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Just wondering if anyone here plays this.    It just came out yesterday.  

I've been a simcity fan for years, since I was a kid (I'm almost 28 now).  I like it alot, bigger than Simcity. I think it's a little harder though.  

 

Some reviews:
http://kotaku.com/cities-skylines-the-kotaku-review-1690432932

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/10/cities-skylines-review

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I've been playing it! I love it. This is what SimCity should have been.

Same here. The game is a joy to play while being challenging. For long-time SimCity fans like myself it's a must buy.

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Well that's all I needed to hear. Buying tonight.

 

 

$29.99 It's a nice buy.  I only got to play it for a few hours last night,  maybe a few tonight and tomorrow.  I thought it's a bit harder to figure out but shouldn't be too hard.  

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I gave up on cities XL 2013, because I did not like how traffic was managed,

 

Has this been improved upon ?

 

I never played Cities XL,  I also think that Cities Skylines was not made by the same people who made the other Cities games.  

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I never played Cities XL,  I also think that Cities Skylines was not made by the same people who made the other Cities games.  

ah different titles! different developers!  Just same name "cities"... I'll have to try this then.

 

Kotaku says traffic is a bad mess, anyone comment on this?

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ah different titles! different developers!  Just same name "cities"... I'll have to try this then.

 

Kotaku says traffic is a bad mess, anyone comment on this?

On reddit, people say the traffic can be bad, but the developer on reddit states they will fix it in an update.   Not sure when that will be though.  

 

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It's quite nice and a real follow up to SimCity 4.  Much much better than Cities XXL.

 

But yeah, traffic is real bad, even if you put large roads, you end up with congestion anyway.  This is going to need some fixing because it can cause chaos if emergency services can't get to places they need to go.  People get sick, house burn down, crime rise, trash not picked up...  All because of traffic.

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It's quite nice and a real follow up to SimCity 4.  Much much better than Cities XXL.

 

But yeah, traffic is real bad, even if you put large roads, you end up with congestion anyway.  This is going to need some fixing because it can cause chaos if emergency services can't get to places they need to go.  People get sick, house burn down, crime rise, trash not picked up...  All because of traffic.

Sounds pretty realistic then :p 

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It's made by an indie group that grew up loving the city sim genre. They obviously have tons of passion for the genre because the game oozes quality even though it's a small indie group.

 

Also, there is Steam workshop support. Which is an AWESOME feature to have. And no forced online multiplayer either.

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I bought it, plan on playing during a 5 hour flight.

 

Really looking forward to it :D

 

Anything I should know before I start playing?

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Put your water pumps downstream from your sewage drains.

I've heard mixed things about traffic, I've seen people complain about entire roads clogged because every car is using a single lane, but then I've seen people with the same problem fix it just by changing their road layout. I didn't get a chance to play much but even with my stupid road layout (Building everything out of one way streets is bad) everything went fine.

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ah different titles! different developers!  Just same name "cities"... I'll have to try this then.

 

Kotaku says traffic is a bad mess, anyone comment on this?

 

Just don't build any roads.

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hmm...   too bad about the traffic and the lack of any natural / unnatural disasters

 

i might have wait a while, until a few updates, before playing.

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I just went and took a look. I shouldn't have done that, because now I want to play it but I don't have a machine that can run it. :(

hmm...   too bad about the traffic and the lack of any natural / unnatural disasters

There are no disasters? That's a bit of a shame, hopefully they'll consider putting them in in a future update.
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