Hi everyone. Today's patch includes fixes for some of the issues reported with patch 1.1.5f1, also known as Economy 2.0, as well as some new free content. Our art team has been working on new service building variations and additional theme vehicles to expand the options you have. For those of you who enjoy detailing, we have added an Age Selector to the Tree Placement Tool for more control over your trees, and the Surface Tool which allows you to add 11 different surfaces to your city. As the #1 implies, this is only part 1 of "Detailer's Patch" as we want to address the feedback we've received and improve the support for this play style. More information on what else we have in the works to come.

For now, we hope you will enjoy the new additions and bug fixes. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs or shared constructive feedback, and to everyone who has filled out the survey. We've already started looking into how we can tweak balancing in the future based on your responses.

And as always, if you encounter any new issues following this patch, we'd appreciate a bug report here:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2-bug-reports.1162/

We wish you a wonderful July and look forward to continuing development when we're back in the office in August.

Remember: A new patch can cause compatibility issues with mods. If you have issues, please disable mods and wait for them to be updated by modders. See this thread for more information.

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• Zoneable Roundabouts
  
  • 8 New Roundabout Decorations
• Age Selector Added To The Tree Placement Tool
  
• Surface Tool
  
  • 2 Concrete Surfaces
    
  • 2 Grass Surfaces
    
  • 2 Pavement Surfaces
    
  • 2 Sand Surfaces
    
  • 3 Tile Surfaces
• 27 New Service Building Variations
  
  • New Small Water Tower
    
  • New Small Medical Clinic
    
  • New Urban Fire Station
    
  • 4 New Education Buildings
    
  • 2 New Police Stations
    
  • New Small Post Office
    
  • 6 New Public Transportation Buildings
    
  • 5 New City Parks
    
  • 6 New Parking Lots
• 4 New Vehicles
  
  • New North American Garbage Truck
    
  • New North American Snowplow
    
  • New North American Passenger Train
    
  • New European Cargo Train Engine

• Fixed offices downscaling their amount of workers until they only have 5/5 workers.
  
• Fixed industrial company worker max amount not updating correctly.
  
• Fixed Reliable Mail Service happiness factor affecting citizen happiness even without any Post Service Buildings.
  
• Fixed wages being doubled when service buildings are upgraded, causing too high service costs
  
• Fixed the UI upkeep section calculated the wages two times if the building has upgrade building
  
• Fixed flooding near the building when relocating the Advanced Water Pumping Station.
  
• Fixed evacuation bus and prison van passengers being counted in public transport stats.
  
• Fixed some citizens remaining teens for their whole life.
  
• Fixed virtual office products like Financial and Software trading not working between companies.
  
• Fixed the missing audio effect from the Geothermal Power Plant.
  
• Fixed company profitability not considering that the storage is full.
  
• Fixed resource seller pathfinding not working when companies try to find office products.
  
• Improved storage of virtual products produced by office companies to be limited to 100000, the same as the physical product storage limit. Office companies will now stop producing if the output products reach 100000 in storage.
  
• Improved pollution decay over time on water.
  
• Increased Noise and Air Pollution coming from Highways.
  
• Removed Noise Pollution from Solar Power Plant.
  
• Added workplaces for Small Parking Lots.
  
• Added air pollution reduction to the Landfill Waste Recycling Unit.
  
• Balanced Well-being and Park stats of Elementary School Playground, High School Sports Field and University Park
  
• Elementary School Playground and University Park Upgrades now require the Large Parks node to be unlocked. High School Sports Field now requires the Large Sports Parks node to be unlocked.
  
• Fixed building Selected Info Panel always opening upgrades options dropdown to the left to not overlap with section tooltips
  
• Fixed broken label rendering in some economy/production details panel
  
• Fixed intro tutorials (movement, rotation) would sometimes have glitchy text rendering
  
• New translations added

• Added navigation option to take into consideration size of items to fix a bug when small buttons in settings can not be selected as next item is considered 'closer' then button.
  
• Added controller action (LS Press + Y) to toggle advanced options.
  
• Added controller actions to search in options and clear search.
  
• Added switch option section action
  
• Added controller Right Stick Press as a modifier to give mods more options for binding. Actions that used Right Stick Press are rebound:
  
  • Continue tutorial to RPress + DPad/Right
    
  • Previous tutorial to RPress + DPad/Left
    
  • Focus task list to Rpress + Dpad/Up
    
  • Focus task advisor to Rpress + Dpad/Up
• Added scroll hint to panels with scroll
  
• Added icons for mouse actions in tutorials
  
• Store which item was focused before search was activated and restore focus on it when search exit.
  
