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*Skshhhhh* Houston, we have irreversibly filled the only fertile lake on Mars with turds. Over
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Wormskull posted:It's hard to exactly tell whether water flow is going to work sometimes and often by the time you've waited for the water to back up against the drat and see if it actually starts electricity output the refund for bulldozing is at like 50% value. It gives an estimate of the power output while you're placing the dam? Idk what you're on about.
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Mar 16, 2015 14:43
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maniacdevnull posted:It gives an estimate of the power output while you're placing the dam? Idk what you're on about. In my experience it's not always telling the truth. I waited 2 minutes for a dam that had an estimate of 144 to change from 0 and it didn't happen and when I bulldozed it I lost all the money on it.
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Mar 16, 2015 14:57
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Or another time when I dammed part of a river that said 64 estimate and ended up also having 0 and causing the river to back up and flood the flat parts of half the map. lol
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Mar 16, 2015 14:58
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Does it matter which way you draw the line of the dam, like with how one way roads are drawn? Did you just build the dam backwards?
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Mar 16, 2015 15:00
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After messing with it with cheats on I think it auto-orients to the water current at the time of placing it.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:01
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Wormskull posted:After messing with it with cheats on I think it auto-orients to the water current at the time of placing it. If you're patient and willing to waste tons of money in the process via demolishing dams repeatedly, you can end up with two dams facing out from each other, then dump all your sewage into the middle and power your city with piss.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:03
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Knuc U Kinte posted:*Skshhhhh* Houston, we have irreversibly filled the only fertile lake on Mars with turds. Over Lol. As cool as this game is, I think it would be better if it gave you more freedom to do stupid stuff. Like it would be cool if you could place the sewage outlet anywhere, but it says like "you should probably build this on water". But if you want you should be able to pour all your turds into a pit in the forest.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:05
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Knuc U Kinte posted:*Skshhhhh* Houston, we have irreversibly filled the only fertile lake on Mars with turds. Over [G.O.B. voice:] I've made a huge mistake.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:09
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Has anybody figured out how to make traffic not absolutely loving horrible yet? No matter what I do, I end up with a thousand trucks backed up onto the highway and across the horizon
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Mar 16, 2015 15:20
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Can you make artifical rivers. Because I want to pump my turds into a river, in the middle of town. Turd river.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:37
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Larry Parrish posted:Can you make artifical rivers. Because I want to pump my turds into a river, in the middle of town. Turd river. You can't terraform directly in city management mode unfortunately. You can try to splash some diarrhea between some ridges on the map if your lucky I suppose, through clever use of pumps and dams.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:42
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Wormskull posted:You can't terraform directly in city management mode unfortunately. You can try to splash some diarrhea between some ridges on the map if your lucky I suppose, through clever use of pumps and dams. There needs to be a mod that lets u dam up a ridge with nothing but poo poo water, and the shitflood wipes out your town. I basically only played sim city to make a big city and then smash with with a natural disaster and see how well it worked after.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:48
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Frank Horrigan posted:Has anybody figured out how to make traffic not absolutely loving horrible yet? No matter what I do, I end up with a thousand trucks backed up onto the highway and across the horizon try not being bad. that's my strat
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Mar 16, 2015 15:57
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zen death robot posted:I haven't played this much yet but is there not a treatment plant or anything like that? Just pump the shitwater downstream from the clean intake? As far as I can tell you just pump the city shitwater directly into the river/coast like it's no biggs.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:58
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zen death robot posted:I haven't played this much yet but is there not a treatment plant or anything like that? Just pump the shitwater downstream from the clean intake? You unlock one later.
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Mar 16, 2015 15:59
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Wormskull posted:Or another time when I dammed part of a river that said 64 estimate and ended up also having 0 and causing the river to back up and flood the flat parts of half the map. lol That's a terrible dam. Pick a river with heavy flow, the big triangle thingies. The one I built was estimated around 550MW and gets a bit more in practice. Once l can buy another square there's a spot currently outside of town that gets like 1000 est. Also make sure the road on the dam is connected to the other roads somehow, I think that's also part of it.
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Mar 16, 2015 16:54
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I was putting it in the heaviest flow place I could see and had access to, coming off a big waterfall no less. It was just wonky and maybe because of being a workshop map.
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Mar 16, 2015 16:58
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Larry Parrish posted:As far as I can tell you just pump the city shitwater directly into the river/coast like it's no biggs. Where can humanity feel free to poop if not the ocean?
