BigBlueWolf
Beaten: 14-July-2018
Since C:S can go on indefinitely, I had to set a goal for myself. Yesterday I reached the "Metropolis" achievement (100K population) and today unlocked all but one monument (didn't get the Medical Center). As it turns out the remaining four achievements from the base game would require me to start a new city anyway based on the posts I was reading about how to approach them. That finalized it in my head. I've completed a single play-through and beaten C:S!
Of course there's tons of stuff in the game I haven't really tried yet, and I'm a pretty casual player who will nonetheless spend a lot of time fussing over little details instead of advancing my city. Take the 95 hours with a grain of salt because I've been playing it off-and-on since November 2015. It's such a well-done city simulator that I will pick it up again eventually. I have all the DLC except for Park Life. There's also a ton of options to play with in the Steam workshop. A mayor's job in never really done! ;-)
Since C:S can go on indefinitely, I had to set a goal for myself. Yesterday I reached the "Metropolis" achievement (100K population) and today unlocked all but one monument (didn't get the Medical Center). As it turns out the remaining four achievements from the base game would require me to start a new city anyway based on the posts I was reading about how to approach them. That finalized it in my head. I've completed a single play-through and beaten C:S!
Of course there's tons of stuff in the game I haven't really tried yet, and I'm a pretty casual player who will nonetheless spend a lot of time fussing over little details instead of advancing my city. Take the 95 hours with a grain of salt because I've been playing it off-and-on since November 2015. It's such a well-done city simulator that I will pick it up again eventually. I have all the DLC except for Park Life. There's also a ton of options to play with in the Steam workshop. A mayor's job in never really done! ;-)
I agree, ‘C:S’ is a great game, congratulations on getting 100k people in your city. I always get overwhelmed by traffic management at some point, so my cities never really get that big :D
I think the traffic management is practically a game in itself… oh, wait! ;D
My other half goes completely OCD on CiM2 such that it runs slow on his high-end Mac. (Like subway systems 10 stories deep!) He says compared to C:S it’s far better in that department plus the tools for building your transit infrastructure are much better. Maybe when we get the next C:S in a few years the team at Colossal Order will have merged them? I’d love that!
I’ve never played ‘Cities in Motion’ so I can’t compare those two. I guess the traffic system is one of ‘C:S’s weaknesses, I’ve read that several times now. But, let’s see, maybe there will be a DLC one day for that. And in the meantime, there is still a lot of fun you can have with ‘C:S’ as it is!