Old water towers are often used as viewing platforms here in europe - especially old brick ones. Often, you'll have a cafe with a view inside it, too! :)
Not to mention into houses, penthouses and/or apartments. It's not just a European thing. It's a lot cheaper to convert old water towers (especially brick or concrete) into something useful than to tear it down and build something. Long with the other benefits of reusing old buildings.
I feel like the district selection should have an "exclude" option, so you can basically say serve all areas except this one. Would save clicking on a whole bunch of districts.
Since we've already established that Nicolet Bay is within intercity bus distance... perhaps some of Tim Kequom's relatives owned the farmland that eventually became the town, which was named Kequom Hill in their honor. (And knowing about the farming background in his family tree later helped inspire Tim to establish Ojibwa Organics.)
Great idea, this also gives a good name for Kequom park in the center of town. Phil, not sure if you've discovered this yet but you can relocate ruins, old mills, and other artifacts on the map, would be so cool to see that added in somewhere!
I would love to see a region tool next to the district tool to bundle/ group multiple districts in one selection (not necessary as new "drawing tool", just bundling/ grouping)
@@sarahr.1076 The service building shows a list of which districts its attached to, and the district shows which services it has assigned to it. Naming your services helps, so instead of just having Fire House, you can name them specifically so you can see which one is attached to your district. I'm not against a search feature, just don't see why it's needed.
Hey, im not sure if i understand it correct what you are looking for, but you can actually multiselect districts by just holding your mouse down and pull a square (kind of like you can select multiple map tiles at once. This works when assigning districts to a service.
Noob here and very appreciative of this series for beginners. Ive been following along since the first video by mirroring everything he does. Ive learned so much. I get very excited when the new one drops! CPP for Mayor!
You've come to the right place for wanting to learn. I've been following along for quite a while now since his first beginners playlist on CS1. He's by far the most intuitive on YT. The second best is probably Biffa. His last build in CS1, New Tealand, was amazing.
Just a little detail suggestion! Underneath the large power lines like that, most of the time there is a clear path cut out underneath the lines to keep it clear. So you might be able to clear a straight path of the trees underneath the lines for that detail.
Agree with you, the potential being able to buy any tile is great for this purpose. Awesome episode. Also, too bad that we don’t have smaller cemeteries. In my opinion, that one is too big for the new community.
Honestly that little attention to detail about how when you're driving here in America and you see the fast food places right off the exit and think "Oh! I'm kinda hungry, let's stop for a burger" is really really cool. No matter where you drive here in America unless it's a highway in the desert region, you will almost always see signs for places like Mc Donald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Subway, Wendy's etc. At every exit
Same here in the Netherlands. A lot of highway exits have fastfood and car dealerships connected to them. Overnight hotels are also pretty common, which in the US would more likely be a motel if I understand it correctly.
Being able to make separate towns is one of my favorite things about cs2 😊 The game I'm currently playing I have the main city more inland and then a small seaside town reminiscent of the small coastal towns in CA I visited as a kid (Monterey, Santa Cruz, etc.)
I remember during his last stream, he mentioned that was going to avoid a gameplay series until mod support was added. He wanted to add personalized assets to fit the future town, rather than just stick with vanilla. I think this is to tide us over till then.
Once we have access to more maps. I'm going to be building for a LONG time on this one, so I want to have a bit more variety available. So.... hopefully soon!
A lot of the houses in Sunnyside Field reminded me of Lutz, the town in Edward Scissorhands. So maybe a name like "Lutzville" or "Lutzdale" would be appropriate!
I think Lutzberg/Lutzburg would be best since Lutz already sounds like a German name and many American cities are named after German names in that way such as Fredericksburg or Petersburg.
@@lovelylavenderr Meanwhile in Russia: Vodka man: "My great-grandfather fought off the Germans in World War two just for this city to be named St. Petersburg again." *Spits on ground with disgust*
you said you cared how we are doing and i wanted to say its been pretty bad but now very good and you help me relax take a step back and even put things in order in my head. thanks for that. and i truly hope you are doing good aswell thanks for these amazing videos.
Love the transitions between the unbuilt land and the finished build.... Whether it was your idea or your editors... it is brilliant. Really adds to the video and it something unique I haven't really seen others do. Great idea guys.
I hope we get to see some more options for our city services buildings sooner than later. For instance, a much smaller version of the cemetery would suit the small town vibe better. A little variety in building style would be very welcome! Much like we have different sizes for parks or plazas.
Really enyoing the series and your attention to details. Regarding "Sunnyside field", I thought "Tinytoria" would be like a fun ode to "Twotoria" and conecting it with the region as a whole.
NICE! thats what my big dream in CS1 always was, a better way to build a whole community of villages/cities (whatever you want to call it) - i think it has, depending on map, alot more charm and allows for different challenges during planning and gameplay.
i always thought of utilizing the map more as a county in CS1 but now in CS2 i feel like you can actually do that now its so cool the little town is so cool and you always put so much thought into everything its so nice
with that lake and the forest, i think that wild animals would migrate to have water and food in that region, so something like "Pheasant's Rest" or any other animal from that region would make sense! (sorry for any mistakes, english is not my first language)
I love all the energy and passion you put into your videos. It makes them super enjoyable to watch and learn from. I’m working on a small town region myself that mimics much of the American West small town feel. In the American West it’s often a fire district that spans several communities within say 20 miles, it’s a sheriff who patrols the entire county, and there aren’t even police officers. There aren’t massive interchanges, it’s literally a two lane highway that turns into Main Street and back onto the highway(there might be 3 lane passing lane on hills) The handful of commercial businesses on Main Street rely on the highway traffic coming through. Skylines and SimCity have always been geared towards massive cities and the economics suggest it but I don’t see any reason why there can’t be smaller services in an expansion pack. A few items… Small cemeteries, sheriffs office could be an administrative office who patrol highways and dirt roads instead of towns, smaller fire department or even allowing a district to have a “volunteer fire department” made up of citizens which is a very real thing for say a community of 200 people. Another commercial zone called tourism and/or a commercial zone called services. A small post office. A small town would have a gas station or two, a couple bars, maybe a restaurant. They might have some commercial geared towards highway drivers and tourism like antique stores. Instead of a car dealership it might be a tractor and implement dealer. I know you love to build regions and small towns and you have the power and voice to push for a “small town” expansion pack and I really hope you think about making that video. I think it would be a big hit and add so much more depth to the game. Thanks for all you do!
