city service related

citizen related

city and map related

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is the next developer diary for Cities: Skylines! Today we take a look at the various info views that help you keep track of the different aspects of managing a growing metropolis.As always, if you haven't read the previous dev diaries, you can find them here http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?802652-Cities-Skylines-dev-diary-archive Cities: Skylines features 19 different info views (some info views include multiple tabs such as the different levels of education, health care and death care and so on). While there are no actual categories for the info views they can be roughly divided in three categories by their nature:City service related info views display info mainly about the functions of the different city services and their effects to the zoned buildings. These include things like electricity, garbage, education, health, fire safety and public transport. Most of these are also used when accessing the build menu for city services. This helps planning when building a new service building.For example, when the player is building a new elementary school the info view activates when the elementary school is selected in the build menu. The info view then shows the current availability of school services as well as the coverage of existing elementary schools in the city. In the info view the roads are green if there is coverage for the selected city service. If the roads are gray, there is no coverage available in that area.When zooming out the player can see city service buildings of the same category highlighted with colored light pillars.Citizen related info views display info relating to the citizens themselves such as citizen happiness, housing levels, population and so on. These info views let the player see how their actions affect the everyday life of their citizen.Tools such as traffic info view are invaluable when laying out road network and planning the different areas of the city. It shows in red the roads that are most heavily used by citizens, tourists and cargo transport.The population info view shows how the population of the whole city is divided between the different age groups. It also shows where the different major groups (families, adults and seniors) are located on the map.City and map related info views display features and effects that define the city area itself. These are pollution levels, land value, natural resources and districts. Pollution displays both ground and water pollution while sound pollution shows the effect of the road network and various zoned buildings and city service buildings (residential areas generate little to none noise pollution while commercial and especially industrial areas affect drastically to noise pollution levels).Natural resources info view points out the areas on the map where the player can find the various resources to be used in specialized industry.District info view shows all the districts that the player has created accompanied with the icons for active policies.- Henkka also known as an artist, designer and level designer at Colossal Order