Cities: Skylines - The Bear and Badger

Kow

Traffic gone to the dogs and everybody is sick, and the ambulances can't get to them because of fucking hot dog and doughnut vans.

beano

I tried simshitty on creative, and I have to say, creative is no fun. Unless it's minecraft and you want to build computers yo like in LBP.

Kow

There are already loads of buildings on Steam workshop. How do you go about making your own buildings?

equinox_code

Played this all night. It's fantastic. Got myself to 100,000 people but then something went wrong. Now i'm suddenly losing 1,000 people and 8,000 monies per week. Don't know what the problem is so no idea how to fix it

handsofblue

I got up to 5000 residents last night. Traffic hasn't been much of a problem so far, which is a surprise to me. I think my haphazard use of bendy roads has given plenty of ways to access most parts of town. The main access road into town gets fairly red sometimes, though. I need to make the road wider but I'm loathe to knock down houses to make way for road. I clearly need to be more ruthless.

stonechalice

Wish I could play this.

equinox_code

Traffic will definitely become a problem. It has done for me in a massive way. The busiest parts of my city are in a constant state of gridlock. This includes the entire circuit of train tracks i laid down. Nothing being able to move has some dire consequences for your essential services.

Got up to 110,000 peeps in my city last night, although my income dropped to around 5,000 pw, but then i made a massive fuck up. I ramped up the taxes on heavy industry. For a while my wealth pw shot up to 70,000 and it stayed there for a while too, but then started falling down again. I saved my game, then continued to play. Only now my wealth plunged right down. Seems i hadn't noticed my tax hike literally shut down every single industry district. They all went bankrupt. Citizens are now deserting the city in droves and i'm losing money crazy fast. Fortunately still have 4.5 mil in the bank, but im not sure how to stem the inertia of things going to shit from this point.

Kow

I think I'll buy some land and start farming.

Tempy

don't forget to pet a mouse in your pocket

Kow

You know what'd be nice in these city builder things? If you could start your city in the middle ages or some time and as you modernise, decide what parts to keep, so you'd have a kind of historical centre, which would have some kind of sentimental value, and a city structure based on older restrictions. Or maybe it would be shit, what do I know.

equinox_code

I was thinking the same thing. Basically i want something like this crossed with Civ and Democracy 3. Would love my city to have a quaint old-quarter, and maybe even some hipster twat flats fashioned from old barns and factories.

Really looking forward to what mods people get around to making. So many possibilities.

beano

Mods guys, mods. Got anywhere with Workshop, Kow?

handsofblue

@noxy I think my current road system won't take much of an increase in population. I've put off the problem by starting a wee village in the next tile away from my main city hub. I've imaginatively called this district The Village.

I think I'm subconsciously recreating my home city and the towns that feed into it.

I'll sacrifice dinner to get some more time on this tonight.

@beano I'm gonna get as many cheevos as I can be bothered to get before looking at the mods.

beano

Is your home city not, our city, blue? I just mean mods to sate the appetites of things people are saying are missing, obvs..

I note there's no "real" culture in this. Parks, yeah.

equinox_code

Visiting my mum now so i dont get to play this for the whole weekend. Wont be easy as im in peak obsession at the moment.

Quick glance at the mods shows up a petrol station and a car park- two things i was hoping for but hadnt seen yet. Would really like some sort of terrain manipulation for lakes and mounds of dirt. Bigger landfill sites would be good too.

WorKid

Man I need to get this.

Kow

equinox_code wrote:

Visiting my mum now so i dont get to play this for the whole weekend. Wont be easy as im in peak obsession at the moment.

Quick glance at the mods shows up a petrol station and a car park- two things i was hoping for but hadnt seen yet. Would really like some sort of terrain manipulation for lakes and mounds of dirt. Bigger landfill sites would be good too.

I have plenty of petrol stations and no mods, so they must be part of the game anyway.

Paul the sparky

Kow wrote:

You know what'd be nice in these city builder things? If you could start your city in the middle ages or some time and as you modernise, decide what parts to keep, so you'd have a kind of historical centre, which would have some kind of sentimental value, and a city structure based on older restrictions. Or maybe it would be shit, what do I know.

That's a great idea, would add heaps of character to your city. I'd imagine it would be heartbreaking to bulldoze some glorious architecture to make way for a fucking shopping centre.

handsofblue

beano wrote:

Is your home city not, our city, blue? I just mean mods to sate the appetites of things people are saying are missing, obvs..

I note there's no "real" culture in this. Parks, yeah.

Not quite sure what you mean, bean. If you mean Liverpool, then yeah, we share the city but I didn't grow up here. I'm thinking that my city is going to be more of a really small city with lots of little villages and towns around.

handsofblue

Kow wrote:

equinox_code wrote:

Visiting my mum now so i dont get to play this for the whole weekend. Wont be easy as im in peak obsession at the moment.

Quick glance at the mods shows up a petrol station and a car park- two things i was hoping for but hadnt seen yet. Would really like some sort of terrain manipulation for lakes and mounds of dirt. Bigger landfill sites would be good too.

I have plenty of petrol stations and no mods, so they must be part of the game anyway.

I've found one Dino Oil petrol station. They're teeny though and not looked around for another so there might be more.

Kow

I have 3 side by side for some reason.

GooberTheHat

More pictures please

handsofblue

Yeah! More pictures! I'm too lazy to post pics of my city.

Kow

I've just created a red light district. Well, not really, but I've designated an area to have recreational use of certain substances. A little hippy borough.

Kow

My little hippy borough has immediately filled up with criminals. Curses!

Rev

http://www.godisageek.com/reviews/cities-skylines-review/

GIAG really liked it. Seems to be very well received.

beano

handsofblue wrote:

I didn't grow up here.

Ah my mistake, thought you were born n bred and the description at first sounded feasible, going back 15 or 20 years. My bad.

I've been getting my pictures fix from reddit as you're all arse.

Kow

My hippy criminal borough.

Main industrial drag, full of traffic problems.

I'm only up to about 4,000 people so I can imagine this gets mental difficult as it goes towards a million.

handsofblue

beano wrote:

handsofblue wrote:

I didn't grow up here.

Ah my mistake, thought you were born n bred and the description at first sounded feasible, going back 15 or 20 years. My bad.

I've been getting my pictures fix from reddit as you're all arse.

To be fair, I think I just described the way most counties work.

Paul the sparky

Kow wrote:

Main industrial drag, full of traffic problems.

I'm only up to about 4,000 people so I can imagine this gets mental difficult as it goes towards a million.

Lol. What were you supposed to do to prevent the traffic? Have roads turning off the main street into little industrial estates?

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