This drives me insane, take so much care in curating traffic and instead of cars coming out of/into the entrances for the parking garage they just float into/out of place when in close proximity
I had a great laugh as during the first minute of the video, as you spoke of making the game realistic, in the background, cars are flying in and out of the upper floors of the parking garage.
Your explaination of rico revisited makes it quite attractive to me now. I've stayed away from RICO mods in the past, because I want my cities to grow naturally, but making the unique buildings fit their purpose would be great.
Same here. thinking about getting these mods after your video. Just a quick questions with your good looking cars and citizens. are they all just custom and all I have to do is to download them from the workshop right? Also your map theme and LUT look great, could you let me know what they are?
To simulate underground parking for downtown skyscrapers, I place some "parking lot roads" components inside the footprint of some of the buildings to complement the visible parking garages. I'll even add some to the parking garages to boost their capacity since they don't ever actually fill up to capacity.
Thats actually a great idea! I’ve experimented with putting parking garages under (inside) buildings with mixed results. Just putting spaces inside makes more sense ;)
I never ever thought I could wrap my head around RICO Revisited/Ploppable RICO and you cleared the smoke screen in 4 minutes and 19 seconds. Man, do I love your content! Keep up the great work man! I'm absolutely loving it!
Just wiped my collection of mods and downloads for a new start. Had 1,076 "pages" of downloaded stuff and no clue what most were or how many worked. Looking for a more realistic, and not so cumbersome, collection of stuff for the future. And I stumbled across this video....♥️ I had traffic manager (kinda understood it) and RICO revisited (couldn't figure it out much at all). I have just gained more knowledge about these two then from watching dozens of other videos about these two! You made them so simple. I now know how to tackle my future builds. Realistic Population...didn't know about this one. But was always scratching my head with a large spawn office building had only 20 people in but a single family house would also have 20 people in it. Anyway... subscribing to your channel and will spend the rest of the day watching many of your videos! Thanks for making all three of these easy to understand, ESPECIALLY the RICO!
The other addition you may want to do is "realistic cims" which basically adjusts the speed they move about the city, they look like they are running to places LOL. This MOD makes them walk in a more realistic speed and it looks so much better. Can't recall the exact name for that MOD but I think it is a MUST have.
Just a note about levels for RICO revisited (I'm learning as well but I've seen it used in a few builds); Changing the level definitely makes a difference for the building, in that certain buildings will not strive depending on the land value around said building. In other words, if you have your shopping center as a level 3 building, but the land value around it is low (due to no parks, or city services, etc), it will become abandoned quickly. Think of it as a building upgrading in your city. As the land value goes up, buildings upgrade. Thus, having a high-level asset requires a high land value. I see this video is 2 years old, but if anybody is using this mod and also wonders what the levels are for, hopefully this helps a bit!
I've been banging my head against a brick wall trying to figure out some of these mods without much success. Other TH-camrs, although well-meaning and very enjoyable, run through what they are doing way too fast with little or no explanation seeming to forget about those of us who are new. I really like the way you explain these things in detail without talking down to us or OVER-EXPLAINING...( this is a spoon, hold it in your hand, open your mouth...LOL) Thank you for explaining the RICO and also now I am able to change the decorations on roads like the trees and lights....AWESOME!!! Can you please tell me exactly with parking lot roads you are using in this video, or maybe you did and I missed it. I have some, lots actually, dealing with parking but they don't seem to be the correct ones. Again, thank you!! Have been binge-watching past episodes!!!
Great list! One thing I would add is the Real Time mod, which changes the timeline from days to hours (and allows you to control how quickly the hours pass, and has separate controls for day and night, so that if you want to see how your city looks at night, but don't want it to last forever, you can do that) creates realistic rush hours (suuuuuper challenging, with the realistic traffic of TMPE!), and creates 'events' at large unique buildings, which generate extra traffic. Extra challenges, for sure, but definitely more realistic.
Great video! On a side note, I love how during the Intro how these mods will enhance realism the parking garage on-screen has cars (literally) flying out. That made me laugh.
Only watched two of your videos. And I am a fan already. paused the game for almost a year now, due to lack of realism. Man thank you so much for getting me to play again. thank you.
