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Hadlock posted:So after it's out been a week and the new-toy shine starts to wear off, is this still worth what the hell is wrong with you why have you not bought this already is your hand broken just get it man
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HardDisk posted:There's a real dearth of sceenshots and fan art in the OP, can you guys give me a hand there? On a related note to this, screenshots from this game are practically made to be run through FotoSketcher to make them look like paintings, you may recognise the first one as one of the screenshots for Chewbot's Color Correction stuff back on Page 1 of the thread:    Yes, that's the Statue of Wealth on fire, why do you ask? And did this one with the new version of my Mirrors Edge color correction:  Of course I've still got the original screenshots if you'd prefer those.
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Hadlock posted:So after it's out been a week and the new-toy shine starts to wear off, is this still worth It's basically Sim City 4, 2015 edition with all the logical expansions and bugfixes and I can't wait to play it more. I think this is one of these games you can get years of milage from by revisting every now and then, mostly because I don't think there will be something like it again anytime soon (even though the indie market has a tendency to clone an idea that proved successful for the nth time) That being said, the balance on things seems to be way off. It's very easy to just end up having unlimited money which makes all the little tax stuff this game has pointless, but I just assume that's how these games tend to be. Also they kind of seem to have an green agenda and you need to want to destroy the environment, there doesn't really seem to be an advantage in doing so. Somehow this bothered me a little. It also does quite a bit of quirky stuff I feel which could even be fixed by mods. Police Automaton fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Macaluso posted:i made a cheat city where I built up a bunch of poo poo and then proceeded to flood the entire thing with dams. This. This so very hard. The only "disasters" in this game are either comedies of error (flooding your town with a dam), industrial traffic, and weirdness with garbage truck/hearse pathing. I have only come close to losing a city once, and that was by turning off my medical clinic WHILE turning off garbage WHILE pumping tainted water into the system as I was going for two unique building unlocks at once (below 20 health in city, garbage pileup). The mixture of corpses and tainted water with no medical intervention actually nearly sent me to a death spiral and I had to take bailout money. Fire stations, medical clinics and police stations are too strong for day-to-day life and make your city incredibly happy. Outside of maybe upgraded fire stations (normal ones seem unable to make industrial zones stop being red fire hazards) there seem no reason to make the upgraded versions of any of those three outside of achievements. Mixed with the lack of discrete information in a lot of areas the game seems a bit flimsy in some way simulation wise. Still loving it, and I'm probably going to lose several more full days to it, it's just the simulation feels a bit shallow in some ways. Thankfully there's the Steam Workshop to distract me from that. On the plus side, the fact that fires are just a thing that happens and the game doesn't pause completely while you plonk firetrucks in the area is something I don't miss at all from classic sim city games.
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Police Automaton posted:It's basically Sim City 4, 2015 edition with all the logical expansions and bugfixes It's deserving to be called Simcity 5 to be honest. Districts and seamless regions basically makes this the next step in city building games. It's still rough around the edges but whats in the middle is a mile high
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HardDisk posted:There's a real dearth of sceenshots and fan art in the OP, can you guys give me a hand there?    A few more: http://imgur.com/a/reac3
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Police Automaton posted:It's basically Sim City 4, 2015 edition with all the logical expansions and bugfixes and I can't wait to play it more. I think this is one of these games you can get years of milage from by revisting every now and then, mostly because I don't think there will be something like it again anytime soon (even though the indie market has a tendency to clone an idea that proved successful for the nth time) The thing with real-time management sims has always been that after a certain point, it runs itself. In this game it happens relatively soon (just a little bit later than SC2000's in my experience) but there's the bones of stuff that can make expansion more difficult with a little rebalancing though. Stuff like viral outbreaks and obesity epidemics and industrial busts could be fun (SC2000 had a scenario where you had to recover industry in Flint, Michigan during the transition to the rust belt era). Industrial demand and types in SC2000 were actually pretty granular, with many types of industries that each had their own demand (and if you had high amounts of an industry in low demand, those industries would fall into decline). It was just window dressing though.
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Fish Fry Andy posted:
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Is it just me or is the performance in this game is god drat awful? I haven't got the best rig but I can run most games quite well but Skylines constantly jumps between 60 and 40 fps on medium settings with shadows off and it's even worse if I zoom in. Also the anti-aliasing in this game is awful, everything is so jaggy, it's a giant eye sore. I really want to enjoy this game but I find it unplayable right now. 
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Vahakyla posted:How do you get it to look like this? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406018056&searchtext= http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406629464&searchtext= http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406255342&searchtext= http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406326408&searchtext= http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408932281&searchtext= I run 300% supersampling for 1920x1080 (only when taking screenshots), film grain disabled, and 30 FOV with the first person camera.
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The Mantis posted:Would be up to see more. I missed the layouts you mentioned. First grid:  More uniform, second grid:  Third, traffic trident variant:  Pictures of the three grids. All three don't really have any traffic issues.
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For anybody still on the fence about buying this. 1) its worth the price of admission. Its worth 2x of the new SimCity 2) its better then new SimCity 3) Modding is awesome 4) just buy the drat game already its great.
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Jack Trades posted:Is it just me or is the performance in this game is god drat awful? Any info on your rig would be great. I'm running on a fairly average rig (660gt, i7960) and it seems fine for me. Roll back (or update) your drivers first and see of it makes any changes. Also remove any dust from your cpu/gpu and see if that helps. *edit* Sorry for the double post!
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Hey guys Im supposed to be making the game look like SC4 right? aaaand several hardware generations later. 
