Essentially, I've been playing this game long enough to learn how to install, use and tweak mods and gameplay.

NOTE: Some of the mods in the collection are not intended to be used with one another. I am assuming you have read and researched every mod before hitting that subscribe to all button.

This collection is designed to have a large selection of mods readily available without over modding your game. Just realize that I have made collections for every mod category for Cities and that they were not all tested together for compatibility. However, the essential mod pack collection does for the most part have only mods that are compatible with each other, minus some of the LOD and theme mods, but just go through each collection and download what you like.

If you want to help with the development of a collection like this, you are welcome to subscribe to all mods in my collections and help me sort out bad and incompatible mods. I am still an intermediate. Also, please don't forget to leave a rating, it really helps me think about improving things in the future!

These are the current categories (while I am running a decent machine and testing newer mods, I don't recommend downloading every mod from either collection, that takes patience and reading):

1. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS: This is for all road and highway networks, with and without tram lines or bus lanes, etc.

2. PRE-BUILT ROAD NETWORKS, INTERSECTIONS AND ROUNDABOUTS: This will contain additional roundabouts, interchanges, any road network that is basically pre built for a purpose, or road traffic buildings like toll networks etc.

3. INDUSTRY AND SERVICE BUILDINGS: This will contain electricity, water, sewage and industry related buildings. Things like service buildings in those categories as well as industry buildings like, fishing industry, ore, oil, etc.

4. PUBLIC SERVICE AND HEALTH: This collection will contain education and campus related buildings and services, police, healthcare and fire

5. TRANSPORTATION: Transportation collection will contain mods for transportation related assets. Such as road, air, sea, and rail transportation assets. Train stations, bus depots, taxi hubs, harbors, anything related to moving things.

6. PARKS AND REC. : This collection is a larger category containing a few things. This will contain park related assets such as plazas, dog parks or anything that generates happiness and entertainment. Parking lots, and things that carry pedestrian transportation. This will also include all world props used for buildings and landscaping, as well ass park paths and other decal things. IDK

7. BUILDINGS and HOUSING: This is a mega pack of buildings. All buildings from ploppable RICO, unique, monumental and growable buildings will be saved here. Again this is a modern or "Cutting Edge" city.

8. VEHICLES: Just a mega pack of vehicle replacers for all. Industry, commercial, cargo, civilian, military etc. I will also be adding vehicle props to this collection as well.

9. ESSENTIAL GAME ENHANCERS: Mega pack of mods that I will most likely always be using as well as LUT's and other graphic or visual mods.

These are the 9 essential categories I have currently come up with to try to sort all mods that may interest me into one collection of 9 collections.