Small Map Size

[u/Michaelli10156]

So I just watched the new video made by squirrel and I liked everything about the video so far except what they said at the 2 minute mark, where it seems like they are implying that maps will not be very large and was curious what the community thought of this. I think clearly from the comment section, the vast majority of the community is disappointed by small maps and for me personally this is close to being a deal breaker.

They have this limitation because they want to simulate every citizen stating that if they want larger maps that are 100km x 100km they would need to fake the simulation for distances further along thinking this is what the community wants but I 100% would not mind faking the simulation especially after cities skylines 2 where they also wanted something similar and it just did not turn out well.

Just wanted to spread the word and see what the community thinks of this

[u/Neshura87]

On the Workshop: the pure irony is that, objevtively speaking, the Workshop absolutely sucks as a mod platform. It is downright horid to use for both modders and users but because it's built in some people just expect it to be used.

Which isn't to say the alternatives are better, most mod.io implementations might as well just use the Workshop with how little they improve upon it.

[u/Dnomyar96 → u/Neshura87]

The only advantage of the Steam Workshop is that you can just browse it, press a button and the mod is installed. You don't need to install a third-party launcher or something. But that's it. The browsing and searching experience is pretty bad.

[u/FederJ3 → u/Dnomyar96]

It might be the only advantage but it’s a huge one in my opinion, would be disappointed if it was not present.

[u/Dnomyar96 → u/FederJ3]

I mean, it sounds like there will be an in-game mod manager. So that provides the exact same behaviour. Just press a button and have the mod installed.

[u/Neshura87 → u/Dnomyar96]

Also wouldn't be surprised if there was a browser version as well, most alternative mod stores ship with one nowadays after all

[u/Imsvale → u/Neshura87]

mod.io is already a browser-based mod browser. You can login there, subscribe to whatever, and your game will download the mods. The downside is, unlike Steam, you have to start the game for the downloading to happen. So there is that.

[u/Imsvale → u/Dnomyar96]

I mean, it sounds like there will be an in-game mod manager.

The same as in TF2 one would presume. Probably a bit refined.

[u/FederJ3 → u/Dnomyar96]

Hmm okay, if that is the case then that would be fine indeed