Or was it along? Apologies for lack of content lately. It is all sitting there in Youtube and in pictures but not assembled into a blog post. That said in the blog's absence fellow Cities Skylines follow DoctorWhy rose to the community challenge and this is what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZKlRVy9Bsk We are on a Winter Map, … Continue reading The Face of the Senate Revealed #CitiesSkylines
Can we fix it? Err maybe... In Cities Skylines your city can fail in one of two ways; population abandons it because your City Management was less than desirable, or the City has become too successful and both housing and infrastructure have not kept up. Well for Valhalla City we had a case of the … Continue reading Traffic Crisis and Housing Crisis – Just an Average Day in Valhalla City #CitiesSkylines
A look at the City A brief fly through of Valhalla City as of September 2020. It includes a fly through of the Valhalla Cycle Super Highway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNr616LGNo Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/palpatine001
Using Themes to create stylised Districts An often overlooked feature using Cities Skylines is that you can stylise individual Districts to your tastes or objectives. Most often we will select what is known as a "Theme" and implement it city-wide. For example my go to city-wide Theme is European and European Suburbia as I don't … Continue reading #citiesskylines Tutorial: Stylised Districts in Your City (Modded)
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
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