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Hello, Can someone please explain to me how the majority of mods (buildings, road types, vehicles etc) affect the vanilla game experience?How do these building mods work? If you install the mod, do some buildings appear randomly (ie. are more just cosmetic) while others are discrete new building types you can select from a build menu (that actually affect gameplay)?There seems nothing in the mod descriptions explaining any of this.What happens for example if you install a bunch of building mods, build your city, save then un-install all the mods? What happens to the mod buildings that were in your city?The sheer number of mods available I have found to be a bit daunting to deal with. I have no idea what in the game will change as far as game play goes if I install any of these potentially purely cosmetic or actual game changing mods, so I have never really got in to the mods.How do you know if a mod is cosmetic (just replaces/improves on existing graphics/models) or if it actually changes gameplay/adds a new feature that affects how the game plays?

Hello, I understand that a patch introduced a "day/night cycle" to the vanilla game, albeit a graphical one. I do not have the "Nightlife" DLC and I am wondering what effect the "day/night cycle" has on the game. Is it just graphical? What is kind of understandable but still odd and immersion killing is that the graphical day/night cycle does not match the actual in game "clock". The days/nights seem to last several days (week?). This is a bit of a problem for the player because when it is dark you can't really see what you are doing and any building/progress on your city has to basically stop until the sun comes up. Do we know exactly how many in game days the day/night cycle lasts? I found a thread where someone mentioned this: What is the point of adding the day/night cycle to the vanilla game? The darkness of the map during the night cycle obviously affects a players ability to literally play the game as they can't really see the map/terrain too well. What are players meant to do during these "cosmetic" night cycles?

Hi, yes I have the game and have played it (not much however)...when I came back to play the game and saw the day/night cycle I had no idea what effect it had on the game (if any other than just cosmetic). So what do you guys do when the map is all dark? Fast forward the game till it is day again and you can see what you are doing? Or have you just considered the feature annoying and switch it off when building your city, maybe activating it later on to just look at how nice it can look lit up during the night?