Cities: Skylines - After Dark - Dev Diary 1: Night Time, what is it?

I can't see the pictures. Is it just me?

Edit: one question: how long (in real life seconds/minutes) is a day?

 

Amazing, I can't wait for more!

 

Looks good.

I hope you guys learned from CiM2 and the design error with day/night time and time tables.
If a day is only a few minutes long, vehicles will have several hours to travel across the city once and arrive somewhere around noon at best. Didn't work in CiM2, hopefully it will now work with the service vehicles.

 

Will we have per route control over day and night use of mass transit? ie. can we have some routes set to always be running and some only during the day or night, or are we going to just have to set routes to daytime only and create an overlapping set for the night time?

On a side note, while you are mucking with mass transit, will you be adding the ability to set the number/frequency of buses/trains on a per-route basis separate from altering the number of stops and just adjusting funding globally?


Also can you tell us how long day and night are likely to be?
There have been many concerns we might have problems where cims leave for a destination during the day and arrive at night or the next day.

 

Nice! I have to agree with Deville. Wish the "time" in the game was slower and the calendar was changed to perhaps a clock and go by quarters. If Im playing for a very long time, seems odd that the calendar says, 2.1.3013.

I can't wait for beaches! Here in the U.S. most highways (with onramp/offramp) called parkways end at parks; namely beaches. Finally I can do that. I still wish there can be "policies" on the limited access highways such as toll booths and to not allow trucks/commercial vehicles on them in areas. I was sad to see that I can do a heavy truck ban but it doesn't apply to highways

Still....ALL HAIL Karoliina ALL HAIL CO

 

Did you change how the time ticks in After dark ? It would be to fast if each day is like 20 seconds like it is now.

 

I suppose a new policy

Heavy Traffic Ban during Day Time

Would now make sense.

 

I am confused why everyone seems to think the day night cycle would actually be aligned with what the clock says. The clock has never been an accurate measure of time in any city building game ever.

I'd actually like heavy traffic bans for both day AND night.

Keep the main streets clear of trucks during the day to ease traffic, but keep residential areas clear at night to reduce noise

 

I don't think it will be aligned with the clock.

I'd be happy if there was an option to drop the clock from the UI altogether.

 

night buses are a very good idea. looking forward to using them.

 

What they could do is have the clock track the day night cycle and be completely divorced from the passage of days, and just track the days through the date since they go by quickly enough

 

What is the new texture map used for lighting? Did you just update them with illumination masks and calling it new because they didn't have one previously or are they using a whole new map type all together? Really would like to know. Thanks

 

They've said they will talk about that in the future (Moo mentioned a devblog)

 

Someone add Wayne Manor to workshop that provides huge nighttime crime suppression. Go!

 

This is just me, but I find this whole direction unappealing. Its challenging enough to create and manage an ever expanding city in a relatively steady state. Now everything from buildings to traffic are going to yo-yo back and forth between two different states? Thank you no.

 

Then don't buy the expansion pack, this as simple as that...

 

Personally, I think the fact that we DON"T have a day and night cycle exacerbates some problems.

Since everyone is always on the streets at the same time going the same direction, they get backed up and just keep getting more and more backed up. Nighttime would likely relieve backups somewhat and cause them to cap at a certain level of gridlock, and having temporal separation for trucks and service vehicles would also help alleviate daytime congestion.

except the day-night cycle is a free update to the base game which means EVERYONE gets it

 

All the old cycle considerations (from before the original launch) rise up for us all to consider again I see.

Well, we may get told, or we may not; I do think however that CO will have kinda thought it through.

If the date and progression graphic remain on the UI, I'm sure it will be adjusted to match the cycle; maybe this means it won't remain. If you have a certain budget for garbage trucks, then I'm sure time will be given for them to make it out and back before sunrise, and maybe this means that we will have no choice wrt the 'real world' length of a day. Maybe the cycle time will change on its own dependent on the size/budget of your city.

A lot of us have pondered all these questions a long time ago; I almost wish they don't tell us, as it will make a nice surprise to see what's been decided when it arrives in a month. I know I have a choice to try not to look at diaries btw, but that's not going to happen is it.

 

Except it might not be. The day/night cycle is free and being added to be base game. Everyone will be getting that. I don't think there is a way to opt out of updates, but I could be wrong.