Vanilla feels so limiting and there are so many mods you need just to make it passable. Any way to make it so that I don't have to be like mayor pete?

    • machiabelly [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      It's rare for me to find a game that makes me feel like too much of a casual. That is one of them.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It's good but the learning curve is absolutely massive with very little guidance actually in-game. Requires outside learning via very long youtube guides.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Extremely detailed multi-hour long soviet videogame nerds that would be basement trainset nerds if games like this did not exist.

      • booty [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Overwhelmingly positive reviews are pretty rare on Steam.

      • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        It's extremely in-depth and as such has a steep learning curve. The graphics are kinda 20 years ago, but the game is fun.

        It's also not anticommunist, despite being from a Slovak game developer.

      • sloth [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        It is good, but it is very hands-on micro-managey. The only cars in your city will be ones you purchase manually, downside is you have to manually purchase EVERY vehicle.

        • TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Either purchase manually, or set up the entire supply chain to manufacture cars locally. I went through the whole process just so I didn't have to keep buying cars 10 at a time every several minutes lol

          • sloth [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Good to know that's an option. I guess I never got that far in the production tree.

  • putsthecultinculture [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It’s called wait for cities skylines 2, I heard it has such improvements as not having the twitter bird as the mascot for obvious reasons.

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    So far my fav mod is TM:PE because it allows you to ban cars on whatever streets you want.

    I like to build the metro/transit system first and then build my cities around that.

    However, all of the streets that you build to connect everything will become car sewers until you ban personal automobile traffic on them, but you can still allow emergency vehicles and light industry transport/goods on them with TM:PE mod.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Find it mod, you can place down your own buildings like a central planner

    https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2133885971

  • Vampire [any]
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    2 years ago

    Curious in what ways it's neoliberal. (never played it)

      • RoabeArt [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah like in the original SimCity (the one that came out in 1989) I think you could replace your entire road infrastructure with rails and the city would grow just the same.

        Adding subways and trams in Cities Skylines does cut down on traffic quite a bit, but zone development is still entirely dependent on roads. You can't even build pedestrian-only corridors, at least not without mods.

        • usbgen4 [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          What I would give to have some pedestrian only areas near me. I saw a video about some of them in Spain and it looks amazing

    • machiabelly [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Car centric to the point that a complete transit system requires dlc. More police = more safe. Everything is about profit. People's lives are split up into 3 sections, sleeping at home, working, and then shopping. No sense of community, nothing that doesn't involve consuuuming.