It is no overstatement to say that I've been eagerly awaiting the next episode since Friday. I'm really enjoying this series, so much so, that I've been inspired to get out of my comfort zone and stray away from the perfect square grid in my city. :D
Your commentary about the Apple store was both hilarious and accurate. I think it's my new favorite landmark of the city. For the clock tower, I think the style of it fits the train station really well but maybe it would be better at the front or next to the road? Bit weird to have it right in the middle of the tracks. (Also, city detailing is my favorite part of this game so I absolutely do not mind watching you just scroll through buildings, especially when the end results look so nice!)
"Today I would like to do the 4-way interchange" *Proceeds into 1,5 houe episode and totally forgots about it* - classic Flabaliki Tbf I really like the looks of the city and love the idea of an old cargo track through the beach area. It will be a great addition to the area.
How about a large park/nature reserve on the other side of the hill to the left of the train station - where the small rivers curve a lot. I think it would look great with a lot of pedesriwan bridges!
Lowkey still waiting on the University campus he was raving about in the first few episodes 😆 I'm really enjoying this series and I wish I had some of these mods on my Xbox!
You have to look that you make the buildings you place that they cant level up and change because it happend to some buildings like the drive trough and the house next to it . Nice video
For noise pollution, use tree lined roads to help out the residential areas to see how that helps and if not enough, check the hospital again to make sure it's actually on the roads (I think move it might have messed it up and I don't know if you've fixed it and I missed it).
Also wanted to say that I love the apple store there, and the very high white building also oddly works well where it is? I hope we can see the theater somewhere else, because that building looked DOPE
I’ve never heard of shake shack or seen one until you videos. You’ve made me want to travel across countries to go to one though. Which means you should definitely get a sponsorship.
Education, police, more parks and every service helps increase land value. Education will help a lot in downtown. Make some different levels of buildings historical so that way as they level up you get some different variety. Especially if you like a lower level building. Also, I love the Apple store. Also, also, I lovvvve the fountain and invisible path you did in Olive Gardens. Looks awesome. You could rename Olive Gardens to Good Times Park in honor of Olive Garden's old slogan: Good Times, Great Salad, Olive Garden. Or Family Park, cuz at Olive Gardens you're family : D
Love this series! I also love the Apple Store 😂 I thought that the clock tower could look cool inside the part and just so you know, one of the pathways in the park has no gate.
For the highway that bypasses the city you could make a parallel road, like an exit ramp that just comes off and then goes back on but then connect your side streets to that road instead of directly to the highway.
I love the fact of you just playing city skylines, I follow you since the beginning of your adventure on youtube and you havent changed in your playstyle since. Its worth the wait and I watch every episode
I'm still waiting for the university lol don't really know what advice to give bcs i don't play the game, i'm just enjoying you play it, it's really fun to watch! But yeah I'm looking forward to more public transportation and trams in the new area!
In front of the train station could be a great spot for a metro if you do one! Also, the vanilla botanical garden might be good in the park? Edit: Would be hilarious to put an Olive Garden (restaurant) across from the park 😂
If you’re trying to get rail to where the docks will eventually be, I think you should tunnel and follow a similar path as the highway. To me that seems like the best way to avoid any traffic problems that would arise from the tracks crossing all of the major roads in the downtown area, and it would also look a lot cleaner.
I love how you build things one or two times in an episode which we both apparently don't really enjoy, and then you go and demolish everything and built something really beautiful
I think you should unlock entire map, I think it's pointless to build residential if you are going to delete it all after. Also I love watching these videos! They are so chill.
Absolutely loving this city! Some aspects of the downtown area are really reminding me of Seattle (music venues near the trains/industrial area, parks with theaters/museums-even if it didn't last, etc.). It's probably not unique, but I really like it! I haven't tried switching out the roads attached to assets with the node controller, but I did find another mod that allows you to swap it out. I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head, but I'll look at it later and update.
To make a better transition in the residential from high to low, do the following: 1. make 4 different districts (biggest building to smallest) --- a. In the largest, zone high density. --- b. In the second largest, zone high density but Highrise Ban policy --- c. In the third largest (second smallest) zone low density --- d. In the smallest, zone low density but Self Sufficient policy (Green Cities DLC) 2. enjoy the more natural curve!
