I just realised tomorrow is the 10th. Superior glorious Australian land strikes again!
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Sure. I don't think anybody was calling the game 'incomplete' or bad value or anything. Just that there will be a lot more post-release content coming(probably).
Basileus777
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Are we calling great post-release support with a ton of free content via patches a negative?
I might be misunderstanding your post, apologies if so, but if you're in Oz please, please don't get your hopes up about playing this on Tuesday. All signs point to this being a single, non-regional release based on office hours in West Coast USA. Chances are that it'll unlock in Australia something like midnight Tuesday Perth and 3am Wednesday Sydney.
I really hope I'm wrong!
...So you're saying there's a chance?
What I can't wait for is something like 'Partnered with Waze', AI/agents based on real life traffic decisions. how many people take detours vs waiting it out, etc.
Can you get your code early from GMG using an AUS VPN? If of course they release it then.
Great video by Quill18 about intersections and traffic behaviour in game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1yNaa83I2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1yNaa83I2E
I don't think so. I've bought the game via GMG via my account which has my real address.
If it would be VPN'd via another account, say from Australia, then maybe I would get the code as legit AUS people.
No, I believe their release process for codes is not like that.
Matt_
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I wonder if they'll patch in disasters
On the one hand it would be cool to try and recover/plan for them, but I remember playing banished before realising there were disasters and having a tornado come in a completely fuck up my game and I was so pissed
On the one hand it would be cool to try and recover/plan for them, but I remember playing banished before realising there were disasters and having a tornado come in a completely fuck up my game and I was so pissed
Eh, nice to know.
I think for my first city, I'll do something I absolutely loath in real life: one ways everywhere.
TekGryphon
Banned
How permanent are we talking here? If unemployment is near zero and I expand my city simultaneously on either end of it, will the only jobs the new residents on Side A be able to get is the new commercial jobs on Side B?
Or do residents shuffle jobs (as in real life) or residences (as in real life) to reduce their commute?
Oh well, only a day to go then! Too damn hyped.
Very interesting...
This game is already the winner in my mind, but I do hope they can address some of the shortcomings either through dlc or full-blown expansions.
I'm pretty sure whatever plans they had coming for this game two weeks ago, have seen some major changes since then. This game is breakign records for Paradox, and I'm sure will be selling many times what CO's previous titles sold.
I'm sure we're going to get tons of content for this, and I wouldn't be suprised to see a couple of meaty expansions as well.
Yep, pretty sure about that. The demand for this game is crazy.
In Service
Member
I so want to buy this for my Mac but I don't know if I have enough time in my life to enjoy it. I've been watching Paradox on Twitch and it looks like a hoot.
Might look out for it on sale in a year or two time.
Might look out for it on sale in a year or two time.
I pre-ordered the game and I can't wait to play it but after spending a week watching streams and youtube videos I can't shake the feeling that the game is a bit.... Shallow.
I feel like what is there is super solid and that's definitly a great base for a new franchise but at same time the options are a bit limited.
-They have all the systems in place (fire, police, trash, deaths,etc) but almost no granular control except for the two levels of police/fire buildings.
-The water system feels like a waste of time. You have to put in the pipes but that's it. Also the way the game is balanced right now means that you need to spam the pumps/dumps buildings which look a bit ridiculous
-No way (afaik anyway) to increase or reduce the budget on specific utility buildings like in SC2013 which means that you need to spam all your utility building to get good coverage.
Anyway... The game still look amazing and much better than SC2013 overall. Also I'm sure that a lot of that stuff can be fixed either post release by Paradox or from users with mods. We'll see in a couple of weeks/months I guess.
I feel like what is there is super solid and that's definitly a great base for a new franchise but at same time the options are a bit limited.
-They have all the systems in place (fire, police, trash, deaths,etc) but almost no granular control except for the two levels of police/fire buildings.
-The water system feels like a waste of time. You have to put in the pipes but that's it. Also the way the game is balanced right now means that you need to spam the pumps/dumps buildings which look a bit ridiculous
-No way (afaik anyway) to increase or reduce the budget on specific utility buildings like in SC2013 which means that you need to spam all your utility building to get good coverage.
Anyway... The game still look amazing and much better than SC2013 overall. Also I'm sure that a lot of that stuff can be fixed either post release by Paradox or from users with mods. We'll see in a couple of weeks/months I guess.
Basileus777
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Paradox's marketing strategy has been really smart too. Getting this game in the hands of streamers well in-advance of release and letting them hype the game has done wonders.
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
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I think the water system is pretty complicated with the dams and the possibilities to flood the land. The Paradox streamer also showed that you can block the water with a dam and then pump out the water so you can create more land from a dried up river.
Yeah the water dynamics are awesome. I first saw them in effect when a streamer built a dam, left it for a while, went back and discovered that the surrounding areas had become flooded. He then bulldozed the dam and the torrent flooded the area behind the dam.
Who needs disasters when you can cause them yourself?
Good video. He kinda lost me when he got to the highway portion and thought it was interesting that a highway merging into a highway doesn't create traffic lights... Baffling.
I've seen Skye play with this so this is in the game
Yep. Lower the budget for lets say electricity and the "reserves" will jump up and vice versa for nearly everything.
Someone correct me because I think it may be the opposite if you lower it.
you can't do budget by individual building, you can do the overall budget.
so say you have 1 windmill that does 8MW at 100% budget. If you increase the budget, you increase the 8MW.
If you have say 5 police stations and they don't cover the outer edges of your city and you increase their budget, the coverage will increase.
It basically allows you to up your services without spending the money for a new service entirely but of course in the long run it will cost you more.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Yes, you are correct.
Or beyond. I still play SimCity 4.
I played some Simcity 4 this weekend, and I have to admit, I'm ready to move on to something newer. Even though I love the game and have been playing it for over 12 years, after my very short stint with Simcity 5 and after seeing what Skylines can do in videos I want the creative freedom of a 3D city builder. I want to be free of the gridlines, I want to be able to go down to street view and rotate my camera, I want the agent traffic that I can follow around. Yep, it's time. I think I may have played my last serious game time with Simcity 4 this weekend.
I was never even saying something about individual buidlings.
The question was that a lot of water pumps look ridiculous - so you can just tinker with the budget to have "more" water reserves.
EDIT OH SHIT I UNDERSTOD IT ALL WRONG FORGIVE ME GUYS LOL
Yes, you can't controll individual building. Sorry Klyka, for making you type stuff for me. Duh.
The spamming is true. Utility building or service building have set radius from what I've seen.
No.
I bought it on steam, and still no preload yet.
Less than 2 hours till March 10 now...
martino
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^^ it harms sc20113...
What would be cool is tunel and underground road in CS or next sc
Same here, bought it but I don't think I will be able to play it until it's the 10th in the US...
There's no preload, and it's around 28 hours until it unlocks worldwide (unless Paradox decides otherwise).
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
They will be patched in very shortly after launch by Paradox / CO.
Nope. But before I make any BIG changes, I always save the game first.
Last night I wanted to fuck around with the rail system so I saved my game and started screwing around with it. Got to a point where I just wasn't ready to figure it out so I just reloaded my save game. It was like a one giant undo button.
Haven't they already said tunnels will be in a free patch sometime after release?
Release time is at 18:00 GMT, right?
Yes. Might be released earlier.
Well I don't know if they have changed it but last week the word was "around the time games usually release on Steam" which is 10:00 AM PST but since they turned clocks in North America already, 10:00 AM PST is actually 17:00 GMT instead of the usual 18:00 GMT. In any case, it's going to be around 17-18:00 GMT unless something changes.
The main programmer said it does but the icons will be blurry.