General / Off-Topic Planet City

[CoasterTycooner]

I would love to see a city builder game called Planet City, Planet Skyscraper, or something along those lines. I have many ideas for it and think it would be awesome! [yesnod] [squeeeeee]

What do you think? [happy]

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

What do you think could be done to push that genre further than Cities: Skylines?

 

[Abletudu]

How about a City environment with a full blown theme park, zoo, and water park all in one?

 

[Restless Bohemian]

There might be a way to have your themepark connected to a city - that would be an advantage Cities:Skylines doesn't do well at the moment. I think it would be cool if in addition to expansion packs, you could have full on stand alone ad on games. Planet ZOO. Planet City. Planet Resort ect.

 

[Abletudu]

There might be a way to have your themepark connected to a city - that would be an advantage Cities:Skylines doesn't do well at the moment. I think it would be cool if in addition to expansion packs, you could have full on stand alone ad on games. Planet ZOO. Planet City. Planet Resort ect.

How about Planet Planet? [big grin]

 

[CoasterTycooner]

What do you think could be done to push that genre further than Cities: Skylines?

Although city skylines is a good game, it heavily relies on mods. Planet Coaster can implement some mod ideas into there game.
They could improve on aspects of the game such as building pipes.
They could add things like a custom road builder on top of the normal preset roads.
THEY COULD ADD SEASONS! [squeeeeee]
They could INTEGRATE IT WITH PLANET COASTER as others have said! Plus other titles they make.
Plus more! [squeeeeee][yesnod]

There might be a way to have your themepark connected to a city - that would be an advantage Cities:Skylines doesn't do well at the moment. I think it would be cool if in addition to expansion packs, you could have full on stand alone ad on games. Planet ZOO. Planet City. Planet Resort ect.

I completely agree! [squeeeeee]

 

[Scott1]

Although city skylines is a good game, it heavily relies on mods. Planet Coaster can implement some mod ideas into there game.
They could improve on aspects of the game such as building pipes.
They could add things like a custom road builder on top of the normal preset roads.
THEY COULD ADD SEASONS! [squeeeeee]
They could INTEGRATE IT WITH PLANET COASTER as others have said! Plus other titles they make.
Plus more! [squeeeeee][yesnod]





I completely agree! [squeeeeee]

How would they integrate it with planet coaster? A zoo game integration makes perfect sense, but I feel like integrating PC with Planet City would just be for the sake of doing it, without really adding anything to the experience. Both games are computer intensive, and it just wouldn't work I don't think

 

[CoasterTycooner]

How would they integrate it with planet coaster? A zoo game integration makes perfect sense, but I feel like integrating PC with Planet City would just be for the sake of doing it, without really adding anything to the experience. Both games are computer intensive, and it just wouldn't work I don't think

Maybe you can place your parks in the city?

 

[Minnion]

What do you think could be done to push that genre further than Cities: Skylines?

Adapting the blueprint creation and Piece by Piece building system and guest designs into a City Builder? Imagine the creative freedom of Planet Coaster applied to creating architecture for your city... Though I wonder if modern computing tech would be powerful enough to handle such an integration... We might have to wait until Quantum processing becomes a thing... (Assuming that we don't end up having to worry about a computer virus triggering a localized resonance cascade... That would be freaky bad.)

 

[Empo]

What do you think could be done to push that genre further than Cities: Skylines?

Realistic traffic. If SimCity4 could do it, why not Skylines? The whole traffic system in that game is complete garbage and hurts the simulation and feeling of making a realistic city.

 

[Abletudu]

How about Planet Planet? [big grin]

 

[coencoensmeets]

Frontier has bought the domain Planet Zoo. So probably Planet Cities or something like that is never coming otherwise they had bought that. [rolleyes]

 

[Helena]

Planet People! Sims.

 

[LeglessBloke]

What do you think could be done to push that genre further than Cities: Skylines?

I like Cities Skylines but it did fall short in some areas in my opinion. The management side of the game was really weak, especially if you never used mods. Things like crime and healthcare just felt like after thoughts in the game to be honest, you place a couple of police stations and forget the problem existed.

As much as SimCity 2013 was hated, it did have a few excellent ideas in that game that I absolutely loved. The city specializations were a dream come true for me. Starting off as a mining town, exhausting the resources and then using the wealth to make a tourism hot spot was fantastic. It helped a city tell a story in some ways. Being able to customise the public services (police, education, healthcare etc) was a great idea as it felt like managing those services was more than just plopping a building down and forgetting about it. You also had to manage what services were appropriate for the area you were placing them in. I loved that placing utilities had consequences for both the city and the wider region with air pollution, water pollution, and the water table etc all being things you had to be mindful of.