The trouble with stacking a high density residential on top of high density commercial is the residents will keep complaining, getting sick and dying of *noise pollution*... Love your series man. I felt particularly inspired by the road hierarchy and interchange episodes, and I have applied your interchange tutorials in several districts of my current city. I'd love to see if you have some tricks up your sleeve to manage the horrendous cargo harbor and cargo train station traffic. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! You’re correct about the noise pollution. I recently turned noise pollution off using mods for just that reason. It no longer suits how I play. Cargo train and cargo harbor traffic are solved by switching from a cargo harbor to a cargo hub and creating an internal cargo train network. Creating trains instead of trucks to ship to stations throughout your city. See my “Internal Cargo Network” and “Guide to Cargo and Passenger Trains” video for ways to implement :)
21:47 "The parking garage doesn't have enough parking" Who hasn't experienced the struggle... it's a beautiful, sunny day; you want to pay a visit to the lovely parking garage, but where to put your car while you're there, enjoying the view? 😅
Ploppable RICO mod is the most overpowered one I've used in the game. I had 160,000 residents before and over 250,000 after a couple of hours of using it. I can also get people to work more because I can just place copes of the same building with hundreds of jobs in each one. Its so cool to turn a certain unique building into a residential, commercial, or office building. I also like how you can make low density residential buildings have fewer households and high density residential buildings have way more households. By the way thanks for making this video.
I found your channel after City Planner Plays mentioned how helpful your tutorial on parking lots was in his new Let's Play series Clearwater County. I started playing CS in 8/20 but only started delving into the world of mods and downloading assets a few months ago. I've been binge watching all of your videos and I can't begin to tell you how fantastic and helpful they are. You have demystified so many mods and inspired me to take my next city to a new level of detail and functionality. Thank you so much for putting out the informative content in such a comprehensive yet easy to understand way. I think you are an amazing and essential contributor to the CS community. Thank you, good sir. :)
Wish I'd stumbled on this video earlier! You explain RICO Revisited way better than any of the videos dedicated to just that mod that I've watched. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video and others. This one has really changed my approach to how I build my cities and will have to go back and revisit some of my old ones. Been following you for about a week and am loving your videos.
Every time I watch your videos I learn something and I agree with you. It’s long time that I think using a combo of mods and assets we can build our version di Cities Skylines, the Advanced Edition.
I love how you start your video talking about how you make your city and it's traffic more realistic, meanwhile, you have vehicles flying in and out of the building on the lower left of your screen lol
Thank You for your videos! I been playing cities skylines pretty much since it’s release. How I just started playing Mod’s in the last six months. After discovering your video on traffic manager I had to watch more. And after watching this one and few others I realize I was only experiencing 1/2 the fun. Things are so much more realistic now!
I love you videos. I needed to a fresh version of Cities Skylines because my game had too many old buggy mods that weren't compatible. I deleted all of my game files and reinstalled the game, adding nearly all of the Mods in your favorites Menu on Steam. I'm hoping my game won't bug out anymore and I can play the game as you do in your videos.
@@YUMBL also thanks to you, i was going with lomg curve far from rico revisited until watched your movie. i think mod creator should make better description because before watching it i thought its just second plop growables 😅😅😅
My 2 cents on the realistic population mod: Just an assumed explaination how Paradox comes to this maximum of 32 workers or in general unrealistic low residental numbers even on bigger buildings: Per default as far as i know, only somewhat 65000 cims are going to be simulated at all in the game, (of course moddable) and to ensure that your city looks still large and great even with that amount of population, they seemed to take a compromise by "spreading" the residentals in more buildings, so your city looks bigger, but still has not that high population. If you e.g. build a skyscraper residental with 1000 families (3-4000 pop) you might only 20 of those to max calculated population, and what is a city with only 20 skyscrapers? ;) so what Paradox did, made sense when they programmed it at the beginning, they didnt know that we do have an awesome community to build mods, assets, and creating tons of great videos (count this one in ;) ) to make Cities Skylines community a great place to be in. Dont get me wrong, i dont see this mod useless, just explaining from Paradox potential site why the game mechanic in vanilla works as it works :)
I love that during the introduction to this video explaining about how to make city skylines more realistic your parking garages have cara fly to and from them. Clearly this city is set in the distant future, but before transport tubes.
Well, time to get RICO revisited. I already have realistic pop revisited and it has doubled my city population. Interesting note: right before I found realistic pop I went through my city and completely remade my public transport (bus and metro) from scratch. I tried to build it to be as robust as possible. I then got realistic pop and watched 30,000 new cims move in. Surprisingly, my public transport *held up* to the massive spike in demand. I only needed to make small adjustments like adding more busses or a new bus/metro line. The existing PT infrastructure never buckled under the load although it is being tested rather hard.
Commenting after 5s of video : I saw "Realistic" in the title, lauched the video, 1st second, bottom right corner, the car jumping from nowhere. Now I don't know what to expect.
the realistic population mod makes quite a difference, there are district specialization's for offices, which are called IT specializations, it has huge skyscrapers which only can contain 16 workers
The levels is the buildings is when a building has certain services so usually it needs school parks fire police etc to reach level 5. Each level a building will rebuild itself to its next level...I usually put all my buildings as the highest level
I get that, but does it make a difference when you convert a unique building to level x or level y? I’ve not noticed if a converted lvl 5 residential actually holds more people than any other level. With realistic population it uses the buildings dimensions, which are the same regardless of level, right?
at 0:22 I find it so ironic that while he's talking about it being unrealistic, there's a bunch of flying cars coming out of the parking garage in the background
Cims are... overzealous with parking. They drive straight to and from parking spaces, no matter whats in the way or how far up or down. Its save to say the devs didn’t intend on parking garages to exist in CS.
