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Noyemi K posted:What are some pro-strats for making rad workable industry connections or road hierarchies because besides the Mars Colony and Rokayapnagar I actually have some massive traffic issues and I'm sure those two are flukes. I'll go ahead and plug it again: give the "industrial coffee filter" design plan a whirl. It works just about perfectly in my cities. The concept is to separate off all the industrial truck traffic from the highways to prevent it from snarling the traffic in your residential areas. Here is a screenshot of the general layout: 
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Ihmemies posted:Can't wait for the full soviet cube "neukkukuutio" collection: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407011788 Yesss, more of this sort of thing please. My plan of a Magnitogorsk-inspired Stalinist hellscape remains tainted by the architecture of Western capitalist decadence. I hope some enterprising modder also manages to make fake mixed zoning by making commercial models that look like the residential ones with shops added. Edit: I also hope people make more industrial buildings, those are always underrepresented in citybuilder modding. I want drab brown brick, dilapidated warehouses, and bigger smokestacks that belch massive plumes of black smog. Basically more stuff to let me make my city as bleak and awful as possible 
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Comstar posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Cities: Skylines - You have chosen, or have been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. Someone needs to make Nova Prospekt. Like, right now.
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We really need a new thread with someone that's willing to keep the OP updated regularly.
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CompeAnansi posted:I'll go ahead and plug it again: give the "industrial coffee filter" design plan a whirl. It works just about perfectly in my cities. The concept is to separate off all the industrial truck traffic from the highways to prevent it from snarling the traffic in your residential areas. Here is a screenshot of the general layout: I'm mostly quoting this so I can look back at the post in my history, ha-ha. Because right now I'm having some serious traffic problems in Inchun, though I've greatly reduced the industry traffic I'm dealing with heavy traffic along a certain road and I'm thinking it's probably because of the lack of a frontage road on the highway. Luckily, I left space for it I think, but 
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Guildencrantz posted:Yesss, more of this sort of thing please. My plan of a Magnitogorsk-inspired Stalinist hellscape remains tainted by the architecture of Western capitalist decadence. Also need the possibility to tax private car ownership 1000% (so like Denmark) to get a proper  feel to it.
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I want really tall mega-factories. That'd be baller.
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It would be nice to have toll roads, or the ability to set up London style congestion charging with city districts.
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Yeah, I'm getting to the point with my city (about 65 thousand odd, although I've got a bit of a die-off happening  ) where I can start messing around with highway systems that actually have a purpose. I'm trying to get the hang of planning things out with regular one-ways because they're easier to snap to a grid and then upgrade them to ramps or highways as needed. It took me a few goes, but I finally turned this pre-existing interchange into a cloverstack which seems to have smoothed up the flow across it nicely.. The next little project was this.  There's an industrial area on the right and a R/C mix on the left, so there's a dedicated pair of ramps for the trucks to get to the factories, but I also wanted vehicles to be able to access the highway without having to go all the way across the main avenue, so I stuck a couple of hooks in here as well. Technically it's really two different interchanges, but it means workers can get to their jobs in the factories without too much hassle from trucks until they're actually in the area.  The highway forking away from the lake in front of the airport is a new one. It's kind of complicated because it's serving a number of different journeys, from trucks, commuters and airport patrons. It gets plenty of traffic but rarely clogs up.  Further along the highway, I have another industrial area. The biggest issue is of course the freight train terminal (off the bottom of the pic). There's a kink in the highway because I haven't bought the plot yet; once I do that, I'll probably straighten it out and make some room for some more interchanges and possible extend the airport rail line to some new districts.  And finally that highway terminates here. (Yeah I did try damming the river across that span just to see what would happen, and it turned out to be a bad idea in ways we've seen quite a lot of!)  Back in town, I would kill to be able to shove the highway into a tunnel, but until they patch that in, I'll make do. Anyway, I had ramps in both directions onto that large road, and it was backing up crap everywhere, so I removed the two on the river side, and moved them closer to the bridge, having them run onto pair of one-way roads (which meet up at the avenue, and that seems to have dealt with the issue.  I'm also so crazy about double stations that I made another set, to enable quick access from the city out to the airport. Also I love that skyscraper jutting out of the roundabout like that.  "Beauty" shot of the city.  OK, so I've got a few traffic snarls, but since I tend to pack things in cheek-by-jowl (while trying to throw kinks in to keep things interesting), that's gonna happen. I actually try to stick to 2-lane avenues unless I've got blocks backed up, then I'll upgrade. If, in the process of tweaking elsewhere, I've improved the situation I may even knock them back down to two lanes again. Because at the moment the traffic doesn't use the three lanes effectively. Use the middle lane or lose it.  There's definitely a few things they could add to give a bit more control over traffic flow, but it's like, well, the core is very good. Nothing like the nightmare that was trying to wrangle traffic in SC2013. The Deadly Hume fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Finally got to 100K; this game owns almost too much. It is as if we don't deserve this much ownage bestowed upon us by Colossal Order in tyool 2015. 
