Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
specialized industry don't level up. If you want your regular industry to level up, you gotta educate your work force as much as you can. At level 3, 12 of the 24 jobs a 4x4 factory has are for highly educated people.
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specialized industry don't level up. If you want your regular industry to level up, you gotta educate your work force as much as you can. At level 3, 12 of the 24 jobs a 4x4 factory has are for highly educated people.
Yes, they do eventually.Do Ore/Oil deposits eventually dry up? This used to be a pure blue ore specialization, now it almost looks like fertile land.
Can I assume it is converted to fertile land due to the color? I will switch it to a farming specialization unless I am assuming incorrectly.
I have wanted to expand north across the highway for some more ore, along with some oil and forestry resources as well, but this would mean reconfiguring my entire highway.
ok got it. i had a stray water tower in the industry area that was ruining the water :<
rip 300/2600 people
motorised mallard
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Just treat them like residential, healthcare/deathcare/leisure/police/schools/
public transport
In short: Give them everything.
Off topic, this game is starting to get expensive, already had to get new Windows and now I'm || this close to marching to a store and getting 4690K/board/ram/cooler. I guess I'm fine with 600W psu (Zalman ZM600-HP) since 750Ti isn't that much of a power hog?
So that is 600€ + what the game was. T_T
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
After a lot of trial and error and playing around I started a new city and think I got it right this time... at least for now.
Presenting Deloria: (Taken right before hitting 15,000)
Crossing my fingers things keep going well.
Presenting Deloria: (Taken right before hitting 15,000)
I separated the industrial from the residential and have all commercial grouped together. Residential is separated into two parts connected by bridges. The commercial and industrial are connected via an experimental onramp/offramp combination that seems to be working. All zones are "Ban high traffic". And the best part, my garbage dumps are segregated in one place connected directly to the main residential section via a dirt road rather than the highway. I'm about to replace the windmills with two or three solar plants (When I get to 19,000) and the sewage drain with the purification plant. The George Carlin Memoral University (The character limit was one less than I needed) has its own neat little one way road entrance so it looks fancy. And I have both subways and bus companies with three or four lines each which do different routes. (I love how the busses get colored to match the line they belong to. That's awesome.)
Crossing my fingers things keep going well.
dragonelite
Member
Made that mistake once quickly placed a garbage incinerator instead of a crematorium.
Tip for starter use unlimited money mod and play around with roads and see which road combo don't create traffic lights
Plop a freight train station next to your industry and provide good services and they'll start leveling to level 3.
motorised mallard
Member
The reddit link/thread(?) is also a nice tip for a bit later in the game. It seems that lights aren't always evil.
Dat flow.
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hobblygobbly
Member
Just wondering if anyone else experienced this, has their PC locked up/BSOD'd while playing (once it just locked up, needed hard reset, other BSOD'd)? It happened to me twice, but if I go play any other game for extended time it doesn't happen. :S
Wait. What happened to your old Windows? What CPU do you have now?
motorised mallard
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At the risk of being spammy with it already. The whole deal.
It was C2D e8200 @ 3,2ghz, 4gb of ddr2 (now 6gb), 750ti and 32-bit Vista (now 8).
Yes, it's basicly a PS3. Old.
motorised mallard
Member
Maybe the pollution view was purple and it was changed to brown? I have been wondering about that also.
schroddycat
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Steam workshop noob here. Subscribed a few stuff like the elevated roundabout park but I didn't see it in my current game. Does my town need to develop a little larger for it to unlock or I need to create a new game?
Time to get a job as a civil engineer.
Jesus fucking Christ. That's amazing
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Definitely impressive.
The trees acting as a sound buffer between the buildings and the highway through town look so amazing. I think I need to look and see how my sound is doing. (So far in my new city, no one has complained about sound.)
I think you need to turn them on from the mods menu. Or you have to unlock some of them, not sure. Haven't used any of those mods yet, only a few maps and the color correction mod. Those I know you had to turn on from the menu.
As far as I know, the actual ground pollution was changed from purple to brown. Not just the pollution view.
diggmcbadass
Member
Decided to start up the game at around 11pm yesterday just to try out this idea I had for fixing one of my more troubled highway junctions. Next time I checked my watch it was 3:15. I started at work today at 8. This is going to be a fun day.
I am hoping for building styles. Msybe even with an additional area law? so you csn hsve fifferent ones in the same city.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Just a little something I just threw together. I love how this turned out. I even threw some shops in there to make it even more awesome. If this game had a preschool building, I'd put it right next to it. It'd be perfect.
Not patched in yet. It's brown for some depending on the colour correction filter or the map's natural lighting (a mix of both) that makes it come out "brownish" for some.
hobblygobbly
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Maybe it will come as DLCs, I think that's something this sort of game would go for in terms of DLC. Such as architectural styles.
I'm surprised there isn't any by default in the design because the developers are Finnish.
