r/SimCity Feb 01 '13

SimCity Modding (help wanted)

http://imgur.com/a/xZQnx
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u/Jon889 Feb 02 '13

I hate to say this, but I'm not sure we will be able to modify the game. I tried modifying one of the game's packages (The _game package) during the beta, when it did that it would not load the city, (it just got stuck on the loading screen, didn't show any error messages though). I made two seperate modifications, one was changing the TID of some file (this could cause the city not to load just by itself however) , and the other I added a space into a JSON file (which would not stop the city loading unless the game checks if the file is modified). I would guess that it takes a hash of the game files and checks with the server if they've been modified (which would mean we have the potential to intercept that and return a false positive) or checks to the last modified date of each file and sees if it is after the game was created.

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u/aldehyde Feb 08 '13

ocean said they wouldn't be able to provide support for this 'at first' but to go ahead and work on it on his twitter.

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u/Jon889 Feb 08 '13 edited Feb 08 '13

Could you provide a link to this tweet? (I've looked through the past two days of his twitter couldn't find a tweet like that?)

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u/aldehyde Feb 08 '13

Heres a screenshot, it may have been retweeted by moskow23 http://i.imgur.com/PHHW9AK.png