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Fair warning: This week no real news from me so you can just skip this and come back on Thursday to find out what we really have been up to :D

I can't believe it! In two days we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Cities: Skylines! Therefore this week we have been wondering which cake to order to the office for Thursday (I say ALL of them!) and planning a big party for the spring. We actually didn't have a proper launch party for Cities: Skylines so now it's on - Food, drinks, my favourite Finnish band... And we will give one of you an opportunity to join us! The winner of Praise the Chirper -contest will be invited to join the celebration with the team on April 29th. Oh, and you can bring a friend with you if you want. So check out the terms for details and send over your best praise of the Chiper <3

Organizing a big party is actually a lot of work, so I have mostly delegated it to co_emmi. She has worked for Colossal Order in different positions for over five years and now that she is close to graduating we asked her to join the team full time as Communications Manager. She is responsible for Colossal's social media channels on Facebook and Twitter and will also be taking a bigger role here on the forums to making sure your voices are heard. Also for me one of the best things is that she handles the media requests and bunch of other emails so I get to spend more time reading Redd.. I mean working on important CEO level tasks. So I hope you welcome her here :)

And as promised I have created a thread for the Modding related questions that will be open until 10am EET (UTC+2) on Monday the 14th of March. The team will be looking into the questions next week and co_emmi will get back to you with as many answers as she has time to extract from them.

I better get back to ordering the cakes and next time we'll have a bit more substance in the word of the week ;)

Cheers,
Mariina
 
Congrats on 1 year of CS which done so well, and has been one of my favourite games of the last year especially considering there was a little known game released called Fallout 4 which I'm sure many people haven't heard about hehe.

my favourite Finnish band...
Cheers,
Mariina
I wanna know who that is? Mines is HIM (Username is a giveaway) so would be nice if it was them but then there are quite a few great bands from finland including but not limited to Rasmus, 69 Eyes, Children of Bodom, Apocalyptica....etc
 
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So far, great frequency of these "word of the week" :D
Looking forward to more information on Thursday!

Haha, trying to make this into a routine!

I wanna know who that is? Mines is HIM (Username is a giveaway) so would be nice if it was them but then there are quite a few great bands from finland including but not limited to Rasmus, 69 Eyes, Children of Bodom, Apocalyptica....etc

I don't think we can afford HIM, do they still tour? And now Poison Girl is playing in my head, thanks :D

So we'll have a trash metal band (lyrics are in Finnish) that probably isn't at all known outside Finland. But since my absolute favourite band is Iron Maiden I had to settle for my Finnish favourite ;)

Special Chirpy cakes with all of his different hats, right? :D

We'll save the Chirpy cakes to the Colossal Party in April and tomorrow we'll go for 3 cakes: chocolate mousse (this is so good), blackcurrant (new, have to try) and lingonberry (very good). We'll post pics on Facebook :D
 
by thursday do you mean tomorrow or next week thursday?
march 10, 2015 CS was released

Too bad it isn't Lordi... but pardonnez moi, I'm all in for Amorphis, fav band ever.
What about Ensiferum, great band from Finland. :)

So we'll have a trash metal band (lyrics are in Finnish) that probably isn't at all known outside Finland. But since my absolute favourite band is Iron Maiden I had to settle for my Finnish favourite
...And Iron Maiden rules! \m/
 
Oh, and another great band from Finland - Perfect one for party : Korpiklaani :)
(I manage also an english website related with Viking/folk metal for the main - if people interested, i can share here)
 
Oh, and another great band from Finland - Perfect one for party : Korpiklaani :)
(I manage also an english website related with Viking/folk metal for the main - if people interested, i can share here)

It's been a while since I last listened to Korpiklaani to be honest! Once I was a happy little boozer :D
And Under the Sun has been THE song of me and my wife back when we were dating :D
 
Everybody keeps talking about this Korpiklaani and I have never heard of it :eek:

Also really no-one understands great Finnish trash metal if you can't guess my favourite band :/
 
1 year and still no decent performance in linux!

I am disappoint. :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

EDIT: Yet I'd love to help diagnose / fix issues I see. Beta? Alpha? Sets GPU on fire? No worries - just send it my way!
 
Jonne from Korpi made a solo album - nothing metal or korpi alike, world music more, you should give it a listen! one of my fav records. :)

by the way, colossal order, we say thrash metal, because metal isn't trash! :D

And so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CITIES: SKYLINES (and its cuty Chirper!!)

For the people interested, I noticed After Dark 50% off at least for today : https://www.paradoxplaza.com/games?...k_cs_forum_all_20160310_1y&utm_content=banner :)
People who wants the game or the mugs should pay a visit as well.