shiftplusone
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Is there a way to massively destroy a city quickly? I've got a ton of money and the city has outgrown its original plan, but deleting streets 1 foot at a time in a 3x3 grid city is not gonna happen
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Cities: Skylines |OT| Not Related to Cities XL.
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LurkerPrime
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Oh, that's a good point. It's probably a good idea to keep most commercial stuff on main roads or their own offshoots. At least for low density. I imagine public transit will be key to making sprawling commercial areas function properly.
I haven't gotten far enough to successfully pursue high density zoning yet. One day!
If you annihilate everything at once, you'll crush your population and basically have to start from scratch. Additionally, if you rebuild everything all at once your expenses will be deep in the red for quite a while during which time everything will rebuild. Unless you're mondo wealthy your cash reserves will dry up!
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Are you holding down the mouse button? That's about as fast as you can go though.
TimeEffect
Member
Any reason why my garbage trucks are not leaving the landfill? It at best lets out 1/19 trucks, but I need more. The number jumps to 2/19 for a split second, then goes back down. At best it fought its way to 5/19, but why aren't more going out when they are needed by the city?
Any reason why my garbage trucks are not leaving the landfill? It at best lets out 1/19 trucks, but I need more. The number jumps to 2/19 for a split second, then goes back down. At best it fought its way to 5/19, but why aren't more going out when they are needed by the city?
Make sure they are funded in the taxes panel, maybe you dropped the funding before.
TimeEffect
Member
They are. But the problem seems to have fixed itself. I did upgrade roads, maybe that was the issue (was using dirt)
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I keep flooding my cities in the map editor. What is a good sea level?
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
I've not had it crash once in the 30+ hours i've played it. It could be something like your CPU overheating though. Better check your temps while in game. It's very unlikely, unless you have been doing multi-core video encoding, you have stressed your CPU to this extent in awhile.
I doubt it, but it could be. I haven't checked the temps while playing. It doesn't freeze my entire computer though. I was watching a 1080p movie on my second monitor and it was fine, no hiccups or anything.
1000 tris IIRC. The wiki has all the details.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Not enough jobs? Is your I and C stagnant too? If you can zone that, it'll create jobs, which will bring people into your town.
You could also try making your undeveloped residential zones a district, then implementing the residential tax relief policies in that district.
chrominance
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I don't think there are any hard limits, just performance-imposed ones (you can load this model but it makes the game chug). I know the Cities: Skylines wiki has a section on creating models but the only real guidelines they list involve texture map sizes and calibrating your 3D editor's measurements to match the game's measurements.
They really need to fix the worker balance. My city is in flux between "not enough educated workers" and "not enough workers."
The cities are more fun when you have industry and (especially) commercial in it. Hopefully a mod comes out soon that finds the right balance.
The cities are more fun when you have industry and (especially) commercial in it. Hopefully a mod comes out soon that finds the right balance.
Hmm, yeah I can zone some more industry and commercial. The thing is... I am having problem with backed up pipes. For some godforsaken reason suddenly several buildings are complaining about that. They are properly connected, I have a big surplus of sewage treatment, etc. What could be wrong?!?
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Yeah, it probably won't be long, I did not expect to see some of the mods this soon as it is. In particular the one way road mod that works so ingeniously.
If you don't have it yet, here is the link:
http://steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408209297
Frankly, I don't even think the developers could have implemented it better.
It's not even been a week yet!
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You sure they're connected? The ground may be blue, but if the pipes aren't glowing, they're not connected.
OrlanisWorks
Banned
Anyone suffer from the Microbial Flora thing in your water supply? My water supply is entirely from water towers so there's no way it could have been from a sewage pipe. :/
Seems to be only the homes somewhat near the sewage drain pipe.
Seems to be only the homes somewhat near the sewage drain pipe.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Your sewage pipes aren't active. They should be glowing blue (water) and green (sewage).
You might have a disconnect right at the base of your outflow.
Look at this, it suddenly stops:
Have been seeing the same in the industrial area where the problem is popping. Will verify the connections though
EDIT: NVM! One of the pipes from the sewage was indeed not properly connected. Thanks for the save
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Look at this, it suddenly stops:
Have been seeing the same in the industrial area where the problem is popping. Will verify the connections though
Maybe try and make some redundant connections?
