Cities Skylines

[daring ember]

idk mb something like this for riverside?

[frozen prairie]

I think the stream might be too small for that, just the key wall looks good

You could also just do some bushes and plants along the water

[daring ember]

I think I figured it out

ended up using a surface

[frozen prairie]

That looks great, nice job

[winged kiln]

new map of the city, unlocked all the wonders

[swift geyser]

[daring ember]

this fucking thing

I just cant with it being there

there is no way to remove it I already tried it

[frozen prairie]

That is really odd

Maybe seperate the path from the bridge a bit?

[daring ember]

coz it is supposed to be like that

the thing is that I hid terrain with surface

I would've preferred it without any terrain

but game cant do that with such thin path

with a road it would've worked but road doesnt make sense here

[frozen prairie]

What about a pedrestrian one way?

[daring ember]

it means I would have to redo

everything

[frozen prairie]

Man... that sucks...

[daring ember]

yeah it does

pedestrian doesnt work either

it somehow breaks the road

this kinda works but looks weird still

there is nothing I can do to remove the terrain.

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NLFBUqmI4s

[daring ember]

fits like a charm

[blissful comet]

Looking good!

[frozen prairie]

Love that mine

[frozen prairie]

Love that!

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeIuhj2TOcs

Great episode focusing on transit

[blissful comet]

Damn, impressive what adding more transit does to land value.

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_YUhq7Gp4

New update is pretty great

[blissful comet]

Wow those school changes are insane, I love it.

Ooh, the telecom building is a lot better, nice.

Hey they fixed the sub-buildings from the packs so they can be placed anywhere in the radius rather than snap-to.

[blissful comet]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/eastern-europe-region-pack-creator-dev-diary.1726620/

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWCxRwFK8TU

[daring ember]

smh they made em commie blocks too colorful

missed an opportunity to make depressing cities possible with this pack

Also, I've seen a bunch of comments basically saying "Eastern Europe is much more culturally and architecturally diverse, all other regions got country packs and EE is just one."

Which is actually true and I feel like they could've expanded on it instead of going with one.

Or at least made it bigger than it is (8 gb storage wormhole yay yay)

[daring ember]

this is a problem coz they really missed the point of brutalist architecture somehow ???

Could've been fixed if they just added a gray variant to all panels and that era brick houses

but it seems like only a small portion have them

[blissful comet]

The main creator is Ukranian. So they wanted a mix of Soviet-era Brutalist architecture, and local traditional construction, along with the post-Soviet renovations. Hence all the bright colors, it was basically a rejection of the old Soviet style by making things as colorful as possible.

[swift geyser]

A lot of the panel block buildings ended up being quite colorful, either due to being designed that way or due to later renovations.

That's probably because their design was more driven by practical constraints and goals about making construction cheap and easy, rather than considered artistic goals or a conscious attempt to fit a movement like Brutalism. They ended up being more or less quasi-Brutalist, but that was not because they were intended to be Brutalist I don't think.

[blissful comet]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panelák

[frozen prairie]

Making bad decisions

[blissful comet]

[frozen prairie]

A more sane area, trees are very expensive

[frozen prairie]

Are they not releasing dates anymore to surprise us or have I not been looking?

[winged kiln]

i wonder when there is gonna be 90% sale for cs2

[frozen prairie]

The World is Ending Sale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W4HpS_yJyA

I wonder if any of these packs will have industrial zone

[blissful comet]

They updated the release dates a while back.

Here’s what’s next:

US South West Pack – February 24, 2025
US North East Pack – March 3, 2025

[frozen prairie]

Ah k

Thanks

[frozen prairie]

Made a park

[mossy reef]

oooh that's a nice one

[frozen prairie]

Made a plaza

[blissful comet]

Nice

Suggest throwing some trees on the side of the road next to the plaza.

[frozen prairie]

Ooo, yeah. that'd be great

[frozen prairie]

Is anybody else having crashing issues? I'm not even running any mods this playthrough

[blissful comet]

https://cityplannerplays.com/pages/cs2-asset-guides

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi9cofQEgkY

Oh, the thumbnail broke?

[frozen prairie]

Is there any info on the 3 creator packs? They only have march left at this point if they're doing Q1 still

[frozen prairie]

I can't wait for the Northeast pack, especially since I'm building a Maine styled build

[swift geyser]

Maine-styled build?

I was thinking of doing a build on a Portland (ME, obviously) map, but decided I’d really rather play Stardew Valley.

