So I always feel like towns that have an odd kind of landmark are usually unreasonably proud of it (I assume for tourism reasons), no matter how silly it is. So, since this was a mining town, why not have "The Big Nugget": just a big, oddly shaped and oddly colored rock? Maybe have it gold colored and shaped like the nugget that founded the mine there originally?
I can't wait to see how this whole map will look when finished. Also, somewhere on the new highway, you could put a fuel station somewhat based on an otr. Just a suggestion
You might already know, but at 5:25 you would probably have used it if you knew it was a thing: on Node Controller, the very top right button (looks like a "close" button) is actually a "make ends straight" button, it's super useful.
Trains aren’t slow in Australia. We don’t have high speed rail, if that’s what you mean, but our normal trains run at normal train speeds. A quick Google will tell you that the National train speed limit is 160km with the average speed for the XPT (regional link trains that run between cities) being approx 113km/hr. The XPT speed record is 193km/hr. Trains within a city have a speed limit of 130km/hr with an average 43km/hr because they barely have time to build up to top speed before the next stop. Just because city trains go at slower speeds doesn’t mean Australian trains are slow. They go slow in cities all over the world and faster in the country. It’s just how trains work.
Trains are slow in Australia, trains are slow EVERYWHERE. Unless they are high speed rail trains do like 30 mph. An SUV severely speeding on the freeway can do 90mph
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se geuss you have never been in europe? Most trains are at least 70mph, even in countries like Belgium and Netherlands where stops are super close together
Thank you so much, I always love your videos. I was working on an Aus/NZ small town in CS when this was released and I was getting frustrated with the road layout this was the perfect inspiration I needed
Maybe the town can be known for a yearly event, like a concert or a festival. Something like coachella, Osheaga, the jazz festival, but with an Australian spice
Maybe something with aspects of Ballarat and Seymour? Ballarat has a living museum that's based off of an old gold mine, it also has lots of historic buildings and a heritage tramway (all the big regional cities in Victoria had tram networks that were very small) and Seymour is basically a quintessential railway town, they've still got all the old rail infrastructure there from back when the railways were a lot bigger. Might be worthwhile to take a look.
Names for the town that I think might work: - Tailings Bend (it’s at a bend -Aurum Creek (Aurum being the latin term for gold) -Miner’s Rest -Macquarie Creek (there’s way too much stuff in Australia named after Macquarie. Feels like a good name to use as a fallback). A small suggestion with regard to the park: I feel like maybe there’s a bit of a larger park there, not too large, just large enough to contain a small sporting field, thinking a rugby field (I figure there’d be a cricket oval elsewhere in town). On a side note, I feel like the park there might occasionally be used as a market space, or a small rural showground. Or perhaps not here, but a few of the towns dotted around should probably have those. Another side point, definitely need to get some props made for outdoor barbecue areas. It’s such an Aussie thing that I feel like it has to be represented.
Absolutely loving this series! I really enjoy your American inspired cities, but this one feels so familiar. I would love to see more gumtrees, bottlebrush trees, wattle trees, native trees and bushes etc through the rural towns though! I know the workshop can be limiting though. Maybe the ‘big thing’ could be in that empty corner to the right of the highway? They seem to usually be placed right next at a highway for maximum exposure as you’re driving passed :)
I have another example of a bridge that was once being used but is now not used as commonly. In the swiss town of Baden, there's the old bridge which connects to the medieval town and it's made out of wood, we call it Holzbrugg (wooden bridge). The main bridge, which is way higher up, has all the traffic and connects to the big roads, we call it Hochbrugg (high bridge). Your new town is so interesting to me because I go to school in Baden and I can see these bridges all the time
The "big thing" should be a giant pickaxe, or something along those lines to pay homage to the towns mining history. Also, the giant pickaxe could be an entrance or attraction for the "this towns name" museum of mining and engineering. Also paying tribute to the towns mining but also the engineering it took to create the roads and infrastructure just to get to this location and start a town.
