Mayor Biffa's first term: Idealistic, eco-friendly, planting trees, bicycle paths everywhere, as little traffic as possible. Mayor Biffa's second term: FIVE STAR OIL INDUSTRY!
The high density area needs more straight and faster connection to the industrial area. You have that maze-road through a low density residential which is causing more traffic problems and it looks weird TBH. You need some kind of bypass near the river, between Sipapeta park and Teatown.
I think he used a mod to add more fertile land (I think it's called "resource painter" or something). You can see at 17:50 the orchards are complaining about lack of fertile land, but at 18:24 they're not. You can also see the color of the land changed to that fertile land color.
He indeed already fixed that, and honestly I really don't care about Farmland being added as Crops tends to grow about anywhere if you know what you're doing
Sleeping Warrior I usually put the huge train hub somewhere near the center of my city (the 10 line one...I think), and built routes off of it. It’s important to have several forms of transit. Like you said, metro is good for small distance while train is longer distance.
I'd like a good video on a how to for trains. My tracks normally get filled up with trains. Which is funny, I can have a 200k population city with 80% traffic flow but my trains like 20% traffic flow.
@@mrow7598 those track segments between railroad junctions might be too short edit: theres multiple ways to screw up underground. i had some segments too steep several times
@Sleeping Warrior you could use a line for each route so it reduces traffic however that would take up more space unless you have MOM then you can use more than 2 platforms
Today I started binge-watching TeaPort from the start, stopped watching since you discontinued TeaVille. I just completed watching last episode and suddenly- new episode!
17:55 I noticed you put a road along the back side of the orchards, If you have traffic problems, I recommend reversing every other orchard it keeps the traffic down on the roads.
Hey Biffa, I really enjoy our videos. :) One thing though: Please fix the pillar of the railway bridge that crosses the road between Rosewood Heights and UtiliTea Park. The pillar is literally on the road. You can see it at 26:23 on the right side of the screen. Keep up the great work! :)
Another thought..... Normal industrial areas have a little bit of commercial mixed in. That's where the industrial plants buy parts and the workers buy lunch, and go to the bar after work.
Just 3 things you could consider changing: 1. Rubbish from the recycling centre is also picked up by the waste transfer facility, so removing them was just removing the extra trucks which could recycle the waste. 2. The fan zone park should be placed somewhere further away so people will be attracted to the concert from more distant locations. 3. An assymetrical 1+2 national road exists from network extensions, this will make that quick road even quicker the whole way and remove the pedestrian crossings on it.
I'll have you know us Texans are mighty partial to our Iced Tea. 💖 Don't even get me started with the western unsweet vs the eastern sweet tea debate. I have family on both sides. I'ts typically that or coffee. Personally Biffa has me drinking his Tea brand now. I'll never turn back. 😍 Fun fact here in oil country we call the smaller pump jacks he first installed in the oil area Grasshoppers. They are as common as cows and windmills out here in the panhandle.
Here's some tips to curb the noise pollution: 1. Sound barriers must be installed on highway/freeway/expressway 2. Mandatory conversion into office-type high-density buildings, and immediate relocation/resettlement to lesser polluted area for affected residents as a way of compensation For congestion prevention: 1. Local Public Transport Route Plan has to be executed properly 2. Train/MRT/Metro/Subway and Bus must be prioritised 3. Sidewalks, Bicycle lane is a must for local/near destinations, healthy lifestyle
I'm absolutely loving how City of Teapot is turning out. Meanwhile, for my city (Borealis), I seemed to have figured out the best approximate timings for 4-way timed traffic lights on general city streets: Minimum time of 3 seconds, maximum time of 20 seconds. I usually have my left turns get their own short phase (minimum 3 seconds, maximum 20 seconds too). Once I set the Advanced AI on TMPE 11.5 Labs and also set Normal Priority rules at signals, I was able to set up partially protected left turns with protected left phase that is followed or preceded by a "give way to opposing straight & right turn traffic" phase, just like a real life Canadian city street intersection. For dual or triple left turn lanes, or for urban roads that are faster than 70km/h (45 mph), I confine left turns to their own dedicated phase, the same as the real life Thunder Bay Expressway and Harbour Expressway in my home city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, which is home to one of the biggest grain handling ports on Earth.
Watching these as fast as they come out, wonderful city, and the care you take to build it is superb! Keep up the work :D I'll still throw in my suggestion for a space related area (Radar antenna is unlocked!), called "Extra Tearrestrial"!
Maybe a parking lot, or at least allow parking on the streets, in the industrial area? All of the workers have to keep their cars in their pockets!!! MAYBE that would help bring the employee numbers up? Thanks for another great video!! Teaport Duh is gonna be amazing!!!
