Cities: Skylines II, the expansive city building sequel from Colossal Order, has released another feature highlight trailer today, focusing on elaborate economy and production mechanics.
Cities: Skylines II is currently expected to launch on October 24th, 2023. It will be available on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. You can watch the latest feature highlight episode on the Cities: Skylines YouTube channel:
Since the first feature highlight about Roads Tools, Cities: Skylines II has revealed an extraordinary breadth of content, and also proven how well it’s woven together. The City Services highlight also stressed how much the population of your city will be involved this time around, as players will even have to contend with welfare. Wisely handling your economy and production may be the lifeblood of this sim.
Today’s trailer reveals that the economical features in Cities: Skylines II were inspired by real-world economics, again emphasizing new levels of realism that will organically escalate management difficulty.
Players will need to utilize taxes on sale of goods and even private income, which directly influences city services. No one is especially fond of taxes in the real world, so it’ll be pretty amusing and interesting to impose and handle it yourself in-game.
It could be tempting just to toy around with simulating the extremes for fun, but the system seems nuanced enough to adjust specific businesses.
Production is going to be a little more complicated now, as businesses will be firing employees or buying from “expensive outside connections” just to keep the supply and demand balanced enough. Production chains have also been completely overhauled for this sequel, allowing players to manipulate the mechanics as extensively as they wish.
With specialized industry areas, there seem to be just as many ways to gain money as to lose it, so Cities: Skylines II continues to prove its vast expansion is still meticulous and intuitive.
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