The problem for me with putting more than 100 jobs or housing in a building is that it gets quite unmanageable in terms of waste production, deaths and crime
Thanks YUMBL, love your CS stuff. Specially the intersections! One thing I find with the Realistic Population mod is that sims won't take jobs at commercial zones IF all the highly educated jobs are taken AND you have the Hadron Collider popped down. Anyway to fix this? I'm about to just adjust the available jobs at these building to the amount of highly educated jobs lol... Edit: That changes the visitors count aswell so not ideal....
Proper mixed use zoning would be amazing. Much more realistic. There are so many cities where businesses line the street level, but people live upstairs.
Couldn’t you just mod it? Make HD residential satisfy a small amount of commercial demand as well, or HD commercial also satisfy residential demand, and then add some assets that reflect that use?
I really like the sound of more realism and these mods are really cool, but do you think I should wait until I've got significant hands-on experience with the game?
Actually, I do. You will develop fundamentals if you play the base game/vanilla for a few cities. You can learn the basics of building and traffic before learning to customize and detail. It’s just my opinion. Excellent question!
PC is so flexible. All the colors and textures in the game can be swapped out. Some of my videos will definitely apply to console though. Thank you for watching!
I’m not sure they did based on the specs needed to run even a large vanilla city well. Its good to have the option to turn on more challenging settings though.
Great video. I don't know what to think about realism in Cities:Skylines. It's not exactly realistic for a town of 35,000 people to have 2000 people working or living in one building. Cities that size usually don't have big traffic problems. They typically have very little if any mass transit. All of this can change if the city is part of a larger metropolitan area, but cities in the game are typically on their own. I've decided to pretend that if the population number in the game is 35k, it's representing 350k. Just multiply by 10. And even then, there aren't many cities that size with really big skylines and a ton of mass transit. Atlanta, maybe, but it's the principal city in a much larger urban area. Either way, I'm getting back into the game after several years of not playing, so your channel and a few others have been valuable to me. Lots of new mods, and I have such a bad memory I couldn't even remember how to play anymore. Years before CS, I used to play SC4 and when I first got back into CS, the two were conflating in my brain. It's a process. Thanks.
What you’re describing realism wise has less to do with the mod and more to do with your decisions. A 2000 person residence or office wouldn’t fit well in a city that size. It may be more a matter of using buildings that are proportionate to the size of the city you want to design.
@@YUMBL Yeah. I think it's that way because people want to have fun and build big cities, but limitations with the engine and computing in general just aren't up to it. They've sought to strike a balance and the mod is there to give the player more control on how it's balanced. It's just something that stuck me as weird after being away from the game for so long, seeing these 35 or 50k cities with all this infrastructure. I'm reluctant to add a bus line even when the city needs one because I haven't yet acclimated.
The only reservation I have is with the Realistic Population. If one tower holds 870 homes and another 2000+ workers, won't you hit the agent limits before ever reaching anything remotely resembling a realistic city size?
@@YUMBL It's true. I always envision my new builds to be a string of small towns on the countryside, but the call for huge, bustling metropolitan areas keeps drawing me away from my original plans. Unfortunately this game wasn't (adequately) designed for that.
I never know about that parking feature of TMPE, and I heavily use that mod. I wouldn't dare turn that on in my current city as it wasn't build with parking being a need in mind, but I'll play around with that and the other 2 mods in a new city for sure.
I assume the "level" is the upgrade level, i.e. when you have zoned areas, the buildings upgrade from level 1 through level 5 as they meet their demands. A level 5 residential building would need well educated citizens to fill it.
In the context of a building converted to RICO using “Ploppable Rico Revisited”. Is converting a building to lever 4 different from converting to level 5? Will the result be different? Thats what that part of the video is about.
@@YUMBL I think it depends on the type of building. Again, this is an assumption, but I would think that setting it at level 5 creates more jobs for highly-educated workers than it does for level 4. I haven't really played with it at all, I just made the comment while watching the video.
It turns out that you can replace 10 vanilla office buildings with one. With a lot of employees. However, will the profit from this building increase by 10 times?
thx for your info...really like it a lot....A few years ago there was a mod I used where I could actually set my own events to happen and change ticket prices etc. but I don't see it anymore...can you do a video where you can show me [ us ] how to set events at the stadium or theater set times so I can build a proper transport system...thx again - greetings from South Africa
Anyone else notice all the cars not using the typical entrance for the parking garage and just dropping out of the walls and driving in through the walls? or How about the speeder that came out at the 22:20 time stamp?
