Comprehensive Wish- and Suggestions List (WIP)

[Hiramas]

I will rework this post after the patch, stay tuned

Greetings everyone,

a few people had the idea to try to collect all the wishes and suggestions into an organized list and I decided to try it. I hope you support this endeavor and reply with your suggestions and wishes.

Let's try to agree on a few rules:
- Please only post your suggestion in this thread, I think we should keep this thread clean and move the discussion about the suggestions to their respective threads.
- If your suggestion has it's own discussion already, post the link and I will add it to the list.
- Please try to sort your suggestion into one of the existing categories or suggest a new category for the list.
- I would like suggestions about the best way to permanently collect support for the various suggestions and wishes.

Edit: There is also this Idea Box page, if that is the preferred way to gather ideas for the community, I suggest to use it: http://citiesskylines.ideascale.com/

Categories

Basic Simulation

• Cellphone and Broadband Networks as Infrastructure
• Various Disasters [CONSIDERED]
• Day/Night Cycle [No Current Plans]
• Rush Hour
• Emergency Vehicle Right-of-way
• Weather [CONSIDERED]
• Seasons [CONSIDERED]
• Block ships from "climbing" dams [Planned] (Known Bug)
• Wall-to-wall buildings [Planned] (Source was the recent stream by Henkka and Mariina)
• Air Pollution
• Way to remove / reduce pollution mid-game
• Allow fire to spread if unattended
• Some form of regional play

UI, Sound and Game Mechanics

• Tree brush in game-mode
• Permanent Info-Views
• Route Query Tool
• Citizen Tracker [CONSIDERED]
• Raise district text from background
• Road naming
• Area filler, e.g. Cities XL style or brush style
• Terraforming in game-mode
• ^ Sunken tracks / sunken Highways
• Bulldoze Marquee Tool
• Planting trees on lots in-game (without the asset editor)
• Reduce the sound of ambulances
• District marquee tool
• Upgrade zoning without dezoning first
• Optional world grid for better road planning
• Undo Button

Tech and Engine

• Dedicated Full Screen Mode
• Auto save
• Ability to import new music
• Capture mouse for dual-screen setup

Modding and STEAM Workshop

• Traffic Simulation in the Asset Editor
• Road modding
• Better Workshop organization
• Asset Manager filters and organization
• Pictures of modded buildings in the game
• Left-hand driving in the asset editor

Zoned Buildings - Types and Styles

Residential

• Mixed Residential / commercial Buildings [CONSIDERED]
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Commercial

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Industry

• Area effects for specialized industry ( e.g. fields, oil pumps)
• ^ Bigger industry buildings in the specialized industry (e.g. fields, oil pumps)
• Longer, more interesting production chains
• High-Tech industry specialization

Offices

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Functional Buildings

• Modular, extendable Buildings
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Water

• Larger water treatment plants
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Power

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Health- and Deathcare

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Education

• Modular Universities
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Police and Fire

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Garbage

• Zoneable or Extendable Landfills
• "Greener" way to get rid of garbage.
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Parks and Decoration

• Waterfront decorations
• Canals
• Parks on pedestrian pathways
• Area filler, e.g. Cities XL style or brush style

Districts and district policies

• Chinatown District
• Social housing District Policy
• Historic preservation policy
• Medieval/Old City District
• University District
• Photovoltaic incentive policy, Solar Panels on the roofs, every building produces a small amount of electricity
• Restrict local services to district

Roads, Roadtypes and related things

• Merging lanes, Acceleration lanes
• Improved roundabout usage
• Pedestrian pathways with stairs
• Cul de sac
• More bridges
• Toll booth
• Different types of elevated structures (steel, concrete, brick)
• Bus lanes
• More options in setting up roads (turning lanes, traffic lights...)
• Road Layout help (e.g. snap-to-grid option, SimCity style lines for parallel roads)
• Bike lanes
• One way roads via upgrade tool, change direction with clicking
• Tunnels [Planned]
• Zoning on pedestrian roads
• Pedestrian Boulevards (with emergency vehicle access)
• Prefabricated Intersections snapping to already existing roads
• Single lane roads
• Double-direction Highway

Mass Transit

• Better Information on Transport Networks - "Bus Panels"
• New lines should have different colors by default
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Busses

• Bus lanes
• Long range bus stations for tourists
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Trains

• Larger train stations
• Train stations with multiple connections (bus, metro)
• Elevated Stations
• Different types of elevated structures (steel, concrete, brick)
• Underground tracks and stations
• Traintrack soundwalls

Metro

• Overground/Elevated Metro including stations
• Different types of elevated structures (steel, concrete, brick)
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Airport

• Larger Airports
• Modular Airports
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Harbor

• Bigger harbors
• Modular harbors
• Harbor waterfront [CONSIDERED]
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Other concepts

• New types of transport [Planned]
• Trams
• Monorail
• Ferrys and Waterbusses
• ^ Canals

 

[JimboJJ26]

First I have to say the game so far looks amazing and I can't wait to get my hands on it!

That being said, my biggest peeve with what I've seen so far is the lack of coastal stuff. By that I mean boardwalks, docks, even more complex seaports. A lot of this could be sectional with different pieces to place side by side. Some of it can act as parks and decoration such as the boardwalk pieces. It would really make the shores look much nicer. I'm not too keen on seeing cliffs everywhere.

 

[Zed68]

Marinas ?? I don't recall someone suggesting marinas.:unsure:

 

[Metropolitan]

About water infrastructures, an intermediate solution between dropping sewage from the shores and water treatment could be to drop sewage in deep waters, far away from the shores.

