"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
07/09/2018 at 21:40 • Filed to: None
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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
07/09/2018 at 21:40 • Filed to: None | 1
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Maybe it’s because Colossal Order hates cars and car drivers, but the truth is that car traffic is so painfully stupid that no matter how well or badly connected my city is, or how much I regulate my highways, cars will find a way to pile up in a single lane and make a fucking mess.
So I made a few changes and upgrades from the last version of my city. In the span since !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! it grew from 110,000 to around 180,000 cims. This is the new map:
Key changes are:
* Downsized the airport, made a single airport-harbor complex that is completely isolated from the rest of the city
*Reduced road entry into the city significantly.
*Specialized many districts in the North Western area of the city; those became the main tourist spots
*Created brand new passenger and freight cargo lines.
*created two “express lanes” on the Western and Southern corridor of the highway that allow cars that don’t want to take the exits to avoid all the traffic.
The cargo and passenger train routes are the biggest changes.
Cargo trains:
Three independent lines: Maple Hills and Farmland, Fawn Industrial, Madison Pa Industrial; all three lines were placed strategically so that minimal modifications could allow for further development. These three lines have two directions: either your trains go to the Foreign Cargo Stations, or they go to the Foreign ports. Each line has their own sea port and cargo station.
As for cargo trucks and semis; they must enter the city and choose to go to the North Eastern Mines or go to the Foreign Ports in a discriminated highway that doesn’t let them enter the city.
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Passenger trains:
Four independent lines: Maple Hills, and Highland area get their own lanes while Farmland/Umber Square and Walnut Park are serviced by a single NW line, Madison Park and Lilac
are served by a single SE line. Initially I wanted to connect Farmland and the Maple Hills with a monorail, but I found the placement of stations easier, plus I had space in the main station. All stations have metro/tram access.
As for the Airport, it’s served by a Monorail with two lines: one line goes to the Farmland train station (in case they want to use a high speed train) and to the tourist area in the NW area of the city.
I am also discriminating foreign car traffic, as all foreign cars must enter straight into the new central station.
Some fixes are still needed, for instance
Oak Hills, a small industrial area, is still only serviceable by truck since making a railway would’ve been space prohibited.
I still need to fix the Western corridor of the perimeter highway, this has a huge amount of traffic. I should also replace all of my metro lines and remove most of the bus and tram services.
winterlegacy, here 'till the end
> Spanfeller is a twat
07/09/2018 at 21:48 |
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I finally bothered to reopen C:S after all this time. Meet my terrible city from a while back.
18,000 cims all ready to go.
In the top left is The Developments, the uneducated and lightly-educated worker farm for feeding the (offscreen) Forested Hell, which as you might suspect, is a forestry operation. There is a single metro loop feeding it, which the cims don’t seem to bother taking... ever. Oh C:S AI, never cease being stupid.
Down to the middle-left near the lake is Goldenwood, a low density ‘burb providing a large majority of the city’s original population. A metro line is set up to provide fast transport between it and the high density metropolitan area on the shoreline, Garnet Coast.
Smack dab in the middle is the Industrial Park which I was probably in the process of demolishing and moving back over towards The Developments, because forestry never seems to work even in max forestry areas.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> winterlegacy, here 'till the end
07/09/2018 at 21:52 |
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My city has some cheap areas; Lilac is rathe drab and the richer folk live in Highland and Hipster Island
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Spanfeller is a twat
> winterlegacy, here 'till the end
07/09/2018 at 22:11 |
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Reduce the speed limit on the highways
FSI
> Spanfeller is a twat
07/10/2018 at 00:43 |
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My city stagnated at around 81,000 cims. Probably because of traffic:(
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Spanfeller is a twat
> FSI
07/10/2018 at 01:36 |
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How many outside connections do you have?
health, water, power?
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FSI
> Spanfeller is a twat
07/10/2018 at 11:09 |
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Phew, would have to look that up again but a small airport, freight yards and train stations were there.
Probably all good I suppose. City was a single mess because it was my first attempt.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> FSI
07/10/2018 at 18:33 |
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I had an issue because if you apply city wide policies, cars are allowed to cross outside their no drive zone