Trickster
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It's big, but in terms of aesthetics, SimCopter1's city is by far the best I've seen - http://www.twitch.tv/simcopter1
Deaf Spacker
Memb
When laying roads and pipes etc is there any way to stop the game from automatically adding another road etc as it's driving me nuts.
I may have the weirdest of questions ever.
I live in Rome, a city that in the last couple thousands years grew without a proper urban planning, especially in the last decades, when developers basically took over suburbs building random huge ass neighborhoods without services or proper transport links.
So, except what I saw abroad or in photos, of some virtuous cities all over the world, I don't know jack shit about how to plan a modern city.
And I was wondering: is there some kind of, you know, tutorial? Best practices? How to put down a functional zone grid?
Like, some sort of guide saying yeah ring roads are better than squared blocks because reasons.
I'd love to read something about this matter without the need to attend a five years degree in civil engineering.
I live in Rome, a city that in the last couple thousands years grew without a proper urban planning, especially in the last decades, when developers basically took over suburbs building random huge ass neighborhoods without services or proper transport links.
So, except what I saw abroad or in photos, of some virtuous cities all over the world, I don't know jack shit about how to plan a modern city.
And I was wondering: is there some kind of, you know, tutorial? Best practices? How to put down a functional zone grid?
Like, some sort of guide saying yeah ring roads are better than squared blocks because reasons.
I'd love to read something about this matter without the need to attend a five years degree in civil engineering.
I'd love to read something about this matter without the need to attend a five years degree in civil engineering.
you might have to anyway @_@
I don't think playing 5 years of C:S would convert in university time, though.
But, if I add all the time I spent playing every single SimCity from the SNES port to 4, plus Cities in Motion 2 and... and... and... well I guess I'm definitely entitled to a degree!
YESSSSS
PepperedHam
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Public transport is kicking my ass. I only have a 3.2k pop town and my bus depot sends out like 35 buses at a time and it's clogging my streets up bad. I've redone my bus lines a few times after reading some stuff online and that hasn't helped either.
Is it worth it to keep the bus depot around? Will lowering my budget send out fewer buses?
Is it worth it to keep the bus depot around? Will lowering my budget send out fewer buses?
diggmcbadass
Member
Their community manager said this on reddit when asked about DLC:
Yup, actually quite a large amount too. We're going with an expansion policy similar to CK2/EUIV where we bundle free content and updates with larger paid expansions. For example our first non--bug-fixing update to the game will be free tunnels and European wall-to-wall buildings.
PepperedHam
Member
As have I lol. I've redone mine a few times and every time they have ended up as a huge pile of shit.
Two things that Colossal Order sacrificed from the release version of the game in order to get it finished and on the store in a timely, QA-tested fashion: tunnels and a European buildings reskin. The devs have mentioned numerous times that they're both being worked on extensively and the intention is for them to be released as free content in the first big version update.
EDIT: oh oops, I see diggmc mentioned it a few minutes ago
lol
Might as well do a couple of extra metro stations and keep the bus bullshit out of my city
Also, just reached 20k wich is a record for me...weird thing is that citizens keep on asking for WAY too many offices, 3/4 of my city is an office conglomerate
Yes, lowering the budget will send out fewer buses. I'd try that before giving up on buses as they lower amount of cars on the road by quite a bit.
Xcell Miguel
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Thanks for subscribing !
My Elevated Pedestrian Roundabout uses highway roads with soundbarriers, which unlocks near 5000 inhabitants. You can find it in the Roads panel, then Intersections subpanel (for now, downloaded assets don't have thumbnails).
All assets are enabled by default ingame, note that if you are already in a map and added some Workshop content, you juste need to go back to the main menu and reload your save (you don't need to restart your game, only the map).
Mods are not enabled and you have to do it yourself in the Content Manager in the main menu (note that they disable achievements).
motorised mallard
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The annoying part is that you can't easily delete lines and if you are like me and like to create overlapping lines. Well, let's just say that once one has to be remade/tweaked I might aswell remake/tweak all of them.
Off topic:
Caved in and rejoined the master race, got myself a 4690K. *bank balance sobbing in the background*
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Go to the transport info panel. (top left icons). When you are in the transport info view, click on a line. You will then see the option to delete it.
That means you didn't have someone from the cemetery or the crematorium come pick up the corpse. Build one if you haven't yet, or build more, or fix your traffic.
NumberThree
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I suck at building cities.
This looks great! Not sure how well I can run the game with supersampling but I'd rather just turn everything else down to get rid of the jaggies.
This looks great! Not sure how well I can run the game with supersampling but I'd rather just turn everything else down to get rid of the jaggies.
motorised mallard
Member
And now you made me remember that there is a delete line button if I just choose a buss/metro, silly me.
Just remember to spread the cemeteries/crematoriums around the city and you should be fine.
Had to leave for work, will surely look into it later tonight tyty
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