Content will return Apologies for lack of blog material recently with things being busy at home. What I will do is write a post at least once a week summing up what I have been doing on my City with highlights from Twitch. In the meantime some highlights from Valhalla City: We do zoning, we … Continue reading We will be right back with Valhalla City and #CitiesSkylines
Creating a themed city in Cities Skylines With Grand City of Solaria (see: https://www.twitch.tv/palpatine001) I decided to go for a theme. So using some assets and the European Theme I went for a rather interesting blend of: Soviet/British Nuclear Steampunk with a dash of German Zeppelins thrown in. How did I go? I think we … Continue reading Nuclear Steampunk in the 21st Century – with a side of German Zeppelins #CitiesSkylines
Got to move and house those Cims Another day and more work to do in the Grand City of Solaria. Recently I did a podcast on Micro Districts and the Soviet Union (see: Micro Districts, the Soviet Union and Modern City Planning). In the most recent streams of Cities Skylines I put the Micro District theory … Continue reading One Metro + One Micro District = Another Day in #CitiesSkylines (Grand City of Solaria)
Quick fixes vs Big Infrastructure Over the weekend I was part of Cities In a Snap - a competition hosted by Cazgem where competitors have two hours to either build a City or complete a scenario. In this instance it was completing the Traffic Scenario where you have a limited amount of time to get … Continue reading Fixing a City in #CitiesSkylines #CitiesInASnap
A Soviet, Albert Speer, Russian/British Nuclear Steampunk Hybrid mess Time for a new city in Cities Skylines however, Palpatine City won't be going anywhere as I will come back to it for more detailing and tutorial content. This time I decided to run the City known as Grand City of Solaria to a theme and … Continue reading Introducing Grand City of Solaria #citiesskylines
Making Palpatine City more realistic So I have been watching Detailer Supremo Slay3K doing Detail work on his city since the beginning of the year (Slay's Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/slay3k ). I have never been one for micro detailing owing to patience and to be honest being tad lazy but last night I thought lets spend a … Continue reading #citiesskylines Micro Detailing. Settling into making the City more realistic – A Preview
Slowly getting use to the new DLC + Japan Content Pack After a small interruption on Sunday I have managed to settle back into Cities Skylines DLC + Japan Content Pack with the continued build of Palpatine City. Palpatine City uses the Craters Fall Map that came with the new DLC and is based around … Continue reading Progress on Palpatine City AND OUR FIRST TROLLEY BUS #CitiesSkylines
Streaming while in lock-down My Twitch Channel and times I stream at can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/palpatine001 With New Zealand going into lock down as of tonight due to Convid-19 I have decided to up my Cities Skylines and Stellaris Federations streams to 6-nights a week at 7pm. The purpose of the Streams is to … Continue reading The Lock-Down Streams. #CitiesSkylines , Stellaris Federations and Plenty of DERP, and Traffic Jank
Took five years but here I am! I have played Cities Skylines for long as it has been out - 5 years. Yet while perfecting transit and freight transportation options my active modes planning was no more than painted cycle lanes, the odd separated cycle lane next to trams or disjointed cycle-ways over a motorway. … Continue reading Building our First-Ever Cycle Super Highway in #CitiesSkylines (and taking a Tour)
5 years with this game? Earlier in the month it was the 5th Anniversary of Cities Skylines. It was also the 5th Anniversary of me playing Cities Skylines and all its DLC's (expansions) to date as well - tragic I know. The game and community has evolved so much over the last five years and … Continue reading CITIES SKYLINES HAS BEEN HERE FOR FIVE YEARS? Yeah I have played the game that long! #CitiesSkylines
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