Can City Centres go Car-Free? The TL:DR answer on can City Centres go Car-Free? See the video below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z63OtrdeMtE On the Tram to the City Centre because why drive and try and find a car part at $15/hour.
Buzz Buzz and Choo Choo as it might be said as we go above and underground moving around the City You need to get from the Airport to the City Centre or even out the Papatoetoe, the first urban area established in Neo South Auckland. So how will you do this? Avoid the masses and … Continue reading Riding the Helicopter and the Metro in Neo South Auckland #CitiesSkylines
Dropping down to First Person Mode to ride the transit system One thing I think I like to pride myself on in my 6 years building Mixed Reality cities in Cities Skylines is the diverse and comprehensive transit systems that support the spatial form of any given city. From first house going in to fully … Continue reading Touring Neo South Auckland Part 1 of 3 #citiesskylines
Going to try BRT's again After a break I am slowing getting back into streaming and creating Cities Skylines content using Neo South Auckland as my current example. I usually upload both the RAW version for those wanting the entire run through of a city building session, as well as snippets highlighting specific elements like … Continue reading Long (Raw) Playthrough of Neo South Auckland, Establish Bus Rapid Transit Infrastructure to Support Riccarton Centre. #CitiesSkylines
From God View to the View of the Cim One thing not often done, or at least recorded in Screenshots and video is what the City is like from Cim or ground level perspective in the game. For me I love dropping down to First Person Mode to see what is going on a Cim … Continue reading From a Cims Point of View: We Go First Person Mode in Antarctica City #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
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
Day 1 and already having to adjust bus frequencies After some glitches with Twitch I finally got streaming and recording. In the stream I noticed a sea of people heading to a bus station even though it has just opened 5 hours earlier. A highlight from today's stream with PEOPLE USING TRANSIT - GO FIGURE: … Continue reading WHOA – PEOPLE USING TRANSIT – WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT SO WHEN ACTUAL DECENT FREQUENCIES ARE PROVIDED! #CitiesSkylines Highlight
Ben's Cities 