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Town Building Era & Level Control (Smoother Era Transitions)

Allows the user to fine tune the availability of town buildings to the AI city builder. The mod's default settings will provide a smoother transition between eras while keeping vanilla gameplay. Availability years can be set by era and level. You can block entire eras and levels as well as make an era available permanently. There is also an option to add an additional delay to the availability of Era C Level 1 Residential buildings as testing showed they were most responsible for cities having an ultra modern look too early.

This mod is safe to add or remove from a save game however changes only affect newly constructed buildings. Settings are kept for each save separately.

Important Note! Level 1 buildings of every land use type must be available or the game will crash during those years. This mod will not prevent you from selecting options that will cause a crash. Be sure to check the Era C Residential delay if you experience a crash.

How is this mod different from other similar mods on the workshop?
VacuumTube's filter mods are not "set and forget" if you want to play through a change in era since you can only completely remove an era. I also wanted native and per-save settings which the commonAPI2 method for mod settings doesn't allow.
Sparky66's end year mods have a similar goal as this one however I didn't think they solved the problem of towns looking too rustic for too long or too ultra modern too soon and they don't allow the user to select the availability years for them self.