Cities: Skylines - A Better SimCity
 

There was a big SimCity thread a while back in this forum so I wanted to share this. The general consensus is the latest SimCity isn't very good. Maxis is no more but things are finally looking good for SimCity fans because of this new game:

http://i.imgur.com/KiFqFVo.jpg?1
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/cities-...___store=world

It's basically what SimCity should have been. The residential, commerical and industrial (RCI) is the same. It has a detailed transportation system since this developer also made Cities in Motion which is a transportation sim. Unlike SimCity it has huge land areas. One cool feature I read about is painting districts with a paintbrush tool and set unique tax, resource and industry specialties for each district. Graphics look clean and pretty.

I just bought it on Steam for 32 bucks. Will report back but reviews are great so far:

Cities: Skylines for PC Reviews - Metacritic

Contemplating whether or not I should buy this game :considered: Sim city 2000 was the shit when I was in grade 4, schools had it preinstalled for whatever reason and it was awesome to see King Kong or aliens wreck havoc

I've been watching people play on Twitch and have played a couple hours myself now. You can pretty much replicate any city in the world!
Vancouver here *not to scale
Now y'all can create how our road network should ought to be. :rofl:

SO GOOD! This is totally worth the $30. Highly moddable too

Here's my first big city, just hit 40K

http://i.imgur.com/qHm06vx.jpg

I am having 2 problems though... One, I can't get hydro dams to work. I have it in a river with what I assume is high flow, but it just doesn't work. When I turn it off, it just blocks the river.

Also, I am having problem getting employees for my industrial locations

Got the game..

Totally worth it!!

I want to play this...don't got hte hardware :(

Can you drive/do missions throughout the city like how it was in SimCity 4?

Those memories back then playing SimCity all day :lol :alone:

Pre-ordered. Mashed F5 on release date. Got all hyped up while it was downloading. Opened it up, found out my computer can't run it without massive lag. Epic disappoint. Needless to say, I'm on the hunt for a new computer already.

Same situation as you Teriyaki. The recent SimCity was playable but this game is kinda laggy on my 5 year old computer. Kinda sucks. I went on twitch.tv and saw how smooth it should be and it got more depressing.

The game is compatible with mods. I'm not sure about driving but there is already a first person mod for it. It won't be long.

I run an i7 with 8gb of ram... but... intel HD3000 gfx card
yes i'm on a 2011 macbookpro

it ain't gonna have great results LOL

the new roads i put down dont connect to existing roads. an icon indicates a non connecting road but it is connected!!

im doing nothing wrong. just building a new road and attaching to existing or rebuilding roads

wtf

Unity seems like a really inefficient engine, so I'm not surprised that it's sluggish for some. Hell I notice some slowdowns myself when zooming in.

So worth it though

I've been playing a lot of simcity lately and it's been pretty good but what pisses me off is the limited space to develop. In this game can you build mega cities or are you restricted to smaller areas again?

this game is huge. you start off the same size as simcity but you can buy the neighbouring hoods.

It looks interesting. I'll give it a try.

Best game since Simcity 4. Totally worth the $30.

does it have retarded AI like cities in motion :badpokerface:

So i finally built a big city, even expanded over the river. Got to like 14000 population and I realized i neglected the island i first started with. The river was all polluted and eventually my right half of the city all left and the houses are all abandoned lol. Is there anything I can do.

Will an AMD Phenom x6 BE, 8 GB RAM, HD5870 run this pretty well or is it new PC time?

try placing a shit ton of parks with health care should balance out

cant get hydro dams to work???

Same here...

Also I have problems 'starting' a new area away from the main city. Like if I want to set up a forestry zone, with power, good highway connection etc, but nobody touches it

I was once able to get one going by setting up commercial beside it, but it didn't work this time

i built like 4 dams
smashed them all
went solar lol

I think it has to be a REALLY fast river

I need to find out how to make traffic better in industrial areas.. I tried a roundabout and only 6 lane roads but that didn't work

Should be OK with lower settings

MINIMUM

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)
Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB / ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB
Free Disk Space: 4 GB

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CPU: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz / AMD FX-6300, 3.5Ghz
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 6 GB
OS: Microsoft Windows 7/8 (64-bit)
Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB / AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB
Free Disk Space: 4 GB