How do you guys feel about the man who was elected mayor mainly due to his Cities: Skylines proficiency?

I... Had no idea about this. Link?

http://www.news-loot.com/2015/03/30/cities-skylines-gamer-becomes-mayor-of-small-californian-town/

I thought that piece was a joke story since it never had any source :/

Donutsville or bagelsville?

Donutsville!

whats next? Cities skylines is glorious, do you guys have any ideas for what games ya wanna do next?

gimme something man, im itchin'!

No idea why people are downvoting you but I'll answer your question first then. Hah, take that whoever figured that was a good idea!

There are lots of ideas for what we want to do next but, honestly, don't expect anything else than us continuing Skylines for the foreseeable future. We think this game has potential and it would be a shame if we let that go in order to pursue some other dream :)

How about a Streets of SimCity style game where you can drive around the cities you build? I miss Streets of SimCity. Splatter splatter splatter, on the windshield of life.

As a side question of the same subject: are the city save files documented so that someone could make their own SoSC with the cities skylines save files?

I still dream of the day we add a "Where's Waldo" type VR game mode where you can "invade" other peoples games Dark Souls style as a waldo character and challenge them to find you :D

i foresee a new mod comming in 10 minutes :P

If this happens I will literally send a personal, hand written, letter of appreciation to whomever did it. If that person is into weird stuff I can even apply lipstick and make one of those kiss mark thingos that signal a cougar on the hunt.

Oh man you have made a terrible mistake. Now someone is going to be motivated enough to do exactly that.

Oh man you have executed a genius plan.

FTFY

This is a more general game publishing/marketing question, but you're one of the most transparent game-related companies I know so here goes: /u/TotalyMoo recently explained on a stream why Russia gets lower pricing for Cities: Skylines; the economy is weaker than in, say, the nordic area, so wages are lower and people can't afford to pay the same prices as American/Swedish/Finnish consumers. Not doing this encourages piracy and ends up with less total profit because fewer people can afford your game. Now, Poland's economy is worse off than Russia's, the average wage is about 3 or 4 times lower than in Sweden, and we are not in the Eurozone. Talking with friends here, they generally don't seem to have the disposable income to afford the western prices of games. Why is it that Poland gets the same prices as the Eurozone/Scandinavia, while Russia gets the price cut by 6?

Hi! I will take this feedback and bring it up internally. :)

I do have to add it was my less-than-expert explanation on pricing, it's of course a lot more complicated than I might have made it sound.

So my apologies if something I said there was incorrect! :)

Are there any plans to natively support mixing default and European building styles on the same map? I love the wall-to-wall building designs, but I would like to isolate them to certain districts.

That's actually added in After Dark, a new feature called "district styles" where you can choose what type of buildings you want in a specific district.

Thanks for getting back to me! I thought I overheard that during one of the streams yesterday, but I assumed my ears deceived me. Great news!

Quick follow on, how will the ploppable building style be determined?

Via a scroll down in the district menu :)

How do you think/estimate piracy will affect your sales in the first few days? On release Cities: Skylines was one of the most downloaded games on public and private trackers.

I know /u/Shams_PDX will want to reply to this, but I'll add my 50 cents first, actually I'll be a bastard and steal what he said last we spoke about it.

Pirates are fans like anyone else, they just haven't been convinced to pay for our product yet. Lots of the people tweeting about us, posting on reddit or sharing our stuff on Facebook don't legitimately own the game - that doesn't mean they can't contribute to the community or sales in a positive way.

The lost sales we'll see at launch are mostly going to be because we haven't presented a good enough value proposition to these people (bar some that just can't afford it or be bothered).

So hopefully most piracy at launch will eventually be transferred into real purchases once these people feel convinced they want the game enough.

Trust me, we get lots of messages saying they originally pirated the game to buy after they realized they liked it.

Add stuff like the workshop, our dedicated support channels and updates via Steam and I don't think it will be a huge issue. Now that's not a green light to steal our games of course, but I don't think they harm us more than they do themselves if they are actually interested in the game.

This has got to be the best response to piracy I've seen from a game dev in a while. Can you convince the folks at places like EA to try your approach?

As far as I know our stance on piracy has always been "the only way to fight them is to provide a better service".

Honestly. No matter how much time you put on protecting yourself, the second you release something to the public you'll have 10, 100, 1000 times as much time put into breaching whatever you did.

