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sigseven posted:This Swindon Magic Roundabout knock-off says otherwise: You want bad Swindon Magic implementation? I'll give you bad Swindon Magic implementation. That's closer to how the actual thing works. With the prescient lane-handling system it'd probably work pretty well.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 00:32 |
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Enos Shenk posted:Blender isn't any worse than any other package. Any complex piece of software is going to be intimidating to learn. Oh man, I hadn't even THOUGHT about how many arcologies are going to end up on the workshop.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 07:15 |
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I'm kinda surprised there hasn't been a 'circle segment' road laying tool mod yet.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 07:28 |
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Or the author is from the Commonwealth.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 10:19 |
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Is there a way to make nuclear power plans melt down?
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 10:22 |
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drunkill posted:Huh. I'd expect the game to reverse directions if you unchecked left-side driving if a map was created in it. Oh well. In my experience it can be inconsistent when it comes to highways.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 14:19 |
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SwissCM posted:While the soundtrack for this isn't too bad, I think Sim City 3000 and 4 still hold the title for best city building music. 3000, in particular.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 15:17 |
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TomR posted:Oculus city. This feels like some kind of sci-fi dystopia. Please place the space elevator dead centre.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 17:46 |
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Power cables are annoying as gently caress because sometimes you make a new zone and then you have to run a power cable through it to power it then wait for some to build up so you can delete the cable and rezone the land the cable was sitting on. Agh. Is there a tool where I can tell where foot traffic is loving up car traffic so footbridges would help? Dred_furst posted:loving about with bad interchange designs from real life: Maybe replace that onramp with a two-lane one-way road?
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 17:48 |
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Not enough roundabouts.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2015 18:33 |
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Baronjutter posted:Just like when fighting ghosts, never cross the streams. Where should my in-city freight be connecting?
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 00:28 |
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Fhqwhgads posted:That might not be curvy, but I wish I had the traffic wizardry knowhow to make something like that. It helps that it's very low density. Look at all the greenspace in each block.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 01:34 |
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Can't recreate my hometown (Melbourne) without trams, either. Or a rail-underground connector. Or smaller drat train stations.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 09:05 |
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gently caress I wish this game automatically moved around supports on elevated roads when something's going underneath them.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 12:14 |
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Someone mentioned there was a way to filter the little popups you get throughout the city? How?
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 13:09 |
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A new item for a wishlist: a 'smooth roads' button that let you highlight a segment of jagged road and it... relaxes it into a smoother road.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 13:17 |
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I really want them to take all the profits from this game and go full 90's Maxis crazy. CimIsle. I miss SimIsle.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 15:26 |
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How do unlocks work? I remember hearing that some were cross-save, but what are?
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 17:22 |
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Alakaiser posted:Oh hey! One of my mods got put on TotallyMoo's mod collection thing. Truly, I have made it with my code template and three lines of original code. Sometimes I use a 4:3 window so I can shove things beside it?
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 17:44 |
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Yeah, the game needs graphs and displays for things like traffic that actually show problem areas.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2015 18:02 |
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I would be okay with minor disasters. Events. Major city-reshaping disasters I want no part of. It's just a few small roundabouts connected by a two-way ring road. If it was spaced a little further out you'd see it's actually pretty simple. The Swindon one is over-compressed but therea are a few other ones in Britain that are larger and cleaner that are quite sensible to look at. EDIT: like if you were to properly do the magic roundabout in Cities it'd look like this: Cities makes you space stuff out more. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Mar 19, 2015 |
# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 06:50 |
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Unfortunately, the map view doesn't really capture the wonderful Westgate Freeway/Citylink interchange where it was really awkward for a while to have people pop onto the Westgate for a kilometre before they hit and turned onto Citylink, so they ended up just going 'gently caress it, let's just run Citylink onraps and offramps a kilometre and a half to where they were getting on the Westgate'. That said, I don't think my city has much really crazy in the way of interchanges. We have some great actual intersections, though. Like this is a few blocks from me, a surprisingly well-functioning intersection between a 'highway' (which means major road, it's fully stop-lighted, onramp/offramp roads are called freeways here) and just a couple of local roads, a very simple intersection in theory. Turning from Nepean Southbound onto Bay always confuses newbies, though. Speaking of Melbourne, I want trams so I can see my cims have to suffer Hook Turns. Also, this roundabout is too simple, let's add trams just to gently caress everyone up. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Mar 19, 2015 |
# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 07:16 |
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I really miss getting a Mayor's house!
