Author Topic: Cities: Skylines (Read 3567 times)

pilonv1 · « **on:** February 12, 2015, 06:21:07 AM »

Can finally wash the stench of Sim City 2013 off

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?833752-Cities-Skylines-%96-Dev-Diary-9-Info-Views

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2015, 06:27:07 AM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2015, 09:12:17 AM »

Simcity 2013 could have been pretty cool if it hadn't been such garbage. And Cities XXL ended up being a massive disappointment. Hopefully, this one gets it right.

archie4208 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2015, 06:09:45 PM »

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?836498-Cities-Skylines-%96-Dev-Diary-10-Themes

Game looks gorgeous.

I'll probably be too stupid and uncreative to play it, but I'm gonna grab it on a Steam sale for sure.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 17, 2015, 10:12:21 PM »

There's a 20% off voucher at GMG so it comes down to 24, I figure that's enough to support them and Paradox should offer strong support

pilonv1 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2015, 03:40:36 AM »

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/02/17/hands-on-cities-skylines/

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If I have a criticism, it’s that Skylines feels very much like the game I wanted SimCity to be. It has the scale, and smart systems with legible cause and effect. What it’s lacking, in the early stages at least, is a distinct character of its own.

archie4208 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2015, 10:48:34 AM »

Urge to preorder...rising.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2015, 05:38:08 PM »

I wish this wasn't coming out the same day as Atelier Shallie. $:-\$

pilonv1 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2015, 08:11:03 PM »

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2015, 09:09:38 PM »

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2015, 09:52:01 PM »

Damn this looks good. Will be away from my pc that can play video games decently until August, but that probably just means they fixed most of the bugs by then. I want to play it now though. :joel

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2015, 05:53:57 PM »

This is $21.89 at Green Man Gaming is you've had an account there long enough to be counted as a VIP:

http://www.greenmangaming.com/vip/

pilonv1 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 03, 2015, 06:06:24 AM »

That's $2 cheaper than my pre-order from them

archie4208 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 03, 2015, 02:00:50 PM »

http://www.twitch.tv/quill18

Game looks great.

I preordered. $22 was too good of a price.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 04, 2015, 02:29:44 AM »

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Tom Chick ‏@Qt3
This house is inhabited by 1 child, 8 teens, 7 adults, and 1 corpse. Time to build a cemetery. #CitiesSkylines

Cannot wait to build my own slum city

pilonv1 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 07, 2015, 05:01:24 AM »

archie4208 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2015, 04:55:28 PM »

http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2y2vw5/quill18s_city_just_lost_of_over_50000_citizens_in/

God I hope I can stay committed to this game. I'm awful at anything that requires creativity, but it looks so good.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2015, 05:51:20 PM »

Don't build water towers right next to incinerators, brehs.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #18 on:** March 10, 2015, 09:40:04 AM »

Time to build.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #19 on:** March 10, 2015, 05:50:20 PM »

Reviews were pretty good for this. Might take the plunge myself on it, if feedback is good.

archie4208 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 10, 2015, 06:12:10 PM »

Took about 2 hours to make a city that didn't flop immediately.

Now to stop making boring grids.

Rufus · « **Reply #21 on:** March 10, 2015, 06:20:59 PM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #22 on:** March 10, 2015, 09:44:15 PM »

Quote from: archie4208 on March 10, 2015, 06:12:10 PM

Took about 2 hours to make a city that didn't flop immediately.

My first city went down fast due to wasting too much money on power lines, but my second city is moving along pretty good right now.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2015, 08:11:08 AM »

I built my power and water connections as far away from residents as possible. Then ran out of money trying to connect them

Really enjoying this, it's exactly what I wanted

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #24 on:** March 11, 2015, 08:25:13 AM »

The pollution radius for power plants isn't too bad, so you can have it relatively close to your population centers without making everyone sad. And don't go overboard on power lines, since electric power jumps from building to building, just make sure you've got one line going from the power plant to the city. In my case, I've got an industrial center around my power plant, so I've been able to eliminate most of my power lines except for the ones that go to my water facilities.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2015, 06:07:27 PM »

The more I play of this, the more it becomes obvious that this is the true Sim City 5. It's everything that Maxis' last gasp should have been and wasn't, because they were too busy trying to...I honestly don't know what they were trying to do, but it completely failed and was nothing like what a Sim City game should be. But Cities: Skylines most definitely is that.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #26 on:** March 12, 2015, 07:03:19 PM »

*plays Cities XL because he is too poor to justify buying Skylines to himself until a sale*

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #27 on:** March 12, 2015, 09:46:12 PM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on March 12, 2015, 07:03:19 PM

*plays Cities XL because he is too poor to justify buying Skylines to himself until a sale*

I liked Cities XL, but it always felt like it was missing something that Sim City [minus the newest entry] had.

fizzel · « **Reply #28 on:** March 13, 2015, 01:27:16 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 12, 2015, 06:07:27 PM

The more I play of this, the more it becomes obvious that this is the true Sim City 5. It's everything that Maxis' last gasp should have been and wasn't, because they were too busy trying to...I honestly don't know what they were trying to do, but it completely failed and was nothing like what a Sim City game should be. But Cities: Skylines most definitely is that.

