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"TheJWT" (thejwt) 04/07/2018 at 21:24 • Filed to: None

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Anyone still play Cities Skylines? I’ve been playing it a good amount lately, making my still-unnamed city as realistic as I can.

MM54 > TheJWT 04/07/2018 at 21:34

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It’s up on my other monitor now, just sort of growing the city along as it goes. Not much to look at!

TheJWT > MM54 04/07/2018 at 21:36

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I do that a lot, just sit there and watch the city

facw > TheJWT 04/07/2018 at 21:38

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Have been meaning to get a game in for a while. I’m settling in for a Crusader Kings 2 game at the moment though, so that will probably occupy me for a few weeks. Not as many cars there though...

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > TheJWT 04/07/2018 at 21:41

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I play lots. I made a cities post just last week!

jkm7680 > TheJWT 04/07/2018 at 21:47

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That’s pretty cool, I had no idea that was actually a thing.

TheJWT > jkm7680 04/07/2018 at 22:09

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It’s a really fun game, kind of a spiritual successor to Simcity but better in a few ways

TheJWT > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/07/2018 at 22:10

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I must have missed it, looks great!

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > TheJWT 04/07/2018 at 22:29

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I’ve considering picking up cities skylines. As an avid player of every Simcity up to the end, tell me more!

Brickman > TheJWT 04/07/2018 at 22:44

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I need to get back to it. Got it on a Steam sale a while back and found it hard to use (no mods) then went back to Sim City 4.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > TheJWT 04/07/2018 at 22:45

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Thanks! Yours too!

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 04/08/2018 at 03:22

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I’ve been a fan of SimCity for 10 years now, and the last one was awful.

I’ve played more than a 100 hours of Cities Skylines, and it’s everything that the shitty last SC should have been, and much more.

No matter what your style of play is - unlimited budget sandbox, or economy management, or urban planning on a realistic budget, it’s got you covered. It brings in new mecanics which make it more fun, like noise pollustion, realistic water currents which affect water pollution and managing the river, great terraforming, both grid and gridless building, fine controls over your roads and buildings... The list goes on.

But the most amazing thing is the modding community. You can just browse the mods on Steam Workshop and install them with the click of one button - and boom, it’s in the game. I was always a bit afraid of mods, when you see what they do in Skyrim it’s ridiculous, and everywhere else it’s intimidating because it feels like you should have a software engineering degree to install them, but not here.

I added whole sets of british victorian randomly generated buildings to my game, or new and improved models of trains or airplanes, or added new real-life cars which roam around the city, or big Walmarts, Targets, or real life landmarks and specific buildings. It goes even deeper than that, you can add the options to fine-tune the traffic lights on each intersection, to add pedestrian crossings wherever you want, or choose from a million different road types, like 2 lane wide, 2 lane with bike lane, 1 wide lane with tram with one narrow lane, highway with 4,5,6,7 lanes, etc.

I highly recommend it, and by now it’s patched and it should work well even on potato hardware.

average user > TheJWT 04/08/2018 at 11:11

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Of course!

I have posted numerous CS posts in the past couple of weeks. Feel free to poke around. Working on a city 5 minutes ago.

Something funny: Even in a city sim, BMW owners parks badly.

TheJWT > average user 04/08/2018 at 11:20

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Nice 930 in the corner there too!

average user > TheJWT 04/08/2018 at 11:23

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And a 68 911 just above the BMW. Steam is wonderful.