[frozen prairie]

Yeah, tho it's heading more towards New York rn

[swift geyser]

I was kind of fishing for details

[frozen prairie]

I'll get some pictures next time I play

[swift geyser]

Also curious what “Maine-style” means in this context.

[frozen prairie]

Well, I've been using a decent amount of the UK pack for buildings

I've also been using alleyways more than normal roads for smaller towns and low density parts of neighborhoods

It's a bit hard since this playthrough is completely vanilla so I can get achivements

I should prob do some more research on Portland tho because most of my original research was smaller towns and not bigger populations

I will prob get back to it once that Northeast pack releases and redevelop a whole lot of it

The reason I decided to do a Maine-styled build is because of what I did research on for a town I built in Minecraft

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/lWCgnPcwyzE?si=hhQYPObLHuCeTc75

Using the Southwest pack to make the city look more Californian.

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvxJ8jmUsI

[frozen prairie]

Time to raze my cities for these assets!

You can put sunglasses on the water tower lol

Omg, it's the ghoastbusters asset

[frozen prairie]

Maybe it's the CCPs, or at least a trailer

[blissful comet]

TIL there's a new city builder coming called Citystate: Metropolis
https://www.citystategame.com/

[open lily]

TIL

[blissful comet]

Looks to be an indie dev, so not sure how complex/supported it's going to be. Still, nice to have another option.

[frozen prairie]

https://youtu.be/Pg8hlBD85vI?si=OaNlb4pRvosahmJi

This is pretty in-depth about American small town main streets

[frozen prairie]

https://youtu.be/JFp9Vb7KgnE?si=waINOCooW865OCFZ

[blissful comet]

Creator packs and radio stations for both CS2 and CS1, free to play weekend for CS1, and a Chirper plushie

[frozen prairie]

https://youtu.be/Y0lcFtTIILs?si=2Bu_z18IGgH1gqi2

[timber trail]

hi! ive been thinkin of getting the first game for some time (i watched some gameplay and it seems quite fun), and with the sale i figured i can grab it. i bought the pack with mass transit and industries included, and wanted to ask which of the other expansions yall would recommend (im thinkin of gettin one more for now). internet seems to think either park life or green cities, but im interested in opinions here

[frozen prairie]

Park Life is definitely more better in my opinion

It's modular

And fills odd parcels quite nicely

It kicked off the more modular DLCs, like industries and airports

[blissful comet]

Park Life, Industries

Green Cities is neat, but not essential. Good if you want more environmental options.

After Dark, for adding bike lanes

[timber trail]

oooooh bikes

i am a european

[frozen prairie]

I love bikes too

I play Cities Skylines

[timber trail]

still, looks like ill be goin with parks then. thank u for info!

once im done with kcd II i will probably pop up askin absolute noob questions so i hope youll like that

[frozen prairie]

K! Have fun!

[blissful comet]

We love discussing the games, so that's no problem.

[open lily]

Just make sure your machine can handle late-game stuff. It is fairly taxing, but if you can play KCD2, it's probably fine.

[frozen prairie]

https://youtu.be/C1Jj7PJPJOY?si=q99UPeE-cJgYmUaS

Talks about the anniversary patch

He has early access and is going to do a stream with it

I like the easy mode, I haven't exactly gotten a hold on Economy 2.0. In my vanilla build, I've been taxing placed industries.

[blissful comet]

It really depends on the map. I'm having trouble balancing the budget early in certain maps, because it's hard to gain density without killing your budget on services.

[frozen prairie]

https://youtu.be/o90WTUxFkX4?si=LS9HTlHIctTq6vlM

More in depth overview of the assets

[blissful comet]

Oh my god, the movie theater has posters, and some of them are covers for other video games Paradox published

[frozen prairie]

I know! Love that detail

[open lily]

But where is Horse Economy 3? Is it safe?

[blissful comet]

They need more radio stations ,and one them them better have a Horse Economy commercial.

[open lily]

They should also put more of their games on posters. CK series could be a long-running movies series, Hearts of Iron a documentary, Victoria as a biopic, and Imperator:Rome as their version of Gladiator.

And your local FGS with a thing for Battletech (assuming they still have the rights to show it).

[frozen prairie]

Awesome!

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/MZdm5YX3k-E?si=xDBd4QUwrk_P6VGv

[blissful comet]

[frozen prairie]

What happened?

