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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
None at the moment, just don't expect to fill all 25 titles before you computer explodes.
That does not mean you can't use it to build suburbs and spread things out more.
Hip Hop
Member
Yeah sky, no terrain change in the actual game. (yet?)
diggmcbadass
Member
Just the potential maximum amount of actors your cpu has to keep track of. Some guy from the dev team said on reddit that there was a hard cap of 1 million actors though. I suspect you would have to use 25 tiles to reasonably get to that limit, though some crazy bastard will probably make a dystopia that reaches the limit within nine tiles down the line.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Someone did come out with a tree brush, I suspect it might be possible.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
LOL:
That is kinda cool, but the game isnt balanced around it, which makes it a bit pointless.http://www.reddit.com/r/citiesskylinesmodding
Someone asked for this earlier:
PREVENT VEHICLES FROM DESPAWNING MOD
Found by sorting mods by "recent" on steam, so Im not sure how well it works.
AbortedWalrusFetus
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My city, population 45,000 in a single 2x2km square
Highway Access
Minor traffic, all two lane one way streets
Now for a bit of a mystery:
I can't figure out why this area doesn't have sewer access. As you can see I have more than enough capacity. The area is getting water so the connection is there, and you can see the sewer just stops at that spot. Does anyone have any idea why this would be?
Highway Access
Minor traffic, all two lane one way streets
Now for a bit of a mystery:
I can't figure out why this area doesn't have sewer access. As you can see I have more than enough capacity. The area is getting water so the connection is there, and you can see the sewer just stops at that spot. Does anyone have any idea why this would be?
hit B, then click. if you demolish immediately after, you can get a refund, but if you wait a while, you don't.
titiklabingapat
Member
There is a bulldoze tool to the lower right hand side.
For bus stops, just right click that particular stop.
CarbonFire
Member
I guess the idea is to see if you can truly design a city that can deal with constant horrible traffic, like most big car-centric cities in the world.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
In some ways it might be cool to load up a city with the mod you thought you just perfected the traffic on...
So awesome we are already seeing mods like this. The future is damn bright.
SneakyStephan
Banned
The fact that at least one ex maxis employee is making mods for the game is incredible from a consumer standpoint.
Normally you'd get the EA devils' sim city with DLC out the wazoo, but EA fucked it up and now sim city is dead.
Along comes a new city building game with amazing integrated mod support and instead of DLC garbage we get a whole bunch of cool mods and content in a community effort.
It's almost like it's the year 2000 again for videogames.
Pro consumer, pro gamer city building age is upon us guys.
That pedestrian mod seems like a straight up cheat that would break the game tbh.
Day and night mod especially the first one linked with all the car headlights looks super cool. I hope they implement a proper day and night cycle in the game later, just cosmetic is fine with me.
Normally you'd get the EA devils' sim city with DLC out the wazoo, but EA fucked it up and now sim city is dead.
Along comes a new city building game with amazing integrated mod support and instead of DLC garbage we get a whole bunch of cool mods and content in a community effort.
It's almost like it's the year 2000 again for videogames.
Pro consumer, pro gamer city building age is upon us guys.
That pedestrian mod seems like a straight up cheat that would break the game tbh.
Day and night mod especially the first one linked with all the car headlights looks super cool. I hope they implement a proper day and night cycle in the game later, just cosmetic is fine with me.
CarbonFire
Member
While that's cool, it's not going to work unless they can get service vehicles to drive on the sidewalks. It would also have to filter out industrial and commercial buildings that require truck deliveries. Or bar industrial from those zones entirely.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
The lighting engine is decent, if not great. You can see the emergency lights reflect off the buildings. Night would probably look very awesome.
hellmonkey
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So I played a round in the NVidia control panel and you can override the game settings and apply your own AA. I have a 560ti in case anyone is wondering.
Without any NVidia modification
With FXAA on, 8x AA, supersample transparency 2x
Same settings as #2, tiltshift turned off.
My settings.
Without any NVidia modification
With FXAA on, 8x AA, supersample transparency 2x
Same settings as #2, tiltshift turned off.
My settings.
LurkerPrime
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Sell me on the game, SkylinesGAF.
I need the push.
I need the push.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
I thought unity games had issues with forced aa. Thanks for posting that.
Nothing really to sell. If you want a city builder, a new one has arrived that lives up to the genre. It also has a very bright future.
Edit: Oh, two other things.
Make sure you CPU is up to the task. If you have 4 cores you should be fine.
Second, it can be played right now, no bullshit drm or online crap you have to put up with. It's also quite bug free for a title of this scope.
Nothing really to sell. If you want a city builder, a new one has arrived that lives up to the genre. It also has a very bright future.
Edit: Oh, two other things.
Make sure you CPU is up to the task. If you have 4 cores you should be fine.
Second, it can be played right now, no bullshit drm or online crap you have to put up with. It's also quite bug free for a title of this scope.
