marvelharvey
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Nine times out of ten I'm looking under the Garbage section too. Sorry dead people.
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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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Got home last night and had my dinner then played for 3 hours on my first city before getting to bed at 12 and being up again this morning at 5:30.
Managed to mostly avoid having any straight roads at all too, and bought my first adjacent tile.
I'll be playing a lot more tonight since I have to prepare for a night shift tomorrow. Still not using any mods yet, though the ones to remove all the junk tweets and paint in trees with a brush look like must haves.
I can understand why people might get a bit lost after several hours though, some objectives can help games like this out I find.
Cute Dragon Here
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OK, back from a several-month-long hiatus! What major changes, if any, has occurred via patches?
Nothing major yet. Tunnels and wall-to-wall buildings are expected in the next big update, due in a month or 2
Cute Dragon Here
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Oh yikes.
At first it was because I felt a bit burned out by the game, and soon afterwards things got slightly worse.
My laptop had severe performance issues in many games as recently as two weeks ago and turns out it's all because the fans were mostly blocked and the thermal paste gave out. All fixed now, officially under warranty, so yeah.
(I probably should find a way to reduce the amount of dust in the environment.)
What were the minor fixes, if any, that are worth noting anyway?
I built a sprawling suburbia that relies completely on a very dense industrial section at its core, with commercial sections sort of spiraling out, weaving through the residential to offset traffic. Very lucrative, all clean energy. The hard drive in my laptop then died as my GF was using it, and the cloud save never sync'd. Fuck. I'll miss you Sansa.
Yes I named my town Sansa that's not weird.
One thing I;m noticing watching these Lets Plays on Youtube is that since most of them are from Americans, most of the cities are in a more American style. So loads of grids everywhere. Interesting to see people playing what they know.
Why Sansa?
EDIT: just started looking at the mods on the workshop and found Walter Whites house complete with Pizza. Amazing. Could do with one fat pack of buildings really rather than having to sub to loads. EDIT Hey look at that, it exists already.
I added a whole lot. Love that the community for this seems so avid and is creating so making cool things.
I saw the sewage treatment things that produce garbage, Ideally they'd produce fertiliser and it would be sold to farms, wonder if things like that are possible.
Why Sansa?
EDIT: just started looking at the mods on the workshop and found Walter Whites house complete with Pizza. Amazing. Could do with one fat pack of buildings really rather than having to sub to loads. EDIT Hey look at that, it exists already.
I added a whole lot. Love that the community for this seems so avid and is creating so making cool things.
I saw the sewage treatment things that produce garbage, Ideally they'd produce fertiliser and it would be sold to farms, wonder if things like that are possible.
I've put around 12 hours into it so far with my first city. I imagine I'll get 40 hours out of the first city and in essence the game. Then I'll go back and try and recreate my city starting with my neighborhood. That could easily take another 100 hours if I do it right. The first city is all I can really afford time-wise these days. I don't post much because I have nothing to contribute and I likely wouldn't share. At least not in the detail that we've seen people with better skills or just attention to detail do. I'm excited for future patches and mods. It's a great game and a contender for my GOTY for sure.
For a second I thought this was a GoT spoiler and I was ready to kill you
PHOENIXZERO
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It was said that the next update was at least a month on back on April 17th so it's possible we could see it this month.
I don't really need much objective based things, I just hope they fix many annoying stuff that breaks the game for me when trying to perfect my cities.
eg.
- http://gfycat.com/AnnualThunderousCock
Cargo terminal left hand driving bug (more like oversight). I absolutely need the terminals to run as best as they can, and this bug is just cockblocking everything. No I do not want to play right hand driving system just in order to have this working.
- Very little control over where the dumb trucks and delivery vehicles go.It's okay if they are not dumb, but they are quite dumb, much like the cims spending ages to go across the entire country to reach a school where there's another school closer to them, creating needless traffic problems that require big changes to the city to deal with.