If the town used to be gold mining then it definitely needs a big nugget! Hahah...loved this episode the train winding through reminds me of the train to Wollongong from Sydney!
Potentially could deal with single rail by making it one way. AI loves it. And you can use it strategically to send trains on fun routes around the map in order to complete the line…
I started watching your channel a while back, so subscribed to see how Oceania develops. As for the name of the new town, Gold Creek is my offering. Plus a giant pick and shovel statue.
In NZ we also have towns with big statues for what the town is known for. In particular we have Paeroa with a big bottle of L&P (lemon and paeroa) which is a drink made by Coca-Cola. You could do something like this and use a local drink made by the lemonade factory in game.
Loving this series since I live in Sydney and often travel out to see rellies. I've done Sydney-Dubbo or Gunnedah/Tamworth trips many times passing through Bathurst Orange etc so what you're constructing really resonates. By the way, just noted there's a mod called SingleTrackAI in the workshop that will help with the single track theme we have in Australia. A train won't enter that section apparently if another train is on it. Haven't checked it myself but worth a look maybe. Cheers.
Definitely loving the countryside already!! Just one remark: since you consider the highway as relatively new (and built after the train line) there wouldn’t be a train crossing. The planners would have certainly found a way to avoid a train crossing in their brand new highway.
This town is really reminding me of Sale and Maffra in Eastern Victoria! Those towns have some great features for inspiration, such as the firefighting training road in the middle of Boisdale Street, or the lake and botanical gardens on Sale 😁
22:04 reminds me of the road and railway between Kerrabee and Murrumbo NSW. I’m a train driver and we exit a tunnel cross a bridge with a windy mountain road below us then back into a tunnel. That’s awesome
Getting Murray Bridge vibes from the new town! How about Mundoo Bridge as a name suggestion? Mundoo is the name of a channel of the Murray river near the mouth in SA
Shaftsbury. Newcome. Pannington. Lode. Sluice Creek. Prospect (Derived from mining terms). Annabelle (Named in honour of the wife of James O'Reddan an emigrant from Falsk on the River Shannon, the first prospector to strike gold).
I think I know how to make waiting tracks. Vanilla CS has this route modification that allows you to turn off or on traffic lights or add stop signs. On junctions on tracks you can place stop signs which turn into signals. If you put the “stop” sign on the markers, it would act like another place to stop. Also for the blank area you left at the end of the video, maybe take inspiration from the tracks in the QLD-NSW border. The swerving tracks could be useful. I live in Brisbane and trains are very fast here, faster than the ones in Sydney :) .
Another great episode. Definitely build something "big" in the town, its quite common in NZ too. Check out the big carrot in Ohakune, the big L&P bottle in Paeroa. Also a horse racing track is really common in NZ rural towns, looks like they exist in Aussie towns too. You pretty much did it already, but have a look at the Raurimu Spiral. Its a single track railway that negotiates a 139m height change using switchbacks and tunnels. I hope you're not done with Dundee - I know things a scaled down but that city could be twice the size. And the beach area your created a couple of episodes ago could use an ocean side pool in the rocks, like Bondi Icebergs ;)
A spiral with some bridges and short tunnels would be good. There are 2 spirals in NSW as well - Bethungra in the south and Border Loop in the north. Or he could have gone full Lithgow 10 Tunnels - maybe a bit overkill on a CS map though.
Maybe not for this town, but taking reference from Bowen could be interesting. Referring mostly to the Big sign this town has on the side of a Hill & the "old buildings" in the center. Waiting to see what you'll do to show the big cattle industry in Australia, worked in some farms during my stay there, it was really breathtaking in terms of scale (Georgetown)
After seeing the railway construction in Redington on Lee Hawkins' channel, yours give me shivers. But I have the same kind in my own town. It would require to really rethink the path and i reserve that for later
dude, this remembers me a looooot my architecture graduation research! the region I studied is known as Serra do Mar, here in brasil, and the problems you dealt with, while drawing the train line and the old highway made me travel back to that! if you get interested, the name of the old way is Caminho do Mar, and the train line goes soooo far from the curves, and worked for a looong time, with coal machines pulling trains up!
