I think the med school could go on the other side of campus. When the university bought out that neighborhood for their later expansion, it explains the different style of architecture.
Or it can just go on the other side of the city! Big universities with med school often collaborate with many hospitals anyway mine has like 9 campuses because of med and nursing school
The track and field would be the only one that would kind of make sense in the national park, because at least where I live, a lot of cross country events happen at state park trails anyway. I like the idea of the aquatics center, what about on the other side of that main road along the water, the university could just take out more residential.
I would love to see a bunch of tiny communities along the rivers only accessible by ferry or old dirt roads. I know I’ve pitched it before, but with this map, I really want a ferry-centric transportation system back along the rivers.
you mentioned at around 13:10 having to replace all the 4 lane roads, to speed that up you could use the RON Network Replacer mod on the steam workshop which lets you convert all roads of one type to another type in your city
Forestry in the mountains would be so cool! Really love the industrial Area and I think you should place a track and field track in the natural park which I feel fits more than a stadium or other university building. Maybe do a custom track and field, just a small running track seems nice!
We have a famous cafe under a major bridge like this in my home town - mostly famous because it was used in a popular BBC sitcom. So, people do put stuff under bridges. In the workshop there are props that basically act as power jumpers and they're small blocks. You can get land ones, which go underground but can't be built on (they're small) and also underwater ones. Pretty useful for bridging across rivers etc. Or, a tsunami sensor may jump energy across water.
Major redos and changes to big areas just to fit in varsity sport and things like that is much less interesting than having to work with the natural look and feel the city has developed! There are districts and distinct areas now that have been part of it for so long, they should be treated like areas in a real city. Work with the natural flow of it all. It would be much more fun if you increase the size of the campus beyond the river and maybe add a "in campus public transport option" like a monorail (historical or modern). :)
@1:03:36 Having the aquatics center on a pier, by the ferry depot (I think?), could give you a reason for that bypass road still existing; also it would look cool. edit Bonus points: You won't have to touch the national park or the cargo rail.
34:00 : I love it when James just says 'Sorry guys' and Thanos-snaps properties out of existence, it makes me giggle maniacally every time (I'm just an evil, evil person 😈😈😈)
id recommend moving the dorms to the newer section, most of the time the student accommodation is away from the main area of the campus. Also maybe you could create a second campus in a different location that will have all your varsity sports, like maybe across the river somewhere.
i think you could build up the uni on the other side of the river and give them their own private transport with school busses and ferry connections if you wanted to expand it more. you could also replace that dept store area (to the right of the campus area on the hill) if you didn't want to go across the river.
I really don’t mind the four-lane roads, I would think of them more like American interstates or something. The bigness of the road doesn’t really have to do with anything nearby, the roads just happen to be going through the area
I can't believe it took so long for the simple four lane road to be added. I think that is the equivalent of the "simple white shelf" being added into the Sims 4? :D
The pedestrian bridge you were talking about at the end is an easy fix. Just move the elevated part of the pedestrian bridge to be a little straighter for a bit, and have it curve down to the other side of the street rather then have them cross in front of all the trucks.
loving these long videos! i like the idea of the aquatics center down by the water, i think it would suit the campus better than any of the other varsity sports. would be interested to see if you can make it work somehow!
You could try rerouting the cargo train the other way around "Green Meadows," maybe? Perhaps tunnel some, but not necessarily all the way. Also, at 58:06 there's a super-sneaky yellow car driving from one building to the next across the path in the campus area. I guess maybe the cars just appear on the lots and drive to the nearest ones regardless of if there are roads or not?
Personally, I think a stadium adjacent to the national park overlooking the city would be really cool. Some of the prettiest college stadiums in the US use nature to enhance the aesthetic (Folsom Field in Colorado and Lavell Edwards Stadium in Utah)
Maybe you can expand the campus area to the other side of the river, to that plot of land that is surrounded by the cargo rail, the highway and the river (next to where it says "Spruce Heights"). It could be the "new" campus area that they added much later so you can use more modern buildings there like the aquatic centre for example. I think having the aquatic centre right by the river is a great idea. They could even swim in the river in summertime. Obviously that's not how the game works but its nice to imagine that. :) And I think that you should put all the dorms at one spot and away from the main area of the campus where the auditorium and the main building etc are. They feel a little cramped and too central.
