Cities Skylines 2: a phonecall from sweden

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emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

important note for the beginning of the game--if you wish to start with something other than two-lane roads for whatever reason, you can just build a very small two-lane then bulldoze it. this unlocks some of the other road types.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2015 18:14

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 02:37

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

totalnewbie posted:

I hope they re-work some of the pathing AI so gaming the road system won't be necessary.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?844893-PSA-Official-Progress-Update according to the official progress update, "Potential traffic AI issues/improvements" is on their list of things to address after patch 1 (bugfixes).

# ¿ Mar 16, 2015 18:58

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

@YeOldeButchere: I think CO knows about the save crash bug. I've seen it too, though only once, and we've had other reports of it in this thread.

The commercial demand is 100% for sure on the top of their list to investigate/fix. Seems parks take up all your tourists' time, as it stands, so no one wants to go shopping.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2015 21:21

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Lester Shy posted:

Is there a reason nothing's being built in these areas, even though I have them zoned? It was originally going to be a big industrial area, but I tried it like this to see if it was a problem with industrial or all the zones, and still nothing.

move the 6-lane parallel to the highway several squares further away from the highway, then make some ramps between the highway and it (i.e. frontage roads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontage_road)

# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 03:01

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Knuc U Kinte posted:

Can you move the starting area because as is you have to pollute the fertile Lake with turds forever.

actually, will it eventually fill up and flood everything with poo?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 05:32

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

saucepanman posted:

I've tried that, they just turn into them and cause a new pileup.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Post pics!

# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 14:16

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Enos Shenk posted:

I published my Plymouth Arcology on the Workshop, people seem to dig it. It's set so it has an assload of worker slots, just like a proper monolithic hellhole of single-building industrial zone should.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409449047

Oooooohhh man, I can't wait to see how this impacts traffic.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 19:06

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

SynthOrange posted:

Going back to Zbrush to work on terrain was a much better idea. Then export the heightmap into the game and fine tune from there.

This looks like it will be a lot of fun, good luck with the rest of the work!

# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 23:57

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Is that . . . seriously something SimCity 2013 did? I never played it. Why on earth would you want an inaccurate population . . .

# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 00:10

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Shibawanko posted:

I'm wondering if I can even play this game on my computer or laptop. I have a core 2 duo desktop setup with a gtx 280, and also a laptop with a core i5 and a decent graphics chip. Would the game be playable once my cities get bigger?

the laptop should do decently. be prepared to turn down settings though

# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 04:09

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

That's actually quite cool looking

# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 04:13

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Enos Shenk posted:

Help. I'm pretty sure I've spent more time modelling buildings for this game than actually playing this game.

I was musing about how I always wanted to model a certain building from Die Hard. Then musing turned into MUST BUILD THIS.

I give you Nakitomi Plaza. This was fun to model.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409705124

I've got a problem.

if you had fun and dropped a nostalgia bomb on most of this game's audience, you got no problems. keep it up

# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 05:26

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Slashrat posted:

Another wishlist item. Road/Railway rulers that allow you to easily make straight or curved segments of any kind of road/railway that are parallel to another road/railway of any kind.

(I'm kinda OCD in the map maker about my highways maintaining exact spacing between each other and the railway that usually accompanies them)

Someone on reddit suggested that there be an angle measurement when you make an intersection--I think that would be awesome and help you out a lot.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 13:31

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Oldstench posted:

So, you should put "Requires 64-bit OS you loving idiots!" in big red letters in the OP so that loving idiots like me who never expected a game to actually require a 64-bit OS and are on 32-bit for reasons don't buy it and then just have it sit in their Steam library mocking them.

haha drat, I had no idea. Sorry to hear that

# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 16:27

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

redditpost but it has to be seen: http://a.pomf.se/czdeng.webm

this stuff makes me wonder if floating cars are happening in my city and i'm just missing out!

emdash fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Mar 19, 2015

# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 19:50

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Mrit posted:

Is that Windows XP 64 bit?

no I think it's 7 set to classic skin

# ¿ Mar 22, 2015 23:39

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

BuhamutZeo posted:

Well this is nice. I manually saved my first city before logging last night and I can't find the save anywhere on my computer.

the saves are normally stored in %appdata%\local\Colossal Order\etc. I think.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2015 16:25

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Sipher posted:

Each line services a different part of the city; they're not connected.

In the midst of a 15,000 person die off, sigh.

