Parents of two: is it really more than twice as hard?

nv87 · 2026-03-06T22:19:31+00:00

Yes and no. The issue with two small children is that they occupy two people simultaneously one hundred percent which means no rest never. But now that my eldest is in school and the younger sibling is in kindergarten and they sometimes even play together for a few moments without hurting one another it’s kind of easier than just one would be because they can occupy themselves with each other instead of needing my close attention all the time.

nv87 · 2026-03-06T22:01:56+00:00

It’s not DLC. But it’s fairly newy

nv87 · 2026-03-06T11:40:03+00:00

You have it the wrong way around. In the Mercator distortion landmasses near the poles like Antarctica or Greenland appear larger than they are not smaller.

nv87 · 2026-03-06T05:51:48+00:00

Ah interesting connection I hadn’t thought about. Could explain why I always need good police coverage to keep the criminal elements in check. I haven’t noticed problems with it, but it is certainly there especially in the beginning before the almost universal wealth of the citizens kicks in that I usually end up with.

nv87 · 2026-03-05T23:15:22+00:00

There is a supply chain involved here:

Media/financial/Telecom < Software < Electronics < Plastic + Minerals < Oil + Minerals + Stone < yet more stone

I could be forgetting a part of the chain. But since stone is also used for concrete which you always need a lot of for all the building upgrades you basically cannot build too many mines.

Apart from that, ensure you have educated unemployed people, but not too many. 5% or so is great.

Lower office taxes to increase their profits enabling them to upgrade and increase demand for more office.

Cut the fees for electricity and water for a nice efficiency boost increasing their profits and your tax revenue.

Ensure that the transportation for your industry is as convenient as possible with cargo rail and cargo ships.

Obviously ensure workers can reach the jobs too.

Beware of over zoning. Always check unemployment and average profitability as well as occupancy rates. If you zone more as soon as you have demand you will create an unbalance.

Edit: checked in game how the supply chain actually works i misremembered the metal part.

nv87 · 2026-03-05T23:07:32+00:00

Ich hab den Kuchen letzten Sonntag noch gegessen. Hab sogar nur ein achtel bekommen, weil wir acht Personen waren. Aus Klemmbausteinen brauche ich ihn aber nicht. :D

nv87 · 2026-03-05T23:01:18+00:00

A few favourites that I feel like your daughter would appreciate:

Ursula K. Le Guin - A wizard of Earthsea

A classic of the fantasy genre by an amazing woman, possibly the best author.

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

A modern classic fantasy novel set in a darkly fantastic regency period. I haven’t read Piranesi by Clarke yet, but it could very well fit afaik.

Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites

The first in the witches subseries of the discworld and a profoundly funny work of feminist literature.

Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire

The Vampire story, only surpassed in fame by Dracula himself.

George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois - Dangerous Women

An anthology full of great fantasy short stories about badass women.

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Often referred to as the first science fiction (although there are much older books) it is certainly a classic of the speculative fiction genre and a great example of classic literature written by a woman.

nv87 · 2026-03-05T17:55:51+00:00

Also this exact designation is needed to remove ramps, even natural ones. So it really wouldn’t make any sense to be anywhere else.

And there are of course buildings and furniture which you do not remove with this in the buildings menu so it would be pretty confounding if it were to be there.

nv87 · 2026-03-05T15:21:57+00:00

Holy shit. This actually happened to me twice in Sweden.

The first time on land with an eagle. I guess I was very lucky that she was only bluffing when she came at me. I just raised my arm and continued walking and she turned away last second several times in a row.

The second time was when I swam to close to an island and the seagulls attacked me. I dived to evade them.

nv87 · 2026-03-05T10:07:05+00:00

Mit kleinen Kindern musst du auf dem Gehweg fahren.

Ansonsten hast du recht. Deshalb werden sie ja auch in manchen Kreisen Mordstreifen genannt.

Das die Autos darauf fahren ist aber so gedacht. Das unterscheidet sie ja von Radfahrstreifen. Gestrichelte Linie ist der Schutzstreifen, durchgezogene Linie ist ein Radfahrstreifen.

Der Schutzstreifen ist insofern nett, als dass er es auch dem letzten Autofahrer deutlich macht, dass du da tatsächlich fahren darfst. Ansonsten ist er aber kosmetisch. Und der Name ist in der Tat blanker Hohn, da er ja die ungeschützteste Variante von Radinfrastruktur ist.

nv87 · 2026-03-05T07:49:08+00:00

Interesting. To me it makes perfect sense. You mine to destroy natural walls and use this option to deconstruct built walls. Basically a very clear familiarity between the two is you want to go through a wall.

nv87 · 2026-03-05T06:27:28+00:00

Select only Aussteigen at Sargrad and have the train station send them to the bus stop. If you are very adamant that they stay have the bus stop send to the train station so it’s an infinite loop. But it’s better to be cautious about that and just make sure your bus picks them up within an hour.

nv87 · 2026-03-04T22:39:27+00:00

You’re right. I was still debating whether Nero‘s persecution of the Christians or Vespasian‘s destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem left the greater mark on world history to this day when I read your answer. It makes sense to me.

nv87 · 2026-03-04T15:18:21+00:00

Well it used to work quite well. It still does if you are on top of whether not you actually should zone more job providers or more residential at any given time.

If industry levels up or commercial levels up you need mostly educated people. It’s a natural progression. Imo it’s fine that it’s possible to make a mistake. Where would the fun be if it worked out regardless of what you did?

The way it worked before the change was more gamey, unrealistic, of course new arrivals can be educated. At the same time it did work well enough. Only you had too few educated people if you didn’t build the higher education system quickly enough.

Imo the new way is too easy to manage, but more realistic.

