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

 

[metacritical]

QoL; Bulk select/delete Saved Games

C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Saves

 

[leach22ri]

C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Saves

a way to do it in-game would be nice though

 

[metacritical]

a way to do it in-game would be nice though

what is the difference?

 

[leach22ri]

Like I said in my OP it's a Quality of Life (Convenience) thing. also if the player doesn't have admin privileges they would not be able to mass delete saved games in their file manager.

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

PROPS.

I like that we have some access to props now (Parklife!).

I need two things.

1. Better organization of the props. ("Find it" might help.)
2. More access to props. There are lots of them that you can't (without mods) get access to.

Example:

I built a shipyard and some warehouses. (Yes, I need "Move It" to do a better job with the quay.)
It really needs some industrial props to finish it off.

And some chain link fence. (Chain link fence and hedges need to be added to the fence tool. Brick walls and stuff too. But that's another post.)

 

[leach22ri]

More park buildings for the amusement park and nature reserve, also more Coin game props for the amusement park

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

More park buildings for the amusement park and nature reserve, also more Coin game props for the amusement park

The City Park had the fewest buildings. Could use more too.

 

[leach22ri]

what do you think the city park needs that doesn't already exist in one-way shape or form?

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

what do you think the city park needs that doesn't already exist in one-way shape or form?

It is the category with the fewest buildings, and I find it hard to not make them repetitive.

I would suggest a few flowerbed type areas. Maybe something like a duck pond with flowers and trees. Stuff like that is present in some of the parks in my area.

 

[leach22ri]

there are flowerbed props in the City Park tab and assuming you're not playing on console, you can download assets from the steam workshop. also, city parks should not charge an entry fee by default.

 

[Pyhis96]

Hi, My development idea is about consoles.

I understand that the introduction of mods on consoles is technically challenging. So I have a solution for this:

Game developers could make their own desired mods and then sell them in bundles to console gamers. For example: Traffic Mod package, car park package, road package (different roads, junctions, roundabouts, etc.) and much more! This solves this technical problem while also employing game developers.

 

[metacritical]

Hi, My development idea is about consoles.

I understand that the introduction of mods on consoles is technically challenging. So I have a solution for this:

Game developers could make their own desired mods and then sell them in bundles to console gamers. For example: Traffic Mod package, car park package, road package (different roads, junctions, roundabouts, etc.) and much more! This solves this technical problem while also employing game developers.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-add-actual-mods-for-cities-skylines.1292411/

 

[Meagan]

May I please, please suggest that we get rid of the dirt circles underneath palm trees. It isn't very natural when used in grassy areas and makes your map look pimpled.

I think there are a lot of "quality of life" updates that could be done to the preexisting game. Cities' scaling for buildings and objects isn't constant. Also, there are a ton of grammatical errors in prop/building descriptions.

 

[news.ticker]

Make warehouses findable by highlighting them in one of the Info Views

I play different cities at different times using the IndustriesDLC. Since all my cities are above 250.000 people, it is kind of difficult to remember where I had placed all my warehouses if I go back to a city after some time.
All the other different types of placeable buildings can be found by one or other of the Info Views ("police service" makes all the stations and cars light up violet, same for "health services" with which you can have your hospitals, cemeteries or saunas highlighted):
But warehouses, so important for the production chain have been forgotten to be highlighted in one of the Info Views.
It is tiresome chasing delivery trucks... ;-)

 

[Meagan]

Can we please get a way to toggle our in game music up and down in the keymapping section? Some songs are way louder than others

 

[Meagan]

Another suggestion, can we please have an option to turn off the fake advertisements in the radio stations?

 

[leach22ri]

A logistics update for the industries DLC, Allowing the player to change the quantity of production/ unique factory products directed to any of the following categories;

• Export
• Warehousing (storage)
• Sale ( to business or other unique factories )

if CO and Paradox don't do it themselves then someone could make a Mod do it, however, this would end up excluding Counsel (sp users, since they can't use Mods.)

 

[leach22ri]

It is the category with the fewest buildings, and I find it hard to not make them repetitive.

I would suggest a few flowerbed type areas. Maybe something like a duck pond with flowers and trees. Stuff like that is present in some of the parks in my area.

How about aquatics facilities

• Splash pad
• Wading pool
• Waterpark- this would charge an entrance fee

city parks should not charge an entry fee by default.

2/15
A larger fully enclosed pavilion and picnic shelters (while you could use the Lean-To shelters from the Nature Reserve/National Park for this they just don't look right.)

 

[Meagan]

When a disaster hits, would it be possible for the Disaster Response Unit or the Road Maintenance Depot to repair roads? When a tornado hits a big city with dense neighborhood roads, its really time intensive to upgrade all the roads (not to mention find what roads match where).

 

[Allystrya]

When a disaster hits, would it be possible for the Disaster Response Unit or the Road Maintenance Depot to repair roads? When a tornado hits a big city with dense neighborhood roads, its really time intensive to upgrade all the roads (not to mention find what roads match where).

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Even in the real world it isn't the mayor who repairs the roads it is the transportation department in some form or fashion. It has never made sense to me.