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Eraser_Arcade
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Here's a pic of my 1st town:
Is anyone else using gravel roads for all the residential areas, or is it just me? lol
Is anyone else using gravel roads for all the residential areas, or is it just me? lol
Maybe this was from the press release version that wasn't patched with the lane changing yet?
And it all depends on how your city is set up and how your services are placed.
Like, In my city, my services are all set up in such a way that the service vehicles can get to any place in the city easily and then get back to the station easily.
Lots of careful planning. Also banning heavy traffic from residential (maybe even commercial? are trucks really needed there?) zones, having good public transport, having lots of walkways helps a lot with keeping the streets clear.
I can't remember where I read it, or if I even did:
Am I right in thinking that non-rectangular plots and wall-to-wall buildings are coming in a future update? Would be great to be able to build the sort of tight, asymmetrical street layout of old European cities without having empty grass between the buildings. Currently everything tends to look like America.
EDIT: eg:
i really hope so
I love just following a single vehicle around, a really neat way to see your city.
That can be a negative aspect of the traffic system, but it's less so than in the pre-release version from what I saw on streams, however, my city is around 90k in size now (which is very large for this game, since it doesn't fudge population numbers), I have very little public transport (Two metro lines, a harbour, some freight trains and an airport) and I have zero traffic problems.
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I have a question for people, how the hell do I get tourism to be a big thing? I even have a space elevator now, and it barely brings in anyone. Tourism in my city is pathetic.
That can be a negative aspect of the traffic system, but it's less so than in the pre-release version from what I saw on streams, however, my city is around 90k in size now (which is very large for this game, since it doesn't fudge population numbers), I have very little public transport (Two metro lines, a harbour, some freight trains and an airport) and I have zero traffic problems.
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I have a question for people, how the hell do I get tourism to be a big thing? I even have a space elevator now, and it barely brings in anyone. Tourism in my city is pathetic.
SomedayTheFire
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Everyone posting their cities is making me sad. I'm proud of my crappy first city but jeez it's a nightmare lol. It looks terrible, it's laid out badly and I just haven't a clue what goes into building a good one.
Does this version have the purple or brown ground pollution? I know myself and a few others still have purple and I thought that the traffic update also changed that. If so does anyone know of a way to force the update?
See I did this when I first built my city, but the person drove home and after about a month of game time she never left her house again to go back to work haha.
Ethical Hedonism
Banned
I'm the worst city planner of all time.
Hikikomori?
What I noticed is that the game sometimes gets confused if you have several separate sewer systems, e.g. In two different parts of the map. I had a small island with independent water supply and waste disposal which always ran at only a fraction of capacity that fucked with the supply bar graph even when my mainland colony was in danger of running dry. I fixed it by accident because I connected both systems when I started a new district close to the shore.
At least, that's what I remember from last night, harshly sleep deprived and high on fun.
Cute Dragon Here
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Learning from mistakes can be fun. "Next time I won't do that!"
Winterblink
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The good news is your cemetery has its first customer.
My pollution is definitely less purple than I saw in the streams, but i wouldn't call it "brown" either.
Edit: Man you guys all have like, huge cities with tens of thousands of people.
I'm way too busy micromanaging my 4000 people city so that everything goes nice and smoothly XD
It's definitely possible if you use offramps for example. You'd have to draw in both sides though which might get annoying.
Quickly made a 'station' in the asset editor:
Basileus777
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I think I'm going to start with everything unlocked for my next city. Playing with progression on is leading me into early transit mistakes due to the lack of tools available.
So just demolish stuff that came before? I've done that plenty of times, it's really not a big deal.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
What I've been doing (now that I have incinerators) is emptying a landfill when it gets full but then turning them back on again once all of the trash is burned off, so none of my landfills are ever sitting empty and turned off. It's been working so far. Also, I learned that you need to spread some landfills & incinerators around so your areas have quick access to them. This isn't like Simcity 5 where simply having a landfill in the city is enough, if the drive time is too long then garbage will pile up while your trucks are driving back and forth. Also, I originally put my landfills at the end of a long road out by itself and quickly learned just how bad of an idea that is when traffic is actually simulated at the agent level.
I'm having to unlearn a lot of my standard Simcity tactics because traffic actually works in this game, LOL.
Ethical Hedonism
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The good news is your cemetery has its first customer.
It's been a good few years (gametime now) and she's still alive and well, being employed at her house but I've still never seen her car move. Maybe she just takes public transport and I never noticed.