[blissful comet]

It's from this video:
https://youtu.be/kaW4g-xoYSo?si=gt-6oY53MRhtl31L

[frozen prairie]

ah ok

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/j_X67H-XatQ?si=nMeFpc6kXgFXu2s5

[mossy reef]

Hell yeah

[frozen prairie]

uhhhhhhh

I'm not even playing with mods, this is vanilla

Oh damn, it unloaded my packs for some reason

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/_PUtIcwXKJM?si=keStjUBGEpi70g6x

Wow, that's a very different preview image

[blissful comet]

Ooooh, that looks great!

[frozen prairie]

Yippie! I wonder what the updates are

[blissful comet]

Guessing corrections to some of the signature buildings/service buildings. When CPP went over them, a few seemed poorly balanced to the point you'd never want to use them.

[frozen prairie]

New Master Planned Music album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjj8Hm_BbU

[frozen prairie]

https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/106268/Any

https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/106269/Any

City Planner Plays mod sets through dependencies

[blissful comet]

Neat

[daring ember]

perhaps I'm having too much fun with it

[winged kiln]

what city/town should i use as a height map for cs1

[frozen prairie]

What are you going for?

[swift geyser]

Melbourne, Victoria.

[frozen prairie]

Oh, I love Melbourne

I live in a town named Melbourne

[daring ember]

I decided to go free mode for EE

gonna be doing a lot of stuff with find it

[frozen prairie]

Love that looming over view

[daring ember]

think this is good so far

[daring ember]

starting new city no cheat but placing buildings through find it for better layout

[blissful comet]

Nice start

[daring ember]

they really should add big factories to the game

coz like

how do i impliment something like this

with those small home-size assets

or this

oh fucking finally sun came out

[daring ember]

upgraded roads to highways

[mossy reef]

this is good

[frozen prairie]

Combo Bridges!? Awesome!

and the piers sounds cool

[daring ember]

so I have a question

this is too much planning but anyway

oh actually nvm i figuired it out

I basically want to plan those EE microdistricts that way, so that even by car you don't need to take too many turns that cross another lane

[daring ember]

which design should i use for a roundabout

[blissful comet]

2. The first may be more efficient, but the second is easier for drivers to comprehend. Might want to inrease the number of lanes in the roundabout itself though.

[daring ember]

yeah I just think second one is simpler infrastructure-wise

idk about adding more lanes tho

[lavish canyon]

Just one more lane bro

[frozen prairie]

Maybe curve the roads for better flow

[daring ember]

ended up doing this

should work

also this way ill have more space for future tram network

[daring ember]

I like this thingie I made.

started adding some commercial

[daring ember]

I think game is broken.

no matter what i do all my specialized industries go in debt

also some of them are just stuck at 49% efficiency

[blissful comet]

That's coming along really well!

[daring ember]

this is just frustrating.

game is fundamentally broken as all my industries are going into huge debt

same with commercial buildings

also look at this office lmao

[daring ember]

for reference, i dont have any mods that affect economy in any way shape or form possible

and i started the city in the latest patch

[daring ember]

I think taxation is broken too

as im getting only this amount of money

from like 300 people working in offices

tbf this is probably caused by all offices being in 1mil debt

but like how the fuck do you go 1 mil in debt

like bruh you have 26/29 workers and shitton of resources

why are you broke

I've also ran an experiment where i set taxes to 0 and it didn't help it

no matter what you do they just go into debt

also they don't close for some reason??

like before economy patch if they went too hard in debt they would just close and a new company would take over

[blissful comet]

IIRC Taxation above 12% will actually cause businesses to avoid your city.

[daring ember]

i think devs know that they broke something and decided to just lock industries from closing

while fixing the issue

i mean it kinda does the job, but it also stops industies from leveling up

[daring ember]

yeah well it doesnt matter

[daring ember]

.

[daring ember]

yeeep

the game is broken

my office demand is constantly going up even tho my unemployment rate is at all time low

and this is the amount of offices i have

and this is the amount of money im getting

from them

1k total

what the fuck

it isnt even built but already is in debt

huh

some of my industrial buildings

dont have working spaces

???

for ref how it should be (minus the 460k debt)

OH COZ THEY DONT HAVE COMPANIES

wait why are they not getting abandoned then????

[daring ember]

perhaps...

this is just frustrating and kills any desire to play the game.

[daring ember]

I like this layout.

[daring ember]

So I've spoke to people.

it seems like game is broken at the delivery part

basically devs broke extractors so trucks don't deliver the resources

that goes for specialised industries, offices and normal industrial buildings

also some commercial

depends on the resource

There is no mod to fix this and this problem has been here for a while - since economy patch

also I don't think the next update is going to include a fix.