0:20
"It's lacking in realism."
Cue floating cars phasing through the walls of the parking garage on the left.
With or without mods the parking is bizarre in skylines ;)
@@YUMBL Yes.
Noticed that too. lol
This drives me insane, take so much care in curating traffic and instead of cars coming out of/into the entrances for the parking garage they just float into/out of place when in close proximity
also th-cam.com/video/xK7dNoTX75g/w-d-xo.html car just jumps from the roof :D
I had a great laugh as during the first minute of the video, as you spoke of making the game realistic, in the background, cars are flying in and out of the upper floors of the parking garage.
😂😂
i was about to say the same lol 0:35
@@Cigaro_ Same🤣
futuristic realistic 👌
Your explaination of rico revisited makes it quite attractive to me now. I've stayed away from RICO mods in the past, because I want my cities to grow naturally, but making the unique buildings fit their purpose would be great.
RICO revisited and realistic population are a magical combo. Have fun!
@@YUMBL and then add in real time for the extra challenge.
Totally! I don’t like real time while I’m building, but its definitely challenging!
Same here. thinking about getting these mods after your video. Just a quick questions with your good looking cars and citizens. are they all just custom and all I have to do is to download them from the workshop right? Also your map theme and LUT look great, could you let me know what they are?
Yes, download cars. My citizens are vanilla. Map theme is custom, and lut is “relight average”.
You demystified RICO Revisited for me!!
Took the magic right out of it! Thanks for watching.
I've had this mod months and only now know what it does and how to use it.
Nice :)
Same.
To simulate underground parking for downtown skyscrapers, I place some "parking lot roads" components inside the footprint of some of the buildings to complement the visible parking garages. I'll even add some to the parking garages to boost their capacity since they don't ever actually fill up to capacity.
Thats actually a great idea! I’ve experimented with putting parking garages under (inside) buildings with mixed results. Just putting spaces inside makes more sense ;)
Whoa that's brilliant
I never ever thought I could wrap my head around RICO Revisited/Ploppable RICO and you cleared the smoke screen in 4 minutes and 19 seconds. Man, do I love your content! Keep up the great work man! I'm absolutely loving it!
:)
Wow, what a great video. I really never understood RICO until now. Thank you. You are a good teacher.
Thank you very much! :)
Yep. Always had RICO installed... I thought I needed it to find/plop certain buildings. Never used it right!
I’m glad this helped!
Just wiped my collection of mods and downloads for a new start. Had 1,076 "pages" of downloaded stuff and no clue what most were or how many worked. Looking for a more realistic, and not so cumbersome, collection of stuff for the future. And I stumbled across this video....♥️
I had traffic manager (kinda understood it) and RICO revisited (couldn't figure it out much at all). I have just gained more knowledge about these two then from watching dozens of other videos about these two! You made them so simple. I now know how to tackle my future builds.
Realistic Population...didn't know about this one. But was always scratching my head with a large spawn office building had only 20 people in but a single family house would also have 20 people in it.
Anyway... subscribing to your channel and will spend the rest of the day watching many of your videos!
Thanks for making all three of these easy to understand, ESPECIALLY the RICO!
Thank you so much! I’m glad to have helped, and I’m glad you enjoy the videos. More to come! :)
The other addition you may want to do is "realistic cims" which basically adjusts the speed they move about the city, they look like they are running to places LOL. This MOD makes them walk in a more realistic speed and it looks so much better. Can't recall the exact name for that MOD but I think it is a MUST have.
@@wertherland I think you're talking about "Realistic Walking Speed
" mod on the steam workshop. Atleast that one I use for the walking speed.
Just a note about levels for RICO revisited (I'm learning as well but I've seen it used in a few builds); Changing the level definitely makes a difference for the building, in that certain buildings will not strive depending on the land value around said building.
In other words, if you have your shopping center as a level 3 building, but the land value around it is low (due to no parks, or city services, etc), it will become abandoned quickly. Think of it as a building upgrading in your city. As the land value goes up, buildings upgrade. Thus, having a high-level asset requires a high land value.
I see this video is 2 years old, but if anybody is using this mod and also wonders what the levels are for, hopefully this helps a bit!
I've been banging my head against a brick wall trying to figure out some of these mods without much success. Other TH-camrs, although well-meaning and very enjoyable, run through what they are doing way too fast with little or no explanation seeming to forget about those of us who are new. I really like the way you explain these things in detail without talking down to us or OVER-EXPLAINING...( this is a spoon, hold it in your hand, open your mouth...LOL)
Thank you for explaining the RICO and also now I am able to change the decorations on roads like the trees and lights....AWESOME!!!
