0:20 "It's lacking in realism." Cue floating cars phasing through the walls of the parking garage on the left.

I had a great laugh as during the first minute of the video, as you spoke of making the game realistic, in the background, cars are flying in and out of the upper floors of the parking garage.

Your explaination of rico revisited makes it quite attractive to me now. I've stayed away from RICO mods in the past, because I want my cities to grow naturally, but making the unique buildings fit their purpose would be great.

To simulate underground parking for downtown skyscrapers, I place some "parking lot roads" components inside the footprint of some of the buildings to complement the visible parking garages. I'll even add some to the parking garages to boost their capacity since they don't ever actually fill up to capacity.

I never ever thought I could wrap my head around RICO Revisited/Ploppable RICO and you cleared the smoke screen in 4 minutes and 19 seconds. Man, do I love your content! Keep up the great work man! I'm absolutely loving it!

You demystified RICO Revisited for me!!

0:33 Great way to get out of a parking lot.

Just wiped my collection of mods and downloads for a new start. Had 1,076 "pages" of downloaded stuff and no clue what most were or how many worked. Looking for a more realistic, and not so cumbersome, collection of stuff for the future. And I stumbled across this video....♥️ I had traffic manager (kinda understood it) and RICO revisited (couldn't figure it out much at all). I have just gained more knowledge about these two then from watching dozens of other videos about these two! You made them so simple. I now know how to tackle my future builds. Realistic Population...didn't know about this one. But was always scratching my head with a large spawn office building had only 20 people in but a single family house would also have 20 people in it. Anyway... subscribing to your channel and will spend the rest of the day watching many of your videos! Thanks for making all three of these easy to understand, ESPECIALLY the RICO!

Wow, what a great video. I really never understood RICO until now. Thank you. You are a good teacher.

I've been banging my head against a brick wall trying to figure out some of these mods without much success. Other KZfaqrs, although well-meaning and very enjoyable, run through what they are doing way too fast with little or no explanation seeming to forget about those of us who are new. I really like the way you explain these things in detail without talking down to us or OVER-EXPLAINING...( this is a spoon, hold it in your hand, open your mouth...LOL) Thank you for explaining the RICO and also now I am able to change the decorations on roads like the trees and lights....AWESOME!!! Can you please tell me exactly with parking lot roads you are using in this video, or maybe you did and I missed it. I have some, lots actually, dealing with parking but they don't seem to be the correct ones. Again, thank you!! Have been binge-watching past episodes!!!

Just a note about levels for RICO revisited (I'm learning as well but I've seen it used in a few builds); Changing the level definitely makes a difference for the building, in that certain buildings will not strive depending on the land value around said building. In other words, if you have your shopping center as a level 3 building, but the land value around it is low (due to no parks, or city services, etc), it will become abandoned quickly. Think of it as a building upgrading in your city. As the land value goes up, buildings upgrade. Thus, having a high-level asset requires a high land value. I see this video is 2 years old, but if anybody is using this mod and also wonders what the levels are for, hopefully this helps a bit!

Such a great introduction to the fundamentals of realistic building!

Great list! One thing I would add is the Real Time mod, which changes the timeline from days to hours (and allows you to control how quickly the hours pass, and has separate controls for day and night, so that if you want to see how your city looks at night, but don't want it to last forever, you can do that) creates realistic rush hours (suuuuuper challenging, with the realistic traffic of TMPE!), and creates 'events' at large unique buildings, which generate extra traffic. Extra challenges, for sure, but definitely more realistic.

Thank you so much for this video and others. This one has really changed my approach to how I build my cities and will have to go back and revisit some of my old ones. Been following you for about a week and am loving your videos.

Great video! On a side note, I love how during the Intro how these mods will enhance realism the parking garage on-screen has cars (literally) flying out. That made me laugh.

Wish I'd stumbled on this video earlier! You explain RICO Revisited way better than any of the videos dedicated to just that mod that I've watched. Thanks!

