Cities Skylines proudly wears/earned the title of best urban simulator, which can not but rejoice, because it's news about the release of the Supplement. Snowfall or Snow – the so-called new addition, but he was not named due to the current winter we.
The default playable area on a Cities Skylines map is 9 tiles (3×3 with any adjacent tile being unlockable) but you can go bigger thanks to a mod that’s been created in the Steam Workshop which will unlock a total of 25 tiles on a map which makes the playable area so much larger.
The mod is available now in the SteamWorkshop and to get it working in the game you first of all need to subscribe to the mod (click the little tick on the image) which will add it to your Steam. Currently the mod downloads to an incorrect location so what you need to do is read on and follow the instructions…
The file will be downloaded to Steam > steamapps > workshop > content > 255710 > 403798625 as AllSpacesUnlockable.dll
You need to copy the AllSpacesUnlockable.dll file into the mods directory at Steam > steamapps > common > Cities_Skylines > Files > Mods
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Now create a directory in there called AllSpacesUnlockable and paste in the AllSpacesUnlockable.dll.
To activate the mod, go in-game and click the Content Manager button. Go to the mods tab and check the 25 Spaces Can Unlock the full map mod.
The mod will now be active and you can now expand out beyond the standard settings. Here’s a few shots of how it looks.
Cities: Skylines has done well enough that Paradox is seeing an uptick in piracy, but it knows how to fight that.
Cities: Skylines is making a lot of waves in the PC gaming community because it offers a kind of city building experience many fans expected from SimCity.
Paradox’s Sham Jorjani said not everybody who has been attracted by this attention has been a paying customer.
Subscribe to the VG247 newsletterGet all the best bits of VG247 delivered to your inbox every Friday!Here are a few small tidbits of info about Cities: Skylines – day 1 we had 0% piracy. pretty cool. Day 2 16%.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
But Paradox knows how to fight piracy, because it’s done it before.
As usual our plan for pirates is to make a great game even better through free updates – making it more convenient to use Steam instead.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
It's all about offering the superior service. That's how we bring down piracy. By making the paid experience a superior one.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
Paradox, like CD Projekt, seems to believe draconian DRM only drives more users to piracy. What you need to do is make paying for the game less of a hassle than pirating it.
Here is Paradox Interactive's and Princess Leia's stance on PC piracy: pic.twitter.com/fDmDgfHHLp
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
It's all about offering a superior service. How come more and more use Netflix instead of pirating stuff? Ease of use and convenience.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
And this approach absolutely works.
We updated Magicka 14 times in 13 days. Even the pirates stopped posting new pirated versions after a while. Steams autoupdate was easier.
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— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
Also – best 'DRM' ever? Steam workshop.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
Despite the repeated success of generous responses to piracy, other games companies continue to build alternate DRM systems to rivet on top of Steam. Jorjani even made a crack about it:
Or….we could build our own ecosystem. Call it….P-play….or…Plorigins…or P-vapor or somesuch…yeah let's do that.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015
Ha ha! Awesome. Cities: Skylines is available now – on Steam, obviously.
Thanks, DSO Gaming.