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how do you guys make these maps better, i've been working on the delta and i ject can't seem to make it look good
bumparoo
>>125670417
A fair doze of randomness is what usually does it for me.
Judging from your screenshot - I would flatten and soften the shores, and make the smaller rivers a bit more twisty. Also, think of rivers as evolving structures, they're constantly moving sand and mud with them, chaning shapes over millennia - and they're leaving a trail of hills and canyons after them. Include these things in your map to improve realism.
>>125673367
kk i used a topographical map of Kansas city ks
ill see if i can make some improvements on it thanks also where would a good place to post the finish file be? id like to see what some good players could do with that map
>>125673367
ok hows it looking now
Hi friends, is there any way to salvage the horrible traffic in these two districts? I'm honestly thinking of just attempting to re-do it and just start over, because I've been stuck on this for a couple hours now attempting various fixes.
made new map
settle or scuttle?
>>125675375
Not bad, but it still needs working. Think of the river as a moving body of water simply thrown from the mountain. Its flow is natural, so adjust your terrain so the river flow is believable. What makes a river take a sharp turn suddenly? Probably some sort of a terrain barrier etc.
Things like that.
>>125680515
this is pulled prom a topographical map so the river actually a real world river
just exaggerated a bit more
so i guess im done messing with it, now all that's let is to let an experienced player have at it
>>125675713
Okasy, so I fixed it, apparently my main issue was the fact that I had a million fucking ambulances driving everywhere and creating a majority of bottlenecks and issues.
>>125678731
Lovely. Make an european style, highrise-ban city with european looking main square in the middle
>>125683037
Alright. Just need a name
>>125683451
Went with St Autismo's
Time for some boring ass hamlet stage
>page 10
>>125687594
live is suffering
>>125678731
did you upload that to the workshop?
>>125691809
I can in 15 min
Does planet base count as a city builder ??
>>125696387
yes
>>125687594
I liked >>>/vr/, too bad their mods didn't like us coupling newer games with the older ones.
>>125680515
actually rivers spontaneously curve on flat terrain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander
Who here is playing Anno 2205?
>>125700589
Skyscrapers, skyscrapers and more skyscrapers: the game
>>125700589
The reviews said it was kinda shit and simplified, what's your opinion?
>>125692406
>>125691809
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=577645926
>>125703048
It's a much more streamlined Anno experience. Instead of building more production buildings you expand them. There's less worry about optimal layout and it's less punishing if you want to make aesthetic cities. Also temperate, arctic, and lunar scapes makes for nice changes of place.
>>125703482
Would you recommend it as an introduction to anno? Kinda want to play the series, some screenshots looked really sweet but I don't know where to start.
Also, don't know much about the series in general, how is anno different from other classic city builders like simcity etc?
>>125704451
Anno has a sort of RTS aspect. You compete with AI factions or other players building their own cities. Direct combat is pretty rare but rather you keep the goyim in line by taking their shekels through clever trading, diplomacy and subterfuge.
Posting shitty town to keep thread alive
Imho 1404/2070/2205. 2070 got better over time, but i cant get used to 2205 yet. 1404 will be all time favorite i guess, because of its szenario.
>>125704451
Anno is less about city building and more about supply chains and and jewing goods to your cities and rival cities. 2205 is a pretty good place to start. I'd say it's easier than other Anno games even in hard mode. Should help you understand the basics. The other Anno games have aged pretty gracefully.
1503 best Anno
>>125709105
Ewwwww
>>125710485
Isometrics are beautiful, anon
>>125708759
Would you guys say it's worth picking up if it goes for a good discount on xmas? Really in the mood for a sci-fi city builder so it's probably that or >>125696387 Planet Base.
I loved 2070, if that means anything.
>page 10
ded genre ;_;
food for the people!
>>125719174
2205 has some maps on the moon, rocket ships, and space elevators so if you like spacey scifi, go for it.
>>125724248
They... They must just be too busy playing all the fantastic games this genre has to offer to post, right?
Also, damn Anno 2205 looks pretty, I don't think I'll be able to resist if it goes on sale.
>>125719174
Planet base is a nice little game, i dosn't have much going for it, bases tend to be small, and there aren't a lot of different domes it be better if the producer added more content to it like stations or something
>>125728923
Still getting updated, or will it remain just a fun little game forever? I need to get at least one more city builder this christmas.
>>125719174
>Really in the mood for a sci-fi city builder
There is also this.