What mods were you the most surprised by? What are your favorites?

I was really surprised to see things like nlight's dynamic resolution (allows in-game dynamic supersampling) and the flight Cimulator!

The community for Cities Skyline have created some very impressive cities out of the basic systems you put in place (Much like minecraft's community), from among these do you have any memorable favorites? Something that just made you go "...woah..."?

I usually post the ones that make me go "woah" on our facebook channel. I compiled an album for you with a few favorites!

http://imgur.com/a/4UTU0

So... when are you guys going to fix it so that the horse at the stable turns and lunges in the other direction sometimes? That poor unbalanced horse! :D

Really, though, here's a question I saw asked a few times in the livestreams yesterday (where I had to be pretty focused on the chat & behind-the-scenes stuff, and so missed most of the actual gameplay!): are there (plans for) more cultural, governmental, or athletics based buildings and 'needs' in this or future expansions/patches?

Mostly I'm here to say HI GUYS & I hope the AMA goes well.

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#SaveTheHorse ;)

Hi! :D Thanks again for inviting me yesterday. Had so much fun in the streams.

Awesome game guys, I didn't play much but still got it because you deserve all our support ! Devs that listen to the community, release finished and good products... yes I need more of you people !

On to the question : would you consider some kind of whitelist for mods ? I have precision engineer (something like this) that displays road angles when you built them, doesn't feel fair that achievements are blocked due to something as simple as that.

Are achievements such a big deals that they have to be disabled due to mods anyway ? What do you think on the issue as a whole ?

love /u/TotalyMoo posts btw :) this guy deserve a rise :D

THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH

At least the latter part.

Pls see this /u/Queen_of_pie

^{I need more money to put into hearthstone cards}

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You, sir, just made yourself an enemy.

Do you consider yourselves more successful than SimCity?

SimCity is not a game, it's a legacy. So from a personal POV I'd say no, it will take quite some time and dedication from our end to surpass that legendary game series.

1. What is your favorite community-created map for Cities Skylines?

2. Do you play the Magic: The Gathering? If you do, do you play Commander?

3. Did any of the develops behind Cities Skylines talk to actual city-planners (and the like) when developing the game?

1. Still Raerei Cove by AKiss4Luck

2. Yes, but just on a low tier pleb level. I have no idea what commander means! I play a green-white populate deck that relies on suddenly having a huge board of 5/5s or 8/8s.

3. No idea, CO can help here!

Will we get colored lights in the asset editor like red or blue or green spotlights which you can use to light up buildings at night?? Thanks for the AmA.

Yes! There are several "light assets" in the game that you can simply attach to a building to get some night time goodness.

Can I reliably play this game with an internet connection probably only once a month? I have a super restrictive network on base (and awfully slow when it is up) so I have to go out to get stuff.

Please let me know! I really want to play this game. You guys rock.

Yes. It doesn't require any online connection beyond the one time Steam verification when you download it.

Patches can be large sized but aren't pushed out too often so you shouldn't need to worry about constantly straining your limits.

Any chance of a console release? I desperately want to play but do not have a gaming PC to handle. Looks like so much fun...

Yes! The game is currently in development for Xbox One!

I'm not a gamer. I used to play Halo on the original X Box but that's about it and I haven't played anything for years. Yours was the first game I heard about and thought I'd really like to get involved with. I downloaded it on Steam and have a MacBook Pro (which I could really do with getting a better mouse to use with it). Do you have any tips for a first timer when it comes to the game?

Take it slow, allow yourself to fail, don't get stressed when you see people with 300+ hours building fancier looking stuff ;)

So I asked /u/TotalyMoo this on a stream yesterday and he was going to get back to me. What's the deal with the Magicka theme park and which menu will it be under?

Also I use Linux and Cities Skylines has always suffered from some slight performance issues on Linux compared to Windows, has anything been done to address this?

On the Magicka theme park question: it's only available to people that own Magicka :D Sorry for the confusion there yesterday! It's under the park menu.

How much can we expect to pay for this expansion?

$14.99 or your local equivalent.

Do you think adding modding will hurt sales of the expansion?

Nope. Modding has been there since the start and, in my honest opinion, only been a boon to us.

What are all of the teams favorite colors?

Orange!

Do you like purple grapes or green grapes?

Green grapes any day of the week. Purple are OK I guess but can't compete with how juicy, tender and sweetly sour a good green grape can be.