After the latest Asobo fps patch (1.14.6.0), Meigs Field (3rd party) again is missing.
Again I wrote to the author, Guillermo Zulueta, about this problem and his suggested work-around follows. Yes, this does work. Rather than bugging him each time there is an update or patch I am going to change the first letter/s of the unzipped folder name. No reason it should not work for future Asobo changes:
He said, “No bother at all. A pleasure to help. Try renaming again the folder name starting with something like “aa” or similar. I suspect the game has cache issues reloading installed addons after a patch has been installed and need to force a cache reload. Changing the name makes the game think it’s a new addon and generates a new cache. I’ve tried several times to fix this but with no luck yet.”
Regarding the latest disappearance, just open the Community folder and find the folder “xx_guillermozulueta_meigs”. Change the folder name by changing the first letter or first two letters to something other than what you see there, and then save the new folder name. Today I changed “z”_ to “aa”_ and this worked. Long live Meigs. PS- Guillermo has developed this particular freeware version into a payware version called Professional Version. It is way more highly detailed and includes amazing detail of the insides of the buildings. I think I shall purchase although right now I have not a clue as to how to get inside the buildings… external camera I think. Still learning.