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I don't get a lot of time to play anymore but I've been watching this guys youtube series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzVhrFoOA1w a whole lot. His videos are super chill and he creates some awesome looking stuff, so its good to unwind and watch someone make a nice looking city.
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Zip! posted:I don't get a lot of time to play anymore but I've been watching this guys youtube series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzVhrFoOA1w a whole lot. His videos are super chill and he creates some awesome looking stuff, so its good to unwind and watch someone make a nice looking city. Before clicking the link I somehow knew it would be this guy. I've seen a couple of his videos and they are very good.
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Aug 26, 2015 18:26
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 Once you build a dam, waterflow downstream always gets erratic and sometimes bad things happen. It's annoying.
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Aug 28, 2015 00:04
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Ofaloaf posted:
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Aug 28, 2015 05:41
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New trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUzFUfPkYxU
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Aug 28, 2015 18:55
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Still blows my mind they aren't doing anything about that hideous cubemap they use for reflective surfaces on buildings.
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Aug 28, 2015 19:00
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Is there a mod that makes making pretty farmland easy (yellowish grass)? So far I've found "parks" in various sizes that you had to align alongside roads and one that placed waterpipe objects on the ground in the form of farmland that you had to painstakingly fill in with 1x1 tiles to make it looks good in the end. All that was infuriating to the point where i quit the game, i just want to make pretty farmland  Something that just loving fills in areas or let's me paint the terrain. edit: nevermind, i uninstalled cause the road ui in this game still makes me want to kill myself Dongattack fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 19:02
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Mmmm, look at those buildings shimmer due to a lack of decent antialiasing
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Aug 29, 2015 01:49
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MikeJF posted:Mmmm, look at those buildings shimmer due to a lack of decent antialiasing That's because they were trying to get it to run on someone's Hotwheels Emachine right?
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Aug 29, 2015 01:54
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I'm just thinking of all the modders who have been making GBS threads themselves about creating night lighting for their buildings since this update was announced.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:57
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ToastyPotato posted:That's because they were trying to get it to run on someone's Hotwheels Emachine right? Nah, with stuff like that you can just turn it down, unlike the simulation stuff, so it's not bound by their low requirements. It's because the deferred rendering pipeline in Unity is all hosed up. Still, you'd think they'd have figured out a solution by now.
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Aug 29, 2015 02:15
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MikeJF posted:Nah, with stuff like that you can just turn it down, unlike the simulation stuff, so it's not bound by their low requirements. It's because the deferred rendering pipeline in Unity is all hosed up. Still, you'd think they'd have figured out a solution by now. I could have sworn there was a mod that allowed for it, but I might have been day dreaming it.
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Aug 29, 2015 02:41
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ToastyPotato posted:I could have sworn there was a mod that allowed for it, but I might have been day dreaming it. There's a mod that gives good-looking antialiasing, but it does so at a huge performance cost, basically by rendering an image twice as large as your screen every frame then scaling it down to blur out the jaggies.
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Aug 29, 2015 02:50
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Can anyone suggest some mods that improve basic usability, aesthetics, and maybe make the game easier or more approachable or offers an advisor on what your city needs? Mostly I just want to make a good looking town and I'm having a lot of trouble running things smoothly. That foliage paintbrush thing is great. More like that.
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Aug 29, 2015 17:46
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Stan Taylor posted:Can anyone suggest some mods that improve basic usability, aesthetics, and maybe make the game easier or more approachable or offers an advisor on what your city needs? Mostly I just want to make a good looking town and I'm having a lot of trouble running things smoothly. Here are some that I would recommend. NoPillars Lets you toggle pillars off to help you build those fancy bridges without getting that pesky space occupied error caused when the game is trying to place a pillar in the middle of the road/rail below. Precision Engineering Simply the best mod when it comes to laying out your road networks. Unlimited Trees While not truly unlimited it does bump up the number of trees allowed on the map from the default 250k to something over a million instead. Info View Button Enabler Enables all info views from the start instead of unlocking them as you reach the appropriate milestones. Persistent Resource View Makes the resource info view persistent so you can turn it on to see where they are while you lay out your roads. Infinite Oil and Ore No more oil and ore deposits that are depleted in 15 minutes. Automatic Bulldoze Automatically bulldozes abandoned and burned down buildings. Can be toggled off if you are going for one of the building unlocks that requires a bunch of abandoned buildings. I'd also recommend taking a look at the parks and finding some good 1x1 parks to use as fillers in those awkward spots where your building options are limited.
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Aug 29, 2015 20:54
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Any downside to unlimited trees?
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Aug 29, 2015 20:55
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"After Dark" huh? It better replace the airplanes for flying toasters.
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Aug 29, 2015 21:01
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ToastyPotato posted:Any downside to unlimited trees? The devs set the default asset limits in order to meet the minimum specs they wanted. Going past that limit just means you'll need a more powerful machine to still keep things running smoothly.