This was great. It's so hard for me to wrap my head around these mods sometimes. I'd love to see more videos like these.

Wow, thanks for this. I didn't know unique buildings are seen as parks in the game. Nice mod showcase!

This describes spot on how I like to play the game. Perfect video!

Thank You for your videos! I been playing cities skylines pretty much since it’s release. How I just started playing Mod’s in the last six months. After discovering your video on traffic manager I had to watch more. And after watching this one and few others I realize I was only experiencing 1/2 the fun. Things are so much more realistic now!

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that didn't know how to use these mods properly, thanks for the simple yet very effective tutorial.

I've been playing this game for years and I've learned so much from this video. Thank you!

Only watched two of your videos. And I am a fan already. paused the game for almost a year now, due to lack of realism. Man thank you so much for getting me to play again. thank you.

I loved the stuff you explained about parking management thru TMPE

you helped be BIGTIME here. thank you sooo much ♥️

I love you videos. I needed to a fresh version of Cities Skylines because my game had too many old buggy mods that weren't compatible. I deleted all of my game files and reinstalled the game, adding nearly all of the Mods in your favorites Menu on Steam. I'm hoping my game won't bug out anymore and I can play the game as you do in your videos.

Just brilliant. Thank you for refreshing my energy for the game. I play it on my M1 Macbook Air.

I had no idea about the parking stuff! You rock YUMBL! Thanks!!

Beautiful video! OMG. Thank you!

Years using the Transit PE and did not know about the Realistic Parking!!! Thanks! Will try it in a new city

Thank you for such a great video. It is an absolutely new game right now.

I love how you start your video talking about how you make your city and it's traffic more realistic, meanwhile, you have vehicles flying in and out of the building on the lower left of your screen lol

Great video, thank you very much! This will make things much more enjoyable.

Super helpful explanation!

Thanks so much for this video! 😊

Super helpful video👍🏻

You're my new hero! I thought I was the only crazy person playing this game :)

Very useful information. Thank you!

Subscribed. Thanks for the beautiful content!

21:47 "The parking garage doesn't have enough parking" Who hasn't experienced the struggle... it's a beautiful, sunny day; you want to pay a visit to the lovely parking garage, but where to put your car while you're there, enjoying the view? 😅

Every time I watch your videos I learn something and I agree with you. It’s long time that I think using a combo of mods and assets we can build our version di Cities Skylines, the Advanced Edition.

Ploppable RICO mod is the most overpowered one I've used in the game. I had 160,000 residents before and over 250,000 after a couple of hours of using it. I can also get people to work more because I can just place copes of the same building with hundreds of jobs in each one. Its so cool to turn a certain unique building into a residential, commercial, or office building. I also like how you can make low density residential buildings have fewer households and high density residential buildings have way more households. By the way thanks for making this video.

Gee, thanks, Yumbl, I've learned so much from your videos that I've declared by current city of 200K+ hopelessly obsolete and beyond repair. It's dead to me, and now I'm starting over with nothing to my name but a much better understanding of how mods improve this game even more than I already knew. Fortunately, I've been looking for a valid reason to start over for awhile now.

Thanks for your explanations with the RICO mod! I tought it was a clone of Plop the Growables

Your the man with advanced mod tutorials 650 hours and still watch for a refresh. Thank you.

The trouble with stacking a high density residential on top of high density commercial is the residents will keep complaining, getting sick and dying of *noise pollution*... Love your series man. I felt particularly inspired by the road hierarchy and interchange episodes, and I have applied your interchange tutorials in several districts of my current city. I'd love to see if you have some tricks up your sleeve to manage the horrendous cargo harbor and cargo train station traffic. Keep up the good work!

biggest vanilla office i noticed holds 97 jobs

This was helpful. Thank you.

car at 0:34 : drives off parking lot yumbl: and ultimately this will make your city more life-like

I am going to immediately download RICO revisited. Oh and Precise Engineering, which you talk d about in another video

I love that during the introduction to this video explaining about how to make city skylines more realistic your parking garages have cara fly to and from them. Clearly this city is set in the distant future, but before transport tubes.

