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65 · TCCM

The sibling of 64 · CCM — 78 % identical to it — and the one fork in this family that installs under its own name rather than overwriting Construction/.

   
Base Construction 0.69a
Scripts 169 .cs — 35 identical to base (32 %), 57 changed, 77 new, 18 removed
Relationship to CCM 130 of 166/169 files byte-identical (78 %)
Size 178 files, 3.7 MB
Installs as GameData/TCCM/ — the exception in this family

The install-name exception

Every other Construction derivative documented in sections 59–68 installs as GameData/Construction/. They are alternatives, not companions: installing one replaces another, and QuantiumX’s own instructions open with “Delete all of your existing Construction folder” [mod-script].

TCCM ships its own launchers [mod-script]:

TCCM Online Server.lnk
Dedicated TCCM Server.lnk

so it lives at GameData/TCCM/ and runs as -mod TCCM.

This is the better practice, and it costs nothing. The mod path stack resolves <modname>;base regardless of the name (Mod paths and overrides), so a distinct directory means:

  • Several Construction variants coexist on one install.
  • A server operator can switch between them by changing one launcher argument.
  • Players’ saved buildings, prefs, and configs do not collide.

The only reason to install as Construction/ is that a fork inherited the base’s launchers and never changed them. TCCM changed them.

Relationship to CCM

Byte-level comparison of the two script trees [mod-script]:

File Present in
Buildingstuff.cs TCCM only
TCCM.cs TCCM only
neededfunctions.cs TCCM only
vehicles/vehicle_transTruck.cs TCCM only
vehicles/vehicle_CGTank.cs CCM only

Plus divergent map sets:

  Maps
CCM Beach, BeachStorm, CityArena, ConFortWarsV2005 (+ night), ConstructionFortWarsV2004 (+ night)
TCCM TCCMBattlegrounds1, TCCMBattlegrounds2

Everything else — the combat gametypes, the vehicle roster, the rank system, the AI files — is shared. See 64 · CCM for that inventory rather than duplicating it here.

Which came first is not determinable from the files alone. The 78 % overlap plus a handful of exclusive files on each side is consistent with a rename-and-diverge, a fork, or two branches of one project. Directory timestamps in the review set reflect extraction, not authorship. What is clear is that they are the same codebase at two points, and that TCCM added TCCM.cs and neededfunctions.cs as identity and helper files.

TCCM-only additions

File Apparent role
TCCM.cs Mod identity / entry — the naming convention several forks use for a top-level file
Buildingstuff.cs Building helpers
neededfunctions.cs Shared function library
vehicles/vehicle_transTruck.cs Transport truck

neededfunctions.cs is a recurring shape in this family — MooCon has Library.cs, Metallic has Other/misc.cs, base Construction has functions.cs / hfunctions.cs / libraries.cs. Every fork of any size grows a helper module, and none of them share one.

What it is, in one line

Combat/construction hybrid — build a fort, then fight over it — packaged with the discipline to sit alongside other mods instead of replacing them.

For someone working on it

  • Keep the separate install name. If you fork TCCM, keep -mod pointing at your own directory. It is the cheapest good decision available.
  • Check CCM before writing anything. At 78 % overlap, a fix or feature there very likely applies here with little change — and vice versa. These two are the only pair in the family where cross-porting is realistic.
  • Combat behaviour lives in the gametypes. ArenaGame.cs and CTFGame.cs, via the package <Type>Game convention (Gametypes).
  • New content needs aiInventory.cs entries or bots ignore it (AI and bots).