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Well, from this thread (and there are a few others)

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2znnr2/the_journey_to_over_1_million_lets_discuss/

A one million pop city will only ever have 65k people out in the city at one time. That is what the game only simulates. So after reaching a certain amount of population. the city will look roughly the same, except it will be bigger on the game map. After a certain point (past 300k or so according to that thread), traffic never increases, which is what my friend encountered. But he probably has other issues.

Still, if that thread is true at all, I think I liked Sim City 4 a LOT more. It didn't really simulate millions of people either, but when I played it, it sure felt big and populated. But maybe it would end up the same as Cities Skylines and I'm just remembering with rose colored glasses

So, I never made a city that big. But, my friend got to a city of 300k and he said the game is really bugging out on him. The traffic doesn't match a 300k city at all, people aren't going to work properly, he is losing a lot of business because people aren't going to their jobs. And he is experiencing a lot of "weirdness". He didn't really explain, but something he said is buildings aren't being built anymore...dunno what he means. (edit: He never showed me screenshots, I told him to take one and he hasn't yet. So could be partly on his design. But he said he has no traffic issues barely at all, and he (supposedly) designed the city with population in mind. He used the typical grid layout of the big cities he has seen people make)

I did research for him, and supposedly 65k npcs are max limit of a city or something. And after a certain amount of buildings are built, you can't build anymore? And only 65k citizens can be active at once?

I told him that and he said if true, he is gonna return the game to steam. He has until tomorrow to get it returned and go back to playing Sim City 4 where he can make "real" cities (his words). So was the information I gave him wrong? Or is this game really not able to make grand cities like in sim city games without bugging out with hardcoded limits?

Cause if that is true, that pretty much kills the game for me too. But its way too late for me to take it back. I just won't be buying DLCs for it lol. That is why I liked sim city, making huge amazing cities...even though each citizen wasn't actually "really" part of the game world, it felt like real cities. I thought 1 million was the cap, which is fine enough, but if only 65k are able to be used...that is not a city at all. In california, that would be considered a large town lol. San Diego feels small, and its still vastly more populated and active than 65k...

(edit: Well I do really enjoy Cities Skylines. Played 300+ game hours, so obviously I got my money out of it. But, knowing there is such a small hardlimit on actors kinda ruins the entire game for me. I wish I didn't even read that as I really enjoy the game till that. But 65k is nowhere close to the 1million pop limit lol)

Well, my friend is already saying he regrets buying it and he has only played it since yesterday. He played looking at his steam account, 8 hours and is already bored.

In the end, I ended up installing cities skylines again (I had to stop due to video card issues and even on low settings game lagged a lot for me lol). It runs a lot better now.

Banished is a very simple concept, weighted to be a very difficult game.
It's not overly complex, so there isn't the suite of 'special things' to keep you hooked.

Buy it, expect to love it and pour days into it, but don't expect much after that.

Ah, so if I want something that lasts a lot longer...I probably should just pick up children of the nile then I'm guessing. I played that years ago, and played months and still had a good time and I still didn't run out of things (well, I didn't play every day, but I did play a lot for months quite a bit, and I was kinda bad at it lol).

It's the other kind of survival game where you go looking for food so you can have the energy to look for food.

So, sorta like that one 3d island game? Survival island or something? You got stranded on a ship, and the graphics looked like they were made in java and sorta Wurm-like. You could build a little tropical paradise. And the animals on the island had the worst AI ever, but for some reason...I played the game for an entire month even though it was really basic really lol. And if you did the story part of it, it had a random pirate and made no sense lol. Know what game I'm talking about? That is one of the first games I found when I first signed up to bay12 forums lol.

But the whole point was to get food, and keep hydrated (I believe water was a thing) and make sure you didn't starve. The animals were more of a distraction really. There were some mods made for it which were cool.

That sounds cool that they connected them up. Are the regions pretty big?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/305620/

Looks to get great reviews on steam. The art style looks amazing, its only singleplayer (which some may not like, I actually like that) and looks really hard, but fun.

Here is a video (though some of you may find him annoying)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJSxtqUylCQ

That is how I found about it at first.

Anyone play it and think it is worth getting? The game looks great.