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[LeeRoyBrown]

So tell me....fellow GAFS.

Has this game done what we wanted Sim City to be?

Has EA trashed their once famous franchise?

Has this game taken it's place?

Spoiler

Should I buy it?

 

[MattPeters]

does this have a demo?

I want to see how it performs

No demo, but it runs pretty well on shit hardware. What are your specs? Game runs fine on my wifes garbage work laptop.

 

[Caesar III]

does this have a demo?
I want to see how it performs

A demo won't help you. The game's demand increases with the city size. So a demo would fool you on this anyway

 

[Jintor]

Yeah.

Or an old-school news-ticker style for people that prefer them to be in a sorted list? Maybe with the pressing stuff on top, and chit-chat/tips at bottom.

Sim City 3000's news ticker was the best

 

[Chariot]

We also need more Llamas. Or start something new with alpacas.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Sim City 3000's news ticker was the best

Simulation Paused times infinity

*unpause game*

*snarky comment about how time stopped*

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Trying to build Toronto, but better:



The guy who designed the map put the highway lanes reversed, I didn't notice until too late.

That's beautiful.

God damn.

Buying....

 

[Jintor]

We also need more Llamas. Or start something new with alpacas.

At some point it should start turning into Tropico

 

[Chariot]

At some point it should start turning into Tropico

I would like more edicts with whom you can turn your city in a paranoid oppressive panopticum or some mob centered crime nest (on purpose, opposed to the regular crime).

 

[Kabouter]

Current state of my second city, going pretty well. Hate that I had to remove trees from most of the map to have enough to use in my city itself though

 

[Jintor]

Yo those are some gorgeous highway overpasses thar

 

[finalflame]

Current state of my second city, going pretty well. Hate that I had to remove trees from most of the map to have enough to use in my city itself though

Looks great, but to be fair, that neighborhood on the bottom left there is basically a controlled forest with some roads and a couple of houses.

 

[Kabouter]

Looks great, but to be fair, that neighborhood on the bottom left there is basically a controlled forest with some roads and a couple of houses.

Well yeah, that's what the forestry industry looks like

Yo those are some gorgeous highway overpasses thar

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406006679
There you go

 

[fedexpeon]

So tell me....fellow GAFS.

Has this game done what we wanted Sim City to be?

Has EA trashed their once famous franchise?

Has this game taken it's place?

Spoiler

Should I buy it?

Simcity is pretty much dead.
Cities: Skylines can still be better though, and add a bit of polish. It needs to improve the graphic for building, taller building growth, 'cleaner' tech industry that isn't just office, add module/upgrade options for services, and remove electricity poles.

I hope there will be a monorail DLC/mod soon as well. It would make the city looks amazing seeing them running through the city.

 

[finalflame]

Simcity is pretty much dead.
Cities: Skylines can still be better though, and add a bit of polish. It needs to improve the graphic for building, taller building growth, 'cleaner' tech industry that isn't just office, add module/upgrade options for services, and remove electricity poles.

I hope there will be a monorail DLC/mod soon as well. It would make the city looks amazing seeing them running through the city.

Nice summary of how the game could improve. Remove electricity poles and add polish to the UI/Interactions are the 2 big ones for me. Electricity should just flow on streets.

That said, still a fantastic game.

 

[xBladeM6x]

Working on my second city, and I seem to have a very modular, grid-like way of building things, but I'm really liking the way this is turning out. It's 50K population, and has zero industry, with a focus on office and education.

 

[Kabouter]

I actually like power lines, much better than having everything in the game tied to streets.

 

[Nokterian]

I actually like power lines, much better than having everything in the game tied to streets.

Power lines do look like the ones we have here in the netherlands..well they should add those also in the workshop and dutch windmills for shits and giggles

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

I actually like power lines, much better than having everything in the game tied to streets.

Wouldn't it be nice if zoned areas also counted as power lines? That way, initial buildings will probably complain less about lack of power.

 

[Krabardaf]

First game i played in a while ( CivV apart ) and loving it.

Dem jaggies though... I've tried a few tricks but nothing works except the dynamic resolution mod, which is too heavy on my system ( GTX 670, 30 doesn't cut it for me ).

Anybody found a solution to implement MSAA/CSAA or even a good PP solution like SMAA?

 

[strata8]

Two way -> one way and one way direction change mod released:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408209297

 

[markot]

I tried to build farms and mines. Each time they've been wastelands abandoned buildings, constantly looking for workers.

But I turn them into regular industry and it's fine....

And they're over the right resources.

 

[Klyka]

Power lines do look like the ones we have here in the netherlands..well they should add those also in the workshop and dutch windmills for shits and giggles

Check the workshop,there is a dutch windmill there

 

[Dennis]

Is there any indication that terraforming will be possible in the future?

 

[Oldest Snake]

Two way -> one way and one way direction change mod released:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408209297

Brilliant, game really should have launched with this. Thanks.

 

[fedexpeon]

I actually like power lines, much better than having everything in the game tied to streets.

Power line doesn't add much to the gameplay.
You just build a nearby energy source or hook it up to a nearby powered zone.
After that, you have to delete the poles since every zoned space will have powered buildings to spread the electricity.
It is a waste of time to micro-manage the poles because you will have to go into the electric UI to search for the few poles you forgot to destroy.

 

[Zeknurn]

Two way -> one way and one way direction change mod released:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408209297

I've been waiting for this ever since I put down my first road. Thank you modder.

