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A few points: 1. CS is an indie game built by a very small team who could not predict where it would go, and is now 8 years old on a very strained engine. The base game has severe limitations which could not be overcome without fundamentally rebuilding the core mechanics—not something you can just do with patches. It needs a sequel, the community has been clamouring for a sequel, and now we're getting a sequel. 2. The meat-and-potatoes expansion packs (*8* years of slowly accumulated content remember) make up less than half the combined cost of DLC and go on sale all the time, along with the base game. They're nowhere near as predatory as the likes of EA. Supporting a game for almost a decade, adding features, expanding the dev team, and working on a second game behind the scenes is not free. See point 1 for why the base game is feature limited, and at least wait for CS2 to see if they pull a Sims and make you pay for everything again, bearing in mind that dynamic seasons and disasters are all but confirmed already. 3. Switching engines completely would not be a good move. Their entire team is made up of Unity devs and that skill does not just carry over. Switching to Unreal would mean throwing away everything they've learned in the development of CS1, would be way more resource-intensive for the company, and open the door for new mistakes and unforseen problems to make it in and put CS2 in the same boat as CS1. Building a bespoke engine is simply not within the scope of a company the size of CO. All the while, newer versions of Unity are perfectly capable of solving the problems CS1 has. Is it ideal? No, but it makes practical sense and doesn't at all mean CS2 will have the same technical limitations. Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly frustrated with CS1 by this point. It has really big problems and misses the mark on a lot of what made SC4 great. But we should at least understand why and give the sequel a chance to make up for it before we start going so hard on it. CO has been good at listening to feedback, hired a bunch of modders, etc. They were openly disappointed when they couldn't add seasons despite trying, and now the sequel will have them. This is not a company that doesn't care/isn't trying. I just say give them a chance and judge CS2 on its merits once we see it.

The death of Stephen Hawking affected me more than I expected. I've never really been upset by the death of a public figure, but now I know what it feels like. Definitely one of the greatest minds in history.

I am digusting.

I was bored, so I decided to finally get this idea out of my head. It's partially inspired by Transport Fever, specifically the way it handles train trancks. In that game, tracks are laid one at a time, with new tracks snapping to adjacent ones. I thought, why not do the same with lanes of a road? So here's what I ended up with. Note that I have no experience with game design or programming whatsoever so I have no idea if any of this is even technically feasable, it's just something that would exist in my perfect city-builder. I'd love to hear any comments or questions, and let me know if there's anything I'm missing! You may have to right click --> view image if the text is too small.

Thanks for the feedback! @Eggman121 I haven't played SC4 in ages (I just dug through my computer and found NAM 32 installed if that gives you any idea) so it's interesting to hear that similar ideas are being worked on.

My most recent highway exit. I've since added the rest of the roundabout exits and modified the surrounding road network to fit more nicely around it (the original grid layout came before the highway was built). I didn't bother fussing with merge lanes since the highway is at about a 10-12 degree incline in order to gain enough height for ships to pass under the suspension bridge just off-screen, and jagged slopes upset me. The second image is a rendering of how the whole junction exists in my head with my own set of traffic laws. I'll post more images of the completed area when I get home in a few days.

Did a bit of light off-roading over the weekend.

I've been making license plates like these for years for my cities or otherwise and have always wondered if anyone else did. Here's finding out! These are for my make-believe island nation, Koher'nosoe. The top left can either be the national flag or national crest (a stylised eagle which I was too lazy to make), the bottom left is a city identifier (in this case Sekía), the top right is the year of registration (this stays with the car for the rest of its life, regardless of owner), and, finally, the bottom right is a sticker showing the driver's license class ('8' means 'new driver,' like me IRL). Made in Inkscape.

I have another, this time just a portrait. EDIT: Yikes, the whites of his eyes are almost black. Wonder how that happened... EDIT 2: Oh I see, they were technically transparent so when I painted in the grey background on a lower layer, it showed through. It's fixed now, along with a few other details.

Exactly one month later, here's another drawing. Hopefully I successfully captured the mood I was going for! This is more in-line with what the novel will probably look like, and I would love to hear any criticisms you may have.

