I appreciate your level of detail. It's so satisfying watching this city grow at a slower pace. So many creators already have huge cities and the game has been out for less than a week.

Your channel is a treasure. You are meticulous and thorough and the level of research and proficiency you bring to every video is astounding. The best part is you never stop having fun which simply makes you a pleasure to watch. It never feels like you are reading a script and yet your words and sentences almost never seem like fluff or out of place or erroneous. Every time I try to watch other CS content I just can’t because you do it so much better! Whatever you are doing to prepare for each episode is definitely working. Thank you for making such high-quality content. ❤

I built along with and copied you on the first episode of this series, and then continued off on my own path over the next few days, but my city is a mess. Really interesting to see this 2nd video now and how your city went in a completely different and much better direction. It's like some weird parallel dimension.

For the cul-de-sacs, you could look at doing them UK style. Instead of a bulb at the end of the road, they tend to end in a T of some description, and sometimes have an extended driveway coming off the T to fit in more houses. You can pick pretty much any town in the UK in Google Maps and zoom in on any housing estate with cul-de-sacs to see it.

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@Paradox Needs to use the full grown tree LOD during the placement of the tree then have it "plant" the baby tree. I like the tree growth aspect but it needs a "planning session" button that shows the full grown version of plants so you can plan for the look your going for. Could have it enter a planning session in that it shows the full grown version of all plants then you hit a plant button and they become permanently baby plants until they grow.

Great work! I would recommend adding more trees to the pathways. In the summertime, it can get quite hot for walkers if there are none, so having a thick canopy can really add to the park's quality. In real life I find the best parks are covered by trees. They clean the air and make the sidewalk so much cooler in the summertime. They also provide beautiful colors if you live in a place with fall like I do. Having trees takes you out of the city hustle and bustle and makes you enjoy your time outdoors, making you feel more connected to nature. Having visited Central Park and parks in Philadelphia, trees were so nice to have as they allow you a nice calming break from the skyscrapers and city traffic.

I had this wrong, @solidXxXtuna is right that its the users consuming bandwidth. You know what was also in the low/flat area of my map? My Cims. original comment: I think it's worth mentioning that the location/elevation of your Radio Masts has a big impact on their coverage range. If you can place them on top of hills they give a stronger signal and wider total area, and if they're in a flat area or down in a sink/depression their range and strength are reduced

I think most of the complaints about road tool and terrain tools is --- change management. Folks need to practice and get used to the new functionality. While I'm sure there are improvements to be made the vanilla tools are soo much better than vanilla in CS1.

Hey man, love the work and effort you have put into this game already, appreciate the dedication! Keep it up ❤

quite frankly despite what the reviews say, im having a blast, yes theres less stuff overall especially concerning buildings and variety, but the new mechanics are a strong foundation for whats to come

When you built parks and claimed eminent domain, some of that might have an alternative explanation: HOA foreclosure on homes with wrong curtains and turning them into HOA property and creating amenities where they can also fine people....

Oh my god. These on and off ramps on the highway with turning lanes look so good and the best part - they're so easy to make.

I enjoyed the episode. Thanks for the tips for using paths to fix zoning and for adding paths to parks. Great stuff! 👍

28:58 For Cul de sacs, if I plan to add homes around it, I would use narrow road (for small ones) + curve road tool and turn off all snapping options except for 90° and geometry. This will help you get that CS1 roundabout. Just make sure when creating a quarter circle, the width and height of the curve are the same while maintaining 90°. This creates a symmetrical circle road and you can build houses around it (depending on the diameter). I also made a huge roundabout for one of my city centers and plop city services in the middle (for aesthetic reason and hopefully avoid traffic jam).

I appreciate how you teach us how to create realistic cities while explaining the game's mechanics. Thank you very much.

My city is printing cash. I am right around 20k pop and profiting between 10k and 15k an hour. Most of it seems to be coming from my surplus goods being shipped out. At around 10-12k population I was running pretty tight to my budget, but once I got my harbor in and set up some shipping lanes my profit spiked to 4-6k, since then I have added train lines to the harbor and connected them up to outside cities as well as really paid close attention to my production tab to make sure I was in the green across the board on natural resource (farms, rocks, livestock, ore, etc), and now my city is making more money than I can spend.

