TimeEffect
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Thanks, fixed it
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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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Thanks, fixed it
You can remove the power lines unless there are huge gaps of undeveloped land (or empty spaces) between powered zones.
Judging from that pic you posted, keep the power lines at the top of the image, remove the rest.
Serianox
Member
Can it just be deaths as a result of old age? Its going to happen from time to time.
Steam likes to do that. ¯\_(ツ_/¯
Just ignore it, tell it to not show it again because even if you need it in the future (unlikely) you can right click the game and press "View CD key".
Thanks everyone!
MikeGameDev
Neo Member
Man my FPS tanks to nearly unplayable levels at around 30k population.
Any fixes?
Any fixes?
Mayjaplaya
Neo Member
I hate the chirper in this game. I turned on the mod that removed it about 15 minutes after starting the game. The chirper and advisor are so useless compared to the advisors + news ticker in SC4. They don't tell you anything's wrong until shit hits the fan.
The writing of the messages themselves is another indicator of this game's relative lack of personality compared to SimCity. Rest In Peace Maxis.
itllgrobak
Member
This game is giving my oc'd 2500k prime95 levels of stress, when zoomed all the way in on a busy street the cpu gets to 75c. No other game i've played has come close.
Hit 50k population earlier, haven't really run into any difficulties yet, some traffic in the red but not at a complete standstill.
Hit 50k population earlier, haven't really run into any difficulties yet, some traffic in the red but not at a complete standstill.
EatinOlives
Member
I was going to do this too until I realized that turning on any mods disables Steam achievements.
They're not even that important on a game like this, but...if I meet an achievement's reqs I want to get credit for it, dammit >:|
EDIT: I guess I'll ask my earlier question again: has anyone figured out how to remove the ugly jaggies from the game?
I have the same GPU as you, although my CPU is significantly worse (Core 2 Quad Q9500...which is 7 years old). I'm able to run the game on medium settings at 1080p around 30 FPS. When my population exceeds 40k, and I start zooming in on some landscapes, the frame rate will drop into the low 20s. Honestly, though, in a game like this, it's not a big deal.
With your CPU, I imagine you'll get a constant 30+ frames per second, regardless of how large your city becomes.
No. In the population panel it shows more people being born, while my population count is dropping at a steady rate.
ohblahitsme
Member
Hi,
So I have two computers and this game isn't working on either of them:
1) Windows PC. It's 32-bit and that's likely the problem. My options here are to install a new OS?
2) Mac: 10.9.5, i5, 4 GB ram, intel HD 3000. The game won't start. Every time I click play it tries to open and then crashes. (Overlay is disabled).
What are my options?
So I have two computers and this game isn't working on either of them:
1) Windows PC. It's 32-bit and that's likely the problem. My options here are to install a new OS?
2) Mac: 10.9.5, i5, 4 GB ram, intel HD 3000. The game won't start. Every time I click play it tries to open and then crashes. (Overlay is disabled).
What are my options?
At 53k pop right now. It stalled a bit at ~40k but slowly kept chugging along as buildings upgraded and now demand is up for RCI. Working on bridging the gap between suburbs and core. I have found a great way to deal with the masses of industrial trucks. Seems the best idea is just not to zone industrial in massive chucks.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
At 53k pop right now. It stalled a bit at ~40k but slowly kept chugging along as buildings upgraded and now demand is up for RCI. Working on bridging the gap between suburbs and core. I have found a great way to deal with the masses of industrial trucks. Seems the best idea is just not to zone industrial in massive chucks.
How much space are you putting in-between your industrial zoning?
Well you can kind of see all three there in the background. I havent tested it but it seems like smaller but closer industrial zones would be most efficient.
edit:
A complete mess. I didnt know the cargo station would generate so many trucks which caused massive traffic jams originally as the two areas were separated. The interchanges became clogged so just made direct highway between the two areas. Its been like this since my city was 16-20k. Will eventually get around to making it nicer. I think those landfills are now empty so I can remove than and redo the road.
anonymous_abc
Member
Your image is in 4k resolution but rendered in 1920x1200, what gives?
Print screen on MBPr will do that. The game is only rendered at 900p due to performance issues otherwise.
I have a question regarding Achievements. Anyone else having problems with them being unreliable.
I have more than 5 big police head quarters, more than 5 big fire departments, and at least 20 different districts with different policies on my map. yet none of those trophies will pop.
Any idea?
No mods active!
anonymous_abc
Member
I believe they improve morale in the area around them. Also they probably bring in tourists.
