#CITIES IN MOTION 2 FREE#

The owner of company B wants to run a metro train service from place 1 to place 3 and 4, and sees that he/she would benefit from using the station and a segment of tracks owned by company A. For example: company A builds a metro train service from place 1 to place 2. This is more about multiplayer: It could improve the multiplayer gameplay if players could share stops, stations, tracks and catenaries between companies, to lower the cost of operation. (this is almost always the case in real life - a transportation company buys some old vehicles to later refurbish them or replace with brand new ones) What about having the possibility to buy used vehicles? They could have worse parameters than new ones, but would be affordable for a company that just started the business. Now, it's time for some ideas & suggestions

a transit competition between two 4-player teams in coop, or just more smaller companies in competitive mode. Would it be possible to increase the maximum player amount to 8? Would be nice for eg.

#CITIES IN MOTION 2 FREE#

with friends or random people Free Mode in GTA IV can be a quite close example.Īnyway, getting back to CiM2. There are lots of people who don't actually need competition in multiplayer, but just enjoy riding, flying, etc. would spend very much time using multiplayer. Most (and that's really most) of the people playing simulators - like train simulators, truck simulators, etc. I think this will give the game lots of potential and thank you so much for the development diarys they are really fun to read.Īnd this is the biggest mistake always made by the developers of simulators. On the other hand I can see the potential for traffic jams while you are both competing on the most popular routes so it wil be fun to see how long that lasts before one of the players decides they are losing money or the local Authorities come along and tell you to share the route as you are causing residents to complain due to buses blocking roads. I like the idea of co-op mode as it would help to keep all areas of a big city served at all times as one player could find that it is only profitable to run buses on some routes during the weekdays and Saturdays and another player could say 'Ok I will step in and cover the same routes during the evennings and sundays' for example. I'm hoping with co-op mode you can accept each others tickets so if one player is running their company and you run in the same area you could both agree to carry each others passengers by accepting each others tickets? This sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun and a nice challenge to see who can run the most profitiable network.Īm I right in thinking that in competitive mode if your competitor is running a bus route and you want to run on the same route can you share the bus stops or do you have to lay your own? We hope to see many of you having fun with the multiplayer mode once the game is out! It's a great improvement, don't you agree? Also, division by vehicle type would be interesting. The maps have many city centers, so you could assign one to each player, or have one disrupt the opponents while other build elsewhere. In team play, you work with your team through a team chat (or on a voice chat) to choose what everyone will do. The main goal in competitive mode is always to try and do better than your opponents’ company. Team play is available for both modes, and co-operative and competitive are for up to six players. You can also play with only one objective or no objectives at all, if sandbox play with friends is your thing. If you have both objectives, the game will end when either is reached. Options to choose from include a time limit, if you feel like you want to play a fast paced game, and/or a company value target. In competitive mode, you can choose the objectives using built-in sliders. Large maps with many city centers offer enough room for many players to work simultaneously.Īlong with the co-operative mode, we designed a competitive mode for players to pit their skills against one another. Building a huge network is much easier and more fun with friends. In co-op, you can play with up to three friends and all work at the same company on the same, big map.

As such, we created two types of MP modes: co-op and competitive. We felt that simulation can benefit from multiplayer, though, and wanted to make sure there would still be that “game beating” aspect included even in the multiplayer mode. Generally, multiplayer modes are not very common in simulation games, as they tend to be single player games with the goal of “beating the game”. The first CiM had no MP and many players requested it, so we put effort into making it a reality in the sequel.

One of the biggest differences between the first and second Cities in Motion is the multiplayer mode.

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