Idea title:

Free-form Parks and Recreation

Current system:

Opinion:

Proposed system:

Customisable elements: surface types (grass, concrete, granite, marble?) ploppable props and objects (carparks, trees, benches, flower shrubs, fountains, playgrounds, basketball and futsal courts?) budget (manage individual parks' budgets instead of city-wide, but still keep city-wide option in)

You have control over customisable elements in-game, not just the asset editor.

"Leisure" is determined by park size (surface area) and customisable elements.

Opinion:

Final opinion:

(Almost) identical to SimCity'13. Plop park. Park provides "leisure" to area based on proximity and road network. Larger/more expensive parks = more "leisure".Ploppable buildings are a staple of city-builders and C:SL is no exception. Fire stations, wind turbines and train stations feel right to be plopped. Plopping parks do not feel right to me. It hinders my designing ideas when every "Plaza with trees" needs to be on a perfectly straight section of a road and takes an exact 5x5 grid space. Let's overhaul and improve this.Park zones. Zoning, painting and filling tools for parks. Park zones are free-form. Park zones come in any shape and size.Why I think this will be a major improvement:Source: Reddit post here and here Those parks in those albums are just the beginning. Those players had to improvise with the (limited) tools we have right now, and for all their efforts, some of those parks are purely aesthetic and not functional (in the first album).With free-form parks and recreation, you can surround a museum with large plazas where Cims will spend time at before or after their museum visit.You can surround your University with botanical gardens on one side and outdoor sports facilities on another, and watch the students hang out at these places right before or after their classes. This will be excellent to fuse with a modular University feature (adding dorms, school buildings) and we can then create our own extensive University campuses that span over large areas.