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[Shooer]

Don't change zones while on high speed, do it while paused or on slow.  The buildings collapsing because you removed a zone will create patchwork zones.  Kind of annoying but easily worked around.

[Nelia Hawk]

Ok, I've figured out what my problem with getting this to runis. Basically, I missed the line in the spec where it requires a 64 bit windows install. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

cities skylines and the free X weekend finally made me switch from win xp too. (but its possible to get some win 7 relatively cheap by now (~30€))

[lordcooper]

Your product key is showing. You might want to fix that.

By reposting the image link you are making it much harder or this to be rectified.

[Erkki]

Apparently this game sold at least 250,000 copies during the first 24 hours (including preorders) and apparently made records both for Paradox and for a Finnish game... 250k x 28 is 7 million €. Whoa.

Hows it like so far; I take it's well worth trying for a DF and SimCity player?

[Tnx]

Yeah, it's a pretty good game Erkki.  Also note that it is on sale at greenmangaming with a coupon code for only 22 dollars.

So has anyone been able to create industry that imports very little outside resources?  I can't seem to get my forestry industry to build more silviculture areas.  Building in forested areas makes them build about 25-50% tree groves, but the rest are production buildings.

[FritzPL]

Are you sure you marked all of the industrial area as a district with forestry specialization?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

My biggest complaint is actually the road system. It's incredibly difficult and/or impossible to create decent looks on/off ramps. Makes for me not relieving traffic situations because it doesn't look good.

[Vendayn]

I made a custom map. I like it personally, but the hardest part of making maps in this game is water. Because its actually fluid and exists in the world...it was a bit hard to get water flow right. I'm not very good with highway connections either, so I just did a pre-built one.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407156937

I did make an area for a dam to the north by the waterfall (it may take some moving around to get it), as that was a bit hard to do as well. Its easy to make sides to steep for a dam (dams should be able to be built on any terrain though, I looked at pictures and they are often built on steep terrain), or just not enough energy powering through it.

Other than that, it has highway connections, air connections, train connections and ship connections. A lot of fertile land, some oil, some ore and some trees. Along with animal spawns and what not. The map is more of a fertile desert kind of map, so except for some areas and along the rivers/water...its half-desert.

I want to see a mod to make dams built on any terrain though. Its kinda not realistic from what I can see on google images. I see images of dams built on really steep terrain, but this game doesn't let you do that.

[Baijiu]

Anyone else finding this game ridiculously easy? I constantly pull in $10,000+ and I've decreased my tax rate for everything down to 4%. I'm starting to max out funding for all city services too, just so that my monthly profit isn't too excessive.

Everyone hates on Simcity 5 for a variety of reasons, some of them good ones, but I found Simcity to be challenging, especially with the Cities of the Future expansion. 

[Zangi]

The challenge is mostly in managing traffic well enough that you don't lose half your population due to backlog.  Also waiting for the money to roll in and new toys to be unlocked during the beginning, that is big challenge there.  I guess another challenge is renovations, when you have new toys and/or your layout just ain't working... to demolish whole sections, then rebuilding em. 
And yea, I guess clicking on the demo button and looking for burned down homes is another challenge... of give-a-damn.

They do have a 'hard' mode in the mod section if you want are looking for some sort of challenge...  And a 'super hard' mode mod in the workshop.

Really though, play with house rules if you want it to be harder.  (I'm totally fine with the current 'difficulty'.)

[Tnx]

Are you sure you marked all of the industrial area as a district with forestry specialization?

Yeah, that's the only way forest grove industrial buildings can pop up in the first place. 

EDIT: I figured it out.  Apparently you can also plant trees to increase your supply of wood in an area, which makes the relevant industry switch over to producing lumber instead of finished goods.

Here's my lumber producing area, with before and after.  Before...After

[umiman]

So, after about 40+ hours or so...

Thoughts:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. It's fun.

2. It's too easy. I recommend turning on the hard mod. Without it the game is basically a sandbox as it's easy to get infinite money. Even with hard mode on it's still pretty easy honestly.

3. There's nothing to do after awhile as you can unlock everything quite quickly. Not to mention there's not that much content if you think about it.

4. I wish there were more road / transportation types. For example, 4-lane highways, two-lane offramps, monorails, trams, double-decker buses, smaller train stations, etc.

5. I wish you could plant trees with the big brush instead of one by one.

6. Seriously needs more stuff. I assume mods will take care of this but right now there's really nothing much. There's only a handful of parks, a handful of power buildings, a handful of decorations, etc. I'm fairly certain even Simcity 2000 had more things than this, though the road options were far less.

7. Designing highways is fun, though the traffic can kinda not make sense. For example, you could have a three lane highway merge into a six lane one way road but all the cars only use one lane because they want to merge off into an offramp ten kilometers away.

8. There's not enough information. It's hard to tell the flow of traffic for example (especially if you have like 5 different highways) or you can't keep track of individual people if you deselect them. This is especially evident with fire stations and the like, as it's so hard to tell if they're actually being useful and what exactly is causing all these fires.

9. Why can't I place buildings down in random places and then build roads around them?

10. A lot of building models are incredibly repetitive. You'll very easily see the same few buildings repeated ad nauseum. Also the naming conventions don't make sense. A storage plot for crates can just as easily be called a clothing factory or a fish stick factory.

11. The Twitter feed is too nice. Since when are people so nice? Also they keep repeating the same things nonstop.

12. There's not enough laws and regulations. Also not enough specializations.

13. Healthcare is almost pointless as a single clinic can service 50,000 people easily. Deathcare on the other hand is crazy, as you need so many graveyards and crematoriums to keep up.

