Cities : Skylines

[Keshik]

March 10th Release date

 

[Angthoron]

This better not suck.

 

[Stokowski]

I'm sure it'll be a fine

 

[Mr. Pink]

Has there been any confirmation of transit options other than roads and rails? I see bus lines in the launch trailer, but no word on stuff like monorails, subways and ferries. Hopefully they use the same route planning system as Cities in Motion 2.

I'll buy this on launch. If it sucks, I'll warn you guys before I jump into highway traffic.

 

[KoolNoodles]

A true bro.

The building/city management part looks good, the atmosphere/life part of the "simulation" looks bland(this includes models/textures). Kinda need both to make the game good.

 

[Alienman]

This video has me convinced. The simulation is real this time around, yee-haaaw!

One thing worries me though, he says that they had to make compromises now that the simulation is 100% real, and the compromise is that big buildings will not have that many inhabitants. So now I wonder, will it still be in the hundreds or will it be something
weird like ten? Oh well, looks good. Now please Paradox, don't sell sixty million dlcs for this.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/2650-cities-skylines

18 bucks for regular pre-order, 23 for the deluxe version. Tempting but not sure if my rig will be able to run it decently :<

 

[baturinsky]

This video has me convinced. The simulation is real this time around, yee-haaaw!

So, Tropico. Well, the more Tropicos the better.

 

[cw8]

One thing worries me though, he says that they had to make compromises now that the simulation is 100% real, and the compromise is that big buildings will not have that many inhabitants. So now I wonder, will it still be in the hundreds or will it be something
weird like ten? Oh well, looks good. Now please Paradox, don't sell sixty million dlcs for this.

I hope the game can accommodate millions of people like the old Simcities. Wish they showed the rich commercial and residential skyscrapers.
It's Paradox, they just boasted selling millions of CK2 cosmetic DLC. But to be fair to them, they'll probably only sell 59 million dlcs for this.

 

[Mr. Pink]

I hope the game can accommodate millions of people like the old Simcities. Wish they showed the rich commercial and residential skyscrapers.

inb4 "simcity.GetRoundedFudgedPopulation = function (a) { "

No fudged pops please

 

[cw8]

Lengthy gameplay walkthrough with the devs and Quill18:

 

[cw8]

Yes! looks like you can import 3D models as custom buildings in the game. The video at 41:40 talks about it. Time to get to work...

 

[Perkel]

Question:

Can simcity modding community even fuck up mods for city skylines ?
I mean i love simcity mods but that community is like fucking viper nest.

If you want to download something you will need to fucking spend shit load of time to track all dependebcies. It's like no one ever want to share anything and they all are fixated on those shitty sites from early ages of internet.

I hope simcity mod community will fuck themselves right up in ass and new people will take lead who give a shit about modding instead of fucking each other around

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Butthurt much? Last time I played SC4 the custom building had the needed dependencies in their description and most of them are big packs anyway that are used by a lot of buildings.

 

[cw8]

Probably not even the same modding routine. We'll see how Skyline's one is. Hopefully there's an easy way to just import a .FBX file into the lot editor.
I didn't use many dependencies for my BATs for Simcity 4. Any extra files I put in the zip I uploaded anyways.

 

[Alienman]

But I will probably regret it. Rome 2 still hurts.

 

[Zarniwoop]

I'll wait for the inevitable 30 DLC packs and bug fixes and buy the GOTY (full) version at 80% off on Steam.

 

[Dead Guy]

But I will probably regret it.

I'll wait until it's confirmed that you can't cut back on funding.

 

[Perkel]

Butthurt much? Last time I played SC4 the custom building had the needed dependencies in their description and most of them are big packs anyway that are used by a lot of buildings.

yeah except if you want to actually seriously mod game you need like few hours to track each dependency for every single mod. And no dependecy in description also most of the times leads to dependency which has its own dependency.

Hope Skylines modders will be sane compared to SC4 ones

 

[Mr. Pink]

In that gameplay stream I notice that everyone is running at Olympic sprinter speeds everywhere. Reminds me of a zombie movie.

 

[Angthoron]

But I will probably regret it.

I'll wait until it's confirmed that you can't cut back on funding.

I D-1P'd it, so you'll definitely be hearing about that.

In that gameplay stream I notice that everyone is running at Olympic sprinter speeds everywhere. Reminds me of a zombie movie.

Prolly just game speed adjustment, like in SimCity etc. You usually want to showcase gameplay on higher speed to show the effects of actions taking place faster.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

 

[belowmecoldhands]

I think what most people want from a game lik this is a systme of rules taht're not too technical or deep. Something where, say if you want to make a city with lots of parks, you don't have to play for 30 hours messing up to figure out the right "formula" or path to go down. And yet, if you can just get what you want with minimal effort, where's the challenge? Some people play these because they want to experience that first 30 hours of messing up. Of course, most don't, so a compromise has to be made in which most will get what they want before they get too frustrated - all with just the right amount of messing up.

This reminds me of the division in survival sandbox games. Some players just like to build build build with minmal obstacles or costs. They want an artistic pursuit, not a struggle. Others like intense amounts of strugg;e and high costs to building - to encourage community building. The game maker hast o find a middleground which retains as many of them as possible.

I think the key for single player games is a modding capability. You can keep the base game gorgeous and easy to play, but allow modders to add increasingly advanced layers to it - which satisfies players looking for more strugle. But making a good modding platform is a challenge, I think. Getting that right along with he vanilla game is tough.

 

[Turjan]

One thing worries me though, he says that they had to make compromises now that the simulation is 100% real, and the compromise is that big buildings will not have that many inhabitants. So now I wonder, will it still be in the hundreds or will it be something weird like ten?

Ten sounds about right. In CiM2, smaller buildings had something like 6 to 8 inhabitants, skyscrapers in the range of 18. They were all tracked though and went to work and home again.

Oh well, looks good. Now please Paradox, don't sell sixty million dlcs for this.

Haha, that's a good one. Of course they will.

 

[Turjan]

I'll wait for the inevitable 30 DLC packs and bug fixes and buy the GOTY (full) version at 80% off on Steam.

Like with CK2, right?