The problem with Cities Skylines for me is it feels more like a city painter than a classic city management game that SimCity was. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying SimCity is perfect, I acknowledge it was far from being perfect, it had a lot of flaws some which have effectively ended the series but then Skylines for me is far from perfect for similar reasons. I'd love Frontier to tackle a City game (cannot see it happening mind, it's just fun to dream [praise]) as I think a marriage of the good stuff from SimCity and Cities Skylines would make for an absolutely fantastic game that indeed could take the genre forward! I can only imagine what a city builder with the specializations/management of SimCity and the scale and mod-ability of Skylines would be like. I'd never need to leave my house again if such a game came into existence hehe [up]

Still, if Frontier want a suggestions for a game, Then *Drum Roll* Planet Medical! A modern take on Theme Hospital would go down rather well at my table! [haha]

 

[danplayer01]

I like Cities Skylines but it did fall short in some areas in my opinion. The management side of the game was really weak, especially if you never used mods. Things like crime and healthcare just felt like after thoughts in the game to be honest, you place a couple of police stations and forget the problem existed.

As much as SimCity 2013 was hated, it did have a few excellent ideas in that game that I absolutely loved. The city specializations were a dream come true for me. Starting off as a mining town, exhausting the resources and then using the wealth to make a tourism hot spot was fantastic. It helped a city tell a story in some ways. Being able to customise the public services (police, education, healthcare etc) was a great idea as it felt like managing those services was more than just plopping a building down and forgetting about it. You also had to manage what services were appropriate for the area you were placing them in. I loved that placing utilities had consequences for both the city and the wider region with air pollution, water pollution, and the water table etc all being things you had to be mindful of.

The problem with Cities Skylines for me is it feels more like a city painter than a classic city management game that SimCity was. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying SimCity is perfect, I acknowledge it was far from being perfect, it had a lot of flaws some which have effectively ended the series but then Skylines for me is far from perfect for similar reasons. I'd love Frontier to tackle a City game (cannot see it happening mind, it's just fun to dream [praise]) as I think a marriage of the good stuff from SimCity and Cities Skylines would make for an absolutely fantastic game that indeed could take the genre forward! I can only imagine what a city builder with the specializations/management of SimCity and the scale and mod-ability of Skylines would be like. I'd never need to leave my house again if such a game came into existence hehe [up]

Still, if Frontier want a suggestions for a game, Then *Drum Roll* Planet Medical! A modern take on Theme Hospital would go down rather well at my table! [haha]

YES! A modern Theme Hospital is needed@

 

[Crowdpleaser]

Still, if Frontier want a suggestions for a game, Then *Drum Roll* Planet Medical! A modern take on Theme Hospital would go down rather well at my table! [haha]

May i suggest you open a dedicated Thread about this? I'm bursting with Ideas (Given that i work in a Hospital )

 

[David T-Rex]

YES! A modern Theme Hospital is needed@

This... So much this! needs to have the same sense of humor. but THIS!

 

[Scott1]

Maybe you can place your parks in the city?

Yes, but think of the power required for both city simulation and park simulation games, and also the attention required to operate both. To combine them would crash computers and proper attention wouldn't be able to be applied to either. It just feels to me like it would be combining the two games just for the sake of doing it, with results that ruin both games.

I would, however, love it if they made a separate city simulation game. I can imagine Frontier would do a fantastic job of it, and I've always loved those games!

 

[Helena]

Having a park in city simulator needs the park to be "dumbed down" considerably.

Of course it would be fun if Frontier made a Planet City/Planet but I think it is too close home for Cities Skylines. Hmm. (?) But maybe 5 years in future.

But I think people made suggestions here that would work better. I loved the Sim genre so I would love to se a revival of it. With the key being "well-made, well balanced, great depth". I am SO tired of mobile game type that is more common nowadays. Where you would grind, click click click ,then whoops your 20 clicks are gone today, please come back, and do not forget come in 20 minutes to click on this thing, then 3 hours for that thing, hunt exchange stuff that you can get if you pay real money if no real money too bad maybe try every day for 3 weeks to get it.. repeat, rinse.. nothing fun at all. I like games that can run on its own and you can watch it evolve. RCT/Planet Coaster is a good example of such game.

 

[Empo]

Having a park in city simulator needs the park to be "dumbed down" considerably.

Of course it would be fun if Frontier made a Planet City/Planet but I think it is too close home for Cities Skylines. Hmm. (?) But maybe 5 years in future.

But I think people made suggestions here that would work better. I loved the Sim genre so I would love to se a revival of it. With the key being "well-made, well balanced, great depth". I am SO tired of mobile game type that is more common nowadays. Where you would grind, click click click ,then whoops your 20 clicks are gone today, please come back, and do not forget come in 20 minutes to click on this thing, then 3 hours for that thing, hunt exchange stuff that you can get if you pay real money if no real money too bad maybe try every day for 3 weeks to get it.. repeat, rinse.. nothing fun at all. I like games that can run on its own and you can watch it evolve. RCT/Planet Coaster is a good example of such game.

I very much doubt that Skylines can be close to SimCity4 with the way it handles some things. I understand that the limitation and... quirks.... stem from the fact it was made by 13 people, which is an awesome feat in of itself. However, Skylines comes not even close to the depth of SimCity4! Hence why I think that anyone who wants to give this a genuine shot at this could have a chance and dethrone Skylines as City Sim of the current generation.