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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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motorised mallard
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It looked a lot easier on the streams!
Anyway, lesson learned, design for the 4/6/highway width right away, moving your every ploppable building in a 18k person city in order to upgrade roads isn't fun. Didn't encounter any major problems yet.
As a positive though, my crappy cpu manages to hold decent frame rate so far on medium settings on speed 3.
New city tomorrow/later today, this time with proper roads.
Anyway, lesson learned, design for the 4/6/highway width right away, moving your every ploppable building in a 18k person city in order to upgrade roads isn't fun. Didn't encounter any major problems yet.
As a positive though, my crappy cpu manages to hold decent frame rate so far on medium settings on speed 3.
New city tomorrow/later today, this time with proper roads.
Strange, I totally tried forcing Vsync through my nvidia control panel and it didn't work. Anyone else having this issue? I'm not really hearing anyone talking about it which is odd. Are most people not having the problem? I'm real damn sensitive to Vsync issues, so I can't play the game until I fix the problem.
PumpkinSpice
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The bus options in this game suck. I'm still pre-trains, and I want to make one road a high capacity bus area, but I can't. I can't increase frequency of busses, I can't just pump more buses on certain routes, I can't make longer or double-decker buses, I can't do anything.
Once trains unlock I'll make that line a rain line but I still would rather be able to designate certain bus lines as being far more frequent than others.
Once trains unlock I'll make that line a rain line but I still would rather be able to designate certain bus lines as being far more frequent than others.
It only allows me to build in one direction
Hydro power plants use the water physics to determine capability. You need a certain amount of water pressure to push through the dam. If you build your dam against a slow flowing river or largely static lake, it's entirely possible for the water to fail to reach the necessary force. With that said, there is also the matter of having to wait for the water level on the dammed side to rise enough such that the pressure is created. It's possible that you just need to let it sit (turned on) for a while.
Legato.Reborn-
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So if there's not enough force, it'll just be dry on the other side?
Poodlestrike
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My first town was going great! Nearly a thousand people, no traffic issues to speak of, lots of room to expand.
Then I snagged the highway interchange and tried to redo it, only to realize that I didn't actually have the road bits to build the offramps.
City 2.0 will go much better, but god I wish they included an undo button.
Then I snagged the highway interchange and tried to redo it, only to realize that I didn't actually have the road bits to build the offramps.
City 2.0 will go much better, but god I wish they included an undo button.
Same here but I managed to play 7 hours anyway. Great game. But yea they need to fix this bad.
diggmcbadass
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Got lost in this game for six hours, which is a really good sign.
Checked out the stats on Steam as well, and this game is pulling some awesome numbers. 60k peak players on the first day, and 3rd most played game on Steam today.
Checked out the stats on Steam as well, and this game is pulling some awesome numbers. 60k peak players on the first day, and 3rd most played game on Steam today.
Thanks and I agree. I eventually found it myself by accident. Then had to find the right buses for each line..
theepicoftyler
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Here is my little town. I'm trying to grow it in a style reminiscent of my growing up in small Midwestern towns.
I think it will be fun to establish a large sprawl and then create more density later.
Also, I have no idea how pedestrian paths are supposed to work. Any tips?
Not 100% sure whether water will still trickle through if the dam's on, while still not generating energy.
What I'd look for is the water rising on the dammed side. If I'm understanding how they wrk correctly, if the water stops getting higher and there's still no functionality (that is, pressure has maxed out), the dam's in a bad spot.
I know I saw Quill mess with dams and he was in the same boat as you are, wondering why no power was being generated. He let the game run for a while and tinkered with other crap. When he came back to the dam several minutes later, it was spitting out a shitload of power.
chrominance
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It kind of sounds like you want one of the Cities in Motion games, actually, where you can do most/all of these things (scheduling only came in with CIM2, I think).
Maybe one day Colossal Order will make a city sim that also has all the complexity of Cities in Motion, at which point I will just never leave the house again because I will play it all day every day until I die.
Okay, so I won a copy of this game from Psykoboy2's awesome Twitch stream (check it out at http://www.twitch.tv/ingamechat!), but I had already preordered from Green Man Gaming, and now I have an extra Steam copy!
So to help spread the love of this amazing game in a small way and pay forward a bit of Psykoboy2 and friends' kindness, if there is anyone who held out on preordering who would like to buy the game now for cheaper than you could preorder for, I am looking for $20 PayPal gift. I have all positive feedback in the GAF B/S/T thread!
