/cbg/ City Building General
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--- News ---
Anno 2205 is out. General consensus is that it's a departure from 2070 and 1404 and should be judged on its own merits, not necessarily as a continuation of that formula, but that even judged on its own merits it can be argued that it's lacking content and coherence. It's not irredeemable shit.
--- Cities: Skylines ---
>Wiki:
http://www.skylineswiki.com/Cities:_Skylines_Wiki
>Modding guidelines:
http://www.skylineswiki.com/Modding
>Skyline's official site/Paradox (sign up for free Zen Garden and future free items!):
http://signup.citiesskylines.com/
>Heightmap generator
http://terrain.party/
>Custom building competition (Get your votes in now):
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?840333-Custom-Building-Competition&s=911beb05b91e9eaccfaac6c944ca44d8
>Unlocking all 25 tiles
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403798635
>Automatic bulldoze
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406132323
>Extended road upgrade tool
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=40820929
--- SimCity 4 ---
Contains everything you need for SC4 - getting started guide, modpacks, links to various SC4 communities (with more mods/guides):
http://pastebin.com/Fg9qNhcM
Remember to turn off U-Drive It icons and minimise the game UI when you take a screenshot.
--- Banished ---
>Modding:
http://banishedinfo.com/
--- Misc ---
OP template: http://pastebin.com/xBCp0DQB
Feel free to discuss city building games from series such as Cities: Skylines, SimCity, Cities XL, Banished, Anno, Tropico, Pharaoh or any others.
Dead thread
Dead game
Dead genre
>>122444348
GTA MOD WHEN
PLEASE
Has anyone figured out how to effectively use trains in their city yet?
>>122448689
I'd use intra-city trains for tile to tile transport, maximum 1 station per tile with loops at the end. Keep intra-city trains on their own tracks if you can, to prevent jamming inter-city passenger and cargo lines. The game unlocks the transport options in the wrong order in my opinion. Passenger trains are only necessary in a fully-unlocked map whereas metro can be vital for shuttling passengers early on.
>>122448689
use them for intra city travel where a metro isnt justified
*want to travel from town to town, use train
*want to travel within the city? use the metro
Cities: Skylines After Dark essential mods
http://pastebin.com/HEcKw21a
Daily reminder to fix your traffic: http://imgur.com/a/z1rM1
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=522776740
How to make maps
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RGG6y8XmPUqfn354wX9m0obhAbRZ0uHtXcfEr-D7BbA/edit
>>122460103
Road hierarchy is the main message to take from those guides. That disgusting spaghetti in the imgur link is another matter though. The poster talks like he's hot shit on traffic, but apparently has never seen a highway interchange or even an off-ramp before
>no 4 lane one way roads
>no 4 lane roads without median strips
vanilla a shit
>>122463321
>no 3 lane one way roads with building zones
>no 1 lane road that occupies 1 cell
>>122464847
zonable alleyways would be pretty nice
rate
>>122465718
horrible shot, there's a powerline in the way
>>122431313
pls respond, /kspg/.
>>122444531
underrated post
is tropico 2 welcome, mateys?
>>122469831
as long as you build a town or citie
>>122472010
does this count?
>>122473183
i see houses and organisation
looks like a town to me
>>122473378
from an old game where i had no idea what to do tho
tfw sick and just want to play a comfy game but havent played a game in weeks
>>122473454
you rarely see tropico posters here
but they are accepted
pls no die
>>122467235
what about another shot?
>>122477254
let it out of its misery already.
see you friends again when c:s gets new dlc.
>>122478524
never
>>122477761
Tilt shift only looks good when you're looking from above. Either turn the depth of field off or take photo from above.
t. photographer
Would you rather build on mountainous maps or flat maps?
>>122489190
Mountain maps > island maps > flat maps
>>122489615
Still haven't tried a proper island map. Always afraid of the hard build space limit
>>122464931
what about putting a shitty dirt road in the back after all the houses build (so they face the right way)
so it's 2lane road, house zone x4, dirt road, house zone x4, 2lane road again
mite b cool but I'm not at home so I can't try it out yet
>delete all bus lines
>all congestion goes away more or less instantly
Am I doing buses wrong in C:S or are they just shit?
Also, ded
>>122495982
what kind of roads are the bus lines on?
if it's 2 or 3 lanes each direction, then you shouldn't have an issue with buses stopping frequently.
