CITIES XL: "Core Aspects" Survey

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An entire bipolar planet (perhaps scaled-down) to build on. Instead of just having all regions in separate folders on your hard drive, they are also together on one planet. Build on as little or as much of your planet as you wish.	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!
Multiplayer (online or LAN) option where players can share a world, region, or city to play co-operatively or competitively. Player's cities could be automatically uploaded and downloaded using the online server when saved, or in real-time; so that all consenting players will be using the same world. Like SC4's CityScape but automatic and with each world shared between only consenting pre-acquainted players.	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 regional integration so that negative/positive effects will spill over municipal/city boundaries into neighbouring areas; some facilities would have regionwide or nationwide effects; residents can use facilities from neighbouring and other areas in the region or world, not just those where they live; and allowing us to "look over" the boundaries of the municipal/city we are working with to see what is directly adjoining in the area's neighbour.	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!
Separate Regional & Local Budgets where some parts of a city's infrastructure are built and maintained using Regional Budgets, and some using Local. Features that affect an area larger than where they are built (e.g. Highway and Mass Transit networks, Transportation Facilties such as Airports and Seaports, major Civic facilities) should not always be paid for from the Local Budget. Why should a rural area fund an airport or highway route which is located there, but serves the nearby cities?	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!
Fully customisable alignment grid which can be moved, rotated, or have the size of grid tiles adjusted. Featuring "snap to grid" option. This grid would simply be an aid for the player to help with aligning features properly as we lay them out, and not a physical restriction like SC4's grid. We would still have free reigns for how we can lay out features (like in CityLife).	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 draw, align, or grow all of the following at a multitude of different angles: Zone boundaries, Lot boundaries, Buildings, Props, Transport Networks (underground, ground, or elevated), Bridges/Tunnels, Neighbourhood/Municipal boundaries, Landscaping tools, Waterfront Infrastructure, Designing/Laying Out our own customised non-developer Zones/Lots (e.g. civic facilities, power plants, airports, parks, recreational features, 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!
Correct scale & proportion of all CITIES XL features individually, and in comparison to each other. Particularly, the sizes of: airports, seaports & waterfront features, civic buildings & lots, low-density residential lots, commercial shopping malls/centres & lots, "green space" and recreational lots, utility buildings & lots, industrial buildings or structures & lots, industrial plants & lots, farming fields, train stations, bus stops, subway stations; the length of road lane "mergers"; and distances, e.g. commute times & acceptable work commutes; effect radius of civic buildings & other facilities; and the size of area benefiting or suffering the impact of other negative/positive effects.	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 complexity options and advanced options that can be opened but are otherwise hidden from the casual or inexperienced players. These are separate from difficulty options as they will determine how the game can be played making it more accessible to everyone; and open up more complicated options for players wanting more freedom, customisation, and micromanagement.	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!
Manually defining (marking out) municipal borders to divide a region into the smaller areas which we can play with at one time - like a "city" in SC4, settlement/neighbourhood borders (marking out the boundaries of where our cities, towns and villages are located - and dividing them into neighbourhoods if we wish), and landmark/feature boundaries (such as parks, industrial estates, retail parks, road/highway interchanges or intersections, and other custom districts). Allowing us to name any of these areas we mark out in those three different ways; allowing us to change any of these boundaries over time and draw boundaries at any angle to create any polygon shape; and allowing us to view stats for any of the areas we have marked out. We would not be able to overlap the boundaries of the same type.	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!
Allowing creation of custom content for CITIES XL, covering all aspects from Terrain to Fauna, Buildings to Lots, Transport Facilities to Bridges; while also allowing models from GMAX or 3DStudioMax to be imported into the software used, and ensuring that there is a better dependency system than what SC4 had.	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!