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

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Which is the one part of the game that I don't quite like. You start up a new route and the game assigns say 8 buses to that route. It sends them all out at once which is silly as they are all clumped together. First bus is full, second bus has maybe 10 people and buses 3-8 are almost always empty. Wish it would stagger them a bit. I sort of expected traffic to cause some separation but they still mostly all travel together.

That's odd. Almost sounds like you have the Calgary Transit mod enabled

[RW99]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

still really enjoying this game. Still suck at roads. Always have a traffic issue somewhere.

It amazes me how there are so many things you can watch. I remember being blown away when I got the underground train system running. Watching all the people filter into the station, hear a train arrive and suddenly TONS of people are pouring out going to their destinations.

I even spent a half hour following busses through going through their route.

Which is the one part of the game that I don't quite like. You start up a new route and the game assigns say 8 buses to that route. It sends them all out at once which is silly as they are all clumped together. First bus is full, second bus has maybe 10 people and buses 3-8 are almost always empty. Wish it would stagger them a bit. I sort of expected traffic to cause some separation but they still mostly all travel together.

I'd follow buses while in 1st person mode for hours. For that bus issue, I would let a couple of the buses exit and then turn the depot on and off to stagger their exit.

[Stormageddon]

Got this game because of this thread, my wife just shakes her head at me when I play it. But I digress.

My city (no mods) was going fantastically well, until I hit 44,000. That was when my industry took a nose dive and I had abandoned buildings everywhere. It also coincided with me putting some infrastructure across a river from the main city. Then there was a huge death wave sweeping the city. I was bulldozing buildings like crazy and losing my mind. Now the death wave has ended, my industry is beginning to return and I'm getting more people back into the city .

There must have been a high number of people leaving the work force (becoming seniors) which lead to my issues? Definitely a lesson learned for next time, haha.

[BlackArcher101]

If I recall, if you expand quickly and get a wave of people moving in, that too will also throw off things in the future, ending with a wave of people dying.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

If I recall, if you expand quickly and get a wave of people moving in, that too will also throw off things in the future, ending with a wave of people dying.

That's my experience too. I consider problems like those features. Brings some more variety to the game. Different situations.

You can also prepare for huge problems in the future if you build a large mining area all at once, as those mines and all the related industry will crash pretty much all at once.

[RW99]

So I have a death wave issue that seems to be a glitch. I just started my city and I was at 17k when I saved and exited the game last night. Everyone was heathy, etc. I open the game this morning and almost every building had a dead person, half in yellow status and half in red status. I'm nowhere near having my first death wave and it shouldn't be every building all at once. I tried searching for a glitch, but all I could find was help on riding out your death waves. Anyone else experience this? It effectively destroys the new city I just built.

[CroFlames]

I've been building crematoriums on every street corner basically.

PS: Revamped my transit system for about 110 city into a centralized hub. I wonder how that is going to go later.

[BlackArcher101]

In case anyone has stopped playing this awesome game, they just released a free expansion as well as paid DLC yesterday. More info can be found here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-1-2-0.883183/

Coles notes:

After Dark 1.2.0

Paid content | After Dark Expansion: - $15
Prisons added
Prisoners added
Commercial specializations added: Leisure and Tourism
Leisure and Beach assets added
International airport added
Cargo hub added
Taxi service added
Bus terminal added
Bicycles and bicycle paths working

Free for all players:
Night ambient sounds implemented
Lights go off when a building is on fire
Day/Night transport lines
Shoreline now has land value
Content manager: ability to create custom district styles (custom building collections) from downloaded assets to be used on districts
District panel now has a drop down allowing to change its style set
Visual night and day cycle added
Street lights

I'm only a few hours into a new city with the DLC, but so far I really like the bus terminals and have to figure out taxi's yet. The day/night cycle is fairly cool, but so far I haven't seen much of a difference other than visual between the two. Once the city becomes bigger it might be apparent.

[btimbit]

Nice! Didn't know it was out. I'll kill many hours on that my next day off

[btimbit]

On sale on Steam right now

[metallicat]

Saddens me that I don't have a computer that can play this game.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Saddens me that I don't have a computer that can play this game.

It saddened me also since everyone should be able to enjoy this game.

