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I like to duck away in situations like this, but I feel compelled to at least say how incredibly sad I feel about the news, given how friendly this community has always been and how I got to cherish many of the members here, although I have hardly been around during the last years. Even my current visit is a bit strange. I logged into Steam after months, and I had a notification that someone commented on a seven year old SimCity 4 screenshot of mine a week ago, which surprised me. Which in turn made me think of how Simtropolis was doing nowadays. So here I am. All I can say is that I hope everyone, especially Cyclone Boom, is doing alright, at least as alright as it can be under these circumstances. I wish all of you the best, and don't let the clouds eat you up.

Hmm, just stumbled on this. Whether this is really still open or not, here's my thoughts. Your story/screenshot/thoughts: My first city builder was the original SimCity from 1989, and I loved the idea already then. My enthusiasm cooled down somewhat when I discovered that that game had an optimal, but nonsensical solution (don't interconnect the road network!), and I took a break from city builders for quite some time. It was only in 2012 when I got to play SimCity 4 for the first time, and wow, did I get hooked. I clocked more than 1600 hours on Steam alone, and I still love the game to bits, as I still think it's a better city simulation than C:S. However, I also love traffic management, and I also put several hundred hours into each of the prior offerings by Colossal Order, the two Cities in Motion titles. Both games had their limitations, but CiM2 had already some rudimentary "city building" included. When CO announced a real city builder, I preordered the game. My first contact with computers was only late at university, and I never really learned any programing (my little brother already got a C64), which means I only ever am a player. My first city in Cities Skylines grew to close to 400k inhabitants, and I basically stopped when I hit the inbuilt limits. This first city only slowly introduced some of the wonderful assets created by the community, but this always stayed in the range of a few dozens. My next cities were heavily modded and used thousands of workshop assets, and I really love what the community brought to the table here. The pic is from my latest larger city, which only sports vanilla assets, but still made use of about 100 mods that make city building so much easier (the city loads without mods though): Total playtime on Steam: 2875 hours Preferred Radio Station DLC: All that Jazz If I'm too late, that's also fine. If not: I already have the Relaxation Station.

Welcome. 1. High density areas in the game have a much too low population. On the other hand, low density areas have a much too high population. Both types of residential differ much less than you may assume. 2. Regarding money, you can make a mistake that kills your start at the very beginning, but after that, it's not really interesting but just slow, and you have to wait. You can start with unlimited money and switch it off later btw. The game actually keeps track of your income and spending, and most cities will be in the green after some time. There are some other possibilities, like the Mo' Money Mod , where you can just add some funds you need. It sometimes conflicts with some other mod that removes the icon, but in most configurations, it still seems to work okay after all these years. Well, it's very simple.

Thanks for the heads-up. I got that message, but I'm not aware of having used Flickr. I assume that it must have been some rare link that triggered the response. I usually use Imgur. Let's hope Imgur doesn't jump on the bandwagon.

The LGR review:

Well, here's the last tutorial with the free stuff: And the dev diary: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/cities-skylines-industries-8-free-update.1124890/ I like how you can now see what the cargo trains have loaded, at least in part.

Heh, yes, those streams. I like how the guy nearly killed his fledgling city by placing a one-way tollbooth on a two-way road. Countless people were pointing this out, but it took ages until he understood what was meant. He was even experimenting with a bypass and still didn't notice what was wrong. Then he was "fixing traffic issues with a roundabout". He placed a roundabout, but didn't connect the road that caused the issues to it, but directly to the main road. Traffic flow is still worse than before because he produced a small road segment that causes all through traffic to come to a complete stop. I looked into yesterday's video, where he mixed up service area with the garbage-like system the postal vans use. I really can't watch that stuff.

Houses at the end of a long road often get neglected. As the garbage trucks work like vacuum cleaners on everything they pass, they may often just fill up on the way to the requesting building, which means they are full and turn around just before they reach the building. I had observed that in one particular case where I had an abandonment issue. The interval for requesting a new vehicle was just a bit too long to prevent the dispatched vehicles from filling up. Connecting a road from the other side with less houses on the way fixed the issue.

Sure, but honestly, I find the decision to make 2 minute videos a bit annoying. This makes it difficult to see context. It looks like the marketing department won out on this. It definitely keeps the buzz going if you have something new every day, but it takes longer to get to the videos than to watch them. The Biffa video is still double the length of all the others together. Of course, I have enough time to watch these things and don't have to rely on a restroom break to get my info. Anyway, I'm definitely looking forward to trying the shiny new toys out.

I find it funny how Biffa shows them every time how to make a concise, informative video. He only missed the roads. He may also have mistaken the European service buildings for new ones.

Well, there's the next one. Looks as if we got daily treats. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/cities-skylines-industries-dev-diary-4-supply-chain-part-2.1124097/

This looks really promising :).

It's kind of a weird thing to make your decision of playing a game or not depend upon. The game has to download the content one way or the other, so what's the difference? Anyway, it seems to be a mix of behaviors. I'm relatively sure the Parklife DLC content is downloaded with the base game, as in that case the game didn't download anything when I bought the DLC and activated it. All DLCs before that triggered additional downloads. No idea whether this was changed around later, as I can only check each case once, which I already did.

With vanilla mechanics, the sand will disappear after a while if you raise the land high enough. It doesn't need to be much above the water line for that to happen.

That mod hasn't been working properly for three years now, is completely broken nowadays and should not be recommended. Which, by the way, does not mean the game has been left in the dust. You can do amazing things that you could only dream of in those days with C:S nowadays .