I've been enjoying it.. Lots of cool new features & fun gameplay... Have about 6 hours in it right now. Overall, i feel like the game has lots of potential even if some of it is unrealized at the moment.
PC Specs: laptop with i7-9750H, RTX 2060, 16gb ram.. (below recommended hardware, but above minimum hardware)
Regarding performance: When I first got in, it was pretty rough.. lots of blurry blobs of textures, invisible buildings, and lots of lag... Once I played with the graphic settings though, these issues effectively disappeared. The game looks very good and is very playable. It does still studder on occasion, but nothing that makes the game feel unplayable.
Regarding playability: The gameplay feels like a real upgrade compared to CS1. I know it sounds cliche, but the cities really do feel super alive. The progression feels natural and exciting. I actually got so inveloped in the gameplay that i completely lost track of time & ended up going to bed much later than i wanted lol.
While overall I really enjoy the game, there are a couple things to note that I find particularly annoying:
1 - The achievements.. IMO, achievements are super dumb to begin with (wish there was a way to blanket turn them off), but CS2 really takes it to a whole new annoying level. Example: one achievement is to cure 6000 sims in the clinic/hospital. It literally gives you a popup notification for every... single... one of those 6000 sims cured. So incredibly annoying.
2 - I've encountered some minor bugs here and there.. nothing game breaking, but they did get slightly annoying.. 1 in particular was little invisible pockets of water on the land that made road placement difficult.
And the same still applied in 1860… nyc was double the size of the next largest city back then.
And to answer your question, they did do the same... chicago for example also built lincoln park in 1860 even though they were 1/10th the population at the time. The only difference between central & lincoln park is that lincoln park is larger than central park & not as square.. its entirety (that isnt water) is surrounded by skyscrapers & is very much central to the city…
To add more, central park is 4 miles away from the citys financial district.. lincoln park is 2 miles away… it is MORE “central” than central park lol
Well, youre not going to find something “on the scale” of central park in other cities because no us city is “on the scale” of nyc..
-Size wise, nyc’s population is nearly double the next largest city..
-Density wise, nyc’s population density is nearly double that of the next densest city
-skyscraper wise, nyc has nearly double the quantity of skyscrapers as the next most skyscraper heavy city..
See the trend??
If you look at it proportionally though, many US cities have something similar, many of them have been brought up itt…
Personally, id say pittsburgh and chicago have roughly what youre looking for..
-chicago has a few large urban parks that are surrounded by skyscrapers.. the only difference is that they are next to the lake.. pretty much all the amenities in nyc’s central park can be found in lincoln & grant parks..
-pittsburgh also has a large urban park in the heart of downtown (hell, they bulldozed 1/3 of downtown to build it).. while it only has skyscrapers on one side, it is literally 1/10th the size of nyc, so give it some slack lol.
I think youre fundamentally misunderstanding how math works…
Sales tax is percentage based… purchasing 1 item at $10 pays the exact same amount of sales tax as purchasing 2 items at $5 or 10 items at $1 regardless of if the tax is applied “per item” or “total sale”.
Completely agree! Its why in addition to making relatively lighthearted insults on the internet, i actually advocate for such changes by regularly attending government meetings and contacting my elected representatives.
Hell, just this week, i participated in a meeting to change my city’s zoning code to allow more density, wrote to all of my representatives (granted this week, my email to them was about the lack of worker protections associated with PTO…) and researched all the agenda items for the upcoming city development and transportation meetings.
If there is anything im missing that would help advocate for such changes, im all ears! No really… i actually enjoy going to these meetings as dull as that sounds and would love to know more! Its been kind of an emerging hobby for me lol.
Its the dryest and dullest thing ever, but for some reason, ive been really into that! As a perk, the people watching at such meetings is amazing. Id love for more people to experience the wonders that is a local government meeting.
Youre never “nothing”… youre always something special! I promise :)
Example: when there is no traffic, youre still a noise & particulate generator that lowers property values, warms our planet, and makes the built environment more hostile/dangerous and depressing for everyone nearby.
I know that a short visit doesnt give great insight into a place, but the following 2 things were very striking to me when visiting:
1 - the smoking.. i found it disturbing just how many people were smoking
2 - the graffiti. I was surprised by just how much graffiti there was. Do people not take pride in their property enough to wash it off? I know Graffiti is common everywhere, but it seemed to be on a whole other level in europe.. like it wasnt just on the back alleys, but on the front facades of buildings too. The front door of one of my airbnbs was covered in graffiti.
