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?
San Solaria uncovered If you have the Transport Line Manager Mod you are able to produce Metro-type transit maps of your City. At the moment it only covers Metro, heavy rail, tram and ferries but it looks pretty good for a product only in Alpha-testing. I got a transit map set up for … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Transit Maps
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)
So far pretty good Yesterday the Mass Transit expansion to Cities Skylines came out to test your skills in all things transit in your City. From the Forums: Mass Transit 1.7.0 Patch Notes Patch notes for Mass Transit expansion 1.7.0-f5 Paid content Mass Transit expansion 4 new mass transit types: Ferries Cable cars … Continue reading Cities Skylines Mass Transit DLC Out
This is why you don't smoke in a forest Someone careless buffoon caused a fire at the San Solarian Forest last night triggering a response from nine fire trucks and a fleet of 10 fire helicopters to put the blaze out. Damage was contained to the trees and some minor damage to production buildings. … Continue reading FIRE! Also Power Stations
And oh with the mods Paradox the creators of Cities Skylines have announced that May 18 (May 19 for New Zealand) will be when their next expansion - Mass Transit will be released through Steam. Mass Transit is a return (of sorts) by the developers to their Cities in Motions roots in allowing Cities Skyline … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Mass Transit Out May 18
New port extensions and new development on the other side of the river With San Solarian City going past 100,000 the city enters the Mature phase of an establish city that continues to evolve. While I sort out the mess that is the rail system the City itself continues to evolve with new developments … Continue reading San Solarian City Continues to Evolve
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