14. Same deal with police. You probably don't even need to build a police station honestly.

15. I wish I could permanently turn on a grid for when I want to design blocks and roads. Currently I actually have to put a ruler onto the screen to make sure things are aligned properly.

16. Garbage dumps and incinerators are in the same situation as deathcare. You really need way too many. It's not fun micromanaging them and manually selecting dumps to be cleared.

17. Disasters and events would have been fun. Nothing ever happens unless you really fuck up (like when I poisoned everybody by putting a water pump inside poop water).

18. Why can't I terraform the land? At least let me dig lakes and stuff.

19. Isn't the bus depot supposed to produce more buses the more demand there is for the route? Why are there a hundred thousand people waiting at one bus stop and only 4 buses servicing it? Also, why the fuck can't I build covered bus stops or something other than a sign?

20. Why are farms so small?

21. Actually, why are all the zoning sizes so small? Why are we stuck to a few squares next to roads? It makes all the buildings so constrained.

22. I wish I could upgrade buildings.

23. I wish there was some way to build stuff while in paused and delete them for a full refund instead of just plonking down stuff and hoping you don't fuck up.

24. Why is there no weather or day / night cycle?

25. The water physics don't seem to make much sense. It's more like giant blobs of jello than water.

26. I really don't like that whole pollution makes the ground purple thing. Brown I understand, but purple?

27. The ambient noises are infuriating. They repeat far too often and the sound quality is poor. Cemetery in your city? Get ready to hear the DONGGGG sound a lot.

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Objectively speaking, I don't think this is the end-all-be-all of city simulations. Ignoring the fact that this is the only good one we've had recently, it could really still be better. I enjoyed it though.

[Scripten]

So, after about 40+ hours or so...

Thoughts:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. It's fun.

2. It's too easy. I recommend turning on the hard mod. Without it the game is basically a sandbox as it's easy to get infinite money. Even with hard mode on it's still pretty easy honestly.

3. There's nothing to do after awhile as you can unlock everything quite quickly. Not to mention there's not that much content if you think about it.

4. I wish there were more road / transportation types. For example, 4-lane highways, two-lane offramps, monorails, trams, double-decker buses, smaller train stations, etc.

5. I wish you could plant trees with the big brush instead of one by one.

6. Seriously needs more stuff. I assume mods will take care of this but right now there's really nothing much. There's only a handful of parks, a handful of power buildings, a handful of decorations, etc. I'm fairly certain even Simcity 2000 had more things than this, though the road options were far less.

7. Designing highways is fun, though the traffic can kinda not make sense. For example, you could have a three lane highway merge into a six lane one way road but all the cars only use one lane because they want to merge off into an offramp ten kilometers away.

8. There's not enough information. It's hard to tell the flow of traffic for example (especially if you have like 5 different highways) or you can't keep track of individual people if you deselect them. This is especially evident with fire stations and the like, as it's so hard to tell if they're actually being useful and what exactly is causing all these fires.

9. Why can't I place buildings down in random places and then build roads around them?

10. A lot of building models are incredibly repetitive. You'll very easily see the same few buildings repeated ad nauseum. Also the naming conventions don't make sense. A storage plot for crates can just as easily be called a clothing factory or a fish stick factory.

11. The Twitter feed is too nice. Since when are people so nice? Also they keep repeating the same things nonstop.

12. There's not enough laws and regulations. Also not enough specializations.

13. Healthcare is almost pointless as a single clinic can service 50,000 people easily. Deathcare on the other hand is crazy, as you need so many graveyards and crematoriums to keep up.

14. Same deal with police. You probably don't even need to build a police station honestly.

15. I wish I could permanently turn on a grid for when I want to design blocks and roads. Currently I actually have to put a ruler onto the screen to make sure things are aligned properly.

16. Garbage dumps and incinerators are in the same situation as deathcare. You really need way too many. It's not fun micromanaging them and manually selecting dumps to be cleared.

17. Disasters and events would have been fun. Nothing ever happens unless you really fuck up (like when I poisoned everybody by putting a water pump inside poop water).

18. Why can't I terraform the land? At least let me dig lakes and stuff.

19. Isn't the bus depot supposed to produce more buses the more demand there is for the route? Why are there a hundred thousand people waiting at one bus stop and only 4 buses servicing it? Also, why the fuck can't I build covered bus stops or something other than a sign?

20. Why are farms so small?

21. Actually, why are all the zoning sizes so small? Why are we stuck to a few squares next to roads? It makes all the buildings so constrained.

22. I wish I could upgrade buildings.

23. I wish there was some way to build stuff while in paused and delete them for a full refund instead of just plonking down stuff and hoping you don't fuck up.

24. Why is there no weather or day / night cycle?

25. The water physics don't seem to make much sense. It's more like giant blobs of jello than water.

26. I really don't like that whole pollution makes the ground purple thing. Brown I understand, but purple?

27. The ambient noises are infuriating. They repeat far too often and the sound quality is poor. Cemetery in your city? Get ready to hear the DONGGGG sound a lot.

---------------

Objectively speaking, I don't think this is the end-all-be-all of city simulations. Ignoring the fact that this is the only good one we've had recently, it could really still be better. I enjoyed it though.

I agree with pretty much all of this. I do love the game and I imagine they'll be adding a ton of features over time. (I could be wrong here, of course.) If nothing else, I await the really impressive building collection packs.

[umiman]

Yeah, apparently there's a CK2 dev who's working on a Skylines mod that adds politics into the game. So stuff like that would be great. Since this is only the first week or so, there's probably a bright future ahead.

[Fikes]

Is it considered released or early access? I know paradox tends to do a lot of dlc, are those generally worth the money?