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 07:36 |
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Y'all seem to like your wind farms, as soon as I got nuclear I was like 'gently caress that poo poo' and bulldozed the lot.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 09:54 |
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queeb posted:(Users with the Disable Film Grain mod subscribed from Steam workshop and enabled will be notified with a "Console warning" when the game start and the game will automatically disable the mod and set the film grain amount to 0 so that no action from users is required apart from closing the Console panel). Good god but are they being accommodating to the users.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 12:49 |
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The size of passenger train stations in this game is absurd.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 17:57 |
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Anyone have any advice for getting my crime rate up to 50%?Noyemi K posted:I know, I was at the Amtrak station in Silver Spring a while back and it was significantly larger. Maybe, but Amtrack's cross-country. I can understand huge stations for intercity train, but metropolitan commuter stations should be a thing too.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 18:40 |
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Freakus posted:Wind is $10/MW. Solar is something like $7.5/MW. The real question is: why would you build coal, oil, or nuclear plants? Those numbers seem... like they didn't balance them right. Renewables should cost more. It even says in the description.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 00:15 |
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My Catalyst driver override application AA settings wasn't doing anything until I forced the game to DirectX 9 with -force-d3d9, then I could override it. Still looks ehhhhh, though.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 07:25 |
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I'm on an old enough machine that supersampling isn't a great idea.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 07:35 |
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Weirdo conspiracy theories aside, green energy in the game really is too powerful. From a game balance perspective alone, it's possible to make the argument that something is weird. There's basically no reason to use fossil energy sources whatsoever since wind farms and solar plants are far more efficient in every way except space (which can easily be mitigated), and also don't produce any waste. There's no real tradeoff to make, those sources are just objectively better than coal and oil. Yeah, I was thinking this. I was building oil because I was assuming it'd be cheaper than the green stuff.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 13:16 |
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I'm sad that so many people seem to be making great buildings then putting them in as uniques. I want growables, damnit!
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 13:27 |
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And nuclear has an extra cost in terms of high water use, too. I had a loop situation at one point where there was a brief interruption, and then because the power was off the water stopped, and then the connection was restored but the water wouldn't work without power and the power wouldn't work without water.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 13:49 |
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Is there any reason not to build cargo stations on their own little dead-end asides rather than on the main train line?
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 14:13 |
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One thing I'm really missing is larger versions of certain city services. A high-capacity elementary school or a high-capacity high school would be good. Although it might be prone to abuse given that there's apparently no distance limit on effective schooling. What would be really great would be a drat necropolis.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 15:44 |
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pwnyXpress posted:Got my crime rate to 41%, now I just gotta keep it there for TWO YEARS FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I inadvertently got that unlock while going for the abandonment one. If your population plummets it pushes the % high, I think.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 01:48 |
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Surprised there isn't a mod that turns water pollution a deep, vibrant brown.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 08:01 |
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wit posted:V: I dont think they're ever going to "fix" anything we call bugs. The modding community has this game now. Not only have they fixed it, they've already patched a popular mod (film grain removal) into the base game. They're gonna support this well.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2015 03:50 |
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Anyone know a way to see the stats for existing parks and the like? I wanna make some custom ones but wanna know the settings so I don't game the system.Nutsngum posted:Does anyone else feel like the population counter is stupid low for the size of the cities? My current one is 40,000 people but looks like it should be fitting 300,000+ in it without much issue. There's a mod for that.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2015 06:04 |
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# ¿ May 11, 2024 13:36 |
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Alakaiser posted:Every time I want to play this game, I open up the workshop and look at stuff for awhile and then end up working on my own mod and then oops I'm out of free time It's kinda like playing Skyrim.
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