Planning Mode

[chres]

Heya,

I've been enjoying the game so far, but one of the first things I noticed is the lack of a planning mode like those found in Prison Architect or Rim World. Being able to plan out your city with a toggle-able blue print menu would be a great way to improve zoning efficiency, wasting money on building mistakes, and overall efficacy. This might just be my own anal retentiveness, but the first 10-20 mins and roughly $30,000 of every game are spent compensating for an awkward road snapping system (the on/off button doesn't seem to do anything). I've also found over-extension to be an issue since there is no way to know whether my plans are feasible without building them preemptively; ie, before the town can actually support the infrastructure.

Anyway, just a thought.

 

[Auxilium]

Ability to make blueprints of future road and road junctions would make game sooo much easier.
Some kind of toggle mode, toggle it, build road as you would, but while they are on blueprint, you can "adjust" them, as move points of road, adjust height, angle of curves.
Result price and commit button :3

 

[Tetrinity]

+1 - this would be a great help building anything more complicated than a simple grid system. I waste a lot of money trying to get overpasses and junctions between curved roads looking just so

 

[LordCrash]

Great idea

+1

 

[Chief of Staff]

+1

 

[johnabcitizen]

This would be of great help. I remember wanting this in SC4 when I was building lots of empty parks to reserve land for future uses early.

 

[Tridon]

+1

 

[gr2y]

I think it would be handy to introduce kind of Intersection Editor in game (maybe in new popup window).
A tool that will allow to virtually plan whole intersection before your press build button so you can adjust any part of intersection any time during planing phase.

- This tool shall include paths with anchor points (like in any vector editor) for better curves adjustments.
- Existing roads shall be visible on background (opacity ~50%) for better positioning and allow linking to intersection enter/exit points (when build button is pressed new intersection will replace part of the road).

link to the same suggestion at Skylines IdeaBox


ps. actually I really want the same curveness-correction-via-anchors-before-build-ability for any road as well.

 

[stunt-monkey]

+1

 

[Harle]

Just my opinion, but honestly, we would not need a special blueprint mode if we simply got fully refunded for anything built and demolished while paused. As soon as you unpause, you start losing refunds and whatnot, but while the game is paused, you could build an entire city infrastructure, demolish it entirely, and not be out a single cent.

This would be a lot easier to implement and I think would be just as useful. A whole separate blueprint mode is asking for quite a lot. Again, just my opinion.

 

[gr2y]

Just my opinion, but honestly, we would not need a special blueprint mode if we simply got fully refunded for anything built and demolished while paused. As soon as you unpause, you start losing refunds and whatnot, but while the game is paused, you could build an entire city infrastructure, demolish it entirely, and not be out a single cent.

This would be a lot easier to implement and I think would be just as useful. A whole separate blueprint mode is asking for quite a lot. Again, just my opinion.

Good spot.

In addition - an ability to move/raise(lower down)/bend* already-installed-road (in this planing mode) instead of delete/re-create shall be pretty handy.

* and I really would like ability to bend curves using paths and anchors (like in vector editor)

 

[Potoroo]

+1,000s to all the above.

 

[Urinstein]

Full refund would be a quick and elegant solution, but in the long run I'd prefer an actual blueprint mode.

In that mode you could be constructing things without pausing and that way aquire the money that you need to build it, while you build it. Especially in the start I like to build some highways for later and they cost a lot of money.
Apart from that it could also include the feature to have multiple blueprints hat you can switch between and buy seperately. That way you can build different layouts and compare them before you choose, or maybe you like to make blueprints of service buildings like water and electricity in advance so you don't have to go through their menus ever so often. Instead you just choose your corresponding blueprint click the button and there you have one water pump, sewage pipe and one wind turbine.