There is a collection of mid-rise Brooklyn buildings on the Steam workshop, which include a variety of architecture styles (italianate renaissance, neoclassical, simple American federal). I think a mix of the Brooklyn mid-rise (high density) and some other low-rise (low density) buildings would transition out of your built-up park area very nicely
James, invisible pathways. You have them, would have worked for front of apple store. Love that there is an apple store. Get a Samsung one and have them have an epic competition on who has the best outside. And as somebody who works in a medical lab, it's nice to see a pathology building. And I appreciate the good access to mass transport too.
Could you build a rail stabling yard somewhere in the city? Maybe near the industrial area or near the main railway interchange? I think it would really add to the aesthetic of the city. Love the series btw!
they increase land value, but decrease it in the noise pollution zone. if you look a little closer, you can see a darker blue circle around the thing, centered around the smaller low land value circle.
Love this series, I think gating in the primary schools and adding more parking everywhere will really improve the look of the city. I worry about those kids getting on to the main road lol😂
So you don't play with the day/night cycle on, but I was inspired to play on this same map (I unlocked all tiles right away though, and don't know how you have such patience.. anyway..). Anyway! That square fort along the ocean near the downtown: it lights up at night! Completely surprised me. Looks pretty cool if you get in the mood to turn night cycle on for kicks.
This is such a beautiful city! I love the Apple Store there next to the industrial station. They are always a little over the top anywhere in real life as well, so that spot is as good as any in this city. I have a suggestion that I always do to make high residential look pretty: When I leave a few open spaces here and there and plop down some of the tiny parking lots that you also have in your mods, combined with a little tree (or two, or a bush). It looks very clean ánd it enhances the landvalue. I look forward to where this city is heading, so far it has been a great series to watch!
My duuude. I thought I was pretty okay at cities skylines and then I started binge watching this series! And then I promptly subscribed to the lists of mods/assets for this series and it’s literally a game changer! ❤️
About the highway next to the train station either build a SPUI or a Protected T intersection, depending on if you want the road from the train station to continue up the hill.
Hey James! Awesome downtown layout and building placement! I’m coincidently building my current city on this map for the past month and a half and have built it in a similar layout towards yours! Haha that’s so cool! Yours is looking great! Keep it up 👍🏼
there should be a pond or lake in the middle of that park and have a path around it... i havent seen the rest of the video so not sure if you do this lol
I love this series! Also we have those highways with traffic lights as well in Germany. We don’t call them autobahn (highway) tho but Kraftfahrstrasse which I don’t think has an accurate translation. :D can’t wait for the next part!
Hi James! I just wanted to let you know that you are the only person I watch play Cities: Skylines. I like your style of cities and you add the right amount of detail. I'm excited to see how this city develops.
I think a waterfront cargo line would be a good idea! It might be ugly, but the good kind of ugly. Where I live a cargo line runs along the waterfront because the city used to be a lot more industrial. Nowadays the waterfront industry has gone away and those sites have been converted into parks, but the cargo line still runs along/through them.
Do the cargo line under the suburbs in the mountain, that would be more suitable than going straight through the downtown or along the water. Another idea, when you don't know what to do with spaces like the one on front of the apple store, just do some pathways and paint the ground with cement, add some flowers and do a small square!
1:22:26 I don't really like how the road just go in the highway like that, a highway interchange would be good. But thats just my opinion. Besides that, really like the downtown. Great job james!
22:25 Where I live there are traffic lights and intersections on certain parts of highways also, so it's not that weird of a thing. They're mostly on slower highways (45-50mph/72-80kph). 38:00 I think the park might look a little "off" because the middle road is very straight and uninterrupted. I originally thought you would make it a circuit pathway in the shape of an oval without any straight joins, because most parks are like that instead of straight across pathways. You could have added the invisible paths to have them walk across the grass, but visually have it an oval.
Build the bridge near Bedford! That will help the traffic! Also the clock tower is ridiculous, put it in front or on the side of the station (or across the road). Don't forget to connect it to all rail lines!
As someone with ADHD who plays this game, that is exactly what this game is lol. I have like a whole heap of districts marked out with future plans and last night I just decided to rip my like map's in-built freeway out and flip where I was putting the CBD.
