are you supposed to activate hard mode or just this mod

For some reason this mod doesent appear in the settings-menu anymore :(

how do I activate the mod? I have it installed but it doesnt show any function

When it still worked the last I used it, this mod was great. CS is not very hard, and this made me actually be able to bankrupt a city, so I love it.

Since it does feel pretty broken atm, I am hoping for an update sometime. If not, then so be it, but would really love to experience that difficulty again.

It would be nice to get a final update for the final DLCs.

Is it still functional for Plazas & Promenades Patch?

hard and fast

This is like the BEST MOD (well, the working hardcore mod with wealth for citizens to lvl up was also veeeery good), I love playing on impossible with realtime and realistic population. It's so hardcore and helps me staying intrested in my city! Also, deathrows are fun (you think you can survive: here we go with 4 million in dept and trying to get out of this by 27 % taxes for all xDD) LOVE IT!

Awesome mod! Feature request: would love to be able to control interest rates on each loan individually. For instance: since Pyramid Capital is a 50-year loan when set to 10x, I’d like to set its interest rate higher. IRL, even if you got a loan with 2% annual interest, compounded yearly, after 50 years you’d be paying 169% of the loan amount in interest.

It would be nice to be able to adjust specific expenses like making healthcare or police costs more expensive but lowering park maintenance upkeep etc

REALLY needs an update newer DLCs break this mod... plus base game has been updating and many features are not as effective as they used to be :/

@Zenya Is mod 100% fuctional with the new patch/Sunset Harbor? :)

@Zenya - could I ask you a few questions? Your mod has inspired me to do a mod that makes the Campus Life and the Industrial DLC's actually mean something in-game to those that have them. Right now they're basically graphical fluff. If you could answer a few questions it would be super helpful. Let me know. Thanks!

Oh I see now. @Zenya - do you think you could fix the pollution slider? My guess is there's a typo or missed character in the code so it won't hook the pollution changes you set. Or if you could tell me how I can open and edit an existing mod that's just a dll I'll do it.

@mazisky what do you mean by pollution radius doesn't change? Is the level still OK aka vanilla even if it's broken here?

yes a fix would be fine i also have the polution problem

Pollution radius doesn't change in game, i think it's broken. waiting for a fix.

Love this mod. It makes the start of a city pretty interesting. For me, money isn't ever a battle late game but it makes me stop to consider what I am doing before I blow 500k on a new freeway.

Works fine with the current version?My biggest problem with Cities Skylines is that it's too easy.

Hi. I've been using your mod since a while now (1 of my go to) Only problem encounted is when installing the Real Time" mode. Can have them working together properly.

Thanks for this great mod. And it would be even greater with a destruction cost feature included.

@007 Agent
This mod should be compatible with the latest version of CS (including Industries DLC).
If you've found some problems with this mod, please report here.

Hello. Can`t wait for update this mod! Dude this is awesome mod! :) +/- when You send new update? :)

Hi, i love this mod ! I would like to know if it is possible to add a slider to increase the difficulty of the new industries. in my opinion is too easy to level them up. Thx very much.

Just tried with industries dlc. It seems to work properly.

This mod is displayed incompatible with the new dlc of industries

@DanzaDragon
Thanks for your feedback.
May be I'll add some compatibility options in this mod.

It was the super demand mod it was conflicting with. I imagine any demand mod will conflict with this!

Just a heads up that I'm getting an issue I narrowed down to this mod. A conflict perhaps with another mod that results in NO ONE being able to move in to any building/into the city whilst this mod is active. Removing this mod instantly fixed the issue so I figure its a conflict with one of my other mods.

I'm investigating and trying to figure out what the conflict is. At the minute I have no idea what's causing it.

Hey Zenya, for some reason it doesn't seem changing the Construction Cost for Others affects terraforming costs, my Others cost is 50%, however the terraforming is still base price. Is there something I'm missing?

Ah gotcha, thanks!

@Jdalt40
Set "Construction cost / Others" to change the terraforming cost.

Heya, would it be possible to implement a cost modifier for terraforming? Just wondering, awesome mod by the way!

Landvalue upgrade threshold presets could probably use some tuning. I used this mod to replace vanilla hard mode, turning it off and setting this mod to advanced, which claims to be similiar to it. But when I loaded up my city, buildings across the land were mass upgrading. Even when I bumped it up a level from advanced to hard, it still happened.

This mod works perfectly with all DLCs and my mods collection (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1408992773)

This is so awesome!!! I've been itching for something like this for awhile. Great work, Zenya.

For all those wondering: this is working just fine in Parklife from what I can tell.

Is this completely compatible with Green Cities, including all the new policies? The mod didn't get updated after the Green Cities and ChirpX updates, so just asking.

not like i wasn't enjoying them before...i was just cheating, so i was unable to fully enjoy. Small cities are boring to me...no highways, no high density, limited in a lot of assets. I will probably try a city from the start without unlimited money and using this mod...I am hoping it will add an even greater challenge so I never get bored with this game (at least not til next cs2 comes out)

I put it on challenge (with some minor changes, so it is now 'custom'), but also turned on unlimited money to start (it makes the game more fun for me, city thrives quicker, and you can always turn money back on with the same amount that you would have had). I was $77 MILLION in debt lol...but eventually got back in the green, around 55k population was when i was able to turn it around. Sped up the speed and slowly got back out of debt, now I am really enjoying the additional difficulties to the game that this mod brings. Great work :)

how to open the menu

Fantastic Work! Love the control in the settings.

Thanks, I was sad to see how easy this game was, I have been playing it for a day and already am able to easily make a more or less perfectly functioning city. This mod definitely helps!

Apploaded several new screenshots to show that difficulty "Impossible" is playable.

it dosnt work

damn this mod is amazing. With the disasters and heating i am really struggeling to keep the City alive. But it makes the game more fun.

I should add that I'm using network extensions 2, move-it, city vitals, road anarchy and tmpe, to enable more micro-managing. That probably makes things easier.

This mod breathes new life into the game! You need to set the time acceleration to 3x and go make a sandwich, but that also makes proper decision making and budgeting vital.

Impossible mode is really impossible, I think. I couldn't break 3900-4000 population for days, but the incinerator and high-density residential zoning comes in at 7700. So I caved and set it to Challenge. So far it seems perfect (no plateaus).

Thank you so much for making this and keeping it up to date!

It's difficult to say about economy realism in this game. :)

If you have build 1-2 big cities already, I think "Expert" is good. Not too easy, not too hard.

I want start a new game. Which one are the best settings for realism economy (not to easy)?

Except changing the denamd, this mod does absolutely nothing to prevent people get in the city. It just changes stuff like costs and so on.

This happens when your city is not properly connected to the outside with road. There should be roads for both entering AND leaving the city.

If this didn't help, it may be mod conflict.