...I hope you're not bullshitting.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #29 on:** March 13, 2015, 01:35:36 PM »

Nah, it's the real deal. I haven't enjoyed a city-builder this much since Sim City 4 all the way back in 2003.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #30 on:** March 13, 2015, 01:38:07 PM »

The people who come to these type of games are hardcore nerds who like City building. This isn't a genre like The Sims where you can easily expand to casuals.

So I think EA took the wrong approach in trying to make Sim City 5 into something it isn't capable of being. And Skylines seems to be satisfying that inner hard core nerd audience that has always loved Sim City.

Rufus · « **Reply #31 on:** March 13, 2015, 02:07:25 PM »

Yeah, I watched some streams and Sim City 5 is basically a model building game compared to Skylines.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #32 on:** March 13, 2015, 11:57:51 PM »

tiesto · « **Reply #33 on:** March 14, 2015, 01:29:29 AM »

Is there any way to score a DRM free version of this game? I saw there was a German retail release that I can get from amazon.de but that's it.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #34 on:** March 14, 2015, 01:37:59 AM »

My first city is so sub-optimal but I want to get to the unlocks. The problem is that I have unlocked trains and I have no where to put them. I have this aversion to blank space and try to cram everything right next to each other.

I really need to start again.

Rufus · « **Reply #35 on:** March 14, 2015, 01:56:21 AM »

Quote from: tiesto on March 14, 2015, 01:29:29 AM

Is there any way to score a DRM free version of this game? I saw there was a German retail release that I can get from amazon.de but that's it.

The boxed copy requires a Steam account too, as per the system requirements. You'll have to wait until it hits GOG.

fizzel · « **Reply #36 on:** March 14, 2015, 11:18:20 AM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 13, 2015, 01:38:07 PM

The people who come to these type of games are hardcore nerds who like City building. This isn't a genre like The Sims where you can easily expand to casuals.

So I think EA took the wrong approach in trying to make Sim City 5 into something it isn't capable of being. And Skylines seems to be satisfying that inner hard core nerd audience that has always loved Sim City.

I get what you're saying, but i disagree on one point. These games hugely appeal to casuals, i've talked to people where the only game they buy is simcity once a decade.

Thinking about it this genre was the king of the positive feedback loop long before the call of duty series ever landed on the scene. The explosion of smiley faces and rapid upgrading of the neighbourhood when you demolish that shitty tenement block and plant a park in its place.

Still want impressions games to return though.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #37 on:** March 14, 2015, 05:26:18 PM »

i'm not really sure what "casual" means in this context - it would make sense that SimCity appeals to SimCity fans, which might not be too strongly correlated to fans of the big videogame genres.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #38 on:** March 14, 2015, 05:35:46 PM »

Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on March 14, 2015, 05:26:18 PM

i'm not really sure what "casual" means in this context - it would make sense that SimCity appeals to SimCity fans, which might not be too strongly correlated to fans of the big videogame genres.

I think it means that the people who loved SimCity in the first place were attracted to games more in the mold of Cities: Skylines, as opposed to a watered-down version that attempted to appeal to "casuals" that don't give a shit anyway --unless it is in the form of the absolute fucking garbage that is SimCity BuildIt (I assume).

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #39 on:** March 14, 2015, 06:26:42 PM »

right, so casual SimCity player (⊄∧⊅) general "casual gamer".

naff · « **Reply #40 on:** March 16, 2015, 09:11:20 PM »

spent a few hours on this last night, had to restart a couple times as i messed up and went too deep into a loss making city, started taking loans and could never make my way back even when i got a 50k no interest, no payback gubment bailout! 3rd time i was fine, spent a few hours getting a decent city, starting to implement subway systems, reclassify the inner city slums to dense residential. bulldozing inefficient road networks and rezoning the city

I love how this game makes it so easy to redo areas, i have no qualms moving structures and bulldozing precints on a whim because i want to build a stadium or move everyone into ghetto highrises surrounded by basketball courts.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #41 on:** March 20, 2015, 08:19:17 AM »

So the game shipped without Ambient Occlusion.

Not a big deal, some dude on reddit just made a mod for it

http://imgur.com/a/FRPks

This game is going to be incredible in a few months

archie4208 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 20, 2015, 10:04:43 AM »

I read a post at Reddit where one of the devs was jokingly complaining that the community is already fixing stuff they were working on.

I also saw a sick post about optimizing traffic.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #43 on:** March 20, 2015, 10:20:17 AM »

The amount of complexity in the traffic system is pretty staggering. I've been messing around with some similar ideas, but not anywhere near as in-depth.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #44 on:** March 20, 2015, 04:56:30 PM »

It's the same people that were behind Cities in Motion, no? Probably shouldn't be too surprising.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 20, 2015, 07:48:01 PM »

Yah. CiM is really underrated

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #46 on:** March 20, 2015, 08:38:45 PM »

I admit to only playing some tutorials in the first one and just those surprised me with how intricate they were.

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Author Topic: Cities: Skylines (Read 3567 times)