CO word of the week #4 - 12/2016 + Patch notes 1.4.0-f3 | Page 5

muttonnoir · Mar 24, 2016

CO have given everyone a fantastic free patch with loads of goodies and STILL some "fans" ain't happy! REALLY? Cities Skylines has come a long way in its 1st year and the game just keeps on getting better and better. Each new patch/DLC introduces a new basic kit of parts to the mix that promote further creativity amongst the modders in the community who produce an array of fantastic assets/tools that raise the game to the next level. Meanwhile the naysayers continue to stare into their half empty glass and dream of the old days and SimCity4. The golden days...

mgsports · Mar 24, 2016

The Mods I wanted to see in it is Road Namer,Not so Unique Buildings,Improved Assets Icons,Advanced/Extended Toolbar,Unlock all. Isolated Failures should also before Assets then wouldn't get Cities.exe Error. But looks good.

dreadicon · Mar 24, 2016

So, I'm a bit late to the party, but my thoughts:

Thank you CO! This showed a very VERY big gesture in the way of adding terraforming. Not because terraforming was hard, but because it wasn't in your original design plan. And when you did implement it, you integrated it into that plan rather than throwing up you hands and mindlessly giving players what they asked for. Players very frequently have amazing ideas you never think of as a designer, but they aren't designers by and large either. 'Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out' basically. I look forward to this kind of flexability from both sides; player and developer.

I am very much looking forward to future DLC if this general trend continues!

My only criticism is that there's no shout-outs to the modders who maintained these features (terrain topography, terraforming mod, and fine road heights) for so long before you implemented them. Just a simple 'good job modders bob and joe' or 'we were inspired by mods x and y' when you integrate a feature would make me feel much better about the addition. It costs you nothing, but might mean the world to a modder who spent hundreds of hours upkeeping the functionality before you decided to add it.

co_martsu · Mar 24, 2016

dreadicon said:
So, I'm a bit late to the party, but my thoughts:

Thank you CO! This showed a very VERY big gesture in the way of adding terraforming. Not because terraforming was hard, but because it wasn't in your original design plan. And when you did implement it, you integrated it into that plan rather than throwing up you hands and mindlessly giving players what they asked for. Players very frequently have amazing ideas you never think of as a designer, but they aren't designers by and large either. 'Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out' basically. I look forward to this kind of flexability from both sides; player and developer.

I am very much looking forward to future DLC if this general trend continues!

My only criticism is that there's no shout-outs to the modders who maintained these features (terrain topography, terraforming mod, and fine road heights) for so long before you implemented them. Just a simple 'good job modders bob and joe' or 'we were inspired by mods x and y' when you integrate a feature would make me feel much better about the addition. It costs you nothing, but might mean the world to a modder who spent hundreds of hours upkeeping the functionality before you decided to add it.

Thank you for the feedback! I really appreciate you understood our struggle with adding the landscaping tools in game, thank you

In the post I wanted to thank all modders as we appreciate all of them equally. There's almost 80 000 items in the Workshop after all. Don't get me wrong, that is amazing, but there's a lot of mods we might not be aware of. We also want to implement features in our own way and make sure it fits the technology and design so simply taking a mod and integrating it to a game is not something we do. So many times we get requests for a feature and the argument is that a mod already does this, however we have to keep our eye in the vision we have and the whole point of making the game moddable is that we get to see these amazing things from the modders that we for one reason or another will not implement in the game. I really believe supporting the modding community is part of our job because it will be all of us together that develop this game further.

So even if I don't point out any specific authors or mods it in no regard means we would appreciate the modders any less and I really hope all of them know how much we at Colossal value them. Just like we value the players and the entire community being so passionate about the game

JohnA45 · Mar 24, 2016

This looks great guys thank you so much! Just when I was starting to get bored and frustrated! Oh PLEASE add new bridge styles next!! PLEASE! I know I am not alone here! The mods have added some beautiful bridges, but not all of us want to use mods. I'm a mod-free guy myself, but I'm getting so frustrated with the lack of choices in bridge styles...

katyann321 · Mar 24, 2016

Thanks. I didn't see this update coming at all.

muttonnoir · Mar 24, 2016

co_martsu said:
Thank you for the feedback! I really appreciate you understood our struggle with adding the landscaping tools in game, thank you

In the post I wanted to thank all modders as we appreciate all of them equally. There's almost 80 000 items in the Workshop after all. Don't get me wrong, that is amazing, but there's a lot of mods we might not be aware of. We also want to implement features in our own way and make sure it fits the technology and design so simply taking a mod and integrating it to a game is not something we do. So many times we get requests for a feature and the argument is that a mod already does this, however we have to keep our eye in the vision we have and the whole point of making the game moddable is that we get to see these amazing things from the modders that we for one reason or another will not implement in the game. I really believe supporting the modding community is part of our job because it will be all of us together that develop this game further.

