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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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Mayjaplaya
Neo Member
Yeah I'm slightly confused by that design decision. I'm too used to driving the emergency vehicles myself, plowing and smashing through traffic, horn permanently on.
TimeEffect
Member
Do you turn on policies?
Policies were costing me like $2K a WEEK, which was putting me in the negative.
Regarding power:
Make sure your energy production is higher than your consumption, or else you'll have power failures.
Increase production by raising budget, making another wind turbine... Power lines seem to have an invisible spread, but you just put them on the perimeter of a zone, and you should see them lighting up the buildings in a blue colour.
A powerline has to be placed inside the blue electricity zone or it will not provide power.
Nah, it's good. I'd have noticed by now if they're backwards.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
It reads your system's DPI scaling, though be warned that the UI doesn't have higher-resolution assets, so expect some blur.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah, I would think it would be very easy to do so. Like a NeoGAF city building challenge, that would be cool.
I initially thought so too, until I realized that all roads include sidewalks for pedestrians, and they get used too. The sidewalks make the roads seem a bit wider than most of us are used to in the Simcity games. Most roads also include space for sims to park there cars along the street edges too, so yeah the roads are wide but for good reasons IMHO. Looks cool in game down at street level.
CarbonFire
Member
That's helped, now I can set the textures to medium again.
Glad it helped. 1440x900 is almost half the resolution of what you were running before, so it's not surprising that GT 650m was struggling. Enjoy!
theepicoftyler
Member
I think this would be neat. Design some maps that are difficult to manage, and see how everyone uniquely handles the challenge.
edit: Here is my lunchbreak progress.
Managed some traffic issues that were allowing garbage to pile up (building the 4 lane over pass), and constructed a 4 lane road down to where downtown will be, to hopefully keep the larger industrial/commercial traffic out of the residential areas (which was bottlenecking things in some places).
ohblahitsme
Member
Okay I bought it. Can't wait to play this tonight!
Reddit pics:
I'm going to have to try this.
Will work particularly well sticking the services in the center and then having highway access on multiple sides.
VindictiveGnome
Member
How do I delete saves?
DeadlyParasite
Member
How are people elevating rail lines above roads and highways?
CarbonFire
Member
Traffic lights are the devil. Avoid at all costs. I had the same thing happen when I upgraded a roundabout from a 2 lane one-way to a 6 lane one.
Mayjaplaya
Neo Member
I tried the first 3 policies on for a while and got a bit worried when I noticed I was suddenly losing money.
Has anybody measured the actual benefits of the policies to see if they're ever worth it?
TimeEffect
Member
CarbonFire
Member
While you're placing roads/rails/footpaths, PgUp to raise up a level, PgDn to lower. There are no underground paths yet, but those are supposedly being worked on by CO.
I think they are only worth it on higher density because you pay "per building".
So on many smaller buildings you pay way too much for how much water/electricity you save, but on the big buildings with lots of people in them it can be worth it
DeadlyParasite
Member
Oh wow, thanks. This completely changes how I lay out my city.
With my larger city, it runs like ass.
I've set everything to low and turned off all the bells and whistles to be able to play.
There have been a few reports that the game is having problems with Nvidia hardware on the Mac side, while older macs with ATI/AMD hardware and even the new integrated graphics from Intel are running it fairly smoothly, so hopefully they can issue an update to resolve it.
TemplaerDude
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Yeah that seems to be a problem with the agent logic in that they will always immediately take the lane they need no matter what is open, which would be fine if emergency services didn't exist but it's a little frustrating to see a line of cars all wanting to turn left ahead piled up behind an ambulance despite a completely open lane beside them. I think having those services as actual agents in the game is key to the experience, but I wish the rest of the traffic had a little more flexibility in how it uses the lanes. It has only been a minor problem for me so far though!
Gotta tell the girlfriend I'm busy tonight so I can play more after work, the two hours I managed to squeeze in last night were not enough! Love how the game feels so far though.
GrizzleBoy
Banned
3500 is very small lol. Wait till you need to manage 35000.
Raven77
Member
This...this is a FANTASTIC idea. I'm in if someone puts it together and can help out setting it up if needed. Just PM me.
I'm too much of a perfectionist. My city is at 4500 after like 4 hours. I am constantly tweaking and tweaking, slowly growing.
CarbonFire
Member
Looks like Skylines will stay at a 89% Metacritic score. Well deserved, hopefully this gets more people to check it out. So many people are gun shy about this genre after Sim City and Cities XXL. Keep spreading the word!
Started a new district in town before heading to bed last night...
It's kind of nestled up against a hillside though, so the layout is a bit messed up from what I had wanted.
Mass transit seems to be working pretty well though. I have a metro line that dumps people out right by the opera house, and then a bus loop that runs up the hill with stops at the stadium and the expo center. A second line loops through the residential and office sections to the right and then back to the metro station.
It's kind of nestled up against a hillside though, so the layout is a bit messed up from what I had wanted.
Mass transit seems to be working pretty well though. I have a metro line that dumps people out right by the opera house, and then a bus loop that runs up the hill with stops at the stadium and the expo center. A second line loops through the residential and office sections to the right and then back to the metro station.
