The legacy airports still exist in the game, and so they feel mostly redundant. Legacy airport ploppables feel completely obsolete. You have to tear the whole thing down and build a new one, which will also probably require redoing all the taxi paths as well. Airports also cannot de-level (like universities could) if you fail to maintain its attractiveness, and since total passenger count is something that can never decrease the way that a university's student attendance can decline - or the way that weekly passenger count could potentially decrease.Īnd when it does come time to level up your airport, you can't simply extend the runway. Leveling them up feels much simpler and requires less effort and management from the player. The amount of students is capped by the size of the school, and the research projects are semi-randomly created based on the funding levels and access to research facilities.Īirports aren't like that. This is one of the things that the Campus expansion did a bit better than the others, since the universities level up based on the current number of students (rather than the cumulative total of all students who have ever attended the university) and the number of research projects. This is a much better metric of the capacity of a park, industry, or airport. Instead, I wish these areas would level up based on the weekly visitors (or good produced, for industries), rather than the cumulative total. Because of that, it can be easy for an airport to jump out ahead in total visitors, such that the area can be leveled up immediately, and at any time, by simply placing new structures that bring the attractiveness up above the required threshold.Īirports level up based on the total passengers, which can be easily increased by simply waiting. This is something that is easy to achieve by simply waiting in-game months or years for the number to go up, regardless of the size or quality of the park, industry, or airport. I've also never liked how the park areas (and now the airport areas) level up by increasing the total visitors, and industries level up based on the total goods produced. Even the air traffic control tower is a purely decorative object, rather than being necessary for the airport to work! In the case of airports, these include the various hangars, parked planes, and so forth. Of course, Airports suffers from the same problems that have plagued the previous expansions that used the leveled-areas concept.Ī lot of the modular components are simply decorative and have no function other than to increase the area's abstract "attractiveness".
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Unfortunately, there's not nearly as much expressiveness as what we were offered by Parklife.Īirports come in different styles, and are customizable (parking lots and garage are mod assets).
The airports are massive and expensive, but they can be shaped to fit into irregular spaces in or around your city. They are functionally the same, so don't fill different roles the way that different parks, industries, or university types did in their respective expansions. There are 3 styles of airports: a retro-style, a modern style, and an "ultra-modern" style.
The modular nature of the airport buildings, taxi paths, and runways provides quite a bit of customization. Campus, ironically, did not teach Colossal Order any lessons A lot of the same compliments and criticisms that were already applied to Parklife, Industries, and Campus also apply here. As such, I don't know that I really have much to say about Airports. The Airports expansion is yet another expansion pack using the area-painting mechanic that was introduced in the Parklife expansion in 2018, then re-used in Industries and Campus in the subsequent years. But that is not the case, as a new expansion was finally released at the end of January 2022. I had assumed that Cities: Skylines was done, and that Sunset Harbor would be the final expansion for the game. I'm not sure if this is the result of Colossal Order shutting down its studio temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic, or if they have just been busy working on a sequel.
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Sunset Harbor released in March of 2020, and there hasn't been any full expansion since then. ( < indicates platform I played for review)Ĭities Skylines base game rated E (for Everybody)Īfter releasing 2 full expansions every year since the launch of Cities: Skylines, expansions seemed to dry up after 2020. Airports level based on total passenger count.
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