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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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Cute Dragon Here
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I have noticed that every time I create an intersection there's a chance that in addition to demolishing any buildings in the way, the game sometimes also partially dezones nearby buildings and ends up getting the buildings deleted soon afterwards and the buildings themselves rebuild.
Bug or as intended?
Bug or as intended?
PoweredBySoy
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Click on the building - or surrounding buildings.
I was having some of my industry going abandoned too. I zoned almost all of it on the other side of the highway, but I think that created the problem of worker access - and therefore a low worker pool. I created a couple bus lines over there which I think helped.
Industry also needs lots of immediate highway access.
If you click on an abandoned building, you can hover over the icon and it will tell you the reason why it is abandoned.
motorised mallard
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You can click the building and hover over the house icon next to the "Abandoned!" text if you didn't happen to be around to see what they were complaining about.
theepicoftyler
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I tore down my entire industry section last night and rebuilt it (using alternative save), but it caused all the growth in my city to stall out. I'm going to start again tonight, but try to do it more gradually.
PoweredBySoy
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I don't ever have any intention of building one of those damn things. Coal -> oil -> nuclear yeah baby.
Cute Dragon Here
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Speaking of power plants I was wondering if the capacities are realistic or not. It feels really strange to know that you need multiple coal power plants to get even a single tile to power on.
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
So I got bored of my 65k city and trashed it to get unique buildings. Very happy that they carry on to new cities
Got my new one at about 7k right now, but for the life of me I cannot do the 50% crime rate challenge. I don't even have a police station and it refuses to creep up over 20%
Got my new one at about 7k right now, but for the life of me I cannot do the 50% crime rate challenge. I don't even have a police station and it refuses to creep up over 20%
chrominance
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Yeah, I got super confused about this. Max power generated says 2000MW, which sounds great, but then I attempt to span one of my rivers with what looks like decent water flow and it says maaaaybe 64MW. Might as well use offshore turbines at that point, they're way cheaper. I must be missing something.
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
Yeah Im not a fan of hydro much either
I built one on a side river that had good flow and it outputted at around 200mw for a while, then completely stopped the flow of water and became redundant
I built one on a side river that had good flow and it outputted at around 200mw for a while, then completely stopped the flow of water and became redundant
NaughtyPrawn
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I'm really into city building games and have been eagerly awaiting a good one. I'd love to try this game but I'm afraid my PC won't be able to run it at all well.
My system specs are
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 398MH
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
I'd like to know if anyone with similar system specs to mine has tried to run the game and how was the performance?
My system specs are
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 398MH
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
I'd like to know if anyone with similar system specs to mine has tried to run the game and how was the performance?
Poodlestrike
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Well, it's complicated, but yeah, you do need a surprisingly large number of power plants to provide power to a fairly small number of people. The game simplifies things, though; normally, you need 3 sets of power plants: regular state, near peak, full peak. They're sorted in rising costs to operate and power output; a lot of peak plants aren't even runnable at all over long periods, you start running into issues with maintenance.
So... yeah. It's simplified, but multiple plants for each tile sounds right.
Wind's a really poor investment when you're just starting out. Offshore wind is great when you unlock it, and can afford it, but until then coal all the way.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
The crime rate in my city is 31% and I have a police station lol
xBladeM6x
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Because Solar is just too good. Also, I just prefer the aesthetic of it more than a huge mound of spirals in the ocean.
motorised mallard
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Getting a 500+ MW dam is quite nice, if you can find a place for it without flooding the neighbourhood or it becoming ~50 MW instead of 200+ MW for some reason.
I went for the courthouse monument/unique building and had to shut down pretty much everything to get it go past 50% and in "normal" play it stays under 7% even if I forget to plant those things.
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Don't shut the water/electrity down though.
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
tell me your secrets
SneakyStephan
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Lower your land value (demolish all your parks and cause some noise pollution) , leave abandoned buildings up instead of demolishing them, let some buildings burn out and leave the rubble. Your crime should go up.
Well, you certainly need more education. Dumb population will get into crime more than the educated folks.
Just like in real life.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Apparently crime follows me in city builders. My rates in SC2013 were hilariously high. This is what I want though lol. I will create megacity 1.
Just a few images of my city. Finally started to expand out of the initial area. Had some trouble trying to to the existing highway though so the on and off ramps are kind of a mess.
I kind of want Grove Park and Poplar Hills to be high density residential and commercial districts once I have access to those. Will likely keep the rest the same for this area. The connection to the highway on the right needs to be fixed though as traffic can be slow there but seems okay elsewhere with only a few minor redish areas. Did end up moving my sewage drains to the newly open area on the right since the river is flowing in that direction.
Wishing at times I can zoom down and walk or drive around the streets themselves. I need to find some better music though. I like what is in the game but after awhile it becomes annoying. So something similar would be nice. Regular everyday music would be worse however.
There has to be a better way of doing this and not have this look like a roller coaster ride.
I kind of want Grove Park and Poplar Hills to be high density residential and commercial districts once I have access to those. Will likely keep the rest the same for this area. The connection to the highway on the right needs to be fixed though as traffic can be slow there but seems okay elsewhere with only a few minor redish areas. Did end up moving my sewage drains to the newly open area on the right since the river is flowing in that direction.
Wishing at times I can zoom down and walk or drive around the streets themselves. I need to find some better music though. I like what is in the game but after awhile it becomes annoying. So something similar would be nice. Regular everyday music would be worse however.
Nothing wrong with the offshore turbines. They should be 'overpowered'.
It's all about placing it on the side that's upstream from the sewage valve.
It's all about placing it on the side that's upstream from the sewage valve.