Can anybody give me an idea of what % of your population is using public transport? I only have buses so far, was thinking of building a metro but even with a pretty decent bus line setup in my opinion, I'm only getting 1,500 people out of my 45,000 population using public transport each week. :/ No need to spend a ton of money on a metro if even with the 'free public transport' policy city wide I'm barely getting any bus usage.
Just to show off, my first city - was going well last night. Got to 10k pop. and a moment after I took the pics below my PC had some kind of fit and I lost my progress. Sobering lesson to save game every 1 second.
No matter in the end as today, I've got a new city under way, just under 20k at the moment. Going for a northern English town kind of layout. four lane bypasses go a long way in streamlining your traffic without the need for highways.
how to build over a road? and I can't get high density market thing to work ....
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I have about 3,000 out of my city of 23,000 using public transport. I have a bunch of bus lines and metro lines, but no passenger train. Also have free public transport policy enabled.
Gunmonkey36
Member
Meh, curse all the love for sandbox. I want a campaign. I easily grow bored of the sandbox.
Still looks interesting I'm sure I will have it once upon a steam sale.
RandomExpletive
Member
My rMBP, specifically the Iris 5100 integrated card absolutely wants to kill me for making it run this game, but gosh darn it nothings keeping me from playing this game! Not even this atrocious resolution!
I'm not going to get a lot of work done these next few weeks :\
humble beginnings
1 hour and 1 loan (just paid off!) later...
I'm not going to get a lot of work done these next few weeks :\
Alright cool, maybe I just need a nice metro setup too. What do your bus stops look like zoomed in? Each of mine have about a thousand people waiting it seems, I've seen other peoples cities have had the same thing so I'm not sure if that means I have huge demand but not enough buses or just all stops look like that for some reason.
Go to content manager from the main menu. There is a saved games tab.
TimeEffect
Member
You guys want a challenge?
Sim City Mode: How many sardines can you fit in a 2x2 km tile?
(Image stolen from Reddit)
Sim City Mode: How many sardines can you fit in a 2x2 km tile?
(Image stolen from Reddit)
xrayregime
Member
I'm at about 12,000 residents now. When you guys design your cities, do you tend to bulldoze built up areas and redraw roads/mass transit to alleviate traffic or solve it some other way. I think I need to watch some of the traffic tutorial videos. Also might need to take out a loan.
God, 3:30am (almost) again! Time to sleep. Here's an update of how my city is looking.
Full city view. I'm slowly getting rid of the factories and changing them with offices. I will also probably add factories again but in the northern side, next to the small little town I got going on up there.
Central Park district! Got all my fancy houses here.
The little town everybody (in a train) has to get through before reaching my city. I like this town but i think I will make it a factory-heavy town with all the cheaper labor and dirty jobs... already feel bad for the people living here!
My convention hall, future shopping area and new exotic area for the people with money to live (hopefully!). Got some buses and subway going to the main train station and a couple other areas in the town.
And a view of the incredibly boring entrance to my town. There's another entrance that is newer, but it's also not very interesting...
First-person camera mod that got released about an hour ago:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406255342&searchtext=
Took a screenshot at a bus station on one of the busier streets. Do note that there's clipping if you're too close to the ground, and you can't see inside buildings, cars, buses, people etc. I can't wait until someone make better textures/variety for cars, buildings people and so on.
Overview of my first town. I'm not going to continue on it, but I really liked making different districts separated by roads in this way. The industrial district is on the far left & right close to the river, and then there's commercial districts to the lower left & right with the middle being all residential.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406255342&searchtext=
Took a screenshot at a bus station on one of the busier streets. Do note that there's clipping if you're too close to the ground, and you can't see inside buildings, cars, buses, people etc. I can't wait until someone make better textures/variety for cars, buildings people and so on.
Overview of my first town. I'm not going to continue on it, but I really liked making different districts separated by roads in this way. The industrial district is on the far left & right close to the river, and then there's commercial districts to the lower left & right with the middle being all residential.
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Maybe been discussed already, but it looks like most of the custom buildings in the Steam workshop actually just get added to the pool of buildings for whatever type they're flagged as - they're not just "ploppables" like people were initially expecting. Once I get my achievements I'll be adding tons of models for sure.
TimeEffect
Member
Anyone try the hard mode mod?
I find the game has a tipping point where it becomes super easy to rake in cash and not worry about finances. But financial planning is one of my favourite components to a game like this.
Disasters and seasons should make for a great money managing gameplay feature.
Also, I wish homelessness, jails/high crime were more fleshed out, so I could spend more money. I just have way too much cash, and my taxes aren't even so high, since everyone pays them without complaint.
I find the game has a tipping point where it becomes super easy to rake in cash and not worry about finances. But financial planning is one of my favourite components to a game like this.
Disasters and seasons should make for a great money managing gameplay feature.
Also, I wish homelessness, jails/high crime were more fleshed out, so I could spend more money. I just have way too much cash, and my taxes aren't even so high, since everyone pays them without complaint.
Varies, but yeah, a lot of them look like they have a ton of people standing around.
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