So to help spread the love of this amazing game in a small way and pay forward a bit of Psykoboy2 and friends' kindness, if there is anyone who held out on preordering who would like to buy the game now for cheaper than you could preorder for, I am looking for $20 PayPal gift. I have all positive feedback in the GAF B/S/T thread!
One thing that's slightly annoying is that it's kind of hard to find your important buildings at a glance. I would like a mod where the various buildings (fire, police, schools, etc) stand out a bit more from other buildings. Icons would work too.
Are commercial buildings affected by pollution? I wonder if it's efficient to put a layer of commercial between my industrial and residential zones.
Are commercial buildings affected by pollution? I wonder if it's efficient to put a layer of commercial between my industrial and residential zones.
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Dude, that sucks. Hopefully they patch that, as that idea looks boss.
Eraser_Arcade
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Man, I wish there was an extra tier on the game timer to make the time go even slower. The default (slowest) speed seems a little too fast to me.
When you click on the build icons, say water and every water building will be marked purple.
Anyone? :-D
VindictiveGnome
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So what's the deal with high density residential vs low density? Once I unlock high, is there a reason to use low again? Same with commercial and office.
I can find each type that way, but I'd prefer if it wasn't necessary to go into those views. Should be able to see every important building at a glance just by its outline/shape and color.
Chubzdoomer
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So SimCity has officially been dethroned. Man, these are such strange times...
PoweredBySoy
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I think I went too curvy with my first town, and it feels like I'm having trouble getting any momentum. I'm going to adopt a bit more grid I think - at least for my first section. Then once I get a solid economy I'll start making pretty suburbs.
EA gonna EA.
This is what I've got so far. I messed up my initial roads bad, but getting there.
PoweredBySoy
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Anyone? I feel like a moran not being able to figure this out.
VindictiveGnome
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I believe when you're districting, you select the type. It's at the bottom.
Draw out the district over your industry area then just select the Farm one and click in the district, there should be a tractor icon or similar indicating the switch. So you have to use the generic district tool first then "stamp" it with the farm-stuff
Yes they will leave their cars parked. It is insane how much it helps.
I basically have a city now where in my entire residential district barely any normal car drives. They all walk and will soon take the bus. I have 1 health clinic and 1 cemetery and they have perfect coverage and access for a population of 3500.
I have 1 police department and 2 fire departments and never has a building burned down cause they can get to any of them without a hitch.
I fucking love my city.
theepicoftyler
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Can you show how your pedestrian trails are set up? I want to do it but I don't know what works.
Melon Husk
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Here is my little town. I'm trying to grow it in a style reminiscent of my growing up in small Midwestern towns.
I think it will be fun to establish a large sprawl and then create more density later.
Also, I have no idea how pedestrian paths are supposed to work. Any tips?
Pavement snap to the end of a road but you don't actually have to connect them in order to succesfully create a footpath. As long as it looks linked to the road, it should work. You can keep an eye on it for awhile to make sure you've linked them to a sidewalk.
Oh. and make lots of them. Your citizens shouldn't have to navigate a car to that shop/office across the yard.
So every time you start a new city you have to go through the milestones to unlock things correct?
For the first time through I think that might be good so you don't get overwhelmed. Could be annoying after that. Unless there is a way of stopping that and I'm just missing it.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/
GMG still has it for $21.89
For the first time through I think that might be good so you don't get overwhelmed. Could be annoying after that. Unless there is a way of stopping that and I'm just missing it.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/
GMG still has it for $21.89
A few pics of my city, just to show it off.
You should be able to see the walkways and how they are set up
TemplaerDude
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I think the best thing about my city building strategy is the extremely careful planning involved.
(Yes, lame grid stuff for industry, don't worry, almost everything else is curved
Oh god oh god so sexy. Two more hours until I can jump in!
Holy crap addiction alert. I have to actively stop myself from playing more.
The current state of my city with roughly 10000 inhabitants:
Oh, hey... that looks pretty clever. Are you using trees only for decoration or do they actually help reduce noise from the turbines?
I'm going to skip ahead to the end of the thread to ask a question and depending on the answer I will back up and read my way through it. I got Sim City at launch and was disappointed with all the issues but loved the idea of the game. I didn't know about this until just now and had thought it was another one of the Cities XL rehashes. I just bought the expansion for Sim City (it was cheap!) and installed it but I will uninstall it and buy this if it is that much better. What do you think so far, should I jump ship to this and not look back or try out Sim City first (if that won't taint my perception of this)?
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