Cities: Skylines

TonyTurbo78 · 15 Mar 2015 at 12:45

question guys, after your idea here. I really want to come off this freeway and make use of all this wonderful land for agriculture. What would be the best road type to come off this freeway? Do i join it up to my centre section, because I fear all the trucks will go through my residential areas in midtown making traffic a nightmare. Here's the area.

Cavallino · 15 Mar 2015 at 13:30

Folks, Im struggling with water supply/sewage. I thought I had separated both sources but for some reason Im getting sick citizens, whats the key to this?

Qitarah · 15 Mar 2015 at 13:54

Game looks fun. Simply said is it worth it?

kinger8938 · 15 Mar 2015 at 14:22

Qitarah said:
Game looks fun. Simply said is it worth it?

Yes

my first city sim and i love it! Visuals are really nice too! Not too overwelming and easy to pick up the basics!

Definitely worth it at £15ish on cdkeys

Dimension · 15 Mar 2015 at 14:25

Cavallino said:
Folks, I'm struggling with water supply/sewage. I thought I had separated both sources but for some reason I'm getting sick citizens, what's the key to this?

I had this for quite a while, and found a water tower buried in the middle of my industrial zone which was pumping polluted water into the water system for the whole of the city, I almost went bankrupt installing so many hospitals and crematoriums

thedinks · 15 Mar 2015 at 14:49

Dimension said:
I had this for quite a while, and found a water tower buried in the middle of my industrial zone which was pumping polluted water into the water system for the whole of the city, I almost went bankrupt installing so many hospitals and crematoriums

Hehe I've got this problem too, the penny has just dropped, thanks

Bobcat · 15 Mar 2015 at 14:58

Really enjoying playing this, although my first attempt the 70k city got wiped out with the river flooding that i couldn't seem to stop, so this is my second attempt

Population around 54k at the moment

mark43 · 15 Mar 2015 at 15:46

Ayahuasca said:
I've noticed if I give all my residential areas too much then my industrial complains about not having enough workers as all my residents are educated and realised factory life isn't for them

This is actually really annoying. I'd avoided industry but decided to chuck in a large industrial area, but nobody is interested as I have a decent education system. I mean surely they'd like people to be educated a little....

Cavallino · 15 Mar 2015 at 15:51

Dimension said:
I had this for quite a while, and found a water tower buried in the middle of my industrial zone which was pumping polluted water into the water system for the whole of the city, I almost went bankrupt installing so many hospitals and crematoriums

Damn, logical, yet simple explanation. Will give this a try. Thanks bud.

Azza · 15 Mar 2015 at 15:56

I've decided that grids are not the way to go!!! :mad:

Cavallino · 15 Mar 2015 at 16:02

How come?

On another note, this game is getting more and more addictive.

In some ways I cant help but compare it to SimCity, it plays a little similarly? I dunno perhaps I haven't played SimCity for awhile.

hamesy · 15 Mar 2015 at 16:22

Started a new city around lunch time.

modo77 · 15 Mar 2015 at 16:32

mark43 said:
This is actually really annoying. I'd avoided industry but decided to chuck in a large industrial area, but nobody is interested as I have a decent education system. I mean surely they'd like people to be educated a little....

Increase your industry to lvl 3 and they will take the educated workers.

TonyTurbo78 · 15 Mar 2015 at 18:20

Azza said:
I've decided that grids are not the way to go!!!

They're fine if you think about a proper one way system with one way crossroads. I like having grids for downtown but then rural have nice designs.

Cavallino · 15 Mar 2015 at 18:55

How do you create a "one way" system?

TonyTurbo78 · 15 Mar 2015 at 18:57

Just use a grid system, think of American cities. up one way, next street along one way the other way with one way crossroads sections, up and down only ever in one direction. My grid is behaving lovely.

DampCat · 15 Mar 2015 at 22:14

Is there a way to bulldoze roads without dezoning next to them? Super annoying.

mark43 · 15 Mar 2015 at 22:16

modo77 said:
Increase your industry to lvl 3 and they will take the educated workers.

Thanks, hadn't even thought to try to level up my industry. However when I decided to take a look at this I found that specialised industry (which is pretty much all of mine) is max level by default. They do take educated workers but still want quite a chunk of non educated.

I'd managed to get enough workers but didn't like my poor education system so started building more schools again, now my industry is collapsing again, even with 14% uneducated.

I think I might bulldoze it all and just put nice clean offices everywhere...

233 · 15 Mar 2015 at 23:02

just realized I've spent 2 hours rebuilding the roundabout and approaches to my industrial zone and i'm still not happy

scarily addictive

LateX'Dog · 15 Mar 2015 at 23:18

DampCat said:
Is there a way to bulldoze roads without dezoning next to them? Super annoying.

Open up the bulldozer tool, click and hold on a road and then move your mouse over each road you want to bulldoze and it'll do it automatically.

Same goes for any buildings.