Shadow Assassin
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Just a reminder, AI is a tool, and should be treated as such. There is nothing wrong with AI-generated content. My beef is when someone creates content that's clearly generated with ChatGPT or otherwise, and they pass it off as their own.
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Okay, so we'll just let it happen, that's fine👍 @Haljackey specifically called out @Ulisse Wolf's image because while it's not malicious at all, and there isn't anything wrong with it, it is still AI-generated and it was highly prominent on the front page. I know you're thinking "it's just an image, no big deal", it seems harmless, but there are some real thorns below the surface. What are you letting into the community we cultivate by not doing anything?
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I like your optimism You completely missed my point though. It's too easy for someone of whatshisface's ilk to come in and create custom content that was generated with ChatGPT and pass it off as their original content. So basically you're saying you're OK with that?
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Yeah, nah, I think it's something that needs to be addressed in this thread honestly. I am aware that AI generated images are a huge rabbit hole that the moderation team is absolutely not willing to deal with, but you are aware you opened a huge loophole here as an admin of this site, right? Specifically, that as long as said AI images are not violent or pornographic, but that there's no attempt to state specifically what's acceptable as AI content. What's there to stop someone uploading an AI generated image of a SC4 region for example? All that's needed is a statement that a specific image was AI-generated, or if multiple AI generated images are used in a forum post or similar they probably should state otherwise, otherwise we get an absolute torrent of AI slop that degrades the quality of commentary on this site.
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Suggestion box or not, I'd like to see a bit more scrutiny around AI-generated images.
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Simtropolis x sc4pac: a new way to install plugins
Shadow Assassin replied to smf_16's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
Just a heads-up that the SC4E LEX now supports sc4pac, so you'll be able to download packages from there too! -
poll SC4 Building Styles Community Vote
Shadow Assassin replied to Ulisse Wolf's topic in SC4 Modding - Open Discussion
We can have multiple UI styles, from memory (so 800x600 could have smaller images and corresponding UI files) But also the game allows scrolling within UI elements (again, from memory) - I'm not sure if the building styles dialog window allows this. --- That being said, I feel like we're having at least three discussions here simultaneously: what do we name the tilesets? how do we present the UI? and what appears to be an abandoned discussion around having an expanded IID range that gives us a little bit more room to breathe. Can we address these one at a time? -
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Shadow Assassin replied to Ulisse Wolf's topic in SC4 Modding - Open Discussion
I wouldn't ask Copilot to give us a definition for our building styles. It lacks context. Most of these 64 styles you mention are kind of esoteric, and also extremely specific. If you break it down to broader regions it becomes a bit easier for the player to digest. -
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Shadow Assassin replied to Ulisse Wolf's topic in SC4 Modding - Open Discussion
Hello! I've not read any of this thread so take this as a grain of salt (and some of you may want to continue being salty but I don't care, too old for that stuff) ...but what if: We shift the entire IID range downwards, so that we get more defined styles, (i.e., from 200 right through to 201), the community gets the 202 and 280 ranges to do with as they will. This would give us significantly more breathing room, and let us define more granular styles. For instance, I would suggest the following, if we want to fill in 4 Maxis, and 28 general. Note I don't care about names as such, I'll leave that up to everyone: Vanilla Maxis Chicago 1890 Maxis New York 1940 Maxis Houston 1990 Maxis Euro 2000 Pre-defined Western Europe (France, Switzerland and west Germany) Central Europe (Poland, east Germany, Hungary, former Yugoslavia) Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia) Northern Europe (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland) UK + Ireland West Mediterranean (Spain, Italy) East Mediterranean (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey) Middle East North Africa Central Africa Southern Africa Central America South America Australia & New Zealand Oceania Japan China East Asia South-East Asia India Midwest USA Contemporary ... ... ... ... ... ... Future -
lol no If anything there's been far too much of a proliferation of TLAs (three letter acronyms) in the community in general. It's a good thing that abbreviations like CAM, NAM, SPAM, etc have that feature on ST that explain what they mean.
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bugs Simtropolis 9.0.x - Bugs & Issues Report Thread
Shadow Assassin replied to Cyclone Boom's topic in Simtropolis Related
(edit: yes I realised I posted about this last month, but considering the state of ST's server these days it's honestly not surprising that it didn't pop up for me at all) Couple of issues on mobile. I remember this was fixed a while ago but it's come back again - the popup is very wide and the forums have a similar problem as well. IIRC it was something invisible in the header pushing everything out.- 1,131 Replies
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It's still on the old server, yes. I'm currently investigating why this is occurring, sorry about the issues you're having downloading. I suspect it may be either CloudFlare or the server load balancer playing silly buggers here.
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The Future of SC4 Modding: The Matter of Digital vs. Disc, and Windows vs. macOS in the DLL Era
Shadow Assassin replied to Tarkus's topic in SC4 Modding - Open Discussion
Sony have actually done this with PS2 --> PS3 backwards compatibility in the past, so I wouldn't use them as a shining example lol Regarding Steam no longer being updated on Win7, Valve also dropped support for older MacOS versions at the same time. Steam will still run OK (ish) on Windows 7 machines, but in this case Valve had to drop support due to the underlying web browser also dropping support for Windows 7 (and quite frankly, about time, too). You still have access to your Steam games even if support has ended for your chosen operating system. -
Hello all. In the interests of transparency, this is what's happening with the SC4E side of things over the coming weeks. SC4D Wiki rebuild - as part of the move to our shiny new infrastructure (no, we're not taking donations ) we need to get the Wiki up to date onto a modern version of Mediawiki. This is a huge, huge job as every single article currently hosted there will need to be migrated, checked for any templating issues, and then verified that it appears as it should. The current SC4D wiki is still online and will be staying with the existing webhost until this is done. SC4D forums migration - due to how the server is setup, it's not a straightforward job just to copy and paste the forums from the old server onto the new (unlike SC4E itself), so that will take some time to move across to the new server. Improved functionality to some parts of the site - as part of a drive to improve the quality of our services there'll be a few minor changes here and there (particularly on the exchange side of things). Keep an eye out! As always - please let us know if you run into problems with the new server (downloads not working etc). As it's new infrastructure (and a new dawn after the nightmare that was the old host), there's 100% going to be teething issues, but it will be significantly more reliable going forward. -- SA
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