This is truly shitty.

[blissful comet]

Good to know

[daring ember]

what happened lol\

the game is like on extra hard mode

because of earlier decribed issue.

im constantly balancing between 0

oh my god.

if i only had fucking money for road maintenance depot

...

[daring ember]

t r e e s

[mossy reef]

I like

[blissful comet]

Oooh, I like how this neighborhood turned out.

[daring ember]

the power of trees

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9aA6_oU8M Yet another MPM album!

[daring ember]

so your only way of exporting energy abroad burned down?

no problem

it still is EXPORTING energy

hoooow

also im making more money now because there is no maintenance fee

[daring ember]

expanding

so far loving how it is turning out

I do kinda hate EE 5th level houses

this is just too uncharacteristic for city im buildng

(if that makes sense)

[daring ember]

at first I was like what the fuck

but then...

[frozen prairie]

There some parts of water on google maps that looks like you messed something up in cities skylines 1

[daring ember]

funny lil bug
until you point cursor on the building - it is grey

[daring ember]

Ah

great

save doesnt load

even after disabling conflicting mod

oh ok every mod ui system is broken apparently

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPllFXxl8w

[daring ember]

people in steam discussions say how fucked up it is to release a new patch without the ability to downgrade one down version

because a lot of us play with mods and this basically makes game impossible to play

I 100% agree

like this one

coz now I have to wait till modders update their mods to the latest version

and I feel like it would take a week

[daring ember]

so this is funny af

save loads

new game can be started

but there is no ui lol

not even esc works

like wut

[blissful comet]

Backtick (`) should be the default Hide/Show UI button.

[daring ember]

no it literally has no ui

[blissful comet]

Ah, yeah, mod conflict, that makes sense.

[frozen prairie]

BIKES!?

[daring ember]

im glad this is in cs1

could meteor this abomination

[daring ember]

yooo I got the game running

(i think)

[daring ember]

starting to look like a real city

[daring ember]

the difference trees make

[daring ember]

look at what i've made

too bad there is nothing like this in basegame

[daring ember]

TRAMS!

for now

[daring ember]

overhauled one ugly district

now it looks good

there are small high and elementary schools

imma need to fill it with tress now

[winged kiln]

night view of my city in cs1

[daring ember]

lookin good

[daring ember]

my city at night

im liking this overhaul

I did to this district

ground level

[winged kiln]

day time view

[daring ember]

nice here is mine

why do those networks look so satisfying

[daring ember]

PFFFFT

WHAT

has to be like this IDK

[daring ember]

so um

apparently they just walk along the train tracks

if you dont build train station

lmao

[mossy reef]

That's so emo

[daring ember]

https://youtu.be/zdHp-0gL8AQ

[daring ember]

real

[daring ember]

this is a must watch

[daring ember]

new update seems to have broken specialized industries even more

because now rent on new areas is stuck at 29

and this lil guy spawned with 2mil debt???

but hey at least they fixed offices and normal industries

[winged kiln]

current map of my city (around 110k pop)

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWARTiPRuk

Yet another MPM album

[winged kiln]

one of my most efficient train lines i made. 78% car trips saved

[swift geyser]

The look reminds me of "microdistricts," taking notes from the Soviets or?

I always found "microdistricts" to be a really interesting urban design concept.

[daring ember]

yeah

im literally building a soviet-built city

[frozen prairie]

Was the one of those external map mods for CSII?

[frozen prairie]

That's another surprise. I wonder what they're doing with Cities 1

[blissful comet]

Seems they're just adding creator packs and such, no direct development.

[daring ember]

starting a new city

[frozen prairie]

Looks cool

[daring ember]

gonna be a subway station there in the middle

ilovedetailing

[frozen prairie]

Here's something I've been working on

It's part of an experiment I'm doing with multiple server acting as city councils in a county

[frozen prairie]

I'm loving it! The curve is cool

[daring ember]

that riverline took soo much time i feel it

[frozen prairie]

Yeah, this is my personal town in the experiment, it's on like turn 3 now. There's 7 other towns spotted about the map

[daring ember]

"town of placeholder"

[frozen prairie]

It's a silly reference to a previous experiment which spawned an inside editing joke

[mossy reef]

Server wdym ? Like actual people ?

