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[Orange Wizard]

I downloaded a mod called proper hardness the other day for exactly this reason.

It has a difficulty named "Dwarf fortress"

I'm pretty sure it's impossible to play.

Be funny if it was accurate to the game - out-of-booze riots cause fatalities, emergency services go to parties instead of dealing with crises, and farms produce enough food for ten cities on their own.

[Rose]

It isn't, sadly.

It's just everything has really high upkeep costs, among other things.

[Lord Shonus]

Well I finally played Cities Skylines AND!!! (no need to necro a thread)

Surprisingly easy after I played the heck out of the SimCity games. As long as you don't do anything stupid, you should be ok... and I should state I am not good at SimCity and rarely have successful runs.

And I was playing really "No pollution!" for quite some time. So I essentially did it with my hands tied around my back for most of it... AND with a tourism based economy that I couldn't get tourists for (so I was wasting money at the same time).

Maybe there is a difficulty setting but, it was... too easy. I know that if this was SimCity I'd be suffering from just the collapse of my city centers with the way I was playing.

Though maybe it is like playing the good guy in Tropico 4. REALLY easy... but playing the bad guy is possible but actually a bit more of a challenge. And If I actually was a polluting villain I might have a bit more of a challenge.

How did you keep traffic smooth? One-way streets help some, but whenever I try to make a city that resembles anything realistic (instead of micro-cities clustered around off-ramps) I wind up collapsing under the load of traffic. It is not so much the amount of traffic on the road as much as it is the fact that every intersection is a 4-way stop that winds up paralyzing my roads, leading to the power plants running out of fuel, keeping the fire department from responding to fires in time, and causing dead people and/or garbage to pile sky-high.

[Neonivek]

I just made a grid of normal roads.

I can share my save.

[Orange Wizard]

How did you keep traffic smooth? One-way streets help some, but whenever I try to make a city that resembles anything realistic (instead of micro-cities clustered around off-ramps) I wind up collapsing under the load of traffic. It is not so much the amount of traffic on the road as much as it is the fact that every intersection is a 4-way stop that winds up paralyzing my roads, leading to the power plants running out of fuel, keeping the fire department from responding to fires in time, and causing dead people and/or garbage to pile sky-high.

Are there no traffic lights/roundabouts? That's a bit of an oversight.

[Lord Shonus]

There's roundabouts, which take up far too much space to use for every intersection, and you have no control over traffic lights. Traffic will stop at every intersection, so the basic grid pattern I usually try to use winds up turning into a logjam.

[Akura]

Apparently there's no elevated highways, either. This means that any traffic intersecting a highway will clog traffic.



This morning, I was eating my cereal when a small, sharp piece of it went right into the top of my mouth, right behind one of my teeth. The taste of blood does not go well with cereal.

[MrRoboto75]

Apparently there's no elevated highways, either. This means that any traffic intersecting a highway will clog traffic.

I'm fairly certain you can use page up/down keys to elevate roads or even build tunnels under.

[Lord Shonus]

Yeah. That does help a lot. Still takes up a lot of space and messes up your zoning, though.

[Tack]

Yeah IIRC cities-skylines has a really broken road-AI, making roundabouts completely useless without mods.

[majikero]

Pathfinding is shit in Skylines. It just takes the shortest road which basically means you need a really efficient main road since that's all the go to.

[Yoink]

My friends and I were struggling badly to decide on a movie to watch. One friend was scrolling through the library as the rest of us sat around watching, offering suggestions that ranged from half-hearted to entirely sarcastic, with the occasional serious one thrown in as well.

Seeing as it was taking a long, long time, I went to the bathroom to have myself a bowel movement (I told them not to wait for me, although I somewhat doubted they'd have made a decision by the time I returned), I take my time in there, read a bit of a book as I hear the sounds of a movie start up elsewhere in the house, then finally return to the loungroom only to find that they're watching... Transformers. Yeah, Transformers. The latest in the series of those absolutely godsfuckingawful modern Transformers movies.

I expressed my bewilderment, frowned my concern, bottled up my disgust and left the room.

[TempAcc]

Watching ridiculous movies with friends is great tho, since you can all make fun of it together :v

[Comrade P.]

Well it's easy to reach consensus about something if the subject of your interest is undeniably shit.

Ninja'd

[Tack]

Dude you added your input to the selection.
Your input was a bowel movement.

Ergo, Transformers.