InfoLoom

InfoLoom is a Cities Skylines II mod that adds several new UI windows with extra information. Currently:

• Demographics
• Workforce structure
• Workplaces distribution
• Residential data
• Commercial data
• Industrial and Office data
• Demand factors
• Resources consumption (optional)

Features

Demographics

• Key information about current city demographics in one place.
• Age distribution histogram that also shows cims' activity structure.

Workforce structure

• Shows workforce structure by education level.
• Total: all potential workers, i.e. teens and adults, that are moved in and not moving away, excluding students.
• Unemployment by education level and structure also shown as percentage.
• Under: cims working on positions below their education level.
• Outside: cims working outside of the city.
• Homeless: unemployed cims with no home.

Workplaces distribution

• Shows available workplaces split into: city services, commercial sales, commercial leisure, industry extractors, industry manufacturing, and office.
• Leisure are commercial companies selling immaterial resources.
• Commute are cims employed from outside of the city, they commute to work.
• Shows number of companies in each category.

Residential data

• Shows residential data used to calculate Residential Demand Factors.
• Residential properties by density: total count, occupied, free.
• Total households and homeless households.
• Average happiness, weighted tax rate, open study positions.
• Household demand which is hidden in the game, it controls if new households spawn.
• For new households, a chance that a Student Household will spawn.

Commercial data

• Shows commercial data used to calculate Commercial Demand Factors.
• Empty buildings and companies that have no property, and average tax rate.
• Service capacity utilization and sales capacity to consumption ratio - these are crucial in calculating LocalDemand, TouristDemand and PetrolLocalDemand.
• Actual numbers of available workforce, and employee capacity ratio.
• Lists resources that currently are not demanded, thus the engine ignores them when calculating Commercial Demand Factors.

Industrial and Office data

• Shows industrial and office data used to calculate Industrial and Office Demand Factors.
• Empty buildings and companies that have no property, and average tax rate.
• Local Demand (which is production capacity in fact) and Input Utilization (which tells if resources are available as input).
• Actual numbers of available workforce, and employee capacity ratio.
• Lists resources that currently are not demanded, thus the engine ignores them when calculating Industrial and Office Factors.
• Storage section that shows Demanded Types info which controls if new warehouses are spawned.

Demand factors

• Shows individual demand factor VALUES for each demand type. Helpful to learn actual importance of each factor.
• Enables showing all demand factors, not only 5. Useful for industrial demand which is the only one that utilizes up yo 7 factors.
• Additional section shows directly building demand for each zone type and STORAGE demand. Please note that the "main" demand factor is actually a building demand, however UI shows it as moving. In fact it doesn't move, it is just a visualization.
• Also, industrial demand is a higher value from the two: industrial building demand and storage demand.

Resources consumption

• This feature is disabled by default because it changes the data shown on the vanilla UI. Enable it in the config file by setting SeparateConsumption to true.
• Instead of showing surplus and deficit, the production UI will show commercial consumption and industrial consumption. It is imho much more informative than just surplus/deficit, because it also tells what causes said surplus or deficit.
• Disclaimer. I don't yet how to change existing UI, so the titles "Surplus" and "Deficit" will still be there. Sorry.

Technical

Requirements and Compatibility

• Cities Skylines II v1.1.0f1 or later; check GitHub or Discord if the mod is compatible with the latest game version.
• BepInEx 5.
• HookUI v1.1.0 or later.
• The mod does NOT modify savefiles.
• The mod does NOT modify any game systems.

Installation

1. Place the InfoLoom.dll file in your BepInEx Plugins folder.
2. The config file is automatically created in BepInEx/config folder when the game is run once.

Known Issues

• Nothing atm.

Changelog

• v0.8.3 (2024-03-21)
  • Mod updated for v1.1 of the game.
• v0.8.2 (2024-02-12)
  • Debug Watches for demand and consumption.
• v0.8.1 (2024-02-09)
  • Fixed: null reference in Editor Mode.
  • Fixed: student ratio in empty city.
  • Fixed: demographics bars sometimes going beyond the window.
• v0.8.0 (2024-02-04)
  • New feature: industrial and office data.
  • New feature: household demand and student chance.
  • Fixed: demographics proper scaling.
• v0.7.0 (2024-01-14)
  • New features: number of commuters as employees, unemployment and structures as percentages, number of companies.
  • Fixed: Incorrect counting of Office and Leisure jobs.
  • Fixed: Issue with Asset Editor.
• v0.6.0 (2024-01-04)
  • New feature: residential data.
• v0.5.0 (2024-01-02)
  • New feature: commercial data, homeless count.
  • Population bars in Demographics window are scalable now.
  • Fixed: Demographics now correctly shows Tourists and Commuters.
• v0.4.1 (2023-12-22)
  • New feature: demographics.
• v0.3.0 (2023-12-20)
  • New features: worforce structure and workplaces distribution.
• v0.2.2 (2023-12-17)
  • Demand factors window is reformatted, to be more aligned with game's visual style.
  • New features: shows all factors, building demand and resources consumption.
• v0.1.0 (2023-12-16)
  • Initial build, includes Demand Factors.

Support

• Please report bugs and issues on GitHub.
• You may also leave comments on Discord1 or Discord2.