Biffa, at about 17:45 you move the crops from futile ground to non-fertile ground (not yellow) and, in time, it turns fertile and yellow. Why does that work? Earlier in the series you moved the livestock away from fertile ground so you could use that area for more crops. ?? (Thanks for a great series! I'm enjoying it and learning a lot.)
Hey Biffa! Thanks for doing these series! Two questions. 1) You ever think of making a monorail line start in residential and end directly in the industry area? It is faster and carries more people than bus/tram. Could be called the InstaTeaRail ;) 2) Is there a list of your PC specs? The RAM required for this game is significantly higher than recommended (esp with mods). Might be helpful for new players!
The thing with the Festival Area is like the old Lady in New York who had a similar argument against Universal Healthcare saying it is free so it's not worth anything ... They tried to explain but ... no getting through there.
I guess one argument that might work is "Another party will be dealing with the financial side of things so you don't have to, it's not Free but you're not the one dealing with it"
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines If you want natural resources you could just use the resource brush tool made available due to the "Extra landscaping tools"mod. The option is at the bottom of the screen and looks like a green crystal and is just beside the water tool.
Watching you fixing traffic and playing this game has made me return to it again, it just feels really good to enjoy the game again, and take the time to create something nice. Thank you for creating such entertaining and relaxing videos Biffa ^^
Can u set the temperature to °C and will u on the next city u make will it be left hand lane drive because here in UK the land of the tea we drive on left
Biffa Plays Indie Games I love your vids- I started watching a couple of years ago and have followed along through many, many city fixes, all of Teaville and now Teaport. Here are some ideas I’d like to see: 1. Name a mountain road or a raised highway “The Chai Road” harhar 2. Build a grand boulevard similar to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. It’s a four lane road flanked on either side by narrow, tree-lined parks featuring walking paths, bike lanes and metro entrances, and flanking the outside of that, on either side, are two one-way roads with parking on either side before you get to the sidewalks next to the buildings. The length of the boulevard could be zoned as a park! Apparently Eastern Blvd was the world’s first Parkway, and was designed by engineer FL Olmstead, who also designed Central Park in NYC and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. You can look it the layout in the google maps street view: Eastern Pkwy at Classon Ave is a good example. Eastern Blvd might be a fiasco to build in-game, but the process ought to be fun to watch (like that time you built the Swindon traffic circle 🤣). Maybe you could even call it The Chai Road! Thanks for doing these vids! They’re so fun and relaxing to watch. One small bit of constructive crit- I personally would rather have a longer video and not have the sped up portions with the chipmunk voice. There is something so relaxing and almost hypnotic watching you puzzle out issues and explain your moves that the rare sped-up moment can really be (relatively) stressful to watch. Keep up the good work! Quick sippa tea ☕️
Detail brain is apparently at 100% today: that t-intersection he put in to get out of the industry, you can visibly see the car sprites slow down on both sides.
Yay Teaport! Mine is called Bayview and up to 110.000 population. It has taken me many hours to get there, so looking forward to more of this serie as you are at 25.000 now ;)
Hey @Biffa, Just a ques for my city. Do you keep Unlimited Resources Mod On ? My oil rigs run out of oil to extract after some time and I have to move them to another place.
Just a suggestion for the Industry area.. if you want to make a forest industry next to what you have, you can always use in game trees to make an area without mods! I do this on console!
Is there a chance that you will be uppgrading to latest top card from NVIDIA and start uploading 4 k content again? Or is there another reason you have gone back to 1080 p?
