Cities: Skylines

ValiantUK91 · 21 Mar 2015 at 11:58

My new build i made this morning, industrial is getting clogged up now though so ive brought the square below and im going to expand into there now then once ive got other areas sorted ill come back to this part and sort it out.

7K population atm

Longbow · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:00

modo77 said:
Check that all your power buildings are actually connected to the grid.

They are, they are all on one side and the city is on the other, as I bought more land and expanded some of the buildings aren't getting electricity, even though they are connected right next to ones that are.

jp7152 · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:03

Sometimes it seems you need to add an extra power line going to the busy area. Or if you stick a wind turbine down it suddenly all gets power.

modo77 · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:04

That's odd, I've only ever seen that happen when a new wind turbine wasn't in range of the grid. So it shows you have the total power but its not being supplied.

chrismscotland · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:26

I was close to giving up on this as it seemed very slow running on my laptop thankfully turning Vsync on has made all the difference, it flys now!

uncle_rufus · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:45

I started my first city this morning... liking the game so far, however something I'm wondering about...

In Sim City I would always build an intentionally education-deprived slum area to provide low-education workers to my industries... but is that actually necessary here or not? Seems to me so far if I just carefully manage the education building capacities I can control the proportion of the population that are educated/un-educated without having to split the city apart... is that the case or am I just going to make everyone in the city unhappy?

e.g. I currently only have 1 elementary school (still early days, <5k population) and it's capacity is 300 students... However the info view tells me it isn't meeting the demand as I have around 400 eligible. So I was thinking if I intentionally don't build a second school for now that would lead over time to a roughly 3/4 split in the education levels, where 25% of people end up under-educated... (then I guess once the demand reaches ~800 eligible I could put down a second elementary school, upping the capactiy to 600 overall but still maintaining a 3/4 split, if that's what I want)

shroomz · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:53

Tempted to make this my first videogame purchase in more than a year, but I noticed I'm now closer to the minimum specs than the recommended ones which is a new feeling! Does it still play nicely on an overclocked 920 and a GTX 570 at 1200p or will it need things turned down?

Surfer · 21 Mar 2015 at 12:55

I had to set the frame limiter to 30 fps (in afterburner) to stop mild screen tearing (yep even with vysnch on) runs perfect now.

shroomz · 21 Mar 2015 at 13:12

Awesome, installing now. It only needs 3 gigabytes rather than the tens that seem to be getting more common, excellent!

mark43 · 21 Mar 2015 at 14:33

I'm glad they fixed the commercial demand bug, but now I'm having to create a lot more commercial zones and its really screwing with my traffic, it does seem a tad over the top home many deliveries all these shops need!

MarkeR · 21 Mar 2015 at 14:33

Terraforming tool for while in game..

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=411095553

Now to build some sunken motorways....

Twentyone · 21 Mar 2015 at 14:44

I feel like the game demands too much industrial

Commercial I don't mind so much since it's not so negative.

mark43 · 21 Mar 2015 at 14:58

But that demand is industry or offices, so I just mainly build offices, not many negatives from them.

Snaggle · 21 Mar 2015 at 18:08

once i open all my tiles ... is there a way to delete everything including water pipes so i can start fresh with all tiles open

Surfer · 21 Mar 2015 at 18:14

First "city". As usual i dont bother with planning and strategy and tend to go with the tried and true 'lets just slap this down ere' tactic.

Tell me how i can save this? I dont do restarts ill fight to make this a thing of beauty!

At the moment im making 3k+ per week/turn but thats not really a lot is it.

garsands · 21 Mar 2015 at 18:15

Just install the mod that unlocks all of the tiles and start a new game.

Snaggle · 21 Mar 2015 at 18:17

but if i delete i get all the buildings so easier to plan

LukieBoy007 · 21 Mar 2015 at 20:12

Snaggle said:
but if i delete i get all the buildings so easier to plan

There's a 'mod' built in to the game which unlocks all buildings/roads from the start too, check the content manager.

Snaggle · 21 Mar 2015 at 20:40

yeah figured it out

Aeleys · 21 Mar 2015 at 20:42

Just a quick test of some of the awesome stuff on the workshop lol...