So just currently watching the stream, so i will edit this as i finish the stream..
so they said during the stream they have mods on, yet they did not use the essential ones(terraforming, move it, find it, road anarchy/fine road tools) to make their presentation “smoother”
so it seems that painting the airport area gives you a free terraform, albeit flat area only.. not useful for pc modded games, but a big for console users …
so its cool they added some kind of “network fences/walls” and apply it to a building and you can shape it to almost anything you want; very cool feature and I can’t wait for the modding community to come up with new ideas for this(like network apartments, offices, malls, etc)
this “network” buildings and airport stands means you can shape your airport to anyway you want; again this is cool for console folks to be able to design fancy airports on nearly the same level as pc modded airports..
its cool that the taxi roads automatically draw those airport lines, which means lesser assets to sub..
also nice cool new airplane designs; and again pc users has access to alot of these custom assets, so not likely a plus for them, but for consoles this is a huge plus
Haven’t gotten home to watch this yet but when you say a ‘free terraform albeit flat’ are you implying I could as a console player just paint this district over an entire tile or all 9 and it would flatten the entire map ? Cause I’ve got few pet project saves where I’ve tediously had to do this with the terraform tools so if I could use this dlc’s features to near instantly do this for me the next time I want to do this it might end up being my most used feature of the dlc.
possibly you can... that's what i've seen when she was painting the area she wants her airport.. didn't saw the terraform ui add new dirt or remove.. though i would not be surprised if they change this to have some more limitations..
You were correct it seems in the assumption this land flattening feature wouldn’t be as strait forward as we initially thought.
The dev diary mentions it will affect soil and have a cost.
“It flattens the ground and removes trees in preparation for your airport, adding a landscaping cost and affecting the amount of soil available to you.”
Which I guess is irrelevant if you play with the unlimited soil feature turned on. Money is easy to make in game so the cost of it is mostly irrelevant too as long as it stays inline with normal terraforming costs, but again playing with the unlimited cash feature makes this point moot again.
Overall, I didn’t think I was going to be too keen on an airport dlc, I rarely use them at all in my projects but I’m getting drawn into liking this one more and more with each update and bit of info that gets out
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u/L1teEmUp Jan 11 '22 edited Jan 11 '22
So just currently watching the stream, so i will edit this as i finish the stream..