[frozen prairie]

Yeah, actual people. Each server gets their own town council and can make decisions for their town

[mossy reef]

That's so fucking cool

I love it

[frozen prairie]

Here's a map, I'm using Magnolia County as a map

[daring ember]

that's a lot of suburb

what map mod is that?

[daring ember]

holy shit...

also i dont get since when industial zones have to be this big

im not making any fucking money

electricity so expensive...

[daring ember]

and ive tested even with a coal plant ill be -300k in debt

not so say id have to take a 1 mil loan

like

what the fuck

so it is a lose-lose situation

i have demand i have em placed

[frozen prairie]

It's made by the same person who made the one for Cities One, tho it's not on Paradox Mods anymore and it's quite janky

[daring ember]

all of them are in horrendous debt too

[daring ember]

I like this road technique

I started doing it back at the release of the game

looks super nice

[daring ember]

finally unlocked high density

gonna be fun

[hushed moth]

[frozen prairie]

News next week!

[daring ember]

city update

[frozen prairie]

Nice, it looks great!

[daring ember]

kinda working on small roads within the grid

[daring ember]

holy taxi...

[daring ember]

city grid

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/Gf5yAfi96HM?si=27smHqnwvtqmlIpL

The designers had fun, putting signs for Tyrell Corporation and Voight-Kampff on buildings.

https://youtu.be/9XH7Cnrp3Co?si=1Qp9-K7gGr96pA1s

[daring ember]

I doubt that game will be a valid competition

[blissful comet]

Two words: gridless zoning

That alone is going to attract some players

[daring ember]

i mean it only works good with european cities

[daring ember]

this might be my largest city so far

[blissful comet]

No? Plenty of American cities don't follow a grid, or at least have sections that don't.

[daring ember]

yes but i mean that i can only see it being useful with building old european cities

[daring ember]

im doing the full on american planning

"do suburbs first and fuguire out where to put social services later"

coz i have no idea where to place schools now

[daring ember]

wow... that's uhhh packed

[frozen prairie]

Damn! Do they even need cranes?

[daring ember]

well as it seems they do!

what the fuck happened here

[frozen prairie]

I never know

They just do that sometimes...

[daring ember]

what the fuck keeps happening outside my borders YO

city

[mossy reef]

good looking

[daring ember]

no u

[daring ember]

35K population

[daring ember]

new promised update seems huge

In terms of features, not by size

[frozen prairie]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/bridges-bikes-and-bugfixes-a-word-from-co.1860249/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-EfKiR4wPA

[daring ember]

damn so we're getting screwed again

[daring ember]

I-

I don't want to talk about this

[frozen prairie]

It's ok...

This sure is something

[daring ember]

damn

[daring ember]

actually i thought of how to clean it up a bit

[daring ember]

https://youtu.be/GwXw24Ocmq8

if devs don't release bikes with this region pack - I'll lose all hope for the game

oh wait nvm the pack IS ALREADY OUT

[frozen prairie]

Oh wow, that's amazing. I wonder if they'll drop more

[daring ember]

This is still zoning-based, but a good subsidiary

[daring ember]

https://youtube.com/shorts/SJRS8kDTDwI

[daring ember]

what the fuck

[daring ember]

subway!!

[frozen prairie]

When assets open up I need a Subway Store and Subway Station combo

Or that 7-11 crematorium. I'm not exactly happy with the sizes of the current ones

[daring ember]

that won't happen for a while

[frozen prairie]

I know :(

[daring ember]

40k population btw

[daring ember]

neat use of road builder mod

[daring ember]

hospital

(finally)

[daring ember]

city at night

i have no clue why is the game this dark

[daring ember]

lets gooo

(i dont have monies for the dlc tho so i gonna be playing without it)

also 23 usd for a SINGLE radio pack is fucking crazy

[frozen prairie]

I'm one of the fools who bought into Ultimate Edition... But finally I'm getting all the content finally finally

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WHDd9eapU

[daring ember]

yo i like that guy

[daring ember]

savefile 69

(nice)

[frozen prairie]

I wonder if the other feature highlight will be parks

[frozen prairie]

They have fixes for offices and commercial!

[frozen prairie]

Well, I decided to tear out half my city and rebuild it. Plopped most buildings too

At least it's not entirely a boring grid anymore

I also love this giant park that runs though my city like a river.

[blissful comet]

Oooh, I really like that.

[daring ember]

HUGEEE

[daring ember]

looks great

[frozen prairie]

OMC, this is actually so exciting. I'm going to love Lighthouses and waterfront commercial

[blissful comet]

Yeah, that got me more excited for this than anything else.

