Feeding the City and Building Those Houses! Also introducing the new urban settlements of Clevedon and Waipa! If Concrete and Steel built Waikato then Old McDonald’s Farm feeds a hungry Waikato. Also TIMBER otherwise how else is your brand new house, that lovely furniture and those upgrades all get provided for (without importing)? Parts 5.3 […]
Getting under the hood of Ben’s urban creations In the first of three specials with Waikato, I take a tour of Waikato Gardens while explaining urban concepts. Waikato Gardens was built as part of Waikato 5.2 to support the metals and concrete industries, but was not extensively covered in that video. Urban Planning, Urban Design, […]
Industrial Expansion of Waikato Continues Bob the Builder can he build it? Well he certainly can’t if we don’t have the concrete and steel to build with available. Nor can we get consumer products including electronics and cars. So we better set up the mines and quarries, build those steel and concrete plants, line up […]
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Some people say; “Oh Cities Skylines is just a game that is easy to do in building your cities.”
They could not be more wrong if they tried when establishing large cities especially of Mods like Real Time, Traffic Manager Presidents Edition, and Realistic Population and Growth are all enabled.
For perspective when putting Urban Geography concepts through the simulator:
It takes about a week to draw up everything needed to bring an urban development online (and the urban development has not occurred yet). This is shown in the picture looking down onto the Sky Tower and the road network just beyond it.
It will take about another week of urban development and tweaking to get the picture showing a fully developed street (not road) with the active and transit modes working.
So about 70-80 hours of solid Urban Geography being put in just to establish a single large District like a City Centre. It takes even longer when establishing Industry owing to logistics supply mechanics.
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