Waterfront DLC (Canals, Harbour

[Illanair]

One thing that the game really needs is neat waterfronts to combat the "shores" visuals that cities get, even deep into the city centers, if a river or canal goes through it.

A few mods like GCVos's canal "park" tiles, or Ravenz's Dock segements try to alleviate this "oversight", but they just can't do the kind of things that you'd want them to. They're still limited by being locked to roads, and demanding 90" angles to avoid any gaps.

So what am I suggesting? I want you to let us have draggable canals and waterfront tools with gameplay mechanics tied to them. Buildings would be able to be pushed out slightly onto the concrete harbour waterfronts, while keeping a "straight down" edge into the water. Canals would allow for another type of transportation, water taxis (or even a tourist charter boat for tourism)

You tried adding some rudimentary dock style buildings to After Dark, but it's just so incomplete in comparison to what I suggest.

Mod examples here.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=558375032
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=526445257
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=529291730

 

[Bendlovajager]

I belive this was suggested by many users and gamers here (including me) and I also belive CO is aware of it. But you have my thumb up for making sure, they do not forget. . TotallyMoo said very cleverly that they do not want to speak seriously about new features before they are properly assembled.

 

[Illanair]

Oh I know it has - But it still hasn't happened. So I'll keep re-suggesting it till the cows come home.

 

[Bendlovajager]

Well, the northerners were bussy with realization of their motto "Winter is coming" (and never leaving) and it is senseless to expect anything like channel wall day after the release. But, to make a komplex cannal/harbor/ferry DLC, many issues are required and I prefer the complexity before simple decorative seawall. They will work on something completely different anyway

 

[boformer]

I would really like to see this. I would suggest a few different tools:

- Sea walls and promenades which raise/flatten the terrain on one side and lower the terrain on the other side and can only be placed at coastlines

- draggable canals which work like the sea walls, but dual-sided and can only be placed on flat terrain.

 

[Bendlovajager]

I would really like to see this. I would suggest a few different tools:

- Sea walls and promenades which raise/flatten the terrain on one side and lower the terrain on the other side and can only be placed at coastlines

- draggable canals which work like the sea walls, but dual-sided and can only be placed on flat terrain.

I am beginner in programing but I am afraid, the terrain is the most tricky issue. Especially with the channel locks and so on...

 

[Simgiov]

IMO they should create 3 very similar DLCs: one for waterfront, one for parks and one for "great urban projects"... They should make you able to zone special areas in which you can directly plop things and design the urbanscape as you wish. You zone a waterfront (or a park) and you access a panel with many ploppable structures (parking lots, fountains, statues, small bars and restaurants with tables outside, paths, ponds, docks, all those things) and you can design it how you want without the limits imposed by the normal assetts editor. The same for great urban projects, instead of zoning RCIO you zone an area as an important strategic zone and you plop things and design it your own way.
Of course these things should be late game content, you would need many high quality services, great transportation options and a good city budget or these areas would fail and become urban "voids" where noone wants to go and decrease the desirability of the nearest zones.

 

[NoSkillz]

So what am I suggesting? I want you to let us have draggable canals and waterfront tools

Not just draggable waterfront stuff. In general, we need more draggables. Like the sunken highway stuff, I'd love that as a draggable. Or custom bridges as draggables.
I'd buy such a DLC in an instant.