Cities: Skylines

[PaulC2K]

Has anyone had any luck unlocking the Arc de Triomphe? Requires ' 15,000 children in elementary schools'.

I've gone against reason and over 10yrs ive gone from 2.3 avg education with 51k population, disabled all education buildings and got to 1.2 avg with 100k. I've done this with the intention of dumbing down the population so i can force a new generation through the education system and have as many people in school at once.
I have 45% of my 100k pop with no education, that means only 10% of them are bothering.

Its basically killed off my city, cos they're at 45/4/4/47% (uned/1/2/3) and my employment dumped from a 15yr steady 97% to sub-60% in about 5yr, cos people are either uneducated or highly educated.

 

[jp7152]

Try putting this in the launch options for the game in steam properties jp

-force-d3d9

I gave that a go and afterburner confirms it's running in dx9 but still 60fps max regardless of what I set in CCC. Strange.

 

[PaulC2K]

If you want to force a framerate, and you've got afterburner, then you can force it using Rivatuner.
Add the application, and set a framerate limit. I have it at 30fps.

 

[Josh]

If you want to force a framerate, and you've got afterburner, then you can force it using Rivatuner.
Add the application, and set a framerate limit. I have it at 30fps.

This!

Have mine at 60fps with the dynamic res scale at 150 res.

 

[Penfold99]

27 hours played on same city which I started with, and only 93K population !

 

[Bloomfield]

Has anyone had any luck unlocking the Arc de Triomphe? Requires ' 15,000 children in elementary schools'.

I've gone against reason and over 10yrs ive gone from 2.3 avg education with 51k population, disabled all education buildings and got to 1.2 avg with 100k. I've done this with the intention of dumbing down the population so i can force a new generation through the education system and have as many people in school at once.
I have 45% of my 100k pop with no education, that means only 10% of them are bothering.

Its basically killed off my city, cos they're at 45/4/4/47% (uned/1/2/3) and my employment dumped from a 15yr steady 97% to sub-60% in about 5yr, cos people are either uneducated or highly educated.

I'm confused, why would you do that? Surely the only people going to elementary school are children, so making a load of adults uneducated wouldn't do anything?

It seems like that achievement is basically just population based, so carrying on educating everyone as normal is the way to do it, eventually when you get 15k+ children that are able to get to school you'll do it. Trying to make a load of young adults go to elementary school doesn't seem like it would work?

 

[PaulC2K]

I'm confused, why would you do that? Surely the only people going to elementary school are children, so making a load of adults uneducated wouldn't do anything?

It seems like that achievement is basically just population based, so carrying on educating everyone as normal is the way to do it, eventually when you get 15k+ children that are able to get to school you'll do it. Trying to make a load of young adults go to elementary school doesn't seem like it would work?

Yeah, you'd think... but apparently education is global, its essentially stage 1 education, stage 2 & 3, rather than age groups.

Eligability has gone up to 9.35k, which conveniently is my elementary cap (9.3k), so i guess i could try spamming more of them in the city and see if it keeps growing.

 

[Twentyone]

I just had some sort of bug. My bus depot was spam sending out buses for two of my lines, clogging up my entire city!

 

[Gazanimal]

Seen a few bugs where vehicles get half way down a road and then turned around in the middle of it and went back the direction they came.

My 2nd city was doing OK, hardly any jams, but as soon as the population increased and my industrial sector grew boom I went into gridlock. If you screw up your traffic at the start it can be a nightmare to fix.

 

[TallPaul_S]

My first proper city, at 30k population, £1.5mil in the bank.



That's not even the starting square filled up...

 

[Wiiispa]

I just had some sort of bug. My bus depot was spam sending out buses for two of my lines, clogging up my entire city!

Do you have a City wide free public transport policy? That would likely do that.

 

[Twentyone]

Do you have a City wide free public transport policy? That would likely do that.

Nope. I think it was because I deleted a road where a bus stop was, so that the route didn't loop.

But now no one takes the bus there even if I made a whole new line following the same route :/

 

[Josh]

I left buses out and just used metro, cuts down a lot of the road traffic inside my big city.

 

[Cavallino]

Man there is so much public transport in this game, when and where do you decide to use these? E.g. trains as opposed to metro? I don't get how I should maximise these transport modes in my city.

And DAMN, each level up, you increase the amount of land even further! Sim City sizes really do pale in comparison.

 

[Surfer]

Coming from Sim City 4 i find the interface a breeze (the layout resemblance is uncanny ). Cant see any tutorials or anything though?

 

[Straz]

I like using all transport modes because of the aesthetics

 

[Messiyah]

Trains are the best transport mode I found so far

~M~

 

[Twentyone]

Tried metro out for the first time now, works nicely. Cool to see them exit a bus and go into the metro.

I want good traffic but at the same time I like seeing busy roads and people walking around because it looks nice

 

[Longbow]

How come my electricity is in the green, but one half of my connected city has no power?

 

[modo77]

Check that all your power buildings are actually connected to the grid.