When searching for a reason why City Skylines is so smooth to play but TF is like jumping between land-mines is … the devs aproach.
TF devs are able to bring a feature who noone wants, poorly implement and say – Becouse you are cheaters we are giving you main connection rule.
CS devs made sand box righ in the menu. Do you want left or right side riding? Just one click.
You have an idea to move train station a block away so you connect Highway to bigger roundabout? In TF you are guaranteed to get TONS of error messages, and spend tons of your time to overcome unfriendly tools just to lay a few meters of tracks. CS gets tools make it fun to redisine half of a city, just few click and thats it. The new layout makes traffic jam even worst, well you get refund for track so you could redo in a sec.
TF devs simply ignoring the fact, that it is the game. Design and all tools given to player must be easy to use. TF devs are great mathematicians and achieved impressive academic titles but do not have a sense for gamers. More over, if people are teling what is important they are incredible stubborn and ignore it all.
