[andrewfong]

I hope they get perf down. The first game runs great on my M1 until we get to around 100K residents or so. That's not a huge number of people for a real world city, but I guess simulating traffic + pathfinding for 100K+ actors is a dicey proposition CPU-wise.

IIRC, SimCity 4 didn't have this issue but it sort of cheats by chopping the map up into multiple tiles in a region and only simulating a subset of your population. Which honestly seems acceptable to me.

[brnt]

SC4 doesn't simulate residents at all, merely statistics. Even a single SC4 map is as large as one in CS, regions can be much, much bigger.

[mlsu]

Someone came over and asked what I was using the PC in the living room for. I told him -- it's the Cities Skylines Mainframe!

If you have a spare desktop lying around, it really helps to do the simulation "in the cloud."

[Renaud]

What do you mean exactly?

You run it on the desktop and remote play it using remote desktop or steam’s equivalent on your laptop?

I used to do that with my powerful desktop, leave it in my home office and remote play CS from the living room. Lag was good enough to play.

[mlsu]

Precisely. Latency on LAN is very good, especially for a non realtime game like Cities.