I suddenly need a joke news video series for teaport with headlines like “rouge train drives off rails and through broadcasting tower” or “massive stampede outside of fartea grooves as hundreds of livestock migrate to new home”
Biffa, there is an asymmetrical highway you can use. This way you can keep the speed up instead of using the local asymmetrical. (and you avoid the crosswalk)
Ever since the glorious Industries DLC / Expansion which completely transforms the game for the better in so many ways I've wondered why we haven't seen a similar Commercial DLC / Expansion. It just seems so odd that it's been missed out. The first thing I feel needs addressing is the complete lack of multi-functional buildings. For example; Commercial-Residential buildings, low density retail buildings that have a small shop on the ground floor and one or two floors of apartments above them. Another would be Commercial-Office buildings. These types of buildings are so widespread all over the world it just baffles me how they're not in the game! They're so common and widespread, often lining any main road, that they should be unlocked extremely early on in the game as even those typical rural American towns with a population of 1,000 have them down Main Street! Then we have the major addition to the DLC / Expansion, the retail chain overhaul; Farms and industrial areas produce goods and deliver them to nearby storage yards / warehouses, Goods are collected and are taken to a sorting facility; collection by lorries reduces goods traffic, Sorted goods are then delivered to a distribution center via another lorry, [Trains can later replace the above lorries once unlocked to reduce road traffic] Sorted goods are then delivered to retail areas and superstores (explained below) via yet another lorry, Sorted goods are then either collected by customers from the store, or are packed in to delivery vans and are delivered to residential areas. Then we have the sometimes welcome and sometimes dreaded superstores, of which there are three levels; Level 1; A relatively small store specializing in only one type of goods that share a common space with other similarly sized stores; These would be modular buildings that wrap around a city-owned car park and share the parking facility; AKA a retail park. Typically these areas produce high levels of traffic and pollution. None of these stores offer home delivery. The city dictates the price of parking here and each store must pay a fee, meaning the city treasury itself gets an additional profit from them. Level 2; A medium-sized superstore specializing in multiple types of goods that owns the affixed car park, offering free short-term parking to the surrounding areas. These medium-sized stores have a dedicated delivery area around the rear so lorries can deliver sorted goods without causing traffic problems and loading bays for their home delivery vans. They boast reduced customer traffic due to their delivery service, which has a decent reach - In truth we already have these in game as an unlockable unique building, but they lack the delivery service and are pretty meh. Level 3; The Megastore. These are essentially superstores on steroids and are much larger and instead of only three delivery vans they have nine! Their home delivery area is much more widespread, usually tens of miles wide and just a couple of these stores could serve even the largest cities. They have multiple bays at the rear to accept more than one lorry at a time. Often conveniently place near a highway. And as an unlockable unique building we have The Strand; A collection of low density stores and stalls all crammed in to one small space which has an attached multistory car park, bus terminus, taxi rank, a tall office block and tall apartment block. It's most iconic feature being its massive underground loading bay facility, where lorries deliver goods to the stores completely uninterrupted by traffic and where a few delivery vans depart from. Boasting reduced noise pollution but suffering a high crime rate. Perfect for that high density residential area you have! Honestly I think a commercial overhaul is long overdue and should definitely be the next expansion. I'd happily hand over my money for the above, which is just how retail *should* work in the game! No more cities with mile wide squares of small shops and horrendous traffic problems!
For the love of God man please build these people a metro. I always convince myself that this is the episode you're going to do it and then have a mini stroke when you decide to throw in more trams.
Need a custom font that changes the symbol for your money into a tea leaf, maybe even just a leaf shape with a letter t taken out of it so you got a Tea Leaf currency for your city.
Just a heads-up, passing information along that I learned from the amazing folks on your Discord (I believe it was Archangel). When you use warehouses or storage buildings for the express purpose of supplying your factories or refineries, you want to set them to full. Setting to empty means they'll prioritize selling the raw materials, and setting to balanced means they'll sell before they'll fulfill needs when it hits more than 50%, whereas fill means they'll draw goods from the storage as they're needed by items rather than importing. I was having issues where I couldn't get materials to a factory and I asked on your Discord and that's what I was told, and when I made the switch it fixed my issue (I previously had everything set to empty or balanced).
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I'm also using that mod (after seeing it on here) and I was still having the issue, but to be fair it didn't really crop up until my pop hit around 100k so no idea if that had anything to do with it or not.
Do I need to list all the assets for my city, if I want to submit it on the Fix Your City Submission Form? It only says ,,How many assets does your city use? * "
Hey Folks, I have a question: Is it usefull to have more than one Industrie area of the same kind in a city? For example 2 oil areas in diffrent localtions.
I never knew you could put a road straight into the train cargo hub, it solves the traffic issue pretty well since they aren't being slowed down by the 90 degree turns!!!
Is there a way for the transfer facilities to automatically send out trucks? On console it gets full and i have to manually click it to empty. If anyone has a tip it would be greatly appreciated.
Please Biffa, turn the tram the other way at the end/industri area. That way the stop is at the right side of the tracks, and it does not cross itself either. Great city btw!
For the love of all that is holy and pure. Please put a fire department in Texas Tea Oil Well. It's a ticking time bomb.. the people need protection 🔥🔥🔥
If you notice, even at 5 stars, your oil industry is importing oil for the petroleum plant. I have that same problem, and like you I have the mod that's supposed to fix that kind of stuff, and plenty of crude oil production. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Absolutely love the industry videos, Biff. Keep it up :) on a side note, I know it's your 'ville and all, but I thought it strange that you started your city with a main road, but then never used it under any circumstances after so many videos. Strange plan, at least. Could pretty much delete it at this point. Thought you planned to build on the other side of it at eventually, but you've expanded several times, bought other squares even, never used the first thing you built, or the square you started with. Seems odd to avoid your original square as much as possible. Still, love the videos. Miss the traffic fixes. Hope all is well.
