Chirper might actually be useful for keeping track of your citizens' 'Lifepaths' in Cities: Skylines 2
Recent dev diary announcements have given me hope for the future of Chirper in Cities: Skylines 2, and well as a method (and an excuse, as if I needed one) to creep on my citizens' rich lives.
It had been hinted previously that any machinations made around your busting metropolis would affect your citizens—often referred to as Cims—in some super intricate ways. Keeping the standard necessities like city services running will ensure your Cims will be able to get to school, or the cemetery after a particularly gnarly road traffic collision, and taxing them into oblivion could see them becoming homeless only for you to find them mooching around in your city’s parks.
Developer Colossal Order has revealed that Cims around your city will live impressively full lives, in fact, with life events such as “graduating from a school, finding a spouse, landing a new job, and moving to a new home”. But the question remained, how were we going to keep track of all this life your Cims are living? Well, that’s where good ‘ol Chirper comes in.
As the most recent dev diary explains, «You can keep an eye on these events through the Lifepath Journal by following a citizen. This is done by selecting the citizen and clicking the Follow button, adding them to the list of Followed Citizens found on the right side of the screen right below Chirper.»
So, just like the Twitter (or X) of real life, you’ll be able to follow the citizens of your choice, keeping track of their happiness, and peeping whether your choices as a benevolent Mayor have helped them to achieve their hopes and dreams.
«The Lifepath Journal records everything from the added citizens from the moment they are followed,» the dev diary continues. «The journal entry lists their name,
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