I’m staying away for my own good. The first game sucked waaaay too many hours out of my life!
I love me some cities skylines. Even if it’s just me making the worst-designed cities and getting mad about traffic.
Some really promising additions here. I especially like the pedestrian roads, which hopefully means we will be able to build less car-centric cities this time around. Also the roundabouts look great.
Visually it looks amazing. Love the addition of the “parallel roads” feature too, that’ll be a huge timesaver.
Parking lots
Wow. Now you can finally build realistic American cities ;)
Do most cities in America have parking lots. I feel like every city I go to the parking is hardest thing to find. Walmarts and malls being the exception.
Parking lots are absolutely everywhere. Some zones just prohibit large ones for historic reasons or otherwise (it’s possible maybe you were in one of those zones)?
Visit Nashville, TN (around Centennial Park), Orlando, FL (around the Mall at Millennia) or Jacksonville, FL (around St. John’s Town Center) and you’ll see what I mean.
All but the biggest, densest cities in USA and Canada have their centers covered in parking lots and parking structures. There’s an effort by urbanist groups to reduce the amount of land used for parking in cities. This resource shows how bad it can be:
About 20% of the land of major cities tends to be parking, and it’s a big issue because that land could be used for housing. City builders tend to ignore that because it makes cities ugly (in real life, it does too!), but if they actually modeled parking in their simulation, it would have all sorts of ripple effects that would be interesting to plan around.
