City Building Thread

City Building Thread

Show your progress, discuss your problems, share your aesthetics

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My aesthetics are fucking terrible and my roads are chokepoints.

Citizens are happy though so I got that going for me which is nice.

What are your roads like? Screenshot? Do you have your residential between your industrial and your highways?

>play anno 1404
>making an aesthetic city is extremely inefficient and costly
>better to just grid shit
blah

I started my first section with nothing but normal roads, I only just recently placed down four lanes in the worst parts but the problem doesn't go away.

As far as zoning goes, I try to keep some distance from my industrial and residential, but isn't separated by highways, mostly by commercial.

As for screenshots, I may be tempted if the thread keeps going but I'm lazy.

Take a quick overhead so I can see if there are any glaring flaws to your plans

Give me a bit. Prepare to have you mind blown from incompetence.

how 2 zone help

who /autism/ here

tfw can't ever manually make perfectly circular roundabouts manually

Use the curve tool, do YxY four times and it should be a full circle

I've never really played a city builder before. What's a good one a newcomer to the genre could get into?

Sim city 4
Skylines

is Sim city 2013 worth giving a shot again? I remember not hating it completely

This. Its a major downside for me, in an otherwise fantastic game. I wish it had cheats to give me infinite money so I can build an cool island city

Skylines is a simple starter, Sim city 4 is good if you can handle the Isometric look. Depending on your definition of 'city', Banished might be good

Alright, cool. Skylines Deluxe is a decent price right now. I'll check it out.

>tfw you can't do anything other than commieblocks because you're a boring piece of shit with no imagination

My trick is to rarely use the straight line. If you use the free form it's easier to make slightly more aesthetic cities.

Look up a map of your city for ideas.

i regret buying skylines because there's nothing simmy about it

it's really just a city art game

Skylines has replaced SC4 for me because it's just such a pain to get that game properly modded and running on a modern computer without crashing all the time, and skylines learned a lot from the simcity games and made lots of improvements over SC4. SC4 was an amazing game though and I have tons of nostalgia for it, maybe it would be worth giving it a shot but I'm not sure you would feel the same way coming to it for the first time in 2016.

What can I do when the yellow, blue and green bars are empty, this game is too hard

i wish this game had strip malls with parking lots.

If they're empty you need to upgrade the levels of the buildings already there. Do you have adequate fire coverage, police coverage, hospitals, parks/rec, public transportation

If you don't have a bus line yet plop one down and watch your buildings level up. Once they do the demand will start to increase again.

>Look up a map of your city for ideas.
For horrible ideas of what to never do in designing a city, maybe. I guess I could get lots of inspirations for ridiculous highway interchanges.

>snowfall is the only Cities Skylines DLC on sale
is it worth it?

After Dark's on sale, I just bought it yesterday. It was like $5 and change.

ah you're right, I didn't see it because I already own it. Snowfall has mixed reviews and it looks kind of meh. Seems like its only worth for the trams

Holy shit it's a "I don't get discouraged and quit in 15 minutes" episode

>indiantraffic.webm

>get discouraged and quit
I go through those cycles too. I'll start a map then quit after a bit then go back to it a few days later and just keep repeating that until one day I just stick with it

its a traffic management game with city building attached to it.

How do you do your pipes? I follow the roads

I live in Eastwood proper, 2 minutes south of that junction. 59 & 45, with 288 to the southwest.

The 45N ramp is always backed up

Pipes are a stupid pain in the ass, just lay them all parallel 22 units apart so that they cover the entire area and then never worry about them again. It's not like money is ever even a concern after the first 5 minutes of building a new city anyway.

following roads is okay, following highways is retarded. Its not good form since you would have to tear up your highway and shut it down to fix the pipes.

t. civil engineer.

What keeps you in the city?

I never find them to be a pain in the ass. If there's a spot I miss I just fill it in because I never see it but if I try to stick with every road it rarely comes up

How do you like being a civil engineer? I have no idea what I want to do and was considering that as a career path but it's more math and survey type stuff than I thought but that makes sense

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>What keeps you in the city?
A job. Can't really complain. I'm a city dweller with a bicycle

I just got back into Skylines today. I'm hot garbage at designing cities. I want to make them beautiful but I don't get how. I like these posts because they give me good ideas.

