Crazy Experiment but Fun

steveb · February 16, 2011 at 5:50 AM

What happens when you play in Vienna with a population of 1.650.000 citizens. That is more or less the real population of Vienna.

Well you can see for yourself in the screens below. But the consequences are also HIGH

by increasing the citizens multiplier in environment.scripts to 100 you get these screens but be warned for:

- long loading times
- no rendering at big resolution and level of detail
- NO FPS. with my pc i had 1-4 fps

but on the good side... it is so much fun to see what happens

klischee · February 16, 2011 at 9:17 AM

The last screenshot is cool.

How did you changed the population size?

volcano · February 16, 2011 at 9:33 AM

Hell yeah!

gigabenga: Read his post more carefully ...

Tamael · February 16, 2011 at 11:01 AM

That's funny, i try it later, too.

StolleJay · February 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM

Where i can find the file to edit the script?

Edit:
I have found it but... very funny xD

klischee · February 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM

Quote from volcano

gigabenga: Read his post more carefully ...

Whoops.

steveb · February 16, 2011 at 12:42 PM

guys, post your results please. Multiplier number and fps... and maybe pc specs.does the game run better with higher specs or it just stalls?

Saphirdragon · February 16, 2011 at 2:26 PM

If the increase by 100 has this effect, than a increase of about 5-10 must be realistic when looking at the map size.

**Stepke** · February 16, 2011 at 2:29 PM Official Post

Englischsprachiger Teil: Bitte in Englisch antworten!

English language section: please answer in english!

Saphirdragon · February 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM

oops, sry. I somehow did not notice it

Banjobeni · February 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM

It is quite interesting to see that the population multiplier can be changed. I guess it only affects new games though, as the citizen generation seems to take place in the beginning of the game.

I'll have to try this on a strong computer. I assume when going to a multiplier of 100, the game is CPU-bound. Can anyone acknowledge that? I also suspect that the game "only" runs on two cores, is that right?

volcano · February 16, 2011 at 2:45 PM

Well, on my PC, it uses all of the four cores.

Banjobeni · February 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM

Can you detail that, volcano?

I can also see the game is working on all four cores, but it uses the CPU like 50% all the time. It might use all of the cores occasionally, but never all at the same time. I have a "real" quadcore so there is hardware reason for the game not using all the resources.

steveb · February 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM

i think it has more to do with rendering all the citizens and cars because as soon as i changed everything to low... the game was MOVING. on HIGH it was not

so with my AMD X2 3.1 Ghz, 2GB ram and Nvidia 9500GT 512 ram it was running at about max 5 fps with 100 multiplier. at a 10x multiplier it was still smooth

Oliver · February 18, 2011 at 4:36 PM

Wow, that's quite amazing! Thanks for sharing!

BTW, how much does that affect the gameplay? Was the game still playable?
Anyway, the crowded Vienna looks much more realistic than the default one.

steveb · February 18, 2011 at 5:48 PM

well it does affect gameplay considerably ... depends on the multiplier and perhaps pc specs. look at my previous posts

DasMatze · February 25, 2011 at 6:22 PM

I gave it a try:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/5958044134…919A7F7305787B/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/5958044134…1FD7B6828CA639/ (more than 900 people were waiting on the left platform!)

The funny thing is ... that's only a multiplicator of 5!

Banjobeni · February 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM

I really like that they are alll standing in the queue.

Todge · February 27, 2011 at 5:10 PM

Interesting that you should easily be able to increase population and vehicle sizes fairly easily. That way we can at least have slightly more realistic prices and stuff.

Even just doubling everything and being able to half ticket prices to be able to survive would be sweet.

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