Steam Workshop "Who to follow?" Suggestions

[CSL Info Squad 4]

Welcome!

In an effort to bring some organization to the CSL Steam Workshop, this thread is a showcase of key authors to watch out for. Now we can confidently plunge into this project after receiving plenty of encouragement both from the community, as well as from our friends over at Paradox Plaza.

 

Listed authors may develop items which you think add something beneficial to the game, and you believe others may find useful (in terms of quality, stability & ease of use). In essence, it's a list of the very best authors out there, with links to their Workshop pages & examples of content.

 

Mission

To improve the gaming and modding experience of the CSL community by suggesting and encouraging quality standards. Also to provide an incentive for authors to adhere to them and adopt better practices -- both in their modelling process as well as the publication process.

Vision

An organized, quality-brimming Workshop and a vibrating, dynamic, constantly improving wider community of users and content creators.

 

Please post below to suggest new authors for consideration!

 

 

(Original template format created by TPB, now maintained by the CSL Info Squad).

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The list will be organized into categories (please feel free to suggest additional ones).

MODS

Includes authors of any type of mod (by "mod" we mean anything that is code based, as opposed to game assets).

MODELS

Authors who create buildings using models from outside the game. Any asset type, including intersections, if they have custom models (yes it's possible).

TRANSPORTATION

Authors who create intersection assets, transit stations, or anything else transport related. There are a ton so we will limit it to the very best.

TREES & PROPS

Authors of eye-candy content. Flora, props, and any other asset that doesn't really affect game mechanics.

RESKINS / REBUILDS

Authors who are very good at re-building things using either in-game templates and props or other people's props and models, but with significant improvements in style and functionality.

LUTs

Authors of Colour Correction Overrides.

MAPS

The best map creators (in terms of realism, terrain features & playability).

If you think you should be on this list and are not, please feel free to suggest yourself for consideration.

However, keep in mind you'll only be added if you meet these standards:

 

• Your assets/mods are crafted with a high level of professionalism.

   

• Your assets/mods have detailed descriptions of what they do, how they work, their stats, tris count, texture size, etc.

   

• You have been seen to be active, responsive and productive.

  You update your mods and assets, fix bugs, respond to feedback, improve.

   

• Most of your assets/mods work as intended.

  They don't conflict with other mods, they don't corrupt saves, and ideally, don't cause your saves to break if removed.

   

• Most of your assets/mods are original, relatively difficult to make.

   

• At least one of your workshop items has 2000 subscribers or more.

  There can be exceptions to this if your content is incredibly good if still unknown.

 

We know that a lot of the authors we'll be adding don't really conform to all these standards, but their work in general deserves recognition.

Author names should be using their STEAM names always, so we can find them.

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"Who to follow" on Steam Workshop? - Simtropolis Selection

Note: the list is not in order of importance or ability.

MODS

• nlight (Mod Tools)

  nlight is a very productive author, with 10 mods to date. Most of his mods are very good and massively popular, he does a variety of impressive work. A must-follow.

  Mod Tools

  First Person Camera

  Dynamic Resolution

  Improved Mods Panel

  Improved Assets Panel

  Sapphire UI Framework (And a couple of skins)

  and a few more...

   

• hyperdrive_engage (Road Color Changer)

  hyperdrive_engage's work so far with re-texture mods and his "removers" are very useful. Definitely worth following this guy.

  Road Color Changer

  American Roads

  Enhanced Zoom

  Terrain Texture replacer

  No Tree Dirt

  Cliff Decoration Remover

  Clown-Head Remover

  Billboard Remover

  and more...

   

• rollo (Terraform Tool)

  Even though rollo has only published a handful of mods so far, two of them are among the most useful.

  Terraform Tool

  Better bulldozer

  Waterworks tower and outlet

   

• Ulysius (Ambient Occlusion)

  Ulysius has made some of the most awesome mods out there to date, insta-follow.

  Sun Shafts

  Ambient Occlusion

  Flight Simulator

  Isometric Camera

  ...

   

• japa (Fine road heights)

  japa too only has a handful of published items, but the fine road heights mod alone lands him on this list.

  Fine road heights

  Stricter Slope Limits

  Rural Station

  ...

   

• emf (Proper Hardness)

  Some cool mods from emf, check his mods out for sure.

  Proper Hardness

  Road Anarchy

  Cimtographer

  81 Tiles

  Extended Building Information

  ...

   

• some danny (No Pillars)

  Again, only two items published but just his No Pillars lands him solidly on this list, amazing mod. Did you know you can build outside the asset editor field boundaries with this mod, allowing you to create any size intersections? And make train tracks in the editor? And overlap roads on top of eachother... and so much more, if you don't have this mod you need to get it asap.

