The Skeep posted:

Here is a custom map I made. It is a island in the shape of a giant toilet

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408929531

Please Enjoy.

Lester Shy posted:

It's probably a pipe dream, but I'd love a mod that adds helicopter service. I'm sure a realistic system would be impossible, but maybe something that automatically teleports cims to and from max level offices and high-density residential buildings, with a few choppers flying around the city or sitting on top of buildings for show. I have the same awful traffic as Sao Paulo; my ultra rich cims need the same solution.

Gadzuko posted:

Public service announcement: You can skip the incredibly annoying radio speaking bits by mousing over the radio icon in the bottom right and clicking the "next" button until the music comes back.

Zoeb posted:

I am sad because I have a bunch of studying to do for grad school and can't play it until Thursday.

Grand Fromage posted:

Known bug. Just ignore it for now.

Mad Wack posted:

i just zone a literal huge toilet volcano and dump all the poop in there

turn off the TV posted:

the nebulous "efficiency" stat that is tied to funding instead of actual service effectiveness is so loving lame and lovely. a baseline elementary school has capacity for 1000 students. if i have 100 students attending it, and the budget is set to 50%, then the efficiency takes a 80-90% penalty despite only using what should be 1/5th of that capacity. it's like that for every service and it makes adjusting the budget basically pointless since a lot of them provide zero mechanical benefit unless fully funded

MikeJF posted:

Eiba posted:

The cargo economy is still broken? drat. I made a cargo terminal my top priority in my first city because I thought it would do something and when it didn't and I looked up that it was just broken I stopped playing and haven't picked the game up since.

I really like the idea of a more complex industrial chain in a city game, but I'm not going to get invested in building one up until at least the most basic functions are actually there.

I get there are bugs at release, but I would have thought that fixing a building that literally does nothing would be a priority.

Jyrraeth posted:

The sedan strikes the Cim in the upper right back tooth and the severed part sails off in an arc!

Anime Store Adventure posted:

It is a weird thing how much Cities 1 and now 2 seem to really put a focus on 'deathcare.' I don't know how it works outside of America but I don't think of this as a municipal service worthy of like, Cities:Skylines level management?

MikeC posted:

The fact that cargo economy which seems to be tied to the mail and garbage issue (the 10x throughput was just a bandaid it seems) hasn't been mentioned or iterated on is concerning. That is part of the core economic modeling which touches every part of the game including traffic since it should generate trucks and movement of goods. Also it doesn't mention anything about people shopping directly at industry sites for no reason bypassing commercial for certain items.

It suggests that there are deeply rooted problems in the entire model that needs to be addressed.

Mandoric posted:

I continue to have the exact opposite experience, where the only demand is C even though there are roughly two unfilled jobs for every one filled.

It's basically impossible for my R not to slowly tick up, there are no ennui waves like I've been used to since SNES SC, but goddamn is it slow.

Concurred posted:

I had no idea about the air pollution / wind direction thing when I made my first city and now I'm 35k pop deep and hesitant to move my entire industrial grid to the other side of the city so 10% of my city lives with perpetual sickness

Anime Store Adventure posted:

Man it’s nuts that they’re going to try to push “actually the community is bad.” How do game company communicators of arguably objectively, currently poo poo products not look at what Hello Games did with No Man’s Sky and go “if we want this to eventually succeed, we should shut up and fix it.”

What’s the end game of talking about toxicity? I’m sure there’s plenty of ragers who suck saying poo poo they shouldn’t, but “don’t do that” isn’t going to change anything for them or for the devs. Feels like such a weird tack to settle on.

Jonny Shiloh posted:

LOL, cue PC gamers going ballistic, although honestly I'm not convinced CO are going to be able to pull off a console release at all given the huge problems with the PC version of the game.

Kyte posted:

imo the backlog's probably on QA rather than dev

piratepilates posted:

There was a mod for C:S1 that just chose random colours for your public transit lines. That didn't make it in to C:S2.

MikeJF posted:

Yeah I think it's clear that the intent was that it would be an emergent dynamic simulation but that turned out way harder than they thought and they were taking too long and told they had to get it out and they ended up neutering most of it to try to get it under control and releasable.

Eric the Mauve posted:

I think the context you're missing just might be Mariina basically daring Paradox to lean on the CO board to fire her with a nice fat severance. It's sure as hell what I would do in her current position.

Grand Fromage posted:

In other news, apparently DLL modding for SimCity 4 has been figured out and there's a lot of stuff being worked on. There's a beta for new building themes, and some of the modders think they can actually alter the game to be much more stable and run better on modern hardware.

buglord posted:

The shame is that not-SC4 has an incredibly tough score to beat when it comes to the soundtrack. SC4 and 3K are pretty iconic.

buglord posted:

I can think of two TS1 Build Mode songs that would fit there. I wonder if yours was one of them. TS1 had some absolutely timeless bangers.

GlassEye-Boy posted:

Welp, looks like everyone who bought the beach dlc will be getting a refund, and those who got the ultimate edition package will get some free asset packs and radio stations to compensate.