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I let my unplanned mess city hit 50k and then shelved it. I started a new one on Chewbot's Dunes Oasis map, and so far it's already like 300% better laid out than any part of my first city. The industry area is completely separated from any of the other main roads, held onto the rest of the town by a placeholder rotary that I'll replace with a new branch of highway once population and budget permit. I'll also use mostly raised highways this go around so I can use parallel service roads. Planning for walkability is also a concern, but mostly I just want to avoid the polluted spaghetti clusterfuck I ended up with in Marshwater. I want to make an aesthetically pleasing city, dammit!
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Roobanguy posted:
So many bottlenecks. Must smash bottlenecks. Why can't I move the camera... oh right I'm on the forums again.
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A proper road hierarchy would cut that mess at least in half.
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SynthOrange posted:You know, why bother with interchanges? Surely I could replace them with roundabouts?! It's the Commonwealth way.   There's a highway roundabout near where I live, actually. Not as bad as that one, though.
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Noyemi K posted:A proper road hierarchy would cut that mess at least in half.
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zedprime posted:I think just connecting that dumb monster avenue with some east-west connections would fix so many issues but I also have an urge to drop a proper highway spur with local service to surface road overpasses in its place Or roundabouts instead of intersections 
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MikeJF posted:It's the Commonwealth way. Wow what mods are you using.
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So, anyone else notice you can build the Harbor and the Cargo Harbor off of power lines running over the water as if they were a shore? Sadly, you can't build underwater roads to it, so no submarine cargo ships... Edit: Seems it only works on some power lines... maybe the ones near enough to the shore?
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I'm willing to maintain a new thread, if no one else wants to. What should go in the OP?
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HardDisk posted:I'm willing to maintain a new thread, if no one else wants to. What should go in the OP? Some basic guides (like the Industrial Coffee Filter thing) and info on the game, along with a list of highly recommended mods and a few pretty pictures of course 
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The comics are funny. Maybe also links to the official mod collections. And also links to modern urban design theory such as fused orbs and frontage roads.
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Noyemi K posted:Some basic guides (like the Industrial Coffee Filter thing) and info on the game, along with a list of highly recommended mods and a few pretty pictures of course The gifs (like the industrial traffic one from reddit) are super helpful in figuring out wtf is happening.
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HardDisk posted:I'm willing to maintain a new thread, if no one else wants to. What should go in the OP? Trilin posted:I hope this hasn't been posted already but it's loving great. Something useful (by now there may be more adroit tutorials on how turn lanes can work for you but this gets the major points across): Yaos posted:After his numerous fuckups, Quill made a video on how roads work. Something inspiring
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What happens if I zone farming or forestry outside of the suitable areas?
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Ooooooh: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408933607&searchtext= Pretty neat.
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Wow, there sure are a lot of tears on reddit because of the guy who's releasing all of those variations of default buildings. https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2z7g5f/wtf_is_this_spam_and_why_is_it_rated_up_so_much/
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Fish Fry Andy posted:Wow, there sure are a lot of tears on reddit because of the guy who's releasing all of those variations of default buildings. Doesn't it give more colour variety to your city?
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Poil posted:What happens if I zone farming or forestry outside of the suitable areas?
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I can't play the game before an OS reinstall, so could you guys try and see if Diverging Diamond is as efficient as it is sexy?
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WMain00 posted:Doesn't it give more colour variety to your city? More color variety as well as trees and stuff. Just a bunch of small changes to break up sameness.
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I wonder if the game is moddable enough to make platforms above your city that you can build on. How am I supposed to make Hengsha from deus ex or Midgar from ff7?
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SPACE HOMOS posted:I wonder if the game is moddable enough to make platforms above your city that you can build on. How am I supposed to make Hengsha from deus ex or Midgar from ff7? All the poors live on the ground. If they want sun, they gotta work for it.
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zedprime posted:They build final product workshops that import the zoned raw material.
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I want to be able to start before 2015. In like 1960 or something. Or 1920 even. This is the me that wants this game to be more like TTD 
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I made a completely awful afront to the Lord our God by putting some of the highway interchanges in the (ocean?) water and building a maze like way to intersect with the existing interstates. It looks GOD AWFUL but dammit if it didn't solve ever single traffic issue I had because it allowed me to somehow reroute industry traffic to an island off-shore that handled both rail and boat cargo. Also, apparently a laid-off Maxis designer is asking for money to make buildings for the Skylines. It's the circle of life! suddenlyissoon fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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FUUUUCK! Anyone know how to get custom road assets back after the game mysteriously deletes them? I spent way too long on a very particular hexagon block and built out a huge city yesterday, when I opened the game this morning that hex block was missing. edit: It happened when I switched computers, so I suspect steam cloud is part of the issue? Maybe instead of syncing road assets it deletes them? smoobles fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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HardDisk posted:I'm willing to maintain a new thread, if no one else wants to. What should go in the OP? 
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I'm making the new OP, how's it looking so far? I guess I need more screenshots, but for now it's enough. http://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=22085
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Do you have this video? It was awesome. EDIT: Found it https://vimeo.com/106226560 Space Kablooey fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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