Cities Skylines 2: a phonecall from sweden

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Macichne Leainig: Jul 26, 2012; by VG

Blimpkin posted:

I've become a fan of looping a half circle to meet the 2-way road perpendicularly but hit the one ways straight on.

I wish we had more sunken overpass options. It's so difficult to make them.

That gave me a decent idea, thanks. This looks a bit more intentional now:

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# ? May 24, 2024 16:48

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Protocol7 posted:

How'd you get your hands on one of my dozens of old cities!?

Also, partially related, what's a decent way to make two roads terminate into one like this?

I have all the usual mods that should let me wrangle it as needed (Move It/Road Anarchy/etc).

The mod you need is Node Controller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCD06qDeoIg&t=337s

# ? Jul 5, 2022 00:34

um excuse me: Jan 1, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

Oh god node controller is almost too much control. As soon as I started using it it became a HUGE time commitment to build new roads. But the always look amazing afterwards.

# ? Jul 5, 2022 00:58

Macichne Leainig: Jul 26, 2012; by VG

Entropic posted:

The mod you need is Node Controller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCD06qDeoIg&t=337s

I have it installed, now is as good a time as any to really learn it though. Thanks for the vid.

# ? Jul 5, 2022 17:48

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

A mega metro stop like this would really help me out with certain metro interconnections.

How do I get it?

# ? Jul 7, 2022 20:02

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

That's in the train stations content creator pack DLC.

# ? Jul 7, 2022 20:24

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

Thanks!

I give you New Peoria, MB.

# ? Jul 8, 2022 06:16

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Well this was a pain in the rear end to get looking decent. But el rail over roads is worth the effort. Wish I could get rid of a few of those extra catenaries but I don't think it's possible.

# ? Jul 10, 2022 06:55

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Trying to get my modlist up and running on a new install on new PC, and I can't seem to get the Building Themes mod to work.
If I go to the Themes tab on a district, the Theme Manager button is there at the button but it does absolutely nothing when I click it, no theme manager window pops up. It's been ages since I set it up the first time, I can't remember if there's some trick to getting it to work.

e: and it pops up this error on map load:

code:

The Mod C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\255710\466158459 [0Harmony.dll, BuildingThemes.dll] has caused an error [ModException]

Details:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at BuildingThemes.Debugger.AppendModList () <0x00199>
at BuildingThemes.Debugger.OnLevelLoaded () <0x0001c>
at BuildingThemes.LoadingExtension.OnLevelLoaded (ICities.LoadMode) <0x0003b>
at (wrapper dynamic-method) LoadingWrapper.LoadingWrapper.OnLevelLoaded_Patch1 (LoadingWrapper,SimulationManager/UpdateMode) <0x0008b>

What am I doing wrong here?

Entropic fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jul 24, 2022

# ? Jul 24, 2022 19:04

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

It was a mod conflict I guess, deactivating all my mods and reactivating them in batches fixed my errors. 80% sure the culprit was Climate Control which I don�t think I need with my current loadout anyway.

# ? Jul 25, 2022 14:05

death cob for cutie: Dec 30, 2006; dwarves won't delve no more
too much splatting down on Zot:4

Whenever I load a game, I'm getting a bunch of missing props errors - nothing gamebreaking, but apparently I'm missing a bunch of little props. Is there any tool/mod that'll help me find the appropriate items on the workshop? Or will I have to search them all by hand?

# ? Jul 25, 2022 22:44

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Loading Screen Mod. It generates a report that contains links to missing props and stuff. You'll probably have some that no longer exist but you can get most of them that way.

# ? Jul 25, 2022 22:49

Charles 1998: Sep 27, 2007; by VideoGames

Sorry if this has been asked before, but are there any mod list suggestions to make my cities look more American? Preferably Californian.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 03:24

The Locator: Sep 12, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

Charles 1998 posted:

Sorry if this has been asked before, but are there any mod list suggestions to make my cities look more American? Preferably Californian.

Buy the natural disasters DLC and trigger an earthquake.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 05:30

Charles 1998: Sep 27, 2007; by VideoGames

The Locator posted:

Buy the natural disasters DLC and trigger an earthquake.

OK I did that but now my city looks like Haiti.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 05:58

pointlessone: Aug 6, 2001; The Triad Frog is pleased with this custom title purchase.

Did you remember to set it all on fire every couple years?

# ? Jul 26, 2022 07:10

Warmachine: Jan 30, 2012

pointlessone posted:

Did you remember to set it all on fire every couple years?

The game does that on its own, if Biffa and CPP videos are indicative.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 09:24

commando in tophat: Sep 5, 2019

Fires are the only disaster that I remember that isn't annoying, because it doesn't require you to click on every single road segment or power line pylon to repair it.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 09:51

Charles 1998: Sep 27, 2007; by VideoGames

Who wants to go for a boat ride?

# ? Jul 26, 2022 19:32

The Locator: Sep 12, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

Charles 1998 posted:

Who wants to go for a boat ride?

I assume this is the town of Poopville.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 20:28

wit: Jul 26, 2011

The Locator posted:

I assume this is the town of Poopville.

