Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

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Difficulty Tuning

Beschreibung
Last update from 2018/9/1

Compatible with all DLCs.

Difficulty Levels
- Easy. All costs are halved. Upkeep decreased by 25%. ₡200,000 at start. Higher demand. Easier level up. Less polution. Steeper roads allowed.
- Normal. Almost the same as vanilla.
- Advanced. Close to the Hard Mod which comes with the game.
- Hard. Even harder.
- Expert. Recommended for experienced players.
- Challenge. Very accurate city planning required.
- Impossible. Near the limit of playability. (Added a screenshot to demonstrate that the difficulty "Impossible" is playable.)
- Custom. A lot of customizable parameters.

Initial money and loan amount are increased for high difficulties.

Special Difficulty Levels
These special levels are made for fun and experimenting.
- Free. Construction is free. Upkeep is halved. Demand is very high. Land value and service score are not required for buidings to level up. No ground and noise pollution from power, water, and garbage facilities. Initial money is zero.
- ₡500,000 at start. Normal difficulty with ₡500,000 at start.
- Demand 100%. Demand is always 100%. Other settings are normal.
- Free public transport. Normal difficulty. Zero cost and upkeep for public transport.
- Low city. Very high levelup requirements for buildings. Other settings are normal.
- Hard and fast. Impossible difficulty with zero construction cost. Still hard but much less waiting time. You can construct anything even when the balance is negative. Initial money is zero.

Difficulty settings are available from the Main Menu.
Main Menu > Options > Mods Settings > Difficulty Tuning Mod

Changing difficulty options during a game is possible, but cost values displayed in the info panels will not update until reloading the game. Better to exit to the Main Menu, change the difficulty options, and load the game again.

Customizable parameters
Below is the list of the customizable parameters. When you change a difficulty parameter, the game difficulty is automatically set to "Custom" level. The custom values are being saved. Whenever you switch from a named difficulty to the custom level, all your previously set custom values are restored.

- Construction and upkeep cost
Separate for service buildings, public transportation, roads and for everything else (park, plazas, pathways, trees, and monuments).
Strictly speaking, the construction cost is not critical. Increasing it even in 100 times will not make the game unplayable. You will just have to wait a very long time before constructing something. The upkeep is what is important.
In general, at higher difficulties, roads are set to be the most expensive - you should plan your traffic ways and road types more thoroughly. On the other hand, upkeep for public transportation is not changed much. You do not have to restrain yourself from building a good public transport network.

- Demand offset and multiplier.
Calculated by the following formula: New_Demand=(Original_Demand+Offset)*Multiplier
In very general meaning, changing the offset will result in changing the city growth condition (grow or do not grow). Changing the multiplier will result in changing the city growth speed (fast grow or slow grow).

- Ground and noise pollution radius
Bigger radius for high difficulties. Can be set from 0 (no pollution) to x5 in the custom options. Only power, water, and garbage facilities are affected.

- Relocation cost
Varies from 0 (free relocation) to 80% of the construction cost depending on difficulty. In vanilla you can relocate a building at 20% of its cost.

- Maximum slope for roads, railroads, and metro
Easy: 30%, normal: 25%, expert: 19%, impossible: 15%. Can be set from 5% (very gentle) to 100% (45 deg.) in the custom options. Please note that setting the slope limit below 15% will make road/track constructing tricky (especially tunnel entrances). Using Fine Road Heights mod may help.

- Area cost multiplier
Expanding is quite expensive at higher difficulties.

- Reward percentage
Amount of money you get when a milestone is reached. No reward at higher difficulties.

- Start money amount
Depending on map, sometimes it is impossible to construct the minimum required facilities, when you start a new game with the default amount of money at one of the highest difficulties. Therefore the start money is increased a little bit for the Challenge and Impossible difficulties. Can be set from 0 to ₡500.000 in the custom options.

