Suffering a major population collapse. Was just hitting 180,000 population and everything looked fine when suddenly little icons appeared indicating supply was lacking in my commercial sector while production was hit by a lack of demand. This doesn't make sense at all. Now losing 5000 people and 40k cash per week.
Gah, I had some of that- on the commercial sector bit, I started replacing my offices with residential as the res demand went up, which affected my industry, I planted generic industry which cured my commercial issues where they were moaning about not getting enough goods. Commerce then started grow in demand, like majorly.
I don't think running a city on offices and specialised industry works, you need some generic industry to care of some of the commerce buildings, both high and low density.
"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer." - BnB NMS review, PS4, PC
I have lots of areas designated for generic industry, but there's no business growth. I've tried lowering their taxes but nothing seems to work. It's almost as if all industry is a resource which can be depleted. My original industrial district started off as a sprawling oil field, but then i switched it to generic industry when the wells ran dry. This was fine for a while, but now the whole place is abandoned.
It's hard to tell which failures of a city are bugs and which are player mistakes. My city still goes through massive cycles of dead bodies and rubbish piling up. At first i attributed this to traffic preventing prompt collection, but since my collapse of population and industry that's evidently not the case. My city is now so thinly spread across the landscape that there's rarely any traffic anywhere, except for at the port.
I've played a handful of hours recently. Downloaded some unique building mods (about 20) and dotted them around my city in the hope it'd stop the rot, but it's not working. There doesn't seem to be much i can do. My industry is still crumbling away, my residential areas are deserted, and there's no demand for my commercial districts. I'd previously suffered with high congestion in certain areas but there's barely any traffic anywhere. Something's broken the system, but i'm not sure exactly what. Having no natural resources left probably doesn't help. At my peak i had 5 mil in the bank and over 180,000 people. Now i have 1.5 million, 110,000 people, and no demand for anything.
If i'm to return to this i should probably start again.
Haven't played since my last batch of pics. My previously defunct pc which was a bunch of spare parts has now had an upgrade and is whole again. So might be paying again soon. Was on the other half's rig before.
The mods I found useful were a road modifier, for adding or changing the direction or fliping back to two way, and another that auto bulldozes abandoned and/or burnt out buildings.
Get the obserbatory looks like a chore...the otheres I guess you cut your budgets and wait.
"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer." - BnB NMS review, PS4, PC
I'd love it if you could choose the starting age of your city. With buildings from that time lingering through the ages. So a Tudor pub next to a sky scrapper. Also being able to rezone areas, but keep the original buildings if possible. So an old run down obsolete industrial area becomes a swanky commercial and residential area, with cool old brick buildings, a bit like the Shad Thames in London.
Late to the party, but is anyone else considering picking this up on Bone on Friday?
I'm usually pretty wary about stuff like this on console, but it looks like a decent version and the controls not too unwieldy.
I love games like this but I'm not into PC gaming, and coupled with my new found ability to stream to my new laptop while Mrs Pea watches TV it seems like the perfect game to potter about on and then switch to the big telly when she goes to bed/out.
I like playing on the big Tv and I'm pretty sure the Bone version will be more refined for pad play. Also my mate that I console share with wants it so I'll only be paying half anyway.
You can stream steam to the tv or connect with a cable anyway. It's the same game at the end of the day and you'd get it cheaper on pc than half the price on Xbox at this point. Regularly goes for less than a tenner on Steam. But whatever. I'm not sure it's a game really suited to either controller or tv, tbh.