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Still, as long as you’re making money you’ll usually be able to fix any problems, and if you need a quick influx of cash you can take a loan. Similarly the greater the population the more waste they produce so you’ll need landfills or incinerators to get rid of the rubbish and more water pumps and sewage pipes to stop the streets overflowing with poo. One power station can only generate so much electricity so you’ll need another, generating more pollution, or possibly wind turbines which are weaker but cleaner. You can increase the boundaries of your city for a price to further increase the scale of your creation but know that the larger things become the more likely things can go wrong. You’ll unlock policies which will let you encourage recycling, ban smoking or legalise weed for example which all have benefits but cost. You can control taxes, to make more money at the expense of happiness or the other way around.īasically, as your city grows, your options also grow. Then there’s transport systems like buses, taxis and trains which you can provide and set routes for. If your roads are too small or poorly planned then they’ll struggle to handle the increases in traffic and fire trucks and ambulances will struggle to get through too. Clever placement of these is required as well as their reach is only so large, but also of importance is your road network.
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As the population grows you unlock new options for your city, like buildings that provide an important service to the people – clinics, hospitals, police and fire stations. Get these basics down and your town should become popular enough to move to.
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Similarly you’ll need a water pump at a body of water, with pipes carrying that water all over the city, plus a sewage pipe to remove people’s waste, which can’t be too close to the water pump in case you poison the water supply.
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On top of that everywhere needs electricity and a water supply so you’ll need a power plant to generate that power, but not place it too close to the housing due to pollution, so you’ll need power lines to carry that electricity. You need places for people to live so a residential area is necessary, but you’ll also need jobs to allow them to earn a living. You can set that zone to be either residential, commercial or industrial and buildings will automatically start popping up there as people move to your town. Placing roads is a good place to start as the game explains, on either side of the road a ‘zone’ is automatically placed.
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With my new found knowledge on what not to do I started again, built less, but smarter. The first time you select an item in the menu it gives you a brief tutorial on what it does, which you can bring up again at anytime with a click of R3 but my first attempt at a city ended very quickly as I ran out of money and the way I’d built my city meant I was losing more money every day, not making any, so a quick restart was in order. Do this and the game doesn’t chime in with more pearls of wisdom on what to do next, you’re left to your own devices. The game tells you that you should start by building some roads and applying zones to them. There’s no campaign here, no levels with pre-built cities that need a problem fixing, you have twelve locations with varying resources to choose from to start your city on and when you load in you have a road leading into that city, some cash and little else. Already a critical hit on the PC, has the move to console been kind?Ĭities: Skylines puts you in charge of building a city from scratch.
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Rich reviewed Aven Colony a few weeks back, the Tropico games are great, but there’s now another SimCity-esque game on the PS4 in the form of Cities: Skylines – PlayStation 4 Edition. Augin PS4 tagged aven colony / cities: skylines / city builder / god sim / mayor / sandbox / simcity by Gareth