What is the best city building game and why is it Cities Skylines?

>>323680758
it's great so far, but do the have the lane using fixed by now?
It is a big problem, although most traffic problems come from people forgetting to ban heavy traffic from certain districts.

Only thing I don't like is the lack of outlandish god mode disasters like in the sims games.

>>323680758
>Civilian cars do not yield to emergency vehicles.
One thing SimCity 4 has than Cities does not.
It's a huge fucking problem.

>>323681036
oh yeah, forgot about this one.
And train station spawn so many nearly empty trains that it makes normal train crossing useless.

>>323680758
It's a great game, totally.
But they need to simplify traffic and shit. I can never figure it out.

>>323681307
no, simplification actually ruined the traffic and mods were need to fix it.
see lane control

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>>323681025
That's why you make your own.

>>323680758
My only real problem with Cities Skylines is how shit performance is.

Can't wait to try it out on xbone.

>>323682618
You must have a shit computer then, it's fine for me.
>Dat sexy 60fps

>>323682618
probably using intel onboard graphic?
game doesn't run/run like shit with those

I never played simcity but cant people live there own life?

Like someone could be an pyro burning all your buildings

>>323680758
Why is there never any crime.
Like I've never seen crime in my cities go over 5%, and I hardly ever see police cruisers responding to calls.
Also, the ambulance siren spam makes going down close to the city to observe a risk to your sanity.

>WEEEE WOOOO WEEE WOOOO WEEE WOOO WEEE WOOO WEEE WOOO

>>323684202
You hate the sirens? I fucking love them.
Especially when 8 of them get stuck in traffic and it sounds like an absolute clusterfuck on the ground level.

>>323684202

Same. Even when you have zero police there isn't any crime. It's something that really needs to be fixed.

>>323684202
Just get the murrican siren mod, much better than that euroshit

>>323683475
>>323683368
No, I'm not that much of a poorfag. My specs are pretty decent. Usually the game performs fine right up until I start being able to use high density buildings. Then the sheer number of people makes the FPS plummet.

I've got an Nvidia GTX650 with SLI for reference.

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>>323683368
Not that anon, but my framerate goes to shit when I get a decently sized city.

>>323684865
Are you sure you've got your video cord plugged into your video card?

>>323683475
Yeah, A faggot with onboard is on /v/... Makes sense
except it doesn't

>>323684202
>>323684510
Exactly. There doesn't really seem to be a crime mechanic or use for the police.
It's always bright cyan blue whenever I look at the crime map so I think to myself "why even waste the money?"

>>323680758
>There will never be a detail rich city builder combined with a through the ages detailed RTS empire building game
>You will never establish your caveman cities and slowly watch them upgrade while you wage war on other caveman, progressing through the bronze ages, the steel ages all the way up until the future of space while still maintaining your feature rich cities

It's not hard to be the best given the competition in the genre.

>>323685389
Whoever makes this game will become richest beyond their wildest dreams.

>>323685069
Yes.

>>323685115
Crime doesn't happen if cims are employed.

>>323685389
The closest thing we have to that is Rise of Nations.
But even that's sort of a stretch since the city building isn't really that detailed.

>>323682618
i had some big performance issues when i tried it in linux

>>323685607
>Rise of Nations
Literally best RTS game no argument.

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>playing traffic simulator 2015
>playing a city builder with pisspoor graphics
pick 2

anybody else here looking forward to the wildwater DLC coming out later this month?

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>legalize weed
>lowers crime

>>323688141
Is this Anno 2070? How is this game?

Also, has anyone played Banished? I picked it up in the steam sale but haven't played it yet.

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>>323688979
its 2205. It is definitely dumbed down from 2070, but its still fun and looks damn fucking sexy, as always.

>>323688141
>no comfy multiplayer
fucking dropped.

>>323688956

How would it not?
Gangs lose significant revenue if people can buy it legally...

less power ~> less activity > less crime

It'd be a dent, but a dent is a dent.

