I am not certain if I expressed this very well, but I think how all the mods (such as fancier power plants, etc.) here and elsewhere could be used (or if they could at all) would be a very important consideration.Īs for what sunk the "open source" version of SC2000, I think the artwork should be "crowdsourced" (I hope I am using that term correctly). If all the mods here and on SC4devotion cannot be used by this game, it might be a "good" city simulation game, but it would really be an "open source" version of SC4. I could not find any more information, so I am not sure if being proprietary means that anyone can make one of these (or at least one in this certain subset), but that only Maxis/EA can use them in the game. According to this article:, plugins are a type of database file that is proprietary to Maxis. The second problem would be in the use of plugins. Python also seems to claim to have this ability. I did some looking, and some types of basic at least claim to be able to do this.
I think if such a project were undertaken, it needs to be cross-platform, that is, it source should compile to either Windows, Mac, or Linux executables, and run directly on any of these platforms without having to use some type of emulator such as WINE. I do not have the programming skill to write one myself, and am not putting forth some sort of proposal to get one written, just sorta speculating about a few things, and the following are what I came up with:
This got me to thinking about an open source version of SC4. It turns out, however, that it wasn't quite as "open source" as the developers claimed because some of the artwork (I guess for some of the buildings like power plants or whatever) was lifted from SC2000 and not original artwork. The other day, I saw an article about an "open source" version of SC2000 that was available on some gaming site. I am not sure what forum this message is best suited for, so until it is moved (if it is moved), this is the forum it will be on.
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