So even if I don't point out any specific authors or mods it in no regard means we would appreciate the modders any less and I really hope all of them know how much we at Colossal value them. Just like we value the players and the entire community being so passionate about the game

A great new patch. Lots of fantastic new features. Do you have any plans to incorporate the precision engineering mod into the base game? It is a "must" for all the OCD players! Also- what are the plans with regards to canals? Do you envisage introducing a canal lock system and water vehicles- industrial barges/pleasure craft/water taxis in the future that would make use of the currently sterile waterways? Also canal-side building assets- tourism?

Arko · Mar 24, 2016

Great update thank you CO !
I'd like to see the possibilty to use quays as pedestrian pathes to avoid building a path along the quays. And just just connect pedestrian quays to the regular pedestrians network.

Some textures variety to canal walls, seawalls and quays would be handsome.

blazeb · Mar 25, 2016

This is the best update so far, @CO. It is so easy to lay down canals and quays, and they look great. Thank you!

I only have a few wishes regarding the newly added tools:
1. Please include the fine road height mod in all it's glory. As it is now it's still a bit restricted, when roads/track only can go from 0m > 6m > 12m > 24m. What about 9m, 15m etc? The same for tunnels, as of now it goes straight from 0m > -12m.
2. Please let the cims be able to use the quays as pedestrian paths.
3. Please add a concrete/pavement/promenade brush/tool so we can fill the gaps of grass between quays and roads.
4. Please add more variations in textures of quays and canal walls

Once again, thank you, and keep up the good work!

CityCimmer · Mar 25, 2016

I gotta say this new update is "SA-WEEEEEEET!

Granted, I only fidgeted just about an hours worth of time with the new items in an already existing city, but they seem very robust. Well, except for the terrain tool. Those are driving me freaking bonkers. /facepalm

And I like the direction the canals leave us for future updates. I am sure that boats and little recreational water craft will be added sooner or later in a future update. Remember, you need to learn to crawl before you can walk and then eventually run. Start small, grow big...

I really need to ask : What is the real point of a quay?

Licensecart · Mar 25, 2016

Awesome time to try it out.

Kyromaster · Mar 25, 2016

I really like the game, even before the update

One question: In big cities with traffic jams it's often not possible for ambulances and firefighters to reach their destinations on time. Could this be changed in a future update so that they can drive through intersections even on red traffic lights?

MontyTheRoadgeek · Mar 26, 2016

It's certainly a good thing I get this update from the get-go because I have about a week or two left until I can buy Skylines!

mgsports · Mar 27, 2016

I really like the Game but can't play it at moment so can't try out what has been added in new Patch and can't figure out why and not taking Comouter back to February again that would solve problem but again Error will show up again because I don't have a Mod or Program out side of Game to find which ones don't work besides Incompatible Items that I don't have and Best Buy has just been made for Game.

KillerChicken · Mar 29, 2016

Thanks for the update, I had a copy of snowfall gifted to me on steam. This game is fun again with the exception of the user agent limits not being increased, but that is another topic all together. I have a 2006 server as a gamer and play this game and it runs beautifully still.

cpy · Mar 29, 2016

OH MY GAWD! This is so cool.

baraterek · Mar 31, 2016

That's cool, but can You make something with UI/Fonts? It's so blurry on 1920x1200px ... when I set the ratio to 16:9 and 1920x1080 (black strips top and under) everything is crisp ... but when I exit the game and enter it again it will start in fullscreen - stretched vertically, so I need again to go to settings and switch to other res and again to 1080p ...
Other then that - I'm quite happy about this update ... even bought After Dark on discount

Arko · Apr 1, 2016

@co_martsu no word this week

?

muttonnoir · Apr 1, 2016

Arko said:
@co_martsu no word this week ?

It's Easter break, She's not a machine-give her a break too!

Arko · Apr 1, 2016

muttonnoir said:
It's Easter break, She's not a machine-give her a break too!

ok, didn't knew about that Easter break

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