I just downloaded CS2 but everytime that I play and try to place roads my screen goes yellow and thats the same with water pipes. Also I cant download mods off the Thunderstore. Is there anyway that you can help me
# name me 1 town- has both electronics and farming land, so I think the name should be combination of both something like Ampere Acres or Watt Meadows etc.
For the Electronics factory, I regularly drive past Intel in Oregon and they have quite a massive substation on what basically is a campus of buildings. Worth looking at the area and fleshing it out
Since Switchon is a tech firm, I feel like a Solar Array would be a great fit for the campus! Solves your power problems and you can export the extra electricity via the nearby HV lines.
I could see the community being very concerned about power draw from a large place like this and requiring some sort of electricity generation to offset its massive draw.
Depending on the type of electronics being developed and produced, you might see an extremely dense, tall wall of trees facing those farms. The trees would be low pollen, low detritus species. The reason is that they act as a dust filter that helps keep the factory air easier to keep as clean as possible.
1) I never get bored of the "Philip goes ham" music when either something goes wrong, or you do (e.g. you let perfect be the enemy of good in your own inimitable fashion) 2) I've never heard "oppressive little shopping centre" sound quite so cheerful or inviting (around the 25 min mark)
@@TheRetacon I could see him refusing to abandon his clown ways on principle. While not wearing clown suits as governor, you just know he would be the type to wear eye-watering colored suits and Hawaiian ties.
Chuckles has my vote ☑ Also, my favorite part of every video is when we get the Faffing Music - music for when you're faffing around and slowly losing your sanity while CS2 makes the weirdest road decisions. (Wii shop music)
Bro you are a hero! Youre the comment I was looking for, lol. It was on the tip of my tongue. Now i remember it was from wii. I was thinking of the DSi shop lol
it's so relatable too LOL! I do mapdesign for my fav RTS games and sometimes the mapeditor just goes WACK! and you can spend 30 minutes just faffing with that shit lmao
I propose the large lake near the factory to be named “Minneikaphyu”, after the Lakota words “minne” (lake) and “icahpe-hu” (cornflower), the lore being that the occasional flooding of the lake’s banks resulted many cornflowers blooming in the damp soil. Name me #1 could be “Cornflower View” and Name me #2 could be “Kaphyu Junction” (knowing the settlers they’d probably butcher the names).
It doesn’t seem impossible for transit service to exist to such a large employer. In East Idaho we have the Idaho National Laboratory which employs about 6000. It runs shuttle buses to all the towns in the area for the workers because it is located in the middle of nowhere. Keep in mind that Idaho is a very rural and (unfortunately) not transit oriented state, but still this exists. It would be very cool to see a similar motor coach service run to the electronics factory in MC.
Assuming I'm correct and the SwitchOn is based on the Gigafactory or something similar, it DOES have multiple buses for multiple surrounding towns. (Source: I work there) Pretty much the same as you said, more or less.
Hello Phil! In the spirit on the upcoming election season, it could be a fun idea to set up a RUclips poll where your viewers (citizens of Superior State) can vote for the next Governor! Also, if there are any proposals for new developments, perhaps on occasion you can incorporate votes as an interactive way of engaging with the narrative and lore of the series.
Those big trucks on the mine being as big as a barn is probably to scale. The large trucks they use in mining sites like that are absurdly large. Like, unironically the size of a barn.
Thank you! I really like Magnolia County. I want to share some information from around the world: In Turkey, most factory workers usually don't drive to work, and many of them don't even have a car. Instead, companies help their workers get to their job by giving them transportation as a bonus. Companies either use their own buses or hire transportation services to pick up and drop off workers. These buses follow routes like regular public buses and stop at specific places to pick up workers. This way, companies use their valuable land for production (in Turkey, industrial zones are generally very valuable) instead of using it for parking. Also employees can save money and time by using these buses instead of their own car. For example, they can read or sleep in the bus instead of driving.
I believe large companies in India offer the same kind of service to their employees. However in France, where I live, they usually don't because public transportation is often quite good and reliable. And I feel that in North America, where Magnolia County is supposed to be, this doesn't exist either even though public transportation is not up to European standards but just because almost everyone owns a car.
Not sure if you saw the other comments, but a flood video would be great. The houses on the river bank are not built to withstand an overflowing river. Also erosion exists, thus, the land is very loose. I live in Illinois, flooding happens often.
Gotta be where chuckles gets the opiates from. No way his taxi cab business is legit. No way it’s so successful in magnolia county where everyone drives. I think he’s a secret drug lord using his taxi business as a front to smuggle opiates around magnolia county
I would really reconsider that aggregate mine, electronics production is very sensitive to movement, seismic blasting nearby would be a major detriment to the factory. Likewise generally you need a lot of other production nearby to be cost effective (think shenzen) so I'd consider the other industrial uses in the area.
@Invalid_eSports i was thinking the same, not only from dust but potentially harmful water runoff after rain (from diesel and chemicals needed to run the machinery), which would then likely go into the lake there, creating even more environmental hazards and make any nearby bore water or underground water deposits toxic and unsuitable for farming. I also live in an area with a lot of farms, and the only quarries nearby are over 5km away from us, the only 'farm' near them is a small cattle farm. The most prevalent industry in our more immediate area is forestry (huuuuge pine plantation less than a kilometre away from our house). Which also benefits the farmers cause they use sawdust and mulch on the farms and for compost. Our farmers would fight tooth and nail to keep any form of mining at minimim of 1-2km away from them. Also a lot of farmers here would be pushing for better highway or road access to minimise the maintenance and upkeep of machinery (bloody potholes), and keep any potential accidents down. Even if it meant a small portion of their property was bought by the department of main roads. They'd also likely ask for better public transit because it brings in workers that dont have cars, such as foreign workers.
Name me #1 should be called Behemoth after the absolutely massive aggregate drill that dominates the landscape. And even if that eventually redevelops, the name will be a simple reminder of what was once there.
To be fair, some construction equipment are massive. I drive a tractor scraper(the real “terraforming tool”) and they are huge but I’ve also operated huge loaders to move minerals and other equipment that could definitely be bigger than a barn.
Hearing your voice on this intro after the AI one, I realize how I love your voice. We listen to your RUclips channel since many years now. You grounded us and you keep us sane and calm through so much in our life. Your voice and your laugh is probably your best asset! Please continue be your self! Thank you so much for your time.