20:12 if you put the tram stop on the other side of the track, wouldn't that prevent them from crossing over each order at the turnaround? Also might make it easier to drop passengers off at the roadside instead of in the park, perhaps.
I think, if it was me, I would turn those little roads on the highway one way. They're so close together it wouldn't be difficult to turn them into mini roundabouts.
Hey Biffa, just want to let you know you're the man! I love cites skylines and play it often your traffic tips have helped me immensely. However I'm not artistically inclined so my cities are never pretty but watching you build and fix cities satisfies that itch. Thanks for all the content hope your channel keeps goin well!
5:50
What Biffa is basically doing: Residential has problems? Get rid of 'em, they can't complain if they don't exist!
China policy
@@MrHenkkkie
And Britain is under a lot of Chinese influence.
@@niccolom nobody asked
I love how the "*Duh... TEAPORT" is still here 3 episodes later!
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If you want to name the festival area: "Tea in the Park" is a cool option :D
Mayor Biffa's first term: Idealistic, eco-friendly, planting trees, bicycle paths everywhere, as little traffic as possible.
Mayor Biffa's second term: FIVE STAR OIL INDUSTRY!
SilverAnicore wrong mayor biffa first term is also farm/generic industry
SilverAnicore so delete your comment
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23:45 "messed up the path. That's fine." assumed you'd come back for the sake of the poor Teaport cyclists.
He surely will solve it off-line.
@@MarcCastellsBallesta Lets hope so
@@MarcCastellsBallesta I was hoping for an extra Episode... :D
But noticed it as well and was so waiting for him to fix it...
The high density area needs more straight and faster connection to the industrial area. You have that maze-road through a low density residential which is causing more traffic problems and it looks weird TBH. You need some kind of bypass near the river, between Sipapeta park and Teatown.
We all need more "Bish Bash Bosh" in our lives!
I might be able to get more work done if that was one my coffee -- er -- tea mug.
I immediately heard that in my head
Welcome to Teaport, Texas, making the finest Texas Tea in our Teaxas Tea Plants!
Oh, so Teaport is in Texas? Cool revelation but what about Teaville? Where is that?
@@amoguskid6429 I think Teaville is not USA, if he ever wanted it IRL.
@@hartwellwhite694 I don't think Biffa wanted Teaville irl. I'd be cool thou.
If you check the resources map, there is a lot more oil next to the place where Biffa is pumping the oil out of the ground. So oil for years :)
You forgot to mention the high teaxes.
"Dance like no one is watching, because nobody is"
Well, except for all seeing mayor Biffa
Once again biffa reminds me one of the benefits of being Australian is his upload schedule!
As an American I was thinking the same thing. Just in time to grab a cup of coffee and watch
Just at snacks time here in Nepal :D
Dinner time in Sweden 😂
TxSTARLORD Coffee!! ?
@@yogertslinger84 tea*
Biffa you moved the orchads off fertile land!! Love the series btw.
I think he used a mod to add more fertile land (I think it's called "resource painter" or something). You can see at 17:50 the orchards are complaining about lack of fertile land, but at 18:24 they're not. You can also see the color of the land changed to that fertile land color.
@@KarthikVishwamitra Was wondering about that too, good catch!
@@anita750 What a cheater!!! :D
@@moranjackson7662 I have the same Mod 😅🤣 Extra Landscaping Tools by BloodyPenguin.
He indeed already fixed that, and honestly I really don't care about Farmland being added as Crops tends to grow about anywhere if you know what you're doing
Citizen: I'm sick of the noise!
Biffa: You are evicted!! and your house is now a commercial office. BAI!
2:32 a red truck starts breakdancing in the bottom left corner... probably optimus' cousin
I knew I wasn’t the only one 😂😂
People: Too Loud
Biffa: Take down those houses, build office
People: Thanks :P
Would be cool for you to use more inner city train lines, both for industry and for commercial.
Sleeping Warrior I usually put the huge train hub somewhere near the center of my city (the 10 line one...I think), and built routes off of it. It’s important to have several forms of transit. Like you said, metro is good for small distance while train is longer distance.
I'd like a good video on a how to for trains. My tracks normally get filled up with trains. Which is funny, I can have a 200k population city with 80% traffic flow but my trains like 20% traffic flow.
