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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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I'm the same, hence the chaos in my city. But you just gotta roll with it. At some point I'll learn I guess.
I'm just making a mess, no plans, I'm never good at these sort of games, it seems pretty forgiving.
Untill you get a bigger population and your traffic system sucks. Then it won't be so forgiving anymore
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Yeah, that seems like something that shouldn't happen. There should be a limit...
I think the achievements have clearer descriptions in the list ingame.
RandomExpletive
Member
This mod is also great if you're using a less powerful machine, as you can set the scaling at 50%, improving your framerate while keeping UI elements read-able.
The mods broken at resolutions below 100% now. He added FXAA earlier today and now it's all blurry. Plus the slider only moves in 50% increments now. Hope he fixes it.
beautiful. Would you be ok to share it? (I think we can right?)
Also, is there a way to prevent my service vehicles to go too far? My garbage men go to the other side of the map to pick up trash and I don't want them to.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Sort of annoyed that traffic doesn't get out of the way for Emergency Services, and Emergency Services will go all the way around a road to find a junction to turn (they won't turn on the road itself).
You can straighten out the look with paved paths.
This right here looks good and could be just the fix I need for my bottleneck. No one seems to use the six lanes I created for them.
Finally was able to play for a couple hours. Got up to like 1600 citizens, but I keep losing more and more money.
How do I not go bankrupt in this game? It doesn't seem like I was doing anything other than the basic building roads and water pipes and electricity and all that...
How do I not go bankrupt in this game? It doesn't seem like I was doing anything other than the basic building roads and water pipes and electricity and all that...
Ok, so one thing is really killing all my traffic management plans: the roundabouts are not used properly.
Most (but not all, strangely) of the cars coming from a three lane (one way) into a three lane roundabout will still want to enter the roundabout on the rightmost lane, even if they only take the second or third exit. They'll then change to the second lane of the roundabout as soon as they're in it.
Really annoying, I have two huge bottlenecks because of that, even though if they used the roundabout correctly, it wouldn't be a problem.
Most (but not all, strangely) of the cars coming from a three lane (one way) into a three lane roundabout will still want to enter the roundabout on the rightmost lane, even if they only take the second or third exit. They'll then change to the second lane of the roundabout as soon as they're in it.
Really annoying, I have two huge bottlenecks because of that, even though if they used the roundabout correctly, it wouldn't be a problem.
Best thing I could say is start slow and reserve cash for water and electricity. Those 2 screw you over everytime. However, once you get over this hump. Money starts flowing in easily. You next problem is all about handling traffic and growth.
RandomExpletive
Member
Yup, hopefully he adds some settings to get back to the old version :\
ashecitism
Member
former Maxis dev posts their art mod
http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkyli...slime_here_checking_in_with_my_first_art_mod/
cool
http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkyli...slime_here_checking_in_with_my_first_art_mod/
cool
Calavera520
Member
What is the commercial demand/parks bug? sorry I may missed it before.
anonymous_abc
Member
Oh my,
I have the most shitty town imaginable, but crime will just not rise above 35%....
No services, litterally no buildings apart from zones, just enough power and water to get by...
What else can I do to increase crime?
I have the most shitty town imaginable, but crime will just not rise above 35%....
No services, litterally no buildings apart from zones, just enough power and water to get by...
What else can I do to increase crime?
Take their jawwwwbsss. Huge unemployment rate will help greatly.
TimeEffect
Member
Yeah I agree. Walking all the way across a city? Definitely needs to fixed.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
anonymous_abc
Member
Removing all the residential areas and only leaving a few roads of industry worked for me in the end.
But what I really want is my 110k City to finally build commercial zones again.
(((Destroy all parks.Removing all the residential areas and only leaving a few roads of industry worked for me in the end.
But what I really want is my 110k City to finally build commercial zones again.
Thanks. Guess I'll start over and try it again.
beautiful. Would you be ok to share it? (I think we can right?)
Also, is there a way to prevent my service vehicles to go too far? My garbage men go to the other side of the map to pick up trash and I don't want them to.
I put it up on the workshop:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407910691&searchtext=
This town makes about 10k/day and has almost $900,000 in reserve so it should be a good town for players who have trouble starting up. I used about about 1 tile of space so there is planety of room!
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You still need cars and trucks for goods and cargo delivery for commercial and industry if you want to have the entire RCI cycle intact. He only showed the residential and office. It might be the case that he didn't even build any industrial or commercial at all.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It's been a while, so I assume that not too many people remember, but here is a blog post by a Maxis engineer about how he changed up the traffic algorithm so that agent pathfinding takes traffic congestion into account.
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-traffic-tuning
Routing was one of the major changes we made in Update 3. It allowed us to produce much improved routing data for the vehicles compared to the previous model. As you may recall from the previous routing system, it did not allow us to really take into account correctly the congestion on the roads without some influence in how the roads were created. The system also didnt let us take into account roads which had medians and where the vehicles would have to stop or enter a unit from a particular side of the road.
If we look at the scenario used in the previous blog, then I can show how these changes affect the vehicles. Again, the Sims are driving to work from the residential to the industrial, and as in the previous blog, they will still travel through segments 5, 6, 2 and 1 in order to get to their destination.
In this updated picture you can see the new routing values in black with the route the vehicle will travel highlighted in green, but they are no longer related to the points that mark the ends of the segment and instead are values associated with the segment itself and have a value for each side of the path.