Any chance you can post a pic of your death services overlay? Purely curiosity

# ¿ Mar 24, 2015 20:32

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

that's interesting. i don't know why, but i've never really seen a mass die-off like that. I wonder if it's just because I play slowly

# ¿ Mar 24, 2015 20:44

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

SynthOrange posted:

I think the scale in this game is fine.

imagine a world where the poo poo is the city and the houses are the sewage

# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 13:34

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

CaptainRightful posted:

I realize this is a cityscaping, traffic-organizing game meant to be played with a fairly distant zoom, but I can't help noticing that 100% of the people are white. Are those assets (along with vehicles) not editable?

except one dude on the basketball court.

it would be nice to have some more variety one day, not sure if it's on the devs' list yet though. Send them some feedback!

# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 16:19

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Well it looks good. Plus, you're going with Pac Northwest. While Firston is becoming rather Manhattan-esque, complete with lovely haze/smog and kodakrome filter.

I guess I should look into towers then. I did a but earlier but a lot of them don't mention the model stats and I'm a bit worried about performance, but I guess its more CPU than GPU with this.

wait is there really a Kodachrome LUT? that would be so cool

# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 20:09

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Lots of people get owned by poopmageddon, but has anyone else gotten owned by placing a landfill next to a water tower? Because I sure did, early on in one of my cities. I couldn't even figure out what happened til I had already scrapped the city and started over :downs:

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 18:57

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

I haven't tried this yet, but earlier in the thread people were saying that you could build parks and then delete the roads to those parks in order to raise crime.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 20:03

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

bitcoin bastard posted:

there's probably something wrong with me, because i see this and want to try it

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 20:10

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

looks like a huge grid of 6-lane roads with 1x1 spaces in between

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 20:21

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

am I the only one who will work on a city with full intentions of filling the entire map, get about 80,000 residents in, and decide that you can do better and start a new one?

Nope, although I mostly restart mine after about a half hour

# ¿ Mar 30, 2015 04:15

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Those hockey/basketball/concert places are largely indoor-only and would probably take up a bit less space than the grass stadium

# ¿ Mar 30, 2015 16:41

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Incinerators send out their own trash trucks. If you build a shitton of them and delete all your landfills, you will not have problems, I believe.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2015 04:17

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Nondescript Van posted:

No we need Futurama pneumatic tubes.

best idea i've heard all day

# ¿ Mar 31, 2015 19:51

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

That's a pretty great april fools if that's part of their joke.

they also had some reddit stuff http://www.reddit.com/r/citiesskylines

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 18:23

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Metrication posted:

Any up to date sales figures? It has been top on Steam for weeks now.

no particular numbers I think, but an article is going around saying that PDX made $18.5 million off Pillars and Cities in three weeks. I think the game's future is quite bright

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 17:01

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

SwissCM posted:

I need more city building music. Already exhausted the Sim City 3 and 4 soundtracks.

Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi seem to work well. Any other recommendations?

Steve Reich stuff, like Music for 18 Musicians. Pretty similar to the SC4 music, if I remember right

# ¿ Apr 5, 2015 04:34

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

if you're not pillaging all the natural resources from the earth on your map, what are you even doing!

# ¿ Apr 6, 2015 18:47

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Are there many/any brutalist things on the workshop so far? Anyone got links to them if so?

I saw zebra dude's post but just curious.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2015 22:10

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

WarLocke posted:

Awesome, thanks.

Another dumb question: How exactly do water towers work? They seem to just provide water after you plonk them down, no need for a line to an outside source? Can you make do with just towers and sewage outlets, no water pumps?

yes, but don't plant them in ground pollution because they can poison your whole city

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 04:45

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Official twitter posted hype for later this week https://twitter.com/Cities_PDX/status/600204783534919680

# ¿ May 18, 2015 12:01

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

How do you turn on euro building styles? Or are they just random

# ¿ May 19, 2015 14:49

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Tendai posted:

EDIT: My response was basically "TUNNELS TUNNELS TUNNELS" and now the patch is downloading so slooooowly.

literally named my first 1.1.0 city "tunnels"

# ¿ May 19, 2015 15:11

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 02:37

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

Supraluminal posted:

I might be in the minority on this, but I think CO wasted their time with the water simulation. I'd have been happy with a simpler, more static water model - maybe preferred it, even. It's cute that you can flood your town with poop if you want to, but I just want rivers that don't go loving batshit every year or two. It just seems like the dynamic simulation causes more trouble than it's worth.

it seems like the kind of thing that could be mostly fixed with some minor parameter changes, hopefully it's on their list of things to look at

# ¿ May 26, 2015 20:04

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