Next to the factory area, put in some older looking smaller modest homes. At least where I live in Massachusetts (USA) a lot of the old factory areas are surrounded by those types of homes because the factory owners built them as cheep quick housing solutions for workers. A lot of times they are on very simple grid like roads and are commonly duplexes or triplex’s.
Thanks so much for including the build of the highway interchanges and off-ramps. You make such great realistic tiny interchanges that really feel like what we drive on in the US.
I think you need some Biffa lain mathematics on some of your junctions to help the merging issue, and for the university I think you should have all your dorms on the new part and have all the actual lesson buildings in the old section. I would also like to see some more ares with the zones in green city houses maybe over by the islands behind where the new ikea, I really like the green cities high density and I think some of those would work somewhere medium density.
I think it would make sense for the varsity sports to be further away from the campus. Imagine so much traffic and stadium noise while trying to study or sleep in your dorm RIGHT next to it.
Awesome, James. Thankyou! You can reroute the avenue from the north to align with the rail track, and go straight to the bridge crosing to the future industrial land. So, the University complex got a larger area. And it’s kinda more cool to add a small gate at every Campus pedestrian walks connected to public roads
When placing road-networks, you have this little menu that plops up on the bottom left. there you can turn on collision (looks like a little explosion which is greyed out, turn on and it's blue), so the trees disappear when you place any network or building. Maybe that could save you some clean-up-time 😄
Can you rename the San Fran area Lombard Park (or whatever takes your fancy…?) I think it’s currently called Heather Park, but I reckon it deserves a name homage for its inspiration! Also, loved that you referred to people as Sims at one point, when making the crossings around the university haha! Loving the infrastructure changes in the city this ep The aquatic centre should definitely be somewhere by the water - maybe moving the train tracks and bridge up river slightly, so it comes up behind the aquatic centre. Could also possibly have a ferry connection by the aquatic centre if it’s on the river, or another water based business? As though your swimmers and rowers and whatnot all gather in that area to be by the water.
I use your city skylines videos as an asmr video before sleeping. For some reason just listening to you talk about building etc is relaxing enough to make me fall asleep 😴 I hope you don't think it's a bad thing! I love the videos ^^
Hi James, I have some tips for the university. 🙃 - You could pause or remove any other university assets in your city. In that case all the students have to come to that one university area. - You could add the stadiums in the city center to the university area. Just move the area to over there and break it up in two sections. Then both are part of Bowser Bay Uni and add to the attractioness. - If I am correct, the small club buildings, like the drama club, add the most to the attraction of the university. And btw, the swimming building should definitely be next to the water, hihi
...hey, certainly controversial, but it could make your city feel more realistic - introduction of signs of homelessness. ImKibitz used the Parklife DLC tents and bonfires and placed them under a bridge to achieve that effect in "I Trapped Criminals on a Poop Island in Cities Skylines" (at around 0:24) - actually looks pretty "cool" (admittedly a bit short of words here, people being FORCED to live in tents is certainly not cool). Since you're going for a North American city vibe, it just makes a lot of sense. Also, I think the house featured in Psycho / Bates Motel would be a great addition to that hill with the mansions on it
I think the sport arenas really need to go somewhere else, they're just too big. Maybe one can go in the area near that new industrial area just across the river.
