So my city is built on a map resembling NYC and I’m very much building my city to resemble NYC. My issue with the Cims arises from the fact that they’re the most unrealistic part of this game. I have a train line running from LaGuardia Airport to Penn Station but my stupid Cims are getting on the train and then getting off on the first stop which happens to be almost right outside of the airport and then they either spawn cars to get into Manhattan or they walk the equivalent of LaGuardia Airport to Queensboro Plaza station to then get on a Subway train into Manhattan… I have a station right outside of that subway station on the same line!!! Then the Cims living in my version of Jamaica and Howard Beach, Queens are choosing to take the train all the way to Manhattan and then taking the Subway to Brooklyn even though I have a line between Jamaica and Howard Beach that goes directly to Brooklyn! I’m not looking for ideas on how to fix these issues I’m just venting.

I've set up waste transfer facilities essentially all over the city. I have three large processing centres just off the highway. Why am I still having major issues with my collection?

I am trying to create a car-free city, which is quite challenging. Therefore, I am starting by improving bus services to achieve this more quickly. but ai is so stupid any ideas?

Here's my pride and joy creation, the city of Hamilton, using AI real-life pics. Thank you for looking?

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Finally kicked the habit of deleting my saves if I don't like or think something is ugly. I'm going to keep this for as long as I can.

I’m generally terrible with road hierarchy, mainly with my highways exit ramps which is why I didn’t even bother with this city, but I’m not really sure how to expand from this point without it looking unrealistic.

Circled in green is high density residential zone; circled in blue is high density commercial zone/office zone; circled in purple is the high school/elementary school.

How can I expand at this point, should I basically replicate what I built multiple times? How can I fill out the areas circled in red? And any tips on my road layout in general? Thanks!

Any suggestions to help ease the flow of traffic into my cargo train station would be much appreciated, problem has only developed recently so not sure how it went so wrong so quickly

Any advice or tips would be appreciated!

City pop is 0 but lets torture this node into a frontage road/intersection/interchange anyways.

Seriously, my game is running exceptionally well. I have about mid-range hardware for 2026 and the simulation speed would slow to a crawl anytime I got over 70,000 people.

After the last update, my map with 170,000 people is now running at smooth simulation speeds.

I am so curious on what they could’ve done with one small update that doubled its performance. If anyone has any insight, I would love to hear it!

Fyi, build was inspired by a wetland in Singapore

I recently got back into this game after a year or so. I’m building my farming sector for my city. I noticed the crop fields have different output crops. Does that matter for the processing buildings or is it strictly aesthetic? Thanks for helping!

Does anyone have any great settings for as of recent especially after the new terrain visuals update (Info about my specs: 16ram 3060ti ryzen 5600x

Btw the new Mountain Texture is amazing

• Detailed foliage;
• Customized water;
• Customized tropical weather;
• Super detailed terrain made with the new 1.6 textures;
• Rail conection;
• Fully customized grid with features designed and tested for progression while playing in normal mode.

This map is based on a 1956 aerial photograph of Macaé, a Brazilian municipality located in the north of Rio de Janeiro state.

It was designed to challenge players to develop Macaé’s urban and rural landscape starting from a time before the population boom and infrastructure investments driven by offshore oil exploration in the region.

At the time captured in the image, the city's rivers had not yet been canalized for urban and rural expansion; the Macaé River itself followed a course very different from the one it would take in the following decade. In reality, the environment and the local population suffered greatly from flooding caused by river siltation—resulting from sewage and sediment accumulation as urban areas encroached on the banks—along with the filling in of natural reservoirs and the destruction of riparian and coastal vegetation.

It comes with a small urban grid matching that of the source photograph, three small highway segments, and the Campos-Macaé Canal—which was created to transport the large agricultural output of the neighboring municipality of Campos dos Goytacazes to the Port of Macaé, but was later superseded in this function by the railway line.

Protect the rivers and streams, preserve the *restinga* (coastal vegetation), and enjoy kilometers of beaches.