CITIES XL: "Buildings & Landscaping" Survey

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The Unofficial CITIES XL Online Surveys ZONES / LOTS / BUILDINGS / LANDSCAPING How important are these features to you? click here to return to the survey index page
Choice of plopping or zoning for everything; including the freedom to design/lay-out customised facilities using non-developer (non-RCI) zones and plopping/positioning transport networks (i.e. pathways & roads) and individual modular components within the zone boundary - thus allowing for the creation of custom utility plants & facilities, airports & seaports, civic facilities, parks & green-space, national guard facilities, public sports grounds, and a variety of rewards.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Huge collection of RCI buildings using many different architecture styles from the real world, with a small selection of civic & non-RCI buildings also featuring those different architecture styles.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
More RCI zoning options allowing the zoning of residential, commercial service, commercial office, agriculture, dirty industry, manufacturing industry, and high-tech industry separately. Also the options to restrict/allow the development of buildings within a zoned area which have or do not have certain characteristics (or "tags") related to wealth, stage/height, purpose, and architectural style; and the ability to create our own tags which can be defined as additional characteristics of any buildings, which we can then also restrict/allow within zoned areas.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Including mixed-use buildings & lots such as multi-storey offices/apartments and two-storey houses that have shops on the ground floor; and high-rise towers with both offices and apartments.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
More realistic designs for airports with a more realistic size (and the ability to design and lay out components of our own airports). Also giving a realistic regional effect from major airports, rather than just a local effect; and allowing air travel between different airports, or to and from outside of our region.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
More realistic effect radius of civic & non-RCI facilities, covering a wider area which is able to transcend the municipal border into neighbouring areas; and with annual reports provided to the player which can help with deciding if funding needs to be increased, or a facility needs to be upgraded/expanded, or whether a new facility should be built in another location.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Better waterfront infrastructure features, including realistic and customisable quays, harbours, ports, marinas and recreational waterfronts. Featuring cargo yards with cranes, and freight rail-line connections; various sizes of docking bays; wooden, brick-built, or concrete piers/jetties and walkways used for yachts, speedboats, jet skis, small boats, small ferries, fishing boats, hovercrafts and water thrill-rides, etc.; wooden, brick-built or concrete recreational boardwalks which can having various other recreational features built on top; and finally, customised sea-walls/levees and river-banks/walls with different styles such as concrete or brick. It should also be possible to seamlessly combine varying features of the same construction type (e.g. wooden, brick, or concrete).	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Telecommunications & Broadcasting towers/transmitters which can be built or rewarded, with different types available for mobile phone networks, television broadcasting, and radio broadcasting. Mobile phone transmitters would provide extra coverage with a radius of effect, which can boost businesses, but would have a mildly negative effect on residential land values in close range of the giant transmitters.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Windmills & Watermills which can be built either as historical features with mild positive effects on the nearby area, or as part of farmland or manufacturing industry facilities.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Better options for creating custom parkland & other green-land such as cemeteries, with many modular features which can be placed to create large, attractive and unique parkland or other features.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
More options to place public sports grounds & fitness facilities, such as - baseball fields, basketball courts, bowling greens, cricket fields, golf courses, rugby pitches, soccer pitches, tennis courts, etc.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Ability to upgrade facilities such as utilities, civics, seaports, and airports by adding new modular buildings to zoned non-RCI areas, increasing the capacity of facilities.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
An In-Game Lot Editor allowing for customising and tweaking the Lot layouts for plopped and zoned RCI buildings, and plopped non-RCI features, already within our cities. We should be able to move and rotate any objects within the Lots.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
The Zone borders should be thicker than Lot borders when viewing the zones only (buildings hidden). This way we can tell where a zone changes to a zone with different tags - even if they are of the same developer type e.g. Residential. With all of the new zoning options available (i.e. "tags"), it would need to become more obvious where a zone boundary is located. SC4's Lot borders and Zone borders were identical.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Irregular and flexible non-rectangular Lot shapes & sizes allowing polygons with any number of sides from 3 upwards, to divide our developer (RCI) Zones into Lots. Also including organic "fillers" which can take up any shape and size to fill small & unusable awkward areas with trees, grass, or paving, etc.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Improving the way building on slopes is handled, by allowing some buildings to feature lower floors/basement levels below the highest level of land within the Lot; and having all other buildings/structures flatten the ground beneath while the remainder of the Lot will slope (up to a certain degree) to conform to the land surrounding the Lot. For buildings on slopes which fill the entire width or area of a Lot, a properly-textured retaining wall or embankment would still be needed along the edge of the Lot; and for buildings which do not fill the Lot but are on particularly steep ground, a combination of a sloping Lot and retaining wall along the border may be used. Boundary fencing or walls should also be able to run along slopes instead of flattening the ground beneath.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!
Precision landscaping tools similar to those in SC2000 & SC3000 which can be used for man-made shaping of the land. There should be different shape tools available which can be adjusted in size and set-up to create slopes of a fixed gradient. Featuring an optional "snap to grid" setting for use with a customisable alignment grid. Potential uses include sculpting land ready for canals; and grading land ready for developments, transport networks, interchanges or bridges/overpasses, parkland, waterfront infrastructure, and other customised features.	A key feature. I’d love to have this! I want this important feature Undecided Less important than other features I don’t want this at all!