#cities skylines is fun

[holyshonks]

Do you guys wanna see my really awful Cities: Skylines map?

I enjoy city-builders but I'm not good at them in that I am the opposite of a perfectionist. It's fine. We'll just slap a road on there. Only two people in the entire city take the ferry. It's cool, leave it. This road is at a weird angle? Don't care. Don't mind the preschool next to the crematorium.

I call this map "a tale of two cities" which isn't an accurate metaphor because they both suck pretty bad, but I made the right side first so it got all my beginner's mistakes. By the time I got to the left side it occurred to me that most cities operate on some sort of grid, so it's a little more intentional in its design.

Traffic has always been a pain, but to fix it would probably require a full overhaul of the street system (i.e. creating industry-only roads all along the outskirts) and I don't really feel like doing that. So instead I just keep adding new means of getting around to try limit the amount of drivers. I give you: the bridge next to a railroad over a ferry next to another bridge:

Of course this isn't a good solution, so traffic is still terrible. Gridlock in the smog-a-torium:

But this isn't even the worst part. Easily, the worst part is my underground system, so the metro and tunnels. Dark gray is the tunnels, light gray is the metro lines. My metro system is wide-spanning but I didn't feel like making a central hub, so to get from one side of the city to the other you might transfer five times. My tunnels, well...you'll break your neck making those turns.

My bus system is actually pretty good and the people love it.

My highways.....................................................

I also got into trying out new public transit in a small part of the city just to test it out, which led me to have a farming community that exclusively uses trolleys to get around, and my favorite: the monorail that goes from the bridge-rail-ferry to this industrial area. I tried to spruce it up with a cherry blossom park but the trees all died from the toxins 😭😭😭

This train stop sat unused for in-game years and I fully assumed people just didn't want to use it. One time a bear was there. Finally I took a closer look and realize I never connected it to the street.......

Despite how horrible literally everything is about the design of this city, the citizens are actually happy and don't seem to mind? I once followed a person to see what their commute was like, and it took them a full TWENTY FOUR HOURS to get from home to work and they did not care at all. Either that or everyone is woozy from breathing in smog.

[fernsfabulousfloweringfacility]

DDVAU by @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11 got me feeling a certain type of way <3

Alt + closeups under the cut :D

If you reblog i kiss you passionately on the mouth /platonic

[mspoodle1]

Popping in to say Hi!

Sadly no Sims, but I did open Cities Skylines and play for a little bit. I got the last expansion and creator content packs. Not sure why since they are going to come out with CS2 in the Fall. 🤷‍♀️But it's pretty to look at and I can spam trees, bushes and fences to my hearts content. we won't talk about the town because it's a bit ick. lol And I'm tired of no new pictures on my blog. ttyl 🙋‍♀️

[herbofthyme]

cityscape

[jon-decor]

Vibes 🖤🔥

[dwtdog]

the spore stream :(( i love that one sm. he would love city skylines i hope he plays it eventually

spore stream was so chaotic 😭 but so much fun he was nerding out

[vermillioncrown]

me: i... could totally formulate a binary integer programming problem for book of hours

me @ me: please don't fucking do that

[mokeonn]

Since I found out steam does a year in review (I had no idea until this year) I have decided that I must play video games more and play every game in my steam library so that my year in review is 100% accurate next year and I don't get told that my top 2 games were Disco Elysium and Baldur's Gate 3 because I would Hyperfixate on one game for a whole month (or three) and play nothing else, and still have my genre graph have nothing to do with those two top games and instead have "cats" as a genre while calling me a fag

[imflyingfish]

Using cities skylines as wish fuffilment (watching videos of pros creating walkable cities)

[olessan]

I love the fact that I can work as hard as I can manage with a broken tooth and a dying tooth (one on each side, I've been chewing on the cavity for a year) and I still cannot save even $10 towards getting dental treatment (2 impacted wisdom teeth, + tooth broken off under the gum, + bad cavity) because I barely make enough to cover my food and board and the insane energy bill

[iidsch]

people in the sims community complain about the many flaws the game has but at least they get expansions regularly, the folks in the simcity and mysims fandoms must be one step away from death at this point

[yuriathames]

[kurthorton]

hehe

[motion90affect]

Hip Hop Instrumental Beat - "Expected"

[dovert0n]

PLOOPALS of DINGALTON Highlights

[thesulliedone]

Honestly I'd love it if they made like a Streets of SimCity or SimCopter thingy for CS2. it'd be fun being able to drive or fly around in your own cities.