Will your 81 Tiles revamp cover Outside Connections? #4
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I'm not sure if this is relevant to your planned 81 Tiles rewrite/implementation, but assuming you also plan to handle outside connections as part of that, which would make a lot of sense, here's some notable issues that exist with current implementations...
Intercity buses enter via virtual lane on outside highway connections
Problems can occur when outside connection is not a highway, and it breaks completely if the outside connection is 2-way traffic (even on 2-way highways).
More info: CitiesSkylinesMods/TMPE#960
It's out of scope for TMPE but would definitely be in-scope for any mod handling outside connections.
Zoned roads can't be used as outside connection
User has to disable zoning on the segment used for outside connection; most users aren't aware of that, and it requires separate mod to do it.
Roads without outside connection flag don't work
Any Road Outside Connection mod fixes that by adding the flag to all roads IIRC.
Train tracks must use vanilla station track at outside connection
Vanilla tracks will automatically switch to station track at outside connection - but workshop tracks don't do that (not all workshop tracks have associated station track). Would be nice if:
- Connecting non-station track (even if non-vanilla) to outside would auto-convert to a station track (vanilla would be fine, at least the connection would work then)
- Ability for user to use any station track (including non-vanilla) as outside connection
Cims at outside connections is weird
Both for road and train, it's weird seeing cims at outside connection, especially as they seem to have collision mask enabled (that might have changed since I last checked) - can't they be put in CitizenUnit and then just transfer the CUs to car/train once it's spawned? That way there's not a pile of spawned citizens lurking at the edge of map. Might also remove need for intercity buses spawning on virtual lane (also: code for intercity buses could be applied to trains/cars at the outside connections?)
Changing aircraft outside connections = risky
It's very easy to break the aircraft AI resulting in no more aircraft spawning. It's possible that CO will fix that as part of upcoming Airports DLC?
Other random stuff
Not outside connection related, but it would be nice to have networks (and, optionally, terrain) render a bit better on non-purchased tiles similar to Common Ground mod? Most of the tiles I purchased (before discovering that mod) in 81 Tiles were to make my outside routes render better. If roads/tracks just rendered properly in first place, I wouldn't need to purchase as many tiles.