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pauliaxz

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Jan 20, 2016
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Hello all,
I have one mod idea, that came to my mind long time ago. There are already lots of car mods in the Workshop. Ranging from old rusty wrecks to exotic, luxurious sport cars. And these vehicles are scattered randomly all over the random citizens.
Poor, uneducated citizens drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, etc. and rich cims drive cars from 80s-90s. This is especially clearly seen in districts consisting of particular wealth residents. There are many expensive and luxurious cars in ghetto-like districts (Level 1) which is very wrong and unrealistic. First time this misfit was seen by me and other gamers when any cim was able to drive Sports car (vanilla)
Basically my idea of the mod is that we could be able to manually assign a car to a wealth (education) level. Or, car mod makers could define it in XML (similar as how RICO mod works).

For example, I take my BMW E34. It should be assigned to Uneducated cims and maybe Educated too. Because, I don't think that rich ppl in real life drive this BMW. While in Cities: Skylines my rich cims do it.
Second example is the opposite: My Volvo S60 II T6 should be assigned to Highly Educated cims and Well Educated too. In real life nobody earning minimum wages would afford to buy this car. But in the game they do.

It would be another mod that brings game step closer to realism
 
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while that is a nice idea....
here in america.... i've seen a low LOW income family on food stamps...somehow driving around in Escalades... and other families of median incomes often struggle to even get the latest ford or chevy daily driver car as a leased vehicle.... and then you have the extreme wealth...well they have so much money that they can drive around in whatever they want, even if it's a beater hoopdie car...LOL
 
I've seen odd cases too but it's rare afterall, let's view at it statistically.

Anyway, it would be up to player's choice to assign any car to any cim wealth level as he wish. Why there are lots of small cars in Europe? Because common people want to buy newest cars but can't afford it, so only small hatchbacks are affordable which are 2x or 3x cheaper than SUVs, Estates or Limousine class saloons.