I remember back in B 23 that all you had to do was change starting funds in the activities folder. Now when ever I try to change it in B 24, it says access is denied. Since it appears I cant edit the funds, is there any current updated mods that would grant me cash during the building stage? And if I am just doing something wrong, how do I do it?

I'm not sure about editing the activities file. But if you wish to have cash on demand while playing, simply edit an .ini file to give a purchasable item a negative gold value. Meaning when you buy it, you gain money.
It's sloppy, but it works in multiplayer as well.

Overcome the "access denied" thing by copying the text file to somewhere else, editing it, saving it,then copying it back, removing the old one.
You only have to do t once for each "access denied"-ey file.

Or you can open the lua console in-game and write this code:



Being the first number the amount of funds and the second one for the team (-1 for no team, 0 for team 1, 1 for team 2, 2 for team 3 and 3 for team 4).