@Meesmoth You seem to be missing some context. I was talking to the dev who posted in this thread. Check the previous page and look for the highlighted post.
Any 2019 announcements, dev diaries?
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Hoping this time it wont be again the non sense of 5 DD rushed in the last decade before release.
Hearing that the team is alive and working on the game inbetween is a start. I definetly to heard more about what is worked on (bug fixing etc.) or patch content that dont spoils the super secret dlc info.
A good suggestion (from a marketing pov too) would be to make little teasers about the next big content way before the typical announce.
Little enough that people can't figure out the content but at least they can start speculating on forums, reddit, etc, keeping the interest alive in those "dead" periods between DLC announces and related DD.
Maybe it's no the idea of a new DLC itself but just your ideas that people do not like.Giving suggestions for a next DLC gives you nothing but disagrees for unknown reasons. This just shows that CS players don't really want to see a next DLC anymore.
Try viewing the comments on the previous page, including mine. They all get disagrees, yet posts like "I wonder what they'll up to" gets agrees.
EDIT: Even this post is starting to get disagrees again. What does the CS players want to do with the game now? Giving suggestions for a DLC gives you disagrees, telling the truth about it gets disagrees. I feel like this is a mass-disagreement thing going on here. This game has only two major DLCs remaining before it gets dead from the developers, so if you don't want any DLC, then fine. I'm staying away from threads like this, I just want to feel my cities more alive, not ruin my reputation on a website. Why this rating system even exists on this site? People prefer the more-complicated Industries rather than simple ones such as random events, if you look at several forums many people are confused with Industries because it's too complex. Random events gives you only something exciting to see in your city, yet useless services such as post offices are in the game for no reason at all.
Exact dates please !
The past is not an absolute predictor of the future, but you can figure out timelines for previous DLC here:
https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Developer_diaries
Industries was a bit on the short side. Announced on 11 October 2018, released on 23 October 2018.
Indeed, my point was more about predictions being at best a wild guess.
I would be down for medium density buildings (like for residential more spread out apartment complexes instead of high-rises, US is where I get that from I guess) - always feels weird jumping from Low to High density. Perhaps I played SC4 too much when I was younger!
Perhaps a bit more regional interaction as well. I'm not necessarily suggesting the map style of SC4 here - but I think it would really add to the game world to improve on that since we know there are other cities that exist in the game that we interact with through trade and travel.
I posted this on Steam regarding the next DLC release by viewing the past history of DLCs:
Cities: Skylines DLC release pattern said:
While here is the past history of Dev Diaries (the first entry):
Cities: Skylines Dev Diary release pattern said:
Turn around of announcement to release is crazy short.
EU4 have started talking about their expansion with dev diaries a YEAR in advance
EU4 have started talking about their expansion with dev diaries a YEAR in advance
On the flipside, the time between Industries's announcement and release was only twelve days, the shortest ever for C:S.
I think the short time gap between announce and release is because Paradox PR thinks that if they announce it too early, the hype will decrease before the release=less sales.
Firaxis does the same with all of their games and dlcs.
I don't know if it is the best strategy tho. Dev diaries with future planning without spoilering the next Dlcs would be a nice middleground to keep people involved in those gaps.
Firaxis does the same with all of their games and dlcs.
I don't know if it is the best strategy tho. Dev diaries with future planning without spoilering the next Dlcs would be a nice middleground to keep people involved in those gaps.
Every PDX:I title has very long gaps between release and announce, think imperator; over a year. Even new DLC can be months (Man the Guns).
I don't know why PDX hamper their publishing developers so much (it is them who dictate when they can announce things)
It's the opposite for Cities Skylines tho. Maybe they are different PR divisions that act in a different and indipendent way.
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Okay, what are you talking about though? 'cause last time I checked there was only one type of developer diary and that is the one that CO did for every DLC of C:S. Exactly like PDX:I do it.
Okay, what are you talking about though? 'cause last time I checked there was only one type of developer diary and that is the one that CO did for every DLC of C:S. Exactly like PDX:I do it.
Everyone else seems to get what I mean
"Hey guys we're collosal order and this is a dev diary on how cims use public transport system logic"
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"Hey guys we're collosal order and this is what we have planned for the future of C:S"
C:O do not do it anywhere close to how PDX:I do it
Oh, okay, got it. Thanks.
Yeah the fact that most everyone else got it confused me even more :/
Yeah the fact that most everyone else got it confused me even more :/