I’ve heard this same argument in many other videos analyzing the videos and images we’ve gotten as of now from the new game, and I gotta say, I agree, the downtown in the videos feels completely empty and lacks life. Only in some cuts from the videos do I get to see light traffic jams, but the downtown should be completely full, and instead I only really see a few cars.
What do you guys think? Do you think this is just a matter of it being in a beta state? And maybe they turned down the amount of agents? Do you think the network in the city is so good that people just don’t seem to get stuck in traffic. Do you think this lack of traffic is being diverted to foot traffic instead, or a really good public network, thus eliminating the need for the car?
I personally believe the fact that the game got rid of pocket cars made it so that people will think twice about the amount of parking space available before they choose to drive their cars, back in C:S 1, the Traffic Manager president edition got rid of pocket cars, and unless you started placing parking spots like crazy people just wouldn’t drive their cars and the economy would colapse unless you improved the public transport.
Wasn’t the person who made the trailer city someone who is very active in the YouTube scene? I’d imagine they designed the city to minimize traffic. Also, like you said, it’s in a beta state so there may just be fewer cims. I have a hard time imagining that they release a cities skylines game and not have extensive traffic simulation.
Yeah, I believe it was two dollars twenty who made the trailer city. Imo, there could be any number of reasons why there isn’t a lot of traffic.
I’m just hoping in the next videos we will see some more traffic, I can understand we haven’t seen that much traffic as of now if the videos were already finished before they saw people were complaining/worrying about this lack of traffic, but I’m sure they can just change one of the background videos that they have while speaking, for one that shows the game with actual traffic
I think the devs probably thought having light traffic made for a better looking video.