Can you please tell me exactly with parking lot roads you are using in this video, or maybe you did and I missed it. I have some, lots actually, dealing with parking but they don't seem to be the correct ones.
Again, thank you!! Have been binge-watching past episodes!!!
I’m glad you like how I do things! I have an entire video dedicated to parking lots that I would recommend. I hope it helps!
It's funny, almost immediately after posting this, I found the one about parking lots! LOL, and it did help enormously!
I’m glad it worked out!
0:33 Great way to get out of a parking lot.
Great list! One thing I would add is the Real Time mod, which changes the timeline from days to hours (and allows you to control how quickly the hours pass, and has separate controls for day and night, so that if you want to see how your city looks at night, but don't want it to last forever, you can do that) creates realistic rush hours (suuuuuper challenging, with the realistic traffic of TMPE!), and creates 'events' at large unique buildings, which generate extra traffic. Extra challenges, for sure, but definitely more realistic.
Such a great introduction to the fundamentals of realistic building!
Thanks for watching! :)
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that didn't know how to use these mods properly, thanks for the simple yet very effective tutorial.
Absolutely! :)
Great video!
On a side note, I love how during the Intro how these mods will enhance realism the parking garage on-screen has cars (literally) flying out. That made me laugh.
car at 0:34 : drives off parking lot
yumbl: and ultimately this will make your city more life-like
Only watched two of your videos. And I am a fan already. paused the game for almost a year now, due to lack of realism. Man thank you so much for getting me to play again. thank you.
Excellent! You’re very welcome :)
I loved the stuff you explained about parking management thru TMPE
I’n glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, thanks for this. I didn't know unique buildings are seen as parks in the game. Nice mod showcase!
You’re welcome :)
The trouble with stacking a high density residential on top of high density commercial is the residents will keep complaining, getting sick and dying of *noise pollution*...
Love your series man. I felt particularly inspired by the road hierarchy and interchange episodes, and I have applied your interchange tutorials in several districts of my current city. I'd love to see if you have some tricks up your sleeve to manage the horrendous cargo harbor and cargo train station traffic.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you! You’re correct about the noise pollution. I recently turned noise pollution off using mods for just that reason. It no longer suits how I play.
Cargo train and cargo harbor traffic are solved by switching from a cargo harbor to a cargo hub and creating an internal cargo train network. Creating trains instead of trucks to ship to stations throughout your city. See my “Internal Cargo Network” and “Guide to Cargo and Passenger Trains” video for ways to implement :)
@@YUMBL I think there's a mod which can edit those settings in buildings, am I wrong?
Just brilliant. Thank you for refreshing my energy for the game. I play it on my M1 Macbook Air.
You’re very welcome!
I've been playing this game for years and I've learned so much from this video. Thank you!
I’m glad to hear it! :)
21:47 "The parking garage doesn't have enough parking"
Who hasn't experienced the struggle... it's a beautiful, sunny day; you want to pay a visit to the lovely parking garage, but where to put your car while you're there, enjoying the view? 😅
Love a good parking garage that thinks its a park. And the cims are none the wiser…
It's actually one of those Mortal Engines buildings and it needs a giant garage that fits the whole building. :P
This describes spot on how I like to play the game. Perfect video!
Ploppable RICO mod is the most overpowered one I've used in the game. I had 160,000 residents before and over 250,000 after a couple of hours of using it. I can also get people to work more because I can just place copes of the same building with hundreds of jobs in each one. Its so cool to turn a certain unique building into a residential, commercial, or office building. I also like how you can make low density residential buildings have fewer households and high density residential buildings have way more households. By the way thanks for making this video.
Years using the Transit PE and did not know about the Realistic Parking!!! Thanks! Will try it in a new city
I found your channel after City Planner Plays mentioned how helpful your tutorial on parking lots was in his new Let's Play series Clearwater County. I started playing CS in 8/20 but only started delving into the world of mods and downloading assets a few months ago. I've been binge watching all of your videos and I can't begin to tell you how fantastic and helpful they are. You have demystified so many mods and inspired me to take my next city to a new level of detail and functionality. Thank you so much for putting out the informative content in such a comprehensive yet easy to understand way. I think you are an amazing and essential contributor to the CS community. Thank you, good sir. :)
Whoa! Thanks a lot! I’m glad the videos helped :)
Wish I'd stumbled on this video earlier! You explain RICO Revisited way better than any of the videos dedicated to just that mod that I've watched. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video and others. This one has really changed my approach to how I build my cities and will have to go back and revisit some of my old ones. Been following you for about a week and am loving your videos.
