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

 

[Nexusdog]

• Manage bus lines from bus stations

 

[Nexusdog]

• Flood fill or modular carparks
• Multistorey car parks
• Plop anywhere parks

 

[ItalianGuy]

I suggest disabling intersection destinations when the angle between the source and the destination is too narrow. Most useful to avoid u-turns in merges.

 

[Rolinckfan]

I really would like to have:
One-Way - One-Lane Roads. Even the existing 2 Lane One-Way Road would be nice, with one Lane be reserved for Parking. I live in a European City with many Roads like that and it would be nice to be able to build something similar

 

[Matthias King]

More ideas:

1) To go along with the idea of the el-train and everything related to that, I'd like to see an option to lay track above an existing street, with pillars that straddle the width of the street, regardless of the street width.

2) a handful of parking garages, at least 4x4, preferably in varying sizes like 4x8, 8x8, etc... You find parking garages in every city. They're so common, but they're entirely absent from the game except for a couple of workshop assets. We need to see a parking garage collection released, containing garages with working parking spaces.

 

[Nexusdog]

I made a start on a collection of car parking with a selection of workshop creations. Some good, some not so good & by no means extensive. http://steamcommunity.com/id/ninkydog/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710

 

[ItalianGuy]

There are also private car parkings, did someone create growables parking assets?

 

[Matthias King]

I made a start on a collection of car parking with a selection of workshop creations. Some good, some not so good & by no means extensive. http://steamcommunity.com/id/ninkydog/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710

Thanks for the list. There was one parking garage on there I'd never seen before. I grabbed it and I'll check it out. As for regular flat parking lots, I've got those well covered. I've created a lot of custom parking lots of my own and gotten rid of all the workshop ones I've found. I have a few all-purpose ones that can work in a variety of places, along with some custom ones that were made bespoke for a particular place or to be paired with a particular building.

I've studied a bunch of real parking lots in photos and on Google maps to try to create lots as much like real ones as I can with the tools available.

 

[Nexusdog]

Yeah, that's what I think I'll do as well - so many of the workshop ones are too pretty, filled with junk or just don't fit aesthetically. I've yet to create assets so will have to do research into this.

Glad the list was helpful.

 

[Nexusdog]

@ItalianGuy Not from what I've seen so far.

 

[RandomPerson124]

I think first person should be in vanilla, and you should be able to go first person underground and have the underground view as a sort of cross-section.

 

[Buddaklovn]

Moved it here:
Edit: I know most if not all of this have been mentioned before. But here are some pictures to go with it..
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I made these pictures to show some of the current road/rail features that i think needs to be added, made different or more dynamic.
This would make it possible to make much more realistic and creative city layouts!

Generally i think most of the angles and limits when placing road/rail needs some tweaking. I know it's a game and it would be way over the top to have 10,000 different road types and such.. But right now there are way too few possibilities when trying to make creative or realistic road layouts. This is stuff for a great 'Advanced Asphalt DLC' hehe.

Also more smooth highway connections so it is possible to make good looking junctions

This one below is a suggestion to the tunnel tool. A Sunken road or open 'tunnel'. a little cheaper than building a tunnel and with more sunlight. This would be cool making underpasses or compact city infrastructure.

This is a illustration of the way i really would love to place metro stations in the game.
It would make it feel much more free!

Not to forget that ground level and elevated metro also would be useful especially when crossing rivers or in hilly terrain. And it would to some extend also be cool to have something like this for regular railways both above and below ground.

Hope you guys find these ideas just as interesting as i do!! Cities: Skylines is already and amazing game, but it has potential to be so much better in the future!!

Thanks,
Buddaklovn

 

[kenratboy]

--Large industrial warehouse buildings - this is what 'industry' is in most developed cities. It can be either warehouse space, or 'clean(ish)' industry (from a welding shop to making semiconductors).

--A VERY wide 'Small Road' that can be upgraded to a Medium or Large road without needing to demolish the buildings placed along it. I love how you can upgrade from Medium to Large roads without changing the total width, but it would be a home run to have a Small road option with the same width.

--A larger assortment of large buildings (malls, very large stores, museums, sport fields, etc.) that were not the single-use 'Unique' buildings.

 

[Matthias King]

--Large industrial warehouse buildings - this is what 'industry' is in most developed cities. It can be either warehouse space, or 'clean(ish)' industry (from a welding shop to making semiconductors).

--A VERY wide 'Small Road' that can be upgraded to a Medium or Large road without needing to demolish the buildings placed along it. I love how you can upgrade from Medium to Large roads without changing the total width, but it would be a home run to have a Small road option with the same width.

--A larger assortment of large buildings (malls, very large stores, museums, sport fields, etc.) that were not the single-use 'Unique' buildings.

Agreed 100%

 

[FLGibson97]

• The Michigan Left

 

[Nexusdog]

--Large industrial warehouse buildings - this is what 'industry' is in most developed cities. It can be either warehouse space, or 'clean(ish)' industry (from a welding shop to making semiconductors).

--A VERY wide 'Small Road' that can be upgraded to a Medium or Large road without needing to demolish the buildings placed along it. I love how you can upgrade from Medium to Large roads without changing the total width, but it would be a home run to have a Small road option with the same width.

--A larger assortment of large buildings (malls, very large stores, museums, sport fields, etc.) that were not the single-use 'Unique' buildings.

Yeah, absolutely spot on. Warehouses & intermediate commerce - service industry needs representation as well.

 

[Nexusdog]

--Large industrial warehouse buildings - this is what 'industry' is in most developed cities. It can be either warehouse space, or 'clean(ish)' industry (from a welding shop to making semiconductors).

--A VERY wide 'Small Road' that can be upgraded to a Medium or Large road without needing to demolish the buildings placed along it. I love how you can upgrade from Medium to Large roads without changing the total width, but it would be a home run to have a Small road option with the same width.

--A larger assortment of large buildings (malls, very large stores, museums, sport fields, etc.) that were not the single-use 'Unique' buildings.

Yup, distribution centres everywhere.

 

[Matthias King]

You can find industrial parks all over that don't have a hundred smokestacks chugging black smoke out into the sky. That's why I suggested another class of RCI as 'light industry' or something to that effect. Industry that doesn't generate much noise or pollute the ground.

Industry is already underrepresented in terms of number of buildings models. And considering that the game often wants you to build a city's worth of industry, that's a shame because there are a thousand of the same building everywhere.

There needs to be a bunch of new building models added, along with the new RCI class and models to go with that.

And most importantly, warehouses. Lots of warehouses.

 

[ItalianGuy]

Emergency vehicle AI should make them completely ignore other vehicles when in emergency mode (sirens on) and pass through them. And ignore red traffic lights too.

 

[VEEEEH]

You know what I'm about to say, right? Yeah, to give and change names to streets and highways, man!