[daring ember]

it is really good

the dlc

they finally gave us more than your average dlc

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mILzgQP-mDY

Some early access gameplay!

[frozen prairie]

Are the hotels fixed in this one?

[blissful comet]

I'm not sure what the problem was with the hotels, but they did fix things like the "5/5 employees" bug.

[frozen prairie]

I know some of the signature hotel buildings killed commercial demand and made like 400k an hour

[blissful comet]

Oh yeah, apparently there was an issue with demand not being calculated correctly for commercial & industrial, and they say that's fixed.

[frozen prairie]

What population are your cities when you usually end a build?

[daring ember]

well I never end a build but my last one is like 43k

[frozen prairie]

When does it get really laggy?

I'm at 173k right now

[daring ember]

I'm using a mod that makes your simulation speed even faster than the game allows you to

sooo idk

haven't noticed much lag yet

[frozen prairie]

What specs do you have?

[daring ember]

32 ram rx7900gre ryzen 5 5600

[frozen prairie]

Mmm ok, might be my CPU... It is a very intensive game

[blissful comet]

Yeah, I maxed out the CPU in my motherboard just for this game. That said, it's an old motherboard.

[cobalt robin]

I finally started to play this and the whole 'gain experience to unlock stuff' has to be one of the most ass ideas I've seen in a game like this.

it feels like it completely misunderstands the idea of 'city building' in favor of some sort of RPG element system which doesn't belong

I suppose I should be grateful they don't have you manufacturing tanks to travel to other cities to destroy and loot for crafting materials so you can make buildings via a crafting system

was the original City Skylines like this?

[blissful comet]

Somewhat. There were still "build X a Y numbe of times to unlock Z" things, though it was more about hitting population milestones for basic stuff. Unique buildings did wait until you built some number of basic stuff before they were available though.

[cobalt robin]

unique buildings I can see, less seeable is getting xp to get points to unlock.... basic traffic control methods

[blissful comet]

Yeah, that can be frustrating. But in the early game, gaining XP is fairly easy. You get XP just by putting down roads, zoning, and getting population.

[cobalt robin]

yeah I guess

I wanted to do fishing but I can't figure out what the 'water progression tree' is

[blissful comet]

I haven't messed with the new fishing stuff yet.

[cobalt robin]

I've also noticed it sems to lag severely at times

I guess I'm just kind of glad I haven't bought it because it really doesn't feel that good to me, which is such a massive disappointment all over

[blissful comet]

Yeah, the game is very demanding. They've had trouble optimizing it well. :/

[frozen prairie]

I think there isn't. Since it's a specilized industry.

Maybe Water Transport?

[swift geyser]

I think it’s generally very common to have progressive building unlocks in city-builders; I vaguely recall something similar being in the original four SimCity games, although that might have been more closely tied to in-game year than anything else.

[cobalt robin]

the 'unlock' thing just says 'water progression tree' or something

it doesn't appear in the progression tabs

[blissful comet]

I think you may have to go into the Transportion tree and look at the water-based options there, maybe?

[cobalt robin]

maybe

[cobalt robin]

something I noticed as well: there's no desert maps for cities

WEIRD

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uk-Mf2TGAk

Back to Cities!

[daring ember]

Im not sure

if that is a good sign

or a bad sign

[frozen prairie]

Yeah, I'm kinda concerned. I'd like to learn more

But at least assets, that's really good

[frozen prairie]

Oh, bike patch this week. Alright

[blissful comet]

I get the feeling Collossal Order was fed up with how Paradox pushed the release too early, and may not be providing enough support for their liking. Probably for the best.

[frozen prairie]

Looks like bike related videos might come out tomorrow.

[daring ember]

it looks more like paradox were the ones who kicked them out

also the studio they made in charge of the game...

I wouldn't call it experienced w this kind of game

[frozen prairie]

Yeah, I'm not too impressed with their past potfolio

[frozen prairie]

The new transit infrastructure is amazing!

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/y_s6HUrO7Dc?si=rj-_NBTOq0el6ox5

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDZ96JZ42gI

This video is a bit more indepth with the assets and their upgrades

[daring ember]

I've watched videos on that update

and my main complaint is that transition between road upgrade and separate bike path

like couldn't they just make it like the bus road upgrade works?

looks very scuffed

[frozen prairie]

Dude is biking halfway across the map to the train station to go to the Uni, even though there is a very extensive train network to get to the university...

