Cities: Skylines

Dcully · 10-03-2015 2:27pm

I watched a stream lastnight and couldnt take my eyes off it for 90 minutes until real life was having a hissy fit.
The stuff you can do is endless,it really does look great.
Paradox must have been rubbing their hands when they say the fcuk up maxis did with sim city or i mean sim village.and saw the sheer volume of disgruntled gamers aching for a good city sim.

PC Gamer giving it 86/100 in their review.
http://www.pcgamer.com/cities-skylines-review/

Korvanica · 10-03-2015 2:35pm

Dcully wrote: »

I watched a stream lastnight and couldnt take my eyes off it for 90 minutes until real life was having a hissy fit.

I had to give up watching streams. I always ended up really frustrated and annoyed becasue they were always doing everything WRONG !!! :mad::D

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 10-03-2015 3:08pm

What time will this be available, lads? I just pre-purchased it there. I haven't pre-bought a game before so I'm not sure how this works.

Can the game be downloaded first and unlocked once it's released? Sorry for my stupid nativity here

This isn't something I've thought of doing.

VinLieger · 10-03-2015 3:14pm

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

What time will this be available, lads? I just pre-purchased it there. I haven't pre-bought a game before so I'm not sure how this works.

Can the game be downloaded first and unlocked once it's released? Sorry for my stupid nativity here This isn't something I've thought of doing.

Its gonna become available at 5pm Irish time, sometimes you are able to pre-load games to some extent but it wont be possible for this so around 5 pm if you refresh your Steam games page there should suddenly appear a button on it to install it. Its about 3gb download which isn't too large compared to many other recent games but the time it takes will depend on your connection

quarryman · 10-03-2015 3:18pm

Since when is 7pm CET = 5pm Irish time?

VinLieger · 10-03-2015 3:20pm

quarryman wrote: »

Since when is 7pm CET = 5pm Irish time?

Damn your right got confused by Korvanica saying it was 6 CET

Sephiroth_dude · 10-03-2015 3:44pm

VinLieger wrote: »

Damn your right got confused by Korvanica saying it was 6 CET

Damn you to hell :mad:

:pac:

Korvanica · 10-03-2015 4:09pm

One of the devs yesterday said it was 6 CET. Must have changed

Sephiroth_dude · 10-03-2015 5:12pm

Installing \o/

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 10-03-2015 5:14pm

Downloading has commenced. 1.6GB

I just had a quick look at a gameplay video courtesy of IGN. I heard him say IGN are giving the game a score of ~8/10, which is pretty f###ing good! Really excited for this

Sephiroth_dude · 10-03-2015 5:41pm

Installed and rearing too go.

VinLieger · 10-03-2015 6:30pm

Game is Live apparently get building!!!!!

Morpork · 10-03-2015 7:25pm

First thing I tried to do was change the roads to LHD. Can't find the option for it! Anyone know how to do it?

Julez · 10-03-2015 7:32pm

Julez wrote: »

About €15 on Nuuvem.

I'll just quote this again lads, I got mine on Nuuvem, playing now, no VPN needed or anything of the sort as someone suggested earlier.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 10-03-2015 7:49pm

Morpork wrote: »

First thing I tried to do was change the roads to LHD. Can't find the option for it! Anyone know how to do it?

Assuming that acronym is "left hand drive" (I'm horrible for learning abbreviations/acronyms, ignore me) but it's there when you go into the level select screen, there's a little check box under the image for it.

errlloyd · 10-03-2015 8:24pm

Just got caught out trying to build a motorway, it only builds one carriageway at a time! Nightmare

Morpork · 10-03-2015 9:09pm

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Assuming that acronym is "left hand drive" (I'm horrible for learning abbreviations/acronyms, ignore me) but it's there when you go into the level select screen, there's a little check box under the image for it.

Hehe good job!

Ah, so I'm starting my city again so!
Thanks!

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 10-03-2015 10:48pm

After a while, people in my city end up feeling sick and I don't even know what's causing it. I have a water drain pipe so it can't be from dirty water, I have two pumping stations as well and I have like 5 medical centers. People still keeping dying of sickness.