Here's something I did a few months ago that turned out better than I expected: This is Finn (well, some of him), the main character in a graphic novel I'm writing. I have some more drawings (or paintings; whatever you want to call them) in the works that I may post here, so expect to see more of him. It's an adventure story set in a fictional world where Finn (and friends, probably) set out to uncover a lost, highly advanced civilisation. It'll more-or-less be a situation where there's a new theory as to the origins of society and intelligent life and this ancient race holds the answer, but there's a group who's interests are more in line with the status-quo trying to get there first. Maybe they want the race's technology for nefarious purposes as well. I'm not that far into it yet, as you can probably tell. Anyway, better stop before this becomes an essay. By the way, I don't consider myself a "furry," I just like anthropomorphic animals from an artistic standpoint. Not that I have anything against furries or expected to get hate from this particular forum (the BeamNG forums had a bit of a fiasco recently), I just thought I'd mention it since it's an often misconstrued subject.

I agree with everything you said. I can't say Trump didn't win fairly and that he has no right to office, and in that sense I disagree with the protesters. It is worth noting though, that the greatest war and mass genocide in history were caused by a legitimately elected leader. It's hard not to see the frightening parallels between this election and that one. My qualm is with the people who say they have no right to protest at all; that they are entitled and naive for even trying to stand up for what they believe in. I think they also deserve immense credit for remaining as non-violent as they have. I can't say I would be able to give anti-Clinton protesters the same credit if she had won, if the contents of that Twitter page are any indication.

I'm upset that people are calling the protesters SJW crybabies. Our generation is criticised for being lazy and politically inactive, then when we do take to the streets in non-violent protest against something we care about, those same people call us entitled brats who just don't understand the system. They protested Johnson and Nixon and say we could never do what they did, then we protest Trump and they still find ways to insult and criticise us. It's a double standard that disgusts me.

Hi, I'm trying to reskin the Toyota Comfort taxi mod by kazuma76 (just for personal use) but I'm having problems. It looks fine in the asset editor but when it spawns in-game, it has a weird green hue and the lights illuminate half the car instead of just the light (you can see both in the night shot attached). Anyone know what I need to do? I've gone through every tutorial I can find and Google doesn't have the answer either. I've never modded C:S before and I'm surprised I've made it this far I've attached all the files including the original diffuse map (blue stripe) if you want to take a look. Right now I'm just using the diffuse and specular maps but when I got the files from the game using ModTools, it also gave me the green and purple files labeled "aci" and "xyz," respectively. I would guess these are what's causing my problems but I don't know what kind of maps they are or what they're for, and giving them different suffixes doesn't seem to change anything. Thanks, Kael Oh, and the lettering (just the lettering, nothing else) showed up mirrored the first time I imported it, despite the car's original texture not being mirrored. That's why it's mirrored in the diffuse map. Not really a problem but still weird. Toyota Comfort CS Taxi Red_Data.FBX

That worked! Now I'm going to micro-manage the crap out of service vehicle designs for every city I make. Thanks!

That fixed the light issue (thanks!), but not the green issue. It looks like it's only the white parts of the car that are affected. Could it be a problem with my diffuse map?

That's more-or-less what I mean. It's like every car designer is using almost the same formula. Thinking about it more, I think it's better for me so say that it's more of a problem that cars are no longer designed by a single person. It's hard to get organic lines when you're sculpting something out of polygons but stuff really begins to go downhill when you get a groups of people working on one vehicle, especially if they have little contact with each other as is often the case. That's why so many cars look the same now. Design by committee. It's the same reason almost every US state flag is the state seal on a blue background. There are exceptions, though. Coming to mind right now is the 2016 Škoda Superb which is a stunning car.

Yes, I mentioned the fact that I was male as a way of saying that I'm not taking the transgender path. In hindsight, the way I laid out the sentence could have been interpreted as the opposite.