• Select the first option in the list when a tab is switched.
  
• Shrink option tab header to fit more tab buttons.
  
• Show conflicts for built-in actions which can appear if the player changed keybinds and we added a new action that uses the same keybinds.
  
• Improved multiline text option to use theme color.
  
• Improved key binding conflict tooltip.
  
• Improved tutorial balloon orientation in the electricity tutorial and water tutorial.
  
• Fixed tutorial about Info Views panel does not appear after opening it for the first time.
  
• Fixed money (and population) field tooltip trend style not updating correctly.
  
• Fixed some building upgrades’ bonuses not being displayed in the building’s Selected info panel.
  
• Fixed the color of the transportation vehicle that is no longer a part of the transportation line only changing when the mouse hovered over it.
  
• Fixed Line Color selection window may move off-screen, if the Player opens it while having at least 11 created Transportation Lines.
  
• Fixed the Milestones tab and pop-up showing an incorrect pool of development points that the player should receive during milestone 20.
  
• Fixed Info Views panel not opening after placing Unique building.
  
• Fixed already built and locked signature/unique buildings not being greyed-out and unique buildings that were built or are locked showing not enough money badge.
  
• Fixed missing space in passenger and cargo count in Route or Line details Selected Info Panel.
  
• Fixed scrolling through City Information showing incorrect descriptions in some cases.
  
• Fixed map tile purchase bird’s eye view in unlock all tiles mode.
  
• Fixed part of the User Interface being invisible if the Player opens it via City Services or Info Views.
  
• Fixed opening the "Upgrades" panel of another building of the same type may prevent the construction of an upgrade adjacent directly to the building.
  
• Fixed the Chirper panel not being fully scrollable with a controller.
  
• Fixed a longer list of households not being fully scrollable with a controller.
  
• Fixed option search field position while using controller.
  
• Fixed a bug when controller focus jumps over narrow items (like buttons) in options.
  
• Fixed a bug when tabs appeared without action hint and the hint appears within a few frames causing a visual glitch.
  
• Changed scroll action buttons from dpad up/down to right stick up/down to be able use it together with navigation action
  
• Fixed navigation action hints

• Added the ability to set keyboard modifiers (shift, alt, ctrl) to mouse actions.
  
• Added the ability for mods to create mouse bindings
  
• Added formatting support to option description.
  
• Several improvements to modding toolchain dependencies include a description and icons.
  
• Streamlined directory picker option for mods to look and behave like any other option types in options. Added the ability to type path.
  
• Added the ability to read action value as object (can be useful when action type is unknown).
  
• Added display name override to input actions to easier control what display name should be set to an action in the current moment.
  
• Environment variable values are updated during Unity Mod Project updating.
  
• Added message dialog to modding options to show currently set environment variables (only available in developer mode).
  
• Added scroll handler to error/message dialog.
  
• Keybinding field can now be disabled.
  
• Mod controller hints are now shown after built-in controller hints.
  
• Fixed wrong conflict detection if one binding allows modifiers and another does not.
  
• Fixed issue where the entire dropdown option field didn’t properly disable when dropdowns had no items.
  
• Fixed copy button on dialog with details.
  
• Fixed an issue when clicking "key binding conflict" notification does not open mod settings in-game pause menu.
  
• Fixed a bug with updating the modding toolchain state to 'not installed' even when the player rejected uninstallation.
  
• Fixed a bug when mod key binding was changed during the conflict resolution process, this changed key was not saved in a mod settings file.
  
• Fixed a bug with auto-activation manually disabled input actions
  
• Hide option group automatically if all its items are hidden
  
• Use custom BindingButton and BindingKey instead of default GamepadButton and Key to provide additional controller
  
• Escape markdown symbols when error text is copied
  
• Store key modifiers in the same order everywhere so that it does not lead false positive detection of key rebinding when settings is saved/loaded
  
• Do not set keybinding value to a setting property in case it was not actually updated in input manager
  
• Fixed error when key binding has conflicts and user is trying to bind the same key
  
• Fixed mod key binding value is not updated in UI in certain cases
  
• Made a few key binding things public for modding purposes
  
• Fixed false positive detection of binding changed while setting a new value

• Updated to version 1.6.0
  
• Switched to pagination in browse view from infinite scroll when using mouse and keyboard
  
• Added support for subscribe to all missing dependencies when on mod details view
  
• Bug fix: Prevent multiple unsubscribe clicks on the same mod

The Small Post Office doesn’t receive incoming mail to distribute in the city.

