I went after the Posh Mall, which required 4% tax rate across everything, for 20 straight weeks. I was raking in the cash before I attempted it. By the end of the 20th week, I had to taken out three loans and hit bankruptcy. Almost killed my ciy.
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I went after the Posh Mall, which required 4% tax rate across everything, for 20 straight weeks. I was raking in the cash before I attempted it. By the end of the 20th week, I had to taken out three loans and hit bankruptcy. Almost killed my ciy.
20K square of commercial isn't bad or even something I would call ridiculous. But hitting 50% unemployment, or 1K abandoned buildings is beyond stupid.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yes they do. I unlocked the court house by starting a new city, and raising the taxes so everyone was unhappy, once I unlocked the police.
For what it's worth, that was the only landmark I had to start a new city to get. All the other landmarks I unlocked in my main city.
JSoup
Banned
And if your last SimCity/city building game was SimCity SNES and you loved the crap out of it? Still a recommended purchase?
TimeEffect
Member
Playing a new city on hard mod with the mod that reduces income to families who cant make their trip to work (resulting in lost wages > no tax collection > eventual abandonment). Managed to do pretty well by using pedestrian walkways and free buses.
But I am running out of space. New tiles cost 100-200K, so I need to be super efficient to afford moving outwards.
Traffic is particularly bad. Everything here is two ways, any advice on improving traffic??
Smiles and Cries
Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Those aren't too bad, actually.
For the unemployment, just kill half your industry. Wait until you unlock the landmark, then rezone everything quick.
For the abandoned buildings, make a whole shitload of 1x1 buildings. Remove water to the whole area, and wait for them to go abandoned.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
It didn't work for me when I built 300 water pumps to unlock the Services Service Building. When I reloaded my save it was locked again. So it doesn't seem to set any setting in the global game settings. That was the cheapest service I could find and it cost $4000 each. That's $1.2M if you're doing 300 of just that. (I have 100 services already so I only had to build 200)
If you can tell me how to keep them unlocked (Maybe reloading my save did it? I should have just deleted the 200 pumps I built since I have $5,000,000 anyway.) I'd love to know. I'd hate to have to start that fresh every time.
ConfusingJazz
Member
Yes.
dragonelite
Member
Dam started a city with hardmode on and service build and maintenance costs doubled mods on. Had to restart 4 times and take a loan to even start my city :'(
You have to adjust service budgets, take loans to expand services and get enough tax revenue going a shit load more micromanagement.
You have to adjust service budgets, take loans to expand services and get enough tax revenue going a shit load more micromanagement.
They did say the base game is just a base that they'll build future updates on. Hopefully not all of them are paid DLC, but at least the modding community seems to be really active.
Tourists don't really do anything right now.
TimeEffect
Member
Game has a bright future.
And tourism should be its own district, sort of.
Hotels should be a district in my opinion, with casinos and other attractions acting as areas of tourism interest.
The_Decryptor
Neo Member
If you click on the folder icon next to "Select a brush" it'll let you add new ones, that's what they've done.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Okay I'm back too far and spending way too much time playing catch up when I come back to this OT, that's an amazing amount of posts for such a "small" game.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
That's a whole lot of dams:
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Did you save the game after you built the pumps?
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Guide on how to adjust starting highway off-ramps when starting a new city so that both ramps are even:
https://imgur.com/a/koEKW
Turn this:
Into this:
So you can more easily do stuff like this:
https://imgur.com/a/koEKW
Turn this:
Into this:
So you can more easily do stuff like this:
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
No. I didn't want to lose all the moneys.
thatsapenis.gifSo you can more easily do stuff like this:
or scissors.. or a dragonfly head..
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
You could have just created a new save file.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Pretty sure thats why you never got it.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408705348&searchtext=Reddit
Reddit threads for Chirpy.
Reddit threads for Chirpy.
Robottiimu2000
Member
So you can more easily do stuff like this:
Brilliant! Thanks!
Fuck this game! I couldnt fall asleep last night until 0100 coz I was planning roadlayouts in my head.. And I had to get up to work at 0500..
Im gonna start over a third time. I keep getting stressed and overexpand with to little planning for the future. I end up with isolated neighbourhoods and no good way to hook them up. And fuck oneway streets. They mess up service coverage too much for me. :'(
Best feature - The paus button
Im gonna start over a third time. I keep getting stressed and overexpand with to little planning for the future. I end up with isolated neighbourhoods and no good way to hook them up. And fuck oneway streets. They mess up service coverage too much for me. :'(
Best feature - The paus button
Is there any way to improve the graphics (mostly I'm thinking downsampling/forcing proper AA) without recurring to mods and blocking achievements?
I recall there was some discussions, dozens of pages ago, about forcing FXAA via Nvidia panel, but there also was someone saying something against it
, and I can't find it anymore (nor I'm sure it was here or on Reddit...).
I recall there was some discussions, dozens of pages ago, about forcing FXAA via Nvidia panel, but there also was someone saying something against it
or something
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You could use this mod which enables achievements http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407055819
You might have to start a new save though, I'm not sure.
thelurkinghorror
Member
There's already a mod which enable achievement while using mods! Modception!
