The road option dream: A system that lets you customize the amount of lanes and speed of all your roads.

[klopkr]

Cities skylines 2 is coming and I think it's time to make a specific design choice to make an entire type of mod redundant.

This is the perfect opportunity to start the game off with a simple road designer. Roads in this type of game are basically a type of spline. So other than width, the lengths are inherently going to be pretty arbitrary. By letting us design our own roads the devs can focus on giving different aesthetics for the roads while we make the type of roads we need. I would also make pedestrian paths and pedestrian roads simply equivalent to a single sidewalk as a road or two sidewalks side by side.

It seems to me like it would be wise to make a road designer that works like this:

• You have a simple tool window where you can build your own road.
• The Road will automatically centre in the middle.
• On each side there would be a little + sign to select an additional lane.
• You could add a road lane, a bike lane, a bus lane, or a pedestrian lane.
• One pedestrian lane is a path, two is a pedestrian road.
• New lane options: Carpool lane, specialty lane for one specific service or bus route, local destination only lane, toll lane, even a rail lane could run perpendicular.
• You could even select non usable aesthetic lanes, medians, trees, plant pots, small canal, etc.
• Finally simply select your roads speed. Either for the whole segment or just a specific lane.

Here's a crappy drawing of how I imagine it:

I spent 3 days on it, enjoy.

 

[cityrailsaints]

Definately. I should also be able to choose no right turn roads (on LHT cities, no left turn roads for RHT cities), and better intersections. Your current intersection options are traffic lights or stop signs. There should be options for things such as round-a-bouts and give way/yield signs (the round-a-bouts that cone in game are just circular roads rather than proper round-a-bouts)

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

 

[Hyperspeed1313]

Late to the game but this is the single biggest limitation of CS1 I want to see reworked in CS2.

 

[shatter]

Imo it would be one of the biggest game changers. I don't remember how much time i spent looking for road it would match my ideas/ needs. Especially when it was about including additional features like trams or bikelines.

 

[Masternachos]

I still want prebuilt roads to pick from.
But such a tool wouldn't mean we couldn't have both, does it?

 

[Frode789]

I still want prebuilt roads to pick from.
But such a tool wouldn't mean we couldn't have both, does it?

I imagine there could be a list of the most standard roads, and this tool would be in addition. (as well as being able to save custom roads you make for future use with one click).