I know and use these three mods, but I still learnt something today! Thanks 👍

Wow, thank you so much. Im gonna start a new city now!

I found your channel after City Planner Plays mentioned how helpful your tutorial on parking lots was in his new Let's Play series Clearwater County. I started playing CS in 8/20 but only started delving into the world of mods and downloading assets a few months ago. I've been binge watching all of your videos and I can't begin to tell you how fantastic and helpful they are. You have demystified so many mods and inspired me to take my next city to a new level of detail and functionality. Thank you so much for putting out the informative content in such a comprehensive yet easy to understand way. I think you are an amazing and essential contributor to the CS community. Thank you, good sir. :)

Well, time to get RICO revisited. I already have realistic pop revisited and it has doubled my city population. Interesting note: right before I found realistic pop I went through my city and completely remade my public transport (bus and metro) from scratch. I tried to build it to be as robust as possible. I then got realistic pop and watched 30,000 new cims move in. Surprisingly, my public transport *held up* to the massive spike in demand. I only needed to make small adjustments like adding more busses or a new bus/metro line. The existing PT infrastructure never buckled under the load although it is being tested rather hard.

I didnt even know this mods are existing. wow... this is game changer.

My new favorite channel!

This was a great video, please keep them coming! What are your mods for buildings, especially that cool 60 degree split building?

you are teacher indeed, make me attract to cityskyline more than ever.

Love this video but laughed hard asf when I saw a car drive off the top floor of a car park as you talked about realism

22:23 "A bit more challenging" Yes, for both the player and the computer :D

Great video about RICO

the realistic population mod makes quite a difference, there are district specialization's for offices, which are called IT specializations, it has huge skyscrapers which only can contain 16 workers

I didn’t realize you were in NOVA! I’m in DC!

Superb explanation.

Thanks for the tutorial

Thanks YUMBL, love your CS stuff. Specially the intersections! One thing I find with the Realistic Population mod is that sims won't take jobs at commercial zones IF all the highly educated jobs are taken AND you have the Hadron Collider popped down. Anyway to fix this? I'm about to just adjust the available jobs at these building to the amount of highly educated jobs lol... Edit: That changes the visitors count aswell so not ideal....

Just Subscribed To Your Channel. Love it. What pc do you use?

Intro, Yumbl talks about realism while a car flies into the garage by some magical way.

Your channel has good branding. I love the palette and logo.

I really like the sound of more realism and these mods are really cool, but do you think I should wait until I've got significant hands-on experience with the game?

I'm on console and understood everything you were saying... but all i kept thinking is how i want those asphalt roads on my map lol

My 2 cents on the realistic population mod: Just an assumed explaination how Paradox comes to this maximum of 32 workers or in general unrealistic low residental numbers even on bigger buildings: Per default as far as i know, only somewhat 65000 cims are going to be simulated at all in the game, (of course moddable) and to ensure that your city looks still large and great even with that amount of population, they seemed to take a compromise by "spreading" the residentals in more buildings, so your city looks bigger, but still has not that high population. If you e.g. build a skyscraper residental with 1000 families (3-4000 pop) you might only 20 of those to max calculated population, and what is a city with only 20 skyscrapers? ;) so what Paradox did, made sense when they programmed it at the beginning, they didnt know that we do have an awesome community to build mods, assets, and creating tons of great videos (count this one in ;) ) to make Cities Skylines community a great place to be in. Dont get me wrong, i dont see this mod useless, just explaining from Paradox potential site why the game mechanic in vanilla works as it works :)

Commenting after 5s of video : I saw "Realistic" in the title, lauched the video, 1st second, bottom right corner, the car jumping from nowhere. Now I don't know what to expect.

Whoa. That car just drove off the edge at 0:34. Can't get more real than that. Lol.