A little late for this but yay a new CSL series! I binge watched the whole thing and I was so impatient for this episode 😁 watching you go through every little detail reminds me of Skargard city ❤️ I love the Apple store and SS chain 😅 but one thing that's killing my OCD is that one of the side gates of the park is just an open path which means citizens would be able to go through it without paying. 😩
00:21:40 This is what Perth does as well, we have Tonkin Hwy, which is basically a big long road that doesn't have any zoning and connects between neighbourhoods but has lights instead of interchanges. I've actually embraced that in my last two cities and basically had like no highway interchanges except roundabouts once they got off the main entry freeway. Australia actually also has a distinction between freeways and highways - freeways are free-flowing and only have interchanges, highways can be interchanges or intersections, can be high-speed or not and there's some roads called highways in Perth that have commercial zoning along them even though they're like six lanes (Canning Highway and Albany Highway). I'm calling my current city design principle "no freeways, only highways/main roads, we die like men". There's a set of roads on the workshop called Highways Over Wall that have larger and asymmetrical two-way highway bits. Oooh there's also some roads on the Workshop that have trams and buses down the centre that look really cool on like a boulevard type thing (I know they have that for trams in Adelaide?).
The worst part about zoning is that it sometimes creates huge gaps between the buildings because there are parking lots or trees included in the asset. Plus the sizing is all over the place. In my opinion this just isn't realistic at all and breaks immersion.
Okay, I absolutely LOVE the clock tower in the station. Also, is there an underground parking garage that you can find. Something more akin to placing a subway station?
I think the highway might be more realistic if its raised with ramps, I also think a police station would probably be somewhere in that hub near the train station and maybe a gas station or two dispersed out on the roads towards the city and on the very outskirts of the city. You always see those sketchy lonesome gas stations on the corners of long travel roads. Some rest stations along the highways would also probably be a nice add on.
Just an idea for future train lines in the city: perhaps keep them elevated but place them at the center of an avenue/road. It's something fairly common in big cities in the U.S. and would save you the trouble of ground crossings everywhere, plus it wouldn't cut down on potential zoning.
Also, for the new highway running along the east side of the city (the side closest to the train), I feel like a diamond interchange could work well. Rather than joining directly to the highway
To the highway intersections, I know that if I were to drive towards Brisbane, when I reach Aspley onwards the highway ends up becoming more of a main-road with tons of intersections, and then eventually shoots off into a highway again.
Oh yeah, with that reference, I can now visualise it properly. It’s been a while since I’ve driven through it, but isn’t there raised walkways that cross it? That would look cool here. From memory, they’re actually designed so wildlife can cross the road more safely.
@@sum1rllyspecial I cant quite remember too well as its been a while since I too went through, but I do know that after Chermside you tend to hit a highway again through Brisbane which ends up getting spaghetti junctions everywhere (especially around the airport... that place is murder)
Best practice is to keep your internal passenger rail, external "intercity" passenger rail, export freight and your internal freight all on different wholly separate rail networks - prevents any weird risks... Also a bus station next to the rail station is a great idea, I love that you're using busses as a main transit form in this city - maybe you could use trolley busses in the city as you've not used them much before?
I think you have the right idea with the path by the apple store. I think you should use that tiny skinny dirt pathway and add some tables like it’s a micro park apple 🍏 put in for their employees but it’s like public space at the same time.
Maybe it'd be cool to combine the Grand Central Museum with the station and let it visually function as the main hall? The station itself kinda looks like it's just the platform hall, and maybe it'd go with the clock tower.
One of the paths in the new city park that connects to the five way path intersection does not have a gate on it. This allows uncounted visitors to enter the park, slowing it's growth.
1. Instead of 'High Height' I would suggest to find a name for the Stadium that will be there and call it with the same name. (Ex. Here in Milan, the San Siro stadium give the name at his own area, who just surround the arena) 2. The clock looks amazing, but I would love to see it in the middle of the park, visible from everywhere in the city (station, hospital, stadium ecc) 3 For the parking problem, as someone already suggested, try to look for some underground parking, it will help a lot without turning the city into a concrete block. I'll wait for the nel episode, don't let us wait, you're warned ❤
Hi James! Not sure if you will read this however, am really enjoying this game play! I do have a game suggestion for you, if you like this game I suggest checking out ANNO 1800- it’s a really good strategic game about optimization and also encourage ‘beauty building’. Excited to see more of this gameplay though!
James asking 'Does this improve land value?' had a very strong 'Is fishing fun?' vibe.
I love this city, it's coming along so well.
I thought the same thing 😅
It is no overstatement to say that I've been eagerly awaiting the next episode since Friday. I'm really enjoying this series, so much so, that I've been inspired to get out of my comfort zone and stray away from the perfect square grid in my city. :D
Same!
