Caledaux - my first decent project

[Mottoth]

May 26th, 2015. The End. Pop 326K.

Hello everybody, this time I think I'm done with Caledaux. The population is getting stable around 326 000, unemployement is low and 95% of Job positions are filled, industry and shops are not complaining about lack of workers/goods/buyers, importations have zeroed, and I have no more flat area to build.
So I decided this is it, and I made a beautiful imgur album to showcase the city. Here we go: https://imgur.com/a/2HzqT

Thanks for reading, and see you in my next city journals.

 

[ECGadget]

Well, actually it's not that powerful, especially the CPU that is a 5-year old AMD 4-core and is the bottleneck in this game... the sim really gets very slow between 5 and 6am when every cim is waking up and computing their way to work/school.
Other specs are: 12 Gb of RAM, and a pretty new GTX 950 GPU with 4 Gb of RAM IIRC.
I have around 50 mods and 700 assets, which is the maximum my game can handle: when I have more than 750 workshop subscriptions the game won't load anymore.

This time I really completed my expansion on the whole map, and I'm currently refining things and adding beatifications:
- Pop is stabilizing around 313K, but I'm still having large fluctuations on my workforce so one day I have 10000 unemployed and the next day I have 20000 unfilled job positions.
- The downtown agri yard was closed after I set a 4th and last farming village on the highlands. There's now a new business center and a large park there.
- I spent a lot of time tweaking car and truck traffic on busiest highways. This aspect was neglected for too long but I eventually come to a nice flow all around downtown expressways. A new elevated expressway was built seaside to offer a bypass for transiting traffic.

I will try to find to time tomorrow to post pictures of those latest changes.

Your GPU is definitely helping that along though! I am at 45k population with a LOT of mods and assets and I am starting to see the first signs of struggle. I think my city will give out at 100k. And it certainly won't be youtube friendly by that time! It all looks really really good though right now!

 

[kasigrog]

I love this city! Do you have a twitch or youtube account? Would love to watch you build.