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Do you see any ambulances being dispatched? Last time I used a hospital with helicopters they didn’t seem to send out any (or at least not nearly as many) ambulances anymore.
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New trailer for the Road Builder mod
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I tried the Road Builder mod and I have mixed feelings about it.
On the plus side it’s great to be able to configure the lanes, for example it will be very useful for creating narrow one-way streets in the old town.
On the negative side it’s not as flexible as I had imagined. You can’t set the widths of each building block freely, so it’s hard to create a road that fits perfectly into the 8 meter grids of the game. There are also some graphical glitches in the intersections, especially on sloped terrain and also in how the sidewalks don’t meet properly.
I will still use it, hopefully it will improve in future versions.
On the plus side it’s great to be able to configure the lanes, for example it will be very useful for creating narrow one-way streets in the old town.
On the negative side it’s not as flexible as I had imagined. You can’t set the widths of each building block freely, so it’s hard to create a road that fits perfectly into the 8 meter grids of the game. There are also some graphical glitches in the intersections, especially on sloped terrain and also in how the sidewalks don’t meet properly.
I will still use it, hopefully it will improve in future versions.
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Don't know which mod it is, but one of the mods I've subscribed to have added the feature of creating straight slopes between the start point and end point when you build roads and that has made building on hilly terrain a lot faster, easier and more fun. So I started expanding the road network of my city. Still no private cars on the roads, I guess I need some industry to build the cars before my businesses can start selling them.
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Not enough workers is now my blight...
Must have been a rebalance to jobs or something, I was previously struggling to keep unemployment under 10% because I didn't want to just fill the map with industrial... now I have somewhat of an excess of jobs...
But there's still very little residential demand on account of 'unoccupied buildings'. Turned tax to zero to see if I could incentive people to move in, but now I'm nearly 40 mill in a hole!
Perhaps time to abandon the city!
Must have been a rebalance to jobs or something, I was previously struggling to keep unemployment under 10% because I didn't want to just fill the map with industrial... now I have somewhat of an excess of jobs...
But there's still very little residential demand on account of 'unoccupied buildings'. Turned tax to zero to see if I could incentive people to move in, but now I'm nearly 40 mill in a hole!
Perhaps time to abandon the city!
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I had the same problem for all demands bar Office,
and after a lot of Googling, I went around the whole map looking for any cells that may have been 'painted' for buildings to spawn on, but the building had not covered all the 'painted' squares because of the shape of the building. Because the whole area had not been covered by a building, the cells seemed to be activating the 'unoccupied' alert, which stops demand.With a population of 180k at the time, it took a lot of tracking down, and multiple scans of the separate districts over the whole map.
Some of them can be tricky to find. Hope that helps. I didn't want to abandon all that I had down, but it was a pita to find all the 'unoccupied' cells.Since then my city population has increased to over 250k, and I'm glad to see that my PC, which I built last year, seems to be coping quite well with that size of population so far.
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Hmmm...I had the same problem for all demands bar Office,
With a population of 180k at the time, it took a lot of tracking down, and multiple scans of the separate districts over the whole map.
Since then my city population has increased to over 250k, and I'm glad to see that my PC, which I built last year, seems to be coping quite well with that size of population so far.
I mostly tend to use the rectangle tool for zoning, rather than filling or painting, because I generally want buildings at specific sizes, or because I've 'quayed' the roads to get the buildings to spawn in a specific way, it doesn't really leave me with very many zoned-but-unused cells - if any.
I do however have A LOT of unoccupied buildings. I've never actually looked before (it's not on any info views?), so I've just gone through and deleted a couple of hundred, mostly industrial, commercial and office. Based on what I've seen so far between 30 and 50% of my buildings are empty! I think before, when I had high unemployment, I built a lot of non residential stuff... it's almost now like all of the stuff wasn't needed, and now it's empty.
I'm not too bothered, this is only a test city. Still waiting for asset support to really kick off.
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Developed most of the land around the harbour now and started expanding up the hills. Added a tram line as well.
Still no private cars on the roads, but I suspect that they may start to spawn when the children grow up and find their own home. I mean, how else do they get a car?
Still no private cars on the roads, but I suspect that they may start to spawn when the children grow up and find their own home. I mean, how else do they get a car?
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The cargo port warehouse is full of vehicles. I think buying vehicles is just like buying other kind of products in the game, it has an impact on the economy simulation but it doesn’t provide the citizens with private cars.
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The Anarchy mod has rolled back some features, among them the one with the option to build roads with a straight slope. Apparently some of those features caused some glitches and crashes. That means no more road construction for me for a while, since I need the straight slope option to keep expanding up the hillside.
Instead I've spent some time developing the empty blocks along the roads I've already built and now it finally starts to look like a city!
Below, a rooftop view towards the port.
Below, the 3x2 medium density buildings spliced together in groups of 3.
Below, a lookout viewpoint next to the city's water tower. The street parking will hopefully be used some day.
