Cities Skyline

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Anyone else playing this city builder? I used to love the old sim city, but the last one was a shower of st. Nothing in recent years has impressed me, Cities XL/XXL was rubbish (nothing to do with this game in anyway). I stumbled across this game a few weeks back by accident on youtube. One of the channels I subscribe to was doing a lets play on it. It got released yesterday and I have to say its brilliant. So if you liked the old sim city games then this is for you.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/10/cities-skyl...

http://www.pcgamer.com/cities-skylines-review/

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Malx said:

I was tempted with this but had wrongly assumed it was part of the Cities XL series. Having found out it wasn't I went ahead and bought it last night. Not managed to play much but I'm liking what I've seen so far.

Oh, if you are playing you may like to know that Playfire to challenges with GMG credit as rewards. Free money for playing the game (and others)
http://blog.playfire.com/2015/03/cities-skylines-p...

That was what I thought when I first saw it, another crappy "Cities" game. But then I read that other than the first part of the name it shares nothing else. So looked in to it a bit further and took a punt. Haven't regretted it one bit so far.

Cheers for that link. Have signed up for some rewards .

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I'm playing it currently on my Surface Pro 2 as my laptop charger decided to go pop recently. So don't see why it wouldn't work.

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Anyone else having issues with traffic? I've tried a mega round about, a by-pass, large junction etc. It helps for about 30mins, but slowly a massive tailback in all directions appears. I've put in new off ramps etc to certain districts but still as my city grows the traffic get's worse. Any idea's.

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I sorted out the traffic problem with three simple steps.

1. Bulldozed my posh housing area and ran a raised highway in its place.
2. Used public transport in and around the affected area.
3. Put a no heavy vehicle policy in place and stopped trucks from using the back roads.

Seems to of sorted the problem for now, but it took hours.

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3sixty said:

Got it and love it, although seems a bit too easy? Dunno if I need to up the settings but seem to be raking in the money with not much effort

To make it harder, start a new city. Don't do any forward thinking then about 2-3hrs later you will be ripping your hair out with traffic problems, not enough highly educated people and power/water issues.

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muppetdave said:

Wow, looks awesome. The hours I lost to SC2000 as a kid are unreal. Must...not... downoad........

Don't resist, join the Cities Skyline fold.

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smithyithy said:

Installed it last night on Steam and it runs like a bag of bad stuff on my Mac, which is within the recommended spec..

I'll have to tweak the settings and see what's up. The keyboard and mouse prompts are all for PC too which is annoying.

Check the support forums. Apparently they know about issues with mac's and they are sorting it. But in the mean time there are some work arounds.

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Nice city. Will post up pictures of the disgrace I call a city later. We have pollution, traffic problems, fire problems, crime problems, you name it my city has it. But I have a posh area which is going really well, so screw the rest. The rich people are happy.