Aggregate mines tend get plotted below the surrounding ground level and then surrounded by dense bushing and or a knoll. Also a factory of that size and that isolated would have easily been able to subsidize their own solar field with the local governments.
A factory that size would easily have gone for more parking that might later turn into a parking garage as surrounding property values inevitably increase. Especially being located so far away from where many of their workers live.
I was also about to comment saying that I would have backed the aggregate mine a little bit off the roads to provide some vegetation buffer and to prevent the roads from slipping into the mine...
My favorite part of this episode is the little neighborhoods and farms you placed between the city and the new community. I grew up in rural NC and that's exactly how my town/county was. We have one HUGE employer (a military base) just outside out of town, with a few miles of farmland, small subdivisions and houses directly on country roads separating our town and the base. Great episode Phil!
As a central Ohio resident, who not infrequently drives past the future site of that big Intel plant, I have to say this all looks very familiar. There are a lot of high tech facilities in the area on what were very recently farm fields, so surrounding the factory with farms was a good idea. The roads around the factory remind me a lot of Beech Road (a road with numerous data centers located on it) with the trees on the sides and the green space between the road and the factory. A decade ago that road was just a little 2 lane country road, like the other roads you didn’t upgrade. I can see in the future some of those smaller roads getting upgraded and some of the farms replaced by more industry.
Oh hey, something I'm actually familiar with! I live in an area with a couple mega-corp campuses, the types that employ well into the quad digits, and a couple things where your implementation diverges from reality. First, is that the campus footprint is *much* larger than you have here. Not only would there be way more parking, but there'd be multiple buildings (like could be modeled with industrial and offices in-game) spanning the campus surrounding the main one, with walking space in between (much like a college campus) and various security checkpoints, maybe even some on-campus transit. Second, the campuses *really* try and stay hidden from view. Of the two in my area, one his a landscaped hill surrounding the entire thing (like a hollow square-shaped hill around the entire block) so it's impossible to see inside of the block at all, and the other has big lines of trees and forests blocking any type of view. To actually see the tech company at all, you have to actually go into the campus itself, otherwise it's near invisible. The real-world footprint would probably be about 5 or 6x the size it is here, probably a tad smaller than the university you built earlier in the series. That's at least compared to the ones in my area, which I'm not sure how many they actually employ and might actually be *much* larger than the 1500 of the one in-game, so maybe not entirely applicable.
Phil if you haven't already, watch Infrastructurist. He builds a fully custom train station that fits so well into his town. Love to see something like this is Magnolia County
I just want to say that I'm really, really glad that you hired an artist for the character portraits and moved away from the really uncanny AI-generated stuff. My feelings on AI image generations are complicated but Chuckles' bellybutton being gone is a huge relief.
It would be cool to see some town names based on French words given how prevalent the French were in the area. Some suggestions Rivière (river), Aulne (alder tree), Collines (hills), Fluer (flower). All of these are just from google translate so not to sure about the translations.
Regarding the "scale issue" with the mines... based on how enormous these machines are in real life, I actually don't think there is an issue, it's just that those kinds of machines are absolutely massive.
Something worth considering might be putting a line of trees, sound barrier, or even just a guardrail on the stretch of highway next to the football stadium. Seems like something there could be some concerns about, such as stadium lights blinding traffic at night, or having child recreation right next to a highway with no barrier in between.
I find adding realistic (vast) amounts of parking to be great for storytelling. As you've done previously in your series' - plopping lots of parking in the first instance, but later on, replacing empty or unused parking with commercial/offices really adds to the lifespan of areas that could otherwise be "plop + forget".
I think the only thing that seems moderately unrealistic is having a giant aggregate facility in the center of a bunch of farms. Those facilities kick up a ton of dust and that dust would carry and coat all of the plants leading to reduced yields and lower quality products overall. Just some food for thought
As a truck driver I see it all the time out in the Midwest and in the Northern and Western plains as well as in Texas. It is not uncommon. You also have to understand that many of the farmers have least the lands mineral rights to these mines and plants in order to make money as well. The fact that their crops close might suffer a tad, is made up for in the prophecy make from the lease of the mineral rights. And to be quite honest, these types of areas actually seem to coexist fine. However this aggregate mine seems too big for the area and not to realistic looking
if you build a car factory, you NEED to build a test track area please!!! Would be really cool to build there, now that we got a electronic factory....Love the series!
You and Biffa are doing outstanding work now with CS:2. Really enjoyed this build, and I like how you explain your choices. Nice one! Can't wait until we get the assets we bought and also the promised pack.
On the parking, that employee count could include 4 shifts and employees that are remote like sales reps., making your count more accurate. Half the time I don't even show up in the office :)
I don't have a name for a district in particular, however I want to suggest it anyways. If you're planning on making one of the small local developments into a more metropolitan area, perhaps a transport hub from Bend to the Spasm Electronics building, may I recommend the name 'Lilydale'? It's the name of a town in Victoria, Australia, roughly 30km out from Melbourne. The reason I mention Lilydale, is that in the early 1920s it was a small town with a few townhouses and stores down Main Street, with a railway passing through ~30 years prior, but now It's developed so much, and it's amazing to see the sprawling suburbia and the new station design, that's all, but this series is one of my favourites, and a must watch for me, keep it up!!
This is my first time commenting on this channel, even though I've been watching for a few years now and never missed an episode of Magnolia County! This is so amazing! It's also so damn cool to see the Signature Buildings coming into play in a realistic fashion! Are you planning on using that Service Station signature building at all, since you were looking into it for a while in earlier episodes. Other than that, though, so, so, so happy to see how things are shaping up! The storytelling is easily 10/10, and the building... look, you're the best Cities: Skylines player I've ever had the pleasure of watching, and there's some strong competition there! I can't wait to see how things keep going, this series is amazing!
The idea of Chuckels becoming a politician would be terrifying in a real life scenario; however, in the CPPU, this would be very fun and interesting to watch unfold. He would be Superior's first villain Governor just blocking any and all projects that don't suit his needs while simultaneously allowing the worst projects come to fruition all based on his and his friend's wants and desires. And then the backstabbing occurs. Chuckles would easily be bought by the highest bidder once he realizes how much money he could make, opening the door for the destruction of rural areas, lowering the priority of sensible builds in favor of ones that only serve to further the profits of private developers, and underfunding parks, schools, and other community services. Crime would run rampant, buildings would abandon... Superior would be in complete disarray thus facilitating the need for a redemption arch. Chuckles, now in his twilight years would lose his seat to a young, ambitious Superior local determined to rebuild the once beautiful and prosperous state to its former glory. Honestly, Chuckles winning the Governorship could affect multiple series. You've got a potential MCU level storytelling opportunity on your hands and Chuckes could be your Thanos. I say go for it.
Unrelated to this but something I did myself was add forest and grass surfaces over fields to give the illusion of different growth stages and plant types.
I always put bushes by paths too. I think it has something to do with how jarring the transition from the grey path to green terrain is, it just doesn't look natural without something to distract from it.
There are no scaling issues with the excavator. You should check out how massive some excavators and dump trucks can be, especially in quarries and similar environments. For example, the Caterpillar 6090 FS is a hydraulic mining shovel that weighs around 1,000 tons and has a bucket capacity of 52 cubic meters. It’s designed to load gigantic haul trucks like the Caterpillar 797F, which itself can carry up to 400 tons of material.
Hey Phil! Loving the care and detail you put in to each of your videos!! Can we get a POV of a person just walking through the city? It would give us a different perspective of the city if we can walk in it and see things from the perspective of a person living in the city ❤
For the high voltage line across the river, its not unreasonable that they'd tie the lines in to the existing rail bridge (with additional isolations) rather than having pylons in the water. If they did have to have pylons for a dedicated crossing, could they be the enlarged +10m pylons to give that extra bit of height for the river crossing. You can also use selective high pylons to smooth the wores' journeys into steep valleys.
I know I’m a bit late for this, but as someone that lives in an area a lot like this, I have a bit of a tweak for you, that being the rural subdivisions. There…isnt really much “subdivision” to the layout out here. Really all the subdivisions are is a single road branching off a Jeffersonian-like grid with houses on it. No roads branching off of them and gridding into others, just houses. And that’s one subdivision. Plus…the roads are paved out here. They aren’t always marked, but they are paved.
Hello, I know that in the USA everyone has a car and uses it a lot on a daily basis. But here, in Europe, when we build these large industrial zones, we also create bus lines, for people who live in the city center, or in other places. I don't know if it will work here, but it's strange not to see it. I loved the plot as always, incredible work of creating an engaging story or objective, and not just building.
I really hope the surfaces will eventually be updated to work better with snow. I'm coming around to liking them, but the lack of snow is a bummer. 31:15 LOVE that gazebo 😍
The town I live in uses multiple naming conventions for the streets. When working as a poll-worker during elections at a location with multiple precincts we will ask people what street they live on, many of them get divided somewhere on their length or by side of the street, but if they name a tree, they go to the 6th Precinct. I live in a section named after famous American authors(Hawthorn, Longfellow, etc) and would love to see a section like that in Magnolia County, maybe near a school.
Mining excavators *can* be as big as houses, like the Liebherr R9800. The mine being flat is more unrealistic than the scale. The bucket-wheel excavator should be in a hole so deep it'd barely poke out. It digs sideways, not downwards. It's a bit of an issue that it spawns in areas too small for it.
0:39 As a resident of Minnesota disappointed with the new flag. There were a lot better options, including the original version of the chosen flag that had a tricolor instead of just light blue.
Great video. 😊 What about a pond on the Switchon campus and maybe even a simple baseball diamond? It seems like that is happening at big employers where land is cheap. It also is a good use for expansion land.
Do aggregate mines really end up so close to farmland? It's a feature a few times in Magnolia County now. genuine question from someone unfamiliar with the industry
32:09 These open pit mine excavators ARE the size of a barn. Or two. They are HUMONGOUS! The biggest bucket wheel excavators are over 700 feet long and 300 feet tall. And even the "normal" looking excavators in an open pit mine are over 100 feet long and weigh over 100 tons. So I don't think the scaling is off by a lot here...
If I were an employee at Spasm I would love to have a tiny manmade pond next to the pavilion. This could boost the view a lot and people are gonna love it. I think there’s a mod available to add water source to the map :)
Besides the employee parking at the back of the Switchon plant, there should be a guest / management parking in the front of the building neer the entrance. Including parking spots for electric vehicles and a parking space for disabled people.
How about "Town of Spasm"? Hershey, PA was founded as a factory town for it's workers at Hershey. Maybe the Town of Spasm is a factory town for it's workers. Up in Bailey, how about "Town of Oxbow", for the oxbow in the river.
19:26 Shout out to you, Phill, from Brazil. I love to see that this character (Nazaré) from a brazilian soap opera became a worldwide meme. You do a great job, always learning from your videos. Keep on!!
38:21 For name me #6, I think it should be called Zailey because it’s the rural part of Bailey and the name similarity would cause both unity and rivalry between the towns. And for the lore It should be two sisters discovered and explored the region but fought over who it would be named after (don’t ask me why they didn’t do their last name) and they claimed opposite sides of the region. Edit: Maybe for #7 it should be called Midley because it’s in the middle (geographically) between Zailey and Bailey and it has the “ley” suffix. Edit 2: I’m sorry for the edits I promise this is the last one but I think #8 should be called Kaboom District assuming the company that operates the factory is called Kaboom ( the company is rivals with spasm even though the industries are semi-different )
"Name me #2" could be Columbia Heights. It was the last neighborhood in DC I lived in before moving to Logan Circle. I think the hillside could match the "heights" part of it.
Exercise areas actually do help with insurance costs! My father was a government employee, and everyone under his contract was able to take a much longer lunch if they went for a walk during at least part of it!
The battery back ups will only charge from the "local grid" and it'll discharge if power is needed from the "external grid". The locally produced power is cheaper than the external power so the back up battery's purpose is to add a buffer to your local grid so that it doesn't have to take power from the external grid. If the only power available is from the external grid or the backup batteries it'll discharge the backup batteries first before taking power from the external grid. I also think that once the batteries are discharged the battery backup would act like an expensive transformer kinda like you expected.
Came here to say this. The reason the battery's stored energy was being used instead of imported energy being used is because that is the battery's entire reason for existing. Once it became completely drained the power would start drawing from the outside connection.
its been a while since i watched the start of one of your regions, but man it feels like MC has so much already built for only being 17 episodes in. cant tell if its a you having improved that much or a CS 2 change. thanks for the videos man, cheers
@5:50 roads not matching up is due to which tile you had purchased and used at the time. You can only draw in roads on the inside of a purchased tile. then later when you buy the tiles surrounding, your new grid could be on the opposite side of the dotted border line. IT's fine becasue i see country roads have a jog at intersections all the time. 😃
25:17 While you were cleaning up the roads on the new shopping mall, I think that Park lane could use an alignment (with complex curve tool) with the intersection into the mall. That way you would avoid a staggered intersection.
Thought it would be fun to continue a theme going off of the chair in Chairity Island. Looking up some synonyms I landed on French - #5 Escritoire, #3 Carnet, #4 Lumière - so it goes chair -> desk -> notebook -> lamp (light) from Chairity up to the university.
Don’t forget, when it comes to parking, not all employees will be on station at the same time, the full number will likely be broken up into three to four schedule groups meaning you only truly need the one parking space for every 3-4 employees
For such a large number of workers (>500-700), I have seen companies tend to offer employee specific bus service in nearby areas. So less parking can be arranged. Edit: And if you include shiftwise worker count at a time, only 1/3rd of workers be in company at a time.
I personally would love to see Gehlar Road still be added, but I did notice there isn't a ton (if any) of roads NAMED "road" or "way" in the build, lots of streets and lanes with a couple of Blvds mixed in. Could you make a new subdivision that focuses more on the "road" or "way" naming convention? You could have the names be named after different types of the same animal, similar to what you did with the bird streets in Myrtle Park. Perhaps different types of snakes (Cobra Road, Python Way, Milk Snake Road, etc) or deer (Whitetail Deer Road, Reindeer Road, Redtail Deer Way, etc.) If you go with the deer naming convention, you could even name one of the towns "Deerwood"!
Ok, further thoughts-- I can see the hill behind the farmer's market being prime real estate for businesses and/or medium-density housing. I can also see a water tower being installed there as a kind of county water supply. For an area centered around a business full of high-education jobs (although realistically the farms/industry would exist first), there's not a lot of education in the new part of the county. I would assume that Spasm Electronics would invest a little in the local education system, at least to upgrade the local schoolhouse to a K-12 (Elementary/High School) Campus.
Town/township/village names: I've always loved little towns named after random cities that are nothing like the towns! The contrast of humungous, historical cities like Rome, Naples, Geneva, Warsaw, Lima, and Riga being also the names of tiny towns and villages (In WNY where I grew up) made reading highway signs fun during long drives.
Got a London, Oxoford, Versailles (Pronounced Ver-sales, ugh, lol), and Athens near-ish to where I live in the Midwest. And as another commenter said, a bunch of horribly mispronounced Native names for towns and landmarks.
Hey Phil! Maybe “name me 1” could be Johnson Industrial Park or Valley, since Sheila Johnson was a part of the development, and because Johnson Aggregates probably would have built the mine and have a partnership with the switchon factory for materials. Additionally, “name me 7” could be Bailey Hills, as it is on a hill, above Bailey.
for name me #1 i think we should call the town Spasmville. no seriously, i know its sounds like a dumb name for a town but there are plenty of odd town names in the US: Accident, Maryland Hell, Michigan Social Circle, Georgia Possumneck, Mississippi Mormon Bar, California i think having at least one completely stupid town name like Spasmville, Superior would make the place feel just that much more real. plus youve named other crazy towns in the past like Port Liability.
As usual, the build was fantastic. Enjoyed this episode. The only thing that I've noticed is that there was no fire, police, health, and death care in the new area. May I suggest either add or rezone nearby towns to ensure that there is adequate so we don't have a repeat of that horrible fire outbreak.
Really enjoying the story and intros! Great build as always. It always amazes me how much industrial uses spend on landscaping. It's great to see but is still surprising.
The save for this episode has been posted on my Discord! To check it out, head to discord.gg/cityplannerplays and head to "announcements"
I just downloaded CS2 but everytime that I play and try to place roads my screen goes yellow and thats the same with water pipes. Also I cant download mods off the Thunderstore. Is there anyway that you can help me
# name me 1 town- has both electronics and farming land, so I think the name should be combination of both something like Ampere Acres or Watt Meadows etc.
#Chuckles4Govenor
For the Electronics factory, I regularly drive past Intel in Oregon and they have quite a massive substation on what basically is a campus of buildings. Worth looking at the area and fleshing it out
Yellow screen is usually because you're trying to play without a dedicated graphics card@@BasketballBoy1521
Since Switchon is a tech firm, I feel like a Solar Array would be a great fit for the campus! Solves your power problems and you can export the extra electricity via the nearby HV lines.
How about some nature reserve in MC to balance the loss of land? To pacify people like Chuckle. Let's see how that works out.
@@unything2696 solar array and nature perserve... that could be good episode ideas. i wonder what CPP says about it.
I could see the community being very concerned about power draw from a large place like this and requiring some sort of electricity generation to offset its massive draw.
2024 presidential race❌
2024 Superior Governor Race ✅
Trump 2024
#ChucklesforGovernor
Nah chuckles for president nobody want have a president that doesn't believe in rights for a person@nickcollins1528
@@nickcollins1528 no not here man we don't want to upset the wrong crowd let's keep this to ourselves 👌
Depending on the type of electronics being developed and produced, you might see an extremely dense, tall wall of trees facing those farms. The trees would be low pollen, low detritus species. The reason is that they act as a dust filter that helps keep the factory air easier to keep as clean as possible.
1) I never get bored of the "Philip goes ham" music when either something goes wrong, or you do (e.g. you let perfect be the enemy of good in your own inimitable fashion)
2) I've never heard "oppressive little shopping centre" sound quite so cheerful or inviting (around the 25 min mark)
Chuckles' redemption arc from cs1 is peak storytelling. Chuckles for governor!
#Chuckles4Governor
He’s got my vote
I really hope he cleans up with a suit #noclowns
@@TheRetacon I could see him refusing to abandon his clown ways on principle. While not wearing clown suits as governor, you just know he would be the type to wear eye-watering colored suits and Hawaiian ties.
Chuckles must have a hidden agenda
Chuckles has my vote ☑
Also, my favorite part of every video is when we get the Faffing Music - music for when you're faffing around and slowly losing your sanity while CS2 makes the weirdest road decisions. (Wii shop music)
Bro you are a hero! Youre the comment I was looking for, lol. It was on the tip of my tongue. Now i remember it was from wii. I was thinking of the DSi shop lol
it's so relatable too LOL! I do mapdesign for my fav RTS games and sometimes the mapeditor just goes WACK! and you can spend 30 minutes just faffing with that shit lmao
I propose the large lake near the factory to be named “Minneikaphyu”, after the Lakota words “minne” (lake) and “icahpe-hu” (cornflower), the lore being that the occasional flooding of the lake’s banks resulted many cornflowers blooming in the damp soil. Name me #1 could be “Cornflower View” and Name me #2 could be “Kaphyu Junction” (knowing the settlers they’d probably butcher the names).
i love those names, i hope he chooses them!
Excellent suggestion ! So cool !
yesss!! So cute!
To add to this - Name me #6 “Pennacook”
From Algonquian meaning at the foot of the hills
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennacook
It doesn’t seem impossible for transit service to exist to such a large employer. In East Idaho we have the Idaho National Laboratory which employs about 6000. It runs shuttle buses to all the towns in the area for the workers because it is located in the middle of nowhere. Keep in mind that Idaho is a very rural and (unfortunately) not transit oriented state, but still this exists. It would be very cool to see a similar motor coach service run to the electronics factory in MC.
Assuming I'm correct and the SwitchOn is based on the Gigafactory or something similar, it DOES have multiple buses for multiple surrounding towns. (Source: I work there)
Pretty much the same as you said, more or less.
Hello Phil! In the spirit on the upcoming election season, it could be a fun idea to set up a RUclips poll where your viewers (citizens of Superior State) can vote for the next Governor! Also, if there are any proposals for new developments, perhaps on occasion you can incorporate votes as an interactive way of engaging with the narrative and lore of the series.
Yes! I second this
There is a poll in the discord for RUclips/Patreon/Twitch members
@@williamfoutsii8970 booooo paid votes 👎
Those big trucks on the mine being as big as a barn is probably to scale. The large trucks they use in mining sites like that are absurdly large. Like, unironically the size of a barn.
Thank you! I really like Magnolia County.
I want to share some information from around the world:
In Turkey, most factory workers usually don't drive to work, and many of them don't even have a car.
Instead, companies help their workers get to their job by giving them transportation as a bonus. Companies either use their own buses or hire transportation services to pick up and drop off workers. These buses follow routes like regular public buses and stop at specific places to pick up workers. This way, companies use their valuable land for production (in Turkey, industrial zones are generally very valuable) instead of using it for parking. Also employees can save money and time by using these buses instead of their own car. For example, they can read or sleep in the bus instead of driving.
I believe large companies in India offer the same kind of service to their employees.
However in France, where I live, they usually don't because public transportation is often quite good and reliable. And I feel that in North America, where Magnolia County is supposed to be, this doesn't exist either even though public transportation is not up to European standards but just because almost everyone owns a car.
Not sure if you saw the other comments, but a flood video would be great. The houses on the river bank are not built to withstand an overflowing river. Also erosion exists, thus, the land is very loose. I live in Illinois, flooding happens often.
very reminiscient of the fathers day flood that happened not too far from where magnolia county is set
@@flamingoLake ikr
I love that the Chuckles meeting took place at the pharmacy. Wonder what sort of pharmacy that is...?
The pharmacy/marina that sells the nightcrawlers and 🍆 pills, of course!
Gotta be where chuckles gets the opiates from. No way his taxi cab business is legit. No way it’s so successful in magnolia county where everyone drives. I think he’s a secret drug lord using his taxi business as a front to smuggle opiates around magnolia county
It's legal in Michigan...
(don't know about the fictional state of Superior)
Lmao 🤣
I would really reconsider that aggregate mine, electronics production is very sensitive to movement, seismic blasting nearby would be a major detriment to the factory. Likewise generally you need a lot of other production nearby to be cost effective (think shenzen) so I'd consider the other industrial uses in the area.
adding onto this the dust coming from that mine would blow onto the fields causing lots of issues for the farmers
@Invalid_eSports i was thinking the same, not only from dust but potentially harmful water runoff after rain (from diesel and chemicals needed to run the machinery), which would then likely go into the lake there, creating even more environmental hazards and make any nearby bore water or underground water deposits toxic and unsuitable for farming.
I also live in an area with a lot of farms, and the only quarries nearby are over 5km away from us, the only 'farm' near them is a small cattle farm. The most prevalent industry in our more immediate area is forestry (huuuuge pine plantation less than a kilometre away from our house). Which also benefits the farmers cause they use sawdust and mulch on the farms and for compost. Our farmers would fight tooth and nail to keep any form of mining at minimim of 1-2km away from them.
Also a lot of farmers here would be pushing for better highway or road access to minimise the maintenance and upkeep of machinery (bloody potholes), and keep any potential accidents down. Even if it meant a small portion of their property was bought by the department of main roads. They'd also likely ask for better public transit because it brings in workers that dont have cars, such as foreign workers.
Name me #1 should be called Behemoth after the absolutely massive aggregate drill that dominates the landscape. And even if that eventually redevelops, the name will be a simple reminder of what was once there.
1:26 Ironic to see the owner of a taxi company become an environmentalist.
To be fair, some construction equipment are massive. I drive a tractor scraper(the real “terraforming tool”) and they are huge but I’ve also operated huge loaders to move minerals and other equipment that could definitely be bigger than a barn.
Hearing your voice on this intro after the AI one, I realize how I love your voice.
We listen to your RUclips channel since many years now.
You grounded us and you keep us sane and calm through so much in our life.
Your voice and your laugh is probably your best asset! Please continue be your self!
Thank you so much for your time.
Wow!
There was a video with an AI voice over?
@@iain.sm.c The introduction to the previous video with the news segment used an AI voice
@@weerribben47 Ah, just went to that video's comments, cheers!
He's youtube's Bob Ross basically. My comfort watch for several years now
Phil is the Bob Ross of City Planning. I have such a nice and enjoyable time watching all of his videos.
Chuckles for President
#ChucklesforGovernor ✊
He would just make the whole county an amusement park😂
hell nah...
Chuckles 2024!!!
Aggregate mines tend get plotted below the surrounding ground level and then surrounded by dense bushing and or a knoll.
Also a factory of that size and that isolated would have easily been able to subsidize their own solar field with the local governments.
A factory that size would easily have gone for more parking that might later turn into a parking garage as surrounding property values inevitably increase. Especially being located so far away from where many of their workers live.
I was also about to comment saying that I would have backed the aggregate mine a little bit off the roads to provide some vegetation buffer and to prevent the roads from slipping into the mine...
I use your videos to calm down before bed to avoid having nightmares. The slower pacing and your voice
Same here, very relaxing
Same
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My favorite part of this episode is the little neighborhoods and farms you placed between the city and the new community. I grew up in rural NC and that's exactly how my town/county was. We have one HUGE employer (a military base) just outside out of town, with a few miles of farmland, small subdivisions and houses directly on country roads separating our town and the base. Great episode Phil!
As a central Ohio resident, who not infrequently drives past the future site of that big Intel plant, I have to say this all looks very familiar. There are a lot of high tech facilities in the area on what were very recently farm fields, so surrounding the factory with farms was a good idea. The roads around the factory remind me a lot of Beech Road (a road with numerous data centers located on it) with the trees on the sides and the green space between the road and the factory. A decade ago that road was just a little 2 lane country road, like the other roads you didn’t upgrade. I can see in the future some of those smaller roads getting upgraded and some of the farms replaced by more industry.
The lore before every episode starts is the best addition he's ever made 💯
Oh hey, something I'm actually familiar with!
I live in an area with a couple mega-corp campuses, the types that employ well into the quad digits, and a couple things where your implementation diverges from reality. First, is that the campus footprint is *much* larger than you have here. Not only would there be way more parking, but there'd be multiple buildings (like could be modeled with industrial and offices in-game) spanning the campus surrounding the main one, with walking space in between (much like a college campus) and various security checkpoints, maybe even some on-campus transit. Second, the campuses *really* try and stay hidden from view. Of the two in my area, one his a landscaped hill surrounding the entire thing (like a hollow square-shaped hill around the entire block) so it's impossible to see inside of the block at all, and the other has big lines of trees and forests blocking any type of view. To actually see the tech company at all, you have to actually go into the campus itself, otherwise it's near invisible.
The real-world footprint would probably be about 5 or 6x the size it is here, probably a tad smaller than the university you built earlier in the series.
That's at least compared to the ones in my area, which I'm not sure how many they actually employ and might actually be *much* larger than the 1500 of the one in-game, so maybe not entirely applicable.
Engagement!
Phil if you haven't already, watch Infrastructurist. He builds a fully custom train station that fits so well into his town. Love to see something like this is Magnolia County
I just want to say that I'm really, really glad that you hired an artist for the character portraits and moved away from the really uncanny AI-generated stuff. My feelings on AI image generations are complicated but Chuckles' bellybutton being gone is a huge relief.
It would be cool to see some town names based on French words given how prevalent the French were in the area. Some suggestions Rivière (river), Aulne (alder tree), Collines (hills), Fluer (flower). All of these are just from google translate so not to sure about the translations.
Maybe a sister city to Riviere-du-Loup, QC :p
5:38 fun fact, you will often see grid corrections on north/south roads just like that to account for latitude as you go further north/south.
I'm waiting for Chuckles' ecoterrorist arc
Regarding the "scale issue" with the mines... based on how enormous these machines are in real life, I actually don't think there is an issue, it's just that those kinds of machines are absolutely massive.
14:27 I loved the SimCity 2000 reference! Nostalgia FTW 🎉
I'm sad I had to scroll so far down to see a comment on this.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one who appreciated it!
Something worth considering might be putting a line of trees, sound barrier, or even just a guardrail on the stretch of highway next to the football stadium. Seems like something there could be some concerns about, such as stadium lights blinding traffic at night, or having child recreation right next to a highway with no barrier in between.
And privacy for corporate espionage 😳
I find adding realistic (vast) amounts of parking to be great for storytelling. As you've done previously in your series' - plopping lots of parking in the first instance, but later on, replacing empty or unused parking with commercial/offices really adds to the lifespan of areas that could otherwise be "plop + forget".
I think the only thing that seems moderately unrealistic is having a giant aggregate facility in the center of a bunch of farms. Those facilities kick up a ton of dust and that dust would carry and coat all of the plants leading to reduced yields and lower quality products overall. Just some food for thought
As a truck driver I see it all the time out in the Midwest and in the Northern and Western plains as well as in Texas. It is not uncommon. You also have to understand that many of the farmers have least the lands mineral rights to these mines and plants in order to make money as well. The fact that their crops close might suffer a tad, is made up for in the prophecy make from the lease of the mineral rights. And to be quite honest, these types of areas actually seem to coexist fine. However this aggregate mine seems too big for the area and not to realistic looking
Chuckles 2024!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
One of the first CS videos I watched I saw Biffa’s Rock Park. Before I knew who Biffa was. You need to name another Biffa Rock Park!
if you build a car factory, you NEED to build a test track area please!!!
Would be really cool to build there, now that we got a electronic factory....Love the series!
Aw man, missed a chance for a "green" factory campus. Windmills/solar power plant next door.
You and Biffa are doing outstanding work now with CS:2. Really enjoyed this build, and I like how you explain your choices. Nice one! Can't wait until we get the assets we bought and also the promised pack.
On the parking, that employee count could include 4 shifts and employees that are remote like sales reps., making your count more accurate. Half the time I don't even show up in the office :)
I don't have a name for a district in particular, however I want to suggest it anyways. If you're planning on making one of the small local developments into a more metropolitan area, perhaps a transport hub from Bend to the Spasm Electronics building, may I recommend the name 'Lilydale'? It's the name of a town in Victoria, Australia, roughly 30km out from Melbourne. The reason I mention Lilydale, is that in the early 1920s it was a small town with a few townhouses and stores down Main Street, with a railway passing through ~30 years prior, but now It's developed so much, and it's amazing to see the sprawling suburbia and the new station design, that's all, but this series is one of my favourites, and a must watch for me, keep it up!!
This is my first time commenting on this channel, even though I've been watching for a few years now and never missed an episode of Magnolia County! This is so amazing! It's also so damn cool to see the Signature Buildings coming into play in a realistic fashion! Are you planning on using that Service Station signature building at all, since you were looking into it for a while in earlier episodes. Other than that, though, so, so, so happy to see how things are shaping up! The storytelling is easily 10/10, and the building... look, you're the best Cities: Skylines player I've ever had the pleasure of watching, and there's some strong competition there! I can't wait to see how things keep going, this series is amazing!
You should post a poll on the community where you explain the candidates ideas for the future of mc and we can vote who we like the best
The idea of Chuckels becoming a politician would be terrifying in a real life scenario; however, in the CPPU, this would be very fun and interesting to watch unfold. He would be Superior's first villain Governor just blocking any and all projects that don't suit his needs while simultaneously allowing the worst projects come to fruition all based on his and his friend's wants and desires. And then the backstabbing occurs. Chuckles would easily be bought by the highest bidder once he realizes how much money he could make, opening the door for the destruction of rural areas, lowering the priority of sensible builds in favor of ones that only serve to further the profits of private developers, and underfunding parks, schools, and other community services. Crime would run rampant, buildings would abandon... Superior would be in complete disarray thus facilitating the need for a redemption arch. Chuckles, now in his twilight years would lose his seat to a young, ambitious Superior local determined to rebuild the once beautiful and prosperous state to its former glory.
Honestly, Chuckles winning the Governorship could affect multiple series. You've got a potential MCU level storytelling opportunity on your hands and Chuckes could be your Thanos. I say go for it.
Unrelated to this but something I did myself was add forest and grass surfaces over fields to give the illusion of different growth stages and plant types.
Since they have a "bring your dog to work day" policy, maybe they would appreciate having a dogpark somewhere in the back of the building :)))
I always put bushes by paths too. I think it has something to do with how jarring the transition from the grey path to green terrain is, it just doesn't look natural without something to distract from it.
There are no scaling issues with the excavator. You should check out how massive some excavators and dump trucks can be, especially in quarries and similar environments. For example, the Caterpillar 6090 FS is a hydraulic mining shovel that weighs around 1,000 tons and has a bucket capacity of 52 cubic meters. It’s designed to load gigantic haul trucks like the Caterpillar 797F, which itself can carry up to 400 tons of material.
@31:54 I'm pretty sure that the scaling is spot on. The hilarity comes from the fact that those trucks ARE the size of a small house.
Hey Phil! Loving the care and detail you put in to each of your videos!! Can we get a POV of a person just walking through the city? It would give us a different perspective of the city if we can walk in it and see things from the perspective of a person living in the city ❤
For the high voltage line across the river, its not unreasonable that they'd tie the lines in to the existing rail bridge (with additional isolations) rather than having pylons in the water. If they did have to have pylons for a dedicated crossing, could they be the enlarged +10m pylons to give that extra bit of height for the river crossing. You can also use selective high pylons to smooth the wores' journeys into steep valleys.
I know I’m a bit late for this, but as someone that lives in an area a lot like this, I have a bit of a tweak for you, that being the rural subdivisions.
There…isnt really much “subdivision” to the layout out here. Really all the subdivisions are is a single road branching off a Jeffersonian-like grid with houses on it. No roads branching off of them and gridding into others, just houses. And that’s one subdivision. Plus…the roads are paved out here. They aren’t always marked, but they are paved.
Hello, I know that in the USA everyone has a car and uses it a lot on a daily basis. But here, in Europe, when we build these large industrial zones, we also create bus lines, for people who live in the city center, or in other places.
I don't know if it will work here, but it's strange not to see it.
I loved the plot as always, incredible work of creating an engaging story or objective, and not just building.
I really hope the surfaces will eventually be updated to work better with snow. I'm coming around to liking them, but the lack of snow is a bummer. 31:15 LOVE that gazebo 😍
The town I live in uses multiple naming conventions for the streets. When working as a poll-worker during elections at a location with multiple precincts we will ask people what street they live on, many of them get divided somewhere on their length or by side of the street, but if they name a tree, they go to the 6th Precinct. I live in a section named after famous American authors(Hawthorn, Longfellow, etc) and would love to see a section like that in Magnolia County, maybe near a school.
Mining excavators *can* be as big as houses, like the Liebherr R9800. The mine being flat is more unrealistic than the scale. The bucket-wheel excavator should be in a hole so deep it'd barely poke out. It digs sideways, not downwards. It's a bit of an issue that it spawns in areas too small for it.
0:39 As a resident of Minnesota disappointed with the new flag. There were a lot better options, including the original version of the chosen flag that had a tricolor instead of just light blue.
Still a huge improvement over the original though!
Great video. 😊 What about a pond on the Switchon campus and maybe even a simple baseball diamond? It seems like that is happening at big employers where land is cheap. It also is a good use for expansion land.
Do aggregate mines really end up so close to farmland? It's a feature a few times in Magnolia County now. genuine question from someone unfamiliar with the industry
32:09 These open pit mine excavators ARE the size of a barn. Or two. They are HUMONGOUS! The biggest bucket wheel excavators are over 700 feet long and 300 feet tall. And even the "normal" looking excavators in an open pit mine are over 100 feet long and weigh over 100 tons. So I don't think the scaling is off by a lot here...
If I were an employee at Spasm I would love to have a tiny manmade pond next to the pavilion. This could boost the view a lot and people are gonna love it. I think there’s a mod available to add water source to the map :)
Besides the employee parking at the back of the Switchon plant, there should be a guest / management parking in the front of the building neer the entrance. Including parking spots for electric vehicles and a parking space for disabled people.
How about "Town of Spasm"? Hershey, PA was founded as a factory town for it's workers at Hershey. Maybe the Town of Spasm is a factory town for it's workers. Up in Bailey, how about "Town of Oxbow", for the oxbow in the river.
The wittiness of the story in these videos is so charming!
19:26 Shout out to you, Phill, from Brazil. I love to see that this character (Nazaré) from a brazilian soap opera became a worldwide meme. You do a great job, always learning from your videos. Keep on!!
I love how the Surface Tool helps to make a space look cohesive and complete ❤
"Densifying the forest" without a fire house or even a watch tower, it might favor Chuckles campaign... 🔥🔥🔥
28:20 You know it's Phil when he sees a forest and he first thinks to put in housing but not a fire watchtower.
38:21 For name me #6, I think it should be called Zailey because it’s the rural part of Bailey and the name similarity would cause both unity and rivalry between the towns. And for the lore It should be two sisters discovered and explored the region but fought over who it would be named after (don’t ask me why they didn’t do their last name) and they claimed opposite sides of the region.
Edit: Maybe for #7 it should be called Midley because it’s in the middle (geographically) between Zailey and Bailey and it has the “ley” suffix.
Edit 2: I’m sorry for the edits I promise this is the last one but I think #8 should be called Kaboom District assuming the company that operates the factory is called Kaboom ( the company is rivals with spasm even though the industries are semi-different )
Wow just wow! Magnolia county is really coming together, feels very organic and realistic
"Name me #2" could be Columbia Heights. It was the last neighborhood in DC I lived in before moving to Logan Circle. I think the hillside could match the "heights" part of it.
Exercise areas actually do help with insurance costs! My father was a government employee, and everyone under his contract was able to take a much longer lunch if they went for a walk during at least part of it!
I adore how much Editor Phil is always so concerned for Video Phil
The battery back ups will only charge from the "local grid" and it'll discharge if power is needed from the "external grid". The locally produced power is cheaper than the external power so the back up battery's purpose is to add a buffer to your local grid so that it doesn't have to take power from the external grid. If the only power available is from the external grid or the backup batteries it'll discharge the backup batteries first before taking power from the external grid.
I also think that once the batteries are discharged the battery backup would act like an expensive transformer kinda like you expected.
Came here to say this. The reason the battery's stored energy was being used instead of imported energy being used is because that is the battery's entire reason for existing. Once it became completely drained the power would start drawing from the outside connection.
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its been a while since i watched the start of one of your regions, but man it feels like MC has so much already built for only being 17 episodes in. cant tell if its a you having improved that much or a CS 2 change. thanks for the videos man, cheers
@5:50 roads not matching up is due to which tile you had purchased and used at the time. You can only draw in roads on the inside of a purchased tile. then later when you buy the tiles surrounding, your new grid could be on the opposite side of the dotted border line. IT's fine becasue i see country roads have a jog at intersections all the time. 😃
25:17 While you were cleaning up the roads on the new shopping mall, I think that Park lane could use an alignment (with complex curve tool) with the intersection into the mall. That way you would avoid a staggered intersection.
Thought it would be fun to continue a theme going off of the chair in Chairity Island. Looking up some synonyms I landed on French - #5 Escritoire, #3 Carnet, #4 Lumière - so it goes chair -> desk -> notebook -> lamp (light) from Chairity up to the university.
Don’t forget, when it comes to parking, not all employees will be on station at the same time, the full number will likely be broken up into three to four schedule groups meaning you only truly need the one parking space for every 3-4 employees
Comedians more critical than politicians, and politicians being comedians... love that the story mimics real life❤
For such a large number of workers (>500-700), I have seen companies tend to offer employee specific bus service in nearby areas. So less parking can be arranged.
Edit: And if you include shiftwise worker count at a time, only 1/3rd of workers be in company at a time.
The elevator music and video clips when you're struggling to achieve some goal or have made a bad decision never fails to make me laugh.
I loove this series and I love the lore
I personally would love to see Gehlar Road still be added, but I did notice there isn't a ton (if any) of roads NAMED "road" or "way" in the build, lots of streets and lanes with a couple of Blvds mixed in. Could you make a new subdivision that focuses more on the "road" or "way" naming convention? You could have the names be named after different types of the same animal, similar to what you did with the bird streets in Myrtle Park. Perhaps different types of snakes (Cobra Road, Python Way, Milk Snake Road, etc) or deer (Whitetail Deer Road, Reindeer Road, Redtail Deer Way, etc.) If you go with the deer naming convention, you could even name one of the towns "Deerwood"!
Ok, further thoughts--
I can see the hill behind the farmer's market being prime real estate for businesses and/or medium-density housing. I can also see a water tower being installed there as a kind of county water supply.
For an area centered around a business full of high-education jobs (although realistically the farms/industry would exist first), there's not a lot of education in the new part of the county. I would assume that Spasm Electronics would invest a little in the local education system, at least to upgrade the local schoolhouse to a K-12 (Elementary/High School) Campus.
Town/township/village names: I've always loved little towns named after random cities that are nothing like the towns! The contrast of humungous, historical cities like Rome, Naples, Geneva, Warsaw, Lima, and Riga being also the names of tiny towns and villages (In WNY where I grew up) made reading highway signs fun during long drives.
Got a London, Oxoford, Versailles (Pronounced Ver-sales, ugh, lol), and Athens near-ish to where I live in the Midwest. And as another commenter said, a bunch of horribly mispronounced Native names for towns and landmarks.
Hey Phil! Maybe “name me 1” could be Johnson Industrial Park or Valley, since Sheila Johnson was a part of the development, and because Johnson Aggregates probably would have built the mine and have a partnership with the switchon factory for materials. Additionally, “name me 7” could be Bailey Hills, as it is on a hill, above Bailey.
Name the township with the large mining machine "Industrial Monolith" or something like that.
for name me #1 i think we should call the town Spasmville. no seriously, i know its sounds like a dumb name for a town but there are plenty of odd town names in the US:
Accident, Maryland
Hell, Michigan
Social Circle, Georgia
Possumneck, Mississippi
Mormon Bar, California
i think having at least one completely stupid town name like Spasmville, Superior would make the place feel just that much more real. plus youve named other crazy towns in the past like Port Liability.
As usual, the build was fantastic. Enjoyed this episode. The only thing that I've noticed is that there was no fire, police, health, and death care in the new area. May I suggest either add or rezone nearby towns to ensure that there is adequate so we don't have a repeat of that horrible fire outbreak.
Really enjoying the story and intros! Great build as always. It always amazes me how much industrial uses spend on landscaping. It's great to see but is still surprising.
I’m finally up to date on this series, absolutely loved it so far.
I personally think a facility like this would have a boundary fence for security purposes.Great video
Lumber demand is up due to rebuilding all of those burned down houses.
Politicians are clowns already, Chuckles is a natural fit. Run, Chuckles, run! You've got my vote!