On the commuter trains I work on (Stockholm, Sweden) 40 is the speed we go whenever a certain safety procedure calls for it. For trains it’s really incredibly slow, meaning even a long train of several hundred meters will be able to stop quickly. If we discover that we have people hanging on the outside of the train (thrill seekers) we lower to 40, until we reach the next stop.
The rural (and even interstate) train lines in New South Wales are mostly still steam era grades and alignments. Couple that with the fact that there isn't a huge population out in the countryside, and there isn't a big incentive to improve them. So there isn't a lot of opportunity for long high speed runs. Freight trains don't care quite so much about speed, but a new freight line is being built between Victoria and Queensland across inland NSW, bypassing Sydney, and a lot of the more mountainous areas.
If you make each track one-way and provided you are running the mod that supports single-track train AI, they should actually wait for each other. The issue is congestion stacking up from either side so the trains can't enter the line any more. If you have complete control over how much traffic the track can have ( no external connections) it should still work fine.
maybe do something with sugarcane, and make "the big cane", a large piece of sugarcane, aswell a small abandoned railway bridge like the Maroochy River Lift Bridge?
Love the upgraded highway bro, they are doing exactly that in NZ in a place called Mt Messenger. Old windy road used extensively by transport trucks as the rail here is poor. Your new highway almost looks identical to the proposed plans
If you don't already have it, there is a mod called single track AI that allows trains to bypass eachother on the doubletracked sections and they'll wait for the other train to pass before going on the singletracked section
Idea: Have a look at Mining towns around the Pilbara in WA, some of them have really weird road layouts. I remember reading that in Port Headland they had an artist design the road layout for some of it for some reason.
There is mod on the workshop for single track rail. Something like single track AI. I have been using it for a while. It works just like you wanted it to work. Trains wait at the stations or at double tracked segments. Just dont use too many trains on a single line. Loving the episodes! 😀
Hey twodollarstwenty, when I tried to get to the Oceania map from both the description and from your website, it didnt give me access and said I needed a "multipass", you should probably turn off the restricted access so everyone can look at it.
you need a Tehachapi Loop for your train line. i think you should call the town "centre", sometimes towns in the middle of states are just called centre.
Maybe you could do a sort of thing where a new highway. is parallel to an old one similar to [4] Western Motorway, and [44] Great Western Highway. And when it starts to get out of the metro area the new highway could terminate onto the alignment of the old highway. By this i mean doing like what happened in Lapstone where the [32] Great Western Highway was split and the alignment changed to the [4] Western Motorway, and yet you can still see a path which seemed to be the original aligned of the Great Western Highway between the [32] part and the [44] part.
You could add a couple of emergency break spots on that windy highway, for trucks. For when the breaks fail. I don't now if you have these in Australia but I noticed them in the US.
12:21. Ummmm...That town is right downstream from an earthen dam in a relatively flat area and it's main routes of transportation outside of the town are right in the path of the river. There is NO way this place didn't get hit by a dam collapse in the past! (Which admittedly would be a cool backstory. Well, if you don't count the death, that is.) Edit: 20:55. Yep. This area definitely had to have suffered from a dam collapse some years ago. Not only would the water have followed the natural course of the river, the topography up in the surrounding foothills would also push it onto a one lane road and a major railroad bridge, destroying both with ease! I refuse to believe this area somehow hasn't suffered from a dam collapse yet. Also, putting a full two lane highway on an earthen dam is just ASKING for a disaster...
Love the new town! Given it's on a creek and west (I think) of Dundee, what about West Creek? Were you intending on doing a spa/water town? Where spring water is bottled. Near the dam might make sense!
If you’re basing things of Bathurst - how about a bit of a mountain town halfway between this town and the city? Base it off of Katoomba or Blackheath?