In real life, that's the usual way to minimize pollution in many areas in which a water treatement facility cannot be built (either because of topography or a lack of funding capability).

 

[Zed68]

I've made a topic about reducing the ambulance sound being too loud and too present and I think it should be added to the list : http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?841940-Ambulance-sound...-please-devs.&p=19004580#post19004580

 

[Hiramas]

added some considered/planned/not planned tags.
The currently link to the AMA transcript on this forum.
If you find devs confirming things, saying things that are relevant, send the link my way, please.

 

[consi]

Great thread! From another thread what we talked is here:

The tool to create architectural styles would be cool, and district "architectural style" policies also. Since I'm always creating "the old town district" first in all my cities, then the XIX-century districts around them, then modern architecture districts at the end, with those tools it would be a lot easier

Definately one of the highest things on my wishlist too with R+C functional mixed zoning. From RCI demands perspective, half of the building can stay empty if it means we get to wait until demand is high enough for both to make them fullly occupied. Not seems as a problem to me.

Large selection of area fillers which fills an empty area between buildings and roads (just like CXL) would be great for aestethics. Pedestrian paths with parks, commercial&residental zones, bike lines would be awesome!

Plus I'd be happy with more meaningful production chains which produces goods with other different effects on the city. Car assembling would be awesome for providing cheaper cars to poorer folks.

Car parking system can be overhauled alongside with more traffic controlling option.

 

[kissof]

Hi Hiramas,

where did you see that harbor waterfront was considered? on the link i read everything and i couldn't find anything related :/

also can you edit the post about bigger airport as it being considered?

Can we get some bigger airports? Also, the game looks awesome, I couldn't be more hyped!

co_martsu
Modders could definitely look into making a new airport and we might as well, if it seems to be something people are looking forward to. And thanks!

 

[Hiramas]

Hi Hiramas,

where did you see that harbor waterfront was considered? on the link i read everything and i couldn't find anything related :/

also can you edit the post about bigger airport as it being considered?

First Question and answer

First question. Rivers in this game are really awesome but to give a more realistic urban feel to our cities I think that it absolutely need various type of sea walls (classic, modern, industrial, dock like, suburban, etc..). as Sea walls (but that's just my example) are not only buildings but interact with the complex water dynamics in the game will the players be able to make them via modding tool?

1. I agree. We don't have these yet and therefore there's no modding support for that either, but this is definitely high on our wishlist.

 

[kissof]

First Question and answer

haaaaa i didn't get the "seawalls" thing at first sight ^^ haha
thank you for your answer!

 

[Patrikwa]

Marinas ?? I don't recall someone suggesting marinas.:unsure:

Do we need more than one CEO to handle colossal order?

 

[Zed68]

Do we need more than one CEO to handle colossal order?

I KNEW someone would say something like that

 

[Patrikwa]

I KNEW someone would say something like that

I couldnt resist a perfect setup
On a more serious note, i loved the marinas in SC2000, awesome with some leisure on water, specially in this game with the water dynamics, maybe we can even see some waves and surfers using them in the future

 

[nobrainer]

On the subject of transportation, road types, merging lanes and so on.
There have been some people, including me, suggesting a lane-based approach to transportation networks. I've included a small explanation of it on the thread about improved roundabouts, cul-de-sacs, etc.
I think it may be good to put a link the the post on the list so that people can easily locate that post and continue the discussion. Here's the link: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-de-sacs..&p=18990269&viewfull=1#post18990269

 

[bucgene]

+1 undo button.

 

[consi]

I couldn't see commercial and residential zones tied to pedestrian paths. Car-free shopping and housing areas. Also air pollution please.

 

[Togee]

I couldn't see commercial and residential zones tied to pedestrian paths. Car-free shopping and housing areas. Also air pollution please.

Air pollution must be a thing sometime in the future!:excl:

 

[Bapadox]

Hi Hiramas. First, thanks for this thread and for the work to keep it up to date.

I missed two important requests/suggestions in the above list:

1) larger (and more realistic) farms, with farm fields not limited in size or shape. Some discussion in this regard can be found http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?819727-I-want-NATURAL-and-BIG-FARMS and also http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?809726-Farms-amp-Fields.

2) regional play (which is a way around the limitations on map size). The user can have several cities/maps and they all can exchange/trade jobs, workers, goods, water, energy, garbage, etc with each other. The user can also switch from one of his/her city to another one with a key stroke in a matter of seconds. This allows recreation of large metropolitan areas split into a number of neighboring city maps. Cities XXL has this feature, which makes it the modern city builiding game closest to SC4. Implementing regional play is computationally simple and does no pressure on memory or CPU processing time. Related discussion can be found http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?810174-Will-there-be-an-increase-in-map-size, http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?819776-So-how-big-city-can-be, and http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?837188-Even-Bigger....

I believe both items should go in the "basic simulation" list.
Thanks!

 

[RonBurgundy]

Allow fires to spread! From what I see, fires are contained to the building that it was started at. They should spread to neigboring buildings if left unchecked

 

[emdash]

Suggestions (so far):

1) Landfills should automatically return to Filling mode when they are finished emptying (it's enough of an attention tax to click to empty them)
2) The placement box for the Park with Trees seems really buggy, like it won't place in many places where it should be able to place and it doesn't edge snap as nicely as the other parks.
3) the passenger counter when clicking on metro stops seems to be broken; it will randomly read 0 and then 100+ on two different nearly consecutive clicks. Don't know if fixable, but it is annoying

 

[Denizz]

I would like to see autosave implemented soon for unforseen crashes.