Cities: Skylines (AKA "the best city builder in a decade")

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

Lol I get what you mean now. But I googled it and this came up. So I though you were serious

[psicodude]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

Can anyone help with some advice or screenshots for building interchanges from avenues to highways?

On ramps onto avenues generate intersections, which is not what I want. I want merge lanes.

Having two one lane two way roads merging to one 4 lane avenue also generates an intersection.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to build any type of interchange not involving roundabouts that doesn't get hampered by these extra intersections.

- Download a bunch of pre-built interchanges from the workshop on steam. They will save you a lot of time and generally look better than anything I could create.

- Instead of using avenues, try using highways and download the "highway to 6 lane avenue" from the workshop. Sometimes I connect my highway to a 2 lane one-way to the avenue. Doesn't look great, but works well. As you said, an on-ramp connected to an avenue creates an intersection and that's to be avoided.

[White Out 403]

Anyone else still addicted?

Best money I've spent.

Some cool mods I consider a must have :

They finally did cn tower.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...32&searchtext=

Remove seagulls http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=421041154

Better hearse ai to deal with death waves
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=433249875

The above mods need this mod which streamlines agent management to make them super efficient
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=421028969

Canadian pack... Super awesome Canadian stores.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7.../?appid=255710

This Mod mbuilding level up makes sense. No more schools and parks needed in industry. Now it's more traffic and services like medicaland fire etc

Toggle traffic lights. Great for when you make a 6 lane round a bout and want no traffic lights
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=411833858

Tree Brush mod
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=406723376

DP's building set mods, a must have.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/DPruett...s&appid=255710

Coal plant.. it's bigger, expensive, but also produces a lot more power. It's stupid to have several reactors in one city... this makes much more sense. He also has an Oil plant, and will be releasing more soon. So he claims.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=412240463

[Bill Bumface]

No bumps for the 1.1 release? Tunnels are awesome... mostly. In a way they make me sad that I can cheat and hide my messes of interchanges underground, but on the other hand they let me build a whole new level of stupidity and complexity into my road and rail systems.

I haven't tried a European city yet, as I know if I start a new one I'm going to be abandoning my current one that I'm having a lot of fun with.

[White Out 403]

Traffic ++ is a must have mod now. You can set custom speed limits

They've also opened up modding of vehicles. COmbined with the vehicle remover mod, you can replace all busses with your own modded kind, or , new ambulances. You can also remove the hot dog and donut truck with plain jane modded box cars etc.

This game gets better and better each week with the mod community at work

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=409184143 traffic ++

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=448947050 heavy box truck

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=446646157 vehicle remover

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=445919999 sweet bus

holy smokes is traffic ++ even better than I thought. You can use it to force round abouts to be better. You can make it so the inside lanes ONLY turn out. It def helps the round about use more lanes

[FlamesPuck12]

^ Thanks for continuing to post these awesome mods here. Can't wait to give Traffic ++ a try.

[cDnStealth]

I haven't really had much time but I need to get back into this game. The new additions look great and that traffic mod sounds amazing.

[CroFlames]

Anyone know if a sale is coming up for this on steam by chance?

Two rounds of playoffs kinda drained the ol entertainment budget

[psicodude]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Anyone know if a sale is coming up for this on steam by chance?

Two rounds of playoffs kinda drained the ol entertainment budget

Just a complete guess, but the game still shows up in the top 10 on Steam, so probably not. Plus, it's only $30 to begin with. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go cheaper during the Steam Summer sale though.

[Itse]

Meh, I'd love to play around some more with all the mods etc, but I just have too much on my plate. If I'd start a new city I just know I'd waste way too much time on it...

[White Out 403]

Ya, this friggin bus is a mod now. Unreal

[cDnStealth]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Anyone know if a sale is coming up for this on steam by chance?

Two rounds of playoffs kinda drained the ol entertainment budget

The Steam summer sale allegedly starts on the 11th so I would imagine it would see something of a discount at some point.

[Matata]

Cities has been so good that I'm happy to have paid full price for it.

[White Out 403]

It's on sale cheap skates

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Resurrection

It's on sale cheap skates

I got 3 games for $29 last night. Including Cities of course

[hockey.modern]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

I got 3 games for $29 last night. Including Cities of course

How much was cities?

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by hockey.modern

how much was cities?

$22.49.

[CroFlames]

Ugh Cities is daunting to start off. Any pro tips for a noob?

[Itse]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Ugh Cities is daunting to start off. Any pro tips for a noob?

Don't be tempted to start with everything that's out there. Start playing in the mode that only gives you new things once the city grows, and only start downloading mods once you've gotten a hold of the basics.

The basics are really quite simple. You have your residents that need jobs either in factories or in commerce, and everybody needs electricity, water and sewage, and eventually more and more services. Personally I recommend investing in a lot of public transport and avoiding multi-lane roads as much as possible.

More importantly however, a large part of the fun in the game is discovering how it works. So essentially you're not supposed to know what you're doing. Feeling overwhelmed is a feature

Just do something that seems to make sense, and then later fix it once you start understanding why you did it all wrong. The game is designed to be quite forgiving. Bumps are inevitable, but it's borderline impossible to truly ruin your city.

Don't be afraid to take loans if you have something that you really want/need "right now". At some point they probably come unnecessary, but they're a good way to speed up the starting phase.

Oh, and do fun things first and then worry about how to get them to actually work

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Itse

Don't be tempted to start with everything that's out there. Start playing in the mode that only gives you new things once the city grows, and only start downloading mods once you've gotten a hold of the basics.

The basics are really quite simple. You have your residents that need jobs either in factories or in commerce, and everybody needs electricity, water and sewage, and eventually more and more services. Personally I recommend investing in a lot of public transport and avoiding multi-lane roads as much as possible.

More importantly however, a large part of the fun in the game is discovering how it works. So essentially you're not supposed to know what you're doing. Feeling overwhelmed is a feature

Just do something that seems to make sense, and then later fix it once you start understanding why you did it all wrong. The game is designed to be quite forgiving. Bumps are inevitable, but it's borderline impossible to truly ruin your city.

Don't be afraid to take loans if you have something that you really want/need "right now". At some point they probably come unnecessary, but they're a good way to speed up the starting phase.

Oh, and do fun things first and then worry about how to get them to actually work

You are so right It was fun learning and and screwing up and fixing and tweaking. I restated three times, but then realized it's not that bad to just keep going and fix stuff. The advisor role could use some refining (like in Civ V, where it's more intuitive), but otherwise it's a sweet game. I still don't comprehend why all of a sudden my water system is "dirty" and everyone starts getting sick, or why buildings get abandoned despite the population being happy.

I'm up to about 16k citizens now, and I have zero traffic problems.

I wish I was more creative though. I built all my roads in a straight grid pattern to make it easier on myself. Maybe when I continue to expand I'll get creative, or I'll make a new city altogether. Time will tell, but such a fun game to play