1.2.5f1 Anniversary Update

A brand-new Patch awaits you! Patch 1.2.5f1 is now live, featuring an array of delightful new parks previously highlighted in our Anniversary Announcement on the 10th. In addition to these, numerous fixes have been incorporated! Let’s delve into the details!

This update brings several enhancements aimed at improving quality-of-life in relation to homelessness:

Homelessness Metrics

• Inclusion of homelessness data in the Population Info View
• Visibility and selection of homeless households in parks’ Selected Info Panel
• Enhanced decision-making process for citizens moving out, aiming to curtail homelessness

These updates facilitate tracking of homelessness, locating homeless communities in your city, and assessing the circumstances of individual homeless citizens. If your city’s homeless are generally employed, they just need access to affordable housing. If they are unemployed, they will require appropriate job opportunities in line with their education to transition out of homelessness.

Moreover, we have enhanced the logic concerning newly adult citizens moving out of their parental homes. Previously, they would promptly relocate upon reaching adulthood, and in the absence of affordable housing, would end up homeless.

Now, certain conditions must be met before they move out:

• Newly adult citizens must secure employment before leaving home.
• They contribute financially to their household’s wealth until it can provide them with seed money, enabling them a better start in independent life.
• They ascertain the availability of homes within the city prior to moving out.
  • If insufficient homes are available, they might opt to relocate outside the city and become commuters. Such commuters may return to settle in the city once housing becomes accessible.

Known Challenges:

• Adjustments to crime accumulation might necessitate increased policing efforts in current cities and the assignment of police to specific districts for optimal crime management.
• Following the resolution of a bug reducing wages from untaxed income, tax revenue from industrial and office zones has diminished. To maintain profitability, ensure a highly educated workforce is available in office zones.

• Introduction of Easy and Normal modes.
• A collection of parks commemorating 10 years of Cities: Skylines:
• Chirplet Park
• Chirper Park
• Chirper Adventure Park
• Chirper Fun Time Complex
• Activity Playground
• Hilly Playground
• Play Round
• Basketball Center
• Dog Activity Park
• Park Cafe

