We're still a small team, so it's baby steps. We're putting all our effort into the modding tools and the core features, and hoping that in the future we get to expand from that. There's still a lot of work to be done on that, this is requiring a lot of hours for the balancing and testing! Low density residential is for families, they appreciate certain services but as they get older, they start to want healthcare and similar services. It comes down to which area are you favouring. How you'd get money from tourists would be if the high-density commercial areas are doing well, they are more willing to spend. For a tourist economy, it's about making your city attractive, increasing the land value, making sure the public transport works so that people can come in. It might not be making the people who live there extremely happy, but on the other hand they're still working there. Let's say you're building a city like Abu Dhabi, if their are oil resources on the map, you get a nice income if you favour the oil industry. How you play determines what people are willing to pay in taxes. But at least the traffic parts, which can usually be very, very difficult, we had covered!Д¬ity builders live or die on how players can manage the economy - how will that work in Skylines? Adding all the city services in here is a big task to make it well balanced. We had more flexible, not grid-based maps for world building. We'd already transitioned to bigger maps than the first CiM. They are pretty much taken from Cities in Motion 2. You don't have to go deep into those districts and policies, you'd be fine just building the city as you go.Д«asically, we already had the map size and the road building tool. If you're the kind of player that just wants to build, that's also possible. For instance, if you have a low density residential area with elementary schools, families are going to move in and be happy there, so you maybe have different policies than in the city centre. The citizens age and the city evolves as you build, giving you a constant challenge that you need to optimise to their needs.

You can also budget each of the city services, for example if you have a lot of tourists coming in, you might want to make the buses run more frequently. You can limit water or power usage, if you want to save energy or fresh water. You get to set those either globally, or to each district the gameplay. The reason you might want to do this is that we have city policies. Because the city can be really, really big, so we wanted you to have the option to name certain districts.

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