It's bretty good.
>>125735327
I love that fucking building.
>>125700589
I did a LP of it.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbpLOXIs36jfxJQT4D_JG7AIzoqGSW6R
>>125737549
m8 are you shilling yourself.
>>125696387
Is that gamefun?
>>125741767
Nah
Shilling, as a word, entails a third party in cahoots with the first party to dupe the second party.
It's just me in here.
>>125698515
This thread died on /vr/ even when it was allowed.
>>125731280
>>125747981
Yeah, I know.
Still, I pirated it and had fun with it.
It's a guilty pleasure.
>>125751250
>pirated it
Where, if you don't mind me asking? I've been looking for a simcity torrent for Forever.
>>125725504
>not overlapping the radius 3 fields 1 tile more to save more space
Why is Yuttho's Astergea giving me a massive boner right now?
He actually put thought into the design of his city and it's backstory.
Although I get the feeling that he might be a Jew.
>>125731158
>
I don't think its getting updated
but its a really good idea, hopefully someone with talent will try and make a similar game with more stuff
but id say if it goes on sale definitely pic it i put at least a day into that game in play time, and that's pretty unusual for me since i don't play games for more then 20 or s0 mins at a time
>>125759002
Bro, his world has all cultures getting along as if this were Star Trek and this could only happen because there is no such thing as the Jews.
>>125742720
holy fuck... dat definition braim going to watch it since im a poor fag who can't afford a $60 game at the moment
Has anyone made a U-Drive It Mod for Cities Skylines?
>>125756873
https://kat.cr/simcity-2013-version-10-1-17-dlcs-repack-mr-dj-t11450327.html
Literally the first result.
>>125760216
A what? What does that do?
>>125759527
Thanks, bruh
I could have sworn I had this in better quality.
>>125765093
Cities XXL?
>>125768373
Plat.
But I guess it can be done in XXL. I mean, they didn't remove anything?
Is there any game with the map being something for her then a square? Most cities and counties are oddly shaped.
>>125771835
city building game on a planetary scale when?
>>125771835
Light from Altair
LIVE! LIVE DAMN YOU!
>>125772474
I think 4x games are going to be the closest you can get to that for a long time.
The loading screen to my cities in C:S take ages, is this a natural consequence of adding so many mods or is it a result of having outdated, broken or conflicting mods (I checked my mods, can't find anything particularly odd).
>>125779805
try using this to see which addons are bloated
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=453956891
>>125787537
Do entities mess up the loading scream too (as opposed to just in-game speed).
Will try tho, thanks.
>>125787784
more assets you have=more loading time
loading times in my game are also long
Dumpingstolenpics
>>125794901
>>125795069
>>125795241
>>125795403
>>125794901
>>125795069
>>125795241
>>125795403
>>125795568
CX(X)L looks so much better than C:S it's unfair.
>>125795568
>>125759002
It's the most fedoratipping cozy build ever and I want more
So how does cities xxl play?
I know the performance is absolute ass but how is the actual gameplay?
>>125796386
>>125796648
>>125796834
>>125797030
>>125797231
Alright lads, the food captchas made me hungry, so I am off. Happy building
hi, where are the skyscrapers :DDD
In C:S, I've been playing for hours and all I get are medioum sized buildings.
>>125797581
In the workshop.
>>125797637
What?
You mean there are no skyscrapers in the game?
Seriously what the fuck?
>>125797840
Play a map that's not European themed.
>>125798040
Even on the non european map I'm playing, the buildings are just not tall enough. Am I doing something wrong, can't believe there are no skyscrapers.
>>125799097
are they max level?
Are they high density?
>>125799207
>max level
What exactly do you mean? Sorry if I'm being stupid.
Yeah, high density.
>>125799342
buildings level up. Provide them all the services and good land value, and they'll improve.
Click on a building to learn more about what it wants.
>>125799479
I see, thanks.
Most of them are level 3 or so, found a single building that is max level and it's still not big enough for my taste but oh well.
>>125797840
>>125799342
>>125799097
>>125797581
Are these tall enough?
None of these are mods.
>>125800205
Yeah, they look just fine in groups.
Still a bit bigger would be cool.
Sorry, I know I'm being really autistic about this.
Hows my little town looking so far CBG
am i doing good, i'm not very good at City builders but making the map was fun
>>125802402
I like it.
I forget to use roundabouts in my game.
