Hmmm, can't offer help from personal experience, but between this video...
If you have Traffic Manager you can enable more realistic parking, that way your citizens will have to look for a parking space instead of just putting the car in their pocket.One thing that irritates me is my parking lots are almost always empty.
That's from my newest city, Wannani. Made entirely of vanilla assets (excluding traffic and map theme)
Not sure I've used that mod before, might have to give it a look. The pocket thing is kind of odd in my opinion. I mean i understand it was done to save RAM, but surely it can't use that much extra RAM, I hope... I only got 16GB DDR4 on my new laptop that I play the game on... already pushing it to 14 1/2 GBs according to load screen mod. Hopefully I'll still have enough leeway.
I haven't really played the game a whole lot, but instead of scrapping my city and starting from scratch, I pressed on with a 'whatever works'/'I'll fix it later' approach, that clearly didn't end very well. )
If this is the vanilla game you're using, are you using one of the DLC asset packs? None of my commercial buildings spawn parking lots like these. Customers usually enter and exist building in the style of casual ram-raiders. They driver straight across the pavements and right through the side of the buildings. The only assets i have i know have parking lots, off the top of my head, are some of the transport hubs.One thing that irritates me is my parking lots are almost always empty.
That's from my newest city, Wannani. Made entirely of vanilla assets (excluding traffic and map theme)
They're parking lots I made in the asset editor. While yeah, they could be considered a custom asset, I don't like to think of them as that since they use only use vanilla assets. More specifically they use the base game parking lot texture, base game pavement texture, a light post from I think it was After Dark and the invisible parking spawner thingy from base game...
They act as parks but put out zero entertainment values or citizen happiness, so they don't raise the land value. The citizens will still visit them though which is odd to see, but take the good with the bad, I guess.
I've posted before about this further down on the thread, when i was trying to get the remastered version for the PS5, i've tracked the price of the base game before and found it has been discounted on the PS Store (often by 50%) every two months on average. The DLC seems to be a bit more random, but every so often and not unfrequently, the DLC packs get heavily discounted too. I've got a lot of the non-radio station packs and i've not paid full price for any of them. I am a Yorkshireman at the end of the day. As a Scotsman, i'm sure this will be of interest to you tooAlthough I've asked about mods and DLC before, I wanted to check whether or not the paid DLC on the PS4 version of the game is worth the entry fee?
For example, Industries is £9.99, which is more than I paid for the game. I don't play C:S very much, but I do go through phases and play it for far longer than I plan to when I do play it.
Right now, my once-crippled little town is on a hot streak, and I hit 100,000 for the first time (without cheating, anyway!) last night. It's still a bit of an unholy mess in places though, and needs ALOT of work, so I don't need any new content, but it would be good to know.
I'm also aware that C:S2 is just round the corner, but I likely won't be playing that for some time yet, not least as I don't have a PS5
I'd say Industries is worth getting just to avoid the vanilla industry buildings and the massive levels of congestion you get on the roads around it. The factories you can build that require different combinations of materials from the various industry types is almost a game in itself. 👍
Was it? I thought those came with the universities. So much DLC for this game, it's kind of hard to keep track of what's what especially if you have everything like me.
Just looked it up, they were bundled together as Campus Plus Edition, but they were released as Campus DLC and University Cities Content Creator Pack. I'd hazard a guess that Campus is one of the DLC's that comes with the most building looking buildings - as in, Parklife comes with a lot, but they're only suitable within the confines of a Park, the Industries DLC comes with some way, way better looking assets than vanilla, but not that many. The Varsity sports and museums on offer with Campus DLC also can add quite a bit.Was it? I thought those came with the universities. So much DLC for this game, it's kind of hard to keep track of what's what especially if you have everything like me.
I'm actually in the process of preparing and setting up a dystopian futuristic "cyberpunk" city. My plan is to create a city full of crime and supernationalist propaganda. I am torn on the name though. I've bounced the names of Neon City, Graph City and Twilight City. I'm still undecided on which one to choose.
I used to love The Black Dog, and I even have one of their tracks ("Chesh") as my morning alarm on my phone.Hmm, I do like the sound of the name Harmony, it oddly fits with this style of sound I just found that will be the "soundtrack" of sorts.
Example of that sound:
The Black Dog - Hype Knot 7
They have an entire album "Liber Dogma" with that sound.
And now that I've found the visual style, assets, and sound. One thing left to do before play - Create a unique map theme. I am thinking since this is a style and city that I'll be spending a lot of time with, why not go all-in?
