This comment reminds me of the Sims 4 Cats and Dogs rags to riches series James did a few years ago where he built around this one stupid tree on the lot and everyone was going crazy because of it 🤭
I really like that senior-care-center down there. Some nice paths around it, along the water, down to the restaurant and the ice-cream-parlor would be great for the families to take their grandparents out for a walk. And also with it (and also the soon-to-be-national-park nearby) the bus makes a lot more sense - maybe the old folks want to take a ride down to the rail-museum, which they remember from back in the days, when the railroads went along that way ... I think making up such little stories is what I love most about cities: skylines.
@@Empress_Lisanne that brings back memories of my childhood.. Although I have left the house 20 years ago, the bickering between my mom and her neighbours is still ongoing to this day 🤣
You could make a pedestrian path that looks like an old rail road going to that little island, and make the island into a park. Then that would tie into the railroad museum
James, could you build a golfcourse near the elderly facility and the bigger homes? It could be a park to increase the land value, and it makes sense to be in that area with the nicer buildings/retirement center.
You could fill the university area with some dirt roads, holes for the foundation, and the suchs recreating a construction site until you reach the population target.
Ironically the big house area IRL would almost certianly have no services nearby. Maybe a dock and bait shop, on it own road, but I imaged them to be very expensive waterfront estates where you have to drive far to get to a store.
I hope you don’t take this as an insult, but I’ve been using this series to help fall asleep the last week or so. It’s so soothing ! And I’m invested in this city now !
I think it might be cool if you had some abandoned or disused stuff in these maps, like some old bridge parapets where a railway bridge used to be, something like that. They’re fairly common IRL when a railway is realigned. Edit - perfect position for one would be the water behind the railway museum, you could make it look like the line used to run right through the centre, over the river and then the new station and bridge were built so the old one became the museum and the bridge was removed.
My suggestion is to start creating high density areas to bring up the population and have a town centre. Right now, it's just one sprawling suburb with no real central point.
I LOVE this idea. I, too, am ready for some major additions of many high-density apartments and condensed city areas with a downtown feel. This would go well with the future addition of a more defined and more dense industrial area that he mentioned wanting to do soon.
So I just found this page, I’m use to your sims content, but I’m obsessed with this serious I just binged watched all 10 episodes great to way to make my work day fly by
I freaked out over the sun moving backwards, too. I just inverted my map (and had to rename all my streets - 1st Street North became 1st Street South, etc.)
On the post office view Green streets show coverage. Blue buildings show they've been served recently and don't need service and red houses that need service but they turn blue as post vans get to them. So generally so long long as your streets are all green you're fine. Especially in low density.
Okay, I know you're from a city, but in more rural areas, schools are often times huge buildings that just stand out. The middle of a big field and there will be a random three story modern building with a glass roof. Just the way it is.
Really loving this series, the level of detail and the fact that you're not afraid to readjust parts of the city until you're happy with them is really wonderful! I remember you mentioning in a previous video that you needed to get a mod to unlock the ferry stop street (such as the "Touch This" Mod), I believe there is an "Unlock Segment" option in the Network Multitool that you already have installed which does the same function.
Been binging a heap of biffas "fix your city"..... Eveytime you build or change a road I can't help but be like... Oooooh turning AND straight on ... That lane will be a problem later 😂😂😂 Loving this series of videos
Hey James, question about the tree brush. (37:14) Did you make your own brushes? I like the Map Forest brush, but I can’t work out if that’s a setting or if I need to make it manually. Same for the suburb foliage brush.
I usually only watch the sims gameplays but I'm in love with this series 😍 I watched the 10 episodes in like two days! I can't wait for the next one! And even if it's longer the better ❤ thanks James 🥰
You should have the water source closer to the top of the mountain and have it flow down like a mountain stream with some small waterfalls. Some paths and national park buildings around it would look awesome.
