Yep, the citizens are now far smarter in their path finding. They’ll walk quite a distance now, or follow a route via multiple different transport types.
A feature I’m really enjoying is pedestrians will walk along routes not intended for them if you’ve failed to provide adequate pedestrian routes. They will walk alongside a highway without a pavement if it saves them time. Or even more recklessly I’ve got people finding their way onto my rail tracks to shortcut their way to the station in places I’ve failed to put pedestrian paths.
Each citizen has their own preferences too, They’ll take whatever transport is most suited to them. There’s a surprising amount of depth to it.
When traveling by car or public transport they choose:
This cost is calculated using multiple factors such as the city’s road network, traveling time, travel cost, agent preferences, and more which we will cover in more detail below. Furthermore, agents will adjust their route based on events along the way. They may change lanes to avoid a car accident or a stopped service vehicle or make room for a vehicle responding to an emergency.
Cars have seen massive improvement as well. They do indeed now pull into another lane to make way for emergency vehicles.
No longer do citizens store them in a magical pocket, they need to find parking which can be roadside or in dedicated parking structures.
Roads can be upgraded to remove roadside parking, given wide pavements, you can add signage to prevent left hand turns etc. But rather enjoyably some more reckless drivers will ignore your road layouts and intentionally take turns they aren’t allowed to, or if a road becomes blocked they will perform an illegal u-turn and find an alternative route.
Honestly, I’m really not understanding why this game is getting so many people complaining. Sure it has bugs, but the core mechanics are working perfectly fine - it’s an incredible feat of software engineering.
I’d actual prefer they avoided going for photo realism, it always tends to fall short. The art style they’ve developed works really well - realistic detail and form but with a plastic sheen and strongly saturated colours.
This was why I favoured console gaming over PC. Having a standardised hardware always meant you don’t have the heart ache of a game not performing well. With the introduction of the Steam Deck hopefully that will become the new baseline for future games.
Enscape provide real-time photorealistic VR rendering for architectural software ( enscape3d.com/…/architectural-virtual-reality/) so with some conversion of the geometry from unity the only missing link is interactivity.
Full price? I’ve had over a week of gameplay for just a £1 Game Pass trial. Usually I tire of games after just 3 days or 30 hours or so for me and I’m sure many other casual gamers it’s great value.
This is the catch 22 of PC gaming. On the one hand you’ve got people complaining that the latest games require high end hardware to run on release day - and simultaneously at the other end of the spectrum people are complaining that supporting low end hardware is dragging a game down?!
New Gmail rules enforced starting in February should reduce spam, make it easier to unsubscribe from bulk senders, and close email security loopholes exploited by cybercriminals.
So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...
I have been meaning to ask, can Shelly be used to turn existing light switches/circuits smart? I have four separate light switched each for a single light, and I’d love a simple solution so if I turn one switch on all four lights come on.
I found the customisation of Sync to be severely lacking. The default text size is illegible and the sleuth of options to increase that size have practically no fidelity so end up making the design look terrible.
Arms manufacturers would probably argue that guns are intended to be deterrent. And they shouldn’t be held liable that the cops keep executing unarmed suspects with them.
They only require permission to write to the password field, they don’t necessarily need to read passwords. Although it does change the work flow for some users.
As someone who read a lot as a child I still find myself saying hyperbowl. I’d certainly heard the correct pronunciation but it wasn’t until very late that I made the connection to the word I’d learned by reading.
Two escaped dogs savaged a flock of pregnant sheep, killing 22 and injuring another 48, before the out-of-control American XL bulldogs were shot. A farmer turned his gun on the pair of escaped animals that subjected his livestock to a brutal attack on a Welsh farm....
which distro and why do you prefer it over others?
Cities Skylines II is an absolutely beautiful game (vimeo.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/5266864...
Google is making it harder for bulk senders to fill your Gmail with spam (www.theverge.com)
New Gmail rules enforced starting in February should reduce spam, make it easier to unsubscribe from bulk senders, and close email security loopholes exploited by cybercriminals.
Are attention spans actually shortening?
So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...
With the recent developments of Phillips Hue, I feel like more people should look into Shelly devices. I have a few and they're great. (www.shelly.com)
Shelly is proud of their devices being:...
Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall 'felled overnight' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Congratulations Ruben!
Congratulations Ruben for the release of Boost for Lemmy v1.0. Your hard work is appreciated!
Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian fleet (www.washingtonpost.com)
If you’re hitting a paywall, here’s a CNN link to the same story: www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/…/index.html
Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes?
Quick edit: If this is considered in violation of rule 5, then please delete. I do not wish to bait political arguments and drama....
Google Chrome "enhances" our privacy further
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Imperial Roman barracks cutaway (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Password-stealing Chrome extension smuggled on to Web Store; Researchers Demonstrated that Password-stealing Extensions are Still Possible with Manifest V3 (www.malwarebytes.com)
Summary...
You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?
I’m picking “Colonel” needs to be respelled to match how it’s pronounced....
American XL bulldogs kill 22 sheep (www.walesonline.co.uk)
Two escaped dogs savaged a flock of pregnant sheep, killing 22 and injuring another 48, before the out-of-control American XL bulldogs were shot. A farmer turned his gun on the pair of escaped animals that subjected his livestock to a brutal attack on a Welsh farm....