Cities2 Knowledge

Use this skill when answering Cities: Skylines II gameplay questions with Cities2-MCP. The goal is to retrieve focused evidence from both available sources and synthesize a normal answer, not to show raw search results.

Trigger this skill for plain questions like "How do I grow office demand?", "What changed in the latest patch?", "Did traffic change?", "What makes citizens healthier?", "Why is housing demand low?", or "How does zoning/pollution/education/transit work?", even when the user does not mention this plugin, wiki, encyclopedia, patch notes, or sources.

Source roles

• Game encyclopedia: More authoritative for current in-game wording, broad current mechanics, and terminology because it is read from the user's installed game files.
• Wiki corpus: Usually better for player advice, tables, examples, patch history, guide context, and fuller explanations.
• Research corpus: cities2-research contains curated summaries of talks, interviews, and similar sources. It adds design rationale and historical context, but it is time-bounded evidence rather than confirmation of current gameplay or APIs. Inspect and retain each research result's published_at date.
• Conflict handling: If sources disagree, say so plainly. Prefer the game encyclopedia for current in-game terminology/mechanics, unless the wiki result is clearly a newer patch-specific note.

Workflow

1. Call source_status() first.
2. Extract 4-10 keyword terms from the user's question. Do not send the whole natural-language question as the primary query.
3. Search the bundled wiki and research corpora with search(query, limit=5). Use query_reference(query, limit=5) if page-level routing would help. Inspect dataset on every result before deciding its source role.
4. Search the game encyclopedia with search_encyclopedia(query, limit=5) when source_status() reports it is available.
5. Fetch fuller evidence:

• Use get_page(page_id) for the best bundled page or research report when snippets are not enough.
• Use get_encyclopedia_entry(entry_id) for the best encyclopedia entries.

1. Keep track of source identity and timing:

• For cities2-docs, keep the wiki page title and url from get_page or search results.
• For cities2-research, keep the report title, url, dataset, and published_at. State the publication date when using the result and do not present its claim as current unless a current source independently confirms it.
• Game encyclopedia entry titles from get_encyclopedia_entry.

1. Answer from the retrieved material. Explain what to do and why, with short source labels such as wiki, research published YYYY-MM-DD, and game encyclopedia when useful.

Patch and update questions

For questions about what is new, changed, fixed, currently broken, patched, or recently released, treat the wiki corpus as the primary patch-note source and the game encyclopedia as supporting terminology. Research may explain historical intent, but it cannot establish the latest patch state without newer evidence.

1. Call source_status() first.
2. Search compact update terms such as latest patch game history patch notes, Main Page/news, Patches, a version number, or a codename from the question.
3. Fetch exact pages before summarizing. Read Main Page/news or Patches to identify the newest listed version, then fetch the patch-family page. If the newest version is in Patch 1.5.X, use get_page("patch-1-5-x") and inspect the exact version section.
4. Do not stop at older sections such as 1.5.7f1 if Main Page/news, Patches, or the patch-family page list newer versions.
5. Summarize practical impact in plain English. Group broad update answers by gameplay/simulation, UI/player-facing changes, visuals/performance/crashes, modding/editor workflow, DLC/asset fixes, and known issues when those categories are relevant.

Querying Well

Use compact gameplay terms. Prefer nouns and mechanic names over conversational wording.

Examples:

• User: "How do I grow office demand?"

Query: office demand jobs education companies zoning workplace commercial industrial

• User: "How do I get more users to use my subway system?"

Query: subway public transportation passengers stops comfort traffic bus train citizens

• User: "What makes citizens healthier?"

Query: health healthcare citizens sick pollution noise deathcare hospital clinic welfare

• User: "What's new in the latest patch?"

Query: latest patch game history patch notes

• User: "Did traffic change?"

Query: vehicles U-turns turn lanes highway exits intersections

If the first search misses, rewrite the query with related in-game labels from the source results. For example, try public transportation passenger transportation subway stations after a subway query.

Answer Style

• Synthesize; do not list every hit.
• Mention the game encyclopedia being unavailable only when it affects the answer.
• Be careful with guide-style claims. Phrase them as advice when they come from wiki guide pages, not as hard mechanics unless the encyclopedia or patch notes support them.
• If evidence is thin, say what the sources covered and what they did not cover.
• Do not browse the live web unless the user explicitly asks for current external information.

Source citation style

When sources were used, include a compact source note at the end of the answer. Prefer one short sentence or a Sources: line, not a bibliography.

When research evidence is used, the source note has these required fields in order: cities2-research, report title, published_at, URL, and whether a current source confirms the claim. Use this shape: Historical source: cities2-research — <title>, published <published_at>: <url>. Current status: <confirmed by current source or not established>.

Good patterns:

• Sources used: game encyclopedia entries for Demand and Office Zones, plus the CS2 Wiki Zoning page: https://cs2.paradoxwikis.com/Zoning.
• Source note: the game encyclopedia explains the in-game Demand and Office Zones entries; the wiki adds player-facing context from Zoning.
• Historical source: cities2-research report Tapping the Entity Component System for Cities: Skylines II, published 2024-10-09: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEkIyWhvq3o. Current behavior was not established by that report.

Use Markdown links for wiki pages when the client supports them. Name the game encyclopedia entries, but do not invent links for them unless the MCP resource URI is directly useful to the user. If the wiki and encyclopedia disagree or emphasize different things, say that briefly in the answer.