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Nostalgia wave at seeing images from this game again

I like Cities: Skylines but am a little turned off at how central the traffic management is to the gameplay. Maybe I just never figured out all the right optimizations, but it feels like after a certain city size you're just spending all your time reworking your roads

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There's a reason most people playing Cities: Skylines play with mods that do things like staggering the age of people moving to your city, allowing businesses to fire workers, patching the occupancy of buildings to be realistic, fixing truck drivers to work properly, etc.

It's a little annoying that they chose to be super realistic with realism in some aspects then kind of fuzz the details on others. Hopefully the sequel corrects this.

Is there any mod packs that contain all the mods that "fixes" the game in the way you mention?

I'm also struggling with the same issues once I hit a certain size, and I don't want to spend 90% of my time trying to fix traffic issues.

The Cities Skylines reddit has a pretty good guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/wiki/modlist

There are four critical ones imo:

- Lifecycle Rebalance Revisited

- Realistic Population 2

- Rebalanced Industries Revisited

- You're Fired

Those alone will make the game considerably more enjoyable to play. If you do a lot of public transport there are additional mods needed to make it work well but I normally stick to roads so it's not a problem for me.

That’s actually why I like the game. Logistics is everything. A city is not merely a beautiful arrangement of buildings, it is a machine with many moving parts. If you neglect the movements, the city won’t function and your people will move out. Unless it kills them first.

The problem is that the traffic issue is nonstop and affects things, so you have to fix it. In reality at least the traffic will resolve itself overnight.

There are mods that can do that (literally wipe every simulated traffic off the map) but you can handle traffic pretty easily if you plan ahead.

My last few cities really had no traffic problems at all except for one old main road that I really didn't want to redevelop for some reason.

I'm not sure how that can be a problem. If traffic couldn’t have any effect on your city, then why bother simulating it? The whole point is to make you think ahead and plan the capacity of your road network so that traffic jams are less likely and fixing them is easier.

I think that's the most common complaint about the game, hopefully they fix it in the next one.

Close to real life issues :) Traffic.

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