Office companies recover from the 5/5 worker count slowly, provided they’re able to make a profit in the city.

Office companies may not leave the city as they should when their building is removed. If you’re still seeing offices stuck at 5/5 workers or continuously losing workers, they are likely stuck in the city. You can force them out using this workaround:

• Increase office tax to 30%
  
• Let the simulation run until all office buildings are empty, which may take about a month in-game time. You can see empty office buildings (shown as grey) in the Profitability Info View, or check when you no longer receive any tax income from offices.
  
• Once all office companies have left your city, set the tax back to your preferred level.
  
• New office companies will start to populate your city.
  
• Please note: You will likely not see any office demand for a while as you have many empty office buildings. This is completely normal. Office demand will return with time as the existing buildings fill up.

As an alternative that preserves the office demand, you can do the following:

• Remove all office zoning in your city.
  
• Let the simulation run until you have 0 tax income from offices.
  
• Zone offices again where you want them.

Hi everyone. As we have seen a bunch of questions about how the Tile Upkeep added in patch 1.1.5f1, also known as Economy 2.0, works, we created this mini development diary. We hope this will answer some of your questions and give a better understanding of why we added the Tile Upkeep, and like always we welcome your constructive feedback and questions that might pop up after reading this.

So, let’s start with the basics. The Tile Upkeep is a new administrative land cost applied to land you own. It’s a fee that the city pays to the government for expanding its city limits inspired by the real-world property tax paid for unused land. The first 9 tiles already unlocked when you start a city do not have a cost. You are only charged a Tile Upkeep once you expand beyond those. The upkeep cost is a percentage value of the map tile purchasing cost and the percentage value increases on a curve from 5% to 25% as more map tiles are bought. This means early map tiles have a lower upkeep cost but as more map tiles are purchased, the upkeep per tile also increases affecting all purchased map tiles’ upkeep cost.

X axis is the number of map tiles purchased, Y axis is the % of map tile purchase cost used to calculate the map tile upkeep costs.

When we were designing the Economy 2.0 update, we felt that more management features should be taken into consideration when you build your cities. Based on the feedback from you all following the release and from the closed beta group during the development of Economy 2.0, we came to the conclusion that the game was not challenging enough, especially in the later part of the game. And with the lack of a proper challenge being successful didn’t have the impact we wanted it to have. Growing the city’s limits is a natural way to progress through the game, so implementing an upkeep cost to map tiles was a good way to pace the gameplay, especially in the latter half where the city size grows rapidly and the map tile expenses reflect that. Our goal with the Tile Upkeep cost is to bring you more meaningful choices as you expand the city so you don’t just have to consider where to expand to, but also whether your city can sustain such an expansion. All in all we feel it strengthens the game pacing and improves the gameplay experience.

Of course, this new cost affects your ability to reach the edge of the playable area and create new Outside Connections, so let’s talk briefly about the cheapest way to create them early on. If you haven’t already noticed, map tile costs are affected by what is available in them - buildable land, resources, etc - making tiles with a lot of water the cheapest. This makes buying ocean tiles the absolute cheapest way to go if your city needs that new Outside Connection as soon as possible. You can then create a bridge or pipeline to the edge of the playable area. Or you can use the terrain tools to create a more realistic landbridge and build a road on top of it, but keep in mind that more land inside the tile affects its upkeep cost.

The UI has been updated to show not only the cost of new tiles but also the Tile Upkeep they come with.

If you’re continuing an existing save, you may have unlocked a lot of map tiles that now come with a high Tile Upkeep. You may be able to expand your city to build additional tax income to offset this cost, but if you have built villages or rural towns on the map using either Unlock All or a mod to unlock map tiles, that may just be too much to cover. In that case, we recommend enabling Unlock Map Tiles under Map Options the next time you load your save. While this does disable achievements, it also disables the Tile Upkeep so you can continue your city. This option is also great if you enjoy building small towns or villages and don’t want to skip the Milestone progression.

We have already seen some great feedback on the Tile Upkeep, both from those who like it and those who don’t. We will continue to follow discussions about the current state of the game, not only in regards to the Tile Upkeep, so we can further refine the gameplay and balance to provide the best possible experience for you while maintaining our goals for the game. We also have a survey where you can share your thoughts, currently available through the launcher.

Please keep in mind that iterating game features and balance takes time, so even when we agree with your feedback, we may not be able to address it for a while. Nevertheless, we greatly appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts about the game and the changes we make. We look forward to reading it and continuing development in the fall. Thank you for being a part of this journey.