@@mrow7598 those track segments between railroad junctions might be too short
edit: theres multiple ways to screw up underground. i had some segments too steep several times
@Sleeping Warrior you could use a line for each route so it reduces traffic however that would take up more space unless you have MOM then you can use more than 2 platforms
5:40 "It's too noisy..." Biffa: "Oh okay I shall solve that by DESTROYING YOUR HOME AND BUILDING AN OFFICE" ... That'll teach 'em to complain :D
I love your " *DUH... TEAPORT!" so much :D Like you expect yourself to accidently say "Teaville" again like some episodes before :D
2:33 That trailer spawning in with a backflip!
Today I started binge-watching TeaPort from the start, stopped watching since you discontinued TeaVille. I just completed watching last episode and suddenly- new episode!
17:55 I noticed you put a road along the back side of the orchards, If you have traffic problems, I recommend reversing every other orchard it keeps the traffic down on the roads.
Hey Biffa, I really enjoy our videos. :)
One thing though: Please fix the pillar of the railway bridge that crosses the road between Rosewood Heights and UtiliTea Park. The pillar is literally on the road. You can see it at 26:23 on the right side of the screen.
Keep up the great work! :)
Ah, yes ... "Texas Tea" used to mean "oil". Thank you, theme song of 60s US sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies".
Another thought.....
Normal industrial areas have a little bit of commercial mixed in. That's where the industrial plants buy parts and the workers buy lunch, and go to the bar after work.
I wasn't sure how Texas Tea was going to play since it's more of an American thing, but I thought it was clever enough to submit. Glad you do as well.
Just 3 things you could consider changing:
1. Rubbish from the recycling centre is also picked up by the waste transfer facility, so removing them was just removing the extra trucks which could recycle the waste.
2. The fan zone park should be placed somewhere further away so people will be attracted to the concert from more distant locations.
3. An assymetrical 1+2 national road exists from network extensions, this will make that quick road even quicker the whole way and remove the pedestrian crossings on it.
Poor Nestor. Biffa destroyed their chances at fame lol
The red truck at the bottom right @ 2:32...
"Dance like nobody looking!"
Except for the all-seeing eye of Biffa.
God is ever watching, make sure he likes what he sees 😝
This is the weirdest oil industry I’ve ever seen. You would think it’s American but it has tea in its name.
He name's everything tea 🍵 related even the name of this city is tea 🍵 related "Teaport" he loves 💘 Tea 🍵
here’s *thump thump* the muthaFRICKin *thump thump* tea 🍵
I'll have you know us Texans are mighty partial to our Iced Tea. 💖 Don't even get me started with the western unsweet vs the eastern sweet tea debate. I have family on both sides. I'ts typically that or coffee. Personally Biffa has me drinking his Tea brand now. I'll never turn back. 😍 Fun fact here in oil country we call the smaller pump jacks he first installed in the oil area Grasshoppers. They are as common as cows and windmills out here in the panhandle.
If you look through the comments on the previous episode you'll find the story behind the name
2:33 The red truck at the bottom left does a freaking kick flip!
Like the videos! Are you planning to do a detailing to the industry erea as well? I have the feeling that you like the plopping more :P
I love how Biffa calls the city the right name but still leaves the text overlay just in case 😂
Here's some tips to curb the noise pollution:
1. Sound barriers must be installed on highway/freeway/expressway
2. Mandatory conversion into office-type high-density buildings, and immediate relocation/resettlement to lesser polluted area for affected residents as a way of compensation
For congestion prevention:
1. Local Public Transport Route Plan has to be executed properly
2. Train/MRT/Metro/Subway and Bus must be prioritised
3. Sidewalks, Bicycle lane is a must for local/near destinations, healthy lifestyle
I'm absolutely loving how City of Teapot is turning out.
Meanwhile, for my city (Borealis), I seemed to have figured out the best approximate timings for 4-way timed traffic lights on general city streets: Minimum time of 3 seconds, maximum time of 20 seconds. I usually have my left turns get their own short phase (minimum 3 seconds, maximum 20 seconds too). Once I set the Advanced AI on TMPE 11.5 Labs and also set Normal Priority rules at signals, I was able to set up partially protected left turns with protected left phase that is followed or preceded by a "give way to opposing straight & right turn traffic" phase, just like a real life Canadian city street intersection.
For dual or triple left turn lanes, or for urban roads that are faster than 70km/h (45 mph), I confine left turns to their own dedicated phase, the same as the real life Thunder Bay Expressway and Harbour Expressway in my home city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, which is home to one of the biggest grain handling ports on Earth.
8:35 i like how the drian drifts onto the tracks
Just letting you know, that the 3 lane assimmetrical road has a Highway version aswell, so you can you use that on fast roads :-)
Biffa pronounces ‘Teaport’ more like ‘teapot’ in my Dutch ears. How fitting 😀
I never noticed that those concert venues could upgrade. Spiffy!
