Some questions if it's okay.
1. What exactly is a resource?
2. What causes resource conflicts?
3. What problems/issues can they cause?
4. What is the fix for a resource conflict?
Now before you answer, I'm going to try to take a logical guess at these based on what little I know about the game.
1. A resource is some kind of container in the game that stores data.
2. A resource conflict is when a mod is accessing a resource that doesn't exactly match with the mod's. For example, a mod calls a resource that contains name and age but the mod resource doesn't contain the age field so they don't match.
3. I'm going to guess that the problems occur when the game tried to process a resource and doesn't have all the data it needs, thus causing some kind of an error.
4. The fix is for the mod creator to change the resource in his mod to match the resource in the game.
Is that pretty much it?
Yeah, I think that's it. I sent a message to the mod creator, waiting for his answer...
@stevenwagenheim Pretty much, yep! Thankfully, the modding community has developed tools that help identify what's new in the game each time and to help compare their mods with new code, and Maxis is really supportive with supplying the community with additional information that can't be extracted otherwise 🙂