For the new industrial area you should probably change the tiny three way intersection into a four way intersection! It would be a great entry point to that whole "Spruce heights" area. Also I'd love to see some more parking lots underneath the highways :)
I think having the med school path lead to the laboratory across the street makes a lot of sense! I would like the auditorium to be more pronounced and the dorms to move to the other side of the campus near the bookstore. I like the idea of the aquatics center by the water but yeah that cargo train… lol. Excited about the forestry area in the mountains, maybe having another national park area over there and some low density cabin type houses. Also me patiently waiting for that promised zoo… 👀😂
You will need to build a ferry line from airport to downtown, and develop a tourist region in the said area of downtown. The empty mountaintop from where the mansions used to be will be great for that purpose.
You asked how to reset the lane arrows at 23:29. Hold Shift while using the lane arrows function and it’ll give you a circle over the intersection. Click will auto change the arrows. Click a second time for to change priority turn.
1:05:02 You could just have the bridge come down in the bit of land next to the big cargo building on the opposite side of the road to eliminate the crossing.
I feel like the university is already cramped. What I love about my uni campus is having open green spaces. I would consider terraforming the national park and give more space to the university.
I always felt like the designated space for the uni was quite small! Cuz niw if we have to fit all the stuff we have to divide the campus into three or more parts! I know it is not out of the ordinary but it doesnt look that nice in cities skylines! Anyways love love love your content nonetheless!!
you can spread the University area throught the city and make dorms or buildings for varisity sports a little bit further from the original place :) and please, i wanna see a proper zoo! :D I think it is still missing? Or did i skip a part where you built that? keep going, i love this city :)
"no idea when the new DLC comes out" Guess you werent part of the list of youtubers that got to promote it bc it literally just got released as this video was uploaded and other cities skylines youtubers promoted it
I think it would be best to just move the whole campus to a new tile area's with nothing on it so you can have room to put all size buildings. The thought of putting it here was cool at the time, but there's just too much and too big a items.
I think the med school could go on the other side of campus. When the university bought out that neighborhood for their later expansion, it explains the different style of architecture.
Yesss, and keep the traditional buildings on the old side.
Or it can just go on the other side of the city! Big universities with med school often collaborate with many hospitals anyway mine has like 9 campuses because of med and nursing school
It could also go nearer the laboratories, keep the science bits together
@@paraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa any chance that's uab? Probably not, but that's where I went and it was like that.
The track and field would be the only one that would kind of make sense in the national park, because at least where I live, a lot of cross country events happen at state park trails anyway. I like the idea of the aquatics center, what about on the other side of that main road along the water, the university could just take out more residential.
I would love to see a bunch of tiny communities along the rivers only accessible by ferry or old dirt roads.
I know I’ve pitched it before, but with this map, I really want a ferry-centric transportation system back along the rivers.
reminds me of islands like bainbridge and Anderson island in the puget sound
you mentioned at around 13:10 having to replace all the 4 lane roads, to speed that up you could use the RON Network Replacer mod on the steam workshop which lets you convert all roads of one type to another type in your city
Oh awesome!! Thanks for letting me know!
Forestry in the mountains would be so cool! Really love the industrial Area and I think you should place a track and field track in the natural park which I feel fits more than a stadium or other university building. Maybe do a custom track and field, just a small running track seems nice!
We have a famous cafe under a major bridge like this in my home town - mostly famous because it was used in a popular BBC sitcom. So, people do put stuff under bridges.
In the workshop there are props that basically act as power jumpers and they're small blocks. You can get land ones, which go underground but can't be built on (they're small) and also underwater ones. Pretty useful for bridging across rivers etc.
Or, a tsunami sensor may jump energy across water.
The med school and dorms could go on the other side of the road, then hopefully all the other buildings could fit on the actual campus section
Major redos and changes to big areas just to fit in varsity sport and things like that is much less interesting than having to work with the natural look and feel the city has developed!
There are districts and distinct areas now that have been part of it for so long, they should be treated like areas in a real city. Work with the natural flow of it all.
It would be much more fun if you increase the size of the campus beyond the river and maybe add a "in campus public transport option" like a monorail (historical or modern). :)
@1:03:36 Having the aquatics center on a pier, by the ferry depot (I think?), could give you a reason for that bypass road still existing; also it would look cool.
edit
Bonus points: You won't have to touch the national park or the cargo rail.
