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Lifecycle Rebalance Revisited 1.6.4

New in 1.6

• MAJOR NEW FEATURE: realistic early life ageing and progress, from early childhood to young adult (optional, customizable)
  
• New early life ageing is matched to real-world values and stages and includes a pre-school stage of life (young children)

Overhauls the game's ageing, immigration, and lifecycle system for more realistic (and better balanced) results, including prevention of game-breaking deathwaves.

Includes options to adjust:

• Lifespans and ageing milestones
  
• Ageing speed (compared to game time)
  
• Transport preferences
  
• Chance of illness
  
• Deathcare requirements
  
• Immigrant education levels

ANY AND ALL OPTIONS CAN BE DISABLED; if you don't like some aspects of the mod, you can turn them off and only use those aspects you want.

This is the official continuation of Whitefang Greytail's Citizen Lifecycle Rebalance mod, and is fully backwards-compatible.

This mod is specifically designed to work in conjunction with Realistic Population revisited, but can also be used independently.

Firstly, Cims have a chance of early death, and realistic distributions of death depending on their age, calculated from real-life stats using the Australian Government Actuary table (2010-12)[aga.gov.au]. Death rates will naturally increase as cims age, resulting in a more natural distribution of deaths than in the base game.

Secondly, illness rates are increased (note that this does NOT encourage deathwaves). This means that the standard of healthcare provision is more relevant, and can add another randomising factor to cim lifespans.

Thirdly, immigrants to your city will now have a wide range of ages, from child through to seniors; there's also an option to randomise immigrant education levels. Incoming teens will automatically have elementary school education, and some (but not all!) incoming young adults will have high school education.

In the base game, if a large number of new cims move into your city at the same time, then they would all age and die at the same time, creating the infamous "deathwaves". These would be amplified as, in response to all the suddently-vacated housing, another wave of immigrants move in at the same time - and so on and so on.... The Sunset Harbor (1.13 update) introduced some level of randomisation of elderly cim death ages which helped this a little, but still left a lot to be desired.

With this mod, the combined effect of all the above changes is that even if a whole bunch of new cims move into your city at exactly the same time, they will have randomised starting ages, even if two cims do have the same age, they'll (most likely) die at different times. This spreads out cim deaths and smooths the deathwaves (note that there still will be some natural peaks and troughs, as happens in the real world, but nothing on the scale of the base game deathwaves).

This randomisation of both ages and education levels works in combination with the education system update included with the Campus update (DLC not required for this to work) to ensure that you have a steady stream of workers with with varied education levels.

The default configuation is designed to work in conjunction with the Realistic Population revisited mod, and implements higher car usage in low-density areas but lower car usage in high-density areas (compared to the base game). Additional optional configurations are also provided for default game, car-heavy usage, and car usage scaled according to wealth (see 'Configuraton file' below). This setting can also be easily disabled in the mod's options panel (reverting to base-game behaviour).

See the 'Death' tab in the mod's options panel. Set to 0% to remove the need for hearses entirely.

If you activate this mod on an existing savegame, be aware that it WON'T solve any impending death wave, as the ages of cims who have already moved in will remain unchanged.

However, subsequent deathwaves will be increasingly smoothed by the mod's operation (note that it may take several deathwave cycles to settle down properly), and you can use the mod's inbuilt 'no deathcare' functionality to avoid your buildings becoming abandoned from an overload of dead bodies.

Obviously, activating the mod with default mod settings on an existing city will change your city balance. Exactly how, and how much, will depend on the specifics of your city and its population, but generally speaking, with default settings you'll typically have a larger workforce due to the later retirement age.

Otherwise, this mod is safe to enable or disable at any time.

Check out the options panel - everything this mod does can be customized.

The wiki has more information, including on the XML file format used for configurations if you want to edit them manually (the options panel is much easier, though).


The old Painter and Garbage Bin Controller mods conflict with this mod. Compatible modern replacements are Repaint and Garbage Bin Manager.

No Deathcare conflicts with this mod (this mod includes No Deathcare functionality).

Please unsubscribe from the original Citizen Lifecycle Rebalance mod before using this one (and also Resident Travel Rebalance and Lifespan Multiplier if you have those, as those are subsets of Citizen Lifecycle Rebalance).

The Real Time mod specifically checks for, and works with, this mod.

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Huge amounts of credit to Whitefang Greytail, the creator of the original Citizen Lifecycle Rebalance mod.

This mod uses Harmony[github.com] version 2.0 by Andreas Pardeike via the Cities Harmony mod by boformer.

Source available on GitHub[github.com].

Translations for this mod are now managed via CrowdIn[crowdin.com]. Please leave a message below if you'd like me to add another language on CrowdIn.

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