This series need to have more episode per week… the withdrawal effects are insane lol
Underground parking would be a great solution, I dont know if there's any asset like that, but it's probably worth a try
There are assets that do underground parking! Biffa has used them but they're probably findable if you look on the workshopt
@@NethDugan nice! It also ocurred to me that he could build it himself, it's probably not that dificult with the assets he already has
I was thinking the same!
I love the new train station next to the mall, it fits so well together also the little shops under the rail are a great addition!!!
add some man-made lakes in the central park james! they got to be oneee, its gonna look awesome
The clock is so cool! But I really think you should move it to in front of the train station so you can see the whole thing.
Agreed!
Yeh I agree.
Your commentary about the Apple store was both hilarious and accurate. I think it's my new favorite landmark of the city. For the clock tower, I think the style of it fits the train station really well but maybe it would be better at the front or next to the road? Bit weird to have it right in the middle of the tracks. (Also, city detailing is my favorite part of this game so I absolutely do not mind watching you just scroll through buildings, especially when the end results look so nice!)
"Today I would like to do the 4-way interchange"
*Proceeds into 1,5 houe episode and totally forgots about it* - classic Flabaliki
Tbf I really like the looks of the city and love the idea of an old cargo track through the beach area. It will be a great addition to the area.
Well I changed my mind because it really depends what we build around the interchange that will determine how big it can be haha
@@Flabaliki with the interchange, fill in the unused space with parking. It will look ugly but realistic.
How about a large park/nature reserve on the other side of the hill to the left of the train station - where the small rivers curve a lot. I think it would look great with a lot of pedesriwan bridges!
A Cable Cart line to the castle next to the city would look amazing.
Lowkey still waiting on the University campus he was raving about in the first few episodes 😆 I'm really enjoying this series and I wish I had some of these mods on my Xbox!
Cool! A skate park or a basketball court below the railway arch would be noice =)
I enjoy seeing you manually placing buildings instead of zoning because the default zoning looks horrendous!
You have to look that you make the buildings you place that they cant level up and change because it happend to some buildings like the drive trough and the house next to it .
Nice video
For noise pollution, use tree lined roads to help out the residential areas to see how that helps and if not enough, check the hospital again to make sure it's actually on the roads (I think move it might have messed it up and I don't know if you've fixed it and I missed it).
Also wanted to say that I love the apple store there, and the very high white building also oddly works well where it is? I hope we can see the theater somewhere else, because that building looked DOPE
I’ve never heard of shake shack or seen one until you videos. You’ve made me want to travel across countries to go to one though. Which means you should definitely get a sponsorship.
Shake Shack is amazing.
Education, police, more parks and every service helps increase land value. Education will help a lot in downtown. Make some different levels of buildings historical so that way as they level up you get some different variety. Especially if you like a lower level building.
Also, I love the Apple store. Also, also, I lovvvve the fountain and invisible path you did in Olive Gardens. Looks awesome.
You could rename Olive Gardens to Good Times Park in honor of Olive Garden's old slogan: Good Times, Great Salad, Olive Garden. Or Family Park, cuz at Olive Gardens you're family : D
thats an awesome idea
Love this series! I also love the Apple Store 😂 I thought that the clock tower could look cool inside the part and just so you know, one of the pathways in the park has no gate.
For the highway that bypasses the city you could make a parallel road, like an exit ramp that just comes off and then goes back on but then connect your side streets to that road instead of directly to the highway.
I love the fact of you just playing city skylines, I follow you since the beginning of your adventure on youtube and you havent changed in your playstyle since. Its worth the wait and I watch every episode
I'm still waiting for the university lol don't really know what advice to give bcs i don't play the game, i'm just enjoying you play it, it's really fun to watch!
But yeah I'm looking forward to more public transportation and trams in the new area!
In front of the train station could be a great spot for a metro if you do one! Also, the vanilla botanical garden might be good in the park?
Edit: Would be hilarious to put an Olive Garden (restaurant) across from the park 😂
I love how excited James gets when he remembers things in the game hes forgotten about.
If you’re trying to get rail to where the docks will eventually be, I think you should tunnel and follow a similar path as the highway. To me that seems like the best way to avoid any traffic problems that would arise from the tracks crossing all of the major roads in the downtown area, and it would also look a lot cleaner.
