Cities Skylines 2: Service Efficiency
In “Cities: Skylines II”, the Efficiency value stands out as a pivotal metric for businesses and city services, reflecting the effectiveness of a building’s functionality. For city services, Efficiency impacts several facets like capacity, processing pace, and output. It can also influence the extent of localized passive service coverage and broader effects certain buildings may have on the city. Here’s a breakdown of how Efficiency plays a role in various service types:
- Roads: Dictates the number of road maintenance vehicles.
- Electricity: Defines the electricity output.
- Water & Sewage: Influences water production and sewage treatment speed.
- Healthcare & Deathcare: Affects treatment efficacy, speed of deceased processing, and availability of ambulances and hearses.
- Garbage Management: Impacts waste processing speed and garbage truck availability.
- Education & Research: Determines the graduation enhancement.
- Fire & Rescue: Controls the number of fire trucks.
- Police & Administration: Regulates the number of police vehicles.
- Transportation: Governs the number of transit vehicles.
- Parks & Recreation: Impacts attractiveness and the number of park maintenance vehicles.
- Communication: Influences post vehicle count, network spread, and capacity.
DETERMINING EFFICIENCY
Several factors play into a building’s Efficiency, ranging from fundamental prerequisites to factors that improve but aren’t essential for functionality. Both water and electricity are foundational; if a building lacks one, its Efficiency takes a significant hit, and lacking both renders the building non-functional.
Staff play a critical role in building Efficiency. An optimal number of satisfied, healthy, and appropriately educated employees ensure peak performance. Happy employees elevate Efficiency, whereas disgruntled ones reduce it. Sick employees, unable to contribute, bring about an Efficiency decline. Furthermore, the misalignment between job requirements and employee education levels can negatively impact Efficiency. It’s important to note that while overqualified employees can take on roles requiring less education, the reverse isn’t true; underqualified individuals cannot fill roles demanding higher education levels.
Certain service structures, like many power plants, depend on resources such as fuel to operate. Take power plants for instance; their efficiency dips sharply if they’re starved of fuel. For some power plants, the vital resource might not be tangible but environmental factors like wind or sunlight. A Wind Turbine, for example, witnesses a sharp drop in efficiency in low-wind conditions, rendering it less effective in generating electricity. Similarly, Solar Power Plants, reliant on sunlight, become inactive during the night. They then lean on their built-in batteries to keep the city illuminated. Another instance is medical facilities that depend on pharmaceuticals – a category of manufactured goods – to treat patients. A shortage in these essential goods results in a diminished efficiency, leading to a reduced treatment boost that aids citizen recovery.
Furthermore, the overall city service budget can influence the efficiency of structures within a particular service domain. For smaller cities that don’t need the complete capacity of a service, trimming the budget can be advantageous. This move not only brings down the efficiency but also reduces maintenance costs and scales back functionalities like vehicle usage. Conversely, for burgeoning cities where there’s a hesitation in erecting new service buildings, amplifying the service budget can enhance the efficiency of existing structures, enabling them to cater to a larger populace.
