> Kind of odd that Skylines is developed by a Finnish company and published by a Swedish one, given how US-centric that model is.
I totally agree, and maybe there has been some discussions about this in the past (I forgot about those early webcasts) - but for a company to align to the US market (probably the largest & most uniform around) is usually probably the safest bet - I still admit of being a little bit sad :|
> There's no real concept of medium-density, either
Now that you say it, I think that (a realistic - see previous posts) medium-density would be absolutely important to model european cities.
> limited to no more than 4x4 tiles
You're right but personally I don't really care about this for the time being (meaning that the other problems have for me absolute priority compared to this) - maybe they just randomly put a safe limit for their first release to avoid indirect potential complications... - I would have most probably done the same, so I won't dig into this hehe.
> I've also written elsewhere in this thread about how Skylines doesn't have a concept of class stratification
I agree.
Summarizing after all these posts & remarks, I feel sad that the studio so far developed only add-ons that do not improve the core of the simulation but only add more distractions and/or superficial complexity around it :P
(E.g. I did buy "Mass Transit" but it didn't give me the feeling that it improved the game but just gave me a few more alternatives - and actually "mass transit" is in my opinion associated to trains & metro, therefore absolutely not fitting cablecars/blimps/ferry/etc...)
But maybe.... they be working on aggregating key-improvements for their next CS2? Who knows... :)
I agree about the expansions, they have been a disappointment in general. Mass Transit was the highlight, but didn't go nearly far enough and still concentrated on the eye candy. I do understand that they try to appeal to the larger market -- people running the game as a simulation is surely a minority.
That said, it's still currently the best city sim by far. Hoping that Citybound will change that at some point :)
I totally agree, and maybe there has been some discussions about this in the past (I forgot about those early webcasts) - but for a company to align to the US market (probably the largest & most uniform around) is usually probably the safest bet - I still admit of being a little bit sad :|
> There's no real concept of medium-density, either
Now that you say it, I think that (a realistic - see previous posts) medium-density would be absolutely important to model european cities.
> limited to no more than 4x4 tiles
You're right but personally I don't really care about this for the time being (meaning that the other problems have for me absolute priority compared to this) - maybe they just randomly put a safe limit for their first release to avoid indirect potential complications... - I would have most probably done the same, so I won't dig into this hehe.
> I've also written elsewhere in this thread about how Skylines doesn't have a concept of class stratification
I agree.
Summarizing after all these posts & remarks, I feel sad that the studio so far developed only add-ons that do not improve the core of the simulation but only add more distractions and/or superficial complexity around it :P
(E.g. I did buy "Mass Transit" but it didn't give me the feeling that it improved the game but just gave me a few more alternatives - and actually "mass transit" is in my opinion associated to trains & metro, therefore absolutely not fitting cablecars/blimps/ferry/etc...)
But maybe.... they be working on aggregating key-improvements for their next CS2? Who knows... :)