Game feels unfinished

[emergenzy]

So, now I have my little town with 3k people, on my 2nd attempt, 5 hours into it. I spend a lot of time watching things move around. While the performance is not as bad as expected after the reviews, a few things make the game feel unfinished.

Nearly no traffic (vehicles, trucks, pedestrians). I have around 80-120 industrial companies, two large ressource extraction sites and ca. 40 shops. I rarely see anyone actually shopping, or trucks transporting resources and goods. While companies do make profit (they start to upgrade and show as "profitable" in the information overlay), there is simply no traffic. Did CO reduce traffic in order to keep performance issues low? It destroys immersion when streets are empty but buildings trade anyway.

A funny bug that surely gets adressed soon (just guessing):
Family names of people and the household names do not match. Like:
"This is the Pohl family: Laura Schwarz, Manuel Schwarz, Fiona Schwarz ..."

[-=ODIE=-]

I cant agree more with this! It feels like the game should still be in Bata... For me the game needs to have issues that i need to be able to fix... What i mean is that (lets take garbage collection) if i dont have a garbage collection facility (i cant remember the name so it will be this) then I dont want the neighbor city to come along and deal with it... am i missing something in the game to stop this from happening? I want lots of dead people I want garbage on the streets and want fire chais and all the other good stuff not for a neighbor firetruck to turn up and put out a fire...

[comralol]

They probably reduced traffic because it is broken at the core, with cars constantly changing lanes back and forth for no apparent reason. Not to mention things like all traffic standing still permanently on a given road, where only erasing the road would solve the issue.

[Bialar]

Game feels unfinished because game is unfinished

[Static_Green]

Originally posted by Bialar:

Game feels unfinished because game is unfinished

This guy get's it

[AlSemz™]

Originally posted by comralol:

They probably reduced traffic because it is broken at the core, with cars constantly changing lanes back and forth for no apparent reason. Not to mention things like all traffic standing still permanently on a given road, where only erasing the road would solve the issue.

Yea drivers cutting accross 4 lanes at the last second cuasing trafffic to back up is annoying, as well as pedestrians use crosswalks that will hold traffic up for ages. The AI around these things are really bad. like the type of thing youd exepect in the first game but not in 2024.