resource for getting to grips with the basics. Unfortunately the original .pdfs are a pain to navigate, as there's no ToC and no links within the .pdf itself, therefore I've not only added a ToC and working links on the actual ToC page, but I've also attempted to include links throughout the document when there are references to other sections. Because of the 2MB forum file limit, I have uploaded them to my website. Please let me know if there are any issues/bugs!

Mods, please let me know if this is in the wrong category or in some way breaks or messes with the forum rules.

Changelog:

v1: Initial commit

v2: Zoom level set to "Inherit Zoom" for all hyperlinks and bookmarks

Known Bugs/Issues:

As of v2 (Jul 11 2023):

• Issues with link handling (specifically font changes and newlines) when .pdf is viewed using pdf.js (Firefox, possibly others), click on the first part of the link or use a different viewer to get around this. While I will try to work around this (if possible), this seems to be a bug with pdf.js itself and not the document.
• Index does not contain working links, I do plan to fix this in the future, but due to the time-consuming nature of it, it may take a while

Download (for now I will keep links of old versions active):

v1: https://sim.mastrosim.one/SimCity_4_Rush_Hour_Prima_Official_eGuide_edit-v1.pdf

v2: https://sim.mastrosim.one/SimCity_4_Rush_Hour_Prima_Official_eGuide_edit-v2.pdf

v2 (Alt): https://archive.org/details/sim-city-4-rush-hour-prima-official-e-guide-mod

[ebones5 36]

v2 is now live! Fixed the zoom level issue, work has slowly begun on the index pages as well. Also got to thinking about optionally updating for mods like CAM, but for such a thing to be feasible it would likely have to be converted into a "web version" which is something I do not have the time for (and is really stretching fair use). It also appears that the pdf.js bug has been fixed, but that may just be on my Mac, will verify on my Windows PC sometime this weekend. Nevermind, the pdf.js bug does not occur when the .pdf is hosted, but occurs on local copies only.

[TealThylacine 9]

Thank you!

[Kel9509 1,475]

Sorry to bump this old thread, but is there any reason the Prima Strategy Guide is not a download posted here on Simtropolis?

[rsc204 21,836]

For copyright reasons it is not likely we could allow such on the STEX. 

[Kel9509 1,475]

6 hours ago, rsc204 said:

For copyright reasons it is not likely we could allow such on the STEX. 

Yeah I thought that might be the reason.  Although I think the SC4 Manual is also available for download so I wondered if the Prima Guide could be as well.  

[CorinaMarie 29,771]

11 minutes ago, Kel9509 said:

I think the SC4 Manual is also available for download ...

That's one @catty-cb had hosted on her site for years and I believe long, long ago it was pre-approved by EA as acceptable. She then passed it on to us and I added it to the STEX.

[catty-cb 4,411]

Both the SC4 Manual and a guide were freely available on the maxis website, neither required an account to download, the same applied to the official maxis plugins and cities.

To this day am not sure why EA Games when they bought Maxis deleted the SC2, SC3 and SC4 websites along with all the contents given they were still planning on selling the games to people.

[rsc204 21,836]

18 hours ago, catty-cb said:

To this day am not sure why EA Games when they bought Maxis deleted the SC2, SC3 and SC4 websites along with all the contents given they were still planning on selling the games to people.

Costs money to maintain and it distracted peoples attention from the 2013 reboot, I doubt EA saw the future where the reboot is irrelevant and everyone stuck to playing SC4 or older.

[ebones5 36]

Hello everybody,

I've unfortunately been busy with life and have not had the time (nor the active Acrobat license) to work on updating the index portion. The files are also currently hosted on my personal website, which currently is having an SSL issue that I simply have not had time to figure out; I noticed comments in another thread detailing this and while I'm trying to work it out, I've uploaded it elsewhere as well for safekeeping. Please see below for an alternate link uploaded to the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/sim-city-4-rush-hour-prima-official-e-guide-mod

Edit: SSL issues on that subdomain should be fixed. Across everything else... not so much.