So, I finally hit 100k pop, 4th town I started, previous towns had major traffic problems. So, I came up with a great idea, being that I live in San Francisco, one-way streets are popular, and I noticed in the game that one-way street traffic doesn't get caught up as much as regular two-way streets.
Now, I know the city design lacks a bit of imagination, but I was trying to see how far I could go with a dense city, not to mention, this does resemble some neighborhoods in San Francisco. As you can see with the traffic map, it looks pretty bad, but the traffic flows really well, there is barely any traffic backup, and most services work fine. The main problem I have is when there is suddenly a influx of dead people, which I found the best solution was to drop a few cemeteries until the wave of deaths subside, then I empty then and bulldoze them.
I might have overdone it with the freeway on/offramps >.>
Now, I know the city design lacks a bit of imagination, but I was trying to see how far I could go with a dense city, not to mention, this does resemble some neighborhoods in San Francisco. As you can see with the traffic map, it looks pretty bad, but the traffic flows really well, there is barely any traffic backup, and most services work fine. The main problem I have is when there is suddenly a influx of dead people, which I found the best solution was to drop a few cemeteries until the wave of deaths subside, then I empty then and bulldoze them.
I might have overdone it with the freeway on/offramps >.>
ConfusingJazz
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HP_Wuvcraft
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My map started flooding so I raised the terrain. This only served to push the water into the surrounding valley.
Everyone died.
Love this game.
Everyone died.
Love this game.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
EatinOlives
Member
So should I be centralizing the landfills or placing them far apart? I'd rather not have these little pools of pollution peppering the city, but I feel like I'm supposed to put them far apart to make them efficient...
I built a dam in my previous city. Flooded two neighborhoods lol. Good times.
Hey @mayor, the #shit has hit the fan! Hell no, we won't go! #HandsUpDon'tPoop
We need a chirper editor so fucking bad
hell it should find your friends with Cities Skyline and automatically download whatever chirps they generate. Set the chirps to conditions like "Built police station" or "Power outages occuring" or some shit
awww yis.
Someone was talking about a day/night cycle somewhere, I want that.
It depends how good your roads are. My city is small enough and my roads good enough that apparently I can just dump all my stuff in one area and my garbage trucks just fan out.
Btw, has anyone managed to make a massive roundabout that doesn't suck? Annoyingly I upgraded mine to 6 lane and it plopped a bunch of lights.
ConfusingJazz
Member
I like the idea of the chirper, but I really wish it was a bit better about only telling me relevant things, or having variety. I have seen the same chirps a million times.
superdeluxe
Member
two lane roads every where. no stop lights is the key.
You know this game got a hold on you when you start researching "fractal roads" at work.
http://www.airoots.org/2008/10/the-metabolic-city/
From a local commercial lane to a tiny community pathway. A fractal pattern that repeats itself all over Tokyo.
http://www.airoots.org/2008/10/the-metabolic-city/
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You have to use highway-type roads for your roundabouts so that they don't generate lights or stop signs.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Just hit 75,000 in my shitty city! Megalopolis. But none of my Monuments are available because each one requires something completely ridiculous to unlock. Bah. I'll never have unlimited healthcare and power.
Up to 82,000 now. It's 2055.
Up to 82,000 now. It's 2055.
FullMetalx117
Member
So is the game worth buying?
There should be a subscribe all button under the collection's page.
ConfusingJazz
Member
Did you like SimCity 4, or other quality city builders?
If so, yeah, you should buy this game.
Ohhhhhh. I want to try that!
Annoyingly some have it and some don't and I can't figure out the difference
It doesn't help that the steam client kind of sucks for it. I should probably just log in on my browser, except it logs me out every time and I have steam guard on so i have to double authenticate every time :T
I wonder how drunk they were when they came up with those unlock requirements.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Some of them require low health or high crime or super low happiness, stuff that would pretty much destroy your city for a long time before possibly slowly getting better. And they don't stay unlocked between cities. So how the hell is anyone supposed to achieve those?
FullMetalx117
Member
I've never played a simcity (even though I bought SimCity but never played it) game but I do enjoy simulators and this game does seem intriguing.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The unlocks actually aren't thaaaat bad. Many of them you can just cheese if you have enough money saved up.
One of the hardest was the 20,000 squares of commercial, but I got that by making a huge grid out in the middle of nowhere, dezoning my high density commercial bit by bit, and zoning in the large grid with low density.
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