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0 pointscapableweb4y ago0 comments

Biggest difference (for me) was that Cities: Skylines is marketed as a "city simulator" but it's more of a traffic simulator than anything, while SimCity focuses more on the city simulation part and just has a small focus on actual roads.

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rpastuszak4y ago· 5 in thread

I see what you mean. Traffic is a really important part of the game and people (including the modding community) seem to focus on it a lot.

But I do think there's a lot of freedom in terms of how you play and shape the game using mods.

To me CS is more of a weird mix of Factorio and a bonsai tree. I need to tend to it from time to time, slow down the gameplay and trim here and there (plop a new neighbourhood or a small detail). Fixing traffic issues is a small part of it (in my case).

I loved SC2000 and SC3000, but now SC4 (edit: SC4, not SC4000) feels just really ugly.

bombcar4y ago

Cities Skylines ends up being a city painter after awhile once you’ve learned how to solve traffic problems (roundabouts and planning go a long way).

The parklife DLC greatly enhances the painting aspect.

electroly4y ago

IMO, the Industries DLC makes it strongly about traffic again, with the huge amount of industrial traffic it generates. Then, once you run out of space in the relatively small 9-tile city area, there's not much city painting left to do. It's been a long time since my main city was about city painting; it's all about traffic again.

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NylaTheWolf4y ago

I've tried many times to get into Cities: Skylines but it always ends up with people dying, traffic, pollution, and me bleeding money into the negatives.

I really need to start looking at tutorials or something

petepete4y ago

Sorry what is Sim City 4000? Is it a mobile game or are you referring to Sim City 4? Or was SC4 called different things in other markets?

rpastuszak4y ago

Hehe, nope, just went on autopilot when listing different versions of the game. I meant Sim City 4 of course.

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