Custom Milestones
Updated for Disasters DLC.
This mods allows you to completely customise what each milestone unlocks using a editable XML file. I crated this mod after reading some of the comments on my other smaller mod, Metro/Train Swap, which showed people wanted to be able to customise the unlock order of a nmber of things. Any building, feature, service, policy, road etc that is listed in the milestones as unlockable can be moved around to different milestones, or simply unlocked from the start.
You are able to customise all this through a XML file that is created the first time you load up a map with this mod enabled. The file is stored at …SteamsteamappscommonCities_SkylinesDM-CustomMilestones.xml and can be edited with any text editor. This file is created with all the milestone information that the game defaults to.
A number of features are automated in order to avoid mistakes when editing things. For example, fires will not start until a fire station buidling is unlocked, and people won’t get sick until there is a medical clinic/hospital unlocked. If you only want to change a few things, you can delete everything that you aren’t changing and the mod will draw the default values from the game. This mod DOES NOT unlock wonders or momuments.
This mod now supports all the stuff added in Snowfall. In order to get all the new buildings and services added to the mod config, delete or rename your existing DM-MIlestone.xml file and generate a new one by loading a snow map. If you load a normal map, the new buildings will not be included.
As far as I know it will work with old cities, let me know if it doesn’t.
There are many different elements that can be edited, this will explain what each is.
Special: This tab has an attribute that allows you to unlock EVERYTHING from the start. This is more of a debugging tool as you obviously won’t have enough money for all the services you would be forced to build.
Milestone: These denote each milestone, with the name (which should not be modified) and the reward money for completing it (which can be changed). NOTE: If you make the reward money too high there is a good chance the number will become negative.
Area: This tag is the only one without a name attribute and denotes when a new area will be unlocked. There are nine areas by default, adding more then nine will not unlock more areas, use another mod for that.
Building: These are buildings that can be unlocked. The name on these relates directly to thier stored
indentifying name, so some are spelt strangely.
Feature: The feature tags cover basically anything that doesn’t fit into a category. This includes things like loans, the policy panel, budget window and wonders.
Policy: These cover ALL the policies from the policies panel.
Road: This covers all the roads that can be unlocked. Like the buildings, the names used are directly related to the indentifying name.
Service: Originally this would have have every service, but was cut down to only Tourism, Beautification and each momument level. All the other serivces like Health, Police etc are connected to when a related building is unlocked.
Zones: This tag covers all the different zones (residential, industry etc) and specialisations (farming, oil etc).
I do not know how to (or even if it is possible) to adjust the unlocking values of buildings/intersection from other mods/assets. This means that custom buidlings and intersections that have unlock milestones cannot be changed.
Custom intersections don’t unlock if they include a road type that wouldn’t normally be unlocked yet, even if that road type is unlocked by this mod.
According to pcesars:
To unlock Network Extensions Highways: set Special UnlockAll=true then add the following in the milestone you want:
<Road name=”Small Rural Highway” />
<Road name=”Rural Highway” />
<Road name=”Three-Lane Highway” />
<Road name=”Four-Lane Highway” />
<Road name=”Five-Lane Highway” />
<Road name=”Large Highway” />
Other NE roads will unlock once you plop the first default road
This mod will obviously conflict with any other mods that effect the unlock step of elements in the game. My tests have shown that mods that unlock all the areas do work with this mod and will unlock the other areas at the same time as the final default area is unlocked.
I know many people don’t even play with milestones, but to me they add to the game and give short term goals to work towards. HOWEVER, I like many others don’t like the unlock order, but my personal unlock order most likely woudn’t be yours. That’s why I’ve made this completely customisable. There may still be bugs or mistakes in this, but due to the amount of combinations I may have missed them….so if you encounter a bug, please let me know and I’ll fix it.
Have Fun!
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