• Resolved a crash to desktop when loading a save containing Region Pack content after the pack is disabled.
• Addressed a crash to desktop in saves with missing zone types.
• Fixed a crash to desktop in saves with missing assets.
• Fixed a crash to desktop when selecting an upgrade from the Add Object menu while an unsupported object is selected.
• Corrected a crash to desktop when aligning the Landfill or Extractor lot area with the starting node.
• Resolved a crash to desktop following a collision between a car and a parked tracked vehicle.
• Fixed a rare crash to desktop issue linked to an icon with unsupported Inkscape SVG CSS styling.
• Crime-related Adjustments:
  • Fixed an issue where crime probability accumulation caused buildings to consistently appear green in the police info view and police vehicles to refrain from patrolling.
  • Resolved an issue where police vehicles failed to apprehend criminals at a crime scene.
  • Fixed the discrepancy between low/high visual indicators for Jail & Prison Availability and actual capacity.
• Homelessness Corrections:
  • Incorporated homeless data into the Population info view, highlighting locations of occupied homeless encampments.
  • Introduced a sidebar for homeless citizens/households/encampments.
  • Added a residents section for homeless encampments (parks, abandoned structures).
  • Included the homeless count in Statistics.
  • Improved citizen moving logic. Newly grown adults are less likely to become homeless, instead remaining at home longer. They stay put until they receive starting money, secure employment, and suitable housing becomes available in the city. They might also relocate outside the city and commute if suitable housing isn’t available.
  • Fixed an issue with homeless citizens becoming trapped after the demolition of buildings in cities constructed before version 1.1.8f1.
  • Resolved issue of homeless citizens having a blank destination field.
  • Homeless encampments are now disallowed at landmark buildings:
  • Ferris Wheel
  • Näsinneula
  • National Gallery of Arts
  • Notre-Dame
  • National Diet Building
  • Namdaemun
  • Botanical Garden
  • Fountain Plaza
  • Grand Hotel
  • Bell Tower of Xi’an
• Waste Management Adjustments:
  • Adjusted garbage accumulation for park buildings.
  • Corrected a bug regarding garbage accumulation related to park employees.
  • Fixed incorrectly calculated garbage amounts for service buildings.
  • Enhanced transport capacity for Garbage City Service buildings.
  • Increased the default Garbage Storage Capacity of Landfills, allowing Dump Trucks to collect full loads when the facility is being emptied.
• Traffic Optimizations:
  • Enhanced citizen pathfinding, allowing for easy navigation through parks attached to multiple roads.
  • Enhanced traffic flow in certain intersections by allowing vehicles obstructing crossing traffic to exit the intersection with priority.
  • Improved vehicle orientation in roadside parking based on the direction of the connected driveway.
  • Enhanced taxi boarding times.
  • Resolved issue of firetrucks being unable to access some sub-building upgrades that are not adjacent to a road.
  • Corrected buses making unnecessary u-turns upon leaving a stop, ensuring their trajectory corresponds with the intended route.
  • Addressed unwarranted despawning of cars in roundabouts, which occurred more frequently in busy multi-lane roundabouts and with emergency vehicles.
  • Addressed cars unnecessarily decelerating when passing through green traffic lights.
  • Resolved issue where medical helicopters mistakenly transported injured patients to the Disease Control Center, which cannot treat them. This also resolves some issues with healthcare vehicles attempting to pick up citizens already inside other vehicles.
  • Fixed delivery trucks/extractor vehicles with trailers reversing into themselves. Instead, they enter the building, vanish, then reappear in the correct driving direction.
• Fixed trucks collecting goods from vacant warehouses.
• Resolved unnecessary overlap errors with existing zones when creating a new polygon area.
• Addressed issue of greenhouses situated in Vegetable Farming areas burning indefinitely. The fire effect was improperly applied to extractor buildings when the main building was on fire.
• Corrected costing issue when relocating a City Service building or its upgrades to the same location.
• Corrected action cancellation when attempting to relocate buildings to a prohibited location.
• Fixed issue with Disaster Response Unit inaccurately increasing the displayed maximum vehicle count.
• Resolved issue where the Bell Tower of Xi’an Landmark indicated “No pedestrian access” notification despite being properly connected to a road.
• Addressed pathfinding challenge with NA_ResidentialHigh01_L5_2x4.
• Added missing underground cables to visualize electricity flow beneath standalone bus lanes and tram tracks.
• Added the option to augment standalone bus lanes with lighting. Standalone bus lanes devoid of this upgrade will not convey electricity.
• Refined company profitability calculations by comparing the profit of the last month to the current month’s profit for more precise analysis.
• Adjusted passenger capacity of AirplanePassenger02.
• Reduced cloud cover and rainfall by around 20% across varied regions including Great Highlands, Lakeland, Mountain Village, Tampere, Sweeping Plains, Windy Fjords, Archipelago, Barrier Island, River Delta, San Francisco, and Waterway Pass.
• Enhanced precipitation turbulence for the San Francisco map, thereby increasing spring rainfall above 0.3. Balanced lightning strike probability set at 5% and rain requirement at 0.3.
• Tweaked Water Surface values to create less pronounced and smaller waves, complementing the scale of the terrain/cities and generic wind conditions.
• Refined base colors for temperate cliffs and dirt to be slightly less saturated and a tad darker.
• Modestly adjusted aerial perspective to a blue tint.
• Enhanced brightness and contrast for seasons.
• Elevated day/night contrast levels and fine-tuned night shading.
• Amended terrain far tiling to lessen repetitiveness.
• Refined flower colors so they remain consistent between spring and summer.

• Refreshed main menu backdrop images.
• Introduced new style UI icons.
• Enabled selection of Extractors/Landfills by clicking their polygon area.
• Refreshed the color scheme for Electricity statistics for better clarity.
• Enhanced visibility of Forestry Area and its demarcations in dense forests.
• Improved the visibility of parking lot edges. Building lot overlay appears more prominently during placement or when overlapping other placements.
• Introduced a distinctive asset label for unique buildings.
• Updated text and rectified some translation errors.
• Paradox Account now presents a country list sorted alphabetically across all languages.
• Several controller corrections.
• Various SFX optimizations.
• Added hotkey for confirmation:
  • Press Enter to affirm action on pop-ups.
  • Use left/right arrow keys to choose button.
• Fixed household member statistics graph duplicating counts for family members and education level.
• Addressed issue where the landscaping tool altered terrain without input after hovering over UI during terraforming.
• Corrected issue with ruins beyond city limits being moveable.

• Corrected application of climate latitude/longitude to simulation.

• Updated to Unity2022.3.57f1
• Fixed misalignment issues in the Solar Power Plant assets.
• Corrected camera collision with two High Density Office buildings.
• Rectified an issue with some students bypassing fences at the City Elementary School.

• Upgraded PDX SDK to version 1.31.0
• Updated Mods UI to version 1.9.0
• Integrated support for GoFundMe external link
• Enabled setting a social username if absent in user’s My Profile
• Display tag usage counts
• Show DLC dependency names
• Bug Fixes:
  • Resolved issue where pressing Escape would close Mods UI during a modal.
  • Implemented various minor bug resolutions.

As always, please report any bugs you encounter to our Bug Report Forum; it provides a form to collect the information we need to help you assist us in further improving the game!

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