Suffering a major population collapse. Was just hitting 180,000 population and everything looked fine when suddenly little icons appeared indicating supply was lacking in my commercial sector while production was hit by a lack of demand. This doesn't make sense at all. Now losing 5000 people and 40k cash per week.

I hope they don't patch this....

I have lots of areas designated for generic industry, but there's no business growth. I've tried lowering their taxes but nothing seems to work. It's almost as if all industry is a resource which can be depleted. My original industrial district started off as a sprawling oil field, but then i switched it to generic industry when the wells ran dry. This was fine for a while, but now the whole place is abandoned.

It's surrounded by residential areas in every direction.

It's hard to tell which failures of a city are bugs and which are player mistakes. My city still goes through massive cycles of dead bodies and rubbish piling up. At first i attributed this to traffic preventing prompt collection, but since my collapse of population and industry that's evidently not the case. My city is now so thinly spread across the landscape that there's rarely any traffic anywhere, except for at the port.

finally hit 70,000

I'm trying to get all the unique buildings but some of the conditions are going to be a right pain.

I've played a handful of hours recently. Downloaded some unique building mods (about 20) and dotted them around my city in the hope it'd stop the rot, but it's not working. There doesn't seem to be much i can do. My industry is still crumbling away, my residential areas are deserted, and there's no demand for my commercial districts. I'd previously suffered with high congestion in certain areas but there's barely any traffic anywhere. Something's broken the system, but i'm not sure exactly what. Having no natural resources left probably doesn't help. At my peak i had 5 mil in the bank and over 180,000 people. Now i have 1.5 million, 110,000 people, and no demand for anything. 

If i'm to return to this i should probably start again.

The mods I found useful were a road modifier, for adding or changing the direction or fliping back to two way, and another that auto bulldozes abandoned and/or burnt out buildings.

Get the obserbatory looks like a chore...the otheres I guess you cut your budgets and wait.

That's superb.

I'd love it if you could choose the starting age of your city. With buildings from that time lingering through the ages. So a Tudor pub next to a sky scrapper. Also being able to rezone areas, but keep the original buildings if possible. So an old run down obsolete industrial area becomes a swanky commercial and residential area, with cool old brick buildings, a bit like the Shad Thames in London.

Late to the party, but is anyone else considering picking this up on Bone on Friday?

I'm usually pretty wary about stuff like this on console, but it looks like a decent version and the controls not too unwieldy.

I love games like this but I'm not into PC gaming, and coupled with my new found ability to stream to my new laptop while Mrs Pea watches TV it seems like the perfect game to potter about on and then switch to the big telly when she goes to bed/out.

Video gives a decent look at how it handles.

I knew somebody would say this.

I like playing on the big Tv and I'm pretty sure the Bone version will be more refined for pad play. Also my mate that I console share with wants it so I'll only be paying half anyway.

LISTEN I JUST WANT IT ON BONE OK STOP TRYING TO MAKE SENSE.

MAYBE BUT I WON'T EVER ADMIT IT AND YOU'LL ALL THINK I'M PERFECTLY CONTENT AND COMFORTABLE WITH MY DECISION.