I used to get eletricity from fuel, then I started using solar energy and never looked back.
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I used to get eletricity from fuel, then I started using solar energy and never looked back.
Have you tried wind power? I've only used oil and coal plants and don't remember fuel being a component, just had them connected to my city with powerlines and didn't run into problems. Now I use mostly wind power
...the power can reach the city, right? It's connected via lines or near enough?
That's the only conceivable way that could be happening.
TimeEffect
Member
What fuel?
InaudibleWhispa
Member
I never used a power plant, try just using a wind farm. As for your landfills, if they're overflowing with garbage they're probably full. You have to manually empty them (or get a mod to do it automatically).
MisterCrow
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Coal power plants. Trucks deliver fuel (coal) along roads to the power plant. I've seen it happen and I've never once done any sort of industry specialization, meaning I've never once produced coal, to my knowledge. The year is 2039 so I've been playing for some time and had no issues with a power plant dying within a minute of putting it down on speed 3.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I made the challenge thread. You have a week. You can win a 30 dollar steam game!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=156216202
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=156216202
So start using specialization? Importing coal, especially only by road, isn't going to cut it forever.
Hell, coal plants by 2039 seem like a horribly inefficient idea to me
MisterCrow
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It works fine for my city, I don't care if it's inefficient. What I care about is to get feedback as to why coal trucks have completely disappeared. If the game had said "hey its 2039 and coal dried up" that would be one thing. Instead I'm getting nothing.
InaudibleWhispa
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You are getting feedback -- your power is cutting out. Your city obviously needs more power now than coal alone can provide given that it's tier 1 power generation. Time to upgrade. It's not like the game would say "Sorry, it's not windy any more" if you were using wind turbines. You just have to keep an eye on power demand and adapt/upgrade.
bargeparty
Member
Sorry if this was asked, but the modded buildings, do they go into the random pool or do you have to place them manually?
Growables go into the random pool, everything else is ploppable
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Woot, I just hit 75K population and unlocked the rest of the map thanks to the 25 square mod! So since I'm rolling in $5 million plus I quickly bought the rest of the map:
Holy Shit. Look...at...all of ....that.....rrroooommmmmmmm.....
I've got a lot of building to do.....
Holy Shit. Look...at...all of ....that.....rrroooommmmmmmm.....
I've got a lot of building to do.....
...how can you not link a city expanding and power running out with the fact that you should adapt the way you're providing power?
I mean, when you use wind turbiines and there are black outs, you just add more turbines.
If the coal import supply for your plants isn't enough anymore, you have to do something. Except that since it's fuel dependent, plopping more plants isn't going to do shit. Game isn't going to magically provide you with fuel.
Either you start producing coal yourself to sustain your expanding city (or use trains or boats to import in larger quantities I guess) or you just have to say goodbye to coal and start using something more powerful
People don't teleport to their jobs though they do get teleported back home if they can't complete their journey after a specified amount of time. Given the massive traffic jams you can create, the solution they came up with seems like a very reasonable compromise.
Anyway, you can "fix" the game by using a mod that stops the teleportation. The head dev of the game has actually recommended this mod for people like you on the Skylines forum.
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/...&actualsort=trend&browsesort=trend&p=1&days=7
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
I think the intersection asset thing is broke.
You can take a snapshot, and it will show in the save menu, and when you hover over the item in the menu while playing. But the placeholder icon still shows.
I have yet to see one without a placehold icon.
MrTroubleMaker
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LurkerPrime
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Correct. It has to do with the tourism generated by parks or something like that.
Hopefully the devs patch it ASAP.
For whatever reason, the capacity of parks and landmarks was being factored into commercial demand (this is separate from tourism). CO is aware of the issue so we'll likely see an official fix whenever the first patch comes out.
This mod fixes the issue:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409068574&searchtext=
Try making your city an absolute shithole, but not so much of a shithole that everything becomes abandoned. I also found that commercial zones get crime-ridden quite easily.
It still took me awhile, though, and I basically did it from a fresh city intending to get all of the negative unlocks/achievements.
Low education, no police coverage, no leisure or land value, etc. Probably best to keep some fire stations, garbage dumps, medical things and such around, though. At first I tried to just make it as awful as possible. Was feeding everyone polluted water, and they were all just too sick to resort to any crime, I think, lol.