Not strictly a city building game but I recently ended a long project of creating a whole city/continent in Minecraft from the ground up.

Is there an album of pictures of this thing somewhere? I'm interested.

I am new but I have liked it. Its a pretty big field and any good school will have you do a bit of everything while having electives near the end focus a bit.

Computers do the math and you may never have to survey depending on what you do. If you like to survey then you might do it a lot. It all depends on what you end up doing.

Don't worry about doing the math, they made us learn a lot in college but outside of those college classes, I never used some of the harder math expect when the prof would prove something.

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One of the guys made this video for it:
youtube.com/watch?v=Ha8Fs3mbQs8

All I want is a mixture of city builder and GTA. Have some kind of generator auto fill the world with quests based on whatever buildings you put in.

Create a massive slum? Prepare for a lot of gang wars, drug dealing

High class area? A lot of high class crime

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How the fuck do you even build that much?
How do I get passed the demand barrier that stops zones from going forward???

look at these two guides, also check out interchanges on google/wikipedia.

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Someone please build manchester for me

Best game to city build? Cities Skylines?

Sim City 4 is still the best if you have the patience to find all of the separate assets and their dependancies which is itself a rather nightmarish task before then learning how to work around the game's hardcoded limitations to implement them like all of the tricks required to put down the nice NAM roads. It also does a nice job of actually simulating cities rather than just building them.

Skylines would be your best bet if you don't have sufficient autism for the aforementioned tribulations.

If you hit a demand barrier you need to focus on leveling up what you have. Improve services, add public transportation, etc. Then the demand will increase

what decals did you use for the lines

Stack interchanges are cool though.

>want to play Skylines again
>don't want to buy the dlc
>know that they improve the game and don't want to play without them

Is Anno 2077 or 2205 any good? Heard 2205 was utter shit at launch, but got better with DLC whereas 2077 is pretty good, but is plagued by uplay garbage.

Holy fuck what mods did you use to get it to look like that?

you only need after dark anyways

Banished

Program called Chunky. Ray tracing rendering of the map.

>those highways

I pirated 2077. I can't even put into words how much i hated it. Literally put it away after 30 minutes.
I'm baffled at how you guys pay for games. I don't pay for my games. I don't have to. It's my mantra. Only pay for physical shit. Never pay for a series of 0's and 1's inside a computer. Literally a stream of electrical current. I pay the energy bill. That's more than enough.

>city reaches 50k population
>lose interest and stop playing
>one week later start a new map
>rinse and repeat
How do I stop this cycle?

youtube.com/watch?v=Mq-S7XywGRg&index=2&list=PL6HueNQcC6nfH06ezfP6FBQ0RwFq3NJFE

Watch stuff like this whilst playing. It gives you constant ideas.

>that feelio when have to turn down all graphical options to lowest

At least my cities look nice in theory.

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I feel you friend.
> Shit computer plays games up tp 2011 with graphics settings on the lowest
> Newer games can only be played with "beyond low" settings, that is, modding the game to remove most of the visual effects and making it look more bland than possible
> Even so it plays with fractions of frames per second, that is, seconds per frame.
> I played fallout 4 in this slow motion, robot glitch freezy style
> Loading screens lasted 30 minutes
> It took ten minutes to walk across the road
> An entire day to walk towards the glowing sea
Sup Forums doesn't know my pain

>waited all my life for Total Warhammer Fantasy
>thought my gaymen laptop would be good enough
>thought it would be good enough for medium
>okay no shadows
>okay low no shadows
>okay everything low no settings
>13fps

Seriously considering a line of credit just for a new pc. I'm sure I can justify it to myself if given enough time.

Update

How can you even deal with shit like seconds per frame?

My mobo recently dieded adn I'm waiting to find a replacement because no sheckels for upgrade atm, so I'm stuck with my shitty laptop and I've playing some simple stuff that can run at 30 but anything lower I rather go watch a movie or do something else away from the computer or else I get mad at my poverty.

