Cities Skylines - the thread of the game

[noiseredux]

Did you get it Mike?

[mjmjr25]

Did you get it Mike?

Yes - updating STEAM now...haven't been on steam in months, taking awhile...kids are excited to try it out, looks great. We noticed your city doesn't have a church :/

[mjmjr25]

Mockville was not meant to be. The city was burned in flames early. Too many roads and homes; not enough services. Town dissolved before it became eligible for government or bank loans.

However, in the ashes of Mockville; East Mockville rose up and is a burgeoning metropolis. Some early health issues related to the city water being too close to the city sewage nearly spelled doom for this town in its infancy, but a mayoral change, a government bailout (50K) allowed them to move the water, build another health clinic, and lower taxes too. People are thriving in this virile village of 1,109. However, progress can only come so quick for some of the youth. We are not keeping our young adults who are looking for secondary education. Baby steps.

[noiseredux]

So much pride right now.

I hit 5,000 today.

Mike, I assume you're playing as a team. I'd love to hear details on various disagreements you and the kids and Amy have had about how to manage the city. My wife has gotten completely stressed out about how I'm disposing of sewerage in my own town for instance. She's washed her hands of New Bradford. I keep telling her that unfortunately we're built on a waterfront with still water, so we can't watch the waste float downstream. And I just won't have the funds to build a water purification plant until I've got 14,000 residence, nearly 3x the folks I've got living there today. But she just can't handle the pollution.

She even snickered at me today when I said that a neighborhood was getting sick. Turns out I build an oil plant too close to a water tower. But she's just really concerned that I'm poisoning my people by dumping into the bay. I just have no choice. And I plan to clean up the bay as soon as I can. I just can't yet.

Anyway, curious how it's gone as a team-building exercise.

[mjmjr25]

Our only real argument was about putting the sewage next to the water. Amy and I were certain it was a bad idea, but Em convinced us it was going downstream and the water was upstream. Soon afterward everyone was getting sick - we were pretty sure it was the water, but we built a clinic just to make sure it wasn't routine illness. A few days later, our entire town was ambulances, we increased our spending on healthcare to 150% of budget, people kept dying. Luckily, we were eligible for a bailout of 50K. We moved the water, built more housing, demolished the abandoned homes, and began to flourish.

I wanted to put a school on each end of town, Em wanted to put one in the middle to serve all the kids. Short term she was right, but now we need 3 schools where 2 would've sufficed.

The boys just want to tax everyone to make money - they def don't see the big picture yet.

We had built our landfill far away, but as our city grows, it's almost dead center of the town now. Once it fills up I think we'll demolish it and move it even further out.

[mjmjr25]

Will I eventually get a sewage treatment plant option? My lake is 25% contaminated and getting worse by the day. Also, a lot of people are dying. I've got two cemetaries and business is booming.

also, F12, once I do that, walk me through what I need to do to put it in a post, please

[noiseredux]

you need 14,000 people to unlock the sewage plant.

F12 takes the screenshot. When you quit the game you will see a pop-up that allows you to upload the screenshots to Steam cloud. After you do that you can view your online library of screenshots, and link to the pics.

[noiseredux]

so I've been playing this game a lot...













As you can see I've now got a 2nd piece of the map purchased, with the first all filled in. Also unlocked some pretty cool stuff - I know have high density apt buildings, high density business, office buildings, a subway system, a train, a solar power plant, a convention center, and so on. I've replaced the three drainage pipes with sewer treatment plants as well.

Though oddly, I've got one neighborhood that keeps getting sick and I can't figure out what's bothering them. Doesn't seem to be water as best I can tell... I'm thinking that they're getting pollution from a nearby industrial plant or something. I need to investigate that better.

I also messed around - briefly - with setting some policies and tax cuts/hikes both citywide and for different districts. Ultimately I found that whatever I tried to do just drained my income, so I just stopped that for now.

[TSTR]

hehehe

[mjmjr25]

Policies - it's funny. We put a no-smoking policy into effect and my kids were all like, "Why is that even a question? Are there players who would actually allow smoking?"

Uncle Brad?