Beautiful as always. My only gripe is the the "large roads" with sidewalks/parking outside of the little downtown area or connecting that to the interstate seem out of place, especially.when serving maybe... Six households. I really wanted to use CS2 to become a creator myself but goddamn the stuff I make looks so bad by comparison haha. Keep up the good work.
Not a comment about anything specific in this video, but I really love Master Planned Music's Detailing. The section when the trumpets kick in tickles my brain.
I always liked the idea of creating regional towns. I think that's what drew me to SimCity where you had a huge region and built one tile at a time. Then you can create connections to them so everything connected.
For cementary (also schools and some other assets) you can add adjacent paths along the limits of the object. This allows you to connect paths to exits form cementary (almost). :)
This was the best city tour yet! The transition from unbuilt land to the construction was really appealing to me, and then the final pan over the build was great
Before I discover your youtube channel I didn’t know anything about civil engineering and I didn’t notice the development and planning in my area, I always think it was natural, but after watching your channel for a while I now understand that everything is develops by plan! 👍
Edgewater. I suggested this name in the last video for the Evergreen End district, but I figured it could work for this town too. Hope you can use it for one of these two places.
Love it! Narration throughout this YT vid is brill, and the description of how to utilise space, forward planning and explaining the zoning, especially around the pylons is helpful 👍
The thing about the cemetery is that it will conform to the roads around it; even if they're placed after its built. It's actually pretty cool because you can make the whole thing follow a hill.
I think one thing to keep in mind with the slope terrain tool is that the slope is always along the straight line between the top and bottom point. Meaning that it does not take into account any curve you add between the two points.
You should name the town Beverly, after the Beverly family that founded the farms and community around it. I'd also think it would have more residents than workers, as an outlying town to the major metro area some residents would commute in to the city for work
Wow, my city is rezoning my property and it made me think of you! I live in a little city close to the downtown area of a large metropolitan city and my city has plans to try and grow our small “downtown” to try and compete with the surrounding other little cities that make up the metropolitan. They wanted to increase the density of housing that surrounds the little downtown area. They changed the zoning from single family to medium density, in order to attract developers to grow our little downtown area. Good news is, that I don’t have move, and I am in control of my property. But if there is an offer from a developer, I probably can get a lot more than what’s it’s worth as a single family home! While this was going on at city council meetings, all I could think about was City Planner Plays and how much I love watching your stuff. It actually feels like I’m part of the game now 😂
Where you made the vegetables farm, you could consider to leave space as well. Plant wild flowers for insects to move around easier. Maybe also consider planting trees around for animals such as roe deer and foxes to move to other parts of the forrests.
20:30 The way the cemetery asset flattens the land is confusing to me. Cemeteries, and especially cemetery-parks like that one are commonly made on hills for the purpose of rain runoff. In general I wish more assets in this game conformed to topography better
Kippen Point A small group of Dutch settlers came to the area and found the land to be exceptionally fertile, producing a surplus of grains which laid the foundation for a thriving poultry industry. Though originally named De Vries (as the settlers were from Friesland, a coastal region of the Netherlands), local wags 'renamed' the town after its most prominent industry - raising chickens.
Phil, as an Upper Midwesterner who grew up in a rural area, I really loved this episode. You did a great job of creating a rural feel. (And for the record, even in CS1, I found myself building regional communities and slowly growing them together. I really appreciate the smaller map tiles in CS2 and how you can purchase non-contiguous areas like this!
@CityPlannerPlays I just started playing CS2 and I've been following this series from the beginning. For the area that you have has Sunnyside Field, I renamed mine to Cliffside Bluff. I made the shorelines along this area to look more like what you might see in Dover, England. My area was originally called Autum Springs when I made the district. Also, I added a medical center to this area so the residents could be independent of the main city.
I have no idea why I'm so invested in a tutorial series for a game I don't own, can't afford, and just barely exceed the absolute minimum specs for, but this is truly fascinating seeing how you make decisions about what goes where and micromanage things to make them work better.
Great video! This is specially great for me as I want to make Portuguese maps! Portuguese system is hard to understand, even for a native, but essentially our municipalities aren't cities and our cities aren't municipalities, and some places you can't even tell what's a city or not. A municipality is a government level comprised of one or multiple parishes, and it depends a lot on where you are as to what's a city or not. Lisbon, for example, is regarded as a city, but it is comprised of 24 parishes, none of which are named Lisbon, which is usually a must in a municipality: One parish is the seat of the council, and gives its name to the municipality. If you cross the river, you'll see another municipality, Seixal, which is a city and, among other parishes, has Corroios, which is classified as a town, so essentially a town within a city, and it is far from the only example as there are tons of examples where some places are defined as cities or towns, effectively controlled by another city, and other places have no classification. Parishes can also be joined by decree, forming parish unions that have the same government and being treated individually as former/defunct parishes, which results in some weird results, such as Corroios being its own parish, but Seixal, the seat of the municipality and you'd assume to be the main place in, well, Seixal, is a defunct parish that shares its government with two other defunct parishes. Barreiro, right next to it, is another example, as Barreiro is a municipality but also a defunct parish that is now run together with another parish. Most of these things have wildly varied historical reasons which are very hard to convey in Cities: Skylines I, or even Sim:City 2013 with its regions. This new feature finally allows me to create a "main" parish, slowly grow it, and over time simulate the founding of satellite parishes near it, all part of the same municipality, and the city hall can be moved around the parishes as history gives them the reasons to change their seat, just like real life. In my municipality, for example, a satellite parish eventually outgrew the main parish, this becoming the main one and relocating the city hall... Sadly we also don't have actual city halls, but a version of a city hall which runs the municipality, and then a town hall that runs the parish, both coexisting and having different functions, but that's a whole another story for another day, but essentially the city hall runs services like water, waste, high schools, etc., while the town hall and the parish mayor are a liaison between citizens and the municipal mayor, they make sure the city hall is doing their functions as law mandates, and also run some smaller services, such as maintaining public toilets or elementary schools.
I've just started playing myself and finding your videos really useful ❤ thank you. I would really love to see a video on common problems (or complaints from citizens) encountered and how to trouble shoot! At the minute I have lots of shops saying the have no customers!! (Mainly petrol stations)... Some people moaning about high rent. Also struggling to understand finer mechanics and when I should adjust taxes and things x
Hello! Really enjoying this series and am very thankful for the way you do these episodes. I started watching before I actually got the game myself (a few days ago). Since then, I started my own city & didn't do *too*bad but ran into some frustrations with it so I decided to start another one to follow along. I'm up through the second episode and really feel I have a much better grasp of how/why/when for, well, pretty much everything so far. I fully intend to follow up for as long as this series goes on but twill be taking the things I learn and applying back to any other city or cities I build. I do have a question, though. In the new area/town you built in this episode, did I miss where you put a medical center or where it was discussed *not* putting one. I ask as in the last (third) episode, a second clinic was added because the expansion left people complaining about the coverage. This new town is quite a distance, so shouldn't there be one there also? Or is the area just too small and until or unless they complain about it, just not have one? Anyway, thanks again for this lovely, easy to follow tutorial series. Greatly appreciate the massive amount of time & effort this must take!
Now what that region needs next is a radio station, with you providing top-of-the-hour station IDs. (It would be cool to have something like that in-game.)
Hey Phil, I really love your Ultimate Beginners Guides. I already watched ALL of your UBG videos for CS1 and will do the same for CS2. Keep up the great work! Cheers, man!
My greatest flaw in these games is having 0 insight of planning, layouts etc. I kinda just build. Which means it’s functional, but doesn’t look real. You definitely help out with the thought process behind this stuff. Love the Channel
This! This is what had me geeked out from the start, and what I missed from Sim City 4. Individual and unique regions that could specialize and fully integrate into a metropolis.
First chance to really look at some gameplay for Cities Skylines 2. Played the original a ton along with my wife who passed away in 2019... She went by NightVyxen and I am sure would love to know she is remembered in a game she would have loved, not sure where that could fit in but hey I often call my towns something like Muttville. I will say that I LOVE the way the farming stuff works, much more realistic than just having buildings you have to place to make things work on a grid. Personally would love the viewing platform, worked at a theme park for a bit and was lift hill certified (was fine to walk to the top of the lift in case a coaster goofed) and often sat on the top of the log ride lift hill or a roller coaster employee only platform that were a few stories in the air. Also was lucky enough to have an apartment at one point that was 9 floors up when only a few other buildings in town were that tall, did a little maintenance work there and walked along a 3 foot wide ledge at one point due to a door malfunction I had to fix 7 stories up... Have since moved to an even smaller town (approx 2k people) got a house that was falling apart for cheap. Trying my best to make it a nice home, replaced the electrical and water supply lines. Working on the roof which is killing my shoulder but since there are no roof fairies stopping by to do it for free I guess it's up to me to get things done. Already put insulation in the walls since there was none when we moved in which was a pain but at least mostly on the ground or short ladders so not as bad as the roof. Hopefully when I get things done I can start dedicating more time to getting a non-profit going that will help people whom have been through traumatic experiences as a child learn to SCUBA dive and make their lives a little bit better. It's one of the things I learned how to do after my wife was gone that has helped me tremendously.
I like the road stub for a future bridge. I've seen this a couple of time in some towns. In my small town there is a fast road (similar to a federal highway), that currently ends here and has a small stub where there is planning for it to continue one day.
you are turning me into a city planner, ok so im lacking in many areas but I wont just flatten the whole map anymore with this ep it shows clearly the rise and fall of the roads, its lovely and natural looking so im mimicking where I can, good job placing the water tower, its not cost-effective but you do see them irl. Name suggestion, Viewpoint.
Little tip with grading roads. You can grade over an existing road. The terrain wont change until you delete the road though. Just draw your road out, select the appropriate size grade brush for the road your using and trace over the road at the elevation you want. Delete the road and the terrain snaps to the elevation you drew in. Redraw your road over the newly graded terrain and your good to go. I use this to create canyons through hills and mountains and sunken roadways. You can make some clean looking walls of terrain with it too.
Fantastic video, as always.... I had never even thought of doing separate cities or maybe boroughs. This makes it more like Sim City 4 (I think) where you could build several independent cities and have them interact. This opens up a whole new way to play the game. Using the district tool is a great way to assess the individual cities but it would be great if we could get a City (district tool) and then within that district (city) we could set up further districts. That way would make it super realistic. Several cities all with individual districts within them.... Id like your thoughts if you read/see this comment. If not keep up the great work.
this is probably one of the best videos you made, idk why, I just enjoyed every second of it! lots of useful info for new players and some nice tips for us as well, gj man!
When you're doing farm land you will find small homes on a dirt road with pines squared around the home for wind breaks. Great work. I've learned alot about the game.
Something I noticed in your last video: When you chose apple tree's to decorate one of the arterial couplets, I think it can springboard to an interesting conversation about Hostile Architecture. If the city ever has a homeless population word will get around that there are apple trees and can be seen as a free source of food. Unless they are policed and well "protected", the homeless population will be encouraged to interface with a high traffic area for a source of food. Crossing the large road can be dangerous for everyone involved. Remember that Homeless don't have access to even the simplest safety features like reflective clothes, many of them have health issues and move at night during warmer months. I think it would be super interesting to hear how you've interfaced with this very real problem in your experience as a city builder!
Great video! Thanks! I would not have even thought to district the taxis. I guess you could do this with things like busses, and road maintenance, too right? Also: "even out the slope so your houses aren't falling off the cliff." I couldn't help thinking: Unless maybe you are simulating La Jolla or something similar where rich people build on the cliff."
For the name, you have a nice little lake and the hill in town as well, could be called "Lake Hill" or as you wanted it to centre around the farming community, incorporating this lake perhaps call it "Farm Lake or "Farms Lake" - Just a thought :-) on another note, I would love the option for a Sherriff office and smaller cemeteries. Great videos, love your work!!
Beautiful! That remaining open area between the highway and the edge of the tile would be perfect for some rural houses. The vanilla cemetery leaves a lot to be desired, I can't wait to see some custom ones that conform to terrain and do not always appear full and do not have massive parking lots. Actually I don't think I've ever seen more than 5 parking spots at any civilian cemetery, and even that felt odd seeing them.
Thank you so much for this series, showing us all the tricks to make our cities realistic is super valuable. I really appreciate all the work going into this.
A simple name that fits a random little town id expect to find out there - Clayton, Clay's town. Named after the 'Clay' family that were the original settlers who farmed this area. The wheat farm is still owned by the great grandchildren of the original Clay who also owned much of the land that was used for downtown but has long since been sold off into other hands or donated to the city, such as the park - except the cemetary, which is still owned by another descendant. This is one reason why ive been absolutely loving this game - the opportunity to juat create chill little hamlets and small towns that fill the voids in areas around the US, each with their own little story and background.
The best gameplay of all, I love the way you make your reasonings in order to reach the realistic appearance,the editing, the pace, very much enjoyable, thank you. Also, I'd like to note that when comparing residents to jobs, it's better to consider the working population (i.e. adults) vs jobs, in this case there's a bit of unbalance, 250 vs.~450.
Thank you very much for lightening my interest: your voice and the pace of your speech are very relaxing so I watch your videos instead of working today (jk). And the content itself made me want to try it out to plan some cities on my own. Could you kindly give me a hint where I can read about the way you are doing these wonderful time-laps overviews of the progress at the end of each video? BTW your video-editing skills are top-notch too, with all these transitions and song names popping up
I love building separate cities, i love how i look for something i need like farming or oil and build the small things i need to support that, and sometimes they grow into cities of their own, sometimes they cap out at towns or stay small villages its very enjoyable and i love doing that
In Minnesota, there are actually a few cities where theyve turned older water towers into tourist attractions. The one that comes to mind right now is the one in Highland Park (near Minneapolis.) But there are a lot of super cool water towers all over Minnesota. Brainerd, and Lindstrom are 2 of the most famous. You cant climb those ones, but they're definitely unique. We call the one in Brainerd Paul Bunyan's Toilet 😅
Thank you for your time making these videos. I was stuck and not enjoying CS2 until your previous video helped me past my block. You continue to inspire and educate me. Thank you.
the possebillity of creating actual seperate villages and towns around the main city at further distences is an absolute gamechanger in my eyes. that was always so hard with any previous citybuilers.
love this series! im actually doing a build-along.. and between episodes, i save under a different name, then try to anticipate whate you are going to do, by building ahead.. I did NOT see another small comunity coming =) Did i miss it or did you not place any medical clinic in the new cominuty? Wont that leave them a bit stranded or put too much stress on the two medical clinic you have? or did you place more?
Old water towers are often used as viewing platforms here in europe - especially old brick ones. Often, you'll have a cafe with a view inside it, too! :)
Thats the most European thing ive heard of, place a café anywhere.
Not to mention into houses, penthouses and/or apartments. It's not just a European thing. It's a lot cheaper to convert old water towers (especially brick or concrete) into something useful than to tear it down and build something. Long with the other benefits of reusing old buildings.
I Love that you can put that viewing platform on our water towers. My small towns had them as well.
Holy cow - huge difference, but super cool!
Not a thing in the parts of Europe I've been to (UK resident). I clearly need to get out more !
I feel like the district selection should have an "exclude" option, so you can basically say serve all areas except this one. Would save clicking on a whole bunch of districts.
Since we've already established that Nicolet Bay is within intercity bus distance... perhaps some of Tim Kequom's relatives owned the farmland that eventually became the town, which was named Kequom Hill in their honor. (And knowing about the farming background in his family tree later helped inspire Tim to establish Ojibwa Organics.)
I like this idea! I hope he uses this to rename it!
yeah this is good
This is the one !
Great idea, this also gives a good name for Kequom park in the center of town. Phil, not sure if you've discovered this yet but you can relocate ruins, old mills, and other artifacts on the map, would be so cool to see that added in somewhere!
Like it!
In honour of the water tower viewing platform over the highway I think the town should be called, “Port Liability”
I would love to see a region tool next to the district tool to bundle/ group multiple districts in one selection (not necessary as new "drawing tool", just bundling/ grouping)
And a search tool would also be nice to show what districts you might have forgotten in your service coverage.
I'd love this if it could also show "Per region/district" finances, population, health and everything else.
@@sarahr.1076 The service building shows a list of which districts its attached to, and the district shows which services it has assigned to it.
Naming your services helps, so instead of just having Fire House, you can name them specifically so you can see which one is attached to your district.
I'm not against a search feature, just don't see why it's needed.
Hey, im not sure if i understand it correct what you are looking for, but you can actually multiselect districts by just holding your mouse down and pull a square (kind of like you can select multiple map tiles at once. This works when assigning districts to a service.
@@CaptainFury imagine a folder, where I can put districts in and select the folder instead of manually selecting the districts
Noob here and very appreciative of this series for beginners. Ive been following along since the first video by mirroring everything he does. Ive learned so much. I get very excited when the new one drops! CPP for Mayor!
You've come to the right place for wanting to learn. I've been following along for quite a while now since his first beginners playlist on CS1. He's by far the most intuitive on YT. The second best is probably Biffa. His last build in CS1, New Tealand, was amazing.
Just a little detail suggestion! Underneath the large power lines like that, most of the time there is a clear path cut out underneath the lines to keep it clear. So you might be able to clear a straight path of the trees underneath the lines for that detail.
Agree with you, the potential being able to buy any tile is great for this purpose. Awesome episode. Also, too bad that we don’t have smaller cemeteries. In my opinion, that one is too big for the new community.
Honestly that little attention to detail about how when you're driving here in America and you see the fast food places right off the exit and think "Oh! I'm kinda hungry, let's stop for a burger" is really really cool. No matter where you drive here in America unless it's a highway in the desert region, you will almost always see signs for places like Mc Donald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Subway, Wendy's etc. At every exit
Same here in the Netherlands. A lot of highway exits have fastfood and car dealerships connected to them. Overnight hotels are also pretty common, which in the US would more likely be a motel if I understand it correctly.
And one of the reasons that is why you have a overweight problem in the USA lol :p
@@MarkB33313Overweight is a result of the culture, not McDonald's. If that were so, every country with McDonald's would have an obesity epidemic.
@@NineGaugeNut the world kinda is growing fatter though, no? the sheer lack of good walkability in the anglosphere doesnt help
Being able to make separate towns is one of my favorite things about cs2 😊
The game I'm currently playing I have the main city more inland and then a small seaside town reminiscent of the small coastal towns in CA I visited as a kid (Monterey, Santa Cruz, etc.)
Hey, wanted to know when is your gameplay series gonna be? Really look forward to see how you will build your own city!
Fairly certain this is actually the gameplay series, with the beginning geared towards introducing the game and mechanics.
I remember during his last stream, he mentioned that was going to avoid a gameplay series until mod support was added. He wanted to add personalized assets to fit the future town, rather than just stick with vanilla. I think this is to tide us over till then.
Once we have access to more maps. I'm going to be building for a LONG time on this one, so I want to have a bit more variety available. So.... hopefully soon!
Yes! The lack of maps and map editor is frustrating. Especially because several of the current maps are basically the same.
A lot of the houses in Sunnyside Field reminded me of Lutz, the town in Edward Scissorhands. So maybe a name like "Lutzville" or "Lutzdale" would be appropriate!
I think Lutzberg/Lutzburg would be best since Lutz already sounds like a German name and many American cities are named after German names in that way such as Fredericksburg or Petersburg.
@@lovelylavenderr Meanwhile in Russia:
Vodka man: "My great-grandfather fought off the Germans in World War two just for this city to be named St. Petersburg again."
*Spits on ground with disgust*
you said you cared how we are doing and i wanted to say its been pretty bad but now very good and you help me relax take a step back and even put things in order in my head. thanks for that. and i truly hope you are doing good aswell thanks for these amazing videos.
Love the transitions between the unbuilt land and the finished build.... Whether it was your idea or your editors... it is brilliant. Really adds to the video and it something unique I haven't really seen others do. Great idea guys.
I was so confused going into this game. This series is helping me a lot. Can’t wait to see other cities you make in this game!
I hope we get to see some more options for our city services buildings sooner than later. For instance, a much smaller version of the cemetery would suit the small town vibe better. A little variety in building style would be very welcome! Much like we have different sizes for parks or plazas.
I like "River Bank" for the district name. You do a great job with your communities. Good day!
Really enyoing the series and your attention to details. Regarding "Sunnyside field", I thought "Tinytoria" would be like a fun ode to "Twotoria" and conecting it with the region as a whole.
I like how you divided road into two separate ways from a highway without making heavy traffic or outlanders go through the town. Makes it feel cozy.
NICE! thats what my big dream in CS1 always was, a better way to build a whole community of villages/cities (whatever you want to call it) - i think it has, depending on map, alot more charm and allows for different challenges during planning and gameplay.
i always thought of utilizing the map more as a county in CS1 but now in CS2 i feel like you can actually do that now its so cool
the little town is so cool and you always put so much thought into everything its so nice
with that lake and the forest, i think that wild animals would migrate to have water and food in that region, so something like "Pheasant's Rest" or any other animal from that region would make sense!
(sorry for any mistakes, english is not my first language)
Clicked the notification so fast. Didn't realise how much I'm enjoying this! I don't even play the game!
Same 😂
I recommend playing, it’s on gamepass
@@TheFatsi oh cool! I don't have a PC though unfortunately.
I love all the energy and passion you put into your videos. It makes them super enjoyable to watch and learn from. I’m working on a small town region myself that mimics much of the American West small town feel. In the American West it’s often a fire district that spans several communities within say 20 miles, it’s a sheriff who patrols the entire county, and there aren’t even police officers. There aren’t massive interchanges, it’s literally a two lane highway that turns into Main Street and back onto the highway(there might be 3 lane passing lane on hills) The handful of commercial businesses on Main Street rely on the highway traffic coming through.
Skylines and SimCity have always been geared towards massive cities and the economics suggest it but I don’t see any reason why there can’t be smaller services in an expansion pack. A few items… Small cemeteries, sheriffs office could be an administrative office who patrol highways and dirt roads instead of towns, smaller fire department or even allowing a district to have a “volunteer fire department” made up of citizens which is a very real thing for say a community of 200 people. Another commercial zone called tourism and/or a commercial zone called services. A small post office. A small town would have a gas station or two, a couple bars, maybe a restaurant. They might have some commercial geared towards highway drivers and tourism like antique stores. Instead of a car dealership it might be a tractor and implement dealer.
I know you love to build regions and small towns and you have the power and voice to push for a “small town” expansion pack and I really hope you think about making that video. I think it would be a big hit and add so much more depth to the game.
Thanks for all you do!
Beautiful as always. My only gripe is the the "large roads" with sidewalks/parking outside of the little downtown area or connecting that to the interstate seem out of place, especially.when serving maybe... Six households.
I really wanted to use CS2 to become a creator myself but goddamn the stuff I make looks so bad by comparison haha. Keep up the good work.
Not a comment about anything specific in this video, but I really love Master Planned Music's Detailing. The section when the trumpets kick in tickles my brain.
I always liked the idea of creating regional towns. I think that's what drew me to SimCity where you had a huge region and built one tile at a time. Then you can create connections to them so everything connected.
You are the most gentle-spoken person I've encountered on RUclips. Great series! And wishing the best of day on each day to follow :)
For cementary (also schools and some other assets) you can add adjacent paths along the limits of the object. This allows you to connect paths to exits form cementary (almost). :)
This was the best city tour yet! The transition from unbuilt land to the construction was really appealing to me, and then the final pan over the build was great
Before I discover your youtube channel I didn’t know anything about civil engineering and I didn’t notice the development and planning in my area, I always think it was natural, but after watching your channel for a while I now understand that everything is develops by plan! 👍
I already can't wait for the next episode I have been having a blast playing along with you!
Edgewater. I suggested this name in the last video for the Evergreen End district, but I figured it could work for this town too. Hope you can use it for one of these two places.
Love it! Narration throughout this YT vid is brill, and the description of how to utilise space, forward planning and explaining the zoning, especially around the pylons is helpful 👍
The thing about the cemetery is that it will conform to the roads around it; even if they're placed after its built. It's actually pretty cool because you can make the whole thing follow a hill.
This reminds me of a small town ive done work in, Arcadia. Always loved the name and think it would fit the town. Great vid as always
I think one thing to keep in mind with the slope terrain tool is that the slope is always along the straight line between the top and bottom point. Meaning that it does not take into account any curve you add between the two points.
Planning on following this build from start to finish! I get so hyped when a new video comes out haha thank for all your hard work CPP!!
You should name the town Beverly, after the Beverly family that founded the farms and community around it.
I'd also think it would have more residents than workers, as an outlying town to the major metro area some residents would commute in to the city for work
Wow, my city is rezoning my property and it made me think of you!
I live in a little city close to the downtown area of a large metropolitan city and my city has plans to try and grow our small “downtown” to try and compete with the surrounding other little cities that make up the metropolitan.
They wanted to increase the density of housing that surrounds the little downtown area. They changed the zoning from single family to medium density, in order to attract developers to grow our little downtown area.
Good news is, that I don’t have move, and I am in control of my property. But if there is an offer from a developer, I probably can get a lot more than what’s it’s worth as a single family home!
While this was going on at city council meetings, all I could think about was City Planner Plays and how much I love watching your stuff. It actually feels like I’m part of the game now 😂
Just discovered this game on Gamepass! So cool so far. Your videos have been the ultimate tutorial for getting started.
Love how you kept the freeway interchange simple. I always have a tendency to overbuild any new interchanges. Thanks for the great vids! Keep them up!
Where you made the vegetables farm, you could consider to leave space as well. Plant wild flowers for insects to move around easier. Maybe also consider planting trees around for animals such as roe deer and foxes to move to other parts of the forrests.
Honestly the past months been rough and watching your videos has helped me keep my mind off the blech in life right now so thank you CPP!
20:30 The way the cemetery asset flattens the land is confusing to me. Cemeteries, and especially cemetery-parks like that one are commonly made on hills for the purpose of rain runoff. In general I wish more assets in this game conformed to topography better
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A small group of Dutch settlers came to the area and found the land to be exceptionally fertile, producing a surplus of grains which laid the foundation for a thriving poultry industry. Though originally named De Vries (as the settlers were from Friesland, a coastal region of the Netherlands), local wags 'renamed' the town after its most prominent industry - raising chickens.
City Planner Plays never fails to deliver industrial resources inside us
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Phil, as an Upper Midwesterner who grew up in a rural area, I really loved this episode. You did a great job of creating a rural feel. (And for the record, even in CS1, I found myself building regional communities and slowly growing them together. I really appreciate the smaller map tiles in CS2 and how you can purchase non-contiguous areas like this!
I think the name "Underbridge" is perfect for this new little community
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Loving playing along with this series ❤
😊 you told me to show engagement. I just got engaged one month ago 💍
My sympathies.
The bird's eye view of the progress are my favorite things to look at. Something about seeing development from above makes me happy.
Thanks for the tips! But is it me or there's a typo? I think you spelled "Twotoria"! 😂
going through some hard times and I find your videos very mediative! thank you!
@CityPlannerPlays I just started playing CS2 and I've been following this series from the beginning. For the area that you have has Sunnyside Field, I renamed mine to Cliffside Bluff. I made the shorelines along this area to look more like what you might see in Dover, England. My area was originally called Autum Springs when I made the district. Also, I added a medical center to this area so the residents could be independent of the main city.
I don't know why but the way you say "contour lines" just makes me feel amazing. Great video!
I have no idea why I'm so invested in a tutorial series for a game I don't own, can't afford, and just barely exceed the absolute minimum specs for, but this is truly fascinating seeing how you make decisions about what goes where and micromanage things to make them work better.
Great video! This is specially great for me as I want to make Portuguese maps! Portuguese system is hard to understand, even for a native, but essentially our municipalities aren't cities and our cities aren't municipalities, and some places you can't even tell what's a city or not. A municipality is a government level comprised of one or multiple parishes, and it depends a lot on where you are as to what's a city or not. Lisbon, for example, is regarded as a city, but it is comprised of 24 parishes, none of which are named Lisbon, which is usually a must in a municipality: One parish is the seat of the council, and gives its name to the municipality. If you cross the river, you'll see another municipality, Seixal, which is a city and, among other parishes, has Corroios, which is classified as a town, so essentially a town within a city, and it is far from the only example as there are tons of examples where some places are defined as cities or towns, effectively controlled by another city, and other places have no classification. Parishes can also be joined by decree, forming parish unions that have the same government and being treated individually as former/defunct parishes, which results in some weird results, such as Corroios being its own parish, but Seixal, the seat of the municipality and you'd assume to be the main place in, well, Seixal, is a defunct parish that shares its government with two other defunct parishes. Barreiro, right next to it, is another example, as Barreiro is a municipality but also a defunct parish that is now run together with another parish. Most of these things have wildly varied historical reasons which are very hard to convey in Cities: Skylines I, or even Sim:City 2013 with its regions. This new feature finally allows me to create a "main" parish, slowly grow it, and over time simulate the founding of satellite parishes near it, all part of the same municipality, and the city hall can be moved around the parishes as history gives them the reasons to change their seat, just like real life. In my municipality, for example, a satellite parish eventually outgrew the main parish, this becoming the main one and relocating the city hall... Sadly we also don't have actual city halls, but a version of a city hall which runs the municipality, and then a town hall that runs the parish, both coexisting and having different functions, but that's a whole another story for another day, but essentially the city hall runs services like water, waste, high schools, etc., while the town hall and the parish mayor are a liaison between citizens and the municipal mayor, they make sure the city hall is doing their functions as law mandates, and also run some smaller services, such as maintaining public toilets or elementary schools.
The music in this episode was top tier as always. I love the dedication to all the small things, it made a difference for me!
I've just started playing myself and finding your videos really useful ❤ thank you.
I would really love to see a video on common problems (or complaints from citizens) encountered and how to trouble shoot! At the minute I have lots of shops saying the have no customers!! (Mainly petrol stations)... Some people moaning about high rent.
Also struggling to understand finer mechanics and when I should adjust taxes and things x
Im really liking this series. Ive been building along with you and its a lot of fun
Hello! Really enjoying this series and am very thankful for the way you do these episodes. I started watching before I actually got the game myself (a few days ago). Since then, I started my own city & didn't do *too*bad but ran into some frustrations with it so I decided to start another one to follow along. I'm up through the second episode and really feel I have a much better grasp of how/why/when for, well, pretty much everything so far. I fully intend to follow up for as long as this series goes on but twill be taking the things I learn and applying back to any other city or cities I build.
I do have a question, though. In the new area/town you built in this episode, did I miss where you put a medical center or where it was discussed *not* putting one. I ask as in the last (third) episode, a second clinic was added because the expansion left people complaining about the coverage. This new town is quite a distance, so shouldn't there be one there also? Or is the area just too small and until or unless they complain about it, just not have one?
Anyway, thanks again for this lovely, easy to follow tutorial series. Greatly appreciate the massive amount of time & effort this must take!
Love your videos. The city tour is always a delight. Incredible editing! Thanks very much!
Now what that region needs next is a radio station, with you providing top-of-the-hour station IDs. (It would be cool to have something like that in-game.)
Hey Phil, I really love your Ultimate Beginners Guides. I already watched ALL of your UBG videos for CS1 and will do the same for CS2. Keep up the great work! Cheers, man!
Thank you!! Working on the next episode or Saturday!
Bridgeport seems like a great name for this new place! It's right off of the bridge connection!
My greatest flaw in these games is having 0 insight of planning, layouts etc. I kinda just build. Which means it’s functional, but doesn’t look real. You definitely help out with the thought process behind this stuff. Love the Channel
This! This is what had me geeked out from the start, and what I missed from Sim City 4. Individual and unique regions that could specialize and fully integrate into a metropolis.
First chance to really look at some gameplay for Cities Skylines 2. Played the original a ton along with my wife who passed away in 2019... She went by NightVyxen and I am sure would love to know she is remembered in a game she would have loved, not sure where that could fit in but hey I often call my towns something like Muttville. I will say that I LOVE the way the farming stuff works, much more realistic than just having buildings you have to place to make things work on a grid.
Personally would love the viewing platform, worked at a theme park for a bit and was lift hill certified (was fine to walk to the top of the lift in case a coaster goofed) and often sat on the top of the log ride lift hill or a roller coaster employee only platform that were a few stories in the air. Also was lucky enough to have an apartment at one point that was 9 floors up when only a few other buildings in town were that tall, did a little maintenance work there and walked along a 3 foot wide ledge at one point due to a door malfunction I had to fix 7 stories up...
Have since moved to an even smaller town (approx 2k people) got a house that was falling apart for cheap. Trying my best to make it a nice home, replaced the electrical and water supply lines. Working on the roof which is killing my shoulder but since there are no roof fairies stopping by to do it for free I guess it's up to me to get things done. Already put insulation in the walls since there was none when we moved in which was a pain but at least mostly on the ground or short ladders so not as bad as the roof. Hopefully when I get things done I can start dedicating more time to getting a non-profit going that will help people whom have been through traumatic experiences as a child learn to SCUBA dive and make their lives a little bit better. It's one of the things I learned how to do after my wife was gone that has helped me tremendously.
I like the road stub for a future bridge. I've seen this a couple of time in some towns. In my small town there is a fast road (similar to a federal highway), that currently ends here and has a small stub where there is planning for it to continue one day.
you are turning me into a city planner, ok so im lacking in many areas but I wont just flatten the whole map anymore with this ep it shows clearly the rise and fall of the roads, its lovely and natural looking so im mimicking where I can, good job placing the water tower, its not cost-effective but you do see them irl.
Name suggestion, Viewpoint.
Little tip with grading roads. You can grade over an existing road. The terrain wont change until you delete the road though. Just draw your road out, select the appropriate size grade brush for the road your using and trace over the road at the elevation you want. Delete the road and the terrain snaps to the elevation you drew in. Redraw your road over the newly graded terrain and your good to go. I use this to create canyons through hills and mountains and sunken roadways. You can make some clean looking walls of terrain with it too.
Fantastic video, as always.... I had never even thought of doing separate cities or maybe boroughs. This makes it more like Sim City 4 (I think) where you could build several independent cities and have them interact. This opens up a whole new way to play the game. Using the district tool is a great way to assess the individual cities but it would be great if we could get a City (district tool) and then within that district (city) we could set up further districts. That way would make it super realistic. Several cities all with individual districts within them....
Id like your thoughts if you read/see this comment. If not keep up the great work.
Something like a municipality tool. I like it.
this is probably one of the best videos you made, idk why, I just enjoyed every second of it! lots of useful info for new players and some nice tips for us as well, gj man!
When you're doing farm land you will find small homes on a dirt road with pines squared around the home for wind breaks. Great work. I've learned alot about the game.
Something I noticed in your last video: When you chose apple tree's to decorate one of the arterial couplets, I think it can springboard to an interesting conversation about Hostile Architecture. If the city ever has a homeless population word will get around that there are apple trees and can be seen as a free source of food. Unless they are policed and well "protected", the homeless population will be encouraged to interface with a high traffic area for a source of food. Crossing the large road can be dangerous for everyone involved. Remember that Homeless don't have access to even the simplest safety features like reflective clothes, many of them have health issues and move at night during warmer months. I think it would be super interesting to hear how you've interfaced with this very real problem in your experience as a city builder!
Great video! Thanks! I would not have even thought to district the taxis. I guess you could do this with things like busses, and road maintenance, too right?
Also: "even out the slope so your houses aren't falling off the cliff." I couldn't help thinking: Unless maybe you are simulating La Jolla or something similar where rich people build on the cliff."
For the name, you have a nice little lake and the hill in town as well, could be called "Lake Hill" or as you wanted it to centre around the farming community, incorporating this lake perhaps call it "Farm Lake or "Farms Lake" - Just a thought :-) on another note, I would love the option for a Sherriff office and smaller cemeteries. Great videos, love your work!!
Dude, I'm loving your content. I'm honestly having such a great time building this town alongside your videos!
Beautiful!
That remaining open area between the highway and the edge of the tile would be perfect for some rural houses.
The vanilla cemetery leaves a lot to be desired, I can't wait to see some custom ones that conform to terrain and do not always appear full and do not have massive parking lots. Actually I don't think I've ever seen more than 5 parking spots at any civilian cemetery, and even that felt odd seeing them.
Kirkwood farms sounds like a good district name!
Haven’t played a city planner game since SimCity2000, thanks for making this series! It’s a big help getting started 💪
Thank you so much for this series, showing us all the tricks to make our cities realistic is super valuable. I really appreciate all the work going into this.
“We have a bar, a bar, and a cemetery” yeah no that definitely checks out for a small town 😭😭
A simple name that fits a random little town id expect to find out there - Clayton, Clay's town. Named after the 'Clay' family that were the original settlers who farmed this area. The wheat farm is still owned by the great grandchildren of the original Clay who also owned much of the land that was used for downtown but has long since been sold off into other hands or donated to the city, such as the park - except the cemetary, which is still owned by another descendant.
This is one reason why ive been absolutely loving this game - the opportunity to juat create chill little hamlets and small towns that fill the voids in areas around the US, each with their own little story and background.
Been playing CS2 here and there and loving so far. Always look forward to your videos!! Keep up the great workk!
The best gameplay of all, I love the way you make your reasonings in order to reach the realistic appearance,the editing, the pace, very much enjoyable, thank you. Also, I'd like to note that when comparing residents to jobs, it's better to consider the working population (i.e. adults) vs jobs, in this case there's a bit of unbalance, 250 vs.~450.
That's a great point, tbh
Thank you very much for lightening my interest: your voice and the pace of your speech are very relaxing so I watch your videos instead of working today (jk). And the content itself made me want to try it out to plan some cities on my own. Could you kindly give me a hint where I can read about the way you are doing these wonderful time-laps overviews of the progress at the end of each video? BTW your video-editing skills are top-notch too, with all these transitions and song names popping up
You need a bus rout to your main town, it makes the new area easier to live if you know you can access larger areas, at least in reality.
I love the editing you did on the city tour. It looks so good! 😊
I love building separate cities, i love how i look for something i need like farming or oil and build the small things i need to support that, and sometimes they grow into cities of their own, sometimes they cap out at towns or stay small villages its very enjoyable and i love doing that
Bro thank you so much for all of this content! You and your editor must be going overtime rn lol
My engagement emoji for today: 😊
Thanks for the video once again!
you can drag when selecting operating districts to select them all, quick tip
In Minnesota, there are actually a few cities where theyve turned older water towers into tourist attractions.
The one that comes to mind right now is the one in Highland Park (near Minneapolis.)
But there are a lot of super cool water towers all over Minnesota. Brainerd, and Lindstrom are 2 of the most famous. You cant climb those ones, but they're definitely unique. We call the one in Brainerd Paul Bunyan's Toilet 😅
Thank you for your time making these videos. I was stuck and not enjoying CS2 until your previous video helped me past my block. You continue to inspire and educate me. Thank you.
Enjoyed the episode. Fascinating to see how differently CS2 gameplay is from the OG CS1. Learning so much as a result of your videos. Thanks!
the possebillity of creating actual seperate villages and towns around the main city at further distences is an absolute gamechanger in my eyes. that was always so hard with any previous citybuilers.
The nostalgia hit seeing the name of the little dirt road in front of the farm, you should name the community to Smallville.
love this series! im actually doing a build-along.. and between episodes, i save under a different name, then try to anticipate whate you are going to do, by building ahead..
I did NOT see another small comunity coming =)
Did i miss it or did you not place any medical clinic in the new cominuty?
Wont that leave them a bit stranded or put too much stress on the two medical clinic you have? or did you place more?