STeam version "CITIES: SKYLINES" Popular MOD producer is accused as a "harassing script". Road speed decline in the city

City creation sim " CITIES: SKYLINES " STEAM version MOD producer is accused by the same community. Multiple MODs published by the creator include malicious behavior. Overseas media NME etc. reports.

"CITIES: SKYLINES" is a urban operating simulation game. Colossal Order, a developer of Finland, is developed, and Paradox Interactive is responsible for sales. In this work, the player will develop a city as the mayor of newly born city. While looking at the state of the residents, organize compartments such as residential areas and industry areas I will go. In addition, this work is also active in the activities of MOD producers, and many mods of MODs have been posted on the STEAM workshop page of the same work.

The STEAM workshop is a system that can easily share and reason user production MOD etc. on the same platform. MOD producers can make various content and publish according to the setting of development, sales source and game side implementation. The user can easily introduce MOD and user production content simply by clicking "Subscribe" from the workshop page of the corresponding work. This system is used not only for "CITIES: SKYLINES" but also in titles for many STEAMs.

And now, a "CITIES: Skylines" MOD producer is denounced from the same work community as "a malicious behavior was put in the STEAM workshop public MOD. The MOD producer who is working in the name of CHAOS and HOLY WATER is the MOD producer who has published malicious MOD. Chaos has published MODs such as Harmony (Redesigned) in a Steam workshop, and the number of delectors of the MOD is approaching 15,000. However, according to the testimony of the NME and the work community, some of the CHAOS MODs have been removed from the workshop by the STEAM operation source Valve, and the Holy Water name account used the most recently, pauses I received it.

What was the problem of CHAOS released MOD? According to the community testimony, His's MOD has a code that detects a specific user and causes the code to prevent other popular MOD operations. First of all, "Harmony (Redesigned), published by CHAOS, is a derivation (fork) version of the MOD deployment library" Harmony ". "Harmony" is used for MOD implementation of many games such as "RIM World", and software that is the premise of many mod operations. "The main house" "Harmony" has not been pointed out such as malicious behavior. On the other hand, CHAOS 'Harmony (REDESIGNED) "said" Auto Updater "" that can download malicious software "was packed secretly.

Not only that, CHAOS also published a derivative of other mod. He has published the "Self-publishing" of the same work popular MOD, such as "Traffic Manager: President Edition" and "Network Extensions". And that the player who introduced such CHAOS Version MOD was intentionally caused an error when using the legitimate "Harmony". And it seems that a mechanism to be prompted to use "Harmony (Redesigned)" produced by he. In other words, Chaos has built a cycle that would further increase the user of his MOD using the derived version of his popular MOD.

In addition, CHAOS is a point that CHAOS has decided to determine a specific STEAM user ID and "harassing" to such a user. If you check the source code of "Network Extensions 3" published, it is certainly implemented as a harassment purpose. Multiple Steam user IDs are listed in the list in the code and the list assigned names and names. The listed users are centered by other MOD producers of "CITIES: Skylines", including community verification, also includes employees of the developer Colossal Order. If such a user uses Network Extensions 3, it seems that the road limit of roads in the game is low.

In addition, there is a change history that is evidence for intentional errors that occur when using the main family "Harmony" described above. This code contains a long and more criticism of "Harmony" update policy, and "load block" function is described that stops operation when using "Harmony". And at the end of the comment "If you derive this software to break the load block, you're going to hire a lawyer." It is the intention to force the user to use the usage of "Harmony (redesigned)" created by yourself.

Besides, a Steam account that seems to be the thing of him is currently a statement that "Colossal Order is" CITIES: SKYLINES "is a key logger (a malicious software that collects user input information)". In this statement, Colossal Order is a community manager, and he has a mastered Samantha Woods, and he claims that he is inviting "harassing" to Mr. Chaos. It is unclear whether CHAOS actually attacked MOD users. However, there will be no doubt that the community and developer and hostile with a fairly intense anger, with a quite intense anger.

Overseas Bulletin Board Reddit's Mastering Community / Citieskylines, CHAOS 's actions, and threads were called to call for stopping MODs of the MOD. It is also shared by a method to solve the problem that occurs when the MOD "Network Extensions 3" is suspended. If you remember your concern with domestic users, you may want to check the use MOD.

STEAM Workshop Provided MOD may have not been used, especially if you have not been well aware of safety? In this series of turmoil, it was shown that a malicious implementation may be made for MODs with high degree of fiberum of producer. It depends on the game side implementation, but even if it is workshop MOD, it is better to make a one before the introduction and take advantage.