The levels is the buildings is when a building has certain services so usually it needs school parks fire police etc to reach level 5. Each level a building will rebuild itself to its next level...I usually put all my buildings as the highest level

at 0:22 I find it so ironic that while he's talking about it being unrealistic, there's a bunch of flying cars coming out of the parking garage in the background

Nice tricks!!!!

Nice video. I am a new player. I hope i have the patience to master the game this is not simcity 2013 thankfully

hey man, what world map are you using? its so beautiful 😍 btw, great video, with rico and pop mod my citizens increased so much

I never know about that parking feature of TMPE, and I heavily use that mod. I wouldn't dare turn that on in my current city as it wasn't build with parking being a need in mind, but I'll play around with that and the other 2 mods in a new city for sure.

The problem for me with putting more than 100 jobs or housing in a building is that it gets quite unmanageable in terms of waste production, deaths and crime

Great video. I don't know what to think about realism in Cities:Skylines. It's not exactly realistic for a town of 35,000 people to have 2000 people working or living in one building. Cities that size usually don't have big traffic problems. They typically have very little if any mass transit. All of this can change if the city is part of a larger metropolitan area, but cities in the game are typically on their own. I've decided to pretend that if the population number in the game is 35k, it's representing 350k. Just multiply by 10. And even then, there aren't many cities that size with really big skylines and a ton of mass transit. Atlanta, maybe, but it's the principal city in a much larger urban area. Either way, I'm getting back into the game after several years of not playing, so your channel and a few others have been valuable to me. Lots of new mods, and I have such a bad memory I couldn't even remember how to play anymore. Years before CS, I used to play SC4 and when I first got back into CS, the two were conflating in my brain. It's a process. Thanks.

23:23 the cars are flying in and out of the parking garage lol!

thx for your info...really like it a lot....A few years ago there was a mod I used where I could actually set my own events to happen and change ticket prices etc. but I don't see it anymore...can you do a video where you can show me [ us ] how to set events at the stadium or theater set times so I can build a proper transport system...thx again - greetings from South Africa

3:12 The level determines extra residents or employees, so I would put it at level 3 in terms of the hypermarket.

He says “think about that, you know, what a trip.” 😂🤣😂

how did you manage to download and put these new structures in the game? and in which folder did you put it?

Great video! I am curious how did you change the asphalt color on the roads. Kindly share. Thank you!

Cities skylines could really use more in depth zoning, like mixed use buildings maybe. That dlc would cost more than the game though lol

Hes talking about more realistic traffic in the intro as cars drive off the 4th floor of the parking garage out onto the street lol

YUMBLtv, I noticed that vehicles are floating (magically) up to the 2nd or 3rd floor of a parking garage. Funny, but what causes that and is there anything we can do to prevent this from happening? I think I heard someone say once that you have to put the parking garage farther away from the street. But that is not always desirable. (Love your videos by the way). You have a real knack for explaining it well.

Aloha, great job on your city! I was thinking to download City Skylines as an alternative from Simcity 5 due to the game being super glitchy and the cities are super duper small。How did you make your traffic realistic btw? What’s the specific mod for it on City Skylines。Also I have a windows 10 will this game work? I’m willing to switch to this awesome looking game! Thank you!

Can you make a park/functional building combo? I mean, it would be nice to keep the effect to happiness / noise pollution etc.

Worth noting - RICO Revisited - warns of using both "ploppable" and "revisited" at the same time.

I assume the "level" is the upgrade level, i.e. when you have zoned areas, the buildings upgrade from level 1 through level 5 as they meet their demands. A level 5 residential building would need well educated citizens to fill it.

Out of all the things I noticed, at :35 seconds, I saw a man climb up the parking garage and serve his car down the wall!!! 😅😅

with these 2 mods my population has been growing insanely and the traffic as well too dropped from 83 % to 60 %.Cant handle it anymore

The only reservation I have is with the Realistic Population. If one tower holds 870 homes and another 2000+ workers, won't you hit the agent limits before ever reaching anything remotely resembling a realistic city size?

i was hoping the real time mod was on this