/cbg/ - City Building General
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Feel free to discuss city building games from series such as Cities: Skylines, SimCity, Cities XL, Banished, Anno, Tropico, Pharaoh or any others.
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>your city will never look this good
>>123275570
stop posting the low quality
>>123275570
It could anon
>>123275570
I can't even place harbors straight. How do you achive that, mods for terrain editing?
GUYS, PLS HELP! I added some more buildings though the workshop and now I always get the "cities skylines.exe stopped working" error. It's not the mods, since it also appeared after I unsubscribed the new mods. I reinstalled the game, but it didn't help, it just keeps happening.
I have a lot of other mods installed but they didn't make any trouble before, I don't know what it could be.
>>123285186
I also verified the cache btw
>>123287847
/cbg/ can't dead
>>123288061
>>123285186
Uninstall EVERYTHING and then reinstall just the base game.
pls no die
ded games ded thread
r8?
It feels big but having zoomed out I haven't covered too much of the map, it's getting a bit chaotic though.
>>123297389
Traffic infrastructure probably can't handle much more desu
>>123297389
>>123297884
spaghetti/10 tbqh
There must be a way to simplify life in this concrete hellhole
>>123297389
not round roundabouts / 10
>>123299442
It's all perfectly straightforward and simple to navigate anon
Why is this noble general always so ded?It's because you faggots don't post OC.
>>123305946
People simply don't post what they're doing, that's why it's so dead.
rate me map lads
>>123275438
>Anno 1404: Venetiae
>Barren Lands scenario
Too bad many of the other scenarios are silly.
>>123307280
Here's a natural landmark that needs a peculiar, native sounding name for extra autism. Any ideas?
>>123307651
Blazing Saddle.
>>123307651
Bob's Asscheeks.
>>123307280
What's with the odd low quality?
Anyway to fix this? Just getting back to the game and starting a new city and this is bothering the FUCK outta me.
>>123314227
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502750307&searchtext=terraform
Right here buddy.
Also there's a mod to keep achievements enabled while using other mods.
Assuming you aren't completely fucking cheating I suggest you get that.
>>123275438
Does the steam version of Simcity 4 works on windows 7?
>>123315532
It should. I mean, I'm using the CD version and I can run it on Win7.
Are there any Pharaoh-esque games besides Children of the Nile?
>>123319814
In that they're citybuilders set in ancient egypt? Not as far as I know.
Have some nostalgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tKVj98bpwo
Saving it from destruction
What's the smartest and most efficient way to create an intersection like this?
>>123323291
I usually opt for this but it gets messy after a while
>>123313658
That's not even OC. That's scribbles you made on my screenshot.
>>123323291
Roundabout.
are there any other games besides SC4 where you can terraform the world?
This general has died when fo4 got released. Coincidence?
>>123326298
Depends on what degree. Several building games have some kind of terraforming, but mostly not very extensive. You could look at God games to see if there are some that tickle your fancy.
>>123327220
This general dies all the time.
>>123326298
nope. sc4 was the first and last world and city/region builder.
Space Engineers is down so I'm back to Skylines
Ahhhhhhh
>only good looking turbo roundabout has retarded dependencies
why must people be so cruel?
>>123319814
On a side note, do you have the Cleopatra expac for Pharaoh? Not that much content, but it does add some.
rate my residential expansion
it's gonna be real fancy
rate my disaster
>>123335469
one of these
>>123333190
robotic/10
>>123324663
Yes and you didn't even reply to it when I did it the first time you fuck
My computer doesn't have the specs for Cities: Skylines, but only just. Are there any mods that increase performance so I can play?
>>123342625
Try the Isometric mod if it's still available. Gives you a Sims 4 perspective and increased performance for me
>>123342849
This one?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409359952
Some people in the comments say it no longer works.
Moo lied Skylines died
>>123335645
Can you walk from one side of the city to the other entirely underground?
>>123275438
That picture makes me hard.
>>123319814
Not to my knowledge.
>>123275438
>play both c3 and pharaoh
>in caesar, unemployment rate never goes above 5-6%, even when I deliberately try to build ghettos
>in pharaoh I have to sweat balls to make it drop below 40%, fucking sandniggers
All in all, one of my fervrit series, great games, why don't we make more games with this artstyle, I want 700 MB games back instead of today's 14GBs.
>>123355330
There's also the Chinese version, but it isn't on GoG yet.
>>123355414
That one is a bit off, the camera is is more zoomed in compared to previous releases, or the buildings got bigger, I don't know, but that's the only complaint I have about it.