I've fallen behind and I don't know if you backread comments, but I'm wondering if you've noticed how you've australian-ified the city? I love how you just naturally add features that are very prevelent in aussie cities (as well as the obvious assests like woolies and bunnings). like, this is fully unintentional but this city so far has so many similarities to the goldie, where i'm from. everything from the identical houses near the uni, the hospital next to the uni, the low lying loosely gridded housing, the few very straight main roads coming off the highway. even the little town across the river is very accurate to the little towns on the northern gc like Steiglitz. I know these features are very prominent in a lot of eastern seaboard satellite cities, like Newcastle/Woolongong/Sunshine Coast so it's really cool to see how you've transferred, seemingly unintentional, aussie features into the build
Hi James! I love your city, in real life a town like this would easily become a tourist trap! I love the connectivity without it being a boring grid. The open space you reserved for a campus.. I'm afraid it wouldn't fit. Not just for lack of space, but also I'm not sure if this is the vibe. But maybe that's just me. I can see it becoming a marketplace/ leasure/ a park.. perhaps all three and a lot of trees!
I think you could make a small lake on top of the little mountain you made and create la little river going from it down to where that random water source was! Might look pretty cool especially for a national park
You could try doing the cul-de-sac with the roundabout builder and a special cul‐de-sac road. I don't know exactly how it is done I just know it's possible and it allows you to build all the way around it.
One interesting idea I have for the series as the city grows is building one or two bus lines that use the mini buses from the Vehicles of the World DLC. Like a mini bus line that would run from the University to the nearby train station or to the shops.
as far as i’m aware, adding extra services when you’re really far away from the closest one of that service is good, because the other services will take a really long time to get there, leading to larger fires and lower land value.
I'm interested to see your bus stops, my lines especially my main one is roughly the same length as yours but there's an unrealistic amount of people waiting, some are up to 600 people, I've put more lines now so it covers smaller portions, and added like 15 buses to the main lines, it's better but still hectic, is it normal for the game? I don't have trams but I've added a train line but the distance is too large so it doesn't help with the bus situation.
I've watched a lot of City Planner Plays and Biffa; They always suggest a few things when there are so many people waiting at bus stops. You may want to upgrade your public transport (to metro's or trains), or upgrade your pedestrian connectivity, or encourage biking and make your city bike-friendly. A little bit cheezy, but this helps as well: If you have access to the workshop and/or mods, then there are also ways to enhance the number of people that can get on a bus. I hope this helps and good luck with your city!
@@capedkat thank you 😊 I ended up putting in a monorail and deleted the main bus lines that were crazy busy. I don't have many of the packs but I think that's helped alot. I'm not great at building train tracks and monorails but they look okay and work well. Which pack has the bikes? I love seeing the people using paths and running from place to place.
the greyflame modular rock sets on the workshop might make the water source area in the national park look better and they also don't disrupt the water, i think the base game rocks (or whichever DLC those ones came in) are a bit too rounded so they just look odd
Hi! I am new to these videos, and I was wondering what the icon in the top middle is? I think it is a sort of bird with a number next to it? Love these videos btw!
I had been wondering the same thing a while back, so I did a Google deep dive to try and understand. The person who replied to you before explained it much nicer. 🙂
Later on have farms horse stables cows ect country town with dirt roads, cant forget feed store and of course a bar lol hay fields , gardens. City looking awesome! love the neighborhood with bigger yards looks more real, look good with sheds in back yards cause if a yard that big you need a lawnmower ect to. lol or is that asking too much?
For the planned national park on top of the hill make a pond or lake and the story behind the lake/pond a meteor hit and there was a hidden spring and make a little waterfall as your water source
I feel like that single tree left in the university space needs to become a feature of sorts.
I said this last video! 😂 (of course mine didn't get any likes lol)
This comment reminds me of the Sims 4 Cats and Dogs rags to riches series James did a few years ago where he built around this one stupid tree on the lot and everyone was going crazy because of it 🤭
I really like that senior-care-center down there. Some nice paths around it, along the water, down to the restaurant and the ice-cream-parlor would be great for the families to take their grandparents out for a walk. And also with it (and also the soon-to-be-national-park nearby) the bus makes a lot more sense - maybe the old folks want to take a ride down to the rail-museum, which they remember from back in the days, when the railroads went along that way ... I think making up such little stories is what I love most about cities: skylines.
While he was building the fences I was making up all kinda of stories about rivalries between the neighbours, fighting over the fence placement xD
@@Empress_Lisanne that brings back memories of my childhood.. Although I have left the house 20 years ago, the bickering between my mom and her neighbours is still ongoing to this day 🤣
You could make a pedestrian path that looks like an old rail road going to that little island, and make the island into a park. Then that would tie into the railroad museum
Yes! And please also consider using the zoolife path, it's going to look epic!