Then I saw your username.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

It saddened me also since everyone should be able to enjoy this game.

Then I saw your username.

Even his computer is stuck in the '80's?

[temple5]

I know this is alot to ask but for a good gaming experience what is the video card someone might recommend, I know there is a list of cards that will work but since I am now married with a child I have few opportunities to enjoy computer games, and would rather not have a glitchty experience with a game that I am likely to love.

Also, what version of the game would people suggest, the base or "deluxe". I am not much into plopping random skyscrapers to make my city look better than it is but am much more into the city building/managing experience.

After watching alot of youtube play videos it would seem that traffic is a nightmare in the game that alot of people "fix" with underground roads which isnt very realistic on a large scale.

All I need for gaming is...

A good city building game: Was sim city 4 rush hour with mods, now hopefully this (I really wish they add regions to CS as I loved that feature in SC4)
A good Civilizations game: Civ5
A good Battletech game: Mech Commander - hopefully the kickstarter game.
A good epic war simulation game: Rome total war
A good railroads simluation game: sadly none available Railroad tycoon

Thanks.

[CroFlames]

Cities skylines is awesome. I'm on the verge of collecting the final achievement. Basic package is good enough.

Let me know how Rome Total war is. I'm interested in that.

[cDnStealth]

Originally Posted by temple5

I know this is alot to ask but for a good gaming experience what is the video card someone might recommend, I know there is a list of cards that will work but since I am now married with a child I have few opportunities to enjoy computer games, and would rather not have a glitchty experience with a game that I am likely to love.

Also, what version of the game would people suggest, the base or "deluxe". I am not much into plopping random skyscrapers to make my city look better than it is but am much more into the city building/managing experience.

After watching alot of youtube play videos it would seem that traffic is a nightmare in the game that alot of people "fix" with underground roads which isnt very realistic on a large scale.

All I need for gaming is...

A good city building game: Was sim city 4 rush hour with mods, now hopefully this (I really wish they add regions to CS as I loved that feature in SC4)
A good Civilizations game: Civ5
A good Battletech game: Mech Commander - hopefully the kickstarter game.
A good epic war simulation game: Rome total war
A good railroads simluation game: sadly none available Railroad tycoon

Thanks.

I think the base game is just fine. I'd wait until next week though as Steam is going to run their annual Fall Sale. Rome 2 is fun and I like the setting but Shogun 2 is still the better Total War game.

[CroFlames]

Well I was planning to bump this thread when I got all 37 achievements, but Temple5 ruined it for me.

Nevertheless. wooohhoooo noobs I got all 37 achievements Stick that in your pipe and smoke it

[White Out 403]

Any must have mods in the last 5 months? Took a long break but now that Fifa has bored me to death I need something new

[Itse]

Originally Posted by temple5

I know this is alot to ask but for a good gaming experience what is the video card someone might recommend, I know there is a list of cards that will work but since I am now married with a child I have few opportunities to enjoy computer games, and would rather not have a glitchty experience with a game that I am likely to love.

Also, what version of the game would people suggest, the base or "deluxe". I am not much into plopping random skyscrapers to make my city look better than it is but am much more into the city building/managing experience.

After watching alot of youtube play videos it would seem that traffic is a nightmare in the game that alot of people "fix" with underground roads which isnt very realistic on a large scale.

All I need for gaming is...

A good city building game: Was sim city 4 rush hour with mods, now hopefully this (I really wish they add regions to CS as I loved that feature in SC4)
A good Civilizations game: Civ5
A good Battletech game: Mech Commander - hopefully the kickstarter game.
A good epic war simulation game: Rome total war
A good railroads simluation game: sadly none available Railroad tycoon

Thanks.

Try here.

The headline says laptop GPU's, but if you look at the restriction options, they rank all kinds.

(The benchmarks don't have Cities Skylines, but they do have Rome and Civ 5, so you'll have some idea.)

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Resurrection

Any must have mods in the last 5 months? Took a long break but now that Fifa has bored me to death I need something new

I have been a purist until I unlocked all the achievements, so I don't even know right now about mods.

Once I platinum South Park and Lego Star wars on PS3 I'm going to circle back to this game and play unlimited money mode.