Mengy
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I've not downloaded a single thing from the workshop yet. I want to, but once I get in game I just start playing and before I know it it's 1 AM and I've missed supper...
I perused the workshop on the steam website yesterday over lunch here at work, it was up to 1830 mods already. I'm afraid to look at what it is today!
This game is glorious in every way so far. Sure I have small nitpicks but they are hardly anything compared to how much is done right.
Teletraan1
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It depends on the map/topography. On my map the river had steep banks and I was only going to get 5mw each no matter where I placed them. Held out with coal-oil until I unlocked solar. Pollution goes away fast enough.
chrominance
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Eh, I started with normal wind turbines and it didn't take very long to unlock offshore. Maybe if you try to grow very fast it becomes untenable, but I generally take things slow in city builders.
Cute Dragon Here
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I must be doing something that makes city planners blush as I seem to never be able to get the crime rate above 5% under normal circumstances with proper play.
maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just not into these type of games, but I somehow managed to feel kinda bored within 7 hours of playing the game.
With my first city I have managed a population of 20000 and I have 500k in the bank and with various policies I'm earning between 1-2000C.
The game might get more complicated in terms of traffic and covering everything with services, but so far it's been no effort at all.
I basically feel like I'm just putting down RCI followed by supporting structures. I'm not quite liking how - if I want to make an agriculture area that all I have to do is change the district. Not only that, but the specialized buildings cannot reach any level.
It just comes off as kinda hallow to "specialize" in agriculture, when all there is to it is to zone in industry and change the destrict to the appropriate district.
I got to say that while SimCity 2013 is broken as hell and was a disaster at launch I still enjoyed it more than I'm doing now with Cities. I enjoyed how you could upgrade structures, research things from the university and somehow I just liked the turist aspect more.
Maybe I'm just not understanding Cities quite enough to fully enjoy it. For instance I feel like the unique buildings do nothing. I think I have 3-4 of them and they're more of a tourist attraction than serving a proper function. Again, maybe I just don't understand how they work.
I think buttom line it was too easy to get where I am now and I feel like I'm just zoning in RCI and sometimes I brush on a different color (district) to change things up.
I'll obviously continue, but I'm not quite as hooked as I had hoped.
With my first city I have managed a population of 20000 and I have 500k in the bank and with various policies I'm earning between 1-2000C.
The game might get more complicated in terms of traffic and covering everything with services, but so far it's been no effort at all.
I basically feel like I'm just putting down RCI followed by supporting structures. I'm not quite liking how - if I want to make an agriculture area that all I have to do is change the district. Not only that, but the specialized buildings cannot reach any level.
It just comes off as kinda hallow to "specialize" in agriculture, when all there is to it is to zone in industry and change the destrict to the appropriate district.
I got to say that while SimCity 2013 is broken as hell and was a disaster at launch I still enjoyed it more than I'm doing now with Cities. I enjoyed how you could upgrade structures, research things from the university and somehow I just liked the turist aspect more.
Maybe I'm just not understanding Cities quite enough to fully enjoy it. For instance I feel like the unique buildings do nothing. I think I have 3-4 of them and they're more of a tourist attraction than serving a proper function. Again, maybe I just don't understand how they work.
I think buttom line it was too easy to get where I am now and I feel like I'm just zoning in RCI and sometimes I brush on a different color (district) to change things up.
I'll obviously continue, but I'm not quite as hooked as I had hoped.
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
motorised mallard
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This is the dam I was talking about.
The output did range from 600 to 700 MW at times but most of the time it stays around that 650 MW range. I have no idea though why that place was so good for some reason.
The output did range from 600 to 700 MW at times but most of the time it stays around that 650 MW range. I have no idea though why that place was so good for some reason.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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My only pet peeve about this game is upgrading streets. I don't want to have to demolish every single zone just to upgrade the streets better. Unless there's a mod for this, it's extremely irritating.
Nope, that would probably help.
theepicoftyler
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I wish I could stream this from my house to the office.
I am a filthy addict.
I am a filthy addict.
That's what I did but seems like there is some fluid physics going on so the area around the pipe that is polluted seems to be spreading a bit? Game is crazy in the details.
xrayregime
Member
Awesome.
Is there a good list somewhere of the unique building / monument requirements? I found one on the cities skylines "wiki" but it's not very deep. I'm just at work and want to see how bad I have to mess up my city when I get home.
PoweredBySoy
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The map I'm on doesn't have shit for wind. At least not the tiles I've unlocked so far.
The off-shore wind turbines I find hard to use because it doesn't graph the wind patterns off the water, nor does it factor the irl boost of sea/water breezes anyway.
i am enjoying the game, building design/repetition aside. I think it's fairly obvious it's more interested in moving people than other aspects of city planning.
i am enjoying the game, building design/repetition aside. I think it's fairly obvious it's more interested in moving people than other aspects of city planning.
Excellent.
Could be that the current in the water isn't strong enough to drag it all down stream.
Sequel confirmed.
homeworkfilms
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Make sure to pause when undertaking any major retooling. I made the mistake of keeping it on accelerated time while blasting a highway through my industrial area and cutting my main power connection...65,000 people abandoned my city.
Also enjoy the fact that stopping time, fixing a ton of infrastructure then restarting doesn't cause a billion issues. The city seems to adjust incredibly well on the fly even if you make massive changes. Seems super forgiving. The only thing that bothers me is making a metro line right now since my cityscape is a bit complex and it seems to insist on making gigantic routes unless I mark every single turn.
Finding out that sewage flowed down river was fun too the first time... when I set it at the top of the stream.
Finding out that sewage flowed down river was fun too the first time... when I set it at the top of the stream.
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