> Play game with ridiculous low frame rate for long
> Get buggy sight feeling afterwards, like staring at those trippy gifs
Did it happen to you?
I remember playing assassin's Creed, but there was a minor "bug". It wasn't really a bug though. It's like the cutscenes were actually built in game instead of a small video clip that plays independently, so the cutscenes also played at extremely low frame rate, taking ages to end. Once i waited 30 minutes for a long ass cutscene that wouldn't end for shit. I swear there were frames lasting seconds.
I hate being poor.
I gave up city skylines. The loading screen takes 30 minutes and as soon as the city starts to get a little big,it gets too slow to be playable.
The only one city building game I manage to play is banished. I like it quite a lot. It's very simple though, but it's nice. I can get up to 600 population before it starts fucking up the frame rate.

Have you tried Dwarf Fortress

Human capacity to get used to shit is amazing. I never actually knew quality neo gen gaming, since I'm a poor fag and my last gaming console was the ps2. So I don't really know what I'm missing.
But not even I can deal with it. Fallout 4, for example, I quit after one week. Was trying to finish the main quest at least, but it reached an unbearable level. Each frame was taking 3 or 4 seconds. Shit was fucked. I got to the glowing sea part at least.
I haven't played in a while though. I'm a closet gamer. I just come here occasionally. Last week's I've been possessed by a demonic entity that makes my blood boil with desire to play games. So I come here to see you rich kids complaining about how it sucks when your game doesn't run 60 fps.

Shit looks like command line

>you rich kids

I'm figuratively a third worlder and even here if you don't have a capable computer instead of a console, a current gen one mind you, it's because you don't want to.

I built this PC almost 4 years ago and I can still run shit in med-high settings @60+fps, the main issue being that since the CPU I got is old now it's pretty hard to find even a used mobo to replace my broken one, so I've been stuck with this shitty acer es1 11" laptop for a few weeks.

Try looking at a texture pack like Phoebus. The Noob Pack or whatever it is should have it built in. I don't like the ascii text either

Setting up a new school area.

Posting Forkton for aesthetics. Not mine, but probably the prettiest town I've seen in this game. It has been an inspiration for my failures for so long now.

Don't make me laugh, what country you from?
Next gen gaming here is a rich people's deal. I know two people who have ps4/xbone. 2. From everyone I know. Two. Gaming pcs are even rarer.
A gaming pc here costs 2000 National bucks. It's probably 800 dollars. A gaming PC powerful enough for next gen games would be roughly 4000 national bucks. More than 1600 dollars. Electronics are extremely overpriced here. It's not for poor people. I was always one step behind the current gaming generation. Bought a ps1 in 2003. Bought a ps2 in 2008. Bought a "good" pc in 2011. Good enough for a domestic use pc. Disastrous for gaming.
So don't make implications about financial life in my country, you straight.

I remember playing Assassin's Creed with a shitty computer
>character says a line in a cutscene
>have to wait literally minutes while the animation finishes before it moves onto the next voice line
Good times

>2fps

how do you even live

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fuck, that is impressive

YES YES IT WAS JUST LIKE THAT.
OH my god never thought someone knew my suffering.
Conversations lasted centuries because the lines were pronounced only when the corresponding animation ended. I remember talking with Leonardo and waiting ages for the talk to end, and then I had to press a button to hug him,but i wasn't paying attention and I missed the Button and so ezio didn't hug leo, and leo looked so uncomfortable...
I shut the computer immediately so I could restart the mission.

Looks comfy.

Why did you build a dog track next to the school?

Mex.

Getting a gaming here PC is more expensive than a console, especially since I got mine when PS4/XBONE weren't even a thing, but I can still play BF1 or Forza Horizon with a better visual quality than current consoles without changing any components.

But now, specially with the new Nvidia GPUs even enrty level cards get you current gen level visuals with 500ishUSD, that's murrican prices, obviously, so you'd have to add import tax and reseller's gain. On top of that you have a very capable computer for pretty much any professional aplication you'd like to use which on it's own is really useful if you're interested in any of that.

>pedestrian overpasses above crosswalks
i wish they just let us control crosswalks etc. manually already

Taking it slow

user did you ever take take the gymnastics class

Seeing if I can cover those crosswalks up with decals.