Introduction - Community Manager for Colossal Order

[co_avanya]

Hi everyone!

I’m very excited to announce that I’ve joined Colossal Order as their Community Manager! This means I’ll be here to answer questions, help out with technical issues and share information from the developers with you, as well as collect your feedback and suggestions.

Don’t worry though! While @co_emmi focuses more on game development tasks, she won’t be a stranger in the future and @co_martsu might pop up on the forums at times when she gets too bored of handling company business!

In case you have no idea who I am, let me give you a little introduction! I’m Avanya, I’ve been playing Cities: Skylines since April 2015 and still do - when I’m not making custom assets for the game.

I’ve been very active in the Cities: Skylines community for years, and since March 2020 until the end of 2020 I was working as Community Ambassador part time, so this new role is an exciting step forward for me, and I can’t wait to work even more with our wonderful community!

 

[prismaticmarcus]

congratulations

 

[Beer Fiend]

Oh nice! Congratulations Avanya!

 

[Frankarta]

Hi manager, congrats! I actually have a question for you: do you know how one can expand existing hospitals & schooling facilities (e.g. add a baseball field, connect buildings...) Is it an part of an expansion pack?

 

[AndrewT]

@co_avanya @Avanya Wow, congrats! This is great news; you are a total asset to these forums and this game, and now you get paid for it !

 

[Meesmoth]

Congrats!

 

[UsmanSyed]

Congratulations! Finally its great to see some activity around here since March 2019 it has been complete silence from the team. Please do keep providing us any tidbits you have to share. And once again, welcome onboard!

 

[co_avanya]

Thank you everyone!

Hi manager, congrats! I actually have a question for you: do you know how one can expand existing hospitals & schooling facilities (e.g. add a baseball field, connect buildings...) Is it an part of an expansion pack?

Oooh yes, questions are definitely welcome!

There isn't a way to expand existing services, typically you will place a new building elsewhere in your city to get better coverage and happiness boost instead. Sometimes I like to have the large hospital in my city too, so what I do is build smaller facilities around it - basically a hospital or two built right up against each other with a few clinics and a crematorium around it. It isn't as efficient as spreading all the facilities out, but it gives the look and feel of that large central hospital.

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

Congrats!

Sometimes I like to have the large hospital in my city too, so what I do is build smaller facilities around it - basically a hospital or two built right up against each other with a few clinics and a crematorium around it. It isn't as efficient as spreading all the facilities out, but it gives the look and feel of that large central hospital.

If you are doing that, there are some other buildings already in-game (probably several on the workshop too, I didn't look). The "High Tech Buildings" DLC ( https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/High-Tech_Buildings ) has a "Medical Laboratory" (and Cryopreservatory for onsite deathcare). The "Modern Japan" DLC ( https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Modern_Japan ) has a "General Hospital". The "Campus" DLC ( https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Campus ) has the "School of Medicine".

 

[jcitron]

Congratulations! You'll do fine here just as you have with your content creation and support. Your keen eye for detail and methodical approach will be a great asset for you in this role as well.

 

[Tal3822]

Congratulations Avanya!
I really enjoyed getting to know you on the "city builder" series on the official cities skyline YouTube channel and I am happy to see you becoming a part of CO now.
All the best for your new position!

 

[co_avanya]

Thank you! ^^ I'm very excited to be part of the CO team!

 

[HayManMarc]

Congrats, Avanya!

 

[Microscraft]

Congrats,

But quick question, are you really gonna share things from the developers ? Or will you share things originated from developers that - no idea why - passed the filter put in place by the marketing team once in the year ?

I mean I love your team and work but I feel like this post is kind of a, as we said here in the french part of switzerland, "baume au coeur" for us.

Technical issues and other questions will not be a full time job if there is nothing to put under the teath when it comes to news and inside infos Neverless I would also enjoy the return of the post about how you work in your team, what you do, maybe even some action of someone working and you telling us what he does. Not necessary about a future update, it can also be about bug correction or whatever.

Just that there is still a gap between what happen inside and this forum, so, I'm crossing fingers in the hope that you may really be the key of a new connexion between them and us here on the forum. Let's hope so!

Can't we do lick 2minutes video of everyone in the team showing what he does and why it count ? This does not require spoiling incomif stuff does it ?

Wishing you all the best !
Thank you
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[co_avanya]

Thank you! ^^

As we haven't settled on what kind of info will be shared and when, I can't really give any interesting information there. But it's always valuable for us to know what interests you - especially when we're talking about things besides what we're working on. So suggestions like this are very welcome - I ofc can't promise that it's something we will share in the future, but I am taking notes.

 

[Keltia_Vikinga]

My hearty congrats, @co_avanya !

 

[MarkJohnson]

Nice going Avanya. It's nice to see you working your way up in life.

 

[Honky Tonk Man]

Hi everyone!

I’m very excited to announce that I’ve joined Colossal Order as their Community Manager! This means I’ll be here to answer questions, help out with technical issues and share information from the developers with you, as well as collect your feedback and suggestions.

Don’t worry though! While @co_emmi focuses more on game development tasks, she won’t be a stranger in the future and @co_martsu might pop up on the forums at times when she gets too bored of handling company business!

In case you have no idea who I am, let me give you a little introduction! I’m Avanya, I’ve been playing Cities: Skylines since April 2015 and still do - when I’m not making custom assets for the game.

I’ve been very active in the Cities: Skylines community for years, and since March 2020 until the end of 2020 I was working as Community Ambassador part time, so this new role is an exciting step forward for me, and I can’t wait to work even more with our wonderful community!

 

[Honky Tonk Man]

Congrats Avanya! They couldn't have picked a better person for the job. I normally see your name on the Mod sheet. Nice work keeping that up to date too. I myself and others on Steam regularly check that GS for broken mods and compatibility issues.

There's only one thing that I wish Paradox would do for CS game. That's create a Windows Desktop Asset Database that each asset CRP file can be viewable and stored by title and photo.......I have thousands of assets and can't see what they look like offline, only description is the title of the .CRP file. Gotta be a better way to save them assets to another drive and have an offline database asset viewer and organizer software.

Thank you for all of the instructions, helpful guides, support and expertise you give in so many ways. You're moving on up........."to the east siiiiii.....well ya know it. Thanks again and congratulations on your new (well deserved) position. HTM