LurkerPrime
Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
make them unhappy and turn off the police. Have mostly level 1 buildings, and turn up the tax rate.
KnightHart
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Everytime I go "I should take a break from the game for a while" and then immediately after I see something like this:
And I just want to keep playing again cause I want to make something that cool.
Is this yours:
Full 9 tiles. 400K pop'n
And I just want to keep playing again cause I want to make something that cool.
Just made my first custom prop and got it ingame. This game is great for modding. Here are some pics and links. Hope you like it.
A playhouse for kids prop(Asset):
A park with the playhouse in it:
Links for both: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409262734 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409262200
Note that to get the playhouse to work you will need the prop to as an active asset.
Any other modelers or modders here on GAF?
A playhouse for kids prop(Asset):
A park with the playhouse in it:
Links for both: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409262734 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409262200
Note that to get the playhouse to work you will need the prop to as an active asset.
Any other modelers or modders here on GAF?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I just hit Garbage Apocalypse.
I have three empty landfills. What gives?
I have three empty landfills. What gives?
The Dear Leader
Banned
You should just upgrade all your roads to two way roads, you might lose a few buildings but at least the traffic won't be a mess.
Here's my crappy city, I've made good money, and I finally got my pollution problem solved (by moving all my bad stuff to the left side of the map across the river), everyone's happy but infastructure is a mess, I can't do much with it at this point, so I'm thinking of starting a new city. Reorganizing my landfills was the worst part, I regrettably put them and my industrial section way to close to my city resulting in terrible pollution.
manfestival
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I have a feeling I am doing way more work than I should be on making my city... are you able to actually connect your sewage and drinking water pipes? also is there a more efficient way to distribute electricity to a city? I hate having to give up space for the huge power towers
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Sewer and water lines are shared.
For power lines, all you need to do is make sure the colored areas when the power overlay is up are connected to your power plants. As your city grows, you can demolish any excess power lines that end up overlapping and becoming redundant.
KnightHart
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My 3rd city where I actually tried to think everything through
Gonna start working on a good Metro system cause the density is starting to kill my buses and traffic in general. Then I'm gonna focus on expanding West
Gonna start working on a good Metro system cause the density is starting to kill my buses and traffic in general. Then I'm gonna focus on expanding West
RandomExpletive
Member
So I've got a bit of an odd question.
The guy who made the Dynamic Res mod has the source code up for people to see and I figured I might as well try and grab an older version that didn't make sub-100% resolution scaling look like ass.
Problem is, I'm getting errors:
If anyone here is doing some modding of their own in C:S and has an idea of why I'm getting these errors, help would be much appreciated. For now, I'll keep playing on 720p :|
The guy who made the Dynamic Res mod has the source code up for people to see and I figured I might as well try and grab an older version that didn't make sub-100% resolution scaling look like ass.
Problem is, I'm getting errors:
If anyone here is doing some modding of their own in C:S and has an idea of why I'm getting these errors, help would be much appreciated. For now, I'll keep playing on 720p :|
Awesome idea. I'm nowhere near being able to compete yet though
Hmm. I wonder whether this sort of idea could be made into a mod somehow? That is, reach a certain export amount by year 50 (with easy, medium, hard and impossible challenge levels). The mod could probably even enforce the building restrictions.
motorised mallard
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Where are your landfills located and how is the traffic in your city?
Are you stacking them in the same area? Not a problem to me but I think some people might have that mentality with other services also.
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Still going strong.
Talk me through Metro Design. I have a loop running from fairly spread out (usually about one tile-length distance) locations but I'm running about 120-140 passgengers weekly, which isn't exactly bad but a little less than I'd expect. Does the route query tool work on my stations? Is there any way to see when my metro is running?
My bus network is regularly pushing at least 1000 passengers weekly (feeder systems ftw)
My bus network is regularly pushing at least 1000 passengers weekly (feeder systems ftw)
hmmm... this 1 way zigzag commercial zone made more sense in my head...
Doesn't seem to work that well for a commercial area, works decently enough for my offices though because of less traffic... shit.
services also have a hard time getting in there.
I had something similar. Until a lot of it burned down
Guarantee your traffic is fucked.
I believe so. But you should check they are set to "On" instead of "Off" in the settings.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Just realized I needed to upgrade my routes.
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