Anybody figure out how to maintain that?

errlloyd · 10-03-2015 11:27pm

Looks like traffic management is the key to the game again, although nowhere near as annoying as in Simcity. My first city isn't too good at delivering goods or removing dead bodies, which is a pain in the ass. Also, somewhat difficult to build loads of commercial, because even high density office blocks only seem to employ like 15 people.

Has anyone managed to get traffic management overlays? Or do we actually have to see the traffic to tell how bad it is?

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 11-03-2015 12:17am

OSI wrote: »

You made sure the pumping stations are upstream from the sewer pipe?

Well done me. I'm so stupid lol

No, I did not follow through with that obvious idea. Thanks

Okay so say I do that anyway, how do I get that connected to my pipeline without causing mental pollution?

Maximus Alexander · 11-03-2015 12:19am

errlloyd wrote: »

Has anyone managed to get traffic management overlays? Or do we actually have to see the traffic to tell how bad it is?

The drop down menu in the top left has a traffic tab which colour codes roads according to traffic density, if that's what you mean.

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Well done me. I'm so stupid lol

No, I did not follow through with that obvious idea. Thanks Okay so say I do that anyway, how do I get that connected to my pipeline without causing mental pollution?

The underground pipes automatically keep water and sewage separate, so you don't need to worry as long as the drain is downstream from the pump. Just connect them up.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 11-03-2015 12:24am

The underground pipes automatically keep water and sewage separate, so you don't need to worry as long as the drain is downstream from the pump. Just connect them up.

Okay, thank you!

humanji · 11-03-2015 12:50am

Got to play for only about an hour today and already restarted 4 times because I was testing how different features worked (as the hints isn't great). And I was looking forward to restarting each time. As everyone is saying, it really is the SimCity people wanted.

Drexel · 11-03-2015 12:53am

Played a few hours tonight. Took it slow. Was at about 7k when my growth started declining. But demand was strong. Seem to have to build out before you go up.

The best thing is the size. you have room to do what you want.

Haven't really come across any problems in the simulation itself but it's early days.

Only gripe I have is the variety of buildings seems fairly limited. My industrial areas are all the same. Shouldn't be too much of a problem with the work shop though

Maximus Alexander · 11-03-2015 1:47am

Tried to do a bit of modding for this but the API is... minimal at the moment. You can only do boring stuff. :pac:

errlloyd · 11-03-2015 2:05am

Played a good few hours now, got a city up to 40k, experimenting with different road and mass transit layouts in different areas. Its an exact copy of Simcity without the stupid bits.

Sephiroth_dude · 11-03-2015 2:59am

I'm finding the tough if I'm honest, can someone look at the below pictures and tell me why I'm not receiving power to some of the buildings?

2Mad2BeMad · 11-03-2015 3:02am

loving the game so far
got up to about 8k pop but going to restart tomorrow properly just wanted to test the waters :P

only thing I am annoyed about is
lets say I build up an zone of industrial, all the buildings made, all 2 way roads going in and round and out,
later on in game, when traffic builds up , I can't build a 4 way lane or a 6 way lane over them roads, I have to delete them all one by one, and then build the roads, theirfore recreating the whole zone again which is awkward if you already have the surrounding area used
unless theirs a way around this

but other then that
its everything sim ****y should of been

2Mad2BeMad · 11-03-2015 3:03am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I'm finding the tough if I'm honest, can someone look at the below pictures and tell me why I'm not receiving power to some of the buildings?

in you're pictures, it says electricity consumption 20mw
production is 15mw

you need to build more wind turbines/ or what ever other means you're using to get electricity

try build as many as you can, keep it in the green area
cause when you start expanding, you're consumption will go through the roof :P also put the wind turbines in an area were their is most wind ( indicated by a dark blue I think )

Morpork · 11-03-2015 3:08am

Sephiroth, the reason they're not receiving power is because your power consumption is greater than the production. 20MW/15MW. You need more power sources.

The other thing is, you don't need all those power lines. Power is connected through buildings. So once you have your blue areas connected with power lines and connected to a power source you're fine. It's possible to power an entire city without a single power line. Just have a building close to the power source and no breaks in buildings (blue area).

The picture at the bottom left of your second screenshot explains it better.

Cities: Skylines

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