The railway line could probably do 50 on those tight corners, up to 70. Trains don't slow down that much over an old bridge, at that point they'd repair or build a new bridge next to it. I'd really like to see a tunnel near the summit, and an old zig-zagging line (train stops and reverses) that isn't used anymore, like Lithgow has.
And- keep in mind, a train can't climb much more than 3%. The network multitool's slope feature will tell you what the slope profile is. You could probably do 4% or even 5% as a fudge if absolutely needed, such angles are hard to see in the game if you use them sparingly!
I highly doubt there is an asset for it, but the Big Gold Planner would be perfect. Not only for the IRL Bathurst (also a former gold mining town), but the lore for this town too
Not exactly a 'big thing', but maybe this new town can be known for it's train museum! The museum showcases historic trains from Oceania in their community created Oceania livery
Here’s a name for the new town, Picton, it’s a small little country town in New Zealand and Australia, it feels like a comfortable name for a little town
I feel that the XPT and Endeavour trains are great for the regional lines, however for the city in order to be more representative of more of Australia/NZ avoiding the double deck Sydney trains would be good. Something like the Melbourne metro Comeng train would be a better fit.
personally i would set line speed based on the curve radius and level crossings, as basically all level crossings in game have full active protection. gradient wouldn’t play too much not a part in speed limits, but no more than 1 in 30
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So I always feel like towns that have an odd kind of landmark are usually unreasonably proud of it (I assume for tourism reasons), no matter how silly it is. So, since this was a mining town, why not have "The Big Nugget": just a big, oddly shaped and oddly colored rock? Maybe have it gold colored and shaped like the nugget that founded the mine there originally?
You could customize the meteorite Park too to look like gold
I came here to suggest the Big Nugget too!
I love my town's. Ballina, NSW: The big prawn! We love it, across from the Bunnings car park and at the entry of the town.
But the nugget it’s inspired by never actually existed. There was gold, but that guy never found any and lied though his teeth
Congratulations. Your suggestion made it
I can't wait to see how this whole map will look when finished. Also, somewhere on the new highway, you could put a fuel station somewhat based on an otr. Just a suggestion
Great idea
You might already know, but at 5:25 you would probably have used it if you knew it was a thing: on Node Controller, the very top right button (looks like a "close" button) is actually a "make ends straight" button, it's super useful.
Oh my god. I never knew that. Thank you!
Driving up to the New England part of NSW for Christmas got me thinking about rural builds, this was great! Very thoughtful on the incline challenges.
21:12 I could hear you perfectly say "I'm gonna demolish that" very fast
If you use the mod "Single Train Track AI", trains will wait to let another one on a single rail pass.
NZ towns have random objects that they're known for too. Masterton is the Golden Shears, Ohakune is known for its carrot, Eketahuna for the Kiwi etc
Trains aren’t slow in Australia. We don’t have high speed rail, if that’s what you mean, but our normal trains run at normal train speeds.
A quick Google will tell you that the National train speed limit is 160km with the average speed for the XPT (regional link trains that run between cities) being approx 113km/hr. The XPT speed record is 193km/hr.
Trains within a city have a speed limit of 130km/hr with an average 43km/hr because they barely have time to build up to top speed before the next stop.
Just because city trains go at slower speeds doesn’t mean Australian trains are slow. They go slow in cities all over the world and faster in the country. It’s just how trains work.
Fair points. Thanks for the info
Trains are slow in Australia, trains are slow EVERYWHERE. Unless they are high speed rail trains do like 30 mph. An SUV severely speeding on the freeway can do 90mph
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se can u use metric measurements pls
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se geuss you have never been in europe? Most trains are at least 70mph, even in countries like Belgium and Netherlands where stops are super close together
160km/h is what I would call normal for trains, but also not fast, considering that you can drive faster by car.
Always love rural town build by $2.20, they always had unique charming vibe on them...
The valley looks gorgeous by the way...
Thank you!
Thank you so much, I always love your videos. I was working on an Aus/NZ small town in CS when this was released and I was getting frustrated with the road layout this was the perfect inspiration I needed
Definitely up for an interactive map tutorial! You could even pair it up with your regional design philosophy.