Was up to 3 this morning playing, go some KFCs and McDonalds springing up which was cool and reached the point where I get the Trains. Definitely need some more high density commercial lvl 3 buildings though.
Just added a bunch more assets to hopefully reduce some of the repetition.
Also tried to use the supersampling mod but my poor old 6950 is only pushing out 20 fps when I zoom down at my default resolution (2560x1200) so it gets a little upset when I push it up!
Very nearly ordered a 290x last night as I saw the Sapphire Vapor-x one for £275, but I've decided to just wait for the 380x instead. Should hopefully be close enough.
Just added a bunch more assets to hopefully reduce some of the repetition.
Also tried to use the supersampling mod but my poor old 6950 is only pushing out 20 fps when I zoom down at my default resolution (2560x1200) so it gets a little upset when I push it up!
Very nearly ordered a 290x last night as I saw the Sapphire Vapor-x one for £275, but I've decided to just wait for the 380x instead. Should hopefully be close enough.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Im just waiting for the tunnels update before I continue playing.
Me too. I've already put 40 hours into the game anyway.
InaudibleWhispa
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There's a workaround involving deleting the road in front of cargo stations and having a road connect vertically right in front of the entrance/exit like this. It's also a good example of how to keep your internal cargo network separate from the external for efficiency, with two connected via road for import/export.
I haven't tried it yet, but there's a mod for better and more efficient garbage truck AI.
Soda has been making a lot of useful mods. Early Death is great, and I like the remove seagulls one just because of all the parks I've been using for decoration lately.
My city thus far. Only 22,000 peeps spread across 3 squares. Some more variety on the buildings as the industrial ones thanks to some mods. Also of course a different UI.
Been using that myself, seems to be working quite well. It goes after garbage in the district first and then it looks for garbage in the radius.
Been using that myself, seems to be working quite well. It goes after garbage in the district first and then it looks for garbage in the radius.
Welcome to FC Barcalona
has Metro, Train and Airport links. Doing very well.
What mod is that stadium and the metro? Thank you.
Thanks!
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
squeeee
PHOENIXZERO
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Sooo, I guess I'll be reinstalling the game this week from the sound of it. It was uninstalled from my PC upgrading and a fresh install for the SSD I bought. I forgot to save my custom fire department and incinerator, ugh.
EDIT: Okay they were saved in the Skylines folder so I still have them, yay! Forgot I altered the metro station too. Speaking of which I think I might redo my metro lines again and do as shown earlier with having just one station for each area with buses to take people around instead of multiple since many barely get used anyway.
EDIT: Okay they were saved in the Skylines folder so I still have them, yay! Forgot I altered the metro station too. Speaking of which I think I might redo my metro lines again and do as shown earlier with having just one station for each area with buses to take people around instead of multiple since many barely get used anyway.
Oh snap, might be that quite big update... already...
Woo. Hopefully they aren't all the same.
EDIT: Moo says that is the slop at it's limit. Ther are also different levels for tunnels and intersections. No footpath tunnels yet.
Also another change in the patch
Asset editor: Added the ability to set custom thumbnails and tooltip images for all types of assets (in the save panel)
Any asset that doesn;t have one can be marked as incompatible by players, and the asset creators will be contacted about adding one.
I'd love motorway off/on ramps to be a bit more gentle when merging too but that won't happen now.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Later this week? Outstanding. I've been playing other games waiting for tunnels to come, and I've been craving me some CSL again lately.
If it hits this week then Goodbye Weekend, lol.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Finally tunnels!
Now we can make REAL cities.
Now we can make REAL cities.
Lilalaunebaer
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Yo, we got tunnels now? Thanks to a holiday i´ll have a four day weekend. This won´t end well.
Interfectum
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That's awesome.
Melon Husk
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Alright, time to get back in. Wall-to-wall buildings... I forgot about those. Definitely the biggest visual change.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Wow nice. Having tunnels will solve a lot of traffic outflow problems, especially for industrial trucks in certain city configurations.
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