The developer did an AMA on Reddit. I’ve collected some screenshots so you don’t have to go there:
I don’t have a Reddit anymore, otherwise I’d be over there adding my support — I blindly bought cities 2 thinking that it MUST have good alternate transportation building in the year 2023
That’s kind of a dumb move tbh
I’d really rather go there and read text than stay here and squint at images. Link?
damn. I was hoping for options to make carless cities, things like having am option or a type of walking path that will also place housing squares, something like that
You can make a city without private vehicles. There’s pedestrian roads and public transit. Early on it looks silly seeing huge parking lots on low density commercial connected to a pedestrian street.
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Are the first two screenshots the same or im having a bug?
Whoops. Here’s the missing one:
Its not just you
It’s distressing how many people are stupid enough to think this game is going to be feature complete on launch. “There isn’t a mode of transport that fits my personal opinion of how transport should be done??!??!? I’M NOT BUYING THIS!”
K. It’s published by Paradox. It will probably be under continual development like the original was for nearly a decade. Hop on whenever it looks like something you’re into. Fuck.
Yes people with different ideas on what should be a core feature of modern city management are stupid. Honestly even when CS1 came out the car-only approach felt a bit anachronistic.
If you don’t care about that, that’s fine. But being disappointed that there’s basically been no progress in this matter in the past 10 years doesn’t make people stupid.
So what features do you lose so you can have the time to develop bicycles?
Development is ALWAYS a tradeoff.
I’m a software developer, I’m well aware. I can’t look info their development schedule or budget. And as a user it’s my prerogative not to care. Either the software does what I want or it doesn’t.
In this case we’re asking the developer to consider adding a feature and letting him know we don’t consider the product feature complete without for our use case.
They are free to take the suggestion or not. No one involved here it’s acting particularly idiotically imo.
Many of us love building beautiful fantasy cities. And it suck when you can only build cities that are worse that reality. Ok. I do understand, that there is not every mode of transportation from the start. But biking and walking!?
I think, people are especially worried that it’s an afterthought. Many of the most dedicated city builder fans do want to play around with different modes of transport. It’s quite the contemporary topic in city design.
And so, yes, those folks would have probably preferred other features to be left out and rather bikes to be part of the core game.
Those folks.
Now how about the rest of your player base?
Unless I’m mistaken, aren’t the devs Scandinavian? It’s really… Really weird if they are but omitted bikes from CS2.
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