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Mar 16, 2015 18:09
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Frank Horrigan posted:If you're patient and willing to waste tons of money in the process via demolishing dams repeatedly, you can end up with two dams facing out from each other, then dump all your sewage into the middle and power your city with piss. Hahahaha, is there a screen shot or saved game of this?
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Mar 16, 2015 21:26
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I finalyl bothered to get a city to 20k pop without abandoning it. It's on some really hilly map with not much buildable land so my highway and offramps are insane monstrosities.
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Mar 18, 2015 13:13
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This forum is so drat slow, if a thread falls of the front page if the impzone I can never find it in my bookmarks.
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Mar 18, 2015 13:14
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Knuc U Kinte posted:This forum is so drat slow, if a thread falls of the front page if the impzone I can never find it in my bookmarks.
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Mar 18, 2015 13:22
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I built a dam and they're not broken, they just take a long time to establish a water level equilibrium and begin producing electricity, like it was probably 2 weeks or something before it started producing, but now my city is run exclusively off the dam. I've run into a weird thing though, where one block of a residential plot is constantly losing electricity, even though my production rate is like 1500 MW higher than my consumption.
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Mar 18, 2015 13:29
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Wormskull posted:You unlock one later. It's not really a treatment plant, it's just a shitpump that pumps out slightly less poo poo. I'm not being pedantic or anything, it's literally a sewage pump that causes slightly less pollution. sincx posted:Hahahaha, is there a screen shot or saved game of this? Not mine, but here you go. 
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Mar 18, 2015 14:20
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I'm so godawful at this game. My second city was coming along icely with about 10k people when my power generation abilities shut down and people started abandoning their homes in droves, lost my whole residential area, pretty much. How do you keep coal plants going? I guess I had them too far away from the highway (and made the mistake of my main thoroughfare being a two lane road) and so even at 150% budget coal just couldn't reach my three plants? Even with like eight wind turbines and three power plants I still couldnt' cut it, I must be missing something re:power generation
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Mar 18, 2015 15:02
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Being a city planner IRL must be insanely hard. Especially the earlier guys who basically created the cities... how did they know where to put highways, and where to funnel piss and turds?
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Mar 18, 2015 15:04
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net cafe scandal posted:Being a city planner IRL must be insanely hard. Especially the earlier guys who basically created the cities... how did they know where to put highways, and where to funnel piss and turds? http://imgur.com/a/WdJim this guy claims to be a traffic engineer and he wrote a guide to laying out roads in CSKY
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Mar 18, 2015 15:07
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I'm curious now if an city engineer ever tried sim city 2013
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Mar 18, 2015 16:42
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Frog Act posted:http://imgur.com/a/WdJim 
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Mar 18, 2015 16:56
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ive been following his advice on my new city and laying out big heavy traffic arteries with medium traffic branches, with subsequent low traffic places seems to be working pretty well. gonna build a highway right through the middle of everything when poo poo gets bigger though i guess
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Mar 18, 2015 17:04
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Traffic becomes super manageable once you just exclusively build 6 lane roads. There doesn't appear to be a downside since you have so much room to build anyway that the lost squares for zoning don't really matter
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Yeah but I kinda like the realistic ish aesthetic of having local roads like you would irl. anyway i have a little square suburb and equally square industrial area and its all dinky, meanwhile, in games, some goon made this
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Mar 18, 2015 17:09
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Mar 18, 2015 17:17
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I am a braindead NYC commuter and making a non grid-based city is an unfathomable challenge to me.
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Frog Act posted:Yeah but I kinda like the realistic ish aesthetic of having local roads like you would irl. anyway i have a little square suburb and equally square industrial area and its all dinky, meanwhile, in games, some goon made this Oh yeah I mean using big roads for thoroughfares. I have lots of six lanes cutting through the city with curvy small roads that lead off into forests or whatever. I also found that keeping highway connections for your industrial sector is very useful
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to connect to the highway do you just need one ramp or do you need an on/off ramp or what I can't seem to get that to work. I connected my road to the highway via a ramp but everyone ignores it as for curvy roads i keep forgetting you can curve them pretty extensively so everything is coming out sim city 2000 style, as that is the last city builder i played
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Mar 18, 2015 17:21
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the one way ramps are directional based on which you drew it, so if you go from road to highway in the wrong direction it will be useless
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Mar 18, 2015 17:26
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YIKES Stay Gooned posted:the one way ramps are directional based on which you drew it, so if you go from road to highway in the wrong direction it will be useless oh wow that seems intuitive which is probably why i missed it
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There's a mod that lets you "upgrade" one way roads to a new direction if you need to.
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