Cities: Skylines

Andr3w · 22 Mar 2015 at 16:12

How big do you make your grids?

Aeleys · 22 Mar 2015 at 16:21

Andr3w said:
How big do you make your grids?

Lay a road, zone it, lay road right next to it and repeat.

http://eaassets-a.akamaihd.net/prod.simcity.com/sites/default/files/citylayout_4.gif

Like that, as tight packed as you can get although I do longer grids and don't separate each building. I left my game running on a fresh map with only 7k pop and it got well over $1m after an hour.

Housey · 22 Mar 2015 at 16:51

Xordium said:
Significantly better. All restrictions can be removed by ingame selection or mods.

This is by far the better game - infinitely better.

I know Cities XXL has critics and does have bugs, but i've spent more time playing it than anything on any platform in 20 years. Just allows me to fiddle with stuff and play to my neatness OCD

mark43 · 22 Mar 2015 at 18:19

I really do grids, I just built my city up slowly with the game at max speed most of the time, and didn't chuck to many services in early, and at no point have I really had to think about money, I've always had more than enough.

Edit - 'rarely' do grids, not 'really'

Housey · 22 Mar 2015 at 18:24

I shall go buy I think, looked at a few videos, seems legit so worth a punt.

Xordium · 22 Mar 2015 at 18:32

Housey said:
I know Cities XXL has critics and does have bugs, but i've spent more time playing it than anything on any platform in 20 years. Just allows me to fiddle with stuff and play to my neatness OCD

I have the game too and did the same now I do it in this and have more fun.

Just checked I have over 200+ hours in Cities XL and I have only 80 in this - the difference being this has only been out a week. No wonder the wife is annoyed with me atm.

Housey · 22 Mar 2015 at 18:37

445 hours on Cities

Xordium · 22 Mar 2015 at 18:44

Housey said:
445 hours on Cities

I'll ask you in a few months how many you have on this.

joelk2 · 22 Mar 2015 at 19:47

Still not managed a city yet

Give it a crack tonight I think.

Andr3w · 22 Mar 2015 at 20:11

This is my mess of an attempt!

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960606037/screenshots/

snowdog · 22 Mar 2015 at 22:25

Anyone have a solution for industrial area traffic ?
City traffic is relatively easy to cope with, build a new bypass and see traffic levels drop from all busy intersections, but my oil zone is quite busy :

Shame about the lack of vareiety in buildings:

But otherwise, great game, first game that comes close to being a good sequel to Sim city 4 Rush hour.

Also, is it possible to kill that ''tweet bird'' on top ?
Finally, to upgrade industry and offices, they often ask for ''more services'', however, what on earth do they want more ? They are covered by fire, police, buses, metro. What more services can industry and offices get then ?

TonyTurbo78 · 22 Mar 2015 at 22:32

Course it is, go to workshop there is a mod there. Also get the "enable achievement when using mods" mod.

Nieldo · 22 Mar 2015 at 22:37

Here's my attempt at providing an efficient highway and train depot for my industrial area.

Left hand drive, with mostly one way streets, the outside ring of streets support two way traffic, as well as one or two sets of streets going throught he centre of the zone. I found that putting the train depots in the centre of the industrial zones would create too much traffic there, so I have three cargo depots off the highway with one way access through them.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Nieldo/screenshot/32988808728132891

mark43 · 22 Mar 2015 at 22:39

snowdog said:
Anyone have a solution for industrial area traffic ?

Not the only solution but take a look at this example:

http://gfycat.com/DisgustingJealousDugong

From here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkyli...raffic_management_simulation_gaming_the_game/

snowdog · 22 Mar 2015 at 22:47

Nieldo said:
Here's my attempt at providing an efficient highway and train depot for my industrial area.

Left hand drive, with mostly one way streets, the outside ring of streets support two way traffic, as well as one or two sets of streets going throught he centre of the zone. I found that putting the train depots in the centre of the industrial zones would create too much traffic there, so I have three cargo depots off the highway with one way access through them.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Nieldo/screenshot/32988808728132891

Wow, such a transport hub for industry in a city with only 36 k people :eek:

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I think industry creates way to much traffic, and residential and commercial areas create to little traffic!

Not the only solution but take a look at this example:

http://gfycat.com/DisgustingJealousDugong

I see, better planning of new industrial areas it is then!

The scale seems a bit off imho, real world industrial areas don't need such roads/infrastructure and have less traffic in my experience:

What's the advantage of using rail stations for cargo ? Don't get me wrong I have one, but what does it offer extra for the costs ? The roads going off the map are hardly near max capacity yet, but the 6 lane road on which the rail station is located is quite clogged.

Nieldo · 22 Mar 2015 at 23:16

snowdog said:
Wow, such a transport hub for industry in a city with only 36 k people .

Yeah. Its probably best to spread the industry out so that you don't have such a large requirement on motorways from a single place.

And in your picture, you use that as an example of low infra needed to support industry, but those plants in the picture have a massive network of docks and countless ships supporting it, which means it doesn't need the road network

Luckily we can recreate this ingame!

uncle_rufus · 23 Mar 2015 at 07:14

mark43 said:
Not the only solution but take a look at this example:

http://gfycat.com/DisgustingJealousDugong

From here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkyli...raffic_management_simulation_gaming_the_game/

Whilst this is clearly a fairly efficient solution it seriously bugs me that the two outbound slip-roads connect to the highway on the inside lane

(well actually the one heading to the right connects to the inside and the one going to the left connects twice - once inside and once outside)...

This is by far the best guide to understanding how to plan stuff out imo:

http://imgur.com/a/z1rM1

Jed Shields · 23 Mar 2015 at 09:26

Can someone explain the workers education process? I've got two elementary schools with capacity of 600, 517 eligible. I've also got a high school capacity 1000, eligible 1040. My population is 3600. I'm showing a lot of commercial building with a lack of educated workers that are starting to close. What feeds the educated workforce?

thebennyboy · 23 Mar 2015 at 10:08

Jed Shields said:
Can someone explain the workers education process? I've got two elementary schools with capacity of 600, 517 eligible. I've also got a high school capacity 1000, eligible 1040. My population is 3600. I'm showing a lot of commercial building with a lack of educated workers that are starting to close. What feeds the educated workforce?

You need a university.

arknor · 23 Mar 2015 at 11:09

you need time as well for people to get educated
without a uni they still get educated just not to the highest tier

The scale seems a bit off imho, real world industrial areas don't need such roads/infrastructure and have less traffic in my experience:

Wow that looks almost like a real photo.
what mod/colour filter are you using?
I tried realistic colours but everything just looks over bright and not realistic at all