Watching these as fast as they come out, wonderful city, and the care you take to build it is superb! Keep up the work :D I'll still throw in my suggestion for a space related area (Radar antenna is unlocked!), called "Extra Tearrestrial"!
8:26 Building on top a moving train? Let's plant some trees.. 😂
I remember you had oil in the river. That would probably be good for the offshore drilling platform.
Maybe a parking lot, or at least allow parking on the streets, in the industrial area? All of the workers have to keep their cars in their pockets!!! MAYBE that would help bring the employee numbers up?
Thanks for another great video!! Teaport Duh is gonna be amazing!!!
Biffa, at about 17:45 you move the crops from futile ground to non-fertile ground (not yellow) and, in time, it turns fertile and yellow. Why does that work? Earlier in the series you moved the livestock away from fertile ground so you could use that area for more crops. ?? (Thanks for a great series! I'm enjoying it and learning a lot.)
Just an FYI Biffa - Fishing produces Commercial Goods.
Hey Biffa! Thanks for doing these series! Two questions.
1) You ever think of making a monorail line start in residential and end directly in the industry area? It is faster and carries more people than bus/tram.
Could be called the InstaTeaRail ;)
2) Is there a list of your PC specs? The RAM required for this game is significantly higher than recommended (esp with mods). Might be helpful for new players!
FYI his specs are in the channel description, 64GB! I upgraded to a new PC, 32 up from 8 (from a fairly old PC) earlier this year just for Skylines 😂
@@adamhoughton9516 Thanks for pointing it out. I must have missed it! I did the same thing. 16 GBs just wasn't cutting it hahaha
The thing with the Festival Area is like the old Lady in New York who had a similar argument against Universal Healthcare saying it is free so it's not worth anything ... They tried to explain but ... no getting through there.
I guess one argument that might work is "Another party will be dealing with the financial side of things so you don't have to, it's not Free but you're not the one dealing with it"
Yay! New video
Enjoy :-)
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines If you want natural resources you could just use the resource brush tool made available due to the "Extra landscaping tools"mod. The option is at the bottom of the screen and looks like a green crystal and is just beside the water tool.
@@ABHIii_i I think Biffa has addressed it before. He thinks it is a bit cheaty. (Correct me if I am wrong. I might be thinking about someone else)
@@divyanshaggarwal6243 Oh, you are correct. I completely understand it🤔
Watching you fixing traffic and playing this game has made me return to it again, it just feels really good to enjoy the game again, and take the time to create something nice. Thank you for creating such entertaining and relaxing videos Biffa ^^
Can u set the temperature to °C and will u on the next city u make will it be left hand lane drive because here in UK the land of the tea we drive on left
Biffa Plays Indie Games I love your vids- I started watching a couple of years ago and have followed along through many, many city fixes, all of Teaville and now Teaport. Here are some ideas I’d like to see:
1. Name a mountain road or a raised highway “The Chai Road” harhar
2. Build a grand boulevard similar to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. It’s a four lane road flanked on either side by narrow, tree-lined parks featuring walking paths, bike lanes and metro entrances, and flanking the outside of that, on either side, are two one-way roads with parking on either side before you get to the sidewalks next to the buildings. The length of the boulevard could be zoned as a park!
Apparently Eastern Blvd was the world’s first Parkway, and was designed by engineer FL Olmstead, who also designed Central Park in NYC and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. You can look it the layout in the google maps street view: Eastern Pkwy at Classon Ave is a good example.
Eastern Blvd might be a fiasco to build in-game, but the process ought to be fun to watch (like that time you built the Swindon traffic circle 🤣). Maybe you could even call it The Chai Road!
Thanks for doing these vids! They’re so fun and relaxing to watch. One small bit of constructive crit- I personally would rather have a longer video and not have the sped up portions with the chipmunk voice. There is something so relaxing and almost hypnotic watching you puzzle out issues and explain your moves that the rare sped-up moment can really be (relatively) stressful to watch. Keep up the good work! Quick sippa tea ☕️
What kinda GPU do u have?? Btw are u upgrading into the new Rtx 3000 series??.. Anyways nice video👍🏻🙌🏻😁
2080ti and no plans or need to upgrade :-)
Heya @Biffa! Maybe you'll read this question: why aren't you just using normal 4-lane roads in your industry district?
I love that 2+1+bikes road! I'm amazed Delta 5-1 managed to squeeze all that into only 16m.
Detail brain is apparently at 100% today: that t-intersection he put in to get out of the industry, you can visibly see the car sprites slow down on both sides.
I feel like, as a result of this series, there will be more bike lane roads on the workshop
Biffa, at 17:48 there was no fertile land at first. Did you paint some fertile land in order to move those farmlands?
