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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago

It was definitely possible to tank a city in Skylines 1. That said, it's also not the most challenging game.

But with Skylines II, I can't even tank one when I try. Hundreds of thousands in the red? The game throws free money at you in the form of "government subsidies" to compensate. And they cannot be disabled. Absolute shit show.

[-] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

The subsidies have never saved me from failing before, they only make me fail slower (if that makes sense). It might just be something I'm experiencing though.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I've heard of people having a different experience (the economy just never picking up enough to succeed) -- I think both are indicative of a borked simulation.

For me, I can even be completely in the black, with 100k+ income, and I'll still be getting hundreds of grand in subsidies. Ruins any challenge.

[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I have a pretty large city, but something is wrong with my tax calculations? I have one industry pumping out 150x the taxes of everything else combine. Just a blanket of $5m from lumber an in-game hour, next best is Metals at $45k a day.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

Doesn't surprise me, if you read their forums there are a ton of folks reporting issues either being outright ignored or told that the game-breaking bug they found is "as designed".

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

What if you treat receiving subsidies as a failure condition?

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I feel like whenever i "tanked" a city in cities skylines, it was because of some awkwardness in the traffic system that comes about from chaos theory rather than anything city builderey, just not really about that.

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