  No Pillars

  Some Roads

   

• Sadler (Automatic Bulldoze)

  Two very useful mods so far from Sadler, I'm sure he will come up with more great stuff.

  Automatic Bulldoze

  Automatic Emptying

   

• Wiliz (Extended Road Upgrade)

  Wiliz has only published one item so far, but it must be among my favourites. It is so much better than the game functionality they added, both in the way it works as well as it's capabilities. You can change road directions with his mods to things that you can't with the game function. Looking forward to seeing more from this guy.

  Extended Road Upgrade

   

• Black Widow (Traffic Report Tool)

  Another single item wonder. His Traffic report tool has over 130k subscribers.

  Traffic Report Tool

   

• Destroyer (Tree Brush)

  Same as Black Widow, single mod published, but awesome. 137k subs.

  Tree Brush

   

• Nohealforu (Infinite Ore and Oil)

  His mods are all about changing game mechanics, and can be very useful. Although it would be nice if he used thumbnails

  Infinite Ore and Oil

  Building simulation overhaul

  Fill the houses

  Slow trash production

  Slow citizen ageing

  etc

   

• rmbackslash (Moving Sun)

  The moving sun mod is pretty cool, I think he deserves a spot on here.

  Moving Sun

  Compass Mod

   

• Obelisk (Disable Clouds)

  Another good author, including his Disable Clouds mod. Only two items published though.

  Disable Clouds

  My Parent's House

   

• Zuppi (Persistent resource view)

  His resource view mod is incredibly useful, hopefully he makes more stuff.

  Persinstent Resource View

  ChirpFilter

  Info View Button Enabler

   

• Kundun (PopBalanceMod)

  Kundun also has just one item published, but it's a great one. His mod really helps bring the numbers closer to a realistic feel.

  PopBalanceMod

   

• Hingo (Bordered Skylines)

  His two mods are both pretty cool, with Bordered Skylines at the top of course, being a really nice mod that allows you to customize the look of your game in fantastic ways.

  Bordered Skylines

  8-bit Skylines

   

• Sims firehouse (Terraform Tool for Asset Editor)

  Sims firehouse is not only a friend and a gentleman, but also a very high standards content creator. Most of his work has been on intersections so far, but he shines for his re-working of the Terraform tool by rollo for the Asset Editor. However, his intersections I consider the best out there so far, he'll be appearing in that section too.

  Terraform Tool for the Asset Editor

  A selection of really well made intersections

 

MODELS

• tony_r_68(Cool_Z) (Phoenix Tower)

  River Residence

  Drakevilla

   

• DubaiSkyscraper (Burj Dubai)

  GSB Tower

  Euromarine Tower

  432 Park Avenue

   

• Tobse (Rotes Rathaus)

  White House

  Elbe Residence

  Berlin TV Tower

  Rulers

   

• Feindbild (Firestation Ghostbusters)

  Firestation Ghostbusters

  A huge selection of growables and other goodies.

   

• Room360 (Shoppers Drug Mart)

  Shoppers Drug Mart

  Tim Horton's Express

  LCBO

  Mac's Convenience Store

  Future Shop

  Pizza Pizza, Telus

  Canadian Tire

   

• Drosovila (Petronas Tower)

  Drosovila's House

  Red Tower

  Willis/Sears Tower

  Petronas Tower

  Pyongyang Hotel

  Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre

  John Hancock centre

  The Gherkin

  And many more...

   

• naskko26 (Hearst Tower)

  Hearst Tower

  One World Trade Center

  Chrysler Building

  One Madison Park

   

• Gula (Various Buildings)

  Office Wurst Tower

  Adam Highrise

  Statue of Hamster

  Statue of TotallyMoo

  Starbucks Coffee

  Star Trust Office

  In-and-out burger

  Coal power-plant

   

• Ragutaro (Mojiko Train Station)

  Mojiko Train Station

  Orio Train Station

  Rokuon-ji Kinkaku v2

  Rokuon-ji Kinkaku

 

TRANSPORTATION

         INTERSECTIONS

• Timboh

A master of interchanges, Timboh has 30 items published, all very realistic.

