Extended Road UpgradeĪ recent update added the ability to upgrade between one-way and two-way roads without having to bulldoze, but the Extended Road Upgrade mod, which did it first, is still worth checking out. The Extended Public Transport UI makes it much, much easier, with better, toggled views of individual bus, metro, and train lines.

Extended Public Transport UIĪs your city grows, keeping track of your public transportation network can be tricky. If that’s a little too gross, you can try the Fire Spread mod, which lets fires jump from building to building, perfect for putting your fire department to the test. Dams, for example, can be used (or misused) to bury your city in poo. While Skylines doesn’t officially provide city-busting disasters, there are a few things you can do to unleash hell on your populace. It’s still in beta, but it’s a promising tool for helping you understand and untangle troublesome traffic snarls. Click an individual vehicle, and it’ll show you its entire path, from start to destination. Click a building and it shows you the paths of all vehicles headed to or leaving it. Click a road and it’ll show you the path of every vehicle using it, or en route to it. It’s easy to spot traffic problems, but harder to understand and solve them. It’s not just for those who want to fill every square inch of map with buildings, but also for those who perhaps purchased a new tile and wound up only using a small fraction of it, or maybe decided further down the line to sprawl their city in an entirely different direction than they originally planned. Skylines lets you build on 9 of the map’s 25 available tiles, but we wouldn’t be PC gamers if we didn’t want access to all of them.

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