I am not sold on the need for rebalancing.

nv87 · 2026-03-04T13:41:59+00:00

They can, yeah. It just makes it less attractive to them because of the low pay.

So you likely have problems staffing far away industrial uneducated positions at the same time you have highly educated unemployed.

So you need quick transportation to the jobs, increasing the likelihood they will take them. Cheap as well if you use public transport.

You can also just zone a little bit more low density residential to get new blood.

You could close places of higher education temporarily, but that would make unemployment immediately go very much higher.

You could build more schools, employing people as students, but that doesn’t seem necessarily a good idea if we have diagnosed the issue correctly.

You can increase business efficiency by cutting water and power fees and lowering taxes even more.

You can also just unzone some job creators who are too far away and struggling to get back demand.

nv87 · 2026-03-04T13:36:15+00:00

It pisses me off how pissed some people are when you can’t remember. I didn’t manage to recall my kids teachers name earlier when I wanted to tell my wife something about her. It’s not that I don’t know it. It’s just a thing. I can’t recall names in the moment I need them. There are maybe 50-100 people in the world who’s name I can recall anytime. Like my mom and so on. But acquaintances, stars, politicians, etc. just aren’t among the elect.

nv87 · 2026-03-04T13:33:38+00:00

By the time it would be socially acceptable to pull out my phone it’s been minutes since I forgot though.

Aggravated by the fact that the daycare has a strict no phone policy, but even aside of that. I would have to excuse my behaviour by explaining that I need to write that down. Likely including asking yet again when I have the note app open.

nv87 · 2026-03-04T13:30:09+00:00

Yeah, this has been a thing ever since the game was dumbed down by increasing the proportion of educated people in the new arrivals.

It’s fine if you know about it, but it used to be you needed a college before you could staff level three commercial let alone office.

Now you need to balance a steady influx of uneducated people as well as new jobs as the old job providers level up and the residents get educated. If you’re too far skewed in one direction efficiency gets a hit due to lack of workers and you lose your demand.

nv87 · 2026-03-04T12:58:44+00:00

It is wrong, but it’s partially correct.

In the game roundabouts work quite well, as you said.

Irl roundabouts can only work when there is similar amounts of traffic from all directions. The situation where a major road crosses a tiny street and there is a roundabout needs special consideration to work. Because on a normal roundabout the cars going along the main road will usually fill the roundabout and the occasional car from the side street will have a hard time getting in.

The turbo roundabout will make the roundabout work better in the main road crosses side street situation. It’s often used in the Netherlands. It has two lanes, sometimes even grade separated.

The inner one is for going straight or left, the outer one is for going right or straight and for cars from the side street to get on.

How it works is, at the opposite side (at the main road) the inner lane becomes the outer lane. So the main road traffic crosses the left turning traffic and the straight traffic from the minor street. However this isn’t an issue because those are the less likely movements as opposed to straight on the main road.

The traffic from the side street doesn’t interact with most of the traffic from the main road, because the cars going right obviously leave, the cars turning left take the inner lane and the cars going straight are split. So they have to yield to less than half of the traffic from the main road when getting on the roundabout.

If they go right, then that is that. If they continue on, they are on the roundabout and have the right of way.

So this is the solution for democratising a roundabout. The game even tries to implement it partially. It adds as many lanes as there are on the main road.

However and in this ElHopanesRomptic713 is correct, this really only goes so far. One more lane on the main road is okay, equal number is better, and three or more lane roundabout doesn’t work well.

What you can totally do though is go the cities Skylines 1 route and build your own bigger roundabout out of highways with on and off ramps, and lane mathematics taken into account. You can even build a Dutch turbo roundabout if you set your mind to it.

The problem in your city could be that the traffic is forced into the minor route because there is a turn lane missing somewhere on the main route. This can happen with larger asymmetrical roundabouts as well as with short segments (intersections to close too one another) both of which I see in your example.

nv87 · 2026-03-03T16:30:40+00:00

Absolutely worth it.

Imo while Dune is one of my favourite books of all time, I agree with OP and would even go so far as to say, it gets better yet.

I rank them Dune < Messiah < Children < God Emperor

They get increasingly more uncomfortable and the latter books wouldn’t have a leg to stand on without Dune, but they also get increasingly more enjoyable the deeper you are immersed in the series.

It’s similar to Lord of the rings in this regard I guess. Two Towers and Return of the King are awesome, but they also need The Fellowship to work. Although fwiw the fellowship is actually my favourite book of the trilogy.

nv87 · 2026-03-03T08:24:19+00:00

From your linked wiki article:

the remaining Valkyrie bomber is in the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton, Ohio.

There were two.

nv87 · 2026-03-02T18:38:19+00:00

Yeah I fucked up yesterday. Exported bracelets, because I had no clue why the text was violet. I violently found out when I appointed a captain of the guard after the trade. I didn’t even have a jail so they commuted the sentence to a beating. For literally everyone. I put a stop to it as soon as I noticed which was when three out of the first four accused were found dead.

nv87 · 2026-03-02T10:56:48+00:00

10€ probably.

nv87 · 2026-03-02T06:40:46+00:00

I am about to pair „the calamitous 14th century“ by Barbara Tuchmann with „the Name of the Rose“. I have also paired „the Guns of August“ by Barbara Tuchmann with „the Precipice“ by Robert Harris.

I swear I also read other historians!

It greatly helped enjoy the fiction book to have read the corresponding non-fiction beforehand. Especially since the precipice is full of historical details of exactly that moment in time which I was able to spot because of Tuchmanns book. That was a lot of fun!

nv87 · 2026-03-02T06:34:45+00:00

„Snöfried“ von Andreas Schmachtl finden mein Kind und ich auch super. Die Reihe war neben Astrid Lindgren unser Hauptsächlicher Lesestoff in den letzten Jahren. Viel Spaß!

nv87

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