If you want to upgrade your power station options from coal or gas to solar early on, you can spend points on electrical options, and if you want to attract tourists by building a huge observation tower, start dumping points into the parks department. Each XP milestone automatically unlocks new city features but also grants you a handful of development points you can spend on more unlocks. Instead of simply being based on population milestones, you earn XP by building stuff, attracting new residents, and increasing the happiness of your citizens. Even the world's sloppiest mayor (that's me, hello) can easily draw an attractive new subdivision or downtown area in seconds. Toggles let you draw parallel roads and even entire grids with perfect angles and spacing. Drawing roads and snapping them together is smooth and easy, as is upgrading those roads later with new features-lines of trees, grassy strips, and tram lines for public transportation can be placed directly onto existing roads with zero fuss. It's instantly easy to see how much work went into creating better road tools for the sequel. Smart new tools make drawing roads easier than ever.
