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dragonshardz posted:CreativeDEX just released a set of premade highway ramps on the workshop. They're pretty great! Anything that doesn't require a bunch of mods? I can hardly keep track of stuff as it is.
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I have been interested in S:C for a while and decided to grab the Deluxe version (+ Industries, after lurking this thread and reading a few other reviews praising it). Had a very underwhelming start where I built a coal power plant instead of wind, which wiped out most my starting funds, backed myself into a corner with a made a poorly-planned highway connection, then had trouble with the water pump connections and gave up. Came back to it this weekend and got it sorted and whoops there goes 12 hours.  The lack of autosave is a killer though, I lost almost half of that progress when I accidentally bumped the power cord with my knee. I try to remember to save at every milestone now. I get what people say about it not really being challenging/being a traffic management sim... but I am really liking it despite being a bit offput by those descriptions. It's a bit like tending a garden mixed with urban planning (something I'm randomly interested in) - takes me back to playing SimCity 2000 as a kid. Love the soundtrack - bit of a mix of Philip Glass and Star Trek: The Next Generation, feels perfect.
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You really need mods if you want to truly discourage car use, or do anything particularly interesting with the game IMO because it's very simplistic and easy once you understand it. But it does become a very nice model city lego game after that. If you want to keep the game vanilla ish I'd proabbly suggest the realistic population mod and the real time mod, both of which serve to make the game a lot more interesting mechanically. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1420955187 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=426163185 Also the consumption mod to supplement realistic population: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=654707599 This should make your dense areas really dense, allow you to almost wipe out cars if you use district policies to control through traffic and provide lots of bike/transit options, and generally just make the game more interesting to play and simulate. Combine those together and you'll notice very different usages at different times of day, much bigger public transport use (especially if you make it free) and generally just make the traffic management aspect more interesting.
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Nov 17, 2019 01:35
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Came back to it this weekend and got it sorted and whoops there goes 12 hours. But the game does have autosave? I guess it's not enabled by default. Check options.
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Ethics_Gradient posted:The lack of autosave is a killer though, I lost almost half of that progress when I accidentally bumped the power cord with my knee. I try to remember to save at every milestone now. There's an autosave you can turn in the gameplay options. Ghost Leviathan posted:Anything that doesn't require a bunch of mods? I can hardly keep track of stuff as it is. Hahahahahahahahahaha no. Everything good and remotely realistic in this game needs mods. Here is the collection for the realistic ramp set, though: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1890983177
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Nov 17, 2019 02:57
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The mods are not hard though. If you're thinking SimCity and dependancies, FEAR NOT. Most poo poo is easy peasy steam workshop sqweezy.
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It me, ya boy Corbusier. 
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Nov 17, 2019 23:10
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Shouldn't there be an announcement on a new expansion pack soon? I love when new packs drop, the n-1 pack goes on sale and I want to make a college town on the cheap.
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Booted up the game a bit again today. Got the industries and campus DLC's in the sale so put some more warehousing down, and built a football stadium, plus a couple of photos to show the overall picture so far.      And heres what 150+ hours gets you   
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Vaguely related; someone on the CSL subreddit having an extremely normal day attacking random strangers on a post about a poo volcano:
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dragonshardz posted:Vaguely related; someone on the CSL subreddit having an extremely normal day attacking random strangers on a post about a poo volcano: There's great irony in the username "The Extrovert" when he freaks out when people are using the word "Obviously". Which is ironically very obvious.
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I've refound my inspiration playing this game. Did a bit more and even had a go at an interchange which is something i've not really done very well in the past and never really been happy with. I got half of it done and detailed today, I might leave the 2nd half for a bit and go do some other stuff before coming back to it though.            I'm having trouble finding the right sign assets to use though, there's not very many UK road signs on the workshop. I might have to bite the bullet and make my own.
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I don't want to feel useless itt so I will share this if no one has before. Interesting reading if you are too much into C:S and have loo reading time. E: I am a loving idiot and forgot to paste the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6NgDX3sLYf0U2VMRy16MzJfM28/view
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I'm coming to the end of detailing my winter city, and I'm feeling like I might want something more... arid. Any recommended desert maps or themes that people here have used? Preferably with some big canyons.