Timboh's Olskroksmotet Interchange

Timboh's C/E Cloverstack Interchange

Timboh's Diverging Diamond Interchange

Timboh's T-Bone Interchange

Timboh's Kleinploderplein Interchange

Timboh's Sonnborner Interchange

Timboh's Y-Stack Interchange

Timboh's Semi-Directional B-Trumpet Interchange

Timboh's Semi-Directional A-Trumpet Interchange

Timboh's B-Trumpet Interchange

Timboh's A-Trumpet Interchange

Timboh's A-4 Parclo Interchange

Timboh's Three-level Roundabout Interchange

Timboh's City DCMI Interchange

Timboh's Full Diamond Interchange

Timboh's Compact Stack Interchange

Timboh's U-Pentagon Interchange

Timboh's DCMI Interchange

Timboh's Gothic Interchange

Timboh's Pentagon Interchange

Timboh's Spaghetti Interchange

Timboh's Stack Interchange

Timboh's Basketweave Interchange

Timboh's Clovermill Interchange

Timboh's Cloverstack Interchange

Timboh's Windmill Interchange

Timboh's Dual Trumpet Interchange

Timboh's Cloverleaf Interchange

Timboh's Turbine Interchange

 

METRO

- Fishbus

Small Inner City Metro

Simple Inner City Metro

Inner City Metro

 

TRAINS

- BadPeanut

Old Brick Central

Suburban Train Station

 

- Ragutaro

Den-en-chofu Train Station

Nikkō Train Station

Orio Train Station

Mojiko Train Station

 

AIRPORTS

- Karaya2

Precision Approach Lights

Approach Lighting

- Kurtus_mob

Modular Airport Terminal

Modular Airport Fuel Depot

Modular Parked Jetliner

- BaskB

Runway Pieces

Modular Taxiway

Airport Billboard

 

 

TREES & PROPS  Coming soon!

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RESKINS / REBUILDS  Coming soon!

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LUTs  Coming soon!

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MAPS  Coming soon!

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  Edited June 24, 2015 by CSL Info Squad  

[LucasK336 54]

Very nice!

 

Might I suggest myself for the list? 

 

Here is my stuff

 

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198058791687/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

LucasK336- I followed some of your progress. You have some good stuff and a good following on Steam. I would vote for you to be on the list. Good to meet you here.

 

As far as Steam workshop goes, we have to be careful about looking at ratings. It takes 25+ ratings to even get stars visible and I'm seeing that most subscribers don't rate at all. Out of 1,600 subscribers, a gem can have 25 all positive ratings that shows 4 out of 5 stars in public. Their system is not as fast as STEX. So any new content released within 4-5 days would have to be manually tested by subscribing and checking them out for ourselves in game if it looks good to you but lack ratings.

[pieuponieu 70]

For mapping, I'd like to nominate:

MrMiyagi http://steamcommunity.com/id/brazendesigns/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710 - He churns out really creative maps pretty much weekly, and his map explanations and screens are very detailed. He's also written a great mapping guide.

Zakerias http://steamcommunity.com/id/zakerias/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710 - He hasn't put out a map in a couple months, but he has a really nice collection with lots of subscribers.

[mrsmartman 200]

A quasi-official institution for CSL contents is necessary for the robust development of the community.

[OwiHH 240]

my favorite @ the moment is http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198210952336/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710

he brings alot basic buildings like discounters/fuelstation! like it!

[Balthoraz 178]

May I suggest my self? 

I'm starting those days, so not much stuff made.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Balthoraz/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710

[lancedragon 12]

Agusingnavy seems to display quite a few interesting intersections but not only http://steamcommunity.com/id/agusingnavy/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710

WOW made some necrology there, is this post not updated anymore ?

 

[officialsauron 33]

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198185148005/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710 Mr Maison is absolutely somebody to follow as he has some of the best trees/ bushes available and also some beautiful assets.

He also was the first to help me understand how to use SketchUp to create assets, so I'm really grateful for that.

[LivingInThePast 364]

I would recommend Condac's Real Power mods, they basically restore power plants to what they are supposed to be, like Coal Power Plant producing 200 MWs (based off of the real world, something that SimCity 2000 had done with its power plants). I had thought it was low flow of power lines at first, but apparently, the power plant just did not create enough energy to feed my meager 2000 resident city. In the SimCity series, Coal Power Plants would last you at least twice that before it started giving you problems.

[.Del 53]

Of all the people here, I'm surprised Avanya, BloodyPenguin, boformer and Shroomblaze aren't on this list.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

This must be outdated because Avanya, BloodyPenguin, and Shroomblaze are currently among the best in the Cities: Skylines workshop, as pointed out by @Dejected Angel

[boformer 3,169]

It doesn't really make sense to follow me, as I'm not publishing new content.

[dedgren 830]

You are too modest, boformer.  You're worth following just because.  And who knows what you might do the day after tomorrow.

David

[Distanced 114]

Ronyx69 as well as Ninjanoobslayer are obvious candidates, as well as REVO. Ronyx sort of does everything but REALLY well. Ninjanoobslayer mainly does service vehicles and private vehicles, and REVO does transportation (trains, specifically).