I saw a suggestion someone had where holding shift would add a bus stop while drawing a route. Say you have 2 routes down a single corridor, you'd only map out the stops on the first route. Without something like this I can see making bus routes becoming extremely tedious

I think it makes more sense this way, as irl you have a bus stop and some bus lines stopping there. And as you say, we'll certanly put more care where to place them.

Me too, on one hand it will take more effort to plan the stops first and then create your lines, but it also makes managing your lines easier. Something not necessarily better but just different, perhaps?

Totally missed this (these diaries are too fast ahaha). Bit strange unlocking a city hall as it would be one of the first things in a city, but I'm happy it exists!

Yeah, it's more limited compared to the Airports DLC of C:S1. But I do like the scale better of them than the vanilla airport we got in C:S1! The devs must know how much we liked the modular systems like Campus and Airports, so I think they're leaving those for future dlc's.

Same, also wanted to know if there will be hubs. I love using metro/train hubs in my cities. And I'm sad we haven't seen how we can upgrade train and metro stations. At airports, we don't have updgrades for these, making them bigger?

From here https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/... : "When creating a bus line you can set waypoints that control the route taken by the bus from stop to stop, allowing it to avoid busy roads or intersections."

So I think he's talking about this. You can force buses to take a certain route without having to place a stop, this can be useful if the game calculates the default route through some busy area but you know a better route like a dedicated bus street or something.

Yes, I would be glad to unlock the train and build a train station as the firt thing in my city and develop after/around it, seems so more natural. In CS1 it doesn't work as cims always arrive by car.

Another interesting thing I noticed is that trains are unlocked before trams or metro. I guess the metro was too OP since CS1.

It's also more realistic this way. Most (all?) cities IRL build a train station first, and metros come way later than that.

I recently asked them on twitter, and their reply was basically that it’s not a region system like SC4, but something more towards what we already had in C:S1. But since every outside connection is named, I think we have to wait to see what it actually means!