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Is [Insert LEX File] Coming To SC4Evermore? And What’s Up With NAM 48?
[插入 LEX 文件] 会出现在 SC4Evermore 中吗？ NAM 48 怎么样？
OCTOBER 8, 202
In the past few weeks, I’ve fielded quite a few questions about whether such and such file from the former SC4 Devotion Lot Exchange (LEX) would be coming to SC4Evermore, the download-focused SC4 site I opened back in July 2023. The answer to pretty much 99% of any possible questions like that is “yes” (there are a few files–mostly things that are obsolete or too broken to fix, that won’t make the jump). SC4Evermore’s primary initial mission has been to become the new home of LEX content, albeit in a more modern, easy-to-use form–as evidenced by the LEX Legacy Packs (including the flagship BSC Common Dependencies set), and the fact that SC4E did away with SC4D’s often-confusing user account maze. There are also some efforts in the works to bring over some content that wasn’t previously available on the LEX over to SC4E.
在过去的几周里，我回答了很多关于来自前 SC4 Devotion Lot Exchange (LEX) 的文件是否会出现在 SC4Evermore（我于 2023 年 7 月开设的专注于下载的 SC4 网站）的问题。几乎 99% 的类似问题的答案都是“是”（有一些文件 - 大部分是过时的或太损坏而无法修复，不会跳转）。 SC4Evermore 的主要初始使命是成为 LEX 内容的新家，尽管采用的是更现代、更易于使用的形式 — 正如 LEX Legacy Packs（包括旗舰版 BSC 通用依赖项集）以及 SC4E 的事实所证明的那样消除了 SC4D 经常令人困惑的用户帐户迷宫。我们还做出了一些努力，将 LEX 上以前未提供的一些内容转移到 SC4E 上。
The real question one should be asking is not “if” a given LEX file will be at SC4E, but rather, “when”. To date, we’ve managed to get the contents of about 1300 LEX files onto SC4E–though as one will notice, there’s only 158 actual files to download on the site, in large part because of the consolidation efforts we’ve made with the LEX Legacy Packs. We’ve managed to get many popular files restored in this format, but somewhere north of 60% of it is still pending, including the creations of popular BATers such as SimGoober, deadwoods, and many others.
人们应该问的真正问题不是“是否”给定的 LEX 文件将位于 SC4E，而是“何时”。迄今为止，我们已经成功地将大约 1300 个 LEX 文件的内容下载到 SC4E 上，尽管人们会注意到，网站上只有 158 个实际文件可供下载，这在很大程度上是因为我们对LEX 旧版包。我们已经成功地以这种格式恢复了许多流行的文件，但其中 60% 以上的文件仍然悬而未决，包括流行的 BATers 的创作，例如 SimGoober、deadwoods 等。
As far as why this remaining 60+% hasn’t resurfaced at SC4E, the two main reasons are the discovery of a surprising number of serious issues with files in the process of preparing them for re-upload (including, in some cases, broken Lot Exemplars that have prevent growables from actually growing), and perhaps one of the heaviest outbreaks of Real Life (RL) Syndrome to hit the SC4 modding scene in many years. This outbreak has not only affected SC4E’s efforts, but also the NAM Team’s, compounded by the fact that SC4E’s content restoration efforts are pretty much entirely being undertaken by NAM Team members, who have the necessary expertise and commitment to carry out these tasks.
至于为什么剩下的 60+% 没有在 SC4E 上重新出现，两个主要原因是在准备重新上传文件的过程中发现了数量惊人的严重问题（包括在某些情况下，损坏的文件）很多阻止可种植物实际生长的范例），也许是多年来 SC4 改装场景中最严重的现实生活 (RL) 综合症爆发之一。这次疫情不仅影响了 SC4E 的工作，也影响了 NAM 团队的工作，更重要的是 SC4E 的内容恢复工作几乎完全由 NAM 团队成员承担，他们拥有执行这些任务所需的专业知识和承诺。
As a result, the climb beyond the first 1300 LEX files is going to be a slower and more arduous one, and it may still take us some time to get to the point of making all the remaining files available. We are much more concerned about doing things right than doing them fast (and wrong), and we thank the community for its patience in these times.
因此，超过前 1300 个 LEX 文件的爬升将是一个更慢、更艰巨的过程，并且我们可能仍需要一些时间才能达到使所有剩余文件可用的程度。我们更关心的是正确地做事，而不是快速地（和错误地）做事，我们感谢社区在这些时候的耐心。
With regards to NAM 48, the LEX issues/SC4E efforts and the aforementioned heavy RL have derailed our Agile-like release engineering paradigm, and have basically put development on the new version on hiatus. To give some perspective as to just how heavy RL has been for individual members, in the roughly six months since NAM 47’s release, almost every one of the main active developers has changed jobs, started or finished grad school, and/or moved–in some cases, twice. The inconsistent pace of development has pretty much everyone of us unsure of the current state of this version, and we’re still evaluating how to proceed–once we actually find the time to do so.
对于 NAM 48，LEX 问题/SC4E 的努力和前面提到的大量 RL 已经破坏了我们类似敏捷的发布工程范式，并且基本上使新版本的开发陷入了中断。为了说明 RL 对个人成员的影响有多大，自 NAM 47 发布以来的大约六个月内，几乎每一位主要的活跃开发人员都换了工作，开始或完成了研究生学业，和/或搬进了新居。有些情况下，两次。不一致的开发速度让我们几乎每个人都不确定这个版本的当前状态，我们仍在评估如何继续——一旦我们真正找到时间这样做。
-Tarkus
