Cities: Skylines

[Caspin]

Things are going quite well now in Swindon. Today I have learned more about bus routes and districts and specialised industry. I like to learn things in layers - one day all of this knowledge will surely combine to create a wondrous metropolis!

I have realised that I have made the city too spoke-and-hub in design - a consequence of my over-dependence on roundabouts. Next time I will try a grid structure, so that there are not so many gaps. I think I can't help but want things in discrete zones - it's the biologist in me, always wanting to categorise and organise things into compartments.

Anyway, this is what it looks like now. Yes it is a bit messy but my citizens seem happy.




I rather like this map, with the river on one side a sort of lake on the other.

Here are the Swindonians, queueing up to catch a bus. The bus network works quite well - the citizens really like to take the bus and so that removes a lot of cars from the roads. Things will really improve when I get a metro.




I am pleased to have minimised the horrific industrial zone. The ground pollution is really terrible. Instead I have a farming area (having discovered a handy button that reveals where the fertile land might be) and a forestry area. Much nicer.

Cows - moo!




And a bunch of planks.




Yeah, pretty happy with this game. I found it a little frustrating at the start but once you know what you're doing it's really entertaining. Like now I remember to leave a few spaces in the residential areas so that I can add parks and paths and trees once they become available. And I can judge how many schools I'm going to need and where to leave spaces for other service buildings. The traffic from the highway is still a bitch but I don't think that busy is necessarily a bad thing - I panic when I see the cars queueing up but they work their way through eventually.

It's one of those games where the time just gets away.