The differences from the previous installments make Emperor great, it handles gods differently and has this great random map generator type of thing. Loved it.
I'm new.
What do?
They are just stanger dudes, who want to help me to build my cozy little village, or Mohammed and Mahmoud, who will rape my sheeps?
>>123357015
Avoid nomads. They're uneducated, and bring sicknesses.
>>123330637
>sharp turns on subway lines
Why?
>>123357015
Always accept nomads. Are you afraid of DIVERSITY, you shitlord?
>>123357075
>>123358608
Well, shit.
These huge maps are amazing
ded
>>123360353
what game ?
i just unfucked a traffic problem and the game decides to crash ;_;
>>123369245
What's your population?
>>123369776
around 80k
>>123368661
That's Tropico
>>123369776
>>123370496
disregard that, i just checked and its only 60k
How's my city looking?
>>123375110
Like Mother Base, but shittier.
Speaking of that, any city builder where I can build a town on platforms?
I miss Stronghold.
>>123305946
Well alright then.
Here you go, OC.
>>123380994
Play it. Would love to see some comfy castles
Can anyone recommend some dank Skylines maps to build on?
I downloaded Tokyo-3 from Evangelion because weeb, but it's shit for actually making a city because of all the mountainous terrain.
>>123381968
>>123382651
These are all pretty great.I'm jealous
>>123381968
Can't take screenshots of the old game, and the 3D games aren't fun to play.
>>123383123
Thanks friendo. I have a video series detailing the construction of this city, if you wanna see.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbpLOXIs36ggn3msrPIo9shY0dugxnUN
>>123381968
Hang on, I can. Just one by one.
I love this fucking building.
>>123383513
giving me a hankerin
>>123381968
>>123383158:^)
Well, that's it for this city.
ONTO THE NEXT ONE
>>123385412
Urgh Legends
>interesting idea
>most war machines are incredibly shitty and impossible to use
>castle economy is so reduced it's basically nothing
>some of the new units have no counter
Still my favourite 3D game, but damn it's not easy to like it.
Good news is, I figured out what that traffic issue was, that stopped cars from moving every now and then. Turns out it was some beta test option in a mod, I had forgot to turn off.
>>123385412
Is that Banished?
>>123387195
>>123387317
>stop militarization of the police force pls
>>123387724NO
I'm bored with my city and my life. Suggest some funny/cool assets from the workshop to tinker with.
pic not related.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=549389735&searchtext=wall
>>123388160
Well, back to playing videogames.
>>123388528
>beautiful grids on one part of the town
>spaghetti on the other
Why?
>>123388819
Just wanted a taste of what it was like.
>>123355330
>>123355414
No love for Zeus?
>>123384032
Is it true that the wall pieces to do this sunken stuff are incredibly fiddly to use?
>>123389875
Kinda, but not too bad. You gotta flatten the land, then build a road, and the walls off of it. then you can lower the land in front of the walls, but don't delete that road or the walls will shift height.
>>123388160
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406649206
Oh man, this game is the shit. I've spent the last 45 hours in my room playing it. Why didn't anyone tell me it was so good?
>>123391910
which game?
>>123391910
which game?
>>123391910
which game?
>>123392472
>>123392984
>>123393072
you wouldn't get it, you had to be there.
>>123275438
Man building those Syphinxses was so fucking annoying. They needed like everything.
Do you think the price of Cities Skylines will go down even further during the Winter Sale? 50% looks mighty tempting.
>>123394518
Maybe.
>>123349557
yes, that is the idea
>>123380994
Stronghold HD is on sale over at steam for like two bucks right now.
ded
tfw don't know how to fill an island with high density commercial and office while including a ton of public transport
Why did no one tell me that Tropico 4 is amazing? It just crashed on me and I last saved about an hour or so ago though. The pain.
tfw cities skylines runs like shit cause all the mods
is there any way they'd optimize the whole workshop stuff. I have "only" 40 pages of mods but as soon as I get a big city (40k~) my fps drops to 25-30
>>123385412
oh man I remember this, doesn't it have werewolves
idc what people said I had fun
Stronghold 2 is best Stronghold.
why do all the monument buildings have to be such weird sizes?
They completely ruin efficient grid designs
>>123406438
>having a shitty opinion
>shamelessly sharing it with other anons
You're the worst.
>>123406769
Put them in the middle of 4 grid squares and surround them with trees and pedestrian paths, try to trick yourself into believing it matters making things look nice and make a park around it.
pls no die
>>123406438
>>123407023
>>123411226
I spent150hours in Stronghold 2
50 in Legends
300+ between Crusader 1 and HD
But i dropped Crusader 2 after 2 hours and never refunded the piece of shit.
