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SimCity a disaster for you? Take a look at Cities: Skylines (not related to CitiesXL)
- Thread starter Mad Season
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I've been interested in this game for a few months now. It looks great; however, I'm going to go into it with some caution. After SimCity '13, which I avoided, much like many EA titles now, I'm pretty reserved about my purchases nowadays. But a lot of other factors (mainly money and time) also factor into that.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Broke down and preordered with that GMG code. Hoping there'll be scenarios at some point, I always enjoyed those.
This looks interesting. Even though SimCity had crappy server problems and other game problems, like the horrible traffic AI, small map and less options than its predecessor, it was still an enjoyable game for a while (if u could log in). This game looks like it took the interface and given us more options to build our city.
Lack of multiplayer is disappointing though, that was one thing SimCity did kinda alright. Build cities with ur friends. I'm still cautious about the traffic AI though and the lack of day and night cycle. Prolly not gonna pre-order, but I keep my eyes on this game and wait for the reviews and for the people to stress test the traffic of big cities. It's very promising nonetheless.
Lack of multiplayer is disappointing though, that was one thing SimCity did kinda alright. Build cities with ur friends. I'm still cautious about the traffic AI though and the lack of day and night cycle. Prolly not gonna pre-order, but I keep my eyes on this game and wait for the reviews and for the people to stress test the traffic of big cities. It's very promising nonetheless.
Getting a Developer's Diary on mods next week. Very excited to see what they have planned.
Go ahead and claim it here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=450653
Go ahead and claim it here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=450653
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Apparently if you preordered the game through Steam, you can view the Steam Workshop page for this game. And there's stuff in it.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
hnnnnnnnggggggg
Sweet jezus that looks amazing!
I never cared about multiplayer in a sim game like before with Simcity 2000 or 3000 or even 4 didn't have it.
motorised mallard
Member
Urge to pre-order rising, dangerously fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APjAyOLttHE
It sure does sound good, let's hope it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APjAyOLttHE
It sure does sound good, let's hope it is.
It's actually cheaper (by about 60 cents) if you pre-order it from GMG's VIP offers, rather than use the promo code.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/
http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/
chrominance
Member
VIP offer? SOLD. Thanks again, GMG!
catapult37
Member
Oof, that screen tearing, though. I wonder if my 6950 will hold up. Maybe I should wait...
TimeEffect
Member
Hngggg.
Can we get a comparison to Sim City max size?
If this is accurate:
SC4
SimCity 2013
Skylines looking good going by that video
From page 2
According to reddit, the map size can be nodded to a size of 100km2.
Compared with SimCity 2013s 4km2...
Yeah apparently there are only 13 people or so working on the game 0_0
chrominance
Member
Hngggg.
Can we get a comparison to Sim City max size?
If this is accurate:
SC4
SimCity 2013
Skylines looking good going by that video
It's not all that accurate. The SC4 screenshot is of an entire REGION, not a single city. SC4 had multiple city sizes, which you can see outlined as faint white squares on the region map; the largest squares represent the largest single-city size available. Still much, much larger than SC2013, but not the orders of magnitude implied by the region view screenshot.
Skylines is as big as a small map on Sim City 4. 256X256 was the biggest unmodded size in that game.
TimeEffect
Member
Couple of things from the link above:
-screen tearing looks really bad
-Cars seem to pop out of existence at certain points in the road. I am guessing this is just because if you are zoomed out too much, the game wont simulate the entire city, as that would probably kill your PC
They followed one citizen who seemed to walk a long way to the bus to go to work. Thing is, since the days are simulated into seconds (seems like 1 day= 10 seconds), the real time movement of the citizens doesn't matter at the microscopic level
I guess that's fine if the overall game can still track and manage things like traffic and efficiency
-screen tearing looks really bad
-Cars seem to pop out of existence at certain points in the road. I am guessing this is just because if you are zoomed out too much, the game wont simulate the entire city, as that would probably kill your PC
They followed one citizen who seemed to walk a long way to the bus to go to work. Thing is, since the days are simulated into seconds (seems like 1 day= 10 seconds), the real time movement of the citizens doesn't matter at the microscopic level
I guess that's fine if the overall game can still track and manage things like traffic and efficiency
Remember this wasn't final code at all still a lot of polish to do like they said on the video.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Largest playable city size (not entire region) is SimCity4 is a 4km x 4km box.
