Tweaks cims' lifecycle for more balanced population and education needs.

Features​

The mod has many features, most of them are configurable. Please see GitHub page for details and full description of features and parameters. The below list is only a short overview.

• Lifecycle adjustments: Default thresholds for licycle stages are changed from 21/36/84 to 12/20/75. This gives more realistic population structure.
• Graduation logic: Graduation process is more restrictive. Cims following typical education path will spend more time in High School, College and University.
• New households: Several fixes e.g. CoupleHousehold having only 1 Adult will now have 2 Adults. Fixes bugs where Children and Teens are all spawned with age 0 and all StudentHousehold are single Adults at age 36.
• Dynamic education levels: Until the first College is built, the cims will have an education adjusted to open jobs.
• Birth process: Adults cannot have children if they won't be able to raise them before becoming Seniors. Changes distribution of families towards less children, also lowers chances for consecutive children.
• New Households limiter: Limits spawning of new households when the number of empty properties falls below a configurable treshold (by default 1,5%). This allows for new Adults to have a chance to actually find a property.
• Death process: Cims will have a chance to die of old age once they become Elders. The chance of death increases with age.
• Corpse removal: Corpses have 50% chance to vanish.

Comparison to the Vanilla game​

• Less Elementary Schools, more High Schools and Colleges.
• Heavily reduced number of cims leaving the city (Moving Away).
• Number of cims incoming to the city will depend on ratio of free properties.
• There will always be free residential properties for new Adults.
• Less births (approx. 2/3 of vanilla level), much more deaths (approx. 3x more).

Technical​

• The options are applied only once, during the mod initialization. For new setting to take effect, you need to restart the game.
• Modified systems: AgingSystem, ApplyToSchoolSystem, BirthSystem, CitizenInitializeSystem, DeathCheckSystem, GraduationSystem, SchoolAISystem.

Important Notes​

• 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.
• 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.
• 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) and at the same time 1 year of the cim life. Cims live around 100 days, give or take few, so it is pretty close to average human lifespan.
• 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.