Parallel Utilities [1.1.1.9]

Streamline Your Soviet Republic with Parallel Utilities

Comrades, is the meticulous placement of your republic’s essential services causing undue strain on your construction crews? Do you find yourself wishing for a more efficient way to lay down vital infrastructure alongside existing roads or other utility lines? The Central Planning Bureau understands your concerns. Manual, repetitive placement is a drain on valuable resources. Now, there’s a superior solution that brings order and efficiency to your burgeoning Soviet Republic.

Guided Construction for Modern Infrastructure

The Parallel Utilities mod introduces a powerful, yet intuitive, guided placement system to the game’s standard utility construction tools. This innovative mod allows you to leverage existing infrastructure as a blueprint for new lines, ensuring perfect alignment and neat integration. Gone are the days of painstakingly freehanding parallel routes; Parallel Utilities ensures your pipelines, pipes, and cables follow a predetermined path with ease.

Key Features for Efficient Planning:

• Road Alignment: Select a nearby road as your guide. The mod will ensure your new utility line follows the road’s horizontal path, while maintaining the natural elevation profile of the utility itself.
• Infrastructure Paralleling: Utilize an existing utility line – whether it’s another pipe or a cable – as a guide for your new construction. This allows for incredibly precise placement, even for different types of utilities needing to run in close proximity.
• Comprehensive Support: This guided placement functionality extends to a wide array of essential services, including various pipelines, water, sewage, and heating pipes, as well as underground electrical cables and overhead power line pylons.
• Enhanced Clearance: While guiding placement, the mod intelligently adjusts cross-utility clearance tolerances. This enables closer, more sensible positioning of different utility types without permanently overriding the game’s placement validation, allowing for aesthetically pleasing and functional layouts.

Seamless Integration and Operation

Using Parallel Utilities is straightforward. Simply activate your chosen utility construction tool, press the designated hotkey to cycle through the available guide modes (Off, Road, or Infrastructure Utilities), and position your cursor near the desired guide. You can then begin placing your utility as normal, with the mod influencing the route. The game’s native construction planner remains in control, but Parallel Utilities provides the directional guidance for a cleaner, more organized Republic. Importantly, this mod only affects placement while a guided mode is active, and existing infrastructure remains untouched. Prepare your republic for a new era of efficient and orderly development with Parallel Utilities!