Kabouter sounds like the worst mayor.
"Got a master degree? Nice, you can clean the floors - don't cry, you don't even want to know what these pleb bachelors have to do."
"I am happy to announce that we will begin flaten the whole city starting at monday to build a new one. Again."
"Got a master degree? Nice, you can clean the floors - don't cry, you don't even want to know what these pleb bachelors have to do."
"I am happy to announce that we will begin flaten the whole city starting at monday to build a new one. Again."
Mmm, spaghetti and meatballs.
martino
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I'm not sure but i remember a streamer saying it's leisure related.
I have crazy good leisure coverage, so that's a bit odd :/
Well, I mean, it's not like the master's degree is going unused. They need that level of education to understand my road spaghetti.
It's a combination of land value and monuments.
Well, I have one monument and loads of unique buildings and my city is spammed full of parks and what not so land value certainly isn't an issue. Really don't know what I could be missing.
Oh, from the Kotaku comments by the way, by the reviewer:
Presumably that means his city was still relatively small (you unlock the 9th one at I believe 65k), so either he was terrible at designing his city or they've patched the traffic significantly since.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
So I've had an overly complex sewage system for 7hrs. Guess my next city wont have that problem
Where is this located?Gonna try this when I get back home:
I can't remember where I read it, or if I even did:
Am I right in thinking that non-rectangular plots and wall-to-wall buildings are coming in a future update? Would be great to be able to build the sort of tight, asymmetrical street layout of old European cities without having empty grass between the buildings. Currently everything tends to look like America.
EDIT: eg:
Do you have a problem with America, buddy?
trickyaudio
Neo Member
Got a mid 2014 iris MacBook Pro retina with 8 gigs of RAM. If I boot into Windows will this game run alright on it?
Really really wanna play this, but my PC is in storage.
Really really wanna play this, but my PC is in storage.
No, there is no real "roundabout" law in the traffic.
It's available on Mac and Linux.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
My game has purple-ish ground pollution. Anyone have pics of the brown ground pollution for comparison?
I've got a MacBook Pro from 2012. Works great in OSX.
I played about 4 hours last night and right after I got the city upgrade that lets you build nuclear power (45k people I think?) All of a sudden my population started declining at a rapid rate and I don't know why.
When I check the charts for my city, you can see population growth is just skyrocketing all the way until this point.
I've got parks, monuments, etc all over so happiness is around 80~ish percent
I've got schools everywhere and education level is high
Taxes for all zones are at 11%
Sewage, power and pollution are all ok
Crime rate is low, fire coverage and medical coverage are all great
I'm really just sort of fumbling blindly trying to figure out what the deal is. I'm getting abandoned buildings as people are leaving that I'm not destroying, I'm trying to stay on top of burned buildings.
No one is complaining about anything though so that's what has me puzzled.
I've done away with almost all my low density residential and commerical zones. Should I put more back in or re-zone some back in for some reason?
I might bump taxes down a little too.
Hmmm...
When I check the charts for my city, you can see population growth is just skyrocketing all the way until this point.
I've got parks, monuments, etc all over so happiness is around 80~ish percent
I've got schools everywhere and education level is high
Taxes for all zones are at 11%
Sewage, power and pollution are all ok
Crime rate is low, fire coverage and medical coverage are all great
I'm really just sort of fumbling blindly trying to figure out what the deal is. I'm getting abandoned buildings as people are leaving that I'm not destroying, I'm trying to stay on top of burned buildings.
No one is complaining about anything though so that's what has me puzzled.
I've done away with almost all my low density residential and commerical zones. Should I put more back in or re-zone some back in for some reason?
I might bump taxes down a little too.
Hmmm...
How long has it been declining for?
I've seen many streams where the population goes down for no real reason, but soon picks up again.
trickyaudio
Neo Member
Keep in mind that if you unlock everything from the start that means you will also need to take care of everything from the start. That means trash, bodies, crime fires all piling up on day 1.
toadsworth
Banned
Any interesting/great maps found on the workshop yet? I'm not very fond of any of the premades.
evilpigking
Member
Do you unlock overpasses later on? I was trying to build some pedi walkways over the roads but it just gave me the structure already present line
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I actually really like the progression of the game so far playing in normal mode. Feels like it helps your city to grow more naturally, and even though I only got up to 10K pop in seven hours last night, I'm pretty sure that once I'm familiar with the game I'll be able to grow large bustling cities pretty rapidly.
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