Cities Skylines worth getting for $15?
>>123412895
I think it is.
>>123383231
These anon what are these
What kind of city do you live in? What kind of city do you want to live in?
I currently live near Seattle so it's city everywhere. I want to live in another part of the state that is smaller and more rural. I don't do much so the appeal of a huge amount of entertainment doesn't do it for me
>>123319814
Lethis Path of Progress. I don't know why everyone hates it So much it plays just like the impression games.
>>123419189
That's not set in ancient egypt, which I presume is what he was looking for given that he mentioned Children of the Nile, which isn't Sierra-styled at all.
>>123307280
>>123307651
So I've started a city here. Gonna try to fit as much people there as possible, while also keeping it kinda favela-like in flavor, so it's gonna be spaghetti roads and paths leading everywhere
Tried starting up Cities Skylines but I'm so confused. The tutorial told me to make a road so I made a big road but I don't know what to do next
>>123421597
Maek road.
Maek residential zone.
Maek power and water infrastructure.
???
DETROIT!
>>123418640
I currently live in a large city. I used to live in a small town (~10k) right next to a ~70k city. That was perfect because you had the nice cozy feeling of the small town, but all the amenities of the big city since it's just a couple minutes away.
Is Minecraft considered a City Building Game?
>>123436276
>>123436276
Did you build a city?
Then no.
>>123439159
You can if you want to.
Which is better, Cities Skylines or SimCity5?
>>123444158
Skyliens
>>123444158
That's like asking which is better, a pizza or the festering corpse of an ebola victim.
>>123444158
I second this >>123444840
It's bigger and better. SimCity is not really a SimCity, it's SimVillage. Sure you get highrise buildings, but the space for a city is too small.
SimCity 5 was a let down and Cities Skylines is what SimCity 5 was supposed to be.
>>123445216
I don't know, anon. Ebola tenderizes your meat quite a lot.
This thread, full with people building cities on perfect, map editor-made maps reminds me of my 12years old self, who used to do that in Emperor.
>>123436276
its considered an autism simulator or an autism enabler.
It triggered mine :)
Can the unloackable buildings be unlocked with mods enabled?
I'm really tired of building vanilla cities to try and get all the shit
>>123457126
Isn't there an option to let you just click enable all buildings?
>>123457609
That's no fun
My current city. An industrial boomtown.
>>123460687
comfy map.
Just coming back to this after not playing since June.
How do I get rid of this "mist" or whatever the fuck is causing the screenshot to look shitty the more I zoom out? I can't find a setting for clouds or anything.
>>123461907
Attempt at a suburb that isn't a boring grid. It is instead a sort of inverse star.
>>123275438
RIP impressions style games
City building never evolved
How do you guys zone?
do you have seperate residential and commericial or try and mix it up?
Installing AoE3, never played before.
Anything I should know before I start?
>>123275438
>pharaoh
Reminds me that I should get this game back.
>>123457126
yes and just get the mod achievement enabler too
ded
anyone here still play banished?
>>123475050
Yeah.
![vlcsnap-2014-03-16-13h35m42s242[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S0015IX.jpg "vlcsnap-2014-03-16-13h35m42s242[1].jpg")
>>123470752
....Ohhhh
>>123477149
>vlcsnap-2014
>>123463817
It's bad. You level one civilization at a time.
I hope you like YuGiOh by the way.
>>123450323
>THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO PLAY THIS GAME: MY WAY!!!!!!1 T_T
>>123450323
Post your city
>>123484827
Works with everything.
>RTS
>"playing with AI"
>FPS
>"using a weapon I don't like"
>>123460687
Which map?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=552992503
>>123487165
have you ever thought about checking the file name?
>>123463052
Divide city into blocks, fill each block with half industrial and half residential, nobody has to commute.
Centralise all commercial near the map edge for good inter-regional connections.
Any slow city builders? Like Banished but more modern.
I like the hick town slowly growing portion of city building.
>>123444840
Look ma, I posted it again!
>>123488283
Tropico?
>>123488505
yes, you did
>>123488505
Oh fuck me I posted a webm about the game on accident instead of shitposting about how ded the thread is holy fuck my bad
you fucking faggot
>tfw bored of city
I would buy disaster DLC if they released it just so I could rain meteors on "finished" cities.
>>123490416
Why are your pedestrian paths so hideous?