James, could you build a golfcourse near the elderly facility and the bigger homes? It could be a park to increase the land value, and it makes sense to be in that area with the nicer buildings/retirement center.
James, we all know time runs backwards in australia. Games just adapting.
This is why I love it here 💀💀
I came here hoping someone made this joke!
I love those houses with their big fenced plots, makes it look so realistic. I'm loving this city so far, it's really coming along.
You could fill the university area with some dirt roads, holes for the foundation, and the suchs recreating a construction site until you reach the population target.
**pardon our dust, scholars** lol
Idea, instead of replacing the ferries or making the bridge taller, get one of the draw bridges from the workshop.
I disagree
Really enjoying these videos. I’m working from home and these have become my lunchtime mong out viewing!
Same!
Wow i wish my lunchtime would last 1h🤣
Same but these come out in the morning for me so I watch on the clock
Ironically the big house area IRL would almost certianly have no services nearby. Maybe a dock and bait shop, on it own road, but I imaged them to be very expensive waterfront estates where you have to drive far to get to a store.
I love how your cities always look so real. The supermarket with parking looks amazing.
I hope you don’t take this as an insult, but I’ve been using this series to help fall asleep the last week or so. It’s so soothing ! And I’m invested in this city now !
You’re not alone. I watch it when I’m too anxious to sleep, it’s so relaxing to watch that it makes me tired.
I am so invested, end up falling asleep bcos this is too relaxing and having to rewind it the next day because I missed what happened 😂
Lol, that one poor little boomer that didn't get a fenced yard but a parking lot and a videorental.
Can we have some little rural towns along a couple of the river ways, mainly connected by ferries and old winding country roads.
I think it might be cool if you had some abandoned or disused stuff in these maps, like some old bridge parapets where a railway bridge used to be, something like that. They’re fairly common IRL when a railway is realigned.
Edit - perfect position for one would be the water behind the railway museum, you could make it look like the line used to run right through the centre, over the river and then the new station and bridge were built so the old one became the museum and the bridge was removed.
So glad you’re posting these videos, I’m so burnt out on The Sims 4! Cities: Skylines is a well needed refreshing break.
Can you do a first-person on the train, so we can see what it looks like in the city?
He will do a First Person Tour around the city at the end of the series. Like he does in every cities.
My suggestion is to start creating high density areas to bring up the population and have a town centre. Right now, it's just one sprawling suburb with no real central point.
I LOVE this idea. I, too, am ready for some major additions of many high-density apartments and condensed city areas with a downtown feel. This would go well with the future addition of a more defined and more dense industrial area that he mentioned wanting to do soon.
So I just found this page, I’m use to your sims content, but I’m obsessed with this serious I just binged watched all 10 episodes great to way to make my work day fly by
i started watching on tuesday this week, (today is friday) so i have some more episodes to go still
I love when James builds while having the game unpaused, I just imagine the news going "our mayor has blessed us with a highschool in- and it's gone"
At 34:00 there’s a couple of trees on the highway and at 55:40 you accidentally placed a big tree in the middle of a parking lot
You can disable the large campers with the advanced vehicle options mod. You can disable them spawning with that mod
Bedford deserves a post office.
Rocks. Flashback to the Planet Coaster days… love it.
I freaked out over the sun moving backwards, too. I just inverted my map (and had to rename all my streets - 1st Street North became 1st Street South, etc.)
Me watching him place those rocks
"That's enough slices!"
On the post office view Green streets show coverage. Blue buildings show they've been served recently and don't need service and red houses that need service but they turn blue as post vans get to them. So generally so long long as your streets are all green you're fine. Especially in low density.
This series is the thing I always look forward to in my sub box! Thank you so so much!
Okay, I know you're from a city, but in more rural areas, schools are often times huge buildings that just stand out. The middle of a big field and there will be a random three story modern building with a glass roof. Just the way it is.
The city is looking so good! Been watching this city grow while in recovery from surgery, been a welcome distraction!!
Really enjoying this series! I look forward to each episode! :)
Bedford needs a post office!! :D Love the look of the city!!
