Info Loom

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; chec