>>125803398
Im a little nervous about adding in the Highway ring that leads out to the other Ring sites
going to build an ag, Mining and oil site as well as a large residential ring but im not sure how im going to move traffic between the Sites efficiently.. maybe a bus train combo?
>>125761110
>mac
Suffering.png
>>125809296
dat plastic look tho
>CC 1.6: The Forge Awakens - Early Release Available Very VERY Soon
>>125809296
Hey man, I just want to say that I'm really flattered you saved my pictures. I'm the guy that posted the LP earlier.
>>125813242
>default water texture
>>125813242
>filename
a hearty kek
>>125813209
how fucken soon?
i'm dying
>>125818506
To that guy who has been eagerly waiting for Prison Architect to update: You probably know already, but the video is out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTOSHhy-_Y
>tfw you finally buy the game but forgot that your system doesn't actually match the specs so you can't run it
>>125760216
I know that there are a couple mods that enable flying helicopters and planes. I don't know about ground vehicles, though.
>>125761202
Letting you drive/fly around the city in vehicles and optionally do missions like in SC4 (with Rush Hour).
>>125823571
yeah i started playing around 4 AM PST when the update went live, but thanks anyway
also send coffee
>>125823571
someone should make Sim Copter for C:S.
Not just that camera-that-flies like a helicopter. I want full-on Sim Copter, complete with missions and different helis to buy.
>>125832224
>Sim Copter
I just want a Sim Ant remake.
Dun die cee bee gee
Snow makes everything comfy.
>>125841567
This nigga tells it like it is
not ded right now
>>125832327
SimFarm for me pls
Newfag, what game do most people here play?
>>125829365
I want 2205 so much but it's so expensive
75% reduction when?
How can I turn off industrial smog? I can barely see anything.
>>125870213
use this
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=523824395
>>125870667
Not that anon, but thanks.
How de fuck I play planet base?It's impossible to recuperate after a catastrophic failure of systems because the jackass who should be building extra part was busy doing jack shit.
>>125850981
Cities: Skylines, but it's shit. After 30 minutes of gameplay it stops being a city builder and turns into a traffic manager. I have no clue why people play it so much.
>>125873586
I had the same problem. Those idiots were kinda hungry, so I told them to build a farm. However, they could not build a farm because they were a little hungry. The AI is fucking stupid.
>>125874735
>wah I'm retarded can't manage traffic, the game must be shit
>>125874735
>turns into a traffic manager
Except it doesn't. Managing traffic in skylines is easy.
>>125875556
I'm sorry your reading comprehension is that of a two years old retarded cactus.
>>125875685
I haven't said managing traffic is hard. If I want to play a traffic manager I would just play OpenTTD or something along those lines. C:S has little to do with a city manager, actaully. It seems very plain to me. Even SimCity 3000 was better in that regard.
>>125862862
Maybe during the Steam Christmas sale we'll get like 25% off.
It's still too new to get a heavy discount.
I have a question.
I am looking for a game that I saw some year ago. It's not a city builder game per se, it was more of a train/railroad managment game. I remember it being rather new and also free (not sure on that). I also remember the name being long and most people calling it by an acronym, some like TDOOA (not sure).
Does anyone know what it is that I am looking for?
Thanks in advance!
>>125883186
Oh my god. I am so fucking stupid. Found it.
It's called OpenTTD. God damnit.
>>125883186
>>125883332
It's this one >>125880245, isn't it? It is allowed here?
>>125880245
>>125884423
That one is Sim City 2000. Allowed here, but not really what you're looking for.
Any good C:S maps that aren't 100% flat or have islands? I'm tired of playing on flat maps with a 1 hill that have zero challenge and the workshop is full of those
>>125696387
looks cozy, ill have to give it a shot
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>>125892869
>cigars & cigs
What are cigs?
>>125894910
Marlboro, Camel, Parliament, Kent, Muratti.
8.
>>125895841
9.
>>125841567
>secluded little town
>snowy
>surrounded by trees
>can see the bright distant lights of the two cities far away
Maximum comfy here
>>125857531
Fuck, for a sec there I thought that was Skylines and got all excited, but itz not SC4 either.
Is this Cities XL? Has the aesthetic that I'm looking for.
>>125897138
>itz
Meant it's
>>125896345
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>>125897138
Probably. What else can it be.