Poopville aka The Urban Centipede.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 20:46

Charles 1998: Sep 27, 2007; by VideoGames

The Locator posted:

I assume this is the town of Poopville.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 21:15

Bold Robot: Jan 6, 2009; Be brave.

Charles 1998 posted:

Who wants to go for a boat ride?

# ? Jul 26, 2022 22:36

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

It is a very fitting small lake for a well-off suburban neighborhood.

I notice that in typical Skylines fashion the piers are about five stories above the boats.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 22:43

Charles 1998: Sep 27, 2007; by VideoGames

I just noticed after looking at those images that there's a coal power plant in that neighborhood.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 22:46

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

Ashland WI has this bonkers post-industrial waterfront on the south share of Lake Superior. The ore dock and the wood treatment factory are gone, but the coal power plant is still there. It's like 500 yards outside the downtown commercial area.

A few years back it switched to biomass (wood pellets) but they had a coal powerplant just a stone's throw from downtown for 60 years. Along with a lumber treatment plant dumping unknown stuff in the lake.

# ? Jul 26, 2022 23:41

Baron Porkface: Jan 22, 2007

If I have the University dlc and a high capacity campus, do I need to keep the vanilla university buildings around?

What ratio of tourism to leisure zoning should I have?

Baron Porkface fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Jul 27, 2022

# ? Jul 27, 2022 09:17

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

The vanilla buildings will just take students away from the university. Good luck getting people to attend it anyway though.

# ? Jul 27, 2022 17:14

madmatt112: Jul 11, 2016; Is that a cat in your pants, or are you just a lonely excuse for an adult?

Grand Fromage posted:

The vanilla buildings will just take students away from the university. Good luck getting people to attend it anyway though.

This raised a question in my mind. With campus dlc, does the distance from the university a potential student lives (and the transportation options/friction to get there) affect that person�s decision or ability to attend? Like if I have one big campus in a corner of my sprawling metropolis, will broke-rear end Jimmy the 18 year old college freshman take a 2 hour transit ride each way to attend college from the other side of the map?

Or would plopping a vanilla university over by Jimmy actually increase overall attendance by making university access, well, accessible?

madmatt112 fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jul 27, 2022

# ? Jul 27, 2022 17:27

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

I dunno. I am always struggling to get anyone to go to the campus university and I don't understand why. Maybe distance is involved.

# ? Jul 27, 2022 17:36

wit: Jul 26, 2011

Grand Fromage posted:

I dunno. I am always struggling to get anyone to go to the campus university and I don't understand why. Maybe distance is involved.

You have to devote a hell of a lot of money and stuff to get a campus up to its highest tier. Dunno why though, its not like their gonna move to another imaginary city in a another imaginary state. But it does feel like you're constantly wooing the drat thing.

# ? Jul 27, 2022 17:59

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

wit posted:

You have to devote a hell of a lot of money and stuff to get a campus up to its highest tier. Dunno why though, its not like their gonna move to another imaginary city in a another imaginary state. But it does feel like you're constantly wooing the drat thing.

My campus is enormous and way over qualifies in every category except student numbers, but it's still stuck at three stars. I have demand for like 8,000 university students but only a thousand will go to the loving college that's in the city and has three transit services to it. It's a pain in the rear end.

# ? Jul 27, 2022 18:30

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

Grand Fromage posted:

My campus is enormous and way over qualifies in every category except student numbers, but it's still stuck at three stars. I have demand for like 8,000 university students but only a thousand will go to the loving college that's in the city and has three transit services to it. It's a pain in the rear end.

Yeah this has always been my problem too. The game will report like 10,000 student demand but my campus will have maybe 800 and it's right in the middle of town. It very slowly goes up over time but we're talking days and days of real time.

# ? Jul 27, 2022 18:52

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Baronjutter posted:

Yeah this has always been my problem too. The game will report like 10,000 student demand but my campus will have maybe 800 and it's right in the middle of town. It very slowly goes up over time but we're talking days and days of real time.

I find you have to a) select all the policies especially the universal education one, and b) overbuild the campus substantially, because even if those buildings only fill to 10%, they still add a bit to the student pop.

Also I only try to get one school to 5 stars at a time. Like, I'll try to drive all the students to the tech school, and once it's at 5 stars and I've unlocked the buildings, then I'll turn off the policies there and turn them on at the arts school.

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Baron Porkface: Jan 22, 2007

edit- redundant question

Baron Porkface fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Jul 28, 2022

# ? Jul 28, 2022 06:42

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

I often find the same thing with DLC industry, I�ve never seen a building in one of my industry zones come close to filling up its worker quota.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 20:33

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

I feel there's like one developer in Helsinki who designs their cities in a completely different way from how everyone else seems to play it, and they're confused because their industries and campuses and parks are working PERFECTLY, why isn't everyone else's?

# ? Jul 29, 2022 04:47

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

There's also a fundamental disconnect between people who play the game to Make Number Go Up and minmax everything to absurdity and the people who try to build realistic cities.

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Baron Porkface: Jan 22, 2007

Is there any strategy to taxes other than no one will tolerate >13%

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Baron Porkface: Jan 22, 2007

Does this game have droughts? parts of my river where I was drawing water just dried up.

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