Cities: Skylines - Ur Opinions

Can't get past the installation - won't accept my email or user name.

 

Had the same issue. Got frustrated and clicked on "PLAY'' anyway and the game started.

 

Thanks for the tip.

 

I love Cities skyline , but I will put only 8/10 because I don't like the bugs and that this game have no monuments like tokyo tower

 

Here's my oppinion.

Negative:
- The standard maps force you to accept the prebuilt highway and train system. Looks like island cities will be impossibe.
- Unlocking stuff is so arcadish, but there's a mod getting rid of that.
- Buying 8 additional city squares is a nuisance. I prefer complete maps like in XXL which makes planning zones and streets much easier.
- Highway intersections don't seem to snap to existing highways. The same is true for the train stations.
- Different lot sizes and XXL's farm system would have been a better choice than standardized 4x4 lots. If you use curvy roads, the 4x4 lots turn into a mess.
- Service ranges are a bit too low. In reality, a university offers education to a whole region and not only the next several blocks. Why not only using a capacity system?
- The art style is not very realistic. CiM 2 had a better and more realistic style.
- The German translation has several spelling errors, but it is understandable.
- Culture and entertainment is missing. There's not even a library!
- Trash is a giant problem and despite dozens of garbage dumps (not that far away from zones), the problem remains.
- I'm missing trams and monorails.

Positive:
- The game is stable and runs well on my old machine. Good work!
- Roads are not as edgy as the ones from XXL and constructing them is quite easy.
- There is a nice variety of power plants (even water which I've been missing since Sim City 2000) and they produce electricity instead of tokens.
- The district system is a great feature that allows you to personalize the city.
- The flowing rivers are a nice addition as well.
- I also enjoy the industry specializations.

Neither XXL nor Skylines are perfect city builders. XXL has better maps, different lot sizes, fillers, superior farms and culture/entertainment. Skylines has the better simulation, performance, music, traffic and the look of the city really changes over time.
Regarding the Steam Workshop dilemma: let the people upload the crap to Steam Workshop while XLNation specializes on the high quality stuff.

 

can You describe Your old machine spec? thanks..

 

I also played a couple of hours now and I can basically agree Destin Faroda and IcyHot. At the moment Cities XXL is still the best choice for realistic cities and Cities Skyline for managing your city.

But I can definitely say that the road tools in Cities Skylines are the best damn thing I have seen so far in a city building game! It took me while to get used to it but than:



It took me just around 30 minutes to build this, of course it is visually not perfekt, for example freeway lanes are visually interrupted at the connections of the ramps but these are just details. The road tool is super flexible, you can connect almost everything, everywhere even intersections with a very steep angle are possible. On the other hand it is absolutely easy to use and precisely, they did a pretty good job with this tool.

 

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@Auriga: that is a brilliant highway crossing.

 

OK.....did about 7 hours today of Skylines.
I feel a city sim game can go in only one of 2 directions, management or building. As the saying goes: you can please part of the people part of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time." A perfect blend of the two themes has yet to be created. Would I love to be the developer to create such a game...$... You bet your sweet p'tooty.
As a retired construction worker and "semi-profesional" architect (don't ask me what 'semi' means, I lean a lot towards the building side, so my opinion is slightly biased.
With Skylines, it seemed like 'rush hour' all over again. Trash piling up and places burning down around me. I spent a huge majority of my time dealing with and averting disasters, such as relocating pre-built roads/highways from flooded areas, caused by putting a hydroelectric dam in the wrong place (who knew the global water level behind it would rise), to figuring out how (in the UI) to assign enough hearses to carry of the dead. If I had just one mod request, it would be to get rid of those skull & crossbone icons.
The simulation statistics are fairly accurate and believable enough (I won't bore anyone with the math), and with a mere population of 10,000 it took up all my time in management with virtually no time for expansion and I was playing sandbox with unlimited money, tools and map areas.
The road building tools are refered to as "cumbersome", even by the games own 'tool tips'. The game ran smooth enough (with only 3 crashes) and the graphics are very good, though the last time I saw that many pastels was on a color pallette in the Home Depot paint department.
And for some wierd reason, in the back of my mind the whole time I was playing, I just couldn't get rid of "cities of tomorrow' images.
All in all, I got my 10 bucks worth of fun out of it and will probably play a bit more and then pass it off to my grandson in a few months just like I did the last version of SC.
IMO.....XL/XXL still holds the world title for best city "builder". I hope it sticks with the visual reality theme that I think it has now and I look forward to a long lasting relationship with recovering from crashes, trying out and managing hundreds of mods, and downloading newly developed versions, regardless of how small or insignificant the trolls and critics claim them to be =).