There are decoration variations for most of the road types from small roads with decorative grass and trees to highways with sound barriers that block some of the noise pollution from spreading. Highways are useful for connecting the different parts of a city together as well as the outside world when speed is essential and the effects of noise pollution are not an issue.

Oneway roads are a good alternative especially to basic roads and they also work as the road type for roundabouts. Medium roads and large roads can service larger amount of traffic but in turn generate more noise pollution. Small roads are the basic road type for suburbs with slower speed limit and noise pollution. The game features several categories of roads from small roads and oneway roads to large roads and highways. It can be used to upgrade a small road into a medium or large road or a small road without decorative elements into a road that has them. The road upgrade tool can be used to upgrade or downgrade roads. The straight road tool has also a 90-degree snap. The first three options give versatility to your street layout and it is quite easy to switch from one build mode to another. The road building tool features build modes for straight, curved and freeform roads as well as a road upgrading tool. Road building is straightforward in Cities: Skylines. The grid is visible while building the roads which gives the player the ability to create optimal city blocks if they so choose. When building the roads, the tool also creates the zoning grid on both sides of the road which indicates the area where zoneable buildings are built when the player uses the zoning tool.

We also wanted to give the tool more accuracy so that creating square blocks for city centers would be easy.

When we started designing the road building tool we wanted it to be as versatile as possible, aiming to recreate the possibilities of Cities in Motion 2’s road building tool. Now, put on a helmet, crawl up in a cannon and get ready to be shot into the wonderful land of Devvies! While you are taking a break from enjoying the screenshots and discussions about Cities: Skylines, you can take a look at the development processes behind the awesome game developed by us, Colossal Order and published by our friends at Paradox Interactive.

Hi guys and gals! Welcome to the exciting world of Cities: Skylines development diaries! My name is Henkka and you might remember me from such dev diaries as ” Making the levels” and ” The Map Editor” for Cities in Motion 2 and ” Tower Bridge” for Cities in Motion.

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