Any highly recommended quality of life mods?

[Juicy Lime]

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[MarkJohnson]

What's a "quality of life" mod?

I highly recommend no mods for a few cities until you get the hang of the game, and then you'll have a better idea what you need.

[grapplehoeker]

I cannot recommend this mod highly enough. I use it probably more than any other. Yes, I know CO implemented their own terrain landscaping utility, but it truly sucks, while this mod does more and better.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502750307

[LionWarrior505]

Same question, what u mean "quality of life" mod? Personaly me I like "Realistic Population and Consumption Mod v8.2.2", completely changing style of play

[Ëvïlnïck8 ゴゴゴ]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406723376&searchtext=brush+tree'
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407873631

Here are mine.

As for people not sure what he means with ''qaulity of life''
It basicly means mods that make some boring and tedius bits of the game more fun and less boring.
Example, i could place down trees one by one or i could use the brush tree mod.
In both cases i get the same forest area, but by using the tree brush mod it goes a lot faster.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by ëvïlnïck8:

Here are mine.

As for people not sure what he means with ''quality of life''
It basically means mods that make some boring and tedious bits of the game more fun and less boring.
Example, i could place down trees one by one or i could use the brush tree mod.
In both cases i get the same forest area, but by using the tree brush mod it goes a lot faster.

Be careful of these quality of life mods. They can cause as many problems as they solve if you're not careful.

For example. the auto emptying can give you issues with dead/garbage collection. What happens is that your vehicles are busy transporting from one facility to another and not doing their job of collecting and causing issues such as death waves.

I had an issue of subscribing to a single large hospital once that had a huge radius and lots of trucks. The next thing I noticed is that I has dozens of ambulances clogging my roads and preventing any pickups.

Cosmetic ones are fine like tree brush/anarchy. but ones that mess with the AI behavior can be problematic. i.e. never use a mod to fix an issue with your city. They never fix issues and end up making things horribly worse down the road.

[Ëvïlnïck8 ゴゴゴ]

Originally posted by -DI- rmjohnson144:

Originally posted by ëvïlnïck8:

Here are mine.

As for people not sure what he means with ''quality of life''
It basically means mods that make some boring and tedious bits of the game more fun and less boring.
Example, i could place down trees one by one or i could use the brush tree mod.
In both cases i get the same forest area, but by using the tree brush mod it goes a lot faster.

Be careful of these quality of life mods. They can cause as many problems as they solve if you're not careful.

For example. the auto emptying can give you issues with dead/garbage collection. What happens is that your vehicles are busy transporting from one facility to another and not doing their job of collecting and causing issues such as death waves.

I had an issue of subscribing to a single large hospital once that had a huge radius and lots of trucks. The next thing I noticed is that I has dozens of ambulances clogging my roads and preventing any pickups.

Cosmetic ones are fine like tree brush/anarchy. but ones that mess with the AI behavior can be problematic. i.e. never use a mod to fix an issue with your city. They never fix issues and end up making things horribly worse down the road.

You are right about the emptying mod, it can cause problems.
But once you reach the point were money is no isseu i personaly always plop an garbage incidinary right next to it, same with cementries.
And having to check all my cementries and landfills to see if they are full or not becomes realy annoying when you have like 8 of each spread accros an large city.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by ëvïlnïck8:

Originally posted by -DI- rmjohnson144:

Be careful of these quality of life mods. They can cause as many problems as they solve if you're not careful.

For example. the auto emptying can give you issues with dead/garbage collection. What happens is that your vehicles are busy transporting from one facility to another and not doing their job of collecting and causing issues such as death waves.

I had an issue of subscribing to a single large hospital once that had a huge radius and lots of trucks. The next thing I noticed is that I has dozens of ambulances clogging my roads and preventing any pickups.

Cosmetic ones are fine like tree brush/anarchy. but ones that mess with the AI behavior can be problematic. i.e. never use a mod to fix an issue with your city. They never fix issues and end up making things horribly worse down the road.

You are right about the emptying mod, it can cause problems.
But once you reach the point were money is no isseu i personaly always plop an garbage incidinary right next to it, same with cementries.
And having to check all my cementries and landfills to see if they are full or not becomes realy annoying when you have like 8 of each spread accros an large city.

Yes, manually emptying garbage dumps and cemeteries is a chore, that's why I bulldoze them all! and replace them with more crematoriums and incinerators.

If you like the looks of them in your city, they have assets of them on the workshop that are just parks, iirc.

[Magicc]

True

[Juicy Lime]

Originally posted by -DI- rmjohnson144:

What's a "quality of life" mod?

I highly recommend no mods for a few cities until you get the hang of the game, and then you'll have a better idea what you need.

I've been playing for 6 months.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by 93rd_Darkwither:

Originally posted by -DI- rmjohnson144:

What's a "quality of life" mod?

I highly recommend no mods for a few cities until you get the hang of the game, and then you'll have a better idea what you need.

I've been playing for 6 months.

You mean you've owned for 6-months. You've been playing for 54 hours. And that's rounded up.

That's a week or two for me. lol It took me to really learn the game the first six month and over 600 hours. lol

But essential mods for me are

Extended Building Information. This tells how happy people are and what they need.

CSL Show More Limits to keep track of my agent (Citizens and Vehicles) limits.

Extra Landscaping Tools. For adding oil and ore and farming. works for tree brush as well.

That's all I can think off the top of my head.

[Lord Skarra]

81 Tiles. Use It Every Time. Best Dam Mod, due to the ability to mess with the entire map.

[Juicy Lime]

Originally posted by -DI- rmjohnson144:

Originally posted by 93rd_Darkwither:

I've been playing for 6 months.

You mean you've owned for 6-months. You've been playing for 54 hours. And that's rounded up.

That's a week or two for me. lol It took me to really learn the game the first six month and over 600 hours. lol

But essential mods for me are

Extended Building Information. This tells how happy people are and what they need.

CSL Show More Limits to keep track of my agent (Citizens and Vehicles) limits.

Extra Landscaping Tools. For adding oil and ore and farming. works for tree brush as well.

That's all I can think off the top of my head.

I don't know why but the time I've been playing stopped registering months ago

edit: i've discovered that it's due to the fact i almost always play "offline" i quote it because i launch it and unhook the internet.