100% clean green power There are several ways I like to keep my cities green in Cities Skylines: Power production will often come from low-carbon emitting sources including hydro or nuclear. I do use the Waste to Energy Incinerators that produce small amounts of air and ground pollution but they make up no more … Continue reading Who Say’s I Don’t Do Green #CitiesSkylines
Tad wet Just a quick update with San Layton City while I put together the San Layton Reserve post. Today we follow Bus Line 16 from the City Centre to new nature reserve at Garnet Hills. As the title said it was a bleak day (well night) but no matter as busses and monorail … Continue reading A Bleak Day in San Layton City #CitiesSkylines. Also Checking Out some Urban Design Up-close
Let's try Monorail We are all familiar The Simpsons and Monorail: There is even an essay on Monorails and Urban Geography: MONORAIL: A KEY URBAN LESSON FROM THE SIMPSONS. So last night I decided for the first time in Cities Skylines to build a monorail line from the City Centre to Thorton Park halfway … Continue reading Monorail! #CitiesSkylines
95% of power from clean sources - sodding incinerators hold up the rest Emissions free power or close to it. I talk about and advocate for it but do I lead by example within #CitiesSkylines? This graph is from San Solaria City on where its electricity comes from: If you wanted it in … Continue reading San Solaria Leads the Way in Low Carbon Future
Final Part of the Series (Part 6) in Lessons for Auckland In my ALL ABOARD. Light Rail Moving You Around. Lessons for Auckland post I had mentioned the two types of tram systems I run: Four new tram lines were built with two connecting to the wider city and two travelling within the area forming a … Continue reading Trans City vs Local District Transit. #CitiesSkylines Lessons for Auckland
Taking a trip around the flag City Layton City is still my only City that used heavy rail as part of the commuter transit system. All my other cities either use a combination of subway and elevated light rail, trams and/or busses with heavy rail relegated to inter-city movements. Consequently there are four … Continue reading All Aboard! Taking Layton City Metro Line 2. #CitiesSkylines
Managing that flow So you have built this wonderful large city but you wonder why your traffic is a bit shit in places. 72% traffic flow is not bad but not flash either given it sits in the 'condition yellow' segment. This means rather than a City-wide failure in your traffic (Auckland) there are … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Traffic Routes Map Management. Help?
Commentary from a driver on Bus Line 17 and how the City evolves We get back in touch with the driver of the Bus Line 17 to see his photo essay of one of busiest lines in San Solaria. Since our last meeting there has been quite a bit of development in San Solaria … Continue reading Another Day on Bus Line 17 #CitiesSkylines
Removing mod did the trick I got around to removing an old mod that was causing the City to have major graphical issues every time a ferry system was put down in San Solarian City. Given the City sits on a coast line and has a river running through the middle of it the … Continue reading Ferries! Finally Got Them Working #CitiesSkylines
Slowly rolling out new features in Mass Transit DLC Last night I managed to get in a few serious hours of game play on Cities Skylines with the new Mass Transit DLC installed (and core mods updated). My initial reaction is mixed as the ferries do not yet work (game crashes out) and the … Continue reading BLIMPS! And a Bus-way (Finally)
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