How far apart are your stops? too often and you're gonna jam things up
>>122496520
Generally I put them on 6-lane avenues, maybe it's the spacing. They always just end up seeming to hold up the rest of the proper traffic, though. I thought it was better to route buses away from the main roads?
>>122497217
post your city layout
if you have long stretches of main road you might want to use a metro to move people up and down it.
Use buses to take people to the sides of the main streets in smaller loops
>>122428530
Fuck that, had no interest in Anno till 2205, gonna play specifically for the lunar and permafrost regions which few other games provide.
>>122497832
This is the layout and the congestion after deleting all the buses, my metro seems to see good use, it has a clockwise and anticlockwise route inside a loop.
>Skylines comes out
>general is deder than before when it was mostly just SC4 posting
Proof that SC4 is the better game
Post SC4, revive /cbg/
>>122500179
OH GOD DONT DIE THREAD
EMERGENCY BUMP
death pls go
>>122503740
Thread is kill.
gib gud mountain maps pls
Can Age of Empires go in here? I can't find a /rts/ thread and can't think of a better placeand I like making pretty scenes in the game.
So...where do I post OpenTTD?
>>122511953
try this
>>122517573
here
>>122517573
Someone needs to put a ghostly apparition of Smug Pepe over this picture.
>AD has been out for like a month
>still no leisure or tourism buildings in the workshop
cmon yall
>>122518375
Someone made a few club buildings, I thought.
>>122507101
>futurescapes
My dick
>>122518265
It's not too hard to do it yourself.
>>122519213
>Making your own airports.
Don't know why they took out airport and seaport zoning from 3k.
>>122519404
It's hard to generate pretty airports. Seaports are probably easier though.
>anno 2205
Any way to sell petrochemicals? I have 999 and that's the cap, and I have 12,000 credits. Need cash badly.
>>122520876
I wish 1503 would run on linux.
I wanna post but I have no inspiration to make things
tfw you want to make cities but keep playing Plebout 4 instead.
>>122521316
What version do you have?
>>122530393
I'm going to guess 1.0. I haven't installed Wine, or an optical drive. I never bothered to get gud but 1503 was still fun, and really comfy.
>>122499836
in blue you should fix your roads
red is bus lines that would link your subway (i guessed where you have stations) with the rest of your buildings
>>122440305
I havve no idea what I'm doing in this game, when you start what should I be doing with the roads? Should I just use regular roads or what?
>>122533826
you want at least 2 or 3 connections to the highway so that every single car entering/leaving the city doesn't get forced through one point.
also make sure industrial traffic doesn't have to drive from freeway through residential to reach your industry
>>122535770
Ok, thanks.
How is Anno 1503 compared to 1404?
I know they arent necessarily city builders but I enjoy the comfy aesthetic of the series
>>122507101
That's amazing.
>>122473183
the fuck is with this guy.
>>122536946
Guess they'll let anybody be a pirate these days.
>>122536946
>plundr n sheeeit
>>122533006
Thanks anon, I'll give it a go
>>122517573
/kspg/ s a good place to discuss OpenTTD.
>>122553392
/kspg/? I thought that was for bestiality.
>>122553923
Cat dick, snek and OpenTTD.
>>122489813
tried it, it fucks up the zoning for one unless it's a completely accurate grid, and it doesn't look the best
>>122444531
is this the simcopter or am i too old?
>page 10
D E D
E
D
Rate my highway offramp/road interchange
It works like a charm so far
>>122573114
>cat ears
rate my highly advanced highway system
>>122536785
them fucking japs man
cant wait for them to start modding Skylines
>inb4 none have the PC specs to run it like they could SC4
>>122513417
Absolutely
>and I like making pretty scenes in the game.
Same here, although I didn't make much more after these.
>>122520174
God, thats beautiful in an industrial way
Anyone got any good naval bases/ports?
I just have this screenshot, I haven't made any good ones myself though.
>>122576385
>>122577186
>>122577332
>>122577529
dumping SC4 why not
>>122579115
>>122579296
I am watching, anon, and I appreciate SC4. Carry on
>>122579907
cheers
So guys, im trying to play simcity 4, and ive tried using these launch options, and im 99% sure im doing it correctly, ive even tried using the SC4Launcher thing, and even setting up the 1920x1080 resolution in that, the game still launches in 4:3. what do
>>122581576
This is nice.
>>122582063
guess i figured it out.. tried a batch file and it worked
>>122582409
Oh that is neat, got any static region pics?
I only have this one, cant find the other better ones that showed entire regions, giant mega cities, and comfy snowy mountains etc
>>122582625
>>122582409 is not actually mine. It's just the top post from
I'm out of ideas. I plan to make multiple small towns but ran out of what to do from the start...
>>122582915
well post more then I love full modded full region views of SC4, that's the best shit, wish I could find the ones I saved
>>122583159
sounds like me when I try to draw anything
or do anything
>>122583159
Put a roundabout
r8
How can I actually ban those cunts? Stop using heavy trucks in the fucking city for fucks sake!
I have heavy traffic ban everywhere except industrial area.
>>122587391
Post a screenie with more of the area. It seems that whole massive elevated roundabout is totally unnecessary, and that it just slows traffic. To meed it all seems needlessly complicated (so much grade separation) given how much room you have.
>>122588151
It's to try and distribute traffic into the area.
Honestly I have very little idea what I'm doing and am probably misguided.
>>122587875
If they can't leave the industrial area they'll disregard the heavy traffic ban, y'know.
>>122588787
I'm talking about industry → commercial traffic. Not import/export.
afew spam
>>122576187
are those piles even FOR anything or is it just autismo nice looking stuff
>>122591441
pipes*
I saw a space city builder a while back that looked interesting but I can't find it now; It was like a moon-base kind of thing, but it wasn't Space Colony or the new Anno. Anyone know what I am talking about?
>>122588768
I would say to trash the whole thing and start over. Have that cross road that's going into the roudabout just be a straight road flying over the main ave. then construct a trumpet (see pic). Connect additional ramps in and out to that cross road if you have to, but I think maybe route that traffic elsewhere. My autism is tingling.But not enough to draw a picture.
Not entirely on-topic but this seems like the best place to ask.
I'm looking to build a Sim-Tower-esque version of my apartment building, but in 3D. There seems to be a big gap between the scale of Sims 4 and city builders. Are there any mods or very small city/apartment builder games that would let me reconstruct a building for simulated living?
>>122588768
something like this should work no problem
>>122591718
Planetbase?
>>122589157
Well, shops need goods to sell. So no, you can't get rid of that. Best you can do is provide traffic routes to shopping districts
>>122592921
Have you ever seen a trailer in city centre? I mean, it's not like they're actually baned IRL, but they're very rare. Because they are hard to maneuver and also cause traffic jams. But in this game, trailers are everywhere. Fucking bullshit. They can use smaller vehicles.
>>122591441
water, but it can theoretically be whatever you want
So lovely and posh, not mine though
>>122593254
I dunno man, in my cities it's almost always vans that do the commercial goods delivery.
>>122592878
yeah that was it, thanks
This turned out better than expected. Maybe it's time to upgrade the gravel road
>>122596292
Oh; those are only modded trucks. Game is seeing them as vans.
>>122597052
Found the problem. The trucks created by Shroomblaze are tagged as "industry", not a specific type. So the game is seeing them as vans instead.
Quick!
Post your skyline!
rate my 50k population city.
>>122597967
My cities are consistently underwhelming.
>>122597967
Comfy as fuck nights
>>122598960
W-what's up with those highway spagettis you've got going on in there?
Also too much european style buildings for my taste.
>>122599998
>Also too much european style buildings for my taste.
Casual
r8
>>122576385
>>122577186
>>122577332
>>122577529
>>122577686
I really like these, post more as you make them. I only started playing AOE2 again recently so I haven't had time to make purposefully pretty scenery yet, but I always liked the screenshots people made of immersive medieval villages and want to start making that kind of stuff of my own soon. I tried to do something kind of aesthetic with that Gothic village posted above when I realized I started by the ocean.
Have this screenshot in honor of recent events making the news as a return gift in the meantime.
>>122601285
>you WILL use the monorail
>>122604059
crude, but effective
>>122604305
>>122597967
>>122606062
>Skyline
>all that ground
From low!
>>122606159
>>122606329
I like it
>>122604305
>>122605058
>>122601285
aaaaaa
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>122601285
>>122605058
>>122604305
fug
>>122609003
>>122607964
>>122601285
>>122604305
>>122605058
I think this is an instance where the "I threw up in my mouth a little" response is appropriate.
Are you trying to trigger /cbg/ or what? What are you even trying to accomplish with those roads?
>>122611348
>What are you even trying to accomplish with those roads?
Chaos
Am I making a mistake having my commercial inline with my residential?
>>122609003
How the fuck is it easier to make believable attractive cities in fucking Age of Empires than in a dedicated engine like Anno?
>>122615802
AoE is mostly freeform with lots of abstraction and no necessity for resources to travel more than from a forest to a forestry lodge. On the other hand, Anno has YOU MUST PLACE THIS WITHIN THIS CIRCLE.
>>122606095
>>122605058
>>122604305
>>122601285
Is this the Rush Hour tutorial??
>>122613432
Normal commercial? No. High density commercial? Probably.
>>122622760
This looks so shitty
>>122577025
i have one decent one i can post from the last few threads. WIP.
>>122625305
UNFFF
Post all your screens please, I love this
>>122625380
God DAMN this picture is fucking awesome
>>122625879
yer godamn right it is
posting naval docks
>>122625967
>>122626132
>>122625380
ill have to take some more screens. i plan to expand that city tile as well. here is a region pic that i have with a yellow circle over the approximate area of the simnavy port. its all part of a region i have been slowly working on to help keep /cbg/ afloat
>>122628459
>its all part of a region i have been slowly working on to help keep /cbg/ afloat
Doing gods work then
Nice looking region, too, natural looking
>>122628523
indeed i cant take credit for what is already created in the pic. the red area is what i will expand myself though. i have blank tiles all prepped for god mode.
nippon
>>122631939
you know what to do
>>122631939
>those tiny ass squares for tiny ass islands in the middle of nowhere
tfw growing bored of my city
>>122643471
Post screens! I would like to see an overhead, a street level skyline, a traffic overlay, or another random shot of your choosing!
>>122574787
>low lumber
>no cemetary
>pirates poor as fuck
3/10
at least there are enough wenches
So what mods do people use in skylines?
>>122460103
God damn, I really need to power through unlocking all the fucking buildings so I can finally play with mods
>>122657838
Thats all? i mean like buildings and shit
Midnight meat train and whatnot
comfy
Rate my artsection
Would you?
>>122668105
Would go up to take photos of city while visiting/10
>>122668105
Need more pictures for informed decision.
>>122668105
Ha, no thanks, for some reason I can go up into a tall enclosed building and airplanes just fine but tall heights with just a railing between me and a drop just nope the fuck out of me.
2205 vanilla yes or no
>>122676050
No. Wait until there's more content and if it fixes the game.
>>122676217
How is it compared to 2070 vanilla?
Is there any benefit to making a dedicated passenger trainline, or should I just use subways?
>>122676519
More simplified and easier to manage, lack scenarios and randomized maps for continuous games. But it's prettier and combat is completely optional now.
>>122678114
Good info thanks
>>122647340
I'll have to do it later but I've solved my problem.
I have a few outlying areas that I'll connect with passenger train lines
>>122460103
>Cities: Skylines After Dark essential mods
>http://pastebin.com/HEcKw21a
Link broken?
>>122681198
Pastebin is broken.
>>122687463
ded
>>122690491
jews
>>122690672
always
So with the network addon mod on sim city 4, how the fuck do you actually build highways and exits and things? its really annoying and complex, and its turning me off from playing the game. maybe im just a pleb
>>122691085
Just uninstall it, anon.
I need trains. But it's too steep ;_;
>>122691085
NAM was the worst thing to happen to SC4
>>122541790
>>122547423
lel
>>122469831
tropico series is awesome
>>122695505
yay
Who city of the mole people here?
>>122696558
Shit, son. Post more.
>>122695984
so why the fuck is it suggested in the pastebin, and said that it is "required"
>>122696398
>>122696398
upgrade that dirt road
red is ground based and blue is bridges
the dotted line is just an alternative path
>try to relocate cargo hub
>this happens
what de fugggg
>>122713972
Slope is too steep?
>>122715776
no I moved it from this location and then the weird jetty thing appeared
it went away after I reloaded the game, but then made a giant water spike that caused minor flooding
>>122681198
It's working now.
have any of you actually made cities big enough to require 50 public transport lines?
I just don't understand the concept of a well designed system linking airports, trains, subways, and buses together
I live in southern california so cars are the primary method of transit
>>122721875
comfy
>>122710110
nam is good. rhw is an abortion to work with
>>122691085
if you're not willing to invest 10 hours in making and remaking it over and over until shit fits together, just use the vanilla highways.
