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SimCity a disaster for you? Take a look at Cities: Skylines (not related to CitiesXL)
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MisterMrMister
Member
He ran out of graveyard and crematorium capacities, so all those dead bodies kept piling up in the buildings. That in turn made people want to leave because the smell was too bad. It took a while to solve it though, cause all the hearses got jammed up in traffic.
It all kinda works pretty logically.
Legato.Reborn-
Member
Flow. oh wait I thought you meant one way
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I'm at work so I can't watch anything right now, but from reading this thread it sounds like Quill's city:
1. has horrible road layouts and huge traffic issues
2. didn't have cemetaries so dead people were everywhere
3. so he built crematoriums and cemeteries but the traffic problems prevented them from working, which made the problem worse
4. so he made lots of trains to alleviate the traffic but that just resulted in train gridlock!
It reads like a Stephen King horror novel, LOL!
1. has horrible road layouts and huge traffic issues
2. didn't have cemetaries so dead people were everywhere
3. so he built crematoriums and cemeteries but the traffic problems prevented them from working, which made the problem worse
4. so he made lots of trains to alleviate the traffic but that just resulted in train gridlock!
It reads like a Stephen King horror novel, LOL!
SneakyStephan
Banned
I'm not watching the stream as I don't wana spoil the mid-lategame things in the cities for myself (the early game stuff seems good to watch as a tutorial though, I'm not good at city building games)
But holy shit on the northernlion youtube video there's mention of a space elevator
I wonder what it looks like
I hope there's optional natural disasters or alien invasions etc like in the old sim city games too to test your city with once you finish building it.
Roads are the only thing that intimidate me about this game, the quill guy even in the 3 part youtube video had shitty roads, I'm going to need a tutorial on the basics when I get the game
But holy shit on the northernlion youtube video there's mention of a space elevator
I wonder what it looks likeI hope there's optional natural disasters or alien invasions etc like in the old sim city games too to test your city with once you finish building it.
Roads are the only thing that intimidate me about this game, the quill guy even in the 3 part youtube video had shitty roads, I'm going to need a tutorial on the basics when I get the game
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
This game desperately needs mixed use zoning. You can't make properly do transit oriented development without mixed use zoning. I guess I'll just have to manually do it, but it's not ideal.
indeed, the guy has serious inssues on traffic planing
Legato.Reborn-
Member
Posters are giving him a lot of shit but he has 1M in the bank with positive revenue. Also some of the other streamers have been restarting their cities because they keep going bankrupt.
But yes, 1-4 are accurate with the train gridlock being the most hilarious to me
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
In SimCity2013, it's just a matter of zoning some commericial mixed in with your residential. It worked out okay.
At least, unlike SimCity, they are of his own design!
I'm not watching the stream as I don't wana spoil the mid-lategame things in the cities for myself (the early game stuff seems good to watch as a tutorial though, I'm not good at city building games)
But holy shit on the northernlion youtube video there's mention of a space elevator
I hope there's optional natural disasters or alien invasions etc like in the old sim city games too to test your city with once you finish building it.
Roads are the only thing that intimidate me about this game, the quill guy even in the 3 part youtube video had shitty roads, I'm going to need a tutorial on the basics when I get the game
no disasters yet
OldAsUrSock
Banned
He needs Civil Engineering 101.
I enjoy his creations. Instead of keeping it simple he's testing the game and trying new stuff.
wit3tyg3r
Member
Yeah, I was watching the stream when Mariina and Quill talked about it. I still think it would be cool to have a toggle or switch so we can pick the time of day for screenshots and overall aesthetics.
Even watching the first video I had a feeling his basic design would not end well. He was unintentionally bottlenecking his entire population on top of the bottleneck being extremely inefficient.
In my opinion, it would be the best course of action to continue the massive one-way roads leading from the initial interchange. Then attach large roads horizonatlly to connect the other parts of your city. Continue building the large roads leading off the highway as your city expands.
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Roundabouts are the actual devil, so no.
Same here in EU. Can't wait to play it like this is what Simcity should have been in the first place.
suddenlyissoon
Member
He's just wasting that beautiful island on industrial
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I wonder if the giant headache of forcing myself to make SImCity's awful transit design work will make Cities Skylines look like a cakewalk in comparison.
You can't conflate your arteries with your capillaries. Shit will go wrong.
You can't conflate your arteries with your capillaries. Shit will go wrong.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yeah, no kidding. The buses and garbage trucks just doing laps up and down main street in Simcity 2013 was infuriating. And the sims who would only go one route period, even while 75% of the city's road were empty. And the electricity and poop which also got gridlocked in the same way that traffic did. I was so happy to go back to SC4 after that fiasco.
CSL appears to have none of those issues, or at least they are not as prominent as SC5's were even during those one hour beta test sessions. Although the train gridlock sounds worrisome, but I need to see the video to see how it happens. Maybe there is a good reason for it, lol.
Poodlestrike
Banned
That's actually how I built all my SimCity cities; extend the starting avenue as far as I needed to to serve as the main thoroughfare, and build out from there.
They are so much better, just use a 2 lane one way road over the motorway / highway in a circle then do your on/off ramps to the motorway and you can take your smaller road off of that. Something like this would work fine.
Herbspiceguy
Member
Lirik just started streaming this.
Damn, I'm really looking forward to this game, but I get the feeling I'll be terrible at traffic management. I don't even really see what Quill is doing wrong for the most part and everyone is acting like he's blatantly doing idiotic shit. >.>
I guess I'll have to figure it out as I go along.
I guess I'll have to figure it out as I go along.
That Damn Kid
Member
I don't think I got a response from this so I'll post it again. How would my 2011 Macbook Pro do with this game?
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB
theepicoftyler
Member
I would love for a gif of the development of this interchange. It's so hillarious in its terribleness.
cpu and memory is fine. The min specs was a core 2 duo, which was 10 years ago lol.
I'll let someone more experience judge the GPU. I have a 2011 too and going to give it a whirl. I mean, we're not going to run it 1080p at 60fps at max settings. But I'd think we should be okay at at a resolution one or two steps below and getting 30 fps decently.
Poodlestrike
Banned
You should be okay. You beat the minimum specs handily.
MisterMrMister
Member
LOL! This guy and traffic planning OMG. That is the ugliest "cloverleaf" I've ever seen.
He got in to play, sweet. Also dear lord help us. Memories of bridge builder and Besiegedare still hauniting me.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
That's all of the fun in a nutshell right there, "figure it out as I go along". Absolutely nothing wrong with that. I have some of my early Simcity 4 cities that were horrible failures, just inefficient gridlocked messes of cities. I often find myself replacing roads with avenues and whatnot which requires destroying (improving?) things along the way.
I'm sure my first couple cities in CSL will be less than spectacular as I figure it out, although over a decade of SC4 gaming has certainly educated me somewhat on city and traffic design. I'll most likely start out making a small town and just try my best to gingerly grow it into a metropolis from there. All of my best SC4 cities started out that way.
Fuck efficiency is what I say. I'll be creating stuff like this. My cities are always about looks.
suddenlyissoon
Member
I do a better job than this and nearly all of my cities devolve in to a # like pattern.