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[Skyrunner]

My city's stagnated at 40k population, and I can't tell how to make it grow

Zone more residential or high density residential

there's no demand for it though

[Rose]

Do it anyway.

[Aklyon]

Zone it and they (eventually) will do something with it. As long as it isn't too small.

[forsaken1111]

My city's stagnated at 40k population, and I can't tell how to make it grow

Zone more residential or high density residential

there's no demand for it though

What is in demand?

[Skyrunner]

Generally only industry demand goes up, and the other two are very low. So I just keep building offices.

[Rose]

Spoiler: Working on a new station (click to show/hide)

[forsaken1111]

Generally only industry demand goes up, and the other two are very low. So I just keep building offices.

Sounds like you have more people than jobs then. Once you are at jobs > people then residential demand will rise.

[BigD145]

My city's stagnated at 40k population, and I can't tell how to make it grow

Buy more land. Make your city bigger.

[PTTG??]

Spoiler: Working on a new station (click to show/hide)

Looks good! I'm looking forward to a mod which expands metros above ground. SF Bay Area just isn't the same without World Of Tomorrow-esque BART stations all over the place.

[Sergius]

How hard would be to replicate something like this in Skylines?

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This is the terraformed moon Titan. The dark brown areas are craters, they're connected by tunnels (and what I assume are natural caverns, here they could be open areas). The light area around them is extremely high terrain and completely impassable (so no building there).

Can this be achieved by ingame tools? Needs to create the terrain externally somehow and import it?

[Mini]

Tunnels aren't in yet (but are planned for a free update), so you'd have to fudge it with valleys where the tunnels are meant to be or something similar. It's also not possible to make an area unbuildable, although with large enough cliffs it'd be pretty impractical anyway (assuming there isn't a highway connection at the start, but that's as easy as not placing it in the map editor).

As for actually getting the terrain in, you can both import heightmaps or terraform it in the ingame map editor, so yes to both of the actual questions. The only thing is that the map you posted doesn't have an outside highway connection, which is required for the game to work properly (people migrating in and industry importing/exporting goods), so you'd have to add one somewhere.

[Sergius]

Well I'm not asking to be restricted from building in certain areas, heh. But to replicate that map, those areas must remain high and empty.

Also the map you're looking at has flying cars so... yeah it's not just outside highways that have to be fudged in to make it work.

I was mostly concerned about the size and terrain editing capabilities. And some planning would be necessary to make the craters fit in the 4x2 or whatever arrangement of areas. To make it exact a few craters would have to be partially filled in before unlocking an additional area, probably, since they don't fit neatly in a 4x2 grid.

[forsaken1111]

How hard would be to replicate something like this in Skylines?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is the terraformed moon Titan. The dark brown areas are craters, they're connected by tunnels (and what I assume are natural caverns, here they could be open areas). The light area around them is extremely high terrain and completely impassable (so no building there).

Can this be achieved by ingame tools? Needs to create the terrain externally somehow and import it?

Holy crap, that's from Hardwar isn't it? I loved that game so much when I was too stupid to understand how bad it was.

[Sergius]

Holy crap, that's from Hardwar isn't it? I loved that game so much when I was too stupid to understand how bad it was.

I remember liking it when everything seemed to go my way. The last few times I tried replaying it every pirate I tried to hunt would Groundbase me to death.

Groundbase being a stupidly overpowered and expensive missile. Expensive as in costing 10 times what a single bounty pays... but somehow every NPC has half a dozen

But with the unofficial official patch the economy could become the equivalent of X3, basically.

[darkrider2]

I was curious about something so I created a test scenario using unlimited money and unlock all.

The question on my mind was: can pedestrians path through multiple public transit lines?

I discovered that, yes, yes they can. Using highways and gravel paths I forced pedestrians going to work to have no options but to use a bus, then transfer to a different bus that would end in the commercial area, and they were perfectly capable of doing so. Further curious another scenario forced them to take a bus, take a train, then take the metro to get to work, which they were also capable of doing.

The second discovery: nobody has to actually get to work to have jobs, nor do employers expect anyone to actually show up to work. After having the 'not enough workers' problem too many times in my normal games I fiddled around with trying to mass bus people to the industry starving for workers, which doesn't work since having a job in cities: skylines doesn't revolve around you being at work, available workers is simply a function of population.

That said I wonder how feasible it is to have your residential and working zones completely isolated from each other, while employment would be fine and you're traffic would be hilariously efficient, I'm not sure if the commercial zones would get that 'not enough consumers' message, further testing necessary.