planting trees

[vannquish 0]

is it possible to plant trees in single player mode?

it looks like I have a tree feature icon in the bottom left build menu but its greyed out.

can anyone shed any light on this?

[Androv 6]

Future capability, not present currently as far as I know

[Psycho_Teddy 25]

The option is in the menu tree but has yet to be populated. Same thing with mass transit. I'm 100% certain this will be in a content pack soon.

[JanYpe 17]

I believe they forgot to order the saplings, so the trees will be along later.

[jasonirma 0]

Individual flora are not yet possible--true enough. You'll have settle for "tiling" parks of trees using the tile fill option...I'm not thrilled with the fact that it will only fill in tiles that are bound by roads on all sides AND are a small enough area that the tile "accepts" the park (otherwise, the area is consider "unbound" by roads and therefore "unfillable". Hopefully the flora (and fauna) appear soon .

[Rakeesh 0]

There's a trick to have huge open tiling parks.  Just divide the larger area with cheap roads, fill in the smaller portions, then delete one road at a time.  You can fill in the gaps left by the roads without problem as long as they're not too long as the system recognizes the other parks are boundaries. 

[muttoneer 0]

The flood fill parks are ok for now, but to make a truly eyecatching city a variety of tall trees, colourful shrubbery, water features etc will be needed. However this is eyecandy and I'm happy to wait for this until after the more important issues like mass transit are delivered.

On a related note, when building parks I would love to see paths and cycleways included as an option, which would be able to take commuter traffic. Imagine being able to design your own green areas between blocks, with your choice of trees, a bandstand maybe, and some nice cyclepaths taking all your fitness-conscious citizens to their place of work. This is where I would love to see this game end up, but for now the flood fill grassland will do fine

[site400 12]

I asked MC via their facebook page what was up with the trees. There reply was:

"This feature isn't implemented yet as we are looking at some technical difficulties to ensure the game keeps a good framerate no matter how many trees the player adds to his city. As you probably saw in the game, the trees are highly detailed and we have to find out how we can allow you to build forests without bringing down your rendering speed "

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]