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May I also suggested City Skylines on the switch? It has a great addiction management feature called high RAM usage, so when your city reaches 200k citizens the

May I also suggested City Skylines on the switch? It has a great addiction management feature called high RAM usage, so when your city reaches 200k citizens the game will force close repeatedly on you.

willis936 4y ago
I'm willing to bet any more than two city blocks will crush UPS on the switch.
teolandon 4y ago
They stole that from Dwarf Fortress.
- xani_ 4y ago
  DF was more CPU starting to melt than RAM. Tho from what I remember was mostly due to unmanaged item growth just making your fortress have to calculate more and more and more stuff. With some game knowledge and management you can run few hundred years (Longdeath being one)
mcv 4y ago
City Skylines on the Switch? Why do I not know such things? Cheers went up in my house when I told them about Factorio. Personally I'll always prefer mouse+keyboard, but it's also fun to play games in the living room.
- squeaky-clean 4y ago
  It's my favorite airplane activity, but it is really extremely limited compared to the PC version. It has all the vanilla game components but big cities struggle. After a certain population amount the game removes the 3x speed option.
- IggleSniggle 4y ago
  Getting a Steam Deck has absolutely destroyed my life. Plays mouse+keyboard games so comfortably and effortlessly.
  - ghostbrainalpha 4y ago
    What are the main games taking hours on the Steam Deck? I want one, but I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around what I would actually do.
    - IggleSniggle 4y ago
      I'm going to out my HN account to my friends if they're on here, but I've been playing Noita, Vault of the Void, Vampire Survivors, Heroes of Might and Magic, Bastion, Boneraiser Minions, Distance, Pawnbarian. Huge range of games with a wide variety of inputs. I don't want to admit to you what my weekly playtime average looks like since receiving the Deck, but it's high.
    - theshrike79 4y ago
      Anything that has natural stop-off points pretty much. Vampire Survivors is my most highest played one based on hours though =) You can play it with the sound and most of your brain off, so you can still listen to what's going on in the TV show you're "watching". GTA V runs perfectly on it, I played through Quantum Break. And as soon as I get Heroic Launcher (Epic + Gog games) working, I'll start with Witcher 3 and CP2077.
      - IggleSniggle 4y ago
        I've been appreciating it for games that don't have a natural stop-off point. Unlike on my computer, I'm perfectly content to pause the game, sleep the device, and then pick it back up again later. The ability to turn it off without losing your state is a given on devices like the Switch, but it feels like a really important accomplishment on a PC where I'm often hesitant to even sleep the machine while I have a game open.
  - TaupeRanger 4y ago
nsxwolf 4y ago
I wanted to play Cities but I can’t figure out what I’m doing. I start a new city and usually roads don’t quite work right so traffic never comes, I don’t understand how utilities work and they always show disconnected icons, sometimes I can get a little tiny town going and it quickly dies out from exhaustion of various resources. I’d like to find a good tutorial on it, but it seems like one of those games that you either get it or you don’t, like Civ (also utterly failed to get anywhere in Civ 6 multiple times)
- squeaky-clean 4y ago
  If you like longer videos with lots of explanations, this one covers most things. There's also further episodes that cover expanding and the DLC, but this first one will covers the main 80% of gameplay. https://youtu.be/Iu8YwpngbzE https://youtu.be/Iu8YwpngbzE If you want a shorter "just tell me where things go at the start so I can copy it" this one is a strong and easy layout for a city https://youtu.be/8FXyrf8dwVQ https://youtu.be/8FXyrf8dwVQ Also I'd recommend playing a few cities with the unlimited money option enabled.
pkulak 4y ago
I've tried Skylines a few times, but it always just devolves into traffic simulation, and I hate traffic. Last go I tried to set up a subway system, but lines can't even cross each other and I gave up. They should really call the game "American Suburb Skylines".
- darkteflon 4y ago
  This is spot on. I’ve got some 50+ hours in C:S and it always degenerates into traffic management grind. Every time I come back to it I have another dig through the menus, thinking I must be missing something, but there’s no “car-free city” option. As far as I understand, the new Plazas & Promenades DLC does not actually address this either. Am I missing something? Why does the end-game always have to be traffic? Seems like a wasted opportunity.
  - brailsafe 4y ago
    the wasted opportunity isn't C:S, it's a lack of a foundational sequel that attempts to learn from this.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    Well, traffic is an essential part of city planning, which Cities Skylines is all about, so traffic is a part of that. You can avoid having to spend too much time on managing traffic if you follow some "design patterns", there is a bunch of them, so Google is probably your best friend. Although, there is a good comment on reddit that gives a quick overview, with links to more in-depth material, that might be a good starting point for you: https://old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/m57lq8/how_can_i_reduce_traffic_in_this_city_i_am_not/gqzp5bl/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/m57lq8/how_...
    - pm90 4y ago
      Well the problem is that this is what North American cities look like. But cities can be different. They can be mostly transit + bikes, but that seems impossible to do in CS.
submain 4y ago
I noticed adding more RAM alleviates many issues with Cities: Skylines. I now have 32GB just to play that game. I'm also considering buying another machine with 64GB for the same reason. Please, help me.
- capableweb 4y ago
  > buying another machine with 64GB Well, first step: get a desktop with 4 RAM slots so if you need to upgrade memory, you don't have to buy a whole new machine, just new RAM sticks.
  - oyashirochama 4y ago
    Instructions unclear bought datacenter to run heavily modded Rimworld.
brailsafe 4y ago
I thought it was a CPU bottleneck

willis936 4y ago

I'm willing to bet any more than two city blocks will crush UPS on the switch.