Largest playable city size in SimCity2013 is a 2km x 2km box
Largest playable city size in Cities Skylines is the equivalent of nine 2km x 2km boxes, with the ability of modders to increase the size even further.
Cities Skylines wins. By a lot.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Some of them post on this forum, but I didn't want to appear insensitive by asking too many questions.
I doubt most people who work on these games are the least bit to blame for some of general design or management decisions that often ruin games. I'm sure they're just as disappointed with the state of affairs at times, if not more so due to personal investment. Not that they're allowed to express that publically, of course.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Hngggg.
Can we get a comparison to Sim City max size?
If this is accurate:
SC4
SimCity 2013
Skylines looking good going by that video
You could... technically... get bigger than that in 2013 with the expansion. Megatowers, yo.
Which reminds me, I hope we get some weird stuff with this, either at launch or with mods. The near future crap was a lot of fun.
suddenlyissoon
Member
Wow, this looks awesome...what's the catch?! I'd preorder it immediately but I'm still feeling the burn of sim city!
Don't preorder if you have doubts. For the low asking price, I've seen enough to know that I'll put in at least 15 hours into it. Less than $2 an hour makes sense to me.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
i dont think my hype can get any higher. this looks like everything i've wanted.
The size of the cities and the traffic make the cities feel much more alive than the newest sim city especially in quill's video, but i'm gonna chalk that up to the size of the cities
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I blame the upper management mostly as well. I remember a promo video a long time ago where Ocean Quigley was talking about the meeting he had with Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw, and that one of the requirements for her greenlighting SimCity2013 was "no spreadsheets", i.e. getting rid of the more technical simulation aspects of the previous titles.
Dumb move, obviously.
Whoever else was responsible for always online, single core, too many agents, lack of simulation, and the various other bad design decisions led us to the product we have now.
There are flashes of brilliance in SimCity 2013, and I've played it a helluva lot, but the overall package is lacking, and it's a damn shame.
Megatowers didn't increase the actual map size.
could not say it better myself.
Looking forward to this though, I do have some faith in the Dev but I'm going to hold off til I've seen some more in depth feedback.
Excited by what I've seen though
The voucher you have applied cannot be used in conjunction with GMG Credit.
If you would prefer to use GMG Credit, please remove the vouchers.
What is this crap, I haven't used GMG for ages and this is what they pull now?
Look at my post above it shows the sizes of cities skylines it's bigger then Simcity 4.
It's been like that from the start or close to it when they had credits. You couldn't combine credit rewards with discount codes.
Go to this section it has all ready a bigger discount then the voucher and your good to go.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/
Both the regular and deluxe have a huge discount.
Sax Russel
Banned
I loved SC4 and completely skipped Sim City 2013 because it looked like utter trash.
This though... this looks good *drool
This though... this looks good *drool
Anyone have any experience with Cities in Motion? I'd heard of it, but never actually played it. Apparently it's the only other thing Colossal Order has ever done.
I liked Cities in Motion, but I bought Cities in Motion 2 and was kind of let down. They vastly increased the complexity of Cities in Motion 2 and the UI was kind of confusing and the level of micromanagement of individual lines and routes was too hardcore for my tastes.
I'm cautiously optimistic for Skylines but I'm going to reserve judgement until the game is actually out.
I'm cautiously optimistic for Skylines but I'm going to reserve judgement until the game is actually out.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Another recorded stream from the Paradox convention, this one from quill18. 40+ minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa1D_VUzHpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa1D_VUzHpg
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Colossal Order supported their Cities in Motion games pretty well, if there are any issues I'd expect them to react appropriately.
Iced_Eagle
Member
Damn I love GMG.
Pre-ordered for $24! I don't know how it's economically possible for Paradox to offer it at this price, and then for GMG to offer a sizeable discount on top of that, but whatever. Makes me a happy camper.
I don't have my headphones hooked up, but does your town have a (fake) Twitter account? It looks like somebody was complaining about the lack of greenery (with hashtags and all). That's an interesting way to get feedback on the quality of your city.
I just pre-ordered this. Even if it's only half as good as the videos make it look, it's still worth the $24 I paid for it.