I’m glad my videos help! Thanks for being here :)
you helped be BIGTIME here. thank you sooo much ♥️
You’re welcome! :)
Every time I watch your videos I learn something and I agree with you. It’s long time that I think using a combo of mods and assets we can build our version di Cities Skylines, the Advanced Edition.
I love how you start your video talking about how you make your city and it's traffic more realistic, meanwhile, you have vehicles flying in and out of the building on the lower left of your screen lol
This was great. It's so hard for me to wrap my head around these mods sometimes. I'd love to see more videos like these.
I’m glad you liked it :)
Thank you for such a great video. It is an absolutely new game right now.
Refreshing and challenging, have fun! :)
Thank You for your videos! I been playing cities skylines pretty much since it’s release. How I just started playing Mod’s in the last six months.
After discovering your video on traffic manager I had to watch more. And after watching this one and few others I realize I was only experiencing 1/2 the fun.
Things are so much more realistic now!
I love you videos. I needed to a fresh version of Cities Skylines because my game had too many old buggy mods that weren't compatible. I deleted all of my game files and reinstalled the game, adding nearly all of the Mods in your favorites Menu on Steam. I'm hoping my game won't bug out anymore and I can play the game as you do in your videos.
biggest vanilla office i noticed holds 97 jobs
Thank you! Real pop definitely makes a huge difference.
@@YUMBL also thanks to you, i was going with lomg curve far from rico revisited until watched your movie. i think mod creator should make better description because before watching it i thought its just second plop growables 😅😅😅
You're my new hero! I thought I was the only crazy person playing this game :)
Your the man with advanced mod tutorials 650 hours and still watch for a refresh. Thank you.
Thanks for watching :)
I had no idea about the parking stuff! You rock YUMBL! Thanks!!
Thank you :)
I didnt even know this mods are existing. wow... this is game changer.
Literally! Thanks for watching :)
Super helpful video👍🏻
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for watching :)
My 2 cents on the realistic population mod: Just an assumed explaination how Paradox comes to this maximum of 32 workers or in general unrealistic low residental numbers even on bigger buildings: Per default as far as i know, only somewhat 65000 cims are going to be simulated at all in the game, (of course moddable) and to ensure that your city looks still large and great even with that amount of population, they seemed to take a compromise by "spreading" the residentals in more buildings, so your city looks bigger, but still has not that high population. If you e.g. build a skyscraper residental with 1000 families (3-4000 pop) you might only 20 of those to max calculated population, and what is a city with only 20 skyscrapers? ;) so what Paradox did, made sense when they programmed it at the beginning, they didnt know that we do have an awesome community to build mods, assets, and creating tons of great videos (count this one in ;) ) to make Cities Skylines community a great place to be in.
Dont get me wrong, i dont see this mod useless, just explaining from Paradox potential site why the game mechanic in vanilla works as it works :)
I am going to immediately download RICO revisited.
Oh and Precise Engineering, which you talk d about in another video
“Precision engineering” is a lifesaver!
I love that during the introduction to this video explaining about how to make city skylines more realistic your parking garages have cara fly to and from them. Clearly this city is set in the distant future, but before transport tubes.
Cars always fly to parking spots but the developer never accounted for assets above the ground
@@YUMBL Could you place a ramp for them to drive up, restoring some realism?
Well, time to get RICO revisited. I already have realistic pop revisited and it has doubled my city population. Interesting note: right before I found realistic pop I went through my city and completely remade my public transport (bus and metro) from scratch. I tried to build it to be as robust as possible. I then got realistic pop and watched 30,000 new cims move in. Surprisingly, my public transport *held up* to the massive spike in demand. I only needed to make small adjustments like adding more busses or a new bus/metro line. The existing PT infrastructure never buckled under the load although it is being tested rather hard.
Nicely done! Most are shocked by how many more cims move in.
you are teacher indeed, make me attract to cityskyline more than ever.
Your channel has good branding. I love the palette and logo.
Thank you very much! My artist’s name in Roksow on instagram. Thanks for watching!
Commenting after 5s of video : I saw "Realistic" in the title, lauched the video, 1st second, bottom right corner, the car jumping from nowhere. Now I don't know what to expect.
Very useful information. Thank you!
Thanks so much for this video! 😊
Absolutely! This is an important one.
Beautiful video! OMG. Thank you!
