63% comes from clean sources Power is a serious business for a large city such as Layton City. Placement of power plants also matters too as the tsunami saga showed when the City Centre was "cleaned" but the power plants were missed. In Layton City nearly two-thirds of its power is produced by non-Green … Continue reading Moving to Clean Energy in Layton City #CitiesSkylines
Disaster response management worked Citizens are slow Okay first lesson with the Tsunami, ONLY HIT THE BUTTON ONCE! The cool down timer and the arrival of the wave does take a long time as in towards six hours of game time being simulated. I accidentally hit the button twice and got a double tsunami … Continue reading DISASTER! Layton City Surfs Two Tsunamis #CitiesSkylines
Fire and water tests Layton City's resolve So I got the Natural Disasters DLC for Cities Skylines. Once the mods were updated by their developers (to my massive thanks) I was able to load up Layton City (my grand city of 243,000 which is HUGE for Cities Skylines) and give the new DLC a … Continue reading Preparing for a #CitiesSkylines Disaster
Been a busy few weeks It has busy few weeks in Layton City with a housing shortage (oh where have we heard that before) causing issues as well as the worst case of flooding I have ever seen to the City. Also a new frontier opened up to exploit the mineral ore on the … Continue reading Planning the Downtown and More Err Driving. Oh and FLOODING # CitiesSkylines
Placing the final road link Wet weather means Cities Skylines time and some serious time at that. Yesterday I worked on two major projects for Layton City as it continues to grow. First was to connect a main intra-Layton City Highways intersection up to the main inter-city highway at the western edge of the … Continue reading The Way-less Travel in #CitiesSkylines
Heavy rail system delivers the goods When Cities Skylines first came out the heavy rail system was more optimised for moving freight or inter-city passengers rather than commuters. Commuters were best to use the busses or subway system if they wished to use transit to get around.. With After Dark and Snowfall DLC's as … Continue reading Heavy Rail Moving the Cims #CitiesSkylines
Light rail finally surfaces With the continued expansion of the heavy rail network in Layton City the question was asked would light rail have any place in the City? The answer is yes it does as heavy rail is more for fast regional connections between Centres while light rail tackles more local routes where … Continue reading TRAMS in Layton City #CitiesSkylines
Biking is king in Layton City One thing I am trying with Layton City is to make the city an 8-80 City. That is a city that is safe to navigate by both eight and eighty year old citizens as well as amenities suited for them. That is if your city is safe and … Continue reading The Layton City Cycle Super Highway #CitiesSkylines
City suffers from first major flood If you have the Rainfall Mod for Cities Skylines what was just cosmetic rain for visual effects now gives real consequences depending how much falls into your City. This means you have to build a storm water system so that the rain can drain away from your city … Continue reading Layton City Flooded #CitiesSkylines
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