Yay Teaport! Mine is called Bayview and up to 110.000 population. It has taken me many hours to get there, so looking forward to more of this serie as you are at 25.000 now ;)
Hey @Biffa, Just a ques for my city.
Do you keep Unlimited Resources Mod On ?
My oil rigs run out of oil to extract after some time and I have to move them to another place.
Yes
Just a suggestion for the Industry area.. if you want to make a forest industry next to what you have, you can always use in game trees to make an area without mods! I do this on console!
2:33 watch the red truck in the bottom left. It does some interesting things with its trailer...
Is there a chance that you will be uppgrading to latest top card from NVIDIA and start uploading 4 k content again? Or is there another reason you have gone back to 1080 p?
All my videos are 4k and you don't need a new GPU for that! It just takes RUclips time to get the 4k up...nothing I can do about it.
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines AH i see. its just because im to quick to klick your videos then I guess. thanks for the respond :) keep on building ! (Y)
I think you got it from Delta 5-1. Looks like he has tons of good roads. I love it...
The fanzone park can have a path directly to the concert. Assuming they are next to each other.
I suddenly need a joke news video series for teaport with headlines like “rouge train drives off rails and through broadcasting tower” or “massive stampede outside of fartea grooves as hundreds of livestock migrate to new home”
Biffa, there is an asymmetrical highway you can use. This way you can keep the speed up instead of using the local asymmetrical. (and you avoid the crosswalk)
Thanks, Biffa for accepting the Texas Tea suggestion!
There is an asymmetrical three-lane highway piece you can use! 24:30
8:38 train be like: go crazy waeeewwea
Love that there's a "Duh Teaport" on-screen prompt even when the city's correctly referred to as Teaport. Hilarous, Biffa! 😂
Tips by Biffa, if you can't see the pollution, it doesn't exist
Ever since the glorious Industries DLC / Expansion which completely transforms the game for the better in so many ways I've wondered why we haven't seen a similar Commercial DLC / Expansion. It just seems so odd that it's been missed out.
The first thing I feel needs addressing is the complete lack of multi-functional buildings. For example; Commercial-Residential buildings, low density retail buildings that have a small shop on the ground floor and one or two floors of apartments above them. Another would be Commercial-Office buildings. These types of buildings are so widespread all over the world it just baffles me how they're not in the game! They're so common and widespread, often lining any main road, that they should be unlocked extremely early on in the game as even those typical rural American towns with a population of 1,000 have them down Main Street!
Then we have the major addition to the DLC / Expansion, the retail chain overhaul;
Farms and industrial areas produce goods and deliver them to nearby storage yards / warehouses,
Goods are collected and are taken to a sorting facility; collection by lorries reduces goods traffic,
Sorted goods are then delivered to a distribution center via another lorry,
[Trains can later replace the above lorries once unlocked to reduce road traffic]
Sorted goods are then delivered to retail areas and superstores (explained below) via yet another lorry,
Sorted goods are then either collected by customers from the store, or are packed in to delivery vans and are delivered to residential areas.
Then we have the sometimes welcome and sometimes dreaded superstores, of which there are three levels;
Level 1; A relatively small store specializing in only one type of goods that share a common space with other similarly sized stores; These would be modular buildings that wrap around a city-owned car park and share the parking facility; AKA a retail park. Typically these areas produce high levels of traffic and pollution. None of these stores offer home delivery. The city dictates the price of parking here and each store must pay a fee, meaning the city treasury itself gets an additional profit from them.
Level 2; A medium-sized superstore specializing in multiple types of goods that owns the affixed car park, offering free short-term parking to the surrounding areas. These medium-sized stores have a dedicated delivery area around the rear so lorries can deliver sorted goods without causing traffic problems and loading bays for their home delivery vans. They boast reduced customer traffic due to their delivery service, which has a decent reach - In truth we already have these in game as an unlockable unique building, but they lack the delivery service and are pretty meh.
Level 3; The Megastore. These are essentially superstores on steroids and are much larger and instead of only three delivery vans they have nine! Their home delivery area is much more widespread, usually tens of miles wide and just a couple of these stores could serve even the largest cities. They have multiple bays at the rear to accept more than one lorry at a time. Often conveniently place near a highway.
And as an unlockable unique building we have The Strand; A collection of low density stores and stalls all crammed in to one small space which has an attached multistory car park, bus terminus, taxi rank, a tall office block and tall apartment block. It's most iconic feature being its massive underground loading bay facility, where lorries deliver goods to the stores completely uninterrupted by traffic and where a few delivery vans depart from. Boasting reduced noise pollution but suffering a high crime rate. Perfect for that high density residential area you have!