We are mods We are mods!
Edit: beaten
The Dear Leader
Banned
Is there any way to un-fuck utterly fucked up bus lines, I can't seem to remove them and they're just all over the place with broken connections everywhere and people are sending mean tweets to me and I don't know how to handle this sort of pressure.
Oh.
Ahahaha, that's genius!
I'm gonna try it ASAP, thanks!
thelurkinghorror
Member
To remove a bus line you can click on a bus that belong to the line you want to erase and then click to modify line. Not intuitive, the lines management need an improvement
The_Decryptor
Neo Member
Tried disabling tilt shift? It already uses SMAA, so it shouldn't need FXAA (SMAA is an improved version of FXAA), and tilt shift adds a soft blur to things which will interfere with how SMAA/FXAA works.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Much appreciated, didn't think of clicking on the buses.
Tilt shift is already turned off. My problem is the jaggies, not the blur.
But, now that I know that I can mod achievements inside mods inside games, I'm gonna use the downsample mod and live happily ever after.
hobblygobbly
Member
Any word yet when the bug (design?) of parks satisfying commercial greatly will be fixed?
It's a catch 22. In order for residential buildings and stuff to upgrade you need things like parks. But if you build parks it kills your commercial demand since it satisfies it, that means you can't build commercial and thus your industry suffers because it can't sell to commercial. If you decide not to place parks then your residential buildings don't upgrade.
My city right now that is fairly large (40k) is getting a lot of problems with this now. It doesn't seem so apparent early on but definitely later.
It's a catch 22. In order for residential buildings and stuff to upgrade you need things like parks. But if you build parks it kills your commercial demand since it satisfies it, that means you can't build commercial and thus your industry suffers because it can't sell to commercial. If you decide not to place parks then your residential buildings don't upgrade.
My city right now that is fairly large (40k) is getting a lot of problems with this now. It doesn't seem so apparent early on but definitely later.
thelurkinghorror
Member
From there you can also modify the line's name and the color of the buses.
This game really need a list of all the active lines where you can make all sort of change... can you hear me Colossal Order? This, tunnels and terraforming ...
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
This is pretty good
It's pretty simple to go into your asset manager and throw together a quick 4x4 park with all tourism values set to 0. It's pretty fun too, certainly not a hassle to spend some time on and make several sizes, flavours, if you're of a mind to.
Once you have at least one 'fixed' park, open the save file and methodically replace each and every existing leisure ploppable with your customs.
Not a perfect solution of course, and the sooner CO get a hotfix out the better, but (for me, anyway) it's preferable to playing with the current weird parks.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
The game uses SMAA?
Whatever it was doing, it's a joke. I'd rather use FXAA injected by the drivers seeing as FXAA does a good job at eliminating jaggies, including these caused by tree movement.
Even some tilt shift effect shouldn't reduce the necessity of AA on parts in focus.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Can anyone explain why my fire service and waste collection is not having that much reach? I'm trying to use one way streets but I'm thinking it's a bad idea.
Another mod idea (does this one exist already?) is giant goddamn arrows in traffic view that show me where my one way streets are
Also is there a way to randomise the models for set buildings? I'd like to have random designs for clinics, parks, fire stations etc. even if they do the same thing.
Also is there a way to randomise the models for set buildings? I'd like to have random designs for clinics, parks, fire stations etc. even if they do the same thing.
I'm not sure if this has already been posted but here's a mod that allows easily changing the one way road direction and also upgrading between one and two way roads: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408209297
It would be cool to have these useful mods listed in one place whenever someone finds one.
It would be cool to have these useful mods listed in one place whenever someone finds one.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Yeah, I'm stupid. Somehow I never thought to do that. I just thought once it unlocked it was unlocked and just reloaded my save. It's very unintuitive that it doesn't commit the unlock until a file save is performed seeing as it's a global unlock and not just a local one.
I know for the future. And can just do it again. Did anyone order 200 water pumps?
dragonelite
Member
The service trucks can ride a bigger distance, what you're seeing is influence.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
I like to read the green areas while plopping down a service building as "excellent coverage" where it's extremely likely to be responsive.
Anything beyond that will depend heavily on traffic conditions, and then there's a maximum distance before nothing helps. Maybe they should have a "yellow" coverage that shows up for areas where coverage depends a lot on traffic conditions. Think of it as areas where if the traffic is perfectly clear, it'll be able to make it, but heavy traffic, not so much.
Anything beyond that will depend heavily on traffic conditions, and then there's a maximum distance before nothing helps. Maybe they should have a "yellow" coverage that shows up for areas where coverage depends a lot on traffic conditions. Think of it as areas where if the traffic is perfectly clear, it'll be able to make it, but heavy traffic, not so much.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Phew, although I could have sworn with two way roads there was more 'green'.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
I think positioning matters even more with one-way roads.
I don't find the point of one-way roads even at 80K. Anyone else?
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