Cities: Skylines

Josh · 31 Jan 2023 at 07:05

Loved this game when it first came out, then they made it like The Sims with hundreds of DLCs but core mechanics like the traffic still bugged.

Any word on CS:2 yet?

Blackvault · 22 Mar 2023 at 12:04

Another DLC released, and most mods are broken again... sigh

Megahurtz400 · 5 Jun 2023 at 16:28

Reinstalled this Saturday afternoon.

Played 12 hours since Saturday afternoon and haven't played today.

This game is not good for my life :cry:

Previously i've always gone into it with the mentality of "MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY, GRIDS, MAX POPULATION" but this time I decided to try and grow a small riverside village organically following the contours of the land and making it look "nice" and natural, however I have just hit the part of the game where you spend three hours reworking roundabouts to improve traffic!

almoststew1990 · 5 Jun 2023 at 16:52

That tends to be my mindset. Maximum efficiency through road hierarchy and "only turning left" designs with no giving way. I eventually crack and end up building slightly more interesting giant neighbourhoods or separate entire towns on the other side of the map lol. I might get the promenades expansion and fiddle with car free stuff.

Blackvault · 6 Jun 2023 at 08:00

Megahurtz400 said:
Reinstalled this Saturday afternoon.

Played 12 hours since Saturday afternoon and haven't played today.

This game is not good for my life

Previously i've always gone into it with the mentality of "MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY, GRIDS, MAX POPULATION" but this time I decided to try and grow a small riverside village organically following the contours of the land and making it look "nice" and natural, however I have just hit the part of the game where you spend three hours reworking roundabouts to improve traffic!

Sounds like you need to watch City Planner Playson YouTube. He's good at taking a leisurely approach to building his towns and cities.

Begbie · 6 Jun 2023 at 08:04

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Miłosz Rózański said:
I played recently, so far I have installed on Steam. A very good game, but once the traffic is under control, each map is quite simple. Is it possible to download additional maps from somewhere?

New maps and mods make this game. Turn it into something totally different.

Guest2 · 6 Jun 2023 at 09:10

Megahurtz400 said:
Reinstalled this Saturday afternoon.

Played 12 hours since Saturday afternoon and haven't played today.

This game is not good for my life

Previously i've always gone into it with the mentality of "MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY, GRIDS, MAX POPULATION" but this time I decided to try and grow a small riverside village organically following the contours of the land and making it look "nice" and natural, however I have just hit the part of the game where you spend three hours reworking roundabouts to improve traffic!

This is edited really well

Interesting video

Megahurtz400 · 25 Jul 2023 at 14:30

Wondering if anyone has worked out bus lines properly?

No matter what I do my bus lines seem to have 500+ people waiting at certain stops. I have a Metro line and have stations at each district and spaced relatively closely.

It's not really affecting the game at all, city of 40k pop with traffic at 89-92%, just wondering if there's something I can do to stop massive hordes of people standing at a bus stop! :cry:

DoneADougalOnSofa · 26 Jul 2023 at 08:16

Megahurtz400 said:
Wondering if anyone has worked out bus lines properly?

No matter what I do my bus lines seem to have 500+ people waiting at certain stops. I have a Metro line and have stations at each district and spaced relatively closely.

It's not really affecting the game at all, city of 40k pop with traffic at 89-92%, just wondering if there's something I can do to stop massive hordes of people standing at a bus stop!

I tend to cheese it. Use advanced vehicle options mod, make the buses carry 300 people each

Or use a transport line manager mod to up the number of vehicles on the lines.

Megahurtz400 · 26 Jul 2023 at 09:35

DoneADougalOnSofa said:
I tend to cheese it. Use advanced vehicle options mod, make the buses carry 300 people each
Or use a transport line manager mod to up the number of vehicles on the lines.

I haven't looked at mods yet, trying my hardest to do a mostly vanilla city :cry:

Minus a few assets plus 81 tiles unlocked of course!

y2w2003 · 26 Sep 2023 at 20:00

Looking to get started in this again, do mod packs exists that would include the must haves? Only time I played it previously was vanilla in the first year of the game.

Shadowness · 26 Sep 2023 at 20:02

Gutted CSII isn't coming to Mac. Might pick this up again as I have it on Steam (Mac).

I don't think I've played a game for ages where an hour goes so fast! (in real life I mean!)

Tombstone · 26 Sep 2023 at 20:16

y2w2003 said:
Looking to get started in this again, do mod packs exists that would include the must haves? Only time I played it previously was vanilla in the first year of the game.

Theres loads of them for Cities 1, hopefully all the key ones will come out pretty soon after release for Cities 2

y2w2003 · 26 Sep 2023 at 20:21

Tombstone said:
Theres loads of them for Cities 1, hopefully all the key ones will come out pretty soon after release for Cities 2

Do you have one to recommend?

Is it worthwhile buying any of the expansions/dlc?

I'm in the same boat as Shadowness, I was waiting for 2 to come out but recently found out it wasn't coming to Mac.

petridish · 27 Sep 2023 at 11:35

y2w2003 said:
Do you have one to recommend?

Is it worthwhile buying any of the expansions/dlc?

I'm in the same boat as Shadowness, I was waiting for 2 to come out but recently found out it wasn't coming to Mac.

I'm not the person who replied to you but I did have some success a year or two back with a collection put together buy a guy who I think was called "Flabaliki". It was all the mods he was using in a YouTube series he did but I just used it as a base point to get the key ones and then deselected anything I wasn't interested in to trim it down a bit.

y2w2003 · 27 Sep 2023 at 13:13

Thanks mate, I saw another youtube video who had a run down on the must have mods and made a collection so going to try that one out first and if no good, i'll look for that youtubers video after.

Nikumba · 27 Sep 2023 at 14:06

I tend to use the mod packs that Biffa uses, though not played CS1 for a while, and have a city building itch but with CS2 coming out next month don't want to start getting city building in CS1 and then abandon it.

willhub · 29 Sep 2023 at 07:27

I wonder if the reason cities skylines 2 for console has been delayed is because the system requirements have been updated and the recommended for pc is now a 12900k/5800x and a 3080 10gb.

Cities: Skylines II on Steam

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

store.steampowered.com

jonneymendoza · 29 Sep 2023 at 11:48

y2w2003 said:
Looking to get started in this again, do mod packs exists that would include the must haves? Only time I played it previously was vanilla in the first year of the game.

Wait for number 2 game . coming out next month

Nikumba · 29 Sep 2023 at 12:08

willhub said:
I wonder if the reason cities skylines 2 for console has been delayed is because the system requirements have been updated and the recommended for pc is now a 12900k/5800x and a 3080 10gb.

Cities: Skylines II on Steam

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

store.steampowered.com

Might be time for me to upgrade my 2080ti then have to see how it copes at 4K