Things I would like to see added to vanilla Cities Skylines, specifically console.

[Sanb0]

I've been playing Cities Skylines for just over a month on xbox one (I know not very long) and I have a few suggestions for things that I would like to see added to the base game.

-The ability to add/remove pedestrian crossings, it would be nice to be able to add them without changing roads, and to remove them from every junction as some junctions don't need crossings if you add a pedestrian bridge.
-The ability to change speed limits on roads, this would be helpful on custom roundabouts when using highway, being able to slow the traffic slightly would help roundabouts flow slightly better, also not all small roads need to be slower roads.
-Give way signs, from all the youtube videos I've watched on traffic, give way signs often work better than stop signs, roundabouts and T-Junctions are good examples.
-The last one would be great but I'm not sure if possible or not due to the restrictions of consoles but the lane connector tool would be very helpful or at the very least the lane direction thing from TMPE mod, so we could have roads that at junctions can only go straight over or right/left only turns etc.

I know all these things are modded into the game on PC but unfortunately console doesnt have mods, and as traffic management is massively important I feel that this quality of life improvements would be very appreciated.

Thanks for reading my post, any comments or opinions are more than welcome.

 

[Sir_Conster]

This almost feels like it should be an essential thing in the game. I've been playing on PS4 for a while now, and I've had a fair few instances where an update like this wouldve made my life 100x easier. Ai stopping in the motorway to change lanes, Or only using the outside lane on a roundabout, or even just not using other lanes at all and instead deciding to queue up in one lane. The Ai in this game dont drive anywhere near the way real people do, and so when you set up an infrastructure based on real life you will encounter traffic problems, that's why we need something like this, in order to tell the Ai what to do and which lanes to pick, so we can set up a more realistic looking city without horrible traffic problems.

 

[Sir_Conster]

Also give way / yeild signs are a must! Using Stop Signs or lights on a roundabout usually causes quite a bit of congestion, whereas when you let traffic flow onto the roundabout they might cut in front of traffic already on the roundabout, which will cause that traffic to stop and cause congestion on the roundabout instead. Give way signs would allow traffic to flow but only when its clear, making them the perfect solution.

 

[Sanb0]

I completely agree give way is essential, if I had a give way sign I would almost entirely stop using stop signs, I've watched many times where I've got a stop sign, and they do stop but then proceed to cut someone up, as if the AI thinks "I've stopped, so now I'll go" but without checking it's clear lol.

I know TMPE is an exceptionally CPU heavy mod so I wouldn't ever expect all the features to be added to console, (especially the increase to AI) but I think the parts I suggested shouldn't take much more than is already in game.

I definitely feel that as traffic can make or break a city we should have more options to manage the roads other than just what roads we use.