You’re very welcome :)
Thanks for your explanations with the RICO mod! I tought it was a clone of Plop the Growables
It’s much more. Enjoy! :)
22:23 "A bit more challenging"
Yes, for both the player and the computer :D
Love this video but laughed hard asf when I saw a car drive off the top floor of a car park as you talked about realism
I didn’t realize you were in NOVA! I’m in DC!
the realistic population mod makes quite a difference, there are district specialization's for offices, which are called IT specializations, it has huge skyscrapers which only can contain 16 workers
The levels is the buildings is when a building has certain services so usually it needs school parks fire police etc to reach level 5. Each level a building will rebuild itself to its next level...I usually put all my buildings as the highest level
I get that, but does it make a difference when you convert a unique building to level x or level y? I’ve not noticed if a converted lvl 5 residential actually holds more people than any other level. With realistic population it uses the buildings dimensions, which are the same regardless of level, right?
@@YUMBL One thing the higher level does is pay more in taxes.
Really? If you change the level of a unique building with RICO revisited it changes the tax revenue? Are you sure?
at 0:22 I find it so ironic that while he's talking about it being unrealistic, there's a bunch of flying cars coming out of the parking garage in the background
Subscribed. Thanks for the beautiful content!
You’re very welcome! :)
Whoa. That car just drove off the edge at 0:34. Can't get more real than that. Lol.
Cims are... overzealous with parking. They drive straight to and from parking spaces, no matter whats in the way or how far up or down. Its save to say the devs didn’t intend on parking garages to exist in CS.
@@YUMBL All joking aside.....I recently installed the traffic mod and didn't know some of what you mentioned. Thanks for explaining it.
I’m glad it helped! I’m trying to cover some things that I haven’t seen other youtubers explain. Thanks for watching!
I know and use these three mods, but I still learnt something today! Thanks 👍
Excellent! I hope it helps. Thanks for watching :)
@@YUMBL of course it helped! 👍
:D
Great video, thank you very much! This will make things much more enjoyable.
Have fun! :)
3:12 The level determines extra residents or employees, so I would put it at level 3 in terms of the hypermarket.
This was helpful. Thank you.
The problem for me with putting more than 100 jobs or housing in a building is that it gets quite unmanageable in terms of waste production, deaths and crime
There is a mod that allows you to edit those attributes if you need. I cant remember the name, but its out there!
Wow, thank you so much. Im gonna start a new city now!
Have fun! Good luck with all the new traffic :)
Thanks YUMBL, love your CS stuff. Specially the intersections! One thing I find with the Realistic Population mod is that sims won't take jobs at commercial zones IF all the highly educated jobs are taken AND you have the Hadron Collider popped down. Anyway to fix this? I'm about to just adjust the available jobs at these building to the amount of highly educated jobs lol...
Edit: That changes the visitors count aswell so not ideal....
I dont tend to use the monuments. Too cheezy to be realistic anywhere
23:23 the cars are flying in and out of the parking garage lol!
Intro, Yumbl talks about realism while a car flies into the garage by some magical way.
Cities skylines could really use more in depth zoning, like mixed use buildings maybe. That dlc would cost more than the game though lol
Proper mixed use zoning would be amazing. Much more realistic. There are so many cities where businesses line the street level, but people live upstairs.
Couldn’t you just mod it? Make HD residential satisfy a small amount of commercial demand as well, or HD commercial also satisfy residential demand, and then add some assets that reflect that use?
@@stoutyyyy I don't know anything about modding lmao
@@l5p60 I mean neither do I it just seems like a simple enough fix. Maybe there’s something I’m missing tho if nobody’s done it so far
Thanks for the tutorial
I really like the sound of more realism and these mods are really cool, but do you think I should wait until I've got significant hands-on experience with the game?
Actually, I do. You will develop fundamentals if you play the base game/vanilla for a few cities. You can learn the basics of building and traffic before learning to customize and detail. It’s just my opinion. Excellent question!
Nice video. I am a new player. I hope i have the patience to master the game this is not simcity 2013 thankfully
I'm on console and understood everything you were saying... but all i kept thinking is how i want those asphalt roads on my map lol
PC is so flexible. All the colors and textures in the game can be swapped out. Some of my videos will definitely apply to console though. Thank you for watching!
Finaly a challenge, but remember skylines wanted also to reach the folks with the lowend computers. !!!
I’m not sure they did based on the specs needed to run even a large vanilla city well. Its good to have the option to turn on more challenging settings though.
@@YUMBL Agrees
Great video. I don't know what to think about realism in Cities:Skylines. It's not exactly realistic for a town of 35,000 people to have 2000 people working or living in one building. Cities that size usually don't have big traffic problems. They typically have very little if any mass transit. All of this can change if the city is part of a larger metropolitan area, but cities in the game are typically on their own. I've decided to pretend that if the population number in the game is 35k, it's representing 350k. Just multiply by 10. And even then, there aren't many cities that size with really big skylines and a ton of mass transit. Atlanta, maybe, but it's the principal city in a much larger urban area.