Maybe the town can be known for a yearly event, like a concert or a festival. Something like coachella, Osheaga, the jazz festival, but with an Australian spice
kinda beyond the valley vibes, they usually hold it near a town in West Gippsland (not this year tho 🤷♂️). draws in a bunch of tourists from the city
I can’t wait for more of the smaller towns and regions, love this city
Keep up the great work
Maybe something with aspects of Ballarat and Seymour? Ballarat has a living museum that's based off of an old gold mine, it also has lots of historic buildings and a heritage tramway (all the big regional cities in Victoria had tram networks that were very small) and Seymour is basically a quintessential railway town, they've still got all the old rail infrastructure there from back when the railways were a lot bigger. Might be worthwhile to take a look.
Also, most regional towns have ANZAC memorials in them in the center of the city.
Names for the town that I think might work:
- Tailings Bend (it’s at a bend
-Aurum Creek (Aurum being the latin term for gold)
-Miner’s Rest
-Macquarie Creek (there’s way too much stuff in Australia named after Macquarie. Feels like a good name to use as a fallback).
A small suggestion with regard to the park: I feel like maybe there’s a bit of a larger park there, not too large, just large enough to contain a small sporting field, thinking a rugby field (I figure there’d be a cricket oval elsewhere in town). On a side note, I feel like the park there might occasionally be used as a market space, or a small rural showground. Or perhaps not here, but a few of the towns dotted around should probably have those. Another side point, definitely need to get some props made for outdoor barbecue areas. It’s such an Aussie thing that I feel like it has to be represented.
Donnybrooke is a good name for a small country town, suits nice as the landscape is very similar to the actual town.
That's a good name!
Absolutely loving this series! I really enjoy your American inspired cities, but this one feels so familiar. I would love to see more gumtrees, bottlebrush trees, wattle trees, native trees and bushes etc through the rural towns though! I know the workshop can be limiting though.
Maybe the ‘big thing’ could be in that empty corner to the right of the highway? They seem to usually be placed right next at a highway for maximum exposure as you’re driving passed :)
You should do a series based on cities like Rio de Janeiro, like tropical and touristic but at the same time big and complex. Love ur videos
I have another example of a bridge that was once being used but is now not used as commonly. In the swiss town of Baden, there's the old bridge which connects to the medieval town and it's made out of wood, we call it Holzbrugg (wooden bridge). The main bridge, which is way higher up, has all the traffic and connects to the big roads, we call it Hochbrugg (high bridge). Your new town is so interesting to me because I go to school in Baden and I can see these bridges all the time
The "big thing" should be a giant pickaxe, or something along those lines to pay homage to the towns mining history.
Also, the giant pickaxe could be an entrance or attraction for the "this towns name" museum of mining and engineering. Also paying tribute to the towns mining but also the engineering it took to create the roads and infrastructure just to get to this location and start a town.
24:52 you can add by vanilla game feature, stop signs on train tracks (that option is in communication routes)
Nice vid man
If the town used to be gold mining then it definitely needs a big nugget! Hahah...loved this episode the train winding through reminds me of the train to Wollongong from Sydney!
I am so happy that you’re finally working on the surrounding area outside Dundee, not that Dundee is finished though. But great nonetheless.
Potentially could deal with single rail by making it one way. AI loves it. And you can use it strategically to send trains on fun routes around the map in order to complete the line…
I started watching your channel a while back, so subscribed to see how Oceania develops. As for the name of the new town, Gold Creek is my offering. Plus a giant pick and shovel statue.
It kinda reminds me of some Central Otago towns like Alexandra or Cromwell, especially in its placement in-between the large hills
In NZ we also have towns with big statues for what the town is known for. In particular we have Paeroa with a big bottle of L&P (lemon and paeroa) which is a drink made by Coca-Cola. You could do something like this and use a local drink made by the lemonade factory in game.
This video really shows how beautiful this map is, god I wish I could live there!
Loving this series since I live in Sydney and often travel out to see rellies. I've done Sydney-Dubbo or Gunnedah/Tamworth trips many times passing through Bathurst Orange etc so what you're constructing really resonates. By the way, just noted there's a mod called SingleTrackAI in the workshop that will help with the single track theme we have in Australia. A train won't enter that section apparently if another train is on it. Haven't checked it myself but worth a look maybe. Cheers.
Definitely loving the countryside already!! Just one remark: since you consider the highway as relatively new (and built after the train line) there wouldn’t be a train crossing. The planners would have certainly found a way to avoid a train crossing in their brand new highway.
Gorgeous! Love the trains and bridges.
Niiiiice, Ballarat got a mention amongst all that riff raff!
Greetings from Ballarat!
I think Menna will be a great name for this country town ! Great job like always !
The valley agriculture would be a great spot for a wine region!
This town is really reminding me of Sale and Maffra in Eastern Victoria! Those towns have some great features for inspiration, such as the firefighting training road in the middle of Boisdale Street, or the lake and botanical gardens on Sale 😁
22:04 reminds me of the road and railway between Kerrabee and Murrumbo NSW. I’m a train driver and we exit a tunnel cross a bridge with a windy mountain road below us then back into a tunnel. That’s awesome
Getting Murray Bridge vibes from the new town! How about Mundoo Bridge as a name suggestion? Mundoo is the name of a channel of the Murray river near the mouth in SA
holy shit bro this is looking awesome, my jaw genuinely dropped!
First of all, I love the new town. How about naming the town Mawley and the creek Mawley Creek?
*We love the new town*
I really like that name. I hope he‘s gonna use it.
What about Moccasin Creek? Like the snake?
How about no.
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Shaftsbury. Newcome. Pannington. Lode. Sluice Creek. Prospect (Derived from mining terms).
Annabelle (Named in honour of the wife of James O'Reddan an emigrant from Falsk on the River Shannon, the first prospector to strike gold).
The scale feels great in this series!
Literally made my day seeing another upload from you!!
i absolutely love this series. you are so good at cities skylines.
I absolutely cannot wait to see a first person train trip between Dundee and this town!!
that would be good
Hell yeah 220 you’re the best skylines RUclipsr by far. Love this map as much as Marbke Mountain
It is the best thing in the world to wake up to a new Oceania video...
These kind of episodes are the main reason that you are the god father of this game👌👌👌
Thaanks man 🙏
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21.17 looks very similar to where I live, its uncanny. Love the videos :)
Hey, a little tip. If you want to level nodes you don't have to go to the moveit menu, just press ctrl+H
I think I know how to make waiting tracks. Vanilla CS has this route modification that allows you to turn off or on traffic lights or add stop signs. On junctions on tracks you can place stop signs which turn into signals. If you put the “stop” sign on the markers, it would act like another place to stop. Also for the blank area you left at the end of the video, maybe take inspiration from the tracks in the QLD-NSW border. The swerving tracks could be useful. I live in Brisbane and trains are very fast here, faster than the ones in Sydney :) .
Woah that suprised me, I was born in Lithgow, certainly wasnt expecting it to be mentioned in this video
Another great episode. Definitely build something "big" in the town, its quite common in NZ too. Check out the big carrot in Ohakune, the big L&P bottle in Paeroa. Also a horse racing track is really common in NZ rural towns, looks like they exist in Aussie towns too. You pretty much did it already, but have a look at the Raurimu Spiral. Its a single track railway that negotiates a 139m height change using switchbacks and tunnels. I hope you're not done with Dundee - I know things a scaled down but that city could be twice the size. And the beach area your created a couple of episodes ago could use an ocean side pool in the rocks, like Bondi Icebergs ;)
A spiral with some bridges and short tunnels would be good. There are 2 spirals in NSW as well - Bethungra in the south and Border Loop in the north. Or he could have gone full Lithgow 10 Tunnels - maybe a bit overkill on a CS map though.
