Rockdale
Finished Rockdale city that I built from May 2017 to May 2018 live on stream and also showed it in a short video YouTube series.
The map is provided "as is" and kind of only for looks, since most config files are stored locally so the city will be a mess gameplay-wise.
A ton of config files and even some assets are stored locally, and are not part of the map save file nor the collections. Most importantly, parking markers are missing, because I used a custom build ones, that won’t load to the map if I upload it to the Workshop. RICO stats are going to be default and maybe TMPE lane connections, speed limits, bans, etc. are not going to be there as well.
What you absolutely and totally need to do before even attempting to load this map:
16GB of RAM is needed.
City is big, a lot of buildings with a lot of vertices are used, some areas are heavily detailed, so the game’s performance will be bad even on a really good PC. Especially with all the mods.
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After Dark, Snowfall, Mass Transit, European Suburbia, Match Day
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Enable: Not all mods need to be enabled, you absolutely need the Network Extensions 2, rest of the mods won’t prevent the map from loading. But without stuff like Ploppable RICO, No Abandonment, 81 tiles, Ploppable Asphalt, Plop the Growables, Unlimited Trees etc. the city will be a mess. If you just want to "look", you might skip mods like Move It!, Anarchies etc.
Make sure you have the Vanilla European style enabled!
USE THE LOADING SCREEN MOD and set it to only load stuff that is on the map (uncheck the first option to load everything that is enabled)
Remove Vanilla Trees and Remove Airport Lights mods make the loading time longer. They freeze the game just after the loading screen, it’s normal. If you can’t be bothered, don’t use them, although the airport will look ugly and vanilla trees will pop back.
If you don’t want to mess up your asset and mod collections you normally use, backup the userGameState.cgs file in the appdata game folder, it contains the list of assets and mods you have enabled right now. Just put it back after you’re done playing Rockdale.
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To get the look I had in the videos: Use Theme Mixer, Relight, Post procces FX, Ultimate Eyecandy
LUT = Relight Neutral
Maximum ambient occlusion with Post procces FX
Theme Mixer:
Cliff – Cleyra
Grass – Not so Rocky European
Ruined – Not so Rocky European
Gravel – Nordic Forest
Water – Alps Dolomites
Water foam – Owl’s LA
Oil and Ore – Farmland
Sand – Lush Temperate
Pavement – Temperate Coast
Write down your current Theme Mixer settings before doing changes, save your Ultimate Eyecandy and Relight profiles.
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Map didn’t load!
I tried it on different computers, it works. Make sure you subscribed to the collections and enabled the mods, especially Network Extensions 2 and the Loading Screen Mod. If you are trying to play the map long after it was released, chances are mods and/or the game has changed so the map is just gone, nothing we can do about that.
Map is loading for a really long time!
For some reason it took me over 10 minutes to load after not playing it for a long time, not sure why, but if the Loading Screen Mod doesn’t show an error or the game won’t crash, it’s fine and be patient.
Trees, buildings, props are clearly missing from the map!
Do you have unlimited trees mod (half the map won’t have trees otherwise)? Have you subsribed to the collections? Authors might delete their Workshop creations over time, nothing I can do about that nor is it my power to keep track of it. Parking markings are missing, it’s explained earlier.
The game runs super slow!
That’s unfortunately normal with mods.
The city is a complete mess! Population, budget, employment, traffic goes crazy!
Like I said, config files for RICO, probably TMPE and other mods are saved locally, so everything is default therefore broken. The map is kinda only for looks.
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