Cities: Skylines II

[eran0004]

I added a church made by Titan, it's a beautiful asset. The clock is working as well, so that's a nice detail.

 

[eran0004]

I made some modifications to this intersection to improve traffic flow. I like the spaghetti going on here.

I also appreciate the simplicity of a clean diamond interchange. This one connects to a new industrial area.

Here's an overview of the new industry. Unemployment was at 50% so I wanted to create a ton of jobs. Was a bit surprised to find that the signature industry buildings only employ a handful of people each, I believe the car factory for example has around 30 people working there. But I also made my own factories by splicing together a bunch of vanilla industry buildings, so the total job count of the area is around 1300. It made a dent in the unemployment figures, now it's down to 47%...

A close-up of one of the custom factories.

And another one. Had a lot of fun building these.

 

[eran0004]

Cooked some more spaghetti.

 

[eran0004]

I started building up a hillside near the city centre, using mainly the old town buildings. It's quickly becoming my favourite district of the city, got some nice street views. Parking is tricky to solve, but I'm trying to be creative with the parking lot roads, as well as using the one-way lanes with parking on the sides.

 

[eran0004]

Due to increased traffic, I upgraded one of the collectors to an arterial road. The new arterial runs down the middle of the picture below. I straightened out the road and removed all local road access from it. Now it only connects to collectors and other arterials via the three roundabouts. Once it reaches the neighbourhood in the far distance it goes back to a collector again. The new layout turned out really nice!

I also upgraded this neighbourhood with some UK highrises. Very happy with these too. Parking was tricky to solve but I think the demand has been satisfied now.

A view of the neighbourhood from the football field.

 

[eran0004]

I noticed that my Paper Mill factory only had 5 employees, pretty sure it used to have a lot more before (like, hundreds). With unemployment sitting at 45% I figured it was time to do something about that. I noticed that the factory had pretty much no timber in storage and that virtually all of my imported timber went to building upkeep. Concluded that the low employment of the factory was linked to the lack of resources and started planning for a big timber factory to solve that problem.

So I started plopping industry buildings and only keeping those that spawned a timber producing company. Then arranged the buildings in a cluster, painted them in the same colour scheme, added some props and lastly an office building to act as the factory headquarters.

The result is 500 jobs at this new factory and around 500 tons of timber produced per month, meeting about half of the total demand. The job count at the Paper Mill improved as well, at the present it has 25 employees. Still far from what it used to have, but it's going in the right direction.

 

[ScottPuss20]

This is Devintown - a city with over half a million people! After several failed attempts, I've finally been able to create something akin to my Decentralised Model on this new computer. Let's see if I can crack a million again.

 

[eran0004]

Well, well, well.

Iceflake Studio's first patch has been released and with it global illumination has been disabled. While it was glitchy (especially at sunset and sunrise), it did make the lighting more photorealistic. Now that it has been switched off, I feel the game looks more like Cities Skylines 1 (and not in a good way).

However, I found that with some tweaking I could get a pretty nice retro look, with Sim City 2000 style pixelation and a very narrow - nearly parallel projection - field of view.

For the record, I do like the changes to fog and cloudiness. Hopefully they can sort out the global illumination issue soon.

Here are some birds-eye views of the city.

 

[eran0004]

Some new development at the waterfront. Added a marina, the Maritime Museum, a ferris wheel and a couple of restaurants. Also demolished an old residential block and built a high density mixed block using some Urban Promenades buildings and a couple of office highrises.

The level of detail on these boat props is pretty insane by the way.

 

[ScottPuss20]

Some new development at the waterfront. Added a marina, the Maritime Museum, a ferris wheel and a couple of restaurants. Also demolished an old residential block and built a high density mixed block using some Urban Promenades buildings and a couple of office highrises.

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The level of detail on these boat props is pretty insane by the way.
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How did you get the marina?

 

[eran0004]

How did you get the marina?

I built it using the leasure piers included in the Bridges and Ports DLC. The boats are props, some are from the DLC and some from an asset mod. The boat trailers are from the mod.

 

[ScottPuss20]

I built it using the leasure piers included in the Bridges and Ports DLC. The boats are props, some are from the DLC and some from an asset mod. The boat trailers are from the mod.

Does the DLC have ANY boat props? If so, I can't find them.

 

[eran0004]

Does the DLC have ANY boat props? If so, I can't find them.

It does (they are quite big though), they are located in the nature section of props, same place where you find rocks.