Ok that makes sense.
Checked the game out on greenmangaming and they have a 20% off digital games deal! And Skylines is $24 with it, so I didn't have an excuse to not jump in after hearing all this great stuff in this thread. It ends on March 16, so anyone thinking about picking this up this weekend, it's probably the best deal.
Best city building experience in a long while, if not ever, with some incredible mods already available just days after release. There's a UFO invasion mod in the pipelines.
Or, build up your minions, pump your sewerage in behind a dam, blow up the dam and drown the population in a poonami.
LurkerPrime
Member
You can drown your people in poop.
So this is a monstrosity, but it works.
I have learned many valuable lessons, but I'm not going to fix them up on this city.
Shit, you're easy. Give me $1000, because of reasons.
I have learned many valuable lessons, but I'm not going to fix them up on this city.
Shit, you're easy. Give me $1000, because of reasons.
CarbonFire
Member
They had more important dead people to pick up.
LurkerPrime
Member
I'll do you one better and name a hill or street or something after you. You'll be immortalized forever!
No need to thank me. The work itself is reward enough.
I got traffic issues and I don't know how to fix it without major demolition and renovation. As well as the fact that I'm not sure how I should go about expanding outside my first block. Might just start over learning what I have from this first try.
Center roads coming off the original highway exits are one ways all the way to the end. Still doing pretty well for just winging it my first try. Making money hand over fist and everyone is pretty happy still.
Center roads coming off the original highway exits are one ways all the way to the end. Still doing pretty well for just winging it my first try. Making money hand over fist and everyone is pretty happy still.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
once you get some suburb looking areas this will look really swell. As for the poop issues, no idea, maybe try rebuilding the line again?
You are given much land and basically unlimited cash. Stuff like taxes doesn't really exist. Sadly there's not much to spend the money on. There are barely any parks or landmarks to build(yeah I know workshop). Instead you'll spend most of your time looking and working with roads.
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
I eventually did. The only thing I can think of is that it looked like one of my treatment plants was connected when it wasn't. Also, screw suburbs, this is about density!
NobleXenon
Member
It's incredibly hard to make a super-symmetric city with a lack of X/Y Grid. Any mods to make up for this? Pixel perfect is a pain in the ass.
Looking at the 'Make them Pay' Achievement.
Have both residential tax rates over 5% higher than industry for one year
I'm assuming this does not effect office taxation, so boost up my low-density residential and low-density commercial? have everything 5% above just to be safe?
Have both residential tax rates over 5% higher than industry for one year
I'm assuming this does not effect office taxation, so boost up my low-density residential and low-density commercial? have everything 5% above just to be safe?
-bakalhau-
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Man this is genius!! Really! It's creepy just by itself which is great, but imagine... We're watching them all the time... Every single move.
Now... They're watching us. Whether we're in the sky or at street level. Watching. Every. Single. Decision. We make. Every potential negative decision for them.
0_0
The Real Abed
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I was referring to the mobile games and movement to dumb down their games for the lowest common denominator. SimCity 5 did a lot of cool stuff that helped shape the simulator genre. It just had so many more problems, which were of course fixed in Skylines. All hail Cities: Skylines. Our new overlord.
Just look at all the screenshots in this thread and on Reddit.
Edit: The Pedestrian zoning needs to be part of the actual game. Many of these mods need to be part of the game. Some of us don't want to disable achievements just to add in features. It's the same reason I don't like modded Minecraft.
OrlanisWorks
Banned
I'm struggling to get started up. Does take a fairly long time to become profitable? I haven't gone anywhere above $1500, because I start spending again on more roads and residential zoning, along with purchasing a building for each of the important bits (education, fires, crime).
I'm just not sure what I'm doing, but I've been at it for probably two hours.
I'm just not sure what I'm doing, but I've been at it for probably two hours.
I wanted to make some forestry and oil industry so I made a district of residents isolated from my downtown area and all education. It turns out nearly everyone living their is an educated senior citizen that retired and moved out of the city. So I'm still having over-educated worker problems. The problem seems to be affecting the forestry industry much more than the oil industry though.
The game was designed to be modded - they went out of their way to facilitate it. In my opinion, you're missing out if you don't take advantage of it for the sake of some achievements.
I'm more into vanilla Minecraft myself, but that's only because mucking around with installers, files, package handlers, etc is a pain for me.
I'm struggling to get started up. Does take a fairly long time to become profitable? I haven't gone anywhere above $1500, because I start spending again on more roads and residential zoning, along with purchasing a building for each of the important bits (education, fires, crime).
I'm just not sure what I'm doing, but I've been at it for probably two hours.
This is my graph - I didn't start to make bank until 2026 and around 26 thousand population. (edit) Don't worry too much about police and fire at the start. Get them educated first and you'll get more money. Also, raise taxes to 11.
Waiting on high-density report.
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