CAM 2.1.0 now available

[InvisiChem]

The Colossus Addon Mod has been revamped and updated. Welcome finally to a whole new world of SimCity 4.

This edition begins the addition of CAM PlayStyles. Choosing the PlayStyle closest to your playing style will provide growth curves tailored to your style of playing. These are as follows:

Rural - Smaller towns, low rise buildings and lots of Farms. Regional play is a primary focus.
Standard - Growth like the original CAM 1.0 - Just smoothed out.
Extended - Same curve as Standard, but expanded population counts focused on regional play.
Midrise - For that European feel
Skyscraper - For the extremely dense, fast growth people out there.

Included as well is fixes for the double workforce bug, Industrial Resource being totaled in the regional counts, IHT workforce bug, a few building fixes, Hard mode is truly hard, and many more.

As with the original CAM, there is no dependencies and building downloads are not necessary. I would suggest downloading some custom content to take advantage of the additional growth stages and add some building variety to your cities. As with anything SimCity 4, NAM is highly suggested.

More information can be found at SC4Devotion, http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=17318.0

Downloads can be found at:
Windows: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3335 or http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/30956-colossus-addon-mod/

Mac: See this thread http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=17349.0

To dispel all myths about the CAM and a great description, Tarkus has a wonderful and informative article at https://simtarkus.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/the-cam-colossus-addon-mod-separating-fact-from-fiction/

Lets keep the game alive and well. Play on and I hope this mod brings the missing piece to your gameplay.

[Cignets]

Hey, it has been a long while for me but how do I make this work with the Steam version? It puts the game files in a different folder and I don't know how to make the installer look there.

[NetPCDoc]

Clue: for SimCity 4 Deluxe unpackaged additional content just needs to be somewhere in the game's plugins folder (and the game does scan sub-folders).

For CAM you really should read the documentation that comes with it - as it is a multi-part package; contains optional add-ons, etc.

[MGB]

Specifically, which files is it putting in which folder?

I ask, because the main install of CAM would go into your User Plugins DIR, that is identical for all versions of SimCity and resides in your User folder under Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins. This is absolutely the right place for plugins. If you are using the Plugins DIR inside the Installation DIR, with the exception of .dll files, you should not be placing any mods/content there.

However, if the install of CAM fails to update the SimCity_1.dat file (it needs to patch this to work properly), that's a known issue with the installer. See the instructions here on how to manually patch that file instead:

https://www.simtropolis.com/library/misc/Solution%20to%20CAM%20Installation%20Problem%20Using%20Windows%2010.pdf

[Zeratai]

Hey, I hope anyone can help me. I want the IR FIX only, will that install CAM? or the IR FIX can be used in vanilla game?

[MGB]

See here:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/ir-fix-from-cam-vanilla-series/downloads/ir-fix-from-cam-vanilla-series-windows-version

This version works without CAM.