I also liked the concept of customizing the functionality of some buildings. I really liked how SimCity would allow you to add additional classrooms to your schools if the building reached capacity, rather than have to build a whole new school. This also applies to other services like clinics, fire stations, universities, garbage dumps, cemeteries, and so forth. I like that the game requires that you build more infrastructure in order to keep up with population growth, but I wish that you could push the existing buildings a bit further before having to build whole new ones. Having to build new schools every four or five blocks can become tedious in Skylines, especially when the city starts to cross into being a metropolis. Skylines allows you much more space to just keep copy-pasting the same schools and garbage dumps every few blocks. SimCity's limited size means you can't afford to build whole new buildings and must make due with what you have. So the game that puts a premium on real estate availability encourages you to leave empty space around certain buildings. It's a bit ironic that SimCity, with its ridiculously limited city size, is the game that allows you to add additional components to existing buildings that makes them take up more physical space yet, Skylines, with its expandable city plots, uses only prefab buildings of set sizes. The one thing I miss from SimCity (2013): Modular buildingsĪs much as I love Cities: Skylines, and as much as I think it blows the SimCity reboot out of the water, there is one mechanic of SimCity that I absolutely love, and that occasionally makes me want to go back to SimCity: building upgrades.
In any case, there's no reason why ideas already implemented in mods can't also be turned into formal game systems by the developers. I haven't played much with mods in this game yet, so I don't know what might be available.
It should go without saying that, since this is a PC game (with a built-in asset creator), many (if not all) of the following suggestions might already be implemented in one or more mods. I hope (and expect) that Colossal Order will continue to support the game for many years to come with new DLC and expansions, and this blog will outline some of the features, mechanics, and items that I would like to see changed or added to the game. I love Skylines, but there are a lot of elements of the game that I wish would change, and a few things that I would like to see added. I've been playing the somewhat-underwhelming After Dark expansion for Cities: Skylines.