Turning Lanes and Traffic Signal Controls in Base Game

[Jason]

The importance of the Traffic Manager: Presidents Edition to CS 1 had a huge impact to the playability of the game itself, that I believe this should be incorporated into the base game of CS2. I've understand that modders have been working hard to try and get a similar mod to work in CS2, but is taking a lot of time due to the complexity of the CS2 code. Using the work-around versions that are available are ok, but they just don't provide the same functions from the CS1 version, and I would argue that traffic management is a large part of the gaming experience of CS2. The variety of options in TM:PE is what made it versatile for traffic management, the priority signage and lane controls helping small population areas, and signal timing for the 8-lane monstrosity intersections. These functions contributed so much to the richness of the game experience that not having them is quite a let-down, and I would hope that the developers see this and consider adding this functionality to the game. I believe doing so would elevate the game well above it's current state and at the same time it may win back a few of the early users from the release period. Hopefully this message hits with some others out there that would like to see this kind of thing.

Cheers.

[Keldysh]

Well, mods added a lot of features to CS1 that became indispensable to me. TM:PE is one of them. I consider these mods that important that I don't believe any serious city creator has played without them.

For me it is a huge disappointment that no even the most basic mods have been included to the game. I mean why is 'Move it' not a standard feature of the game!? Street building has been greatly improved, but it is still a big problem that you cannot set up lanes like in TM:PE. The base game is not doing a good job here at all. Also we need to set up phases for traffic lights an stuff.

And why is an Anarchy setting not in the game? I know and use devmode, but this should not be hidden behind complicated UI that you need to enable via command line. Why is there even a mod necessary!? Why can we not choose zoning settings!?

All the modders are cool and I am thankfull to them. But for sure the game would run more stable if not every player would need to add those basic funtionalities with third party software.