Honestly I think a commercial overhaul is long overdue and should definitely be the next expansion. I'd happily hand over my money for the above, which is just how retail *should* work in the game! No more cities with mile wide squares of small shops and horrendous traffic problems!
This is an amazing idea!! I hope someone builds it
For the love of God man please build these people a metro. I always convince myself that this is the episode you're going to do it and then have a mini stroke when you decide to throw in more trams.
Need a custom font that changes the symbol for your money into a tea leaf, maybe even just a leaf shape with a letter t taken out of it so you got a Tea Leaf currency for your city.
9:17 Does that bit of road have a stop sign?
Or maybe allowing the cars to pass through that junction without waiting
Beautiful city :)
Nice update. Remember to reconnect that bike path! 💚
Just a heads-up, passing information along that I learned from the amazing folks on your Discord (I believe it was Archangel). When you use warehouses or storage buildings for the express purpose of supplying your factories or refineries, you want to set them to full. Setting to empty means they'll prioritize selling the raw materials, and setting to balanced means they'll sell before they'll fulfill needs when it hits more than 50%, whereas fill means they'll draw goods from the storage as they're needed by items rather than importing. I was having issues where I couldn't get materials to a factory and I asked on your Discord and that's what I was told, and when I made the switch it fixed my issue (I previously had everything set to empty or balanced).
Thanks. I use the effective transfer mod which I'm pretty sure changes that 👍
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I'm also using that mod (after seeing it on here) and I was still having the issue, but to be fair it didn't really crop up until my pop hit around 100k so no idea if that had anything to do with it or not.
I love how the concert's fan zone is pressed right up against the freight railway
Do I need to list all the assets for my city, if I want to submit it on the Fix Your City Submission Form?
It only says ,,How many assets does your city use? * "
Hey Folks,
I have a question:
Is it usefull to have more than one Industrie area of the same kind in a city?
For example 2 oil areas in diffrent localtions.
12:01 that truck snake tho
Are you're teaville trams also on the workshop? I can't find them on there.
Biffa, I think you need a train station in between the first residential area and the factory area to bring in workers. Another great city from Biffa
I never knew you could put a road straight into the train cargo hub, it solves the traffic issue pretty well since they aren't being slowed down by the 90 degree turns!!!
Is there a way for the transfer facilities to automatically send out trucks? On console it gets full and i have to manually click it to empty. If anyone has a tip it would be greatly appreciated.
Please Biffa, turn the tram the other way at the end/industri area. That way the stop is at the right side of the tracks, and it does not cross itself either.
Great city btw!
For the love of all that is holy and pure. Please put a fire department in Texas Tea Oil Well. It's a ticking time bomb.. the people need protection 🔥🔥🔥
9:15 you should also consider providing public transportation such as metro to there. ;)
If you notice, even at 5 stars, your oil industry is importing oil for the petroleum plant. I have that same problem, and like you I have the mod that's supposed to fix that kind of stuff, and plenty of crude oil production. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Also, can i have some advice? Should i spread out unique buildings? Atm i put them together like a city center....
Yes
Absolutely love the industry videos, Biff. Keep it up :) on a side note, I know it's your 'ville and all, but I thought it strange that you started your city with a main road, but then never used it under any circumstances after so many videos. Strange plan, at least. Could pretty much delete it at this point. Thought you planned to build on the other side of it at eventually, but you've expanded several times, bought other squares even, never used the first thing you built, or the square you started with. Seems odd to avoid your original square as much as possible. Still, love the videos. Miss the traffic fixes. Hope all is well.
20:12 if you put the tram stop on the other side of the track, wouldn't that prevent them from crossing over each order at the turnaround? Also might make it easier to drop passengers off at the roadside instead of in the park, perhaps.
I think, if it was me, I would turn those little roads on the highway one way. They're so close together it wouldn't be difficult to turn them into mini roundabouts.
5:45 complaining about noise.. I think they were actually complaining about that funky background music you keep using.
21:13 Vehicle enters roundabout, goes around the entire thing and exits onto same street.
Btw when you moved the farms to give space to industry, are they in fertile ground? great video as always
Yes they are :-)
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines After you added it 😝
Biffa, the asymmetrical road with bike lanes was made by Delta 5-1.
yay my alt got loved.
At 6:00, the reason the noise is so high is you used high density commerical which has a much much higher noise rate than normal commerical.
Hey Biffa, just want to let you know you're the man! I love cites skylines and play it often your traffic tips have helped me immensely. However I'm not artistically inclined so my cities are never pretty but watching you build and fix cities satisfies that itch. Thanks for all the content hope your channel keeps goin well!
Large expanses are the industrial area's best friend!
Texas Tea is also a variation of the Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail.