Asproigerosis posted:

Help I'm too simple minded to understand basic traffic ideas. My city of offensive grids is clogging at the excessive intersections

Galaga Galaxian posted:

It looks like you only have one highway access point in that traffic circle. Thus everybody in the city funnels into that 6-lane road arterial causing congestion.

Try adding a few more access points to the highway "north" and "south" (from this perspective) of the existing one.

Asproigerosis posted:

Ok cutting out every other intersection has resulted in the traffic being within the grids instead of on the 6 lane.

wit posted:

The awful kludgy technique I used was to have only one station in my city actually connected to the outside line and opposite it another station on the internal circuit. Makes for some gently caress ugly traffic convoys scrambling across that tiny bit of road, but stops the eternal train jamming.

Hubis posted:

I have to say, I really liked Cities XL's model for offices. Heavy industry requires Office output to consume, so if you want to be more than a series of small production facilities you need an office district for all the headquarters.

Doh004 posted:

I haven't played a game for five hours straight in a very long time. A+++ would buy again.

GhostDog posted:

There's an interview on RPS that goes into their plans for the game a bit. They expected to sell 300.000 copies... lifetime, then sold as much in the first day. That has to be a party right there.

David Pratt posted:

Here is the article: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/04/03/mods-maxis-and-forward-motion-cities-skylines-interview/

The Deadly Hume posted:

I don't think of it as outrageously kludgy myself, although I try to have it so the stations sit next to each other (I think you need the roads to be 10 ticks apart), knock up a couple of ped bridges between them.

I think of station as being the long distance terminal and the other being a suburban hub, which is quite a common thing in cities. Probably a good idea to make a bus interchange as well.

wit posted:

That's probably the difference, my own was just thrown together without any dressing it up:

Asproigerosis posted:

Ok cutting out every other intersection has resulted in the traffic being within the grids instead of on the 6 lane.

Asproigerosis posted:

Ok cutting out every other intersection has resulted in the traffic being within the grids instead of on the 6 lane.

wit posted:

Speaking of lines, how do you all organise and colour your public transport routes? Do you bother?

mr. nobody posted:

I would like to ask the same question but differently from you, how do you color your bus lines? I have a small city with a bunch of blue bus routes and it's confusing and I would love to know how to make them colored differently.

Poizen Jam posted:

My game crashes going back to main menu. Odd, and can't figure out what causes it.

David Pratt posted:

Here is the article: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/04/03/mods-maxis-and-forward-motion-cities-skylines-interview/

quote:

Hallikainen: We had a meeting about feedback for players. The team were talking about the newspapers in the old Sim City games. I wasn’t really a part of that meeting, I was just walking by and we were in an open office at that point. And I jumped into the conversation – (adopts exaggerated voice) “Think about it, we’re in the 21st century! Everyone talks online. How about we have this twitter feed, with a bird that’s sitting there on your screen. And maybe call it Chirps! And it could be a Chirper!”

That’s where it started. To be honest, I was so devastated that people hate the Chirp. I was so excited (laughs)! It was pretty much the only creative input I had in the game and everybody hated it. This proves that CEOs should have no input in games EVER.

But then again we decided that since there are two people who love Chirper, we will own it. I wrote on the Paradox forums that I was to blame, that it was all my fault., and that I’d decided it would stay. There was a huge uproar, people were saying “You don’t listen to feedback, you suck, you’re as bad as EA!”

And I thought, well now it’s definitely not going to go away. If I have something that I had input on, in the game, I’m going to stick with it. And now I have a Chirper t-shirt that says “Give me a chance”. But the designers are probably saying, “Let’s never listen to Mariina again.”

It was weird to see people being so passionate about this one bird in the game though. Nobody reads newspapers anymore – it had to be contemporary and I thought it was a really good idea! Maybe it’s overuse of hashtags. It’s like an idea of Twitter written by an old person. I never use Twitter – I have a Facebook page because when I joined the company the other guys forced me to join Facebook. I am really bad at social media though because I have nothing interesting to say. Just, “Here’s a picture of my horse. Look at it.” That’s about it.

So when I started to say, “let’s do this twitter feed with #mayorrocks or #mayorsucks'”, I thought that’s how people spoke on twitter. I thought that was cool!

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The European buildings are one of those things. It’s not just cosmetic, it’s actually adding the wall-to-wall city blocks. You live in Manchester so you know how that looks – blocks that are all connected together. You can’t do that in the game at the moment but it’s something that we want to add.

Tambaloneus posted:

I think you could save the chirper feed by having the cims (or certain ones maybe, ones you specify to follow?) have the ability to create them procedurally on the fly. It's the fact that they use the same words that makes them dull, have your cims actually construct simple sentences from fragments depending on what is currently pissing them off or making them happy and have the ability for filtering and you'd probably not mind since they'd always be new. Personality traits that mix things up could produce some comedy. However that's a lot more programming and busywork that isn't necessary so ... actually don't even know if that's possible. I've got mine set to not auto-open and pretty much ignore it most of the time.

MikeJF posted:

The real problem with the chirper is that it's not a ticker or even little transient self-fading toasts.

MikeJF posted:

There's probably open conversation frameworks that they could hijack to do this, to be honest.

The Deadly Hume posted:

Baronjutter posted:

It's interesting how all the little digs at simcity were Paradox's doing and she felt uncomfortable making fun of simcity/maxis. Also she can't understand how anyone plays by not just optimizing cash flow.