Ofaloaf posted:

Where the devil are statistics? I'm dumb and haven't figured out all the controls yet.

kinnas posted:

On the stream the day before release she flat out stated that she got into video games pretty much only to make money. Just lots and lots of money. In it for the money. Somehow this didn't trigger a childish cynic alert but instead made her and her wacky bunch of Finns all the more endearing.

Poizen Jam posted:

Having my city saves break because traffic++ decided to update is getting kind of old. I really wish we had the option of turning off auto updates.

Poizen Jam posted:

That's all well and good but unfortunately some mods cannot be removed without breaking a save game

zedprime posted:

Something like that is subject to serious oscillations without coefficients with some ridiculous precision found after a shitload of balancing. Those coefficients themselves might also need to be a function of the state of the city which starts approaching a problem that is hard to tackle algorithmically, but that could turn into a gameplay feature where you tweak the advertising or whatever to push people to one or the other. It would be awesome and amazing and probably multiple man years of work which is a large ask for a studio of like a dozen people. Different modes makes it a little easier than dynamic routing and there's already a probablistic portion of agent decision making to prefer different modes already because that fuzz is necessary for the bare minimum of cims not all flocking to the single fastest route, which turns to the slowest because its over capacity.

Simple idea, complex implementation, but it would totally be the secret sauce that would be fundamental in making Skylines a better game instead of just putting more and more frosting on a staling cake.

Transit at the moment exists entirely to trap cims forever in station purgatory to keep them off the road in deference of the taxable trucks. I won't argue its time for a new, better game with better mechanics though, its just rebalancing from the ground up. Which it really needs.

Bold Robot posted:

If you want to go really crazy, Ronyx Expressway highway assets are the best looking highways out there, but they are super difficult to use and peak mod jank. You have to put in all pillars manually. But it looks pretty sick.

Mameluke posted:

I think more C:S players than not would prefer this game no longer be supported so that the mods don't break every time devs arbitrarily decide to add more minigames

OwlFancier posted:

I guess so, just seems really strange that the game can handle massive pedestrian density easier than it can car queuing.

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Case in point, in a recent pull request review on the TMPE mod, this cropped up:

Assuming every source lane has 2 target lanes on average: n * 2 extra computations needed (max. 262144 * 2 = 524288) which gives us a total maximum of 2*n*n + n*2 = 137,439,477,760 required calculations.

That's the outcome of an increase from 1 to 2. Simple change, big ramifications.

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The Match Day arenas can be placed inside University zones, but you can't customize them the way University arenas work. They're still considered city-wide buildings. They expect modders will make variants that work with the new University features.

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Campus arenas can be placed anywhere and they'll work like a Match Day stadium outside of Campus zones.

pointlessone posted:

The most important part of the free update: school buses! My perfect small Midwest town gets closer. Speaking of, is there some way to throttle down these dang trucks? I want to dump barns and silos out on tiny roads, but they choke under the hundreds of trucks. I just want an animated model train world, stop being so productive, you jerks!

pointlessone posted:

These helped quite a bit, but I need more/less!

I want to kill off 90% of my traffic in general. I think I'm going to have to but the bullet and figure out how to write mods for this game. Sleepy little 6 block towns shouldn't have 400 trucks on the streets because there's a few fields worth of apple trees nearby!

Minenfeld! posted:

SC2K has the best. What's wrong with you all?

dogstile posted:

This game not making me require a ton of parking is my biggest complaint tbh.

nielsm posted:

I recorded a bunch of it fresh from an original Sound Canvas. Game played via DOSBox, music played through MIDI-out to a hardware synth. This is how it was always supposed to sound. In defense of the SimCity 2000 sound track

Comstar posted:

I got a bug to build cities again, last time I played was at release, and I seem to have forgotten everything and am terrible at this game that deserves a better class of player than me.

I think by now there's probably a mod for every problem I have, but there's so many to look through (and a of the ones on page 1 of the thread no long exist or are no longer working).

