How to know if SPAM is working?

[Plato]

I downloaded SPAM for the first time yesterday and placed it in my PEPGROD (or whatever it is called) Plugins folder. In that same folder is the Mountait texture pack (or whatever it is called) that SPAM is dependent on. The only other mod, which is working, that I have on SC4 is NAM (with RHW).

I started a completely new tile to test this out.

I am not sure that it SPAM is working and think that all that may have happened is that the farms have been reskinned. My farms don't look as developed or have the big buildings in them or the livestock that the pictures of SPAM seem to indicate is in the contect - but then maybe everything needs to develop more.

Here are the changes and maybe you could tell me:

* I get a different colour agricultural zoning than before - it is a darker yellow (almost tan)
* the crops range from vineyards to orchards
* I can make a farm of any shape
* freight trucks seem more common

Please let me know if you think it is working as normal. I would really like to see the big grain silos and the cows that were in the pics of SPAM before I downloaded.

[Ilja]

That sounds like SPAM. I followed it's progress and played with it for a long time, when SimPeg4 was still up. The ability to make farms of any shape tells us that at least the mechanism is working correctly.

SPAM works differently from the default farm system. It has several levels and they appear in game, when requirements for them change. With SPAM, agriculture demand does not die off, when education levels rise. It develops to match the need. There is a randomness factor in what buildings you get, based on farm size. You can zone small to get farms where buildings do not appear at all. You can zone wider, where buildings do appear.

The amount of crops should be quite varied though. I haven't seen any screenshots from your game, so I can't say if they are working or not.

SPAM also has plenty of addons. Paeng, Craig-ABCVs and other peoples from the original PEGPROD crew made a good bunch of them. Are you certain that buildings you see are not included to those as ploppable lots?

[Plato]

Thanks for the reply. I was going to take a screenshot, but I'm pretty sure it's working. When I query the farm buildings, I get the details with a cartoon pig in the background. Seems like SPAM to me....

But would anyone mind telling me where exactly the dirt roads are. I just cannot find them!

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

The dirt roads are a separate download:

Either the functional ones that come with N.A.M.'s S.A.M. component or the eye candy lots from this pack:

http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/21053-peg-mtp-logging-roads/

[Plato]

Thanks! Are there any functional dirt roads?

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Originally posted by Plato:

Thanks! Are there any functional dirt roads?

Yes, the ones included in N.A.M.'s S.A.M. component are functional.