Network Addon Mod (NAM) Version 36 Now Available

[TarkusSC4]

For those of you are familiar with the Network Addon Mod, the 36th edition of the mod just came out on the 13th, adding the long-awaited FLEX Turn Lanes and Draggable Elevated RealRailway Viaducts, among other features. Here[sc4devotion.com] is the official announcement thread from SC4 Devotion, which also has the download links.

-Tarkus

[Ilja]

Good to hear and thank you for pointing that out.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Yeah NAM 36 baby~!

Hope the SLURP project gets around to updating a lot more stations though ;)

[TarkusSC4]

Thanks, Ilja and Cahos!

To answer your question about SLURP, that's mostly been handled by the RTMT Team, actually (all of the current active RTMT members are also NAMites). Their main focus right now is trying to finish RTMT 4.0, which has been in development for about 6 years now.

-Tarkus

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

That's great news then as I do love the RTMT mod as well :)

To be perfectly honest NAM + RTMT is an absolute required mod combo. Heck NAM + RTMT SHOULD be considered as "Rush Hour 2.0".

[Don Trump 4]

Is there something wrong with the file? My antivirus says its untrustworthy.

[A Fat, Angry Serval]

Originally posted by Don Trump 4:

Is there something wrong with the file? My antivirus says its untrustworthy.

What's wrong is that you're using antivirus in an era where viruses aren't really the go-to method for cyberattacks anymore.

[Don Trump 4]

Originally posted by VestedGamr:

Originally posted by Don Trump 4:

Is there something wrong with the file? My antivirus says its untrustworthy.

What's wrong is that you're using antivirus in an era where viruses aren't really the go-to method for cyberattacks anymore.

It may not be a go to method but viruses are still widely used. Especially considering the demographic I usually deal with: modders, not terrorists or higher level criminals. What's wrong is your answer isnt really an answer.

[A Fat, Angry Serval]

Originally posted by Don Trump 4:

Originally posted by VestedGamr:

What's wrong is that you're using antivirus in an era where viruses aren't really the go-to method for cyberattacks anymore.

It may not be a go to method but viruses are still widely used. Especially considering the demographic I usually deal with: modders, not terrorists or higher level criminals. What's wrong is your answer isnt really an answer.

Well, if you're that concerned, I'd suggest scanning it with at least two other antivirus programs to get a second or third opinion. I'd recommend avast and Malwarebytes for that. Alternatively, there are a few websites that can have pretty much all comercially available antivirus programs scan the file at once.

That being said, SC4Devotion is generally a very trustworthy site.

On an aside, most of the viruses that are written these days are made to show off coding skill more than anything and aren't intended to be distributed. Doesn't make them any less dangerous should they get on a computer (one of them does a bunch of random things and then replaces your MBT with Nyan Cat), though.

[TarkusSC4]

Originally posted by Don Trump 4:

Is there something wrong with the file? My antivirus says its untrustworthy.

Out of curiosity, which antivirus program are you using, and what is the supposed cause for it being flagged? There has been a recent trend with several antivirus utilities of late to use "heuristics-based detection", wherein files are flagged not because there is actually a virus there, but simply because a file contains an installer, didn't come from a major commercial site, and/or hasn't hit a certain number of downloads.

Norton tends to use the "WS.Reputation.1" and "Trojan.GEN.2" flags for this purpose, and reading the fine print on the descriptions on their site reveals these are generic flags used by the heuristic detection, and not actual, verifiable threats. If you were to legitimately scan the file beyond whatever initial flag/quarantine that your antivirus program is throwing at you, you'd get a clean scan. (As the member of the NAM Team who handled the uploads, I scanned our installer with Norton Security before letting it out into the wild. It came through clean then.)

The particular cocktail of parameters that Norton and others are using is inherently biased toward large corporations and commercial software packages, and against small, independent entities, like sites that offer mods and addons for older computer games.

Norton tried to blacklist both SC4 Devotion and Simtropolis earlier this year, after it tried to claim that decade-old files that had not been altered in anyway suddenly got picked up as "Trojan.GEN.2" by their heuristic detection. Both sites submitted false positive reports, and were cleared once actual technicians examined the sites and the files.

-Tarkus

[Don Trump 4]

It waas Symantec, using the reputation flag you mentioned, similar to Norton. Thanks for the explaination on that.

The other half was just figuring out how to unquarantine files, since they were automatically removed before I could do anything about it.

Currently installing NAM, thank you.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Symantec IS Norton :P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_(Symantec)

And is in fact, the worst software pretending to be Anti-virus.

Either Kaspersky Labs or ESET (NOD32) or GTFO... for paid AVs.

[Osirius]

great to see the NAM is still going strong, keep up the good work to all!

[RuudSchipper]

I have the steam version of sim city 4 deluxe. and installed NAM36 and that worked. But in the game nothing happends. can someone help me.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

@nielsschipper:

Did you try looking at your Network tabs, i.e. your roads options as NAM's content is found there?

[MGB]

Indeed, NAM doesn't change anything obvious, but it does add a huge amount of new content/networks.

Bear in mind, if you selected "Basic Install" during installation, all you've asked for is a bunch of game fixes, you won't have the new networks and other features.