34:00 : I love it when James just says 'Sorry guys' and Thanos-snaps properties out of existence, it makes me giggle maniacally every time (I'm just an evil, evil person 😈😈😈)
id recommend moving the dorms to the newer section, most of the time the student accommodation is away from the main area of the campus. Also maybe you could create a second campus in a different location that will have all your varsity sports, like maybe across the river somewhere.
i think you could build up the uni on the other side of the river and give them their own private transport with school busses and ferry connections if you wanted to expand it more. you could also replace that dept store area (to the right of the campus area on the hill) if you didn't want to go across the river.
if you put a node in front of the cargo terminal, right where they turn in, they can cut across the road
29:53 love how you called the people sims haha
They’re called cims in cities skylines i believe!
I really don’t mind the four-lane roads, I would think of them more like American interstates or something. The bigness of the road doesn’t really have to do with anything nearby, the roads just happen to be going through the area
I can't believe it took so long for the simple four lane road to be added. I think that is the equivalent of the "simple white shelf" being added into the Sims 4? :D
The pedestrian bridge you were talking about at the end is an easy fix. Just move the elevated part of the pedestrian bridge to be a little straighter for a bit, and have it curve down to the other side of the street rather then have them cross in front of all the trucks.
loving these long videos! i like the idea of the aquatics center down by the water, i think it would suit the campus better than any of the other varsity sports. would be interested to see if you can make it work somehow!
You could try rerouting the cargo train the other way around "Green Meadows," maybe? Perhaps tunnel some, but not necessarily all the way.
Also, at 58:06 there's a super-sneaky yellow car driving from one building to the next across the path in the campus area. I guess maybe the cars just appear on the lots and drive to the nearest ones regardless of if there are roads or not?
At last I've been having withdrawals! 😂😂
The new dlc literally came out the same time you posted this video lol. I got both notifications together
I love the air conditioner sticking through the highway in that new industrial area
Might be a good time to really move that cargo train line away from the university and park.
Personally, I think a stadium adjacent to the national park overlooking the city would be really cool. Some of the prettiest college stadiums in the US use nature to enhance the aesthetic (Folsom Field in Colorado and Lavell Edwards Stadium in Utah)
Maybe you can expand the campus area to the other side of the river, to that plot of land that is surrounded by the cargo rail, the highway and the river (next to where it says "Spruce Heights"). It could be the "new" campus area that they added much later so you can use more modern buildings there like the aquatic centre for example. I think having the aquatic centre right by the river is a great idea. They could even swim in the river in summertime. Obviously that's not how the game works but its nice to imagine that. :) And I think that you should put all the dorms at one spot and away from the main area of the campus where the auditorium and the main building etc are. They feel a little cramped and too central.
Next to the factory area, put in some older looking smaller modest homes. At least where I live in Massachusetts (USA) a lot of the old factory areas are surrounded by those types of homes because the factory owners built them as cheep quick housing solutions for workers. A lot of times they are on very simple grid like roads and are commonly duplexes or triplex’s.
I definitely think centralizing the dorms makes sense
Quick note, opposite the toy factory one of the shops aircon units is clipping through the highway above
Thanks so much for including the build of the highway interchanges and off-ramps. You make such great realistic tiny interchanges that really feel like what we drive on in the US.
Aquatic Center could go on a peninsula
I think you need some Biffa lain mathematics on some of your junctions to help the merging issue, and for the university I think you should have all your dorms on the new part and have all the actual lesson buildings in the old section.
I would also like to see some more ares with the zones in green city houses maybe over by the islands behind where the new ikea, I really like the green cities high density and I think some of those would work somewhere medium density.
driving in this city would give me the absolute worst anxiety
I think it would make sense for the varsity sports to be further away from the campus. Imagine so much traffic and stadium noise while trying to study or sleep in your dorm RIGHT next to it.
