Yeah the smoke detector is one of many useless/negative policies. The amount of times a building is destroyed by fire is miniscule as long as you have even mildly sufficient numbers of fire stations and good road networks. I think I've lost about 5 buildings total in my last 10 or so maps.
Indeed, but that's true to real life for most public transport services. It's not there to make money, it's a service to ensure your city runs well and people are happy. In the game it's absolutely necessary on any big city unless you want traffic chaos. Best way to avoid that is getting people onto public transport, walking or biking.
It's another mechanic that can be modded on PC (though I don't)... but having the ability to tweak route prices should be in the base game. We can change park entry by 1 cent increments.. if I could add 5 cents to each passenger on a bus route, it would add up pretty quickly.
Yeah fire spreading comes with Natural Disasters so indeed it might make more sense there. I doubt I'll ever buy that.
Personally, I recommend the Natural Disasters DLC for the Helicopter emergency services, and the water pumping trucks (for when terrain alteration around water goes wrong!)... but yeah - everything else about it is pretty much just for sadists!
I've started using some invisible park gate assets, it preserves the more natural open space look of the parks, but you still get the income!
If you edit a road that a bus uses, and break the bus line, as long as the bus stop is not totally isolated, the bus line should fix itself. You have to be careful new junctions having the correct turns in place though. Much harder to do on a non modded game or console.
There's Basketball courts and Tennis courts already, and a skate park too, so larger pitches for ball sports would have been a no brainer, instead, it's a big jump to the varsity sports included in Campus DLC, or the Match Day DLC (which is certainly not amateur sports!).
Yeah on PS4 I bought them all except Natural Disasters eventually but Green Cities, Parklife and Industries are definitely the three I make the most use of and bought first. You'll be making use of them in every city you build.
Sometimes they complain about not enough buyers when they don’t have any more trucks to use. One way to fix that is to create some storage nearby, so that the trucks from the production facilities don’t have to travel so far. Instead it will be the trucks from the storage that will be used when the oil needs to be transported.
. Not really something you can just pick up when you have 30 minutes spare.
I don't know what you mean, I put it on for a couple of hours the other evening and I definitely stopped when I reached 16,000 population as I said to myself I would. No, wait, I stopped once my University hit level 3. Alright alright, I definitely stopped once I'd finished designing the city centre layout.Thanks for all the feedback everyone.
Picked up the second pass. Not sure when I'll have time to play it though. This game seems to be a rapid time sink and hours go by very quickly when you load it up
