I was about ready to abandon my current city at 120k sims since my simulation speed was at a crawl. One in game hour took about 3:15 minutes. Since I downloaded cityplayertrafficcustommod by Cityplayer, one in game hour took 1:30 minutes. I have a 12600k, which is the recommended CPU, and the fact that I couldn’t hit every milestone in the game was a bummer.

I was getting massive traffic jams at the cargo harbor and rail yard, services weren’t responding, and all sorts of other jankiness. This mod fixed these issues: services work and trucks enter the ports at a faster speed. This has breathed new life into my city, and I am so happy. Cityplayer, if you see this, thank you.

You can get the mod here

Get the mod on PDX Mods

Hard Mode adds 4 difficulty settings and a completely rebalanced subsidies formula.

Alongside reworked milestones reward values and a full re-balance income from exports, taxes, fees, as well as maintenance costs.

Also included: Eminent Domain & Demolition costs
Demolishing a building costs money based on its size and how many people you'd be evicting.
Demolished buildings are turned into rubble instead of disappearing. Then they need some time before being cleaned up.

De-zoning an area will also demolish the buildings instead of them disappearing.

Demolition in action

I am not the author of this mod, I am just sharing it because it fixes the current issues with homeless people in the city.

I've been using it for a couple of hours and

1) Crime rate is down

2) Unemployment rate is down

3) Homeless people are (almost) gone

4) We can use the damn parks!

Carto is a Cities: Skylines II mod aiming at collecting in-game objects’ spatial data and converting them into geospatial file formats.

PDX Mods Link: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/87428/Windows
User Manual: https://github.com/taipei-native/Carto/wiki

Showcasing the mod:

Export Buildings & Networks

Export Terrain & Zonings

Export to Real World Locations

Features

• Export Vector Data - Carto currently supports exporting the boundary of districts, map tiles, buildings, roads, tracks, pathways, and zoning cells into GeoJSON and Esri Shapefile.
• Export Raster Data - Carto currently supports exporting the elevation and water depths into GeoTIFF.
• Additional Information - Carto can collect other vital data from your save with the vector geodata, such as asset names, driving directions, etc.
• UTM Projection - Carto uses WGS84 / UTM projections (EPSG: 326xx / 327xx) to reproject your save to real-life locations.