Really loving this series, the level of detail and the fact that you're not afraid to readjust parts of the city until you're happy with them is really wonderful! I remember you mentioning in a previous video that you needed to get a mod to unlock the ferry stop street (such as the "Touch This" Mod), I believe there is an "Unlock Segment" option in the Network Multitool that you already have installed which does the same function.
54:57 Poor house didnt get a fence, and got a strip mall built in its backyard haha
Love watching the process in your videos, I’m trying to play Cities Skylines myself so it’s really enjoyable for me to watch your videos, love it ✨
Imagine you live on the water front and one day out of the blue some giant rocks appear and disappear and flood the whole street :(
The mighty one is extremely upset about those camper vans and has decided you will incur his wrath by randomly flooding your property!
I can’t wait till the construction of Downtown!
Yassss
I get embarrassingly excited for these updates! Would love to see the industry area get some TLC :)
He needs to increase population so there’s a very high chance the entire next episode will be refining the industrial areas. 😋
Also don’t be embarrassed. This series is amazing!
Been binging a heap of biffas "fix your city"..... Eveytime you build or change a road I can't help but be like... Oooooh turning AND straight on
... That lane will be a problem later 😂😂😂 Loving this series of videos
Thank you!
Maybe a proper bicycle path as I heard it's a good transportation service, especially in the campus, the natural park, etc.
Hey James, question about the tree brush. (37:14) Did you make your own brushes? I like the Map Forest brush, but I can’t work out if that’s a setting or if I need to make it manually. Same for the suburb foliage brush.
I'm really excited for the farm lands and elder care village! :> I look forward to seeing you building those~
I usually only watch the sims gameplays but I'm in love with this series 😍 I watched the 10 episodes in like two days! I can't wait for the next one! And even if it's longer the better ❤ thanks James 🥰
when using move it -
hold Alt to temporarily enable snapping. releasing Alt disables snapping.
Ctrl+H will trigger align height to object mode.
"The time is going backward, is that normal?" 😄
Love your cities and software inc series’ so much, sometimes I just rewatch them for the chill vibes ❤
You want me to do what?!
Rotate your house 90 degrees, sir. You're blocking the neighbor's house.
😂
The city is looking really nice!!
it would be cool to have really huge mansions on the hill behind the university on the way to the national park too!
Thank you for posting on my bday
happy birthday!
Happy birthday 🥳🎂
I like the Aussie style free-form design XDD
I LOVE THE ROCKS ON WATER SOURCE.
Could possibly become a whole hiking trail for the national park
You should have the water source closer to the top of the mountain and have it flow down like a mountain stream with some small waterfalls. Some paths and national park buildings around it would look awesome.
I've fallen behind and I don't know if you backread comments, but I'm wondering if you've noticed how you've australian-ified the city? I love how you just naturally add features that are very prevelent in aussie cities (as well as the obvious assests like woolies and bunnings). like, this is fully unintentional but this city so far has so many similarities to the goldie, where i'm from. everything from the identical houses near the uni, the hospital next to the uni, the low lying loosely gridded housing, the few very straight main roads coming off the highway. even the little town across the river is very accurate to the little towns on the northern gc like Steiglitz. I know these features are very prominent in a lot of eastern seaboard satellite cities, like Newcastle/Woolongong/Sunshine Coast so it's really cool to see how you've transferred, seemingly unintentional, aussie features into the build
10:20 these roads not joining gave me anxiety
Hi James! I love your city, in real life a town like this would easily become a tourist trap! I love the connectivity without it being a boring grid. The open space you reserved for a campus.. I'm afraid it wouldn't fit. Not just for lack of space, but also I'm not sure if this is the vibe. But maybe that's just me. I can see it becoming a marketplace/ leasure/ a park.. perhaps all three and a lot of trees!
41:15 you should have found trailer homes and create a trailer park lol
The area with the fences from like 3/4 of the way through reminds me of a sims 1 town
I think you could make a small lake on top of the little mountain you made and create la little river going from it down to where that random water source was! Might look pretty cool especially for a national park
You could try doing the cul-de-sac with the roundabout builder and a special cul‐de-sac road. I don't know exactly how it is done I just know it's possible and it allows you to build all the way around it.
James you should change the skinny little highway exits to the vanilla single lane ones, they look too skinny a bit ridiculous!
Once you zone the nature park bit, won't the land value for those houses automatically go up?
