Cities: Skylines

This Fat Girl Runs

Paradox are having a big sale on their website. Cities Skylines and DLCs are reduced. I don't have all the DLCs yet so I picked up After Dark and the High Tech Buildings.

https://www.paradoxplaza.com

Slippin Jimmy

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

350 new assets can't be bad!

I didn't realize there was that many new assets. Maybe I'll reconsider getting the dlc so!

Haithabu

Slippin Jimmy wrote: »

Haven't played this in a good while. Always think that my city's are amazing until I start looking at youtube videos . What's everyone's thoughts on the next DLC? Personally I think it won't add much to the game.

I'll wait for the reviews. Greener Cities sound okay. Personally I would have hoped for content on rural communities so rather than building one big cities I'd like to build little villages on the map and connect them. Technically that works already but the games is not designed for that as utilities like schools, police stations, garbage etc all have a radius.
If there is a big fire you would expect engines from the big city to come and you would expect students to go downtown to college as well.

Also a rural DLC could add bigger farms.

Mc Love

Any idea how long that sale is on for?

Lu Tze

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

Paradox are having a big sale on their website. Cities Skylines and DLCs are reduced. I don't have all the DLCs yet so I picked up After Dark and the High Tech Buildings.

https://www.paradoxplaza.com

Cheers,

Just bought the base game to see what this was all about

Gamer Bhoy 89

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

Paradox are having a big sale on their website. Cities Skylines and DLCs are reduced. I don't have all the DLCs yet so I picked up After Dark and the High Tech Buildings.

https://www.paradoxplaza.com

Thank god I ran into this. I nearly started buying some of the DLC on Steam instead.

Thanks!

Uriel.

can't seem to buy the DLCs on paradox. keep getting an order failed message

This Fat Girl Runs

I'm really enjoying Green Cities. I particularly like the new options for power and garbage.

Mc Love

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

I'm really enjoying Green Cities. I particularly like the new options for power and garbage.

Looking forward to getting it myself.

Internet Friend

Reviews of Green Cities seem to be pretty good, will look at getting it at some stage soon.

Alkers

Has anyone tried the PS4 edition?

Slippin Jimmy

Has anyone purchased the new dlc? If you, what are your thoughts on it.

Laviski

Green cities is worth it.
very nice addition to the game.

expansion with the options within districts was needed - now includes options for residential and commercial.

Mc Love

It is worth it, although it does hurt the budget having a lot of self sufficient housing.

Xios

Get the game for 8 euro with the humble bundle, plus a bunch of extras

https://www.humblebundle.com/strategy-sim-bundle

I think i'll get it, just to get it at such a good price.

This Fat Girl Runs

Simona1986 wrote: »

Has anyone tried the PS4 edition?

I've seen a few playthroughs on youtube. Sam Bur has a few videos on it. He seemed to enjoy it. He's a town planner irl so all his CS videos are interesting!

Sam's PS4 playlist

Sciprio

I want to try out this game and crusader kings 2 but all the DLC turns me off.

Slippin Jimmy

I have the snowfall DLC and absolutely love it. What I'd like to see is a season mode brought in where the weather changes depending what season you are in.

Internet Friend

Got the Green Cities DLC this morning and played it for a few hours. Got a decent little town going so decided to switch my housing to the new sustainable type. Set the district and set the policy thinking the buildings would just upgrade like they do when you select the High Tech housing. Nope, entire population f*cked off on me and took ages to come back!

So I guess you could this DLC is gonna be interesting! Enjoying it so far!

Internet Friend

So I'd built up a decent sized town, pop of about 40k, and had been making a decent amount of money.

Then the Tsunami happened...wiped out my entire city. Between deaths and people leaving, my population dropped to less than 1000 and started to hemorrhage money. In no time at all I was 20m in debt, but I stuck to it and my city rebuilt, now back making money and on the road to recovery! Only another 17m debt to go...

Shiminay

I'm sure if you asked nicely, your nation's leader will come and throw paper towels to your survivors...

This Fat Girl Runs

Internet Friend wrote: »

So I'd built up a decent sized town, pop of about 40k, and had been making a decent amount of money.

Then the Tsunami happened...wiped out my entire city. Between deaths and people leaving, my population dropped to less than 1000 and started to hemorrhage money. In no time at all I was 20m in debt, but I stuck to it and my city rebuilt, now back making money and on the road to recovery! Only another 17m debt to go...

