Download users' cities?

[enchant 2]

I have to admit that at least for now, I'm a little bored with the game.  But I was wondering if there is a library somewhere that good city designers have posted save games that could be downloaded to study for inspiration.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

There are tons of savegames for you to download on the workshop.

[enchant 2]

Thanks.  I'll do some research to figure out what "the workshop" is.

Found it.

  Edited November 11, 2015 by enchant  

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Problem might be that the persons who post city saves are using custom buildings or mods.

 

I never downloaded a saved game actually, but I heard this was a problem.

[enchant 2]

Yea, that's what I found.  I downloaded several and wasn't able to use any of them.

[cromabianca 158]

If you download the very first ones, when the game was new and only a few mods out there, you shouldn't have any problems. Also, if you download cities with lots of custom assets, it shouldn't be a problem either: they simply won't show up in game. The ones you should really be aware of not downloading is the ones that use either the Traffic++ mod or Traffic Manager (and a very few other mods): those mods break the savegame and you won't be able to play without them!

[enchant 2]

I don't want to download some simple starter city that's no better than what I've been creating.  I want to see a large, complex city.  But all of these are dependent on a horde of mods.  And that simply makes it too much work.

[cromabianca 158]

Well, I downloaded lots of big cities and they were all good for me... I just kept away from those using traffic++ and they were fine... (I have a lot of assets though)

  Edited November 25, 2015 by cromabianca  

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Most available cities have collections attached that include all assets and mods necessary for it to run. These are often bigger than 500 mb, though.