- Loans
Loan amount increased for higher difficulties. Can be set from x0.25 to x10 in the custom options. Loan length changes by formula (1+x)/2, where x is the loan amount multiplier.
About the formula. If increase the loan amount without changing the loan length, the payment per week would be too high. On the other hand, if increase the loan length at the same rate as the loan amount, the repay period would be too long. So I decided to implement the medium way. For example, if increase the loan amount in 3 times, the loan length will be increased in (3+1)/2=2 times.

- Population required to unlock milestones
The higher difficulty the later the game stuff is unlocked. You can set it to 0 to unlock everything from the beginning.

- Land value requirements for level up of Residential and Commercial buildings
High requirements at higher difficulties. Education and wealth requirements are not changed.

- Service score requirements for level up of Industrial and Office buildings
High requirements at higher difficulties. Education requirements are not changed.

Additional features
- Unlock purchasing all 25 area tiles, when the last milestone is reached.
- Unlock the "Basic Road Created" milestone from the beginning. (This is very minor thing that removes the requirement to build a piece of two-lane road before building something else.)
- 100% refund from recently built roads and facilities. (Consider it as an "undo" feature.)
- Steam achievements are enabled for all difficulty levels except Easy and Free. (Yes. You can get achievemets with this mod.)

Translations
- English
- Nederlands (by daniel.mantione)
- Deutsch (by daniel.dmantione)
- Italiano (by daniel.dmantione)
- Português (by roberto tomás ?)
- Français (by NicoRobin)
- 日本語
- Русский
- 한국어 (by ToothlessFLY-LShst)
- 中文 (by Lost丶青柠)
- български (by AdmiralAnimE)

Mod compatibility
- Should be compatible with most mods. Please report about any compatibility issues.
- Using together with a mod that changes costs, level up requirements, or demand, may cause game balance issues.

Source code[github.com]
Beliebte Diskussionen Alle anzeigen (9)
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15. Dez. 2017 um 5:31
Bug reports
GordonDry
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23. Mai 2017 um 21:15
Bug with loans
a Orc
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12. Dez. 2016 um 23:14
Share your difficulty settings
noxmortem
175 Kommentare
TeddybearSoldier 7. Aug. um 15:20 
how do I activate the mod? I have it installed but it doesnt show any function
JoniThePoni 24. Mai 2023 um 10:34 
When it still worked the last I used it, this mod was great. CS is not very hard, and this made me actually be able to bankrupt a city, so I love it.

Since it does feel pretty broken atm, I am hoping for an update sometime. If not, then so be it, but would really love to experience that difficulty again.
UncleYar 24. März 2023 um 18:44 
It would be nice to get a final update for the final DLCs.
ouz 20. Sep. 2022 um 8:56 
Is it still functional for Plazas & Promenades Patch?
furkan 20. Aug. 2022 um 13:29 
hard and fast
Xenia 1. Feb. 2022 um 12:01 
This is like the BEST MOD (well, the working hardcore mod with wealth for citizens to lvl up was also veeeery good), I love playing on impossible with realtime and realistic population. It's so hardcore and helps me staying intrested in my city! Also, deathrows are fun (you think you can survive: here we go with 4 million in dept and trying to get out of this by 27 % taxes for all xDD) LOVE IT!
Pwner’s Manual 5. Nov. 2021 um 12:02 
Awesome mod! Feature request: would love to be able to control interest rates on each loan individually. For instance: since Pyramid Capital is a 50-year loan when set to 10x, I’d like to set its interest rate higher. IRL, even if you got a loan with 2% annual interest, compounded yearly, after 50 years you’d be paying 169% of the loan amount in interest.
Starfoth The Burgundy Silk Rug 14. Feb. 2021 um 17:59 
It would be nice to be able to adjust specific expenses like making healthcare or police costs more expensive but lowering park maintenance upkeep etc
demongo1154 4. Aug. 2020 um 12:28 
REALLY needs an update newer DLCs break this mod... plus base game has been updating and many features are not as effective as they used to be :/
007 Agent 26. März 2020 um 9:27 
@Zenya Is mod 100% fuctional with the new patch/Sunset Harbor? :)