Awesome, James. Thankyou! You can reroute the avenue from the north to align with the rail track, and go straight to the bridge crosing to the future industrial land. So, the University complex got a larger area. And it’s kinda more cool to add a small gate at every Campus pedestrian walks connected to public roads
When placing road-networks, you have this little menu that plops up on the bottom left. there you can turn on collision (looks like a little explosion which is greyed out, turn on and it's blue), so the trees disappear when you place any network or building. Maybe that could save you some clean-up-time 😄
"I don't know when the DLC is coming out" and it comes out the very same day lmao. Thank you, Paradox
I love these long episodes ❤️
Can you rename the San Fran area Lombard Park (or whatever takes your fancy…?) I think it’s currently called Heather Park, but I reckon it deserves a name homage for its inspiration!
Also, loved that you referred to people as Sims at one point, when making the crossings around the university haha! Loving the infrastructure changes in the city this ep
The aquatic centre should definitely be somewhere by the water - maybe moving the train tracks and bridge up river slightly, so it comes up behind the aquatic centre.
Could also possibly have a ferry connection by the aquatic centre if it’s on the river, or another water based business? As though your swimmers and rowers and whatnot all gather in that area to be by the water.
1:03:51 just have the rail tracks go over the roof (use some PO to adjust the roof) like the aquarium that’s near Flinders street station in Melbourne
I use your city skylines videos as an asmr video before sleeping. For some reason just listening to you talk about building etc is relaxing enough to make me fall asleep 😴 I hope you don't think it's a bad thing! I love the videos ^^
Im so glad you brought this series back!
YAS! Always makes my day/week when there's a new upload! Thank you for keeping these coming (at whatever pace works for you : D)!
Hi James, I have some tips for the university. 🙃
- You could pause or remove any other university assets in your city. In that case all the students have to come to that one university area.
- You could add the stadiums in the city center to the university area. Just move the area to over there and break it up in two sections. Then both are part of Bowser Bay Uni and add to the attractioness.
- If I am correct, the small club buildings, like the drama club, add the most to the attraction of the university.
And btw, the swimming building should definitely be next to the water, hihi
i quite like where you put the aquatic center. I thought that in front of it a big parking lot and the entrance to the national park could be there.
...hey, certainly controversial, but it could make your city feel more realistic - introduction of signs of homelessness.
ImKibitz used the Parklife DLC tents and bonfires and placed them under a bridge to achieve that effect in "I Trapped Criminals on a Poop Island in Cities Skylines" (at around 0:24) - actually looks pretty "cool" (admittedly a bit short of words here, people being FORCED to live in tents is certainly not cool).
Since you're going for a North American city vibe, it just makes a lot of sense.
Also, I think the house featured in Psycho / Bates Motel would be a great addition to that hill with the mansions on it
Yay! 😍 I have been anticipating this all week 👏👏
I think the sport arenas really need to go somewhere else, they're just too big. Maybe one can go in the area near that new industrial area just across the river.
For the new industrial area you should probably change the tiny three way intersection into a four way intersection! It would be a great entry point to that whole "Spruce heights" area.
Also I'd love to see some more parking lots underneath the highways :)
I could imagine a new sports university area, where you have more space to fit all the sports related buildings.
From now on I shall refer to the house by the football field, as the 'UP' house
I think having the med school path lead to the laboratory across the street makes a lot of sense! I would like the auditorium to be more pronounced and the dorms to move to the other side of the campus near the bookstore. I like the idea of the aquatics center by the water but yeah that cargo train… lol.
Excited about the forestry area in the mountains, maybe having another national park area over there and some low density cabin type houses.
Also me patiently waiting for that promised zoo… 👀😂
the new DLC is out today(?) both conflictnerd and biffa uploaded about it today
Oh sweet!! I actually spoke about having no idea when it’s out in this video 🤣
Keen for all the new stuff!
@@Flabaliki I could be wrong but check on steam or on the website for it
So excited to have all the tiles unlocked!
