It seems that some relatively small steps for Modders can lead to some pretty giant leaps for simkind. This award has been invented for the one who sits at the desk in the Mission Control of Modding. Houston, we have a Trixie!
Simmaster07 embarked on a journey to go beyond the limits of the core game and enable DLL loading on game startup. Probably the most important QoL benefit that this breakthrough has had is the elimination of the dreaded crash to desktop when hovering a puzzle piece over a TE lot. It takes quite a lot of knowledge to sort out the code, and lots of dedication to piece it all together, test it, bundle it, and upload. Simmaster07 did all that and made an extremely valuable contribution to the community. Simmaster07's work with DLLs is truly incredible and has the potential to allow moding in ways that were previously impossible. In my opinion this isn't just a big breakthrough for 2016, but for all of SimCity 4's history.
