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Population Factor
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Building: Town Building
Misc: Script Mod, Person, Misc
Tags: building, Town, Performance, Capacities, Population
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Mar 26, 2020 @ 10:47am
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Population Factor

Description
This Mod changes the number of people in the game by multiplying the capacity of new town buildings with a factor.

Usage
  • If you start a new game with the mod or if you create a city with the generator, all buildings get the modified values directly
  • When adding to an existing savegame, the effect shows up after a certain time:
    While the AI is automatically renewing the town buildings, the capacities of new buildings will be adjusted accordingly and the total values are adapting over time
  • You can deactivate the mod at any time. The modified capacities of existing buildings will be maintained and new buildings will have the normal values again

Effects
  • After updating all buildings, the total values (population, commercial and industrial) should be higher/lower by the factor than the target value to which the town wants to grow
  • The number and appearance of buildings is not affected, only the capacity
  • The towns have therefore the same size and the same cityscape (amount of skyscrapers)

The Factor (default: 2)
  • You can change it in the Mod Settings, either using the CommonAPI or alternatively in the file settings.lua, each before loading
  • For more population, set the value > 1 (decimal numbers are also possible)
  • If you want to improve performance, set the factor to a value between 0 and 1 (e.g. 0.5 for halving the population)
  • With a value of 0, each building gets the minimum capacity 1

With the Mod Settings, you can also change the Town Develop Interval, which determines how often the AI builds buildings and streets. During testing, however, I couldn't really find out whether this has any influence at all.

You can combine the mod with the editor from sandbox mode to vary the city size. So you can e.g. create large cities that are not too crowded.
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starilov.joe7 Dec 19, 2024 @ 1:02pm 
Where can i find this setting window in the game and this console?🫤
Torch Dec 19, 2024 @ 6:09am 
i am unable to edit the setting of the mod tried all the ways please help me on it
baronjutter Oct 6, 2024 @ 10:11pm 
A big problem I have with the game after you get to more modern eras is that all these huge towers and skyscrapers don't house any more people than a little apartment buildings 1/10th the size. Is there any way to mod population/job numbers so that the model of the building more closely matches its stats? So a 15 story tower might have 30 people vs the 12 or so in the 5 story apartment?
FingernailsAreYummy Sep 4, 2024 @ 3:36pm 
how exactly do i reduce the population
VacuumTube  [author] Apr 30, 2024 @ 12:50pm 
I am pretty sure I did it that way for a reason, most likely the game cannot handle capacity 0. But if you wanna try it goto script file adjustTownBuildingCapacity.lua and comment out the lines:
if capacity<=0 then capacity = 1 end
N0neGiv3N Apr 29, 2024 @ 8:38am 
Is there any value that a user can input to get a building capacity to be 0 instead of 1? I just want the buildings to appear in my world without anyone in them so I can have the look of the city but without the people slowing down my world.

If I could auto generate cities with 0 capacity it would make a world building so much easier and less time consuming than plopping assets one at a time.

If I have to change something in the mod files I will do that, but I just need some guidance.

Thank you
W Nov 27, 2023 @ 9:01am 
Sadly Im with @Tuvka - even without overload stations. The number of goods or people is reduced very fast. With enough capacity and not long waiting time... The idea was good.
thebigbluesky Nov 5, 2023 @ 12:56am 
Tuvka, do you mean stations are overloaded? If the number is blue it means there is not enough 'storage' for passengers/cargo, which causes a slow loss of product. Pretty sure it's not a flaw with this mod, though. Click on your stations, click 'configure' and add more passenger/cargo storage.
Dramaticuser Oct 24, 2023 @ 12:55pm 
what's logging?
123 Jul 25, 2023 @ 1:54pm 
Soooo, in theory, right? When I set the factor lower in the config, I *should* get bigger cities in the sense of number of houses, but pop should be the same. Am I right?