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MikeStmria posted:I don't want to feel useless itt so I will share this if no one has before. Thanks for posting this, highly recommend it. I work with urban planning IRL (not Canada/US tho) and found it a good reference.
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Dec 5, 2019 21:38
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What is with those loving ligatures - no one else is super-distracted by this 18th century poo poo?
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Try Hard Pill posted:Thanks for posting this, highly recommend it. I work with urban planning IRL (not Canada/US tho) and found it a good reference. I'm glad its of help. It apparently was made by a pro urban planner IRL that felt in love with C:S I haven't read it completly, its just too much for my brain to hold.
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We all know you can't put a poo volcano, filled by your own sewage system, just anywhere.
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I carried on with the university today.      
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Dec 7, 2019 22:43
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i just got this game and i'm sort of stumbling through it, but my main question is: is there a functional difference between the prefab roundabouts and just making a circle of one way roads? i don't think i'm doing terribly, city just hit 20k, but it's getting really congested with traffic and i'm thinking about giving a new one a go. e: also is there a way to make my industry zones less gross and brown? i unlocked the depolluting water things so i don't have to see that, at least, but i still have ugly looking pockets of smog. Mister No fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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Mister No posted:i just got this game and i'm sort of stumbling through it, but my main question is: is there a functional difference between the prefab roundabouts and just making a circle of one way roads? Generally, the answer to any annoying aspect of this game is: "There's a mod for that." Roundabouts are just 1 ways. The prefab ones are fairly limited to use, the sizes are not great. Roundabout Builder can build them for you with whatever roads you'd like, and several shape options, because getting them to stay round is a lot more difficult than it looks while attaching roads. Traffic pathfinding is extremely simple in the base game and starts to break down as soon as there's more than four cars in your city. TM:PE adds a significant amount of extra tools to manage the quirks. Unless you're running the "green" industries of Farming or Lumber, industry zones are going to pollute the heck out of wherever you put them. Several mods will remove the blight. I think the one I'm using is called No Radioactive Desert.
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pointlessone posted:
Keeping round is super easy. Build the roundabout. Run a cross through the center node points. ( Make a + inside it) Connect your external roads. Delete the bracing.
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toplitzin posted:Keeping round is super easy. Seriously? Son of a...
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Yeah, just use the simple/cheap dirt/one lane path
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pointlessone posted:Seriously? Son of a... If I remember right, starting with the + makes making the initial circle easier, since you can better utilize the grid and 90-degree curve tools.
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It also works for using the roundabout builder, which is so much easier IMHO, especially for small ones.
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Baronjutter posted:I desperately want a city building game that has both challenging gameplay and is very much a game but also produces very detailed pretty realistic looking cities. With skylines you sort of have to pick one or the other, either play how the game was intended and end up with ugly rear end cities, or mod the gently caress out of the game eliminating most of the already shallow gameplay and turn it into a 3d modeling program with some people and cars driving around. To me, the game is more of a traffic and logistics simulator more than anything else, and unless you just copy pre-fab solutions for everything, traffic remains a fairly challenging problem throughout the game for as long as you're expanding, in my experience.
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a7m2 posted:To me, the game is more of a traffic and logistics simulator more than anything else, and unless you just copy pre-fab solutions for everything, traffic remains a fairly challenging problem throughout the game for as long as you're expanding, in my experience. On that note, have you heard of Transport Fever 2? It comes out tonight and it sounds like it's right up your wheelhouse.
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Kyte posted:On that note, have you heard of Transport Fever 2? It comes out tonight and it sounds like it's right up your wheelhouse. Transport fever is cool, but it has not much to do with something like C:S. You are pretty much limited to logistics and thats it. At least that was my experience in Transport Fever 1
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MikeStmria posted:Transport fever is cool, but it has not much to do with something like C:S. You are pretty much limited to logistics and thats it. At least that was my experience in Transport Fever 1 But it was a very spiritual successor to transport tycoon.
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Kyte posted:On that note, have you heard of Transport Fever 2? It comes out tonight and it sounds like it's right up your wheelhouse. I'll check it out, thank you. On another note, I just tried the industries DLC. It's disappointing. It makes an insane amount of profit for a relatively low cost but more importantly, it seems to generate way less traffic than regular industry and the traffic it does generate is very easy to manage if you plan ahead even a tiny bit. I do look forward to trying the postal service stuff, though.