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Aug 29, 2015 22:35
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Enzenx posted:The devs set the default asset limits in order to meet the minimum specs they wanted. Going past that limit just means you'll need a more powerful machine to still keep things running smoothly. Isn't that what slider options are for?
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Aug 29, 2015 23:08
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Build everything by hand, gently caress brushes. e: VVV thanks! Koesj fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Aug 30, 2015 |
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Aug 30, 2015 00:41
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Koesj posted:Build everything by hand, gently caress brushes.  This is impressively pretty.
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Aug 30, 2015 00:55
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ToastyPotato posted:Isn't that what slider options are for? Nope. Modern devs realized buyers get pissed off if they can't run games at maximum settings, it makes them feel bad and that they didn't get all the game they paid for. They'd also go way past their computer's recommended settings then bitch and moan and submit tech support tickets for their game crashing or running bad because they set everything to maximum on their e-machine. People also demand refunds for buying a game their computer can't handle, or purposefully changing a game's settings so that their computer can't handle it. You'd think we could just have a warning that the bigger your city gets the more power you'll need, or a user configurable max-objects setting, but people are both too stupid and too willing to throw a tantrum.
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Aug 30, 2015 01:22
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One thing I liked about GTA V PC is that it had that memory meter on the video settings page that filled up as you messed with the video options (based on your system spec). But yeah, people have definitely been doing the "game runs like poo poo on my PC, I am running on (max resolution for time period) with everything on high, I just don't understand it!) for as long as I have been reading people cry about game performance on the internet (circa Voodoo 2 or 3 cards). So I guess I understand, but it is still really lovely since plenty of other games manage to have graphics options without being sued or refunded into oblivion. But I suppose CO is a tiny company, comparatively, and maybe had a bad experience with the Cities in Motion games? Did those games have these features?
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Aug 30, 2015 01:31
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The community sharing is a factor here too. Your system might be able to handle a map with 3 million trees on it, but if you put it up on the steam workshop, sooner or later somebody is going to have their 6 year old laptop choke to death/burst into flames trying to load it.
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Hobo on Fire posted:The community sharing is a factor here too. Your system might be able to handle a map with 3 million trees on it, but if you put it up on the steam workshop, sooner or later somebody is going to have their 6 year old laptop choke to death/burst into flames trying to load it. I figured a tree slider would remove or add trees depending on your settings. So if you set it low, then it would not render as many as a PC set to high.
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Probably a newbie question since I just started this game last week. Any idea why my cemetery isn't emptying? No hearses running, room in other cemeteries and tons of crematorium capacity. I'd like to get it out of there. It was the first cemetery I built in the city when it was a little village.  Still working on my very first original city in the vanilla game. It's sort of fun figuring out how to cure traffic woes on the fly. No mods or cheats or anything. I'd appreciate any ideas 
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ToastyPotato posted:I figured a tree slider would remove or add trees depending on your settings. So if you set it low, then it would not render as many as a PC set to high. If trees in this game were handled the same way as say, grass in Skyrim, a slider would work. Certain zones have certain types of trees, at a certain density. The problem is, in this game trees are all handled as single, individual objects. A paint tool might have been used to place them, but at the end of the day every map file has a few hundred thousand entries of "pine tree at coordinate XXYY, bush at coordinate YYZZ," etc... no different than a building or a segment of road. A certain map will always have the same type of tree, at the same spot, end of story. The hard cap exists as much to keep the number of objects on the map manageable as it does for rendering. slidebite posted:Probably a newbie question since I just started this game last week. Since you admit to being a newbie: Did you click the button to empty it? There are mods that make it an automatic process, but by default you have to tell it to do so.
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ToastyPotato posted:Any downside to unlimited trees? There is a hard coded object limit in the game for some reason. So the more trees you have the less anything else you can have.
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slidebite posted:Still working on my very first original city in the vanilla game. It's sort of fun figuring out how to cure traffic woes on the fly. No mods or cheats or anything. I'd appreciate any ideas I've found that most mods aimed at changing traffic don't really improve traffic that much — they just make you micro-manage more and makes it more cumbersome to build. My main tip is simply this: don't just think that you can fix everything by building larger roads. Proper separation into distinct areas and good planning of intersections will help a whole lot more — make sure only traffic that truly needs to go through an intersection does so, and that key areas aren't just used as thoroughfares for traffic going somewhere else. Also, don't forget that the combination of roads you get when you unlock freeways goes beyond, well, just freeways. That tier unlocks the highly crucial 1-lane and 3-lane roads, which even though they're not the kind you can connect buildings to, are often crucial in building intersections, roundabouts, and other high-throughput constructions that exist outside of proper freeways. While you can use mods to alter how traffic lights are placed and how traffic flows through multi-lane intersections, it is often better to use road types that don't create those lights to begin with. For instance, the one-way 6-lane road is utterly useless for building roundabouts, even though at first sight it may seem like a good choice for tying two 2×3-lane roads together. Also, this.