>>125797416
>>125797231
>>125797030
>>125796834
>>125796648
>>125796386
>>125796208
>>125795568
>>125795403
>>125795241
>>125795069
>>125794901
I think Cities XXL looks so much better than C:S is because the scale of things is correct. In C:S, roads and cars and people are fucking gigantic compared to the building, making everything seem so odd, which is why >>125797581 cant seem to find tall enough skyscrapers.
Also the ground texture in C:S looks like absolute shit.
>>125899062
I still rather play CS than viewing simulator.
>>125897276
11.
>>125899697
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>>125894910
cigarettes.
>>125900174
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>>125897640
Some other obscure city builder I never heard of, are there more screens of that city?
>>125899062
Can mods fix it?
DON'T DIE ON ME FAGGOTS
does Cities XXL have any good cyberpunk and futuristic building mods?
>>125910849
shit like
>>125911035
pls respond
>>125813209
>people pop in and out of the water but it's okay because we have extra path pieces for that
lazy imo
>>125915603
>>125892869
Nice, I actually recognize Hugh Laurie.
>>125813209
>water towns
now I might try Banished
>>125919254
>>125910849
I couldn't find anything good on XLNation. I don't know what to tell you, man. No idea where else to find mods.
>>125921114
That sucks, I would hope that there would be plenty of those types of mods for the game for some reason
>>125897138
http://xlnation.city/resources/los-angeles.1185/
Reverse image search.
>>125913932
i like the layout of the farms
So with the far lower amount of mods and building addons is there any reason to get Cities XXL over XL right now?
>>125904763
I dunno mate, the scale of things seems so far off. I find the factories to be way too small. A factory manufacturing plant could easily employ hundreds, if not thousands of people and take up acres and acres and acres. Instead, we get 10mx10m pollution machines that employ like 10 people.
Factories should be sprawling and have dedicated rail yards to bring in raw materials and export finished product. (pic related is a map of the Tesla plant in California. It employs >3,000 workers.) One manufacturing plant should be able to sustain a small town, economically. There should be small, local industry that doesn't produce insane amounts of pollution. These are your bakeries, warehouses, etc.
Also farms are way fucked up. SC4 did those pretty well I think, but even the farms of SC4 are smallish.
Also the whole water flow shit in C:S is retarded. No major bodies of water flow like the shit in C:S, with 15 foot tall waves of water traveling down the city, and the effect pumps have on bodies of water is just silly.
>>125926724
No.
>>125919675
>>125919254
This gets me hard. What a nice blue collar town, with a cozy city center. Post region shot.
>>125926724
>>125927707
XL Mods work entirely on XXL since XXL didn't actually add anything to the game.Don't buy either, just pirate. Company is a bunch of dickheads
>>125927937
No way. Is this for real?
>>125927937
Might as well, thanks anon
So how is cities xxl compared to c:s?
I mean the gameplay, not the shit performance.
I posted this a bunch of times but got no replies ;_;
>>125927815
don't have one, I don't even know if I still have the region.
If i remember this was on the edge of the map so it wouldn't look as good anyway.
>>125929485
Nobody knows. Nobody here has played that game. Insulting it and saying it's shit is a meme that gets repeated over and over.
>>125930069
I play C:S now anyway
>>125930245
But we get xxl screenshots all the time.
Please give me some opinions, I want to know how it's like.
>>125930424
You can get those screenshots off Google. I want to know what it's like, too. I have pirated it, but I don't know if I should install it or not.
>>125930245
Fuck off, retard.
>>125929485
It's not very intuitive, and kind of buggy. For instance, you zone by income, then density. So you can zone low, middle, high, elite, and ultrarich zones in low, medium and high density. It's very, very pretty though. Most of the gorgeous screenshots you see are made in designed cities, not grown cities. The order of unlocking things is kind of obnoxious, I just wish games would let my build all the types of roadways from the beginning so that I dont have to awkwardly upgrade my two lane road that runs to the edge of the map once I get x number of denizens.
All in all, gameplay wise, it's not better or worse than C:S, just different.Honestly, just play SC4 unless you want some pretty screenshots
>>125930423
Hideous, compared to SC4 or XXL
>>125929485
I played it, I was never any good at it, but I just found the game too shallow to get into it.
Why does Cities Skylines run like ass on Windows 10?
My brother updated and now whenever I load the game I get weird fucking black transparent squares all over.
I just want to practice city building since I sometimes fear these cool games are only for the creative, intellectual, and autistic. Which I am neither of those three things.
Also, is there a chance that After Dark will get marked down during the Steam Christmas Sale?