How do I do trams without having too many on the line? I put down two routes that have to overlap somewhat and it immediately causes a tram traffic jam.

I got some farms up, deleted all my industry but the farms keep complaining they don't have enough uneducmecatedtrumvoters to work at slave wages. Will higher educated workers still work there? The game seems to be telling me to not build schools, so I hope I'm reading that wrong.

Am I correct in seeing that farms (and I'm guessing forestry) makes more money than industry does? Maybe I didn't keep enough of it, but the game seems to be telling me to get rid of all the pollution and just make farms instead.

Simcity for all it's faults allowed me to see at a glance what was what based on the art direction. The Skylines buildings all merge into a sameness that I can't see what's a commercial, house, fire station, park or whatever without using an overlay. Is there a mod that has a closer to Simcity 2-3-4 art direction for the buildings? Maybe I'm just missing having low/med/high density buildings, I've not got a city built up enough yet to get higher density buildings.

Is there a mod that allows me to put down lots of trees at once rather than clicking each one by one. Or even better, allows me to put down a mix of different trees all at the same time.

Ethics_Gradient posted:

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.

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.

MikeStmria posted:

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?

Zip! posted:

I guess the (not fixable in this game) solution would be to make it so that you can zone off of any path or roadway but then make parking its own supply indicator (like water or power), that can be offset by available public transport within a defined walking distance. That way you could have things like office parks and European high streets but they would only grow if people were actually able to get there.

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Several modders are now investigating what's in the "download from github" version of the "Harmony (Redesigned)" mod, and it's not looking good.

Notably, the code it contains does not exist in any of the workshop releases, nor does it exist in the source code repository. It appears to be a different mod (modders are still investigating). Additionally, the way it downloads a zip file isn't controlled in any way; it can be any zip file that Holy Water uploads - it is automatically executed (run) when you start the game, even if the mod is disabled (it self-enables itself).

Image link of collapsed code view after decompiling the "download from github" version of "Harmony (Redesigned)": https://imgur.com/C8GZaQ9

Update: The `MalwareBypass` code blocks are doing stuff like disabling bits of Boformer's Harmony mod, and also remove feeds, workshop ads, whatsnew panel, dlc panels, paradox account panel and whole game telemetry. The code is still being investigated.

PT6A posted:

In terms of game design, it seems like everyone has a collection of things they really want to nerd out over, and others they want to ignore. The game should accommodate that by allowing the player to select the level of detail they want in each specific system.

mrpwase posted:

My dream is having a new map start by procedurally generating a medieval town or village and then accelerating through the ages to the present day, so you start off with trunk routes, old market squares, awkward streets and appropriately placed old buildings, and the districts of your city have historical meaning. I recognise I'm probably the only one though!

(replace medieval for colonial for most of the market the game is aimed at I guess )

mutata posted:

The charm, personality, and visuals of SC4 and even the most recent SimCity are best in genre, imho.

DoubleNegative posted:

I know it's almost heresy to ask, but is TMPE really worth using anymore? I almost never use any of its features, so all it's really doing for me is taking up RAM. Even worse - it's breaking the vanilla junctions manager, so I can't go in and click off traffic lights on my main street and instead have to deal with using TMPE's less user-friendly system.

VostokProgram posted:

I like the idea, but I think it'll be a challenge to run the simulation fast enough. And you'd have to figure out how to render the visual averaging effect.

Baronjutter posted:

I liked the simcity 2013 system where you'd place down a general service building and then could upgrade as needed. Specially if we get to plop down modules where and how we like so every building is unique.

DarkLich posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/255710/view/3657524427209045376?curator_clanid=6754604&utm_source=TechRaptor

Tons of new transport hubs and road types announced. At last, there are vanilla options for larger monorails and shorter ferries.

Love that this is all free, but it's going to make an already dense UI menu even harder to navigate.

Count Roland posted: