/cbg/ – City Building General
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>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
>After Dark basic mods
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Contains everything you need for SC4 - getting started guide, modpacks, links to various SC4 communities (with more mods/guides):
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Remember to turn off U-Drive It icons and minimise the game UI when you take a screenshot.
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>Modding:
http://banishedinfo.com/
>>126274814
SimPeg needs to be removed from the SC4 pastebin.
>>126276283
I doubt the anon who manages that pastebin visits cbg anymore.
the banished cc mod is now 1.6
>>126278690
Sheeeeeiiiiittt. Will download it when I get back home
>>126278690
banished cc mod?
I apologize I havent kept up with this general for a while
>>126282217
http://www.colonialcharter.com/
Pic related.
>>126283826
>colonial Venice
hot damn this is amazing!
>>126285080
>colonial Venice
>tfw burned out on cities skylines
>love the idea of making big, comfy cities
>can't be fucked to pay attention to SC4 for more than 20 minutes
Is SC4 even really that great?
>>126292912
Not really. It's very bland and basic as far as city builders go. Skylines has way more depth.
>>126274814
Let it die
>>126293509
But I don't want to. I've had fun with you guys.
I never have screens to post; I can't plan cities from the start to be open to restructuring and have shit built into them as time goes on and yet I hate starting out with everything unlocked.
I really should get that 2-lane highway mod though. It'd make my region of many little towns a fuck ton easier.
Noob here. Is there a simple way to make traffic better? I have a few sections in my city where everything is just a clusterfuck even if I try to make roads bigger and add ways to go around places
>>126301064
Roundabouts
Hey /cbg/ I'm playing cities skylines and whenever I start a city I always make really grid-locked cities, that seem to work but aren't really fun, and definitely not attractive.
Pic related, but ignore all the abandonment and shit, they're just mad they haven't graduated highschool yet.
How do I get out of the grid and make better, more attractive cities?
>>126301848
Make curved roads using the freeform tool. "Organic" roads, as some dropouts here like to call them.
>>126302925
The issue is I normally play more flat maps so I don't have terrain to work around. And when I randomly just make curves it tends to look like shit
>>126303057
Then play on mountainous maps. Duh.
>>126304060
Then what's the point of non-mountain maps
>>126304182
Building cities, obviously, but if you're shit and make grids all the time, play on a mountain map.
>>126304662
Okay then lets reword this. I don't really like making a bunch of little towns. I'd rather have like a huge city. The grids I make tend to look like shit, as you can see, so how can I make them better? >>126301848 is at almost 7k people, so I didn't have high density unlocked yet.
>>126305240
Make curved roads using the freeform tool. "Organic" roads, as some dropouts here like to call them.
>>126305360
So if my arterial highway is bent and such, should I be making grids off it or should I be making more bent roads connecting to other bent roads, with other curvy roads leading off those and such?
Has someone here tried to replicate their hometown? How did it go?
>>126305638
Make more bent roads connecting to other bent roads, with other curvy roads leading off those and such.
>>126305810
I tried to replicate the map but it didn't work because I live in a really flat, feature-less area.
>>126305858
k, any other advice?
>>126305982
Git gud. The more you build and post in this thread, the gudder you'll get.
>>126305982
>k, any other advice?
Mix grids with curves, cities tend to have both. The smaller the road, the griddier it should be. Highways and large arteries don't give a fuck and just go wherever they need.
