Individual Placement of Buildings.

[Seb]

Ok, so the conventional method of zoning that is in the game now is fine, but i also want the ability to individually place buildings, that won't upgrade or change into anything different as well. I'm tired off getting an area looking just the way i want it to look and then all of a sudden it goes ahead and completely changes in appearance. Plus i need to be able to choose what buildings go were, so i can make an area with similar housing throughout, which is more realistic and in keeping to how towns/cities are in my country.

I want terraced housing with high rise estates realistically placed around the area, it's impossible to achieve this kind of thing in the game right now.

So in short, i want a toggable option that makes it so i can individually place residential/commercial/office and industry buildings, choose which level of the building i place and freeze it's development, so it stays like that permanently.

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Hey there!

Any progress? Because this is exactly the thing that keeps me from playing. I made a topic about this issue directly after release, tried out many mods, but sadly have not found a satisfactory solution. I would really like to give this game another go, but not without individual building placement (I'd like to be able to make entire areas use the same type of housing), which has been the standard for me ever since SC3000 en then SC4 and then CitiesXL. I'm still playing CitiesXL instead of Cities Skylines, because in XL I can place every building individually and prevent changes to the look and theme of areas.

It needs to be simple and direct. There's a mod out there that prevent buildings from upgrading, which is cool, but it still won't allow me to place identical looking buildings in districts, I have to let it grow, demolish, grow, demolish and hope that eventually the building I want pops up. There's also a mod that allows me to make style templates for districts, but it's not what I'm looking for either.

I hope someone knows how this can be achieved, maybe there's an overlooked mod out there that does exactly this, I might have missed it.

[Seb]

Since posting this, some viable solutions have come to light from the modding community, not quite as good as individual building placement, but there are now mods that let you control the level up of buildings, to avoid unwanted development, and there is a mod to copy/paste a building, so now you can actually build entire areas with just 1 type of building. You can even have regions now that only build certain types of building, the situation has improved a lot since i made this discussion, shame my PC melts down when i try and play Cities Skylines.

[CrunchyBiscuit]

Thanks for your reply, the copy/paste building thing sounds really useful! I'll look it up.

[Dimondscarecrow]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=438449058&searchtext=eyedropper

[Sanctioner]

This game is missing some things. like I only have a single gas station all the way across town. I think commercial services should build smart such that it knows individual needs and automatically places those kinds of buildings. I dont know if manual placement of specific buildings is the answer, but certainly some smarter AI choices on what to build where should be in-store.

[Seb]

Yeah and when it does build a gas station it's in a random unsuitable place, but ahh well, with these mods youcan choose where to put your gas station and copy it to other places. I know it's important for a city building game to have these options from the start, but since this game didn't, the mods will have to do.

[NoirMoutton]

There are ploppable gas station assets in the workshop