The pure anxiety relief I feel watching these is unexplainable
maybe building an other university somewhere else would help with the demand?
You will need to build a ferry line from airport to downtown, and develop a tourist region in the said area of downtown. The empty mountaintop from where the mansions used to be will be great for that purpose.
@47:00 the sneaky AC fan on the road :D
idk if I comment this already but I'M OBSESSED w this series
Empty space under bridge: -exists-
James: WAREHOUSE NOOK :3
29:51 the sims ?😂 I thought the game is cities skylines and not Sims city 🤣❤
What perfect timing for my break!
You asked how to reset the lane arrows at 23:29. Hold Shift while using the lane arrows function and it’ll give you a circle over the intersection. Click will auto change the arrows. Click a second time for to change priority turn.
1:05:02 You could just have the bridge come down in the bit of land next to the big cargo building on the opposite side of the road to eliminate the crossing.
(Bowser Bay needs a metro system.)
I feel like the university is already cramped. What I love about my uni campus is having open green spaces. I would consider terraforming the national park and give more space to the university.
I always felt like the designated space for the uni was quite small! Cuz niw if we have to fit all the stuff we have to divide the campus into three or more parts! I know it is not out of the ordinary but it doesnt look that nice in cities skylines!
Anyways love love love your content nonetheless!!
Hey Flabliki are you still doing your Transport Fever 2 series with the megalomaniac map? If you are not could you please make another video please?
The new expansions came out today :)
So stoked to pop open the game after being inspired by this city!
Just in time for lunch!
As I was watching this, I got a steam notification in my email that the new DLC was available.
Will you make a content where you just randomly follow one of the npc going around your city? Bcs it looks interesting you know.
Like the first person tours he does at the end of some cities? I absolutely love them!
you can spread the University area throught the city and make dorms or buildings for varisity sports a little bit further from the original place :) and please, i wanna see a proper zoo! :D I think it is still missing? Or did i skip a part where you built that? keep going, i love this city :)
Just checked steam, says release date for Plazas and Promenades Sept 14. That's today, that can't be right, can it?
it is
"no idea when the new DLC comes out"
Guess you werent part of the list of youtubers that got to promote it bc it literally just got released as this video was uploaded and other cities skylines youtubers promoted it
Are you also gonna include the new pedestrian dlc?
The new industrial area seems cool 👍
I wish all the dorms would be in that nook where ya added the labs and keep the educational buildings in a more central niche...
Yay. I was hoping for a sims one as well so I can watch all morning ❤
This will do just fine tho :)
Good Video, sry my english is a little bad hahaha i like your city very much... a bit of humor: New DLC for cities skylines = Broken Savegame xd
I think it would be best to just move the whole campus to a new tile area's with nothing on it so you can have room to put all size buildings. The thought of putting it here was cool at the time, but there's just too much and too big a items.
OMG it's back
29:53 - "The Sims" 🤣
looks like the new dlc released today. Also i dont think it ever updates on switch lol only pc and maybe other consoles
The airport is the NEXT episode.
You should install the Realistic Population 2 2.1 mod for a more stable & realistic population. It's a great mod!
Here in the USA the parks and plaza DLC just came out on 9/14/2022
Am I the only one who prefer watching Flabaliki's videos rather than playing the game myself ?
Well hey, logged into steam and the DLC is out so that's awesome.
Nice
I'm sure you know by now, but the DLC and Content Creator packs released today.
the fence on road in the cargo place
New DLC released at 3pm today!
bro, your videos are cool beans!
the air vac in the road
Another 1 hour episode of Bowser Bay. 🕒
Pet peeve and i know youre not exactly going for realism but trucks and semis need way higher clearance or wider curves
update was today
It's Plazas & Promenades DLC.
Can we cover the ikea with an old warehouse, but still show the ikea awning and signs
you should put a toys r us in the industrial area
Lol u just posted this 2 hrs ago and also 2hrs ago plazas dlc is out lol