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Jack Trades posted:Is it just me or is the performance in this game is god drat awful? The AA is definitely a problem, I have a GTX 970 and I have to downsample from 4K using the DSR mod to have lines that are anything like acceptably smooth. It seems to be worse for some people than others. Hopefully they do something to improve it at any rate.
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Is anyone else bothered by the massive amount of curbside parking the Cims engage in? All those cars just sitting there! I need to download some parking lot mods I guess. Anyone got any they particularily like? I don't suppose parking garages are possible? a plopabble structure that contains (and mostly hides) lots and lots of parking spaces?
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Is anyone else bothered by the massive amount of curbside parking the Cims engage in? All those cars just sitting there! I've seen a parking garage on the workshop, no idea if it works or not though.
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Jack Trades posted:Is it just me or is the performance in this game is god drat awful? Unity.
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Diviance posted:Third, traffic trident variant: I approve of this  Also, I applied the trident idea with the things I learned about highways earlier and made a double diamond (technically it's called a full diamond, but I didn't check the list of interchanges to see if this was a thing before making it)   You can see the triple exit ramps splitting traffic. And the merge points work 2/3rds as theorized, the inbound lanes with turn signals do take the left and right sides of the highway when entering, but the straight thru lanes just pick whichever lane when they come out, so I'll be turning them back into full highway segments right after the initial split. If you keep the whole stretch a highway, all three lanes will be thru lanes. Also, I can make this smaller I think.
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thsi game gives me anxiety like no other becuz i realize how there is no trick to being good at the game you have to be creative and patient .. .two things i dont have im like hours in and my town is starting to look like silent hill as they are like "do more and stop bein broke" as money heommograhes away into the muddy brown waters crime is rampatnt becuz i cant afford another police station and half the city is on fire becuz I ran out of money to make roads for my fire turkcks everyone is sick becuz no one will give me a loan - i lower taxes to make the people happier buet the just keep dying my roads look like you give an autistic kid the fantasia hat and some ketamine I just cant win 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Is anyone else bothered by the massive amount of curbside parking the Cims engage in? All those cars just sitting there! I live in a city of ~100k and it's mostly curbside parking. There are... two or three parking garages downtown, the mall parking lots outside of the core, and then pretty much everything else is curb or small store lot.
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The number one thing I want from the modding community is a full-size professional ballpark. The soccer stadium's fine, but my city is in America, damnit. I've settled for plopping the little league parks from the workshop all around town. I'm up to 44k population now, and the traffic problems I created decades ago are still plaguing me. I should probably bulldoze all of the "Historic District" and try to work the kinks out, but I just can't be that cruel.
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What are the public transit options like? I really wanted to play around with street cars and subways, sort of like what Budapest and Vienna have. Actually I just want to completely recreate Budapest  
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Hadlock posted:What are the public transit options like? I really wanted to play around with street cars and subways, sort of like what Budapest and Vienna have. You've got buses, subways, normal rail, boats and planes. Sadly no street cars (and if they were they'd do horrible things to this game's simplistic traffic). While a bit lacking in options, the tools they give you are incredibly powerful, complete with the ability to make bus and train routes.
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Can't recreate my hometown (Melbourne) without trams, either. Or a rail-underground connector. Or smaller drat train stations.
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Fish Fry Andy posted:
What color profile is this. I must have it.
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Lester Shy posted:The number one thing I want from the modding community is a full-size professional ballpark. The soccer stadium's fine, but my city is in America, damnit. I've settled for plopping the little league parks from the workshop all around town. Hey maybe once your lovely country can make a City Builder that isn't poo poo, you'll get a stadium for your mutant babby cricket.
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409073164 I know some folks were looking for this before. Pillar removal from railroad tracks so you can build your train tracks above roads.
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I'm working on a 4x4 growable industrial building (or a mesh for one, anyway). I might not get to texturing today; what I'm thinking of doing is dividing the work by doing models on one day, and textures on another so I can worry about the different tasks separately instead of diving right into textures right after making a model. I know some people are looking for proper high tech industry, so hopefully I can edit the pollution and workers of these buildings and have them import ore too (I haven't used the industrial asset editor yet).
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I found the color LUAs and they are amazing.     Screenshots taken using this one: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408932281&searchtext= And another nice one you might not have noticed: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408526347 We need a mars themed LUA to go along with the mars map. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408111134&searchtext=mars Raskolnikov fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Fish Fry Andy posted:
When I see screenshots like this I wonder how the hell people could become so much better than me in such a short time. I've been playing this game way before release and I can't get my cities to look this pretty. drat you all!
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Groogy posted:When I see screenshots like this I wonder how the hell people could become so much better than me in such a short time. I've been playing this game way before release and I can't get my cities to look this pretty. drat you all! This is basically a grid, though. It's just there's a lot of it.
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Just a little bug warning when you're playing in the asset editor. If you save something, then start a new asset, always remember to check your save naming, it doesn't clear the old asset save name out. Time to make the Double Diamond again -_-  This is probably? as small as is reasonable for max speed of the 45 degree on/off ramps.
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Police Automaton posted:It's basically Sim City 4, 2015 edition with all the logical expansions and bugfixes and I can't wait to play it more. I think this is one of these games you can get years of milage from by revisting every now and then, mostly because I don't think there will be something like it again anytime soon (even though the indie market has a tendency to clone an idea that proved successful for the nth time) Mods really give this game endless possibilities. The only thing really missing, as people pointed out, are disasters not caused by flooding. Some new challenges to make the game very difficult once you hit a certain cap. Maybe in an expansion?
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Slickdrac posted:Just a little bug warning when you're playing in the asset editor. If you save something, then start a new asset, always remember to check your save naming, it doesn't clear the old asset save name out. I did this twice while making the grids I showed earlier. So annoying.
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