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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

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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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

Frog Act posted:

my guys are super stoked for this one single lovely bus line



I accidentally destroyed my industry at one point by setting up a bus line between residential and industrial - which made everyone try to get on the busses - which did not have nearly enough capacity, so everyone stood at the bus stops while the factories shut down

everyone loves busses :)

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
I don't understand dams

I built a dam that the game claimed would make me 400 MW.





why.....

(also, the lack of flow from upstream has caused sewage from my downstream sewage pipes to begin migrating upward and into my water intake. how is life so hard)

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

oddium posted:

turn tilt shifting off you clowns

Actually, it's nice.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

YIKES Stay Gooned posted:

I don't even know how crime would happen. I built a park once that had a high crime rate even though it was a block away from a police station. Eventually I got fed up and bulldozed and rebuilt it and never had a problem again. There's not even crime in my oil city shitholes with no fire department, police department, or anything beyond a middle school.

probably it wasn't connected properly to roads

someone told me that you could make parks that are just connected by footpaths rather than roads by placing a road, placing the park, and then deleting the road. I did this and felt very clever, and it even worked for a while. then I went over to look again, and saw big 'full of garbage' icons hovering right above my lovely parks...

in conclusion, life is pain, and I have no idea how you're supposed to get a dam running. three non-working dams so far, and counting.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

YIKES Stay Gooned posted:

be patient, it takes like a month sometimes. when you install the dam, what happens to the downstream water level?

I waited several months for each dam.

the first dam blocked up the upstream area, downstream did nothing notable, no power flowed. I built it pretty close to the edge of the map, so I figured maybe that was the problem?

second dam was built further into the map, at the point where two rivers met. (that's the one I took the screenshot of.) downstream completely dried up & turned green and grassy (though there was somehow enough water for most of the downstream water pumps to keep running>). after close examination, I realized that one of the rivers had reversed its course, and was now channeling the water from the upstream fork. that... made no sense, but whatever. demolished.

third dam was built on top of the upper of the two rivers, rather than blocking both. this caused the water from the lower fork to flow up into the dam from below (!?)

no power from any of them.

:rip:

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off


My cemeteries have ceased to function, for no reason I can comprehend. The city is filled with the bodies of the dead and the people flee in their hundreds.

All is lost.

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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

maniacdevnull posted:

Build crematoria in the downtown, they make no pollution or noise

I'd been trying to get the "3 full graveyards" unique building, but just before my graveyards filled up, they abruptly ceased to send out any hearses at all. Kinda frustrating.

I could probably salvage the situation somehow, but tbh I think I'm just going to unlock a few more unique buildings (like the "4% tax rate for 40 weeks" one) and then start a new city. Thanks, though!


e: new city has no police stations at all, in an attempt to get the "50% crime rate" building. Got to 32%, then slowly declined over time, possibly due to education (?). city growth continues seemingly undeterred.

PleasingFungus fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 21, 2015

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