City building game “spawns” 61 times faster than real life

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City building strategy game Cities: Skylines will turn six years old this month. To celebrate the 6th anniversary of its release, the developer Colossal Order announced some daring statistics, in which many player-created cities are inhabited by several dozen times the population of the earth.

The figures have been shared in Paradox Insider latest through bookmark presentation sixth birthday by Cities: Skyline. Some of the interesting stats about the city builder community released are: more than 16 million players have tried Cities: Skylines, over 84 million cities have been created, the in-game population is 432,171,234,270, 61 times the number of people living on earth.
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In addition, the game has a total playtime of 74,956 years, showing that the great history of Cities: Skylines is still in its infancy, and more than 240,000 mods. Collosal Order community manager Samantha ‘Avanya’ Woods said: “It’s been an incredible journey for us, seeing players take the game beyond the original concept. It’s been great to see everyone’s creativity and mastery of the game.”

A new community contest was also introduced during the presentation. This is where players challenge their building skills on a predefined map, prizes will be awarded to the three most impressive buildings. One of the many challenges of the competition was to build the Waisenbrücke bridge, the heart of the city of Berlin, on one of three pre-made maps by Jason ‘AmiPolizeiFunk’ Ditmars. This contest runs until April 30, and players can win a prize of €1,000. Readers can view details about the contest here.
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