The goal of this mod is to rebalance population structure and education needs, to be more realistic. It will reduce the number of Children and increase the number or Teens, thus balancing the needs for Elementary and High Schools.
- Default thresholds for licycle stages are changed from 21/36/84 to 12/21/75. As a result, population structure should be more realistic i.e. 15% Children, 10% Teens, 60% Adults and 15% Seniors. These are approximate numbers ofc, may differ in your cities.
- The thresholds can be individually set in the config file.
- Graduation process is more restrictive. Cims following typical education path will spend more time in High School, College and University. In Vanilla game they usually graduated after 1-2 days, rarely more. With this mod, they will spend a minimum number of days which is defined in the config file.
- By default: 3 days/years in High School, 4 days/years in College and 5 days/years in University.
- Graduation probability is also configurable. However, it doesn't affect time spent in schools much (give or take 1-2 days/years for some unlucky students).
- As a result of the above changes, you should need less Elementary Schools, approx. 1 per 10000 citizens and a bit more High Schools, approx. 1 per 30000. College and University needs are not changed much, 1 College per 35000 and 1 University per 50-60 thousands cims.
- Also, cims will stay longer in schools. Please note that "Average time to graduate" will now show the correct value in years, however year here is the same as day or month. So, don't be alarmed e.g. when you see 4 years. It means that cims on average will spend 4 in-game days or months in this school.
- Teens will no longer go to University.
- College cannot be skipped. Vanilla game allows for direct jump from High School to University, even for Teens (famous genius Teens).
- Waiting to see what CO will do about this topic.
- Cities Skylines II version 1.0.15f1
- BepInEx 5
- Cim Behavior Improvements mod is not compatible (both modify ApplyToSchoolSystem).
- Place the
RealPopMod.dllfile in your BepInExPluginsfolder. - The config file is automatically created when the game is run once.
- Nothing atm.
- v0.3.0 (2023-12-07)
- Graduation logic revamped.
- 2 fixes for ApplyToSchool system.
- v0.2.0 (2023-12-06)
- Added config file in BepInEx/config folder.
- Newly created citizens also follow the updated lifecycle thresholds.
- v0.1.1 (2023-12-05)
- Changed icon to be more readable on Thunderstore.
- v0.1.0 (2023-12-05)
- Initial build.
Important
It will take one full in-game day for the population to adjust to the new thresholds. Education changes need more time, at least 3-5 days. You may wanna build a few extra High Schools until the levels will adjust.
Important
Cims cannot go back to the previous phase of their lives, so changes done by this mod are irreversible. Make sure to have a savefile. Once the mod is deactivated, cims will follow default logic, so eventually the city will return to the vanilla state, but it will take several in-game days.
Note
The graduation logic implemented in the game is flawed, imho. Most students stay in schools for 1-2 days usually. The average time shown in the UI is totally incorrect (on many levels, both calculations and UI presentation).
Note
The timeline in CS2 is measured in days. Each in-game day also represents 1 month (e.g. when looking at average time spent in schools) but also can be treated as 1 year of cim life, which is much more reasonable than using months. Cims live around 100 days, give or take few, so it is pretty close to average fuman lifespan (80+ years). The population structure is based on EU statistics data, population by age. 0-14 years is ~15%, which we can consider Children in CS2 reality. 15-24 years is 11%, which we can consider Teens. And 65+ years is 21%, which we can consider Seniors (65 is usual retirement age in EU). The rest are Adults.