EPTCities: Skylines - Page 6
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
I also think that districts have more potential. I want a national forest district, a car-free district, etc. etc. That being said I just hit 100k people and I love this game so much. Everyone needs a creative outlet. Some people paint, others make music. I do urban planning. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
You can throw down commercial buildings if you want, demand might look like nil but it'll fill up eventually. Considering how many things are already on the Steam Workshop, most of the things will probably be out soon. It's great that they came out with such a great modding tool for users though. | ||
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Thalandros
Netherlands1151 Posts
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SpikeStarcraft
Germany2095 Posts
I had a lot of fun in my first 10 hours, i have a city of 80k and basically unlocked all the functional buildings. There are still some monuments and achievements to unlock but otherwise its only (traffic) optimization and more growth from here on out.. So im not sure if its gonna get boring now, there are already a lot of mods and i made a lot of mistakes in my first map that are quite tedious to correct :D The game definetely has replayability, i want to plan my next city a bit better. Highway intersections are a bitch :D i have like 4 different versions and most of them lead to congestion. Took me a while to figure out that highways are only one way and that garbage trucks and hearses dont use highways. I rearranged some of my stuff and then the garbage dumps were cut off and werent working anymore. I think i'll use some nice templates for highway intersections from the workshop in the future. They seem nice and compact. It feels very realistic to be honest, i understand why some cities are such a mess in real life to drive through :D If you kinda grow out of your first concept of the city, you have to adapt quite a lot and reshape it. I think i'd have to destroy many areas and rebuild them to fix some key traffic issues. Otherwise you can build infinitely more service buildings but all your cars get stuck in traffic. The game doesnt punish you as hard for mistakes though, you have lots of time to correct stuff before your city collapses. | ||
Yhamm
France7248 Posts
When I build it, it says something like "estimated power output: 460W" I accept, then wait, and wait, and wait... water level is increasing, a lot, flood some part of my city, flood some forest and highway... and for a long time the output was... 0W. after even a longer time, when it seemed the water lvl stop increasing, I saw the power at max around 90W but now, for some reason, it's back at 0W in the end, I just built an other oil central :| | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
like in simsity, i had 4 computer plants working and i was never able to spend more than i can make. anything of such discovered in this game? just surviving off of tax and stuff is so mediocre for my corrupt mayor ego. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22190 Posts
On March 17 2015 08:38 jinorazi wrote: have you guys find a way to overflow with cash? like in simsity, i had 4 computer plants working and i was never able to spend more than i can make. anything of such discovered in this game? just surviving off of tax and stuff is so mediocre for my corrupt mayor ego. if you want to abuse just use the infinity money mod? Or make a stable city and let it run for a few hours. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On March 17 2015 06:47 Yhamm wrote: I have no idea how the dam is supposed to work When I build it, it says something like "estimated power output: 460W" I accept, then wait, and wait, and wait... water level is increasing, a lot, flood some part of my city, flood some forest and highway... and for a long time the output was... 0W. after even a longer time, when it seemed the water lvl stop increasing, I saw the power at max around 90W but now, for some reason, it's back at 0W in the end, I just built an other oil central :| The water on the back side (reservoir) has to go up to the red line. I had similar problems as well, but that's what people on reddit and the developer's forum said. Seems to work. Also 460W? Holy crap, the highest I got was like 240. On March 17 2015 08:45 Gorsameth wrote: if you want to abuse just use the infinity money mod? Or make a stable city and let it run for a few hours. If you have money problems, just take loans, build a few areas and zone them. You'll dig yourself out of red pretty easily. Also, you can jack up taxes for various areas/ citywide. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22190 Posts
On the map Islands for example there is a deep gorge with a river in it. By damming that river you can get 1600 power from a single dam. | ||
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Vaelone
Finland4400 Posts
Being my first city, traffic system was a mess and I didn't really make use of natural resources. | ||
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Thalandros
Netherlands1151 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22190 Posts
On March 17 2015 09:46 Thalandros wrote: Would you guys say it's full price? I don't usually play single player games that long anyway, that's why I usually hold off on buying AAA games on launch. Is this game worth the €30 in you guys' opinion? If you like city builders it is worth it imo. But if your not sure, there is hours and hours of lets plays ect already so by all means take a look at it before you buy. | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
On March 17 2015 08:38 jinorazi wrote: have you guys find a way to overflow with cash? like in simsity, i had 4 computer plants working and i was never able to spend more than i can make. anything of such discovered in this game? just surviving off of tax and stuff is so mediocre for my corrupt mayor ego. Spend some time on 3x speed looking at traffic flow, bus routes, subway routes, or individual citizen trips, and instantly you'll have easy tens of thousands (early on) or tens of millions (later on). It's actually something I don't like about the game personally. Stagnant cities should start earning less, but usually not get negative or anything. That, and stuff like major water shortages or other natural disasters that need specific attention would be good to occur for more of a challenge. Heck, even requiring the bulldozing of abandoned buildings would help (although it's tedious and not something I'd really want in the game). It's already helpful to bulldoze, but doesn't matter too much as far as I know since it will typically rebuild on it's own if there's demand. | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
If your city is stalling, did you try delete parks? Because of the bug it will increase commercial demand, which will increase industry demand, which will increase worker demand. | ||
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ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
On March 17 2015 11:15 LaNague wrote: game needs patches right now, you dont miss out when you are waiting. If your city is stalling, did you try delete parks? Because of the bug it will increase commercial demand, which will increase industry demand, which will increase worker demand. Game is still a lot of fun even prior to the upcoming fixes. Telling people they won't miss out is disingenuous. If people are craving a zen city-builder and have $30 to spare, there is no reason not to pick it up now. | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
On March 17 2015 12:23 ZasZ. wrote: Game is still a lot of fun even prior to the upcoming fixes. Telling people they won't miss out is disingenuous. If people are craving a zen city-builder and have $30 to spare, there is no reason not to pick it up now. Yeah, the game is amazing. It has flaws, but not the kind of flaws that will prevent you from enjoying it, and they're working on it already, and there are thousands of mods already. I hit 200k on my city tonight ! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/m3ph4Nj.jpg) Yeah it's ugly =D What the game needs is more content, more high end buildings (for instance water has only 2 sewage buildings and 2 pumps, nothing more advanced). More textures for buildings and houses, things like that. But the road creation system is flexible and allows eveything you can imagine, metro, bus and train lines are easy and efficient to use and place  | ||
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
Fast growing subreddit by the way, 50k people in 2 weeks or something :o | ||
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ViperPL
Poland1775 Posts
On March 17 2015 09:46 Thalandros wrote: Would you guys say it's full price? I don't usually play single player games that long anyway, that's why I usually hold off on buying AAA games on launch. Is this game worth the €30 in you guys' opinion? Every time I think there isn't too much variety to this game I see some crazy picture on reddit that blows my mind that it's possible to make in game. If you're unsure about it keep in mind that it's a sandbox game, so if you can easily set up some creative goals for yourself (and like city builders ofc) this game is awesome. I wasn't interested in this game at all, but a friend told me to buy it and I'm happy I did, this game is already great, imagine how awesome it's gonna be after they fix the issues and modders get really creative. | ||
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