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The Real Abed
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Wow, the Achievement enabler mod worked. Impressed. I just need to get a city above 50% crime rate (Or find a save file on the workshop with that rate?) and I'll have the last unique building and the last monument.
BTW, how in the world do you get the Earthloving achievement? Is it possible to have no ground or water pollution at that point in the game? Wouldn't you need to forego using incinerators completely and use only dumps and switch over to water filters?
BTW, how in the world do you get the Earthloving achievement? Is it possible to have no ground or water pollution at that point in the game? Wouldn't you need to forego using incinerators completely and use only dumps and switch over to water filters?
motorised mallard
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Eden Project or one of the monuments.
But I don't know if that means no landfills also, because you can get rid of water pollution with Eden + treatment plants.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You can still keep sprawl, but you just have to make sure that vehicles have a direct route they can take to particular destinations that allows them to bypass driving through the road that everyone else wants to take.
And proper separation of your industry trucks, so that they don't interfere with the rest of the traffic.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I usually tend to start making lots of small low density districts and then gradually increase some to high density, improving roads and intersections as needed. I enjoy growing cities more naturally than just spamming high density everywhere from the get go. I did this in SC4 for years and it works even better in CSL.
I learned this the hard way in my current city. This game models traffic so well that you really need to take it into account even more than in SC4. A few highway bypasses solved a lot of my city's traffic woes by allowing the heavy trucks to avoid city streets almost entirely.
Quesiton for you roundabout experts:
What kind of streets should be using for the roudabout, and what kind of streets should I be using for the exits?
What works best? Also, how many entrances vs exists in a roundabout? Or are you guys using two ways for them?
I've been using one ways, one coming in and three going out, but I'm finding this is not working well. Either I get traffic lights or the traffic just doesn't flow through efficiently.
What kind of streets should be using for the roudabout, and what kind of streets should I be using for the exits?
What works best? Also, how many entrances vs exists in a roundabout? Or are you guys using two ways for them?
I've been using one ways, one coming in and three going out, but I'm finding this is not working well. Either I get traffic lights or the traffic just doesn't flow through efficiently.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Highway-type roads are the best since they don't introduce traffic lights. Roundabouts are supposed to influence free flow.
Poodlestrike
Banned
You need one-way road for the roundabout, either 2 lanes or highways; 6 lanes introduce traffic lights at every intersection, thus defeating the point. As to the connections to the outside, I'd actually use 2 ways.
You can make a roundabout out of highway ramps if you want as well. It's high speed and narrow and ideal in certain circumstances.
LurkerPrime
Member
How do you make curved roads with a smooth curve, anyways? Whenever I try it I need to build it in two or more parts, which leads to a lot of unsightly/unrealistic bumps in the road due to how the curve and free-form tools work.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Make the first part of your curve, then make sure the curve tool is selected. Next, extend out from the direction your existing curve is going; It should snap to a particular spot. Then click and it should curve naturally from your existing curve, drag your mouse to where you want to place it and click a final time.
LurkerPrime
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Nice. I like the unplanned look for cities.
A lot of them those uber geometric conclaves people come up with look weird and futuristic.
Oh, I think I get it. Thanks; that'll be a big help.
InaudibleWhispa
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I don't think you have to be that reliant on roundabouts. I have a huge city taking up most of 9 squares and I have less than 10 roundabouts I think. They're very useful in certain situations, such as a highway intersection that has multiple off ramps to various parts of your city, or an inner city junction with many roads colliding in one spot, but I find they're rarely the only workable option. Certainly often the neatest solution though.
The angle of your highway off ramps is just as important for smooth flowing traffic. You want traffic to be zooming from road to road at full speed, not slowing to do a sharp 90 degree turn or worse. You can easily end up with backed up traffic just because the highway is getting bottlenecked by slow turning traffic getting off or on. On a perfect intersection or roundabout, no traffic should have to slow to enter or exit
Crude example:
And this applies to all off and on ramps, not just roundabouts. Might seem like common sense, but it's easy to accidentally get one or two wrong and assume your whole intersection design is busted when traffic starts backing up.
The angle of your highway off ramps is just as important for smooth flowing traffic. You want traffic to be zooming from road to road at full speed, not slowing to do a sharp 90 degree turn or worse. You can easily end up with backed up traffic just because the highway is getting bottlenecked by slow turning traffic getting off or on. On a perfect intersection or roundabout, no traffic should have to slow to enter or exit
Crude example:
And this applies to all off and on ramps, not just roundabouts. Might seem like common sense, but it's easy to accidentally get one or two wrong and assume your whole intersection design is busted when traffic starts backing up.