[daring ember]

the whole mechanic is scuffed

but hey at least bikes

[frozen prairie]

How...?

[blissful comet]

They tried to pull a Speed off the end of that highway.

[daring ember]

offroading gone wrong

[daring ember]

@frozen prairie

[frozen prairie]

Oh thanks! I'll try it right away!

[frozen prairie]

Oh wow, this is actually very cool. It's going to be so worth it

[frozen prairie]

Oh, Skyscrapers too it looks like. I think you can upgrade them to have city services inside them

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TmvnOLC5SoA

Some in game footage!

[daring ember]

yeah they do look nice

but i really need asset editor

coz the skyscrapers i want wont be included in this or any future pack

[frozen prairie]

It'll be here soon

[frozen prairie]

https://youtu.be/k9hq5R8VByI

Magnolia is finally back!

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuTzq0w4nAA

[frozen prairie]

Oh damn, that was quick

and now, the game won't load for me...

Just the main menu. It kinda did on first launch, but the mods were updating

[blissful comet]

Yeah, you may have to unsubscribe & resubscribe to mods. Some of them may not be updated yet.

[frozen prairie]

Yeah, I'm trying to troubleshoot with mods disabled, that seems to get me into the menus at least

[blissful comet]

Okay that's a good first step.

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/O5zhagvNvJ0?si=gHMQfS8Ozr3gGBuC

[frozen prairie]

Oh, that's already out?

Nice

[blissful comet]

Not yet, he's just showing it off

[frozen prairie]

I meant the video, I thought it was coming out tomorrow. I guess the asset video was quite late

[blissful comet]

Ah!

[daring ember]

I saw that mod like 2 months ago and it is in closed beta or something

[frozen prairie]

They say it's coming out soon

[daring ember]

https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/127928/Windows

this sounds really interesting

[daring ember]

ok so apparently

some people in the new studio

worked on cs1 or cs2

[frozen prairie]

Well, that's good at least

[daring ember]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap1ZGcSo2R8

The only thung I don't like about it

is their amount of employees

very small studio for such a game

I hope they'll be able to bring more people to work on the game

[frozen prairie]

Thanks Steam Recap

[daring ember]

my most played steam game is cities skylines 2

34% of total playtime

[frozen prairie]

CO has only 30 employees

[daring ember]

yeah and they had really bad release schedule

because of that

[frozen prairie]

I think they're looking to expand to around 44 or 45?

Yeah, they have 5 open positions they're looking for right now

[daring ember]

the sale on cs2 sadly affects only old content creator packs

and the base game

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/6HMKEIkVcOQ?si=aa5FslUMgywE3P6W

[frozen prairie]

Oh no... I saw that yesterday pop up for members only. I'm scared to watch it now...

[daring ember]

off to a good start

[frozen prairie]

Nice, that stuff sounds pretty great!

[blissful comet]

https://youtube.com/shorts/QiIo1K-g9zw?si=HxAlQRsVdwSFww_R

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX9GOB8p6Y0

This tool is amazing

[daring ember]

i like this little township i made

still wip

[blissful comet]

YES! City Planner Plays has also become addicted to #1446526784701993093
https://youtu.be/G8goxFqyZ30?si=gT3SOuCrVoweRvEu

[frozen prairie]

30% off sale too!

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/pNL0iYIj0mA?si=Yq8DmShSKlB_SXjo

[daring ember]

what.

WHAT

[daring ember]

67k

6 7 lol

[frozen prairie]

My computer cries with my 211k city

[daring ember]

how do you even reach such high population...

[frozen prairie]

Split people up into 7 seperate times in charge of their own town

My county experiment has gone too well

Tho most of the population is in 2 cities

Looking at old data, Kerrysburg has 100k and Placeholder has 84k. Overall population at that time was 208k

Thankfully the county voted on to have a flood which killed like 50k of the population

But it has since rose again. The max was 225k

[daring ember]

"voted on to have a flood"

median voter ahhh type situation

[daring ember]

game looks fantastic now after they made some small graphical changes

[daring ember]

890 passengers waiting lol

apparently i need a bigger bus station

the holy suburban sprawl

at least I got buses coursing through it

[blissful comet]

So, uh, big content announcements for CS1 and CS2, I'll link to their Discord post rather than flood this with multiple posts they made:
#882213942313746442 message

[frozen prairie]

Holy, that's amazing

I wonder what is going to be in the update

Very excited for that stations pack too

[daring ember]

im adding train station so some infrastructure changes are coming

like dis

[frozen prairie]

Oh, I found the flood damage map.

