I love it! I've found it to be too "easy" though from an economic standpoint, as budget constraints usually sunk most of my fast growing cities in SC4 and I had to be very cognizant of the services:income ratio. Cities Skylines offers a challenge much more controlled by city management itself, centered almost entirely on traffic management. All city services' viability is also tied to this traffic paradigm, so you end up being a traffic planner, rather than a city planner to great effect.
I do like districts, the organic nature of city building that doesn't rely on grids, it's very very fun to build cities in this game, and has finally brought me to put away SC4 for good (it had a good run!). I need to play a bit more, but I do want some more challenge as so far it's extremely easy to have the income far outpace expenses even with full city services running in a smallish city.
[–] EdgyUsername ago (edited ago)
I haven't bought the game yet, but the fact that it's better than SimCity ever was immediately makes me want to buy it.
[–] LeMemeMeister 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I just bought it 2 days ago and I also have 4 hours in it. I have a town of about 6,000, but everybody was sick. I realized it was because I had the water intake downstream of the sewage output. Now everything is going smoothly except for trash pickup. I don't know why, but none of the trash is getting picked up.
[–] shadytony222 [S] ago (edited ago)
LOL that happened to me too, all my people got sick, I just restarted because I could not fix it, damage was done by the time I figured it out. As for the trash you may want to put another facility down for now, and then at 6500 population you unlock a building which burns the trash (causes a lot of unhappiness around the area though, which sucks).
[–] shadytony222 [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Do you have tutorials on? If not I highly recommend them, but basically for electricity you need either a coal power plant or wind turbine to start (I suggest wind turbine since it is clean energy and doesn't pollute) there are benefits to both and negatives to both, coal power plants cost more and pollute but wind turbines output a lot less power. So once you pick one place it down, Then put your roads down (I suggest putting the roads to the left and right, left for residents and right for the commercial district.) once you have your roads down you need to put down your power lines, power lines connect your power source to your citizens/town, place the first powerline near your power source and then go go around the roads (Not directly next to the roads you need space to build buildings) All buildings require electricity and water. Once that is done you need to get water, to do this you'll need a water pumping station (for clean water) and a water draining station (for dirty water) the draining station DOES POLLUTE, so you need to put the draining station far away from the pumping station, or make it so the current pushes the pollution away. once you put both down by the water, you need to connect them with pipes, put a pipe down ontop of both stations, and then connect them together, once they're connected via the pipes make it so the pipes are around the grid area beside your roads (this grid area is where your buildings/houses will go) once you have your pipes on all the grids, and you have your power lines around the grid (grid = the squares btw) you're ready to build your city, click the red/blue/green grid (to the right of the road button) and start one side of the road as the residential area, and use the other for the commercial area. After you've done this you should start working on an industrial area and just expanding your city. I highly suggest you put on the tutorials because they helped me immensely.
[–] Diktat0ren ago
I can only agree, i was actually one of the few people that played SimCity 5, but ever since i got Cities Skylines i haven't touched that shit game again.