"Must Use" Policies

[ebrumby]

Which Policies do you use the most? I find that I hardly ever use any - probably because I don't really understand the advantages. Thanks ahead for responding!

[liak_attack]

All policies offer something to your game, depends on your planning which you can use at every time

https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Policies

Take a look at this page, if you still have questions about policies feel free to ask anything

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Get "Recreational Use" ASAP. It'll boost your city's income a lot. Disregard the "Conserve Electricity and Water" ones. "Fire Detector Installation" will help your Fire Departments tremendously.

At early game enable "School's Out" so you can have a steady workforce. But once you hit 10k Cims and up switch to "Education Boost" so you can have Highly Educated Cims.

[ShuFlngPu]

Big Biz Benefactor,
Encourage Biking,
Education Boost,
Educational Blimp-ALWAYS-,
Free Public transport (As soon as you drop below 80% flow first time and have public transport), High Tech Housing,
Industrial Space Planning,
Recycle Plastic (Personal Prefrence for garbage),
Small Biz Enthusiest.

Boost Connections (When you have cargo airplanes/trains)
Industry 4.0 if well educated/educated workers 70%+ or low population cap due to space.

Everything else is situationally useful. It depends on your setup at that point but the above are must-haves for traffic and $ purposes.

[CptJH]

if you got problems with trafic, the Oldtown Policy is quite useful, because vehicles which doesn't want to go in that specific district will go on an alternative route (but it doesn't affect highways)

[ShuFlngPu]

Originally posted by CptJH:

if you got problems with trafic, the Oldtown Policy is quite useful, because vehicles which doesn't want to go in that specific district will go on an alternative route (but it doesn't affect highways)

My only problem with that is sometimes that can cause even bigger jams when you activate extra connections because of the incresed flow and TMPE choosing alternate routes for speeds sake.
Bicycles are much easier to manage and dont really clog anything plus it costs literally nothing.
Ive used old town on very rare occasions to prevent large flows of traffic where I didnt want it period but, that usually just bites you in the tookus later :s

[Mr. Monday]

I use the two business boosters, Free Wi-Fi, Automated Tolls, and Encourage Biking. Sometimes I like to use Harsh Prison Sentences as well.

[MarkJohnson]

I haven't found any of them useful. They all have negative effects and some can affect your city negatively and throw things out of balance. Probably not a big deal in the standard 9-tiles, but 25 or 81 tiles can have a big impact.

[ShuFlngPu]

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

I haven't found any of them useful. They all have negative effects and some can affect your city negatively and throw things out of balance. Probably not a big deal in the standard 9-tiles, but 25 or 81 tiles can have a big impact.

LOL.
Do you even play this game bro? x'D

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by ShuFlngPu:

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

I haven't found any of them useful. They all have negative effects and some can affect your city negatively and throw things out of balance. Probably not a big deal in the standard 9-tiles, but 25 or 81 tiles can have a big impact.

LOL.
Do you even play this game bro? x'D

I play the game, I don't game the game.

Here a city I built that doesn't need workshop nor DLC so anyone can play it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=723204559

It is a stress test city, so it may lag badly depending on your computer specs.

[ShuFlngPu]

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

Originally posted by ShuFlngPu:

LOL.
Do you even play this game bro? x'D

I play the game, I don't game the game.

Here a city I built that doesn't need workshop nor DLC so anyone can play it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=723204559

It is a stress test city, so it may lag badly depending on your computer specs.

Boring is boring. But feel free to do you mate.
I think this game is total poodiddly without mods/dlc.
If I hadnt pirated the game first, I never wouldve bought it and I bought it; realized the DLC I was missing and waited 6months with a game I wouldnt play to get the DLC I wanted at at least half off.
Cant stand this game in its basic form.
Its the same as if you played fallout just to walk around in the world without equipment, gear or enemies. lol

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

Originally posted by ShuFlngPu:

LOL.
Do you even play this game bro? x'D

I play the game, I don't game the game.

Here a city I built that doesn't need workshop nor DLC so anyone can play it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=723204559

It is a stress test city, so it may lag badly depending on your computer specs.

Mark's "Stress Test City" is awesome as you can use it to gauge your system's capability or lack thereof to run a fully packed city. If it takes too long to load you know yoi're running low on memory (RAM). And if your system successfully finishes loading it and you can experience too much or too little lag then you'll know if your CPU and GPU can handle such a huge city.

And because of this I've now increased my target City Population from stopping playing at 150k to 200k to not potentially stress my system, to aiming for 300k and beyond as I now know my rig can handle it. Thanks for that save file of yours Mark ^_^

[ebrumby]

Oh wow! Thank you for all of the great advice.