>>123490981
Because they're a reflection of their creator.
cumfy
>>123490981
Don't blame me, blame the terrain gradient
how do you guys use buses effectively? whenever I try to use them the system gets overloaded with 100+ people per stop.
>>123491952
I don't.
I wish there was a citybuilder like pharaoh or emperor rotmk but set in India or Mesoamerica.
>>123493752
>India
urgh
>Mesoamerica
Sounds good.
Check American Conquest. It's like Cossacks, but with Apaches, Incas, Mayas...
my cities main public transport hub.
>>123497594
I like it. Post more pictures of your city, it looks nice.
Is there any game with a Chinese/Japanese town? I have a soft spot for asian architecture.
And by soft spot I mean a raging boner.
>>123460889
Thanks.
>>123487165
This one:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=541243309
>>123499524
Same angle, at night. I really like the gloomy light in the back ally part of the station.
>>123501770
Did you make it yourself?
>>123502370
top view. The city is far from finished. I'm finished with the historic core, but now I have to do the outer part.
You can see the roundish shape around the core, which was the location of the medieval town wall (as you can see in most European cities today)
>>123502618
>>123502792
>>123502971
>>123489421
You've been posting the same 3 god damn webms forever. Make some OC or fuck off.
>>123383025
Winnipeg :^)
complete opposite of mountainous
pls no die
>>123503132
That looks good.
>>123500978
simcity 4 with mods.
>>123502618
What mod asset lets you square off the port like you did, or was it just you meticulously shaping it like that with the road tool
>>123500978
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is set in ancient China, if that's what's your're looking for.
It's really pretty, too. It was the last Sierra citybuilder so it had more experienced artists and higher resolution art than any of the other ones.
>>123514630
I was hoping for something in 3D. The problem with Sierra games is that once you play one of them, you played them all.
My spaghetti shithole is coming along nicely
>>123275438
>Buy tropico 4
>it comes with a fucking register screen asking for my email
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>123497594
With the exception of that U-turn right out of the station, that is incredibly sexy.
>only 3 achievements left are 50 transit lines, 95% happiness for 5 years, and 1001 nights
this fucking happiness one is impossible because commercial is never happy
>>123460687
Thanks for letting me discover this amazing map.
what is the best seawall mod?
>>123530565
further on this, do you guys think all 1001 nights need to be played in one city or just in total?
>>123538235
At what hours is /cbg/ the most ded, I wonder?
>>123355817
Imo emperor was at a point where the gameplay got too streamlined until it was easy.
Especially the placement of nobles as separate from worker houses. Also no yuan/ming expansion
Anyway cleopatra/pharoah was the zenith because of the building projects that were diverse and large. Its fun watching them take shape and they look great when completed.
Cotn played totally different to the impressions builders but i think it was where ancient cbers needed to go. Too bad no one like it
>>123546252
CotN had a lot of really great ideas. It just lacked content and better AI. After you get enough scribes to run all your services there's nothing higher up in the 'tech-tree', so to speak, you just build more of the same and maybe some underwhelmingly easy monuments. And having a dude cross the map just to pray at some podunk shrine was stupid - you couldn't build proper neighborhoods or separate work camps or anything like that, even though the freaking tutorial suggests you should.
But enough negativeness, I really liked how they based the entire economy on food. Simple, elegant and historical. And exploring your city close up was fun - a definite advantage of being 3D.
>>123546629
Exactly. It was the direction cbers needed to go rather than the functionally communist impressions type builders.
They just needed.to fix the ai in a sequel.bt then we got.caesar.4.instead which was a regression
>>123546790
You know, now I've got a bit of a hankering to play it for a while. Gonna do that, and maybe post pics if this thread doesn't die in the meantime.
>>123445639
No, Tropico is SimVillageand it still has bigger maps
>>123547207
Kek if you can get it to run.
It has a lot of problems on any machine past 2006
>banished on -75%
sheeeit, is it good?
MY CITIES ARE SHITE
I'LL NEVER MAKE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN RETARDED CITY OF SQUARES
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>>123551113
how u want your cities senpai?
just fuck my shit up
>>123550103
If you're at all interested in citybuilders then at that price it's a safe enough bet. Even if you don't like its particular style you should get plenty of bang for your buck.
Just bought Anno 1404, doing the 2nd campaign mission.
Trying to deliver fish and cider to the slimy fucker but I have no idea how to trade. My ship full of the stuff is at his port; tried clicking and dragging, trade on his character profile, nuttin
Wut do?
The isometric mod with enhanced lod is pretty nice.
>>123557641
That's beautiful.
>>123557641
Yooo that's crazy