>>323688956
You'd think there would be at least a small rise in unemployment or crime but no. There is literally no reason not to make it city-wide, since it increases happiness.
>>323688979
Banished is also amazing. If there were a top 3 city builder games ever, Cities and Banished would be in that top 3.

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>>323688979
2205 pretty significantly changed the meta of the game. There are 3 basic regions, temperate, arctic and moon. Temperate is the region that you make money with (from taxes) and arctic and moon are where you get resources to build up your temperate region.

>>323689210
>multiplayer
>in anno
nigger, 2070 was neat with multiplayer but it took fucking hours, and i mean like 10-12 hours, to build up the tech monument SOLO in a seeded map that was pretty much built to support such an endeavor. All multiplayer maps would turn out to be were just you and you're friends shitty, rinky-dink cities until one of you advances far enough to build jets and then you win. Shit was boring.

>>323688979
Play it vanilla to start with but it pretty much needs Colonial Charter to feel like a "full game".

CC is a free mod.

>>323689118
>looks sexy
Do you suffer from eye cancer or are you just too retarded to see the 2D pedestrians?

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This one is pretty good

>>323689557
>2d pedestrians
I'd load up my game and zoom in directly on a pedestrian just to prove you wrong, but I don't care enough

shit troll

2/10 made me respond

>>323689523
>CC is a free mod
More like a free fucking expansion, kek.

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Haven't played it since launch. Is the DLC any good? I looked at the Steam workshop, and most of the new mods look like shit.

>>323680758
>muh SimCity 4
I fucken LOVE SC4.
But I only ever fuck around making up shitty little towns cheating my budget with money-giving trees and shit. Is Cities: Skylines good for this? Is Banished?

Also, does anyone else puts trains in their cities? I always do.

>>323689845
>Squaring zones
JUST WHY

>>323684667
thats not what sirens sound like in europe

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>>323689961
For authentic yankee feels.

>>323689756
Meh. The DLC can be described as meh. There's some new road types and buildings...the day night system of course....It's a nice addon, worth the buy if you have the money.
>>323689773
Fucking trains and Cities Skylines. The game just LOVES to spam regional trains up your fucking ass and create a shitstorm of traffic.

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>>323689581

Came here to post this.

>>323690186
I hate the default European style of buildings. The Commieblocks look ugly.
I like seeing big tall glass tower spam everywhere. USA style is best style.

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>>323690330
You have pigshit taste desu.

>tfw no speculative fiction building styles, like futurism

I think you mean SimCity 4.

Cities Skyline isn't a city building game, its a traffic management game with the same assets and unrealistic cities. And for a traffic management game its got a shit ton of bad vehicle AI pathing

>>323687183
My African American campadre.

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>>323685389
>There will never be a detail rich city block builder where you have to both play an architect and a developer creating appealing constructions and maintaining a viable line for your company, moving from small lots to gargantuan ones, from small budgets to overly inflated ones, from simple commie bloc-like tasks to ridiculous, rich men snug corners with swimming pools on top of winter gardens and other bullshit known from the Discovery Channel programmes about ridiculous buildings
WHY LIVE

>>323690313
Fuck I loved this game.

>>323690586
>unrealistic Cities
What kind of criticism is this? The cities you make in either game are as realistic or unrealistic as you want them to be

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>>323688141
>anno 2205
Jesus christ... WHY

>>323690169
>Fucking trains and Cities Skylines.
Sounds fun.
Hopefully it'll go on a sale and I'll get it soon.

>>323690070
>For authentic yankee feels.
Square us for high density urban blocs.
Dead end, cul-de-sac hedge maze bullshit is for low rise residential.

>>323688979
2205 is an abysmal game on nearly every level. People who loved anno so much that they bought the game on pure faith are done with the series now thanks to how horrible it is.

>>323690070
BU-B-B-BUT YOU HAVE CURVED ROAD TOOL.