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Hobo on Fire posted:Since you admit to being a newbie: Did you click the button to empty it? There are mods that make it an automatic process, but by default you have to tell it to do so. Yes. "Emptying" momentarily shows up in place of "Full" every few seconds but it's only for a microsecond. It's almost like when I accidentally made the road dead-end next to a dump before and the trucks couldn't get out. Tippis posted:Also, this. Yeah, I glossed over that but haven't studied it. Thanks for the reminder. Any other good how-tos for road construction?
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slidebite posted:Yes. "Emptying" momentarily shows up in place of "Full" every few seconds but it's only for a microsecond. It's almost like when I accidentally made the road dead-end next to a dump before and the trucks couldn't get out. It could just be that the AI has gone a bit… off… and thinks that this is the case somehow: that there is way either in or out, so there's no way for it to route the hearses to an alternate Try removing the road and replacing it with a new one, making sure that it's most definitely two-way in the process. At the same time, you can also try to make the road connect to somewhere else, in case there's some accidental blockage into the same general area that is screwing up the pathfinding.
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After scouring the workshop for harbor-pieces and giving up because there's just too many decorations without icons, I'm really missing zones for stuff like that. Harbors, farmland, even graveyards would both look better and feel more realistic if we could zone them. Hopefully the coastline will look a little bit better with After Dark, but it seems like commercial might be the only thing that's improved.
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Aug 30, 2015 14:00
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Negrostrike posted:"After Dark" huh? It better replace the airplanes for flying toasters. 
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Aug 30, 2015 14:16
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Black Griffon posted:After scouring the workshop for harbor-pieces and giving up because there's just too many decorations without icons, I'm really missing zones for stuff like that. Harbors, farmland, even graveyards would both look better and feel more realistic if we could zone them. Hopefully the coastline will look a little bit better with After Dark, but it seems like commercial might be the only thing that's improved. Agreed. The workshop isn't really a substitute for this kind of thing, especially since a lot of the buildings are either ugly or have absurd poly counts. Zoning is the simplest solution. Although... farmland is zoned, out of what you said. It's just kinda dumb that all industries have the same road distances as anything else instead of say double. I see also that they haven't fixed the bug with out of region trains clogging up your outside connection lines and the only "solution" repeated ad nauseum by some snarky apogist is to keep your rail networks separated with ugly pairs of transfer stations. Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Aug 30, 2015 |
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Tippis posted:It could just be that the AI has gone a bit… off… and thinks that this is the case somehow: that there is way either in or out, so there's no way for it to route the hearses to an alternate So I deleted and put the road back, same thing. I deleted all the building around it and re-laid all the roads nearby, same thing too. It's sort of near a cliffside to I'm limited with what I can do on the water side but it was accepting corpses no problem before it was full. I have no idea what is wrong. e: Here is a top-down view 
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Aug 30, 2015 17:00
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slidebite posted:So I deleted and put the road back, same thing. I deleted all the building around it and re-laid all the roads nearby, same thing too. It's sort of near a cliffside to I'm limited with what I can do on the water side but it was accepting corpses no problem before it was full. I have no idea what is wrong. Do you have another cemetery with spare space for bodies or a crematorium somewhere? Sounds like it doesn't have anywhere to empty to.
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Aug 30, 2015 17:31
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ToastyPotato posted:One thing I liked about GTA V PC is that it had that memory meter on the video settings page that filled up as you messed with the video options (based on your system spec). In terms of graphics settings it's sad that GTAV, a port from consoles, has the best interface/menu I've ever seen. The memory meter was super helpful.
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slidebite posted:So I deleted and put the road back, same thing. I deleted all the building around it and re-laid all the roads nearby, same thing too. It's sort of near a cliffside to I'm limited with what I can do on the water side but it was accepting corpses no problem before it was full. I have no idea what is wrong. Just to test it out, try placing a road that goes nowhere, with just the graveyard and a crematorium connected to it. See if you can empty the graveyard straight into the furnace.
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So I re-jigged the roads and everything and it didn't make a difference. Coincidentally, I was building a residential area nearby and noticed some people getting sick, so I built a clinic. After a few minutes my eye caught a hearse leaving the boneyard, so now its emptying. Not sure if it was related or not  but either way it is emptying now.In other news, unlocked nuke plants! 
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eXXon posted:Although... farmland is zoned, out of what you said. It's just kinda dumb that all industries have the same road distances as anything else instead of say double. Yeah, that was poorly phrased. Better zones, is what I want. Huge fields and whatnot.
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