I wasn't sure how districts worked in Cities: Skylines, so I set a district that covered my entire city of ~5,000 residents, and I designated the zone as “self-sufficient” residential buildings.
Well, that didn’t go over well with anyone. They left the city in droves. Within a couple of minutes, my population had nose-dived to 250 residents. Whoops!
@ramsey Buncha NIMBYs.
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@ramsey I'm pretty convinced that my misuse and ignorance of districts is why I can never get beyond a certain size of city in Skylines.
Managing districts is a whole extra layer of complexity in that game.
The game just notified me that I'm on the brink of bankruptcy, and I can accept a bailout, but that will disable achievements.
I was doing so well. Who knew a policy to reduce energy consumption and waste would send everyone running?
@ramsey Jesus Ben I read a few of these without seeing the hashtag and I was very concerned for a minute.
@jessicamauerhan Haha! At least I didn’t post about the problems I have running out of space in the cemetery!
As my town slowly regains its population, all the beautiful variety of residences has disappeared, and every home looks almost identical, now. I guess that’s what happens when you choose “self-sustaining” homes?
It’s kinda cool to be among the 1% of players who got the “I Love Trams!” achievement on Steam for Cities: Skylines. I wasn’t even trying for it; my city just has trams everywhere.
@ramsey you're tingling my inner gamer with all these toots... I'm a completionist and I had Skyline in my wishlist for years, but I probably don't have a PC powerful enough to play it right now.
Let me look up the minimum specs... 😂
@alessandrolai I’m playing it on macOS with the M1 Max processor, and it seems fine.
@ramsey I have a M4 but it's work-only, my desktop is older than Skyline, so I fear it's not up to it... I'm not at home, I'll check the specs better once I'm back.
There's the Steam sale, so you suggest the basic game or the starter deluxe edition?
@ramsey IRL I prefer electric buses but trams are just COOL.
@WhyNotZoidberg IRL electric buses are probably cheaper for a city to buy, operate, and maintain, and they can go anywhere without rails, but yeah, trams are COOL. :-)
@ramsey Problem with trams IRL is that you have to do a hell of a lot of work to put them in already built streets; you have to dig up the streets first and move all cables and water pipes, since if you need to repair stuff like that you would have to cut off the rails. Buses you can just re-route to the next street over.
That said putting modern trams on old streets that already have tram tracks, or build new streets from scratch with rails is another matter.
@ramsey The self-sustaining homes do vary a lot but only when upgraded enough. I like the look of them, myself.
As for the rest... the problem is that the game solves changing policies like that with kicking out residents, it has no mechanic for keeping the resident and just changing the house type. Lesson learned a long time ago is small districts and also don't change housing policy and commercial policy at the same time...
@WhyNotZoidberg So, I kept playing and rejecting the numerous bailout messages I got. I was wondering when it would just say, “Sorry. You lost the game.” I slightly raised taxes and made a few other tweaks until I got to weekly cash-flow positive. Then, when it seemed a little stable, I hit 3x speed and just let it run. I walked away, and after about a hour, my city had grown enough that I was out of debt.
@WhyNotZoidberg You’re right that the self-sufficient homes look really cool at higher levels. I absolutely love the look of the self-sufficient high-density residential buildings.