I love how you build things one or two times in an episode which we both apparently don't really enjoy, and then you go and demolish everything and built something really beautiful
I think you should unlock entire map, I think it's pointless to build residential if you are going to delete it all after.
Also I love watching these videos! They are so chill.
We aren’t deleting the residential that was built today :)
Absolutely loving this city! Some aspects of the downtown area are really reminding me of Seattle (music venues near the trains/industrial area, parks with theaters/museums-even if it didn't last, etc.). It's probably not unique, but I really like it!
I haven't tried switching out the roads attached to assets with the node controller, but I did find another mod that allows you to swap it out. I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head, but I'll look at it later and update.
To make a better transition in the residential from high to low, do the following:
1. make 4 different districts (biggest building to smallest)
--- a. In the largest, zone high density.
--- b. In the second largest, zone high density but Highrise Ban policy
--- c. In the third largest (second smallest) zone low density
--- d. In the smallest, zone low density but Self Sufficient policy (Green Cities DLC)
2. enjoy the more natural curve!
City planner plays
@@sannidhyabalkote9536
Tried linking his video on it in a previous episode, but it must of got filtered and deleted.
But spot on!
There is a collection of mid-rise Brooklyn buildings on the Steam workshop, which include a variety of architecture styles (italianate renaissance, neoclassical, simple American federal). I think a mix of the Brooklyn mid-rise (high density) and some other low-rise (low density) buildings would transition out of your built-up park area very nicely
I love the clock tower in the train station!
James, invisible pathways. You have them, would have worked for front of apple store. Love that there is an apple store. Get a Samsung one and have them have an epic competition on who has the best outside. And as somebody who works in a medical lab, it's nice to see a pathology building. And I appreciate the good access to mass transport too.
Could you build a rail stabling yard somewhere in the city? Maybe near the industrial area or near the main railway interchange? I think it would really add to the aesthetic of the city. Love the series btw!
I have to say I actually really enjoy the scrolling through buildings and manually placing things to fit exactly :)
I tried Shake Shack solely because of watching your videos for years. You have not over-hyped how good it is!
I think landmarks might decrease land value because they're seen as tourist attractions, not actual things for the people who live by them to enjoy?
they increase land value, but decrease it in the noise pollution zone. if you look a little closer, you can see a darker blue circle around the thing, centered around the smaller low land value circle.
Love this series, I think gating in the primary schools and adding more parking everywhere will really improve the look of the city. I worry about those kids getting on to the main road lol😂
So you don't play with the day/night cycle on, but I was inspired to play on this same map (I unlocked all tiles right away though, and don't know how you have such patience.. anyway..). Anyway! That square fort along the ocean near the downtown: it lights up at night! Completely surprised me. Looks pretty cool if you get in the mood to turn night cycle on for kicks.
I think most of us aren’t too bothered about you scrolling through buildings, it’s your city do how you please.
This is such a beautiful city! I love the Apple Store there next to the industrial station. They are always a little over the top anywhere in real life as well, so that spot is as good as any in this city. I have a suggestion that I always do to make high residential look pretty: When I leave a few open spaces here and there and plop down some of the tiny parking lots that you also have in your mods, combined with a little tree (or two, or a bush). It looks very clean ánd it enhances the landvalue. I look forward to where this city is heading, so far it has been a great series to watch!
My duuude. I thought I was pretty okay at cities skylines and then I started binge watching this series! And then I promptly subscribed to the lists of mods/assets for this series and it’s literally a game changer! ❤️
I really enjoy the idea of the express tunnel, also the clock tower fits very nicely on the corner to the left of the station closest to the mall
Also you’re missing a park gate on the intersection coming into downtown from the north
About the highway next to the train station either build a SPUI or a Protected T intersection, depending on if you want the road from the train station to continue up the hill.
I think it would be really cool if you could tunnel the highway or maybe the train tracks and have a park on top. The city is looking sick dude!
I think I liked the Clock Tower better on the grassy “south” corner of the Train Station
I’ve been waiting for this!!!
Hey James! Awesome downtown layout and building placement! I’m coincidently building my current city on this map for the past month and a half and have built it in a similar layout towards yours! Haha that’s so cool! Yours is looking great! Keep it up 👍🏼
I’ve never played this game before, so take this with a grain of salt… I think the yoga garden would be really cool in the Olive Gardens park
there should be a pond or lake in the middle of that park and have a path around it... i havent seen the rest of the video so not sure if you do this lol
I love this series! Also we have those highways with traffic lights as well in Germany. We don’t call them autobahn (highway) tho but Kraftfahrstrasse which I don’t think has an accurate translation. :D can’t wait for the next part!