There was 1 thing though that was totally the opposite though & made total sense... the dual function windows (where you turn the handle 1 way to open them like a door & another way to lean them in to provide ventilation. These were everywhere & i found them to be the most functional thing ever! I wish they would catch on in the usa.. with that said, the first time i discovered this functionality, it was accidental. I panicked as i thought i broke the window lol.
Back when i was a teenager, i was a lifeguard. One day, a mother came to the pool with 3 young children. They were playing by the stairs in the shallow end of the pool when one of the children got out & proceeded to diarrhea on the floor. Mother swiftly picked up the kid in a panic & brought him clear to the other side of the pool to grab her towel. Once she had her towel, she proceeded to continue carrying the continuously shitting child back toward the shallow end on the other side of the pool & into the locker room.
This kid left a trail of shit that entirely circled the pool + a path to the locker room (total was easily over 150 linear feet of diarrhea.)
I would know as i was the dumb teenager who was tasked with cleaning it up… it was a very grueling day.
In short, i think it is very believable that it was “all the way”…
Took a transatlantic flight that had this functionality.. it wasnt in the call button, but on the infotainment system. Instead of playing movies, you could set the screen to display one of those 2 options.
Your standard (north american) plug is a NEMA 5-20R.. the twist in (locking) variant is NEMA L5-20R.
I see locking plugs most commonly used in applications where the cord may have a bit more force to it.. example: a ceiling mounted receptacle serving movable furniture/equipment.
Theyre not used for standard domestic applications for all the reasons other userd indicated in this thread.
The LED bulbs have a higher up front cost, but ive not come across a single instance where an incandescent was cheaper when factoring electricity costs.
If her excuse was “i didnt know i parked my car on the tracks”, she needs to have her drivers license confiscated. Someone with such little awareness of their surroundings has no business operating heavy machinery (car), let alone the responsibilities of her job.
I know its likely unpopular, even for a list like this, but i find myself genuinely enjoying putting it on. Quite often.
It is an action movie, but it isnt all dark & gloomy like so many in the genre. Instead, its bright and sunny. The scenarios genuinely make no sense (ex, door handles apparently dont exist) but the movie still feels fun and entertaining.
Totally agree with the local elections! When i was young, i used to skip these elections, but i vote in every single one of them now. Hell, im also the nerd who spends free time attending council meetings & stuff to voice my opinions!
It really does make a difference voting in these local elections! Even things you might not see as useful (school board was always that way for me) have significant ramifications on day to day life. Ive seen it first hand.
With that said, i have a bone to pick regarding the presidential primaries. Sure there are 10 candidates for (some) voters, but many voters get effectively excluded from the process entirely. My state is fairly late in the primary process and almost never actually gets a choice. People always say “just vote in the primaries if you dont want the geriatric moderate”, but that is all that is left on the ballot. The last presidential primary for example, while biden hadnt technically won the primary yet, he was the only name on the ballot as all the other candidates had dropped out. Real fucking awesome selection i had.. Id like to be enlightened where my choice was. From my perspective, it looks like it was decided before i even got the chance to vote.
its a super fucked up system that im very bitter about.
I've been enjoying it.. Lots of cool new features & fun gameplay... Have about 6 hours in it right now. Overall, i feel like the game has lots of potential even if some of it is unrealized at the moment.
PC Specs: laptop with i7-9750H, RTX 2060, 16gb ram.. (below recommended hardware, but above minimum hardware)
Regarding performance: When I first got in, it was pretty rough.. lots of blurry blobs of textures, invisible buildings, and lots of lag... Once I played with the graphic settings though, these issues effectively disappeared. The game looks very good and is very playable. It does still studder on occasion, but nothing that makes the game feel unplayable.
Regarding playability: The gameplay feels like a real upgrade compared to CS1. I know it sounds cliche, but the cities really do feel super alive. The progression feels natural and exciting. I actually got so inveloped in the gameplay that i completely lost track of time & ended up going to bed much later than i wanted lol.
While overall I really enjoy the game, there are a couple things to note that I find particularly annoying: 1 - The achievements.. IMO, achievements are super dumb to begin with (wish there was a way to blanket turn them off), but CS2 really takes it to a whole new annoying level. Example: one achievement is to cure 6000 sims in the clinic/hospital. It literally gives you a popup notification for every... single... one of those 6000 sims cured. So incredibly annoying. 2 - I've encountered some minor bugs here and there.. nothing game breaking, but they did get slightly annoying.. 1 in particular was little invisible pockets of water on the land that made road placement difficult.