Zonal civilian traffic + pedestrians as for regular civilian traffic

[Weta43]

Currently the civilian traffic is either on or off across the whole map.

It would make more sense to have the map divided into sectors and allow the mission maker to have it on in the specific sectors that can benefit from it in the mission (implemented by ME zones ?).

I don't need there to be cars running around on the Pakistan border if I'm flying a helicopter at an Iranian border crossing. It's just wasting CPU cycles. (Same Tblisi / Batumi)

The civilian traffic seems to be fairly light from a CPU load POV (Given how much of it there is spread across the map).

That being the cases, couldn't we get civilians (just folk wandering the streets) implemented via the same approach on a sub region by sub region basis?

Perhaps civilian vehicular traffic at the bases we use but none at the actual front line but still some civilians on the streets of nearby villages etc. - Whatever the mission maker thinks is appropriate...   

Have the routes pre-calculated and some minimally animated figures that can be activated by the user. (Ideally by creating a zone & ticking one or both of Civilian traffic on ▢, Foot traffic on ▢.)

They don't need A.I., they don't need collision calculations they just need to wander around giving atmosphere and making it harder to tell what's target & what's civilian - but they don't really need to be doing that 1,000 km away from where I'm flying...

[Darcaem]

+1 to the option of having zones with different civilian traffic settings. It could be added besides the existint setting, maybe we could create trigger zones and set a specific civilian traffic level for each zone, and on the rest of the map not covered on those trigger zones, the main setting would apply.

I usually like civilian traffic on my mission, specialy on maps with highly populated areas. But then. it is kind of weird when some random car overtakes a tank column in the middle of an active warzone  

I'm more neutral on the pedestrians... It would be nice, totally, for less "valuable" for me

[Weta43]

I think Caucuses/Nevada/etc where people drive to the shop not walk - pedestrians are probably not needed. 
Afghanistan (Gaza?, etc), where people walk around villages not drive - pedestrians make more sense than cars

Edited July 18 by Weta43

[Stratos]

Waling civilians would be amazing!

[OKC_Jim]

I like this idea! The other day I was landing a Chinook in a very remote area. The small dirt road had traffic that looked like an interstate highway. Would love to be able to reduce traffic in remote areas and increase it in urban areas.