Hi James! I just wanted to let you know that you are the only person I watch play Cities: Skylines. I like your style of cities and you add the right amount of detail. I'm excited to see how this city develops.
Hi James! The people likes coastlines too, you can put a tiny lake in the main park so it'll be a little higher land value.
I think a waterfront cargo line would be a good idea! It might be ugly, but the good kind of ugly. Where I live a cargo line runs along the waterfront because the city used to be a lot more industrial. Nowadays the waterfront industry has gone away and those sites have been converted into parks, but the cargo line still runs along/through them.
Do the cargo line under the suburbs in the mountain, that would be more suitable than going straight through the downtown or along the water. Another idea, when you don't know what to do with spaces like the one on front of the apple store, just do some pathways and paint the ground with cement, add some flowers and do a small square!
I got Covid and this series helped me out through my boring just laying down times so much. Thanks James
1:22:26 I don't really like how the road just go in the highway like that, a highway interchange would be good. But thats just my opinion. Besides that, really like the downtown. Great job james!
I am enjoying this series so much! I'm always waiting for the new episode to come out! Keep up the great vids man!
8 seconds in, what is Bob gonna do today? Let’s find out.
22:25 Where I live there are traffic lights and intersections on certain parts of highways also, so it's not that weird of a thing. They're mostly on slower highways (45-50mph/72-80kph).
38:00 I think the park might look a little "off" because the middle road is very straight and uninterrupted. I originally thought you would make it a circuit pathway in the shape of an oval without any straight joins, because most parks are like that instead of straight across pathways. You could have added the invisible paths to have them walk across the grass, but visually have it an oval.
Build the bridge near Bedford! That will help the traffic!
Also the clock tower is ridiculous, put it in front or on the side of the station (or across the road). Don't forget to connect it to all rail lines!
I enjoyed 99% of this build. The clock tower coming through the station roof is the 1% I did not enjoy
Agreed. I think it would look really cool IN the park somewhere though!
The way he plays is exactly how my adhd brain does anything. "I havent forgotten about this... just temporarely." sure mate haha
As someone with ADHD who plays this game, that is exactly what this game is lol. I have like a whole heap of districts marked out with future plans and last night I just decided to rip my like map's in-built freeway out and flip where I was putting the CBD.
A little late for this but yay a new CSL series! I binge watched the whole thing and I was so impatient for this episode 😁 watching you go through every little detail reminds me of Skargard city ❤️
I love the Apple store and SS chain 😅 but one thing that's killing my OCD is that one of the side gates of the park is just an open path which means citizens would be able to go through it without paying. 😩
00:21:40 This is what Perth does as well, we have Tonkin Hwy, which is basically a big long road that doesn't have any zoning and connects between neighbourhoods but has lights instead of interchanges. I've actually embraced that in my last two cities and basically had like no highway interchanges except roundabouts once they got off the main entry freeway. Australia actually also has a distinction between freeways and highways - freeways are free-flowing and only have interchanges, highways can be interchanges or intersections, can be high-speed or not and there's some roads called highways in Perth that have commercial zoning along them even though they're like six lanes (Canning Highway and Albany Highway). I'm calling my current city design principle "no freeways, only highways/main roads, we die like men". There's a set of roads on the workshop called Highways Over Wall that have larger and asymmetrical two-way highway bits.
Oooh there's also some roads on the Workshop that have trams and buses down the centre that look really cool on like a boulevard type thing (I know they have that for trams in Adelaide?).
Yes! I’ve been waiting this episode since the last upload. So excited!
I'm loving the new part of the city, I feel the Apple store needs it's own parking lot.
The Apple Store is SO accurate 🤣 It reminds me of the one in Downtown Brooklyn that is surrounded by historic buildings and theaters.
The worst part about zoning is that it sometimes creates huge gaps between the buildings because there are parking lots or trees included in the asset. Plus the sizing is all over the place. In my opinion this just isn't realistic at all and breaks immersion.
Loving the Apple store!
Okay, I absolutely LOVE the clock tower in the station. Also, is there an underground parking garage that you can find. Something more akin to placing a subway station?