teolandon 4y ago

They stole that from Dwarf Fortress.

xani_ 4y ago
DF was more CPU starting to melt than RAM. Tho from what I remember was mostly due to unmanaged item growth just making your fortress have to calculate more and more and more stuff. With some game knowledge and management you can run few hundred years (Longdeath being one)

mcv 4y ago

City Skylines on the Switch? Why do I not know such things? Cheers went up in my house when I told them about Factorio. Personally I'll always prefer mouse+keyboard, but it's also fun to play games in the living room.

squeaky-clean 4y ago
It's my favorite airplane activity, but it is really extremely limited compared to the PC version. It has all the vanilla game components but big cities struggle. After a certain population amount the game removes the 3x speed option.
IggleSniggle 4y ago
Getting a Steam Deck has absolutely destroyed my life. Plays mouse+keyboard games so comfortably and effortlessly.
- ghostbrainalpha 4y ago
  What are the main games taking hours on the Steam Deck? I want one, but I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around what I would actually do.
  - IggleSniggle 4y ago
    I'm going to out my HN account to my friends if they're on here, but I've been playing Noita, Vault of the Void, Vampire Survivors, Heroes of Might and Magic, Bastion, Boneraiser Minions, Distance, Pawnbarian. Huge range of games with a wide variety of inputs. I don't want to admit to you what my weekly playtime average looks like since receiving the Deck, but it's high.
  - theshrike79 4y ago
    Anything that has natural stop-off points pretty much. Vampire Survivors is my most highest played one based on hours though =) You can play it with the sound and most of your brain off, so you can still listen to what's going on in the TV show you're "watching". GTA V runs perfectly on it, I played through Quantum Break. And as soon as I get Heroic Launcher (Epic + Gog games) working, I'll start with Witcher 3 and CP2077.
    - IggleSniggle 4y ago
      I've been appreciating it for games that don't have a natural stop-off point. Unlike on my computer, I'm perfectly content to pause the game, sleep the device, and then pick it back up again later. The ability to turn it off without losing your state is a given on devices like the Switch, but it feels like a really important accomplishment on a PC where I'm often hesitant to even sleep the machine while I have a game open.
- TaupeRanger 4y ago

nsxwolf 4y ago

I wanted to play Cities but I can’t figure out what I’m doing. I start a new city and usually roads don’t quite work right so traffic never comes, I don’t understand how utilities work and they always show disconnected icons, sometimes I can get a little tiny town going and it quickly dies out from exhaustion of various resources. I’d like to find a good tutorial on it, but it seems like one of those games that you either get it or you don’t, like Civ (also utterly failed to get anywhere in Civ 6 multiple times)

squeaky-clean 4y ago
If you like longer videos with lots of explanations, this one covers most things. There's also further episodes that cover expanding and the DLC, but this first one will covers the main 80% of gameplay. https://youtu.be/Iu8YwpngbzE https://youtu.be/Iu8YwpngbzE If you want a shorter "just tell me where things go at the start so I can copy it" this one is a strong and easy layout for a city https://youtu.be/8FXyrf8dwVQ https://youtu.be/8FXyrf8dwVQ Also I'd recommend playing a few cities with the unlimited money option enabled.

pkulak 4y ago

I've tried Skylines a few times, but it always just devolves into traffic simulation, and I hate traffic. Last go I tried to set up a subway system, but lines can't even cross each other and I gave up. They should really call the game "American Suburb Skylines".

darkteflon 4y ago
This is spot on. I’ve got some 50+ hours in C:S and it always degenerates into traffic management grind. Every time I come back to it I have another dig through the menus, thinking I must be missing something, but there’s no “car-free city” option. As far as I understand, the new Plazas & Promenades DLC does not actually address this either. Am I missing something? Why does the end-game always have to be traffic? Seems like a wasted opportunity.
- brailsafe 4y ago
  the wasted opportunity isn't C:S, it's a lack of a foundational sequel that attempts to learn from this.
- capableweb 4y ago
  Well, traffic is an essential part of city planning, which Cities Skylines is all about, so traffic is a part of that. You can avoid having to spend too much time on managing traffic if you follow some "design patterns", there is a bunch of them, so Google is probably your best friend. Although, there is a good comment on reddit that gives a quick overview, with links to more in-depth material, that might be a good starting point for you: https://old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/m57lq8/how_can_i_reduce_traffic_in_this_city_i_am_not/gqzp5bl/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/m57lq8/how_...
  - pm90 4y ago
    Well the problem is that this is what North American cities look like. But cities can be different. They can be mostly transit + bikes, but that seems impossible to do in CS.

submain 4y ago

I noticed adding more RAM alleviates many issues with Cities: Skylines. I now have 32GB just to play that game. I'm also considering buying another machine with 64GB for the same reason. Please, help me.

capableweb 4y ago
> buying another machine with 64GB Well, first step: get a desktop with 4 RAM slots so if you need to upgrade memory, you don't have to buy a whole new machine, just new RAM sticks.
- oyashirochama 4y ago
  Instructions unclear bought datacenter to run heavily modded Rimworld.

brailsafe 4y ago

I thought it was a CPU bottleneck