Decided to try my hand at building cities...

"for Michigan" (formichigan) 09/07/2016 at 01:25 • Filed to: cities skylines, simulation

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...drowned everyone.

Wind power couldn’t keep up with my burgeoning metropolis, so I decided to go hydro! How hard could it be to build a dam? Turns out, it isn’t easy.

I had heard it was challenging, so I saved my game before the first attempt. The east side of my city (residential zone) promptly flooded.

Reload.

Built a quay and flood wall to keep the water out, worked great. Had some unforeseen flooding on the neighboring peninsula, but I hadn’t built there yet so no big deal. Some water got past the end of the flood wall and got some homes on the south side a little wet, but it ran off quickly.

The night came and the rain started. On the west side, water began to creep into the industrial district. I figured it’d just run off again. I was very wrong.

Within five minutes the water had spread from the industrial sector to cover the entire city. The only buildings that weren’t under water were the high rises and people began to flee by the hundreds. It was over. The water had won.

TL;DR: Building cities is freaking hard.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > for Michigan 09/07/2016 at 02:24

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What game is this? It sounds so comical.

Variance > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/07/2016 at 02:44

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Cities: Skylines

Tareim - V8 powered > for Michigan 09/07/2016 at 03:09

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Oh man I’ve not been on this game.for awhile but feel like I need to now just to do the same lol

MuchWagon > for Michigan 09/07/2016 at 05:41

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I have to check this out. I’m a frustrated city planner, as jobs in design are incredibly hard to come by, especially without an art or architecture background. And that’s understandable, but still kind of sucks.

djmt1 > for Michigan 09/07/2016 at 05:46

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I've just come off building a city on that map but here is tip. A couple of tiles to the left of the starting tile is a narrow river. Building a dam there should give you around 600MW.

for Michigan > djmt1 09/07/2016 at 08:12

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That seems like a much better idea. Otherwise, I think I’d just have to build a flood wall around the entire city.

TheRealBicycleBuck > for Michigan 09/07/2016 at 08:23

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Now that you know how hard it is to get it right, would it shock you to know that most cities were built ad-hoc? It’s amazing that anything works as expected!

for Michigan > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/07/2016 at 08:37

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It’s definitely given me a greater appreciation for proper city planning and a bit of empathy for poor planning.

Tapas > for Michigan 09/07/2016 at 09:13

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Did you build a tunnel through the core to the other side of the world?

Trans-planetary tunnels are key.

MM54 > for Michigan 09/07/2016 at 21:54

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There’s rain now? Man I’ve not played this in quite a while

for Michigan > MM54 09/07/2016 at 23:50

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The updates have been steady.

Round headlight enthusiast > for Michigan 09/12/2016 at 16:51

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Every time I play SimCity I end up with a heavily Industrial ghetto. So I guess I’m at least as good as a lot of actual city officials.