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
Fine tuning the city to avoid massive rebuilds and expensive motorways Once you have settled into the basic mechanics of Cities Skylines with a functioning transport system, the zones nicely laid out and the civic infrastructure all working does the fun really begin. Fun what fun? As the city gets larger it gets more complex … Continue reading Tactical Urbanism, Traffic/Transit Checks/Fixes in #CitiesSkylines (Moderate-Advanced Modded Playthrough)
Some quickfire ways to help the city move As a Spatial Planning and Urban Geographer in real life the concepts I practice there can make its way into Cities Skylines and vice versa. For more on tactical urban see this post over at my main blog: Tactical Urbanism Reaches South Auckland! So can Tactical Urban be … Continue reading Undertaking Tactical Urbanism in #CitiesSkylines
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
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
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