El_Chapotato

The biggest barrier to entry to this game seems to be hardware. A lot of people I know simply finds it too hard to run, and once you get to a certain population it simply becomes way too hard to run. Personally, before I got a SSD, my loading times were around 20 minutes. Don't get me wrong though, it's my favourite game, and I have spent a lot of time trying to spread the game around. Love the fact that toll booths are in the recent DLC.

Of course, I bet that you all in Colossal Order know about this. If you were to do it all over again, or if you could start C:S 2 starting now, what would you all change? What are the challenges that are currently faced?

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Petty question: buses feel inadequate. They stop every stop even if theres nobody to service and placing two routes in the same spot creates log jams. Will we perhaps expect more transit reform in the future, if so what?

If I can suggest something I would recommend something like branch lines so buses on the same route can run in two different directions.

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Edit: y'all yelling at me for playing with old hardware when I say that I already made hardware upgrades. I'm just looking out for those who don't have it. For the many not the few, etc.

Are you aware of /r/ModelUSGov (americans) and /r/cmhoc (canadians)? It's reddit political simulation and I'm pretty involved in both (I'm the head mod of the canadian version).

It does seem like we are way more relaxed than your simulation though.

Understandable, but it still seems to exclude a ton of the people running slightly outdated hardware.

What about the in game lag due to high populations?

Yeah, I'm lucky my laptop has a somewhat beefy cpu so I can run a fairly sized population, but before I did a bit of hardware upgrading (new stick of ram, new ssd, thank you crucial) it was a game of sacrifices and persistence. Long loading times, ram usage and general slowness means that I had to shut down as many applications as I can.

While I'm glad I made the upgrades (miracle for my laptop), it sucks that I basically had to do it so that the game becomes more playable.

Back when I was the chair of the democratic party of the modelusgov sim I moved the discord server to Russia. Does that count?