 

[Klyka]

Two way -> one way and one way direction change mod released:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408209297

Game isn't even out a week and we are getting high quality, gameplay changing, tool adding mods.

I can't even imagine what we have in a month or in a year.

 

[Chariot]

Game isn't even out a week and we are getting high quality, gameplay changing, tool adding mods.

I can't even imagine what we have in a month or in a year.

Probably a multiplayer fps mmorpg in the world of Warhammer 40k.

 

[xBladeM6x]

Game isn't even out a week and we are getting high quality, gameplay changing, tool adding mods.

I can't even imagine what we have in a month or in a year.

Total conversion mods. Considering that you can change just about any aesthetic in the game, including models, and have completely new monuments and such, I imagine we'll see a medieval total conversion.

 

[Isomac]

Probably a multiplayer fps mmorpg in the world of Warhammer 40k.

Ooh I didn't know it before this, but I want to build W40K cities!

 

[xBladeM6x]

Ooh I didn't know it before this, but I want to build W40K cities!

That would be badass.

 

[Linius]

Current state of my second city, going pretty well. Hate that I had to remove trees from most of the map to have enough to use in my city itself though

Just need some cows at the greenery outside your metropolis. Then you can simulate a train ride from Amsterdam to Weesp.

 

[Mii]

Everyone always talks about SimCity NAM, but I always thought CAM was the more important mod. I want to see more stages of development for all building classes and support for much taller buildings, even if the population numbers need to be fudged.

 

[Hip Hop]

Anybody know how to get "Raw materials" for the factories?

They keep shutting down because of that.

 

[Trickster]

Try linking them to your public transport network.

Thanks that helped, though some of my decentralized office areas still aren't satisfied, though I suppose that kinda works if they don't become huge mega offices considering their outlying placements.

 

[dejay]

Brilliant, game really should have launched with this. Thanks.

Could have used this an hour ago when I did a lot of fluffing around with roads. Cool mods are coming thick and fast; I love it.

 

[Milamber]

I want higher micro management of industries. There is too few resources. Oil/Forestry/Farming doesn't cut it.

I want pastures of meat processing plants.

I want fleets of fisheries.

I want craters of coal and precious mineral mining operations.

 

[Klyka]

Anybody know how to get "Raw materials" for the factories?

They keep shutting down because of that.

Do they have road access to a highway/train/ship that leads out of your playable area?
Then they can export.
Otherwise you can create specialized industry that will create raw materials and then send them to your standard industry.

 

[Linius]

Anybody know how to get "Raw materials" for the factories?

They keep shutting down because of that.

I think it's mostly important your industry is well connected to the highway if raw materials have to come into your city from elsewhere. Otherwise trucks won't reach it and clog up your city traffic.

I want higher micro management of industries. There is too few resources. Oil/Forestry/Farming doesn't cut it.

I want pastures of meat processing plants.

I want fleets of fisheries.

I want craters of coal and precious mineral mining operations.

I would like a fleet of fishing boats. Deadliest Catch kind of shit, hardcore.

 

[Hip Hop]

Do they have road access to a highway/train/ship that leads out of your playable area?
Then they can export.
Otherwise you can create specialized industry that will create raw materials and then send them to your standard industry.

I think it's mostly important your industry is well connected to the highway if raw materials have to come into your city from elsewhere. Otherwise trucks won't reach it and clog up your city traffic.

Yeah, they do have access to highways and 2 cargo rail lines but that area sees a lot of traffic. I'll work some more on clearing up the roads a bit.

 

[Linius]

Yeah, they do have access to highways and 2 cargo rail lines but that area sees a lot of traffic. I'll work some more on clearing up the roads a bit.

Maybe zoom in on that area and follow it for a bit to see if trucks are actually using the infrastructure you created. In my city (as small as it is) I found that trucks for some reason still used the old access to my city from the highway. Which caused to cluster up in streets too narrow to hold all that industrial traffic. Even though I built them a perfect direct way off the highway straight into the industry district.

 

[xBladeM6x]

Praise The Gods!

 

[Rad-]

Wow traffic management got way easier when I realized you can build elevated walk pavements. People are walking from other side of the city to their work place. Now my city is filled with elevated walk ways.

Now if I only got car parking lots work better. My citizen don't really like to use them.

 

[Torraz]

Is the digital deluxe version worth it over the normal?

 

[Linius]

Is the digital deluxe version worth it over the normal?

I think on Nuuvem is the difference was like 5 euros or something. So do you think those extra landmarks are worth that is the question you wanna ask yourself.

 

[cajunator]

Here is my 4th city. I think its the first one that I have played long enough to reach 20k population.

I had to move my water pumps six times >_<


Traffic if fine lol.

My kind of town!

 

[Vargavinter]

I love seeing you guys showing off your cities. I bought the game, but damn! I have some kind of OCD that hinders me from making anything free-form or something that just is a flow of inspiration, I'm stuck in "Everything needs to be in perfect squares or my whole world starts to crumble." D:

 

[Shaldome]

Pre release, I commented about how it appears that teleporting cars probably won't make that much of an impact. I still think it does, however, only for people who don't notice it.

There is a mod to turn the disappearing cars off.

No Despawn Mod

 

[Mikeside]

I have no idea what I'm doing, but it seems to be going OK
57k population and everyone seems happy enough

Excuse the shoddily pasted together screenshots to show the whole map off