Maybe not for this town, but taking reference from Bowen could be interesting. Referring mostly to the Big sign this town has on the side of a Hill & the "old buildings" in the center. Waiting to see what you'll do to show the big cattle industry in Australia, worked in some farms during my stay there, it was really breathtaking in terms of scale (Georgetown)
After seeing the railway construction in Redington on Lee Hawkins' channel, yours give me shivers.
But I have the same kind in my own town. It would require to really rethink the path and i reserve that for later
dude, this remembers me a looooot my architecture graduation research! the region I studied is known as Serra do Mar, here in brasil, and the problems you dealt with, while drawing the train line and the old highway made me travel back to that! if you get interested, the name of the old way is Caminho do Mar, and the train line goes soooo far from the curves, and worked for a looong time, with coal machines pulling trains up!
next to the old highway, some old buildings are still found protected by historical laws etc
In Tasmania, just outside Huon Valley there's an apple orchard, beside the road there's a small self serve apple shop, it's cool
I think that the “big thing” in the town should be a fish, due to the mass amounts of fish found in the creek that meanders through the city
@@krnixle golden platypus
Adaminaby has a giant trout
On the commuter trains I work on (Stockholm, Sweden) 40 is the speed we go whenever a certain safety procedure calls for it. For trains it’s really incredibly slow, meaning even a long train of several hundred meters will be able to stop quickly.
If we discover that we have people hanging on the outside of the train (thrill seekers) we lower to 40, until we reach the next stop.
The rural (and even interstate) train lines in New South Wales are mostly still steam era grades and alignments. Couple that with the fact that there isn't a huge population out in the countryside, and there isn't a big incentive to improve them. So there isn't a lot of opportunity for long high speed runs. Freight trains don't care quite so much about speed, but a new freight line is being built between Victoria and Queensland across inland NSW, bypassing Sydney, and a lot of the more mountainous areas.
If you make each track one-way and provided you are running the mod that supports single-track train AI, they should actually wait for each other. The issue is congestion stacking up from either side so the trains can't enter the line any more. If you have complete control over how much traffic the track can have ( no external connections) it should still work fine.
maybe do something with sugarcane, and make "the big cane", a large piece of sugarcane, aswell a small abandoned railway bridge like the Maroochy River Lift Bridge?
Super cool, excited for the next episode. Maybe you could put a tourist trap gold panning museum in the town?
A tutorial on that interactive map maker would be amazing!
Love the upgraded highway bro, they are doing exactly that in NZ in a place called Mt Messenger. Old windy road used extensively by transport trucks as the rail here is poor. Your new highway almost looks identical to the proposed plans
I always recommend to have your elevation height map on when drawing out train tracks. It helps you pick the flatter route.
If you don't already have it, there is a mod called single track AI that allows trains to bypass eachother on the doubletracked sections and they'll wait for the other train to pass before going on the singletracked section
Cheers for the Wagga Wagga shout out
Could you use Maryborough as a reference point for a town in your city as they used to (or still maybe) Build and Maintain Brisbane's Electric Trains!
Idea: Have a look at Mining towns around the Pilbara in WA, some of them have really weird road layouts. I remember reading that in Port Headland they had an artist design the road layout for some of it for some reason.
Very good looking build 👌
i took years off cities skylines and i forgot how satisfying and relaxing is to play it. I will get back to it after i upgrade my pc with 32gb ram xD
How many fps u get
There is mod on the workshop for single track rail. Something like single track AI. I have been using it for a while. It works just like you wanted it to work. Trains wait at the stations or at double tracked segments. Just dont use too many trains on a single line.
Loving the episodes! 😀
You have to do some a little abondoned town anywhere, or abondoned street in a town, or smth like that. It's gonna be so atmosphere
Honestly, awesome!
Nice video like always, I suggest for a name to be Mull Creek
I was thinking of the name Warrenhead. Its a random name that I came up with but the name "Warrenhead" does sound like a town/regional city name.