Now if we imagine that segment six is very congested, we can easily make it more costly to travel from segment five to segment two by making segment six more expensive. The result means you no longer have to use those horrible techniques to influence the values.
Hope you all enjoy these fixes when they appear in Update 7 later this month.
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-traffic-tuning
Routing was one of the major changes we made in Update 3. It allowed us to produce much improved routing data for the vehicles compared to the previous model. As you may recall from the previous routing system, it did not allow us to really take into account correctly the congestion on the roads without some influence in how the roads were created. The system also didnt let us take into account roads which had medians and where the vehicles would have to stop or enter a unit from a particular side of the road.
If we look at the scenario used in the previous blog, then I can show how these changes affect the vehicles. Again, the Sims are driving to work from the residential to the industrial, and as in the previous blog, they will still travel through segments 5, 6, 2 and 1 in order to get to their destination.
In this updated picture you can see the new routing values in black with the route the vehicle will travel highlighted in green, but they are no longer related to the points that mark the ends of the segment and instead are values associated with the segment itself and have a value for each side of the path.
Now if we imagine that segment six is very congested, we can easily make it more costly to travel from segment five to segment two by making segment six more expensive. The result means you no longer have to use those horrible techniques to influence the values.
Hope you all enjoy these fixes when they appear in Update 7 later this month.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Fuckin' lol
http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2yzxil/do_not_build_a_sewage_dam_above_your_city/
"Do not build a sewage dam ABOVE your city."
http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2yzxil/do_not_build_a_sewage_dam_above_your_city/
"Do not build a sewage dam ABOVE your city."
Two things I'm not fond of and it's been talked about already.
Firstly, lane use and routing. I've had intersections blocked simply because traffic is trying to get into the right hand land of a six lane one-way so that they can take a right hand turn literally over a city tile length away (2km). Kind of crazy.
An "easy" fix for the devs not to take up too much CPU would be to randomise lane choice when determining routes and only decide on the final lane 20-30 tiles out before the turn they want to make. You could change the 20-30 tiles size depending on how many lanes there are. This would look and behave more realisticly.
Yes, the bottlenecking fix will work in the mean time, but it's a programmer's solution to what is meant to be a simulation of human behaviour.
I did that as a test. Commercial demand shot up for a while, but I was losing 5k people a week. Making my own parks (or using ones from the workshop) with no tourist demand will have to do for the mean time.
Firstly, lane use and routing. I've had intersections blocked simply because traffic is trying to get into the right hand land of a six lane one-way so that they can take a right hand turn literally over a city tile length away (2km). Kind of crazy.
An "easy" fix for the devs not to take up too much CPU would be to randomise lane choice when determining routes and only decide on the final lane 20-30 tiles out before the turn they want to make. You could change the 20-30 tiles size depending on how many lanes there are. This would look and behave more realisticly.
Yes, the bottlenecking fix will work in the mean time, but it's a programmer's solution to what is meant to be a simulation of human behaviour.
I did that as a test. Commercial demand shot up for a while, but I was losing 5k people a week. Making my own parks (or using ones from the workshop) with no tourist demand will have to do for the mean time.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Ranger, it's the best city builder ever. It may not have the features of Simcity 4 yet but it's real close, and the mods are improving on everything ever day. And it's so easy to mod. And it plays wonderfully, and it lets you be creative with plenty of room to build.
Seriously, if you like city builders, this game is a must buy. Not even a slight hesitation on that recommendation.
Caesar III
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I do it most of the time as well. Too bad the range of the service buildings is lowered that way
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
There's a mod that enables achievements when mods are enabled
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407055819
Using it on my primary save on which I did not want mods to keep getting achievements, works pretty well, I can now use tree brush and other mods without worrying about achievements.
Note that it may only works on saves that never used mods.
Oh, I'm gonna have to try that out, I'll then be able to use the tree brush, first person camera, and AA fix mod and still get achievements!
Man, the mod scene for this game is outrageous. I mean holy hell.
I just tried the achievement one and non popped for me, will keep it on for future reference though.
Lion Heart
Banned
Is there no body of water with a current to get all that sewage away from your city? It also looks like you have more treatment plants than you need, and since they're scattered about that bay, you're spreading shit all over the place.
I do it most of the time as well. Too bad the range of the service buildings is lowered that way
I put most of me services to one way road loop just outside of my city. So far it works fine. I can see how this might become problem once I try to make the city larger. I thought about making the gap between the main highways larger and place the service buildings there.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Great, game crashed and I just lost 3 hours and half the progress on my new city.
I think I'm done for a while.
I think I'm done for a while.
Yeah, on this map water doesn't move. Water treatment plants clean water but slowly. I overbuild them to clean all this pollution.
Oldest Snake
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There are autosave mods available on the steam workshop. Combine it with the 'achievements unlock with mods' mod and you're set.
Trickster
Member
Those districts names lol
Caesar III
Member
As far as I discovered it, the buildings do have a range of x tiles in the direction of the adjaenting streets. If this is a one way this range is not extended. Instead it's smaller
Schools need to be at the end of a one way cause the parents need to bring their children there. Police, hospital and Firefighters need to be at the beginning, cause they need to reach the building with the problem.
In the end you do need more of those buildings. Another way is to build a lot of small loops to accumulate this to a certain degree.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I like the way this guy designs cities http://www.twitch.tv/strictoaster
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
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