Bonanza was a
fork of 0.15 and later 0.15b. As far as I know, it should include all the features 0.15b ever had. It sort of
is standalone, but I trimmed it down a bit so it could be installed over 0.15b (and thus you do
need 0.15b). Not much of the latter survives fully intact, though.
While Bonanza ultimately acquired notoriety as the 'Dark Souls of pimping-sims', upping the difficulty was not my original goal. I just did what I do with most games I like, added a lot of moving parts and new features to it and tweaked things to my liking. I also incorporated the other three major mods into my work.
I am very attached to various gating mechanics, so ultimately early game became a rather unforgiving experience. But I'm also a fan of heavy scaling, so endgame is (still) hilariously broken. And the whole thing was written without performance in mind, so it is noticeably worse than the original game when it comes to that.
There were people even a few months ago who were still playing it - but they were veterans of the mod. There is a giant changelog included in the mod archive, if you're interested in what
exactly was changed. But the short answer is
everything.
If you don't want to download the whole 1.5GB+ thing, register at the
You must be registered to see the links
forums and the OP has the changelog and a bunch of promo pictures attached. Unfortunately, you can't see them as a guest.
And Leortha is right that the mod is pretty much dead these days. I've tinkered with it a bit further, but the balance and performance issues are
humongous, and I decided to cut my losses and move on to other projects. It is not 100% certain that there will
never be a new version, but odds are heavily against it.
If you play it and something crashes, I might take a look. But don't expect too much support if you do.
TLDR: Bonanza is what is usually called an overhaul mod, or '...and the kitchen sink' mod, for 0.15b and
not 0.2. But there are alligators living under the sink.