I'm enjoying these maybe too much. I need more
One interesting idea I have for the series as the city grows is building one or two bus lines that use the mini buses from the Vehicles of the World DLC. Like a mini bus line that would run from the University to the nearby train station or to the shops.
as far as i’m aware, adding extra services when you’re really far away from the closest one of that service is good, because the other services will take a really long time to get there, leading to larger fires and lower land value.
That one tree in the university area is killing me haha
The house off of the parking lot might look a little less weird if it was a small multi-unit building.
You pulled out a toll booth first while talking about the bridge at 7:00 and I thought you were going to do a toll bridge.
Police, fire and medical are always considered IRL. Try those before a park to see the land value increase.
I'm interested to see your bus stops, my lines especially my main one is roughly the same length as yours but there's an unrealistic amount of people waiting, some are up to 600 people, I've put more lines now so it covers smaller portions, and added like 15 buses to the main lines, it's better but still hectic, is it normal for the game? I don't have trams but I've added a train line but the distance is too large so it doesn't help with the bus situation.
I've watched a lot of City Planner Plays and Biffa; They always suggest a few things when there are so many people waiting at bus stops. You may want to upgrade your public transport (to metro's or trains), or upgrade your pedestrian connectivity, or encourage biking and make your city bike-friendly.
A little bit cheezy, but this helps as well: If you have access to the workshop and/or mods, then there are also ways to enhance the number of people that can get on a bus.
I hope this helps and good luck with your city!
@@capedkat thank you 😊 I ended up putting in a monorail and deleted the main bus lines that were crazy busy. I don't have many of the packs but I think that's helped alot. I'm not great at building train tracks and monorails but they look okay and work well. Which pack has the bikes? I love seeing the people using paths and running from place to place.
I just finished the last episode and BOOM: a new one dropped! Thanks!
The shopping center with parking lot looks sick
Petition to give Bedford a post office
the greyflame modular rock sets on the workshop might make the water source area in the national park look better and they also don't disrupt the water, i think the base game rocks (or whichever DLC those ones came in) are a bit too rounded so they just look odd
use the building lvl control mod than you can sed the lvl of the buildings to a lower lvl and dont have the low land falu complain
That one house that didn’t get his own fence
I think you should build houses on the hill/mountain like in SF or Berkeley
you could add a fishing route, its really quick and easy to make
You can put some kind of rural church in one empty lot in the new district by the river, maybe where the road bends by the gas station
Hi! I am new to these videos, and I was wondering what the icon in the top middle is? I think it is a sort of bird with a number next to it? Love these videos btw!
It’s a Twitter knock-off, the citizens of the city can “post” and it shows up there so the player knows what the city wants.
@@wrigr11188 Thank you!
I had been wondering the same thing a while back, so I did a Google deep dive to try and understand. The person who replied to you before explained it much nicer. 🙂
I really like when he does timelapse
It time to allow taller buildingsss
Finally another episode
“Might be a bit much [of rocks]” *keeps adding rocks*
A good name for Bedford could be Hamptonville!
you could name all the districts after other (famous) dog names :')
Later on have farms horse stables cows ect country town with dirt roads, cant forget feed store and of course a bar lol hay fields , gardens. City looking awesome! love the neighborhood with bigger yards looks more real, look good with sheds in back yards cause if a yard that big you need a lawnmower ect to. lol or is that asking too much?
Addicted to these videos
Hi James! Binged the series, thanks. Would you ever stream some content? - I would love to see it!
There’s an extra little segment of a fence connected to the fenced yard of the house near the highway in the big house neighborhood
Can see it on the far left at 53:20
I was thinking you should add an inner change to the highway there
You should do a gated neighborhood!
you can use "advanced vehicle options" to make the long camping van unable to spawn
Use your RICO Mod on the low land value buildings that complain and change the level of the building to be lower then they won't complain
Remember that houses need to be removed manually when using RICO as they don't disappear when you remove zoning.
For the planned national park on top of the hill make a pond or lake and the story behind the lake/pond a meteor hit and there was a hidden spring and make a little waterfall as your water source
There is a tree in the middle of the highway near the national park entrance.
Just wondering, can you do angled cross walks?
What mod did he use to place individual residential and commercial buildings?
Why does your bunnings not have a hotdog stall?! That's unaustralian!