NOTE: DO NOT OPEN WITH MOBILE DEVICE OR ON MOBILE DATA. DESKTOP RECOMMENDED The map I am playing to build Manukau on (this my first city with the Industries DLC) has a major transport weakness where there is no east-west connection between two sets of inter-city motorways along the coastal area. As a result and … Continue reading The Wayless Travel – the Trans-Manukau Link Road. Part One #CitiesSkylines
Manukau grows in leaps and bounds, also power to the City! Apologies on lack of Cities Skylines content in the latter part of 2018. I had to take my RAM from 16 to 20GB to prevent crash outs of the game and actually get the cities to run without jerking everywhere. https://youtu.be/5dNa6QgpeQs?t=126 With the additional … Continue reading Happy Change the Calendar Day! More #CitiesSkylines Content Coming 2019
Post service delivering that mail With the Cities Skylines Industries DLC also came establishing a post service for the first time ever in your cities. That is build post shops to handle the local mail while the big central mail sorting centres do that sort the mail city-wide (including receiving/sending mail in/out of the City). … Continue reading Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman and #CitiesSkylines
Recommended I got the new Industries DLC for Cities Skylines as soon as it came out earlier this week. For a teaser on what this new DLC you can see the trailer below: As with any new DLC the mods that I use always break and we have to wait for updates. Rather surprisingly … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Industries DLC: My Thoughts and First Try Out
Lets deep dive this as the planners say The latest DLC for Cities Skylines comes out on October 23 (October 24 for New Zealand and Australia - time zones) and it focuses on industry. It also focuses on toll roads too so what is this new DLC? Let's go to resident Cities Skylines player Biffa … Continue reading Biffa Takes a Look at the #CitiesSkylines Industry DLC. Also TOLL ROADS
What I enjoy and urban designers avoid With so much focus on Paradox's other game Stellaris at the moment the announcement of a new DLC (expansion) for Cities Skylines came absolutely out of nowhere. Not that I mind nor do I mind it is on the one thing I like tinkering with and the very … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Next DLC: INDUSTRY
Finally the cruise boats arrive I have been a bit busy on the Urban Geography in real life side of the ledger meaning not much time with Cities Skylines at the moment. However, I have managed to squeeze a few hours in there and there and have continued to work on the Downtown … Continue reading Some Random Happenings in #CitiesSkylines oh and CRUISE SHIPS
Match the mode for the space Auckland Transport Executives and the Chair again prove that they are talk and no action when it comes to the livability of a City especially its City Centre. The latest from AT in regards to Customs Street having busses removed to improve the flow of cars through a core … Continue reading Impending Auckland Transport Mess Up With City Centre Street – This is How You Design City Centre Streets #CitiesSkylines
100% clean green power There are several ways I like to keep my cities green in Cities Skylines: Power production will often come from low-carbon emitting sources including hydro or nuclear. I do use the Waste to Energy Incinerators that produce small amounts of air and ground pollution but they make up no more … Continue reading Who Say’s I Don’t Do Green #CitiesSkylines
New name, more content coming I have updated the domain name for Ben's Cities from wordpress.com to Ben's Cities.blog as well allowing for video content to be put to this blog. Of course the upgrade also means more space for lots more Cities Skylines photos as I have a wee back log of photos … Continue reading New Domain Name for Ben’s Cities
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