Instead I've spent some time developing the empty blocks along the roads I've already built and now it finally starts to look like a city!
Below, a rooftop view towards the port.
Below, the 3x2 medium density buildings spliced together in groups of 3.
Below, a lookout viewpoint next to the city's water tower. The street parking will hopefully be used some day.
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I started a new map after the economy update, and initially found it difficult to make money, and had to take a loan a couple of times to stay afloat, but after a certain point I was making a bit of money, but there was no demand. I had no deficits in any of the production options, but still no demand for housing, commercial, industrial or offices. 🤔 I looked a bit deeper, and it said I had unoccupied in those areas, so had to go though everywhere there was building to see if the odd coloured cell had not been built on. After many scans over the map I eventually found all the unused cells, and demand started again.
I am now up to 270k, and have connections out of the map, but not much cargo seems to be coming in or out, and not many cims either. Out of that 270k, the Census mod says I have about 10k of homeless, but I only see a few here and there. But with all this, I am raking in the cash, and I don't know how. I don't have the Taxes rammed, and I have seen a few people on YT change taxes, and it affects demand in different areas, but that don't seem to work the same way for me. I have just passed 1billion in the bank as I have been waiting for the money to flip to losing, but nothing changes. I used to have a good idea in CS1 on how it all worked, but this has me baffled.
I am now up to 270k, and have connections out of the map, but not much cargo seems to be coming in or out, and not many cims either. Out of that 270k, the Census mod says I have about 10k of homeless, but I only see a few here and there. But with all this, I am raking in the cash, and I don't know how.
I don't have the Taxes rammed, and I have seen a few people on YT change taxes, and it affects demand in different areas, but that don't seem to work the same way for me. I have just passed 1billion in the bank as I have been waiting for the money to flip to losing, but nothing changes. I used to have a good idea in CS1 on how it all worked, but this has me baffled.
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I've got a suspicion that CO/Paradox are holding back Asset support because they want to charge for a bunch of regional asset packs that are yet to be released. They really need to get a move on with that.
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I doubt it. I think they are holding back the asset packs until the game is in a state where they can charge for dlc without too much negative feedback. So the packs are waiting for the asset editor, rather than the other way around.
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I think they seem to have got the message, from what the creators and makers have been saying after the get together in Finland with PD/CO. They are all under NDA's, so limited on the details they can discuss, but all seem positive. Here's what Colossal Order posted recently about their plans going forward for anyone who may not have seen it.
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Perhaps, but they don't seem to need the asset editor to work in order to add assets into the game. I'd worry that if asset importing comes before, or at the same time, as the CCPs - they'll likely get poor uptake anyway on top of ill-will already felt by parts of the community already, hence I think they'll delay the release of the asset editor until after the CCPs are released. Hopefully I'm wrong.
I am just impatient for the asset editor to be honest. I've stopped what I was doing with CS1, seems like a waste to put he time into an outgoing game - especially with the effort I was attempting to put into asset creation, and that potentially not being straightforward to get into CS2 - and since I'm struggling with the gameplay side of things this time around I'm not really enjoying CS2 at the moment.
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It’s more about the optics. It doesn’t look good to start selling dlc before they have delivered on the base game.
Depends on the quality of the CCPs, I guess. And value vs price. The business model seemed to work pretty well in CS1, so I see no reason why they would now think that competing against player-made assets would be bad.
I think the strengths of CS2 are also its weaknesses. On one hand, it’s more detailed and powerful but on the other hand that also makes it more complex and time consuming. For the players as well as the developers.
And asset creation will probably require exponentially more effort, with the higher quality of both models and textures. So if I decide to create some assets it will probably be some modernistic stuff with a lot of 90 degree angles and not so much detail. I have a few assets from CS1 that I would like to carry over.
I do enjoy the game, perhaps because my city is growing very slowly. In part because of the island gameplay mechanics and in part because the terrain is kind of challenging, so it’s hard to do any rapid expansions. I’ve got around 6000 in population so far.
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The asset guide says details of 50mm of more should be in the mesh, less than that should be on the texture, which I don't think is too daunting. As standard the textures are obviously bigger too. Looking at the in game models at the moment I don't think the textures are anything special, but creating a high quality normal map will be more important. None of that bothers me, but they've changed the structure of the various texture files and I think it takes me back to square one with my workflow. On the plus side, I'd imagine I'll struggle less with the export/import process between SketchUp and Blender if it's using more recent file standards.
Current ACG: https://cs2.paradoxwikis.com/Asset_Creation_Guide
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Good news! The first private vehicle has been spotted on the island! It belongs to an adult born 2020, so it seems like he may have been a teenager when he and his parents came to the island, and now that he has found his own home as an adult he got access to a private vehicle as well.
If that’s the case, there should be more private vehicles appearing from now on.
If that’s the case, there should be more private vehicles appearing from now on.
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Some summertime sunset snaphots.