TimeEffect
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AWESOME MOD ALERT!!!
COMPLETELY rebalances the income/population of low/high density zones, making high density SUPER packed (thereby increasing traffic!)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410344523
Makes some other changes to garbage and income gained, and it should be really nice to now see like 500 workers in a single high res building instead of the wonky vanilla numbers
COMPLETELY rebalances the income/population of low/high density zones, making high density SUPER packed (thereby increasing traffic!)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410344523
Makes some other changes to garbage and income gained, and it should be really nice to now see like 500 workers in a single high res building instead of the wonky vanilla numbers
After mucking about with the designs in this paper on residential grids, and reading up on fused grids, I decided to make my own.
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/halyhaly/myworkshopfiles/
loving this grid, using it for my current restart and it feels and looks super nice - you lose a few blocks here and there but it looks so much better than the typical grid, thanks!
Check your sewage isn't backing up into the water pumps.
Got any water towers on or near polluted land?
How about a lot of noise pollution? That causes citizens to get sick as well.
justsomeguy
Member
God. Got the game today. Played 2 hours like it was 2 minutes. This is another Civ 5 style time sink isn't it??
justsomeguy
Member
Dude your map is swastikas
motorised mallard
Member
My glorious exchange, it's not even it's final form.
justsomeguy
Member
Oh my god. As someone who barely scraped together a zone, I am in awe
More like an octagon than a "round"about. Looks cool nonetheless.
I wish I had an imagination to do these likes this, I just make grid blocks of each zone.
I believe ground pollution goes away after awhile if you stop polluting that area. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes it does, rather quickly too.
Reflection
Member
The biggest traffic breakthrough I had was when I started to branch traffic off of one ways. For example take a six lane one way and use two lane one ways to send traffic to different areas. You can put three two lane one ways at the end of a six lane and have two lanes go left, two straight and two right. In a lot of cases this works way better than a roundabout, especially for traffic coming off a highway or a one way bridge.
It wasn't that either, i don't know it just acted like that so i pretty much destroyed a 1 Km^2 zone of my city.
If you ask me, it's a bit too quickly. I'd rather have it stay and require cleanup of some sort (planting trees and waiting a bit, or having to do a second bulldozing run, or plopping down specialised buildings that emit trash,...).
Also: Man, that new patch is great.
Been waiting for something like this, just hope it doesn't melt my computer.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
bro those are swastikas
Highways and offramps. These are the only road type that does not spawn pedestrian crossings or traffic lights.
http://imgur.com/a/2ySM2
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
LOL. Well deserved for CSL, poor timing for Tropico.
Yes, it certainly has that "one more turn" addictiveness of Civ 5. It's like the crack cocaine of city builders.
That's a really good "post" actually! Clearly shows how to avoid traffic-flow-killing intersections.
Has anyone else noticed a bug in their cities where the parks are loaded with people because no one is ever actually leaving after visiting? I think it may have been related to the commercial demand mod which is no longer needed after the patch, but I can't be sure.
I seem to have fixed it by deleting all my parks and replacing them.
I seem to have fixed it by deleting all my parks and replacing them.
theepicoftyler
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I spent a bunch of time putting this together to be my main intersection downtown, and I can't place it because "slope is too steep". I wonder if it's a bug or something because everything is flat.
It was gonna have a nice park in the middle and all offices and other tall buildings. I'm bummed.
It was gonna have a nice park in the middle and all offices and other tall buildings. I'm bummed.
I spent a bunch of time putting this together to be my main intersection downtown, and I can't place it because "slope is too steep". I wonder if it's a bug or something because everything is flat.
It was gonna have a nice park in the middle and all offices and other tall buildings. I'm bummed.
The error is probably referring to the actual land you want to place it on, could be a small bump or hill throwing off your asset because it's so large and flat.
I spent a bunch of time putting this together to be my main intersection downtown, and I can't place it because "slope is too steep". I wonder if it's a bug or something because everything is flat.
It was gonna have a nice park in the middle and all offices and other tall buildings. I'm bummed.
I had a problem with this a well, it's actually because of the ramps on the paths and roads, which become too steep when it's placed on sloped terrain. When you're building it in the editor, make them a bit longer/shallower than the minimum required (by 2-3 spaces or so). Then it should work on most terrain.
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