Either way, I'm getting back into the game after several years of not playing, so your channel and a few others have been valuable to me. Lots of new mods, and I have such a bad memory I couldn't even remember how to play anymore. Years before CS, I used to play SC4 and when I first got back into CS, the two were conflating in my brain. It's a process.
Thanks.
What you’re describing realism wise has less to do with the mod and more to do with your decisions. A 2000 person residence or office wouldn’t fit well in a city that size. It may be more a matter of using buildings that are proportionate to the size of the city you want to design.
@@YUMBL Yeah. I think it's that way because people want to have fun and build big cities, but limitations with the engine and computing in general just aren't up to it. They've sought to strike a balance and the mod is there to give the player more control on how it's balanced. It's just something that stuck me as weird after being away from the game for so long, seeing these 35 or 50k cities with all this infrastructure. I'm reluctant to add a bus line even when the city needs one because I haven't yet acclimated.
Worth noting - RICO Revisited - warns of using both "ploppable" and "revisited" at the same time.
Yea. Only use “ploppable rico revisited”. I did not recommend the other one.
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I know - Thank you for the recommendation. Making the special buildings actually function as what they look like - is amazing. :D
The only reservation I have is with the Realistic Population. If one tower holds 870 homes and another 2000+ workers, won't you hit the agent limits before ever reaching anything remotely resembling a realistic city size?
Its a bit of an eternal problem. My cities usually don’t pass 60,000 pop anywayy
@@YUMBL It's true. I always envision my new builds to be a string of small towns on the countryside, but the call for huge, bustling metropolitan areas keeps drawing me away from my original plans. Unfortunately this game wasn't (adequately) designed for that.
I would agree. The skyline of old main street is a hard sell when you can make Dubai
He says “think about that, you know, what a trip.” 😂🤣😂
Hes talking about more realistic traffic in the intro as cars drive off the 4th floor of the parking garage out onto the street lol
I never know about that parking feature of TMPE, and I heavily use that mod. I wouldn't dare turn that on in my current city as it wasn't build with parking being a need in mind, but I'll play around with that and the other 2 mods in a new city for sure.
Definitely manage parking as you build. Parking garages become pretty important too. Enjoy!
with these 2 mods my population has been growing insanely and the traffic as well too dropped from 83 % to 60 %.Cant handle it anymore
Yep. I think I even say in the video that its probably best to use these on a new city designed for realistic mods. Not for use on existing cities.
I assume the "level" is the upgrade level, i.e. when you have zoned areas, the buildings upgrade from level 1 through level 5 as they meet their demands. A level 5 residential building would need well educated citizens to fill it.
In the context of a building converted to RICO using “Ploppable Rico Revisited”. Is converting a building to lever 4 different from converting to level 5? Will the result be different? Thats what that part of the video is about.
@@YUMBL I think it depends on the type of building. Again, this is an assumption, but I would think that setting it at level 5 creates more jobs for highly-educated workers than it does for level 4. I haven't really played with it at all, I just made the comment while watching the video.
Great video about RICO
Out of all the things I noticed, at :35 seconds, I saw a man climb up the parking garage and serve his car down the wall!!! 😅😅
For realism. I do my best 😂
@@YUMBL Ahahah! don't we all try to do our best for realism!
Damn well spotted!
Everything you need to make Skylines more like SimCity 4. XD
Just Subscribed To Your Channel. Love it. What pc do you use?
Thank you. Specs are in my about page.
well, i remember simcity 4 auto producing quite nice skyscrapers..
I’ve never played it.
My new favorite channel!
Cars going in and out of the walls of the parking garage! 🤣🤣
Such is the life of raised parking spots in Cities: Skylines.
Delightfully annoying how the cars drive up and down on the side of the parking garages ;p
i was hoping the real time mod was on this
I didn't know the transport overlay shows the demand for public transport 😂😂
Only if you turn on “realistic parking” in the traffic manager options
Superb explanation.
It turns out that you can replace 10 vanilla office buildings with one. With a lot of employees. However, will the profit from this building increase by 10 times?
Yes, I believe the mod adjusts land value and tax revenue accordingly! Here is the mod: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2025147082
R.I.P. to whomever just took that nosedive.
thx for your info...really like it a lot....A few years ago there was a mod I used where I could actually set my own events to happen and change ticket prices etc. but I don't see it anymore...can you do a video where you can show me [ us ] how to set events at the stadium or theater set times so I can build a proper transport system...thx again - greetings from South Africa
This was a great video, please keep them coming! What are your mods for buildings, especially that cool 60 degree split building?
tinyurl.com/y4u7lcnn Here are my collections! If you search “mixed use” in the steam workshop you’ll find a lot of great stackable assets.
Anyone else notice all the cars not using the typical entrance for the parking garage and just dropping out of the walls and driving in through the walls? or How about the speeder that came out at the 22:20 time stamp?