It seriously bugs me how many cars now are all style and no substance. I don't even really care about power or handling. Sure, they've got lots of fancy gadgets, but they're so boring to the trained eye. You can tell they were designed by computers rather than humans and they lack the build quality of older cars. Take my car for example: a 1990 Volkswagen Fox. It's got no gadgets whatsoever, but it's dependable and is very well made. Even for this little economy car which cost the equivalent of $9,500 in today's money, VW hired an Italian styling house to do the body. Looking closely at the proportions, you can tell it was designed by someone with a pencil (and a ruler, obviously), not a laptop. I'm not saying it's a pretty car by any stretch, but it's honest, which most cars aren't anymore. It's not a car with loads of extras built cheaply, it's a car built well but with nothing you don't need, so as to be cheap.

Since you say that, what are your guys' thoughts on asexuality? I'm 18 and in the process of finding my sexuality. I wish it were as simple for me as being one of the more widely recognised orientations such as gay or bi, but nothing seems to fit for me. I identify as male, and have never had a problem with that, but I've recently (last year or so) begun questioning my heterosexuality. Coming out to myself, I guess you could say. I went over it a couple of times with myself and quickly realised that I'm not sexually attracted to either gender. Whenever my lack of a partner or desire to have children came up in passing, I always got the usual parental answer of "I'm sure you'll feel different when you find the right person." I could be wrong, but I honestly feel like that's not the case. The reason I'm here asking you this (Spur of the moment type thing. I've never talked openly about it before and didn't know this thread existed until an hour ago) is because I recently switched from living with my mother to my father and step mother (not for serious reasons, literally only because she and my sisters moved and couldn't fit me and my brother in her Fiat). They're great, and I get along with them 99% of the time, but my only issue is that I feel like, when they're well-informed on a topic they have great, in-depth opinions that are very agreeable. However, when they're not well-informed, they often don't realise it and form equally strong opinions, despite (unknowingly) taking the subject at face value. The way this affects me most personally is that one of their stronger, largely correct, opinions is that most people of my age group are very entitled, living under the "special snowflake" mentality. Unfortunately for me, (I'm saying this at huge risk of sounding like a complete arse) I haven't lived with them long enough to have earned enough of their respect for them to accept that I am perhaps better-versed than them on certain topics (I feel like this is making me look like one of those entitled teenagers I mentioned) and, as such, they are sometimes (almost rudely) dismissive towards me (Just to clarify again, this is only 1% of the time)(so many parentheses!). I fully understand that I'm young, I have next to no experience, and there are a lot of things I don't know or understand, and I get that respect must be earned, but I feel like everyone just immediately assumes that I don't know what I'm talking about and give no weight to what I say, even if they know nothing about the topic themselves. "Wesley Crusher syndrome" is an astonishingly accurate name to describe how I feel. Anywho, back on topic. I normally just brush it off, but the one time I really got mad and stormed off in a huff was when asexuality came up. I wasn't exactly coming out to them (since I'm still not 100% sure myself), so much as tossing the idea out there, but I certainly didn't expect such a drastic departure from their usual open-mindedness (this was the 1% of the 1%). My dad said it didn't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint (neither does homosexuality if you think about it, but they're totally cool with that) and my step mother simply said, in an almost condescending tone, "yeah, that's not really a thing." I guarantee you asexuality is not something they've so much as Googled. After I had cooled off, we talked about their seeming dismissiveness and made up, but the asexuality topic itself never came back up. I've kind of wanted to talk to someone about it since but haven't gotten around to it until today (this really isn't causing me as much distress as this post probably makes it seem) when I decided to stop by the forums since I haven't been here in a while. So, yeah. How do you guys feel about it?

So, I'm just randomly reappearing on this forum for no particular reason. I'll probably post two or three times then disappear back into the ether. Anywho, it's a beat up Porsche 356 driving on a dirt track (because #YOLO #IRONICYOLO) and my taskbar looks disastrous. I like Windows 10 just enough to keep it.

Very pleased with tonight's results. I just turned 18 in September so this would have been my first vote, but unfortunately I just moved to a new province and don't yet have any ID with my new address on it. But no matter, there's always next time!

I've lived all over Canada, but Calgary is where I was born and still feels the most like home. This picture kinda makes it look like Tokyo even though it's like a fiftieth the size and a hour's drive away from the mountains The only reason there are so many skyscrapers is because of all the oil in the province. Even British Petroleum has an office here despite not having any gas stations in Canada.

Wow, those are really good!