Cities: Skyline
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Moving this thread out of
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@HardwareGeek said in Twitter starting new censorship:
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Ah, I see you feel into the trap of massive sudden expansion. You need to grow your city gradually. If you build an entire residential district all at once, all the people who move in will be of similar age. This means that they will then all die at a similar time, overwhelming your funeral care, no matter how good it is.
Yes, so I've since read on assorted help sites. I've also learned from experience a few other things, like geographic expansion and traffic management, things I didn't do well in this city, but I've managed to survive anyway.
I'm now at the "capital city" stage, with 65000 citizens, €2.5M in the treasury, and a budget surplus of, IIRC, €20k/week. It was a close call, though. At one point, I had to raise taxes and take out a €200k loan to upgrade services, because I had a €6k/week deficit, only a few hundred Euros in the treasury, dozens of abandoned buildings, and citizens were leaving town.
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@HardwareGeek said in Cities: Skyline:
It was a close call, though. At one point, I had to take out a €200k loan to upgrade services, because I had a €6k/week deficit, only a few hundred Euros in the treasury, dozens of abandoned buildings, and citizens were leaving town.
That brings back memories of issuing bonds in SimCity 2000.
Not fond memories either.
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I've not played this for a long time, but need to get back into it soon.
Recently I've enjoyed watching ImKibitz play it and make all of the mistakes along the way.
Playlist link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ZldRYfzmM&list=PLMmqC65vzdRk_lpNh-MPJ7OtP0be7P3t6
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The game assigns names to streets when you create them, but you can rename them if you choose to bother.
While I was playing last night, I noticed a street named Rosemary Street in the residential district I was slowly populating, and nearby there was a Cook Street. So I renamed the other streets in the district Parsley Street, Sage Street, and Thyme Street. And I renamed the cross-streets in the area Ramsay Avenue, Beard Avenue, Child Avenue, Escoffier Avenue, Ray Avenue, and Prudhomme Avenue.
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@HardwareGeek said in Cities: Skyline:
The game assigns names to streets when you create them, but you can rename them if you choose to bother.
While I was playing last night, I noticed a street named Rosemary Street in the residential district I was slowly populating, and nearby there was a Cook Street. So I renamed the other streets in the district Parsley Street, Sage Street, and Thyme Street. And I renamed the cross-streets in the area Ramsay Avenue, Beard Avenue, Child Avenue, Escoffier Avenue, Ray Avenue, and Prudhomme Avenue.
And then all your commercial districts emptied out as the businesses failed due to the cost of having to update their stationary because of the capricious local overlords
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@HardwareGeek no Scarborough. No fair.
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@izzion said in Cities: Skyline:
because of the capricious local overlords
What's the point of being a local overlord if you can't be capricious?
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@izzion said in Cities: Skyline:
@HardwareGeek said in Cities: Skyline:
The game assigns names to streets when you create them, but you can rename them if you choose to bother.
While I was playing last night, I noticed a street named Rosemary Street in the residential district I was slowly populating, and nearby there was a Cook Street. So I renamed the other streets in the district Parsley Street, Sage Street, and Thyme Street. And I renamed the cross-streets in the area Ramsay Avenue, Beard Avenue, Child Avenue, Escoffier Avenue, Ray Avenue, and Prudhomme Avenue.
And then all your commercial districts emptied out as the businesses failed due to the cost of having to update their stationary because of the capricious local overlords
You jest, but I've watched it happen IRL, when Poland went through a bout of post-Communism name changes.
OT, this thread actually encouraged me to get Skylines to scratch the ol' Sim City itch. Seems a lot more forgiving that SC used to be, especially when it comes to money.
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@HardwareGeek What, no Bobby Flay Boulevard?
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@lolwhat Um, ok? What did I just watch? Seriously, I don't even know what show that's from.
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@HardwareGeek It's from a show called Entourage. Ari Gold, the guy going to war with Flay, was the only entertaining character on the show.
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@lolwhat I've never heard of that show, that I can recall. However, I did rename a few streets for TV characters: Leonard Street, Sheldon Street, Penny Street, Raj Street, Howard Street, etc. I'm not entirely sure why. I only watched one episode of that, and I hated it.
@HardwareGeek said in Cities: Skyline:
I renamed the other streets in the district Parsley Street, Sage Street, and Thyme Street.
I also triggered @Karla. I made a new street in that neighborhood and named it Cilantro Circle.
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@HardwareGeek The city I live in has a neighborhood where all streets are named after herbs. It includes a sesame street, though there doesn't seem to be a number 123.
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@HardwareGeek where those cars are going, they don't need roads!
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It's free on Steam for this weekend, and has 70% off for a week
Cities: Skylines on Steam
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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@loopback0 it's a scam. They make it seem cheap, but they don't mention how much time you'll spend on it.
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@Gustav said in Cities: Skyline:
how much time you'll spend on it.
Isn't that the point, in a way? It's a game; the purpose of a game is to entertain. A game you spend a lot of time playing is, presumably, one that you find very entertaining. Much entertainment for little money is good value.
The scam, if there is one, is DLC. There's a lot of DLC. That starts becoming not so cheap. OTOH, there's a lot of really good content in the Steam Workshop for free, including a ton of mods that will make your life easier. OTOriginalH, a lot of it requires DLC for assets or functionality.
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@HardwareGeek said in Cities: Skyline:
@Gustav said in Cities: Skyline:
how much time you'll spend on it.
Isn't that the point, in a way? It's a game; the purpose of a game is to entertain.
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