Player Vs CPU

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Ever played Transport Giant or other transportation/city based games that implement the power of player vs CPU, well isn't Cities in Motion just missing that?
Wouldn't it be great to play against specially programmed CPUs that build their own routes and choose vehicles accordingly to suit them as you do. Then you can see the reputation and value, stats etc of each others' company as you battle it out to become the envy of the city's transportation company.

Just quickly typed this, but I hope it convinces you to the point that Cities in Motion needs some real competitiveness. Sorry if this has already been declined by the developers, I never knew.

Will there ever be multiplayer?

 

[giladteller]

I played against the CPU in Transport Tycoon and Locomotion. The CPU wasn't a real competition, it was just annoying. Didn't like it at all.
In a city transport game, competition isn't realistic. In most places all city transport is operated by one company (usually owned by the goverment or local authority). Sometimes, it is run by private companies, but each private company can only operate in specific places and is not allowed to compete against other companies on specific lines.

 

[douglasrac]

I would enjoy the competition, the problem is that as Gilad said they are never real competition.
In most or all games, AI competition run in red because they can't even do the basic. They have artificial economy and advantages just to be there making horrible decisions. In the late game they usually can't keep up and goes bankrupt.
To have a bad competition I prefer to have no competition. But as AI gets better and better with time, in the future would be nice. Some say that SC2 has AI as good as a human player. Still you can tell when is AI when is human and several things can be done to trick the AI, but its indeed a huge improvement from other games.

 

[Drag0nflamez]

I played against the CPU in Transport Tycoon and Locomotion. The CPU wasn't a real competition, it was just annoying. Didn't like it at all.
In a city transport game, competition isn't realistic. In most places all city transport is operated by one company (usually owned by the goverment or local authority). Sometimes, it is run by private companies, but each private company can only operate in specific places and is not allowed to compete against other companies on specific lines.

Try OpenTTD's AI system.

AI's in city transportation games wouldn't work, and are very unrealistic. Multiplayer might work if 2 people were to share one company, for instance.

 

[City Builder]

Yes, I'd enjoy competing against the CPU AI if it was decent AI. It would be much more interesting than having the only transport company in the whole city, especially in very large cities. But the CPU AI would have to be pretty good for me to enjoy it, and not always be passive, would have to really try to compete with my company to get the city contracts.