>>323680896
>It is a big problem, although most traffic problems come from people forgetting to ban heavy traffic from certain districts.

oh my fucking god i've been tearing my whole city apart and making tentacle rape monster tier highway messes and i didn't even think of this

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>>323688956
>selling weed no longer illegal
>weed in general is no long criminal
>crime rate lowers

>>323683941
Would also like to know if this is true. Or just some gimmick

>>323680896
>Traffic problems!!!


Learn how2road retard

>>323682618
it runs without any problems and my pc isnt even that good, i got an old i7 950 with 12gb ram and gtx780 (not even ti)
upgrade your toaster

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>>323689232
>criminals just give up and straight up
>they wont try to move to another drug or crime

you are straight up naive or dumb, choose.

>>323684865
thats with every open world sandbox game

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>>323690709
>no one cares about my dream game
Welp.

>>323691557
yes because when weed is legal suddenly all pot smokers buy heroine

goddamn you are one retard motherfuck

Being shit at traffic in this game is a death sentence.
Shit road system ---> Slow response times ----> Burned down buildings and dead people and garbage piling up ----> Severe loss of land quality, exodus of citizens ---> dead city.

There should be a tutorial on how to manage traffic in this game.

>>323691856
My dirty industry seems to die out late game when everyone is university educated and the dirty industry has no qualified workers since everyone is working in the office buildings/commercial.
Do you just not build universities to get that majestic splerg of polluting industrial buildings?

>>323692060
then make more stupid kids

>>323692060
I just let them do whatever.

About half of those are probably abandoned. Turn off the UI and nobody can tell.

>>323691758
No dumbshit inbreed asshole, they do slowly move to stronger drugs sometimes.

The criminals can sell stronger drugs or start another criminal activity. That's what i said in the begining but your slow brain can't understand plain words.

Do you really believe they'll give up and start to working and going to college ?

>>323680758
I keep going bankrupt. What do I do to stop this.

>>323692402
You dont seem to understand how a fuckin market works

>hurr durr this company is ruined, they immidiately magicly start another one and succeed


there needs to be demand dumb shit

>>323692489
How? Getting rich in this game is almost too easy.
Just follow the RCI meter and put in all the essential service buildings (schools, police, fire emt, etc...) and you'll literally be fine.

>>323692402
Not him
Why would crime rates not go down? Even assumning that every smalltime dealer moves over to hard drugs, then you still have less reported crimes that have to do with owning or trafficking weed
I don't see a situation where crime rates would increase instead of decrease after legalization

>>323692816
no when weed is legal everyone will just buy heroine and it will sell better than ever XD

>>323692489
>How do I not go bankrupt?
Don't be a dumbass. Just follow RCI like the other dude said.
Make sure you focus on residential, especially early on.
Also don't do those policies that literally strip away your money like the smoke alarm program or water saving, etc....early on.

>>323692807
I dunno. I build stuff when the meters go up and I build all the essential buildings and then bam, bankrupt.

>>323693149
try again, it takes a few tries before you get good

start small, dont do taxes over 13%

>>323689232
Being legalized wouldn't make drug dealers disappear. They would sell drugs on both ends, they already have the distribution methods, also their illegal goods would be cheaper because no tax.

Got the game for christmas, play it a lot, and it's pretty fun. But starting to get problems with traffic, I noticed a lot of cars despawning before reaching their goal. And the trains are soooooooo 8ad, they cause so much traffic.

>>323694023
Trains in this game = actual cancer.

>>323694110
Th8 eat so much of by 8udget too, like, it costs almost 10 000 to have four st8tions for goods. My economy isn't am8zing, using all this money for something else would 8e nice.

I've mostly focused on metros, 8ut 8een setting up some 8us routes the past couple of d8s now. The 8us depot costs money, and I think there are too many regular cars on the road. Some people pro8a8ly have too far to travel to get to the metro st8tions, so giving them 8us would 8e nice, and then th8 can switch to metro when it is av88le.