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
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
Took five years but here I am! I have played Cities Skylines for long as it has been out - 5 years. Yet while perfecting transit and freight transportation options my active modes planning was no more than painted cycle lanes, the odd separated cycle lane next to trams or disjointed cycle-ways over a motorway. … Continue reading Building our First-Ever Cycle Super Highway in #CitiesSkylines (and taking a Tour)
5 years with this game? Earlier in the month it was the 5th Anniversary of Cities Skylines. It was also the 5th Anniversary of me playing Cities Skylines and all its DLC's (expansions) to date as well - tragic I know. The game and community has evolved so much over the last five years and … Continue reading CITIES SKYLINES HAS BEEN HERE FOR FIVE YEARS? Yeah I have played the game that long! #CitiesSkylines
City Centre established and we take our first tram ride We finally managed to do it! In the Friday stream of Cities Skylines I managed to finish the Valhalla City Centre and establish our very first tram lines linking Brownville to the City Centre and return. Below is the highlights from last night's stream showing … Continue reading Our Very First Tram Ride in Valhalla City #citiesskylines
Can I build a City in two hours So I got roped in by fellow Cities Skylines player Cazgem to do Cities in Snap. What is Cities in a Snap? I have two hours to build a City. More in my latest video here: I have registered for the March rotation of Cities in a … Continue reading The Senate has Registered For Cities in a Snap #CitiesSkylines
Also a nice chat to fellow gamer Caz Finally I got back into Cities Skylines and work on Valhalla City. I even managed to lay my first bus lines to while the tram lines are still being built. So how did it go? Check out my most recent video: The first bus route for Valhalla … Continue reading Progress on Valhalla City Comes Along Nicely
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