Cad
scientia potentia est
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Once you have a university you can transition away from dirty industry to offices. Offices employ fewer people per tile though, so you end up with a lot of them to satisfy demand.
Cities: Skylines
- Thread starter Araxen
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Barellron
Trakanon Raider
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Loving the game. Very relaxing so long as you aren't going balls-to-the-wall reactive the whole time.
Ways I've worked out the traffic + trash dilemma so far;
- Metro to connect neighborhoods / working spaces, bus stops near metro stations, moderately-sized routes with stops every 3-4 blocks
- Don't share stops for bus routes
- Don't zone on roundabouts
- Incinerators very close to highway on/off ramps
- Dedicated highway exits for each dense area > 5x5 blue squares, feed directly into roundabouts
- District policies: recycling (reduce trash and dumptruck traffic), pet ban (same but only use in emergency), smoke detectors (reduce fire truck traffic), recreational use (reduce police traffic)
Up to 13k right now building on an island uploaded by one of the early streamers, so space is limited and mountainous. Will do some uploads tonight.
Ways I've worked out the traffic + trash dilemma so far;
- Metro to connect neighborhoods / working spaces, bus stops near metro stations, moderately-sized routes with stops every 3-4 blocks
- Don't share stops for bus routes
- Don't zone on roundabouts
- Incinerators very close to highway on/off ramps
- Dedicated highway exits for each dense area > 5x5 blue squares, feed directly into roundabouts
- District policies: recycling (reduce trash and dumptruck traffic), pet ban (same but only use in emergency), smoke detectors (reduce fire truck traffic), recreational use (reduce police traffic)
Up to 13k right now building on an island uploaded by one of the early streamers, so space is limited and mountainous. Will do some uploads tonight.
Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 7,051
- 2,118
Don't like some of the unlocks. Like to get a Fusion Generator, one requirement is a Observatory, which has a odd unlock of "1,000 abandoned buildings in city", and it must mean "at same time" cause the counter is at 0 for me, even though I have had them over time.
hodj
Vox Populi Jihadi
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Chris
Potato del Grande
- 18,432
- -212
Up to 11,000 with a low density grid pattern:
Each square is 9x9 surrounded by the basic two way street. 25 of these are organised into a 5x5 giant grid, the central one has utilities needed and will later have possibly subway. In between each giant grid is a 6 wide strip which currently has commericial/offices but could be swapped for a big road. Only red traffic spot is one of my connecting freeways but doesn't seem that bad.
I have 9 of these so far, 6 Residential and 3 Industrial. Nearly fills one map zone so I'm about to build more residential next door, none of this spacing stuff out with roundabout shit, it's going right next to my existing stuff! I just need to think about if I should try high density out, what differences does it have? Thinking I'll need to wait until the subway is running.
Each square is 9x9 surrounded by the basic two way street. 25 of these are organised into a 5x5 giant grid, the central one has utilities needed and will later have possibly subway. In between each giant grid is a 6 wide strip which currently has commericial/offices but could be swapped for a big road. Only red traffic spot is one of my connecting freeways but doesn't seem that bad.
I have 9 of these so far, 6 Residential and 3 Industrial. Nearly fills one map zone so I'm about to build more residential next door, none of this spacing stuff out with roundabout shit, it's going right next to my existing stuff! I just need to think about if I should try high density out, what differences does it have? Thinking I'll need to wait until the subway is running.
Hell yes!
It just blows my mind that an established city building franchise like Sim City couldn't get this shit right for so long. Fucking EA and their meddling bullshit.
People want to build cities in offline peace. This game's resounding success is a testament to that fact.
People want to build cities in offline peace. This game's resounding success is a testament to that fact.
Selix
Lord Nagafen Raider
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- 4
I might just start calling this Simcity: Skylines since this is Simcitys true spiritual successor and just pretend that, that EA abomination never happened. Anyone else notice you can create an asset and then use it in game? Like have a favorite highway/interchange pattern you want to use? Make it an asset and then you can simply click it and build it in game (unlocks like normal and costs the same as it normally would so it is still balanced)
Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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- 2,118
I had flooding after putting too many sewage dumps up-stream. Had to move them to very edge of city.
Mist
Eeyore Enthusiast
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That's my best attempt at a 44k densely packed city so far.
I think I sorta 'solved' traffic. If you just watch the traffic on a road and the traffic is really only going in one direction anyway, switch it to a 1-way road. Trying to actually plan everything out ahead of time doesn't seem to work, because you need to take into account fire engines and garbage trucks and hearses, not just people getting back and forth to work.
On the bottom you can see my very 'intredasting' way of getting traffic on and off the highway, but it seems to work okay so far.