Did you take the bail out?

I have natural disasters which I only got recently but have yet to have anything hit my city.

I did watch a rather funny youtuber playing this who dared the game to throw something at him and 5 minutes later a tsuami hit the city and wiped it out!

There's a mod you can download also that makes the disasters even worse. :P

Internet Friend

Didn't take the bailout, sure it's only 50 grand so wouldn't have been much use to me!

Just a case of leaving the game running in the background at the moment until I'm back in the black. Had a decent bit of cash before hand so managed to get services and parks back up and running before my population vanished so that's helping with the recovery now. Left it running for about 3 hours earlier and managed to halve my debt so getting there now. I really like this city so I'm determined not to drop it.

Internet Friend

Finally got my city up to 100k yesterday. Was close to abandoning it completely after getting half my population wiped out by 2 Tsunami in a row. Really annoying having a coastal city! But got there in the end, now to see about expanding more.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/cork-city-has-been-lovingly-recreated-in-this-video-game-814628.html

Have you guys seen this? Holy crap, that's awesome

Internet Friend

I seen that on reddit last week and tried to post the link on mobile but didn't work, then I, uhm, forgot!

It's awesome though.

This Fat Girl Runs

Deleted User wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/cork-city-has-been-lovingly-recreated-in-this-video-game-814628.html

Have you guys seen this? Holy crap, that's awesome

I've seen a number of city recreations and this one is one of the best. The amount of time took and the level of detail involved is incredible!

Gbear

Seeing that got me into it.

As with anything this complicated I usually have a false start where I install it, play it for 10 minutes, get frustrated and then give up.

I've given it a proper go now and it's hooked me.

Dcully

Gbear im with you on the 10 minute thing, happened me so many times that ive yet to make a half decent effort of a town let a lone a city.
Think ive only played 60 mins total since i bought it.

That Cork recreation is amazing .

CB19Kevo

Deleted User wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/cork-city-has-been-lovingly-recreated-in-this-video-game-814628.html

Have you guys seen this? Holy crap, that's awesome

One of the best out there,would be great if there was more custom Cork assets to add to the city,hopefully this will help.

New Expansion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1My4hXYVXR4

Mc Love

Interesting, haven't played it in ages, always end up stop playing once my traffic gets out of control

Benzino

Mc Love wrote: »

Interesting, haven't played it in ages, always end up stop playing once my traffic gets out of control

Ha this is why I stopped playing it. I find it very difficult to sort out the traffic even after reading tons about how to make it better.

Mc Love

Benzino wrote: »

Ha this is why I stopped playing it. I find it very difficult to sort out the traffic even after reading tons about how to make it better.

I'm the same even with all the extra stop signals/traffic lights. There also seems to be more traffic than the actual population too,

jaxxx

I stopped playing cos I started watching youtubers like Silvarret (seriously the man is a GOD - Cities Skylines, Planet Coaster, etc) and when comparing their cities to my own, well it was like comparing Donald Trump to Elizabeth Hurley in a beauty contest My cities were always too square....

Mc Love

ImperialJedi was the one youtuber that didn't annoy the hell out of me and his videos and cities always turned out quite well.

Mc Love

Mc Love wrote: »

ImperialJedi was the one youtuber that didn't annoy the hell out of me and his videos and cities always turned out quite well.

Strict Toaster is good, but can be a little too detailed. And Sam Bur is interesting to watch also.

This Fat Girl Runs

I watch Imperial Jedi and Sam Bur and agree they are both really good.

Keralis has had some good CS series'.
I also watch Flabaliki but I find him hard to understand sometimes because he talks too fast.
I watch Spike Viper for the sheer comedy. His gameplay does my head in but for some reason it's entertaining.
I have Aavak on my subscriptions also.

How big are your cities when you run into traffic problems?
I learnt a lot from guides online about where to zone, how to layout roads and junctions, ways to move traffic from the roads onto trains or public transport.

I like the idea of being able to make flexible parks to fill in odd shapes and connect areas but I'm not sure if I will value the expansion - I will wait for the price to drop.

CruelCoin

Benzino wrote: »

Ha this is why I stopped playing it. I find it very difficult to sort out the traffic even after reading tons about how to make it better.

Without using a workshop mod, the default AI just tries to find the shortest route.

