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Park Rebalance

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Compatible with 1.13.3-f9 (Sunset Harbor)

This mod changes all official ploppable parks to be worthwhile to place for their entertainment value. There were some good parks with a nice range and entertainment value, but around half of them were just terrible compared to those. So this is an overall buff to most weaker parks.

Any Park Life parks are completely untouched. The mod changes all parks instantly when activated, but requires a restart of the game after deactivating to unload.


The problem with parks was, for me, that it just didn't make sense from a gameplay perspective to build certain parks, because others were much better. The Botanical Garden or the Carousel have hands-down the best coverage or entertainment value. God forbid you build a Park with Trees, that giant monster that had almost no impact on the surrounding buildings, or a Japanese Garden with almost no coverage.

So I came up with a rating system for parks, factoring in the entertainment radius, the entertainment value, its own size, the visitor capacity, the upkeep and the build cost. I valued it in this order: the entertainment value and radius > its own size > upkeep > visitor capacity >> build cost.

The final scoring function is:
[Entertainment] * (π * [Entertainment Radius]^2 / (IF([waterside];([Width]^0,4)*1,5;[Building Area]^0,2)) * [Visitors^0,2] / ([Upkeep] + [Water * 0,024] + [Electricity * 0,01] + 1000)^0,8 / ([Build Cost] + 8000)^0,2

I used the Bouncy Castle, Skatepark & Dog Park as baselines to balance the other buildings around.

And here are the changed values with this mod, compared with the previous values: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fk9cRTkweSMKZVm7vK_0QuDhcPynSbPefo7MCo-wSGs/edit?usp=sharing

All workshop content is obviously unchanged, because they didn't try at all to be balanced. There are also a bunch of "parks", like parking spaces, which should not suddenly have a high entertainment value. So only parks and plazas from the base game have been changed.

Thanks to egi, without him this would not have been possible. Check out his mods! http://steamcommunity.com/id/daegi/myworkshopfiles/