#CITIES SKYLINES PC TEST MOD#

Or, at least, it can be-provided you take over that grid square. So that highway funneling civilians into your city? It might look like background decoration when you start, but itвЂ™s a fully functioning piece of your city.

#CITIES SKYLINES PC TEST MOD#

(Of course, thereвЂ™s already a mod on Steam Workshop that unlocks all 25 tiles for your use.) YouвЂ™re allowed to take over nine squares total, with the only requirement being that they connect in some way. You start with a single grid of 2 kilometers by 2 kilometers, and the map as a whole is a 5Г—5 grid of these squares (so 10 kilometers by 10 kilometers total). As mentioned, youвЂ™ll gradually expand not just your city but the available map space for your city. And nobody picked it up for days.Д«ut you can do it! And even more fascinating, you can affect whatвЂ™s already on the map. That awkward time there was a dead body (red skull)вЂ¦on the playground. Trying to figure out what to demolish so you can run a highway down the center of the city can be a frustrating and tedious experience. While theyвЂ™re available pretty much from the beginning, theyвЂ™re priced out of your budget. The most disruptive additions are public transit-related, as you demolish buildings to make space for metro stations. The one downside is having to re-plan your city every few hours. Want to make your entire population live next door to garbage incinerators and heavy industry? Mmm, poison those citizens. Want to create the Judge Dredd-esque all high-rise buildings nightmare dystopia of your dreams? Yeah, you can do that too. Want to make rolling suburbs with nice curved streets for wealthy families? Sure, you can do that. You can basically do anything you want with your city. Seriously, Cities: Skylines is one of the best city builders IвЂ™ve played in years. In essence, Cities: Skylines goes вЂњHey, you didnвЂ™t like that new SimCity? What if I told you I could give you SimCity 2000, but bigger?вЂќ And to that I sayвЂ¦well, IвЂ™ve played until four in the morning multiple nights this week. Zoning colors, for instance: Blue for commercial, yellow for industry, green for residential. To say Cities: Skylines is вЂњin the SimCity veinвЂќ is a polite way of saying вЂњ Cities: Skylines straight up rips off a lot of traditional SimCity ideas.вЂќ Maybe thatвЂ™s why I like it so much. HereвЂ™s my city of Springwood at its humble beginnings: A few strips of asphalt, a coal power station, water, and sewage.

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