Cars that could have a faster route by going around your town often try go through the town.
There are several road traffic ai mods on the steam workshop and I highly recommend you check them out.

The thing that grinds my gears with the traffic is how the ai doesn't utilise all the lanes in a road if there is an upcoming turnoff. Also how the roundabouts are enormous! Again, mods sort both these out.

Mc Love

CruelCoin wrote: »

The thing that grinds my gears with the traffic is how the ai doesn't utilise all the lanes in a road if there is an upcoming turnoff. Also how the roundabouts are enormous! Again, mods sort both these out.

Probably the most annoying part of the game, you have to play around with the roads often making a mess of the roads to get the traffic to use all the lanes.

Benzino

CruelCoin wrote: »

The thing that grinds my gears with the traffic is how the ai doesn't utilise all the lanes in a road if there is an upcoming turnoff. Also how the roundabouts are enormous! Again, mods sort both these out.

This times 1000. So annoying. I get that in real life people don't always follow the rules of the road, but this makes it very difficult to plan roads and in some cases makes certain road types pointless. It seems like something they are not looking to fix either (although I'd imagine it wouldn't be trivial issue to fix).

CruelCoin wrote: »

Without using a workshop mod, the default AI just tries to find the shortest route.

Cars that could have a faster route by going around your town often try go through the town.
There are several road traffic ai mods on the steam workshop and I highly recommend you check them out.

This is not an option for me as I am on PS4 I can only imagine how good the game is with mods.

stimpson

CruelCoin wrote: »

Without using a workshop mod, the default AI just tries to find the shortest route.

Cars that could have a faster route by going around your town often try go through the town.
There are several road traffic ai mods on the steam workshop and I highly recommend you check them out.

I’m not sure this is entirely true. I’ve had good success with orbital motorways. Having industry on the opposite side of the motorway to residential and commercial really helps as do one way systems.

Mc Love

All this talk is making me want to play it again even though I'm currently glued to a game in football manager

Conchir

The Cities: Skylines range is on sale on Steam at the moment if anyone is considering any of the DLCs.

Shiminay

There's a new expansion out for it as well that they announced at PDXCon last weekend.

Haithabu

Shiminay wrote: »

There's a new expansion out for it as well that they announced at PDXCon last weekend.

Paradox adds DLC after DLC to all of their games. If you buy all DLC for Cities:Skylines alone you pay EUR 121.86 on top of the base game. So over time it's an expensive game. Some DLCs really add a lot but some, like the concerts, add 3 or 4 buildings and you pay EUR 7. Or a radio station for EUR 4, that is really a rip off for a computer game.

jaxxx

I come back to it every few months or so. Then after a few hours gameplay, the utter sh!tstorm that is my city depresses me as it looks more like squiggly lines than a city.......... The only expansion I paid for was After Dark, never buying more because of my inability to make pretty looking cities

jaxxx

Haithabu wrote: »

Paradox adds DLC after DLC to all of their games. If you buy all DLC for Cities:Skylines alone you pay EUR 121.86 on top of the base game. So over time it's an expensive game. Some DLCs really add a lot but some, like the concerts, add 3 or 4 buildings and you pay EUR 7. Or a radio station for EUR 4, that is really a rip off for a computer game.

The whole collection is showing as just under €40 for me right now on Steam, excluding the new parks DLC of course.


I do admit I'm tempted by the new parks DLC, but that's all because I'm really in the mood for a new zoo management game Seriously, we haven't had a proper zoo sim since Zoo Tycoon 2 AND DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT SH1TST@RM OF AN EXCUSE ON THE XBOX/WINDOWS STORE WHERE YOU CAN'T EVEN CREATE YOUR OWN EXHIBITS COS THEY'RE ALL PREBUILT :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

jaxxx

jaxxx wrote: »

The whole collection is showing as just under €40 for me right now on Steam, excluding the new parks DLC of course.


I do admit I'm tempted by the new parks DLC, but that's all because I'm really in the mood for a new zoo management game Seriously, we haven't had a proper zoo sim since Zoo Tycoon 2 AND DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT SH1TST@RM OF AN EXCUSE ON THE XBOX/WINDOWS STORE WHERE YOU CAN'T EVEN CREATE YOUR OWN EXHIBITS COS THEY'RE ALL PREBUILT :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

It seems to be few to play this weekend if you want a go.