"We don't need an interchange"
Famous last words. 🤣
Absolutely love this series man thank you
I think the highway might be more realistic if its raised with ramps, I also think a police station would probably be somewhere in that hub near the train station and maybe a gas station or two dispersed out on the roads towards the city and on the very outskirts of the city. You always see those sketchy lonesome gas stations on the corners of long travel roads. Some rest stations along the highways would also probably be a nice add on.
Just an idea for future train lines in the city: perhaps keep them elevated but place them at the center of an avenue/road. It's something fairly common in big cities in the U.S. and would save you the trouble of ground crossings everywhere, plus it wouldn't cut down on potential zoning.
Also, for the new highway running along the east side of the city (the side closest to the train), I feel like a diamond interchange could work well. Rather than joining directly to the highway
James, thanks for this series, it’s been my comfort zone for the past couple weeks.. please, keep it up! ❤️🩹
To the highway intersections, I know that if I were to drive towards Brisbane, when I reach Aspley onwards the highway ends up becoming more of a main-road with tons of intersections, and then eventually shoots off into a highway again.
Oh yeah, with that reference, I can now visualise it properly. It’s been a while since I’ve driven through it, but isn’t there raised walkways that cross it? That would look cool here. From memory, they’re actually designed so wildlife can cross the road more safely.
@@sum1rllyspecial I cant quite remember too well as its been a while since I too went through, but I do know that after Chermside you tend to hit a highway again through Brisbane which ends up getting spaghetti junctions everywhere (especially around the airport... that place is murder)
I think your park needs a public pool, tennis and basketball courts, a skatepark, and maybe an outdoor theatre if it exists and some kind of gardens.
Best practice is to keep your internal passenger rail, external "intercity" passenger rail, export freight and your internal freight all on different wholly separate rail networks - prevents any weird risks... Also a bus station next to the rail station is a great idea, I love that you're using busses as a main transit form in this city - maybe you could use trolley busses in the city as you've not used them much before?
Could you also look into building an Alcatraz on the island between the downtown and the main town?
The Yoga Garden would look so good in the park!
Semaj: i feel like i let down my pipe game.
Me, a dutch person: 😳
I had to hold in a chuckle
I think you have the right idea with the path by the apple store. I think you should use that tiny skinny dirt pathway and add some tables like it’s a micro park apple 🍏 put in for their employees but it’s like public space at the same time.
Hey I gotta say, I love your content. I recently got injured so youve been helping me stay distracted
This series is my serotonin supplier
I love this :) more trains and busses pls I love seeing them weave around the city
Maybe it'd be cool to combine the Grand Central Museum with the station and let it visually function as the main hall? The station itself kinda looks like it's just the platform hall, and maybe it'd go with the clock tower.
I just got a vr headset and I was trying to figure out what to do first. Then this popped up, and I knew.
One of the paths in the new city park that connects to the five way path intersection does not have a gate on it. This allows uncounted visitors to enter the park, slowing it's growth.
The clock tower would make a good centrepiece to the park
I could watch you scroll through ur buildings all day lol
Its the whoas that get me ahaha, love this series!
I really am loving this series! I think the park turned out great but you missed one side gate entry along the main road near the apple store.
i love how chaotic ur vids are lol. you keep saying ur gonna do something but get distracted as soon as you click on something.
Could be nice to have an elevated cargo line through the city kind of like the original train that made up the highline in nyc!
I would love to fill the park with all of the Community Pool, Outdoor Yoga Plaza, etc. Making it more of an urban park
For some reason I’m dying to see the university build
That new station is badass
I love this series so much!! I don’t even play this game and never have but I love this😅
1. Instead of 'High Height' I would suggest to find a name for the Stadium that will be there and call it with the same name. (Ex. Here in Milan, the San Siro stadium give the name at his own area, who just surround the arena)
2. The clock looks amazing, but I would love to see it in the middle of the park, visible from everywhere in the city (station, hospital, stadium ecc)
3 For the parking problem, as someone already suggested, try to look for some underground parking, it will help a lot without turning the city into a concrete block.
I'll wait for the nel episode, don't let us wait, you're warned ❤
What about Apple heights. (Because they look across to the apple store.)
@@Syzygyzzz yeah my bad, I meant for the Houses zone next to Stadium zone, I forgot to correct the comment 😂
Hi James! Not sure if you will read this however, am really enjoying this game play! I do have a game suggestion for you, if you like this game I suggest checking out ANNO 1800- it’s a really good strategic game about optimization and also encourage ‘beauty building’. Excited to see more of this gameplay though!