Funny question, I was wondering about converting milestones from using population requirements to making the requirements chronologically-based where they unlock during the year they were invented. Then I would create a custom start date of like the year 1900 and let new inventions unlock naturally over time. For example in 1900 you would only have the Coal Power plant but by 1951 you would unlock the Nuclear Plant. Freeways would unlock around 1950, Solar and Wind by would unlock around 1990, stuff like that. What do you think?

Didnt work and totally crashed my game

Just a reminder... source code is already included. It should be at the location something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\255710\534440333 whereas 255710 is app ID for this game and 534440333 is the ID for this mod.

same problem - no XML file in Cities_Skylines directory

Probably needs an update sadly. My town will have to live with the terrible ugly temp highways lol

Unfortunately same problem as @WeatherFox and @foca - no XML file in Cities_Skylines directory

How can I adjust the unlock of pedestrian areas, self-sufficient buildings, and organic and local produce? Source code available? TY

this is basically working for me but I notice that my milestones for things like districts dont trigger unlock until I reach the next milestone when loading a save game. It would be awesome if you could force a manual revisitation of the milestones at load

@lesley find move these in to the first milestone:
<Feature name="Districts" />
<InfoView name="Districts" />

did anyone else find that the unlocks work fine on first run, but on loading a save game they do not unlock?

Can you make a mod that allows us to customize power plants' values? I like your mod about it, but I'll like to set my own values for them

How do I edit the file so that districts are unlocked from the start of the game please?

Same as @WeatherFox. Installing this mod (with the train/metro stations and bridges and piers DLCs) does not create the XML file. Not sure if related to those content packs or something else. Is there a log for this mod where we can see errors? Is the code somewhere that can be accessed (GitHub, GitLab, etc) to help out with incompatibilities?

I'm sure I'm just missing something, but is it possible to change when Industry Areas (specifically those added in Industries DLC, not the vanilla farming, etc.) and Park Areas (added in Park Life) are available? After scouring the generated XML document I cannot find anything that references these features.

@Uh-Oh Spaghetti-Ohs Hey thanks for the heads up I was just about to do the same thing

Good morning, I downloaded this last night and started a new map, but I do not see the config file anywhere in my Cities_Skylines directory. Reading previous comments, I see that updates and DLC have been known to break this mod. Would the latest releases of Train Stations and Bridges have done that, or am I missing something on my end?

I am using 81 tiles, but I don't think that conflicts, as noted in the mod description

Thanks in advance

Ignore my previous comment. If you're using this mod to give you more tiles throughout progression when using 25/81 tiles, this won't work. Tried digging around the code for a solution and UnlockController only recognizes 9 areas, treating it as if it has 25 will just result in an index-out-of-bounds. It's a limitation of how the game handles milestones, not the mod's fault. If you give yourself more than one in the earlier milestones you will get them all handed to you before reaching Megalopolis. Your only other option is to use 81 tiles mod and unlock all for free, or just wait til you hit the last milestone.

using the 25 tiles mod and all 25 tiles are unlocked at "Capital City" before I even changed the file. The file only says to unlock one at that milestone too when I checked so no idea why it's doing it.

Would it be possible to add an entirely new milestone to the game, and rename existing ones?

I was just about to ask that sadly, thanks for saying that! :D

Unfortunately not. I found the variable in the games that should control that, but changing it did nothing. It must be controlled by a different system than what I could find.

Is it possible to change the population requirements for each milestone?

I would like to increase the population reqs for the first 5 or 6 milestones but keep the last ones as the same.

@Legion: That is most likely an empty entry in the policy array that I forgot to skip over. It won't have any impact since the label in the XML needs to name match to change anything in the game.

Thank you for updating this! I might be able to get back into Cities Skylines now!

Just noticed something in completely new DM-CustomMilestones.xml file generated by the mod:

Under "BusyTown" milestone, there is <Policy name="" />. "Big Town" milestone also have that as well. Not sure if that was deliberate or an oversight. Could this potentially cause an issue for the game?

Yay! Thanks for the update, Andy! Just in time for a new map I'm planning to start a new game on lol

By the way, you may want to add the information about source code being included with the mod in the description above. Also sorry to hear mod being in development hell. That is... not good.

Hi all! Long time no news. So this mod got stuck in development hell for a long time with each new DLC that came out. I tried keeping a local version roughly up to date, but every DLC added just seemed to break more and leave me fumbling around the data structures to figure it out.

While this update is not complete, it does update the binary to run on the latest version (hopefully without errors) and most things except park/industry/academic zone stuff should work in this version. It's completely hit and miss though, I could never figure out how to unlock those tags and got sick of digging in unlabelled binary files for answers.

As Legion notes below, I do include the source code in with the binary with every update. So if someone wants to try and extend and update this further, go right ahead I have no claim over wanting to control this or anything.

If any more DLC are released, I'll just update the binary to make sure it's still running, but otherwise only add in the easy stuff.

*slaps forehead* I just remembered... the source code is already included in the content downloaded from this page. You should be able to find this in the following path, assuming it is installed on C drive:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\255710\534440333\Source

@Penrose, I would advise you do so, so that source code can be shared with everyone to keep up-to-date and functional what is very much a must-have mod for me personally. There are some game design decisions on milestones that I disagree with.

Quite frankly, I never really get why farms and basic raw materials production such as mining and forestry (not sure about oil but real-world oil production aren't always located in urban area anyway) are locked from the beginning.

Yeah an updated version of this would be real cool. I've been trying to find a mod to give me farming at the start of games instead of just having to use the default industry. I think this is basically what I would need.

i would love to be able to unlock districts and highways from the start

Currently no, although Penrose below is considering reviving it. I hope they do, as I have not played since this mod died

is there a replacement for this? All I want are highways, landscaping and districts from the get-go lol. You know, things that any city planner needs

I would greatly appreciate it. I have not been really able to play this game since this mod died. It makes the game more challenging at first, and fixes some of the weird unlocks that exist

if there is a demand for this mod. i may can take this over. i'm a professional in software development. thus it might take some time to decomp and read into it, but i might find some time to do this.

If this mod worked, you could us it, but since this broke almost a year ago, I am not sure

Can someone please tell me how to add districts to the start of the game?

@vaporfeces @Legion, Duke of Rockford
Any progress on the DLL revival? I have not had enough reason to play since this mod broke

Any progress made to fixing this @vaporfeces?

In fact, I am about to write a post in Paradox forum suggesting a built-in feature allowing us to customize the unlocks with corresponding milestones as embodied in this mod. Stay tuned!

@vaporfeces, I would second the sentiment as expressed by @CJJackR1990 regarding your proposal about creating a revival mod based off this mod if the author have not responded within a reasonable time frame.

However, I was kind of surprised that you managed to decompile the DLL. I am not a programmer but I have read a bit about programming and I thought decompiling was difficult to do, IIRC. But I suppose it is not impossible. That is some interesting find you made from looking into that code, though! Good detective work there. :)

Finally, I don't want to seem disrespectful of the original author for supporting your idea but, honestly, this mod is a must-have as not all of us will agree with the Colossal Order arrangement of unlocks with corresponding milestones. For example, I set it so that district are unlocked from the beginning of game; this way, I can have agriculture right from the start.

With all respect to the original author, but I for one would very much appreciate that.

I agree with sentiments mentioned here. I really like this mod and want to be able to use it. I have decompiled the dll shipped with the mod and believe I have found a possible source of the issue. The weird thing is that the code shouldn't have worked to begin with so I am not quite sure what the purpose of putting that code in was (he accesses an array index beyond the end of an array). If the author doesn't respond before I can fix (if I can fix) the code, I may post a "Revival" version of this mod if people want.

This mod hasn't been updated in over a year as of this comment and it doesn't work, presumably because the core game has been patched in a way that's broken this mod. I'm getting the same errors as in the comment prior to mine. I REALLY want this mod to be able to work because I REALLY want to change what gets unlocked when (especially area unlocks), but this badly needs an update. :(

If you're unable to actively maintain this mod please please please consider either open sourcing it or passing the mantle off to someone who can actively maintain it. This mod does exactly something I've been wanting to do with this game and then some.

Now, I looked around and found that TestUnlock is a file within this mod.

Any suggestions on this?

I was also surprised to notice now that this mod is not open-source already, which meant that should this mod be no longer maintained by the creator, there would be no way to continue this mod's development except to start all over from a scratch...

Just noticed this mod might be the source of the following error message I received: "Array index is out of range"

The output log gives the following:
Simulation error: Array index is out of range.
at TestUnlock.MilestoneExtension.readDefaultValues (.UnlockController controller) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at TestUnlock.MilestoneExtension.OnRefreshMilestones () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at MilestonesWrapper.OnRefreshMilestones () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at UnlockManager.LateUpdateData (UpdateMode mode) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at SimulationManager.Managers_LateUpdateData (UpdateMode mode, Single minProgress, Single maxProgress) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at LoadingManager+<LoadSimulationData>c__IteratorB.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at AsyncTask.Execute () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 [Core]

I really like this mod, as it allows for the start to actually be challenging by shifting the high density start, and allows me to have the parks unlock before monuments, unlike the base game.
I hope you will update this soon.

Really hoping this mod works again soon, its such a simple yet amazing thing. All I want is to have a map expansion unlocked each milestone, not one every three or 25 dumped at the final or first one :(

"Array index is out of range for me" also... I tried to unsubscribe the mod and the error has gone. So it's clearly the cause. Before unsubscribing I tried also to delete the DM-CustomMilestones.xml to see if it would be recreate : this file was not recreated, even if I subscribe again and launch the game.

I wish the mod will be patched, because its definivly a great one !

I enabled the mod but see no such file in that folder...