RandomExpletive
Member
You've not enabled any mods right? IIRC mods disable achievements
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Gonna leave my city running on stream while I go out for some drinks. Hopefully it'll still be there when I get back. Feel free to witness whatever happens to an unattended city. I think I built it pretty well. I don't forsee any problems.
http://www.twitch.tv/rentahamster
population at 90k
I left the camera to auto follow my subway system.
http://www.twitch.tv/rentahamster
population at 90k
I left the camera to auto follow my subway system.
bearythebear
Member
For some reason, I can't figure out the most elegant way to make a road system that attaches to the two fucking one way roads that connect to the city. It's kinda annoying.
Sir Abacus
Member
So I decided to tackle my first megaproject. So may I present to you one half of the Rockfield Skyway
anonymous_abc
Member
Nope vanilla CS.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
My biggest pet peeve and it's purely graphical is I don't like how on and off ramps merge on highways. They just kinda intersect at extreme angles.
What map is this?
What map is this?
Is there a convenient way to clear existing public transport routes? I hopelessly confused the AI trying to make metro routes for a-b, b-c, and c-a each with their own track.
Edit: or manually tweak pathing, even after clearing it wants to run c-b-a even though c-a is far shorter.
Edit: or manually tweak pathing, even after clearing it wants to run c-b-a even though c-a is far shorter.
AFAIK, 1) you need a 64-bit OS to play this game.
2) look on the Cities Skylines subreddit, theres a sticky of known solutions and most of it is with regards to Macs.
Good luck, I'm having a BLAST with this game. Time goes by when youre managing a city!
Just plop a roundabout and deal with it later.
garginator850
Banned
Damn I got a lot to learn about this game. My cities have been failures so far. Maybe I'll watch more videos because I suck lol
superdeluxe
Member
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Really nice shot from the Skylines subreddit:
Is there a way to turn off the motion blur? I'm also having screen tearing
In your options, there's a slider for tilt-shift, drop that all the way down. If you're getting tearing, are you playing on Mac? If Windows, have yuo disabled Aero or something? On PC, the game's fullscreen mode is actually fullscreen windowed, so the Aero side of the OS should be forcing triple-buffering.
An option there, fiddly as it is, is to micromanage the grid 'depth' of the zones, how many cubes perpendicuolar to the road. a building on a 1 grid deep bit of zoning is very different to a 4. Zone only the grid adjacent to the road and you'll get little shackhut bungalow things.
The noise pollution thing is my current theory on the peculiar out-of-the-blue death spikes (the ones that aren't a general old-age die-off anyway). I'm wondering if, when a player has a general lay out that places residential in areas of nominal, continual noise pollution (such as next to the commercial district, or parallel to a main highway, etc.) the game is taking that trace amount of noise pollution and incrementally ticking down the wellbeing of the residents, perhaps by a single 'tick' on the in-game scale. This could lead to a pretty unified point at which many citizens all tick over the good->bad health threshold at around the same time. Again though, haven't played enough to test this out, it's just a working theory.
finalflame
Banned
So, is there a better way to transfer power than to have ugly powerlines everywhere? I was having a lot of trouble; the powerlines don't seem to connect to the power plant at any specific location, and just get in the way of building. But I don't think I see others using them the same way.
Also, for some reason, when I tried to make a second segment of powerline, even though I was connecting them to existing powered powerlines, they kept giving me the disconnected plug icon and there was no power :/
I really wanna get into this game as I love city builders, but the controls and systems seem really clunky and unpolished at the moment. For all its problems, SC 2013 was a much better polished product at launch.
Also, for some reason, when I tried to make a second segment of powerline, even though I was connecting them to existing powered powerlines, they kept giving me the disconnected plug icon and there was no power :/
I really wanna get into this game as I love city builders, but the controls and systems seem really clunky and unpolished at the moment. For all its problems, SC 2013 was a much better polished product at launch.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
You can bulldoze extra power lines once enough buildings have come up to connect powered areas together. As for power line extensions not being powered, do you have enough total juice output to reliably carry the power farther out? I haven't had any issues with power lines so far.
finalflame
Banned
Alright, thanks, I'll give it a shot. I am pretty sure I had enough juice, it was a coal power plant and my city didn't even have 500 residents yet. I haven't figured out how to see powerplant capacity/output, I just saw a number for output (I believe) with no context as to what the max capacity was.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Another possibility is you just need time to pass a bit for the simulation to catch up and get the electricity flowing out.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Having a dedicated road for the industrial trucks to get the hell out of my city and go back to the industry buildings sure is helpful
finalflame
Banned
Pretty sure I put it on 3x speed and left it for at least a few seconds, nothing changed :./ Still gonna give it another shot before bed, these things tend to get better as you get more familiar with the game.
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