[frozen prairie]

That is such a beautiful city

[daring ember]

yeah but a lot of things needs to be done in it

[candid knoll]

New DLC coming! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4031130/Cities_Skylines__Race_Day/

Steam

Cities: Skylines - Race Day

Get ready to rev up your city!

Transform your streets into high-octane race courses, host thrilling running and cycling events, and dazzle crowds with massive parades. Whether you're drawing in tourists or entertaining your citizens, this expansion lets you create jaw-dropping spectacles and adds dynamic city-planning features that kick you…

Release Date

Mar 10, 2026

For the 2015 game

[daring ember]

how.

[blissful comet]

Fucking finally

Have you ever thought about roads without any zoning, or only on one side of the road? Because we certainly have! Inspired by the amazing “Zone Tools” and “Easy Zoning” mods by River-mochi, we have now added a zoning toggle, which allows you to remove the zoning from any road where it is not wanted! You can choose to remove the zoning from either side, or both sides, depending on your preferences.

[frozen prairie]

Awesome! Seems pretty solid

[daring ember]

finally added rail

[frozen prairie]

Oooo, love it!

I wish I detailed my riverside rail

[daring ember]

I'm really liking how my city is turning out tho I'm not sure how realistic it is

lemme know what yall think based on all the screenshots

[frozen prairie]

You should see the CPP video. The assets look amazing! Especially the station pack.

[blissful comet]

I'll pull it up, reading the diary right now.

Oh hell, those pedestrian overpasses are something we've needed for ages.

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/0jtDgvri_eU?si=6zVjW-bM9PNsmCAd

[blissful comet]

https://youtu.be/cthUpLahqyM?si=q_F2JPhMJAtD2nPI

[frozen prairie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DyyZqkGvY4

A video from community members heading to meet Iceflake

[blissful comet]

Yeah, City Planner Plays mentioned in his last video he was being flown out to meet with Iceflake. Figure he'll have a video up in a few days.

[daring ember]

finally got this thing popular

I need to give some public transport to it now though

coz thats too many people walking

[blissful comet]

Holy shit.

Yea, public transit to major stations is a must.

[daring ember]

the closest stop is like 2 blocks away

but still quite far

[blissful comet]

Oh dear

[daring ember]

just so you know this bus stop

used to have 1k people waiting

[blissful comet]

Yeah, you need probably two bus lines to it: one directly from the main bus terminal to this, and another that's just circulating through the city, so people can transfer to the circulator and then to the station.

[daring ember]

coz I used it to connect suburbs to city centre

and other cities to mine

[blissful comet]

Oof

[daring ember]

coz uhhh

612 suburbanites lmao

[blissful comet]

Neat

[daring ember]

I have the bare minimum at the suburbs

and a train station

this like nice tho

so i try not to look at the suburbs

but this

I really like my subway stations

Ive tried to make them like i have them in eastern europe

meaning surrouned by pedestrian areas

as you can see it looks quite lovely

Oh and ive been rewamping my first suburb

making it more liveable

[daring ember]

I'm thinking of either adding a subway connection and a bus connection

or a tram and bus connection

subway coz I have a 1000 capacity hospital with a subway station that goes nowhere

[blissful comet]

Subway is really expensive, so make sure your budget can handle it. But if so, go for it.

[daring ember]

I think I can handle it

I dont even have huge taxes!

I do have a lot of industry tho...

[blissful comet]

Nice. My budget is always borderline.

[daring ember]

what population are you at

the budget skyrockets after a certain point

I really fucking struggled at the beggining tho

[blissful comet]

Oh I haven't played in months, but usually I don't get very far. With the new update, I'm planning to try again.

[daring ember]

WATAFAK

I just blinked for a moment and this happened

literally

it is growing

everyone wants to go to the outisde connection

PEOPLE ARE ESCAPING MY CITY LMAOO

[blissful comet]

Oh yeah, one of the bugs fixed yesterday was "people unable to leave the city."

[daring ember]

what have they done my economy is going to crumble now

[blissful comet]

Temporarily, yes.

Just let the game sim for a while, it should level out.

[daring ember]

so I think this is a nice temporal solution

before I figuire out a bus route

that'll be straight at the entrance of the train station

*I wont demolish tram route afterwards

[blissful comet]

I really want to build a tram-centric city next.

[daring ember]

I live in a city that was very tram centric in the past!

before capitalism happened and they decided to go car

do it trams are cool af

I take one every day