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I don't mean to sound rude, but have you actually played Cities: Skylines? Cities: Skylines, more than any other city simulator I've ever seen, drastically enc

I don't mean to sound rude, but have you actually played Cities: Skylines? Cities: Skylines, more than any other city simulator I've ever seen, drastically encourages public transit use. The game is made by developers that got their start designing european-style mass transit simulators - http://www.citiesinmotion2.com/ http://www.citiesinmotion2.com/ And with the exception of mixed-use zoning, everything your asking for they already have done / just finished, and heavily encourage, in the game. >In these games public transportation options are limited There's lots of public transit in the game (Busses, Trains, Subway). Each with custom tracks, bridges, tunnels, etc. And you can completely customize the exact lines and routes of busses and subways (literally down to how often each stop is hit, and in what order). There's also "unmanaged" / "privatized" mass transit (Ferries / Harbours and Airports). The simulation is exceptionally forgiving about public transit too. People will always choose to take transit, if it's even remotely competitive with driving. People will wait for buses even if they are overwhelmingly overcrowded, etc. > walkable public spaces such as pedestrian only streets and squares are not possible This has existed since day one. Click "Parks/Greenery" -> "Paths". You can place paved pedestrian-only streets, or gravel pedestrian-only paths. You can elevate them over/under roads or build pedestrian-only bridges, for instance. You could recreate nearly the entire Minneapolis walking/bicycle trail network with these tools. And the game rewards you for doing this. (Pedestrian-only walkways generate less noise than full roads do) > Bike lanes do not exist They're adding them this month (September, 2015) along with dedicated bus-only lanes - https://www.paradoxplaza.com/cities-skylines-after-dark https://www.paradoxplaza.com/cities-skylines-after-dark

Tiktaalik 11y ago
I put in about 5-8 hours into Cities: Skylines before I got distracted by something else and put it aside. Enough time to put in a pretty great small town bus system. Cities: Skylines has great transportation options, much better than Sim City, but it still has a few things it needs to add if one wanted to build modern cities using modern urbanist thinking (eg. Copenhagen). I noticed when I was playing that you could build pedestrian paths, but it seemed like they were in the context of a park path, not a pedestrian only commercial district. From some Googling it seems that this is the case, that you can't really build for example a downtown commercial core that would be pedestrian only. The bus system in Skylines is great, and I didn't play long enough to experiment with subways, but I noticed that there didn't seem to be streetcars. I've been to a lot of cities that mix pedestrian streets and street cars and it works very well. That's something I'd really like to see in the game. I'm glad to see they are adding bike lanes. They're an essential part of the transportation system. Even though I'm complaining about it, I do want to underline that Cities: Skylines is a great game and a big step forward for SimCity type games. I'm really glad Paradox is continuing to improve the game.

Tiktaalik 11y ago

I put in about 5-8 hours into Cities: Skylines before I got distracted by something else and put it aside. Enough time to put in a pretty great small town bus system. Cities: Skylines has great transportation options, much better than Sim City, but it still has a few things it needs to add if one wanted to build modern cities using modern urbanist thinking (eg. Copenhagen). I noticed when I was playing that you could build pedestrian paths, but it seemed like they were in the context of a park path, not a pedestrian only commercial district. From some Googling it seems that this is the case, that you can't really build for example a downtown commercial core that would be pedestrian only. The bus system in Skylines is great, and I didn't play long enough to experiment with subways, but I noticed that there didn't seem to be streetcars. I've been to a lot of cities that mix pedestrian streets and street cars and it works very well. That's something I'd really like to see in the game. I'm glad to see they are adding bike lanes. They're an essential part of the transportation system. Even though I'm complaining about it, I do want to underline that Cities: Skylines is a great game and a big step forward for SimCity type games. I'm really glad Paradox is continuing to improve the game.