#CITIES SKYLINES PARKLIFE TUTORIAL HOW TO#

It just so happened that in this case the cims wanted to walk in the direction of where Money Park was situated. There is no guarantee that mass transit nodes will provide heavy foot traffic to a Park Area. This is sourced by a metro station at one of the park side gates. This parkвЂ™s income is over 150,000% more than the Nature Reserve shown earlier! Thus, I learned that you can do a lot better.ДЄll this is due to the 600+ weekly visitors to the park. The screenshot below shows what is possible.ДЄs you can see, Money Park is raking in over в‚Ў17,000 per week and only spending в‚Ў112 per week on maintenance. Of course, this is based on the number of visitors to your park. You will know if you placed the Park Area along a high foot traffic path if you are making around (and in excess of) в‚Ў2,000 per week only for spending в‚Ў54 per week on two City Park gates.

Then, adjust the Ticket Price to see how it affects the visitor count. Also, it is far away enough that cims will choose to go through the gates rather than around (depending on how much you charge for Ticket Price).ДЄfter you place your Park Area, wait a few in-game weeks (ideally a month) to see what the visitor count looks like after it has had a chance to stabilize. This allows the Park Area to appear вЂњnaturalвЂќ in its urban setting. I try to space out the Main Gate and its Side Gate at least 8 cells/tiles from each other. But you can choose whichever gate suits your fancy. It also makes visual sense for high traffic urban centers. They occupy the least number of cells/tiles compared to gates of the other Park types. Once you find a heavy traffic of cims walking to-and-fro, this is an ideal place for a Park Area.ДЇor intercepting urban walkers, I prefer using the Small Park Main Gate and Park Side Gate under the City Park tab. Sometimes you might get lucky and notice lots of cims walking toward an area (or away from an area). Generally speaking, there should be foot traffic between residential zones and commercial zones, but this is no guarantee.ДЄll you can really do is place some test pathways between areas and wait-and-see for foot traffic. It is hard to predict where the simulation will generate foot traffic. So how do you know where cim foot traffic will appear? You donвЂ™t. If you see few cims walk along your pathway, it is a bad spot to place a Park Area. That is, if the Park Area were not there and there is just a pathway, you should see a decent number of cims walking along this pathway. In order for a Park Area to be effective, it must sit along the path of pre-existing cim foot traffic.

#CITIES SKYLINES PARKLIFE TUTORIAL HOW TO#

I figured it was better than seeing park expenses eat into my cityвЂ™s weekly total income (pre-Parklife DLC).ДЄfter I discovered the secret of how to make Park Areas pay for themselves and their park building and plaza cousins, I was on a crusade to optimize the heck out of all my old cities with Park Areas. In the Economy window, my city had weekly park income barely pay for the expenses of all parks, plazas, and landscaping. It certainly is faring better than the Amusement park shown earlier.Д«ut I was always dismayed that the vanilla Park and Plaza buildings I placed were siphoning income from these custom parks. When I built Park Areas outside of zones and near zones, without any regard for pre-existing cim traffic (foot traffic or car traffic), the best park I built was a Nature Reserve park (see right-screenshot).

The Amusement park (see above-screenshot) was placed within the city and is barely breaking even. How to Make Better Money with a Park AreaД«efore I knew any better, my Park Areas (that is, custom parks) were breaking even and sometimes making some profit (about в‚Ў100 to в‚Ў1000 per park). It is assumed that people who read this guide want to grow their city вЂњnaturallyвЂќ without using the Unlimited Money mod. Basically, the more cims, the more effective Park Areas will be. You can do this with a smaller city but it can be more challenging to find busy foot traffic paths. I would suggest a population size of over 14,000 cims. A city with sufficient number of cims in order for Park Areas to work.In order to follow this guide you need the following: How to Make Better Money with a Park Area.

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