Recently got Skylines and g*med hard on it today, but, as someone who sunk hundreds of hours into SimCity 4, I'm not getting the appeal. SimCity 4 is just so much comfier?
Is Skylines really just a traffic simulator? I watched a video by a self-proclaimed city planner all about how to make efficient transitions from the highway to your town, and it seemed like the road building / traffic control is the whole point.
What am I missing?
I'm just getting into it too and traffic management is definitely a big part of it, but it's the detailing I really like. Trying unusual road layouts or following the topography of the less flat maps and then creating green spaces and stuff in between.
I'm trying to learn some of the new stuff in the dlcs too to create pedestrian neighbourhoods and cool public transport like trams and monorails. It seems like some of the others have more complexity too, like industries where you have to build up and efficiently organise different aspects of supply chains etc.