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a7m2 posted:On another note, I just tried the industries DLC. It's disappointing. It makes an insane amount of profit for a relatively low cost but more importantly, it seems to generate way less traffic than regular industry and the traffic it does generate is very easy to manage if you plan ahead even a tiny bit. It's been quite a while since I've played, but I had the exact opposite problem with the Industries DLC. It generated an absolutely insane amount of traffic and I had to separate the industry area from my town and service it with dedicated trains and freeways and lots of planning for the huge volume of traffic. Have they changed it in a patch or something?
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I think one of the DLCs that deliveres the most and changes the game peace a lot os the Natural distasters DLC. If you dont have it, make sure to try it
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The Locator posted:It's been quite a while since I've played, but I had the exact opposite problem with the Industries DLC. It generated an absolutely insane amount of traffic and I had to separate the industry area from my town and service it with dedicated trains and freeways and lots of planning for the huge volume of traffic. Have they changed it in a patch or something? No idea. Which industry did you have this problem with? I did farming. Maybe it's just farming that's easy. MikeStmria posted:I think one of the DLCs that deliveres the most and changes the game peace a lot os the Natural distasters DLC. If you dont have it, make sure to try it I did but after a very early game earthquake messing up the landscape massively and causing a tsunami that wiped out my entire tiny town, I disabled disasters, at least for a while. I'll probably re-enable them.
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a7m2 posted:To me, the game is more of a traffic and logistics simulator more than anything else, and unless you just copy pre-fab solutions for everything, traffic remains a fairly challenging problem throughout the game for as long as you're expanding, in my experience. This game is a giant model train kit that I don't need a 5th mortgage and a 2000 square foot hobby room to play with. I can build really cool points of interest and details while procedural generating sprawling and uninteresting suburbs and skyscraper districts so my interesting stuff has a unique backdrop. It's very zen to spend an hour just detailing the decorative trees on a park that's next to a school. Just chilling with some music, planting some happy little trees and maybe a bench or two along the walkway. Occasionally I'll make some minor disaster show up to make my population evacuate, then drop a meteor on them without any warning systems in place because they won't stop complaining about me on twitter. Then back to the sleepy little small town where I'm placing bus stops around the area just to have school buses driving around. I love this game.
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The Locator posted:It's been quite a while since I've played, but I had the exact opposite problem with the Industries DLC. It generated an absolutely insane amount of traffic and I had to separate the industry area from my town and service it with dedicated trains and freeways and lots of planning for the huge volume of traffic. Have they changed it in a patch or something? Here's what I have. It's not very pretty but not that much thought went into it. I was planning on making a much more extensive area but there's really no need because it's making a stupid amount of money for its size already.   The profit is actually higher and I'm importing 0, but I just moved my storage stuff a little and it messed up the supply chain. For the Industries DLC, the trick is just to use a lot of directional roads that follow the supply chain. It'd be more fun and challenging if the supply chain was more extensive.
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a7m2 posted:No idea. Which industry did you have this problem with? I did farming. Maybe it's just farming that's easy. What I do is disable them early game. Once stuff is running, enable it.
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Can't remember if it was this thread or the SimCity one, but I picked up the audiobook version of The Power Broker and it is excellent. To be fair I'm about 10 hours in and it's only just starting to talk about the city planning aspect (most of it bio/backstory) but well worth the read/listen. I also grabbed the SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning book - it's only got a few sections that seem to look at city planning (mostly it's a strategy guide, which is itself a lovely nostalgia hit) but it's very thorough. I wish there was a printed resource that was similar for Cities:Skylines, although with the ongoing trickle of DLC I guess it'd be outdated before long.
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I was gonna ask this a long time ago but I forgot. Anyone has some decent workshop paths for pedestrians to use instead of making GBS threads on my traffick using crosswalks? If not, do you know what height should they have for everything to go through without issues?
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MikeStmria posted:I was gonna ask this a long time ago but I forgot. In my experience the game's ped paths are good enough, but sometimes you need to manually turn the crosswalks off. Traffic Manager can do that. Unfortunately it can't do anything about the zebra stripes.
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