1. I've been working a bit on the city centre and made the blocks more blocky. In the bottom left of the picture is an old pier which has been redeveloped into a state-of-the-art showcase district for timber construction and sustainability.
2. Below, the two first private vehicles spotted on the island (there's a scooter parked behind the "no left turn" sign).
3. The timber towers at sunset.
4. Some of the oldest buildings in the city centre.
5. A new suburban district for the upper middle class.
6. An overview of the city. Around 14,000 citizens at this point. And - to the best of my knowledge - two private vehicles.
1. I've been working a bit on the city centre and made the blocks more blocky. In the bottom left of the picture is an old pier which has been redeveloped into a state-of-the-art showcase district for timber construction and sustainability.
2. Below, the two first private vehicles spotted on the island (there's a scooter parked behind the "no left turn" sign).
3. The timber towers at sunset.
4. Some of the oldest buildings in the city centre.
5. A new suburban district for the upper middle class.
6. An overview of the city. Around 14,000 citizens at this point. And - to the best of my knowledge - two private vehicles.
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Not as beautiful as Eran's but my current project... Transportopia, has a slightly related concept, in as much as the outside road connections are mostly severed in favour of dumping all passengers and cargo onto trains when they/it arrives... so as few cars as possible across the map. Sadly, in its current form, CS2 doesn't have the same number of transit options or policies, but my aim is to discourage car use, not flat out ban it.
So, North Junction. The highways feed into a car parking facility, that offers a very short tram ride to a bus station, a main station with multiple connections, or directly into the local town. Approximately 80% of the streets are pedestrianised with trams and buses operating on the car orientated spine.
South Junction, which effectively is the same thing at the bottom of the map.
The mid-point between them currently only handles passenger traffic, but again, it's mostly ped streets with trams and is the current starting point for a metro system... which..
... currently only links to the passenger harbour area. Didn't spend any time terraforming the port, so I can see these getting rejigged early on.
So four starting 'towns' that I aim to link up as the main metro area, with specialised industry and airport spanning the western side of the map.
Also just realised (via infrastructurist's latest video), that the road builder can make 2+ track railways, which will be handy for keeping passenger and cargo lines from getting in each others way - just need to rebuild the west coast main line...
So, North Junction. The highways feed into a car parking facility, that offers a very short tram ride to a bus station, a main station with multiple connections, or directly into the local town. Approximately 80% of the streets are pedestrianised with trams and buses operating on the car orientated spine.
South Junction, which effectively is the same thing at the bottom of the map.
The mid-point between them currently only handles passenger traffic, but again, it's mostly ped streets with trams and is the current starting point for a metro system... which..
... currently only links to the passenger harbour area. Didn't spend any time terraforming the port, so I can see these getting rejigged early on.
So four starting 'towns' that I aim to link up as the main metro area, with specialised industry and airport spanning the western side of the map.
Also just realised (via infrastructurist's latest video), that the road builder can make 2+ track railways, which will be handy for keeping passenger and cargo lines from getting in each others way - just need to rebuild the west coast main line...
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Big patch incoming:
Notes
store.steampowered.com
Also coming, region packs...
Starting next week with the French Pack, we kick off your exploration of iconic architecture with a pack inspired by Paris. It features different zone types and iconic signature and service buildings.
On the 11th of November, we will head to Germany to pack the German pack. Will we experience October Fest and eat schnitzel? Not sure, but the pack will allow you to build German-inspired neighborhoods that will make you feel like you can!
The next stop on the 25th of November will be the iconic UK Pack, with sprawling Low-density row houses and epic estates. We’ve heard that this is the ideal pack to pair with some tea and a copious amount of roundabouts.
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Cities: Skylines II - Patch Notes 1.1.10f1 - Steam News
Hi everyone. We have a new patch for you today with a bunch of fixes highlighted below and some back-end changes to enable the upload (and download) of the upcoming Region Packs. While the asset editing features are not fully complete yet, we’ve found a workaround to make these uploads possible...
Also coming, region packs...
Starting next week with the French Pack, we kick off your exploration of iconic architecture with a pack inspired by Paris. It features different zone types and iconic signature and service buildings.
On the 11th of November, we will head to Germany to pack the German pack. Will we experience October Fest and eat schnitzel? Not sure, but the pack will allow you to build German-inspired neighborhoods that will make you feel like you can!
The next stop on the 25th of November will be the iconic UK Pack, with sprawling Low-density row houses and epic estates. We’ve heard that this is the ideal pack to pair with some tea and a copious amount of roundabouts.
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French CCP has dropped. Looks pretty good.
I like how they've done the integration... I'm wondering if future custom assets can be put into these locales.
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Granted this is a boring shot, but Elementary School, College and High Schools which are mid rise and wall to wall. Good stuff.
I like how they've done the integration... I'm wondering if future custom assets can be put into these locales.
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Granted this is a boring shot, but Elementary School, College and High Schools which are mid rise and wall to wall. Good stuff.
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If you use the traffic mod, read this.
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If you use the traffic mod, read this.
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