Controlling asset citizen properties.

[Macwelshman 1]

Could anyone let me know if it's possible to control the number of citizens that are allowed in each asset that I create. I have created a variety of terraced houses in groups from 1 to 4 in a row and need the game to reflect that more people would live in the longer groups.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Cool_Z 1,547]

I don't think there is.

I know there's a mod that does this kind of thing on a "global" scale (changing the number of cims in each building depending of its actual size), but nothing for individual buildings.

 

On a personal point of view, I'm against changing this. It might unbalance the game at some point.

I know the stats as they stand are ridiculous (several families living in one single house, only a few of them in a tall building) but it's the way the game is balanced now.

 

I'm not sure it would be the case if custom stats were possible, but I don't want to see some completely unbalanced custom buildings taking over districts like it sometimes happened in SC4 (I remember having to spend hours chasing down some assets because they grew in place of almost everything else).

  Edited November 30, 2015 by Cool_Z  

[Turjan 1,048]

Indeed. Leave changes like this to the user's personal willingness to mod the game. The game uses a certain number per zoned block with a building on it.

[boformer 3,169]

Actually it would be possible to write an optional mod that allows you to set the number of families in a building.
It would work similar to sub-buildings enabler, with a separate xml file that is bundled with the asset.

The mod would be completely optional.

[ethansprang 41]

I think the "Realistic Population and Consumption" mod does something like this.  It (claims?) to alter population based on building volume or footprint, so that two 4x4 HR5 buildings might have very different populations depending on the actual building model. It appears to work, in general.

Perhaps you could "fix" this by making the higher level buildings overhang their lots?  So if your estates are 1 square wide, an LR5 4x4 would need to be a set six or seven squares wide, overhanging quite a bit.