Hammond would be a good name its the middle name of the person who started the Australian gold rush
Oh such a missed opportunity for tunnel loop. But loved the build. :)
Hey twodollarstwenty, when I tried to get to the Oceania map from both the description and from your website, it didnt give me access and said I needed a "multipass", you should probably turn off the restricted access so everyone can look at it.
Defintely gives me old Pacific Highway M1 vibes 🙌🏻
The big Nugget.
I love it.
Thought of the same name
Maybe go for a small regional first Australian named town like toodyay, Amaroo, Mirrabooka or Dandaragan.
you need a Tehachapi Loop for your train line. i think you should call the town "centre", sometimes towns in the middle of states are just called centre.
My choices for town names:
1. Arthur’s Pass
2. Hawks Creek
3. Sunderland
4. Wilson Mine
5. Creeds Corner
Toowoomba is a pretty cool town with a new bypass up the range
Maybe you could do a sort of thing where a new highway. is parallel to an old one similar to [4] Western Motorway, and [44] Great Western Highway. And when it starts to get out of the metro area the new highway could terminate onto the alignment of the old highway. By this i mean doing like what happened in Lapstone where the [32] Great Western Highway was split and the alignment changed to the [4] Western Motorway, and yet you can still see a path which seemed to be the original aligned of the Great Western Highway between the [32] part and the [44] part.
You could add a couple of emergency break spots on that windy highway, for trucks. For when the breaks fail. I don't now if you have these in Australia but I noticed them in the US.
12:21. Ummmm...That town is right downstream from an earthen dam in a relatively flat area and it's main routes of transportation outside of the town are right in the path of the river. There is NO way this place didn't get hit by a dam collapse in the past! (Which admittedly would be a cool backstory. Well, if you don't count the death, that is.)
Edit: 20:55. Yep. This area definitely had to have suffered from a dam collapse some years ago. Not only would the water have followed the natural course of the river, the topography up in the surrounding foothills would also push it onto a one lane road and a major railroad bridge, destroying both with ease! I refuse to believe this area somehow hasn't suffered from a dam collapse yet. Also, putting a full two lane highway on an earthen dam is just ASKING for a disaster...
Love the new town! Given it's on a creek and west (I think) of Dundee, what about West Creek? Were you intending on doing a spa/water town? Where spring water is bottled. Near the dam might make sense!
If you’re basing things of Bathurst - how about a bit of a mountain town halfway between this town and the city?
Base it off of Katoomba or Blackheath?
Woo! My town's big thing made it on the list!
The railway line could probably do 50 on those tight corners, up to 70. Trains don't slow down that much over an old bridge, at that point they'd repair or build a new bridge next to it.
I'd really like to see a tunnel near the summit, and an old zig-zagging line (train stops and reverses) that isn't used anymore, like Lithgow has.
And- keep in mind, a train can't climb much more than 3%. The network multitool's slope feature will tell you what the slope profile is. You could probably do 4% or even 5% as a fudge if absolutely needed, such angles are hard to see in the game if you use them sparingly!
I highly doubt there is an asset for it, but the Big Gold Planner would be perfect. Not only for the IRL Bathurst (also a former gold mining town), but the lore for this town too
Not exactly a 'big thing', but maybe this new town can be known for it's train museum! The museum showcases historic trains from Oceania in their community created Oceania livery
Since your making a city like Bathurst, Any plans to make Mount Panorama racing circuit? The workshop has the race track assets to achieve this.
The landscape over there will be very suitable for a nice winery, but please, no goon!
You’re the best! Believe in this
Here’s a name for the new town, Picton, it’s a small little country town in New Zealand and Australia, it feels like a comfortable name for a little town
I feel that the XPT and Endeavour trains are great for the regional lines, however for the city in order to be more representative of more of Australia/NZ avoiding the double deck Sydney trains would be good. Something like the Melbourne metro Comeng train would be a better fit.
personally i would set line speed based on the curve radius and level crossings, as basically all level crossings in game have full active protection. gradient wouldn’t play too much not a part in speed limits, but no more than 1 in 30