Spatial Planning Time! Uh oh What happens when rapid urban expansion meets transit system not caught up yet (that is designed for founding stage but not growth stage of a city)? It means: Palp the Senate can he fix it Palp the Senate - wait and find out On the next play through of Neo … Continue reading Neo South Auckland Meets Transit “Crisis” – Cities Skylines 2 (Preview)
How Urban Geography impacts my Cities Skylines 2 play style What does Urban Geography + Cities Skylines 2 equal? In this video we find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8M3ejFz8s Urban Geography + Cities Skylines 2 = ? Coming up in Neo South Auckland and Cities Skylines 2 I did some expansion offscreen including forestry industry. Consequently demand for … Continue reading Cities Skylines 2 + Urban Geography = Neo South Auckland
Settling down into my first CS2 City Jitters aside, and with some tweaks to performance, I have finally settled down to creating my first ever Cities Skylines 2 city - Neo South Auckland. Through this one-hour video I go through what is pretty much an introduction where I cover: Type of play (Left Hand Traffic … Continue reading Neo South Auckland, My First Cities Skylines 2 City – Introduction
Time to dust off the tools, and see if what we learnt from CS1 can apply to CS2 It has been a very long time but I am finally back and as RUSTY AS EVER (so do not comment on the big black box to the right of your screen please). Cities Skylines 2 is … Continue reading After a Very Long Break; We Are Back – with Cities Skylines 2
A look at Planning, Cities Skylines and how via Mixed Reality I work with both (in game play) I have started a series via Twitch which will be uploaded to my YouTube channel on Planning with Cities Skylines. It is a six-part series look at the more advanced mechanics of Transport Planning in the game … Continue reading Tutorial and AMA’s on Planning with #CitiesSkylines. Part 1 of 6: The Overview
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
Using Mixed Reality to build South Auckland as it might have been After giving my second ever only Winter map a go (Antarctica City) I went back over to my stock standard Temperate Maps reopening Vanilla Coast to have another crack it (the first had to stop as the Industries DLC had come out when … Continue reading New Map, New City, Day 1: Building South Auckland in #CitiesSkylines #MixedReality
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
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
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
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