Fewcandy does something fun with the terrain tool in the stone industry area where she uses the tool to make some rock piles/small hills. That could be small but fun detail to add 😊

One suggestion: can zoom into an area more right after you finish developing it? I love seeing the close ups and down to earth realistic views. I kinda get lost up in the air lol

Excellent episode! I appreciate the workarounds you demonstrated - those will come in handy for my first REAL attempt at an ongoing project. I feel like I'm still in the testing and learning phase, figuring out what works and what doesn't. Thanks for ALL the work you do to help make Cities Skylines a better experience for everyone!

loving this series so much, it’s such a treat to get to explore this new game with your guidance - this is the exact episode I needed! 🙌🏻🌞

i love this series but you could start another series on the side about building a city based on a city in real life edit: most likes i have ever gotten lol

I don’t often make comments but I watch your videos all the time. I just wanted to stop in and say thank you for all the Cities Skylines Videos you’ve made and for your continued content. Thank you. ❤

Few people have pointed out Fewcandy's and Overcharged Egg's aggregate pile trick for rock and ore industries, and I have ANOTHER TIP! Make rock/ore industries a harsh cutout into a hill/mountainside. Gives a pretty cool effect of surface mining site, and also somewhat hides the area from outside!

I found in Skylines 1 there was always a threshold that once you kind of got over the hump you'd be making 10k VERY quickly. I kept waiting for that too happen in Skylines 2 but the only way I can make money it seems is by dropping services down to 50% budget and even then it's only +600 give or take. Excited to figure this out finally!

Don’t understand why people waste their energy hating on stuff, there are a handful of CS creators that I look forward to watching each day, love the original, liking 2 but probably wouldn’t as much if it weren’t for you all doing what you do! Keep it up!!

One tip I've found is turning the service fee for water and electricity down to like 1%, it give's a +20% efficiency bonus for companies and makes cims happy. This leads to places levelling up pretty fast which will make you a lot more money than you'd ever get from service fees.

Been a minute, but knew that this was the first channel I needed to check out since the sequel released! Prior LS/CE and Current Telecom PM so the getting a take from a professional planner is epic! Thanks for the content!

One of the things I like to do is depress the area that a quarry surrounds with the terrain tools to just a little lower than the surrounding terrain. Sometimes that will stop the extractors from spanning if you don't cut out a large enough area, but for stone mining I often find it looks more natural. It looks like the stone has actually been removed from the area.

32:30 I don't know if you already figured it out but.. there is a way to remove a lot of Trees withou using the demolish tool, You can use the paint mode and turn off the snapping mode, which is plant or remove the similars and Right click it.

I'm loving CS2 road tools. They're such a huge step up and way more intuitive. I never built sophisticated highways and interchanges (or rail, subway, etc) in CS1 cause it was so finicky, but in my current CS2 city I've got a proper metro, a passenger / cargo rail network, and a somewhat insane highway system that includes lots of tunnels scooping underground and connecting up wherever I want. It may go against all proper guidelines and regulations, but it's getting the job done lol. I have no doubt this is going to be the best city builder ever made after mod tools hit the wild.

Dang man, watching you build a city in this game is a thing of beauty, I tell ya. I was building along in the first video, but this... this... well, I personally got lost in how you did stuff, and now I'm just here to learn from you and hope I can glean some wisdom as my cities expand! Like, dude! You have really delved deep into this new game and you give such great advice on what's new or changed and how to think about growth... I'm off to watch your third installment now. My city will be faaaaar behind, but that's OK. I'd rather watch you master yours today. LOL

To show how to make the stone mine more attractive/realistic maybe you could use landscaping tools to make it look more like a quarry cutting into the hill?

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ Immediately unlocked the solar farm and just exported millions of dollars of solar. Haven’t had to look at the budget since.

Imagine helping plan cities in the daytime, balancing books between services and proposing new economic zones, coming home, and then making a KZfaq video tutorial on a city planning game, to balance books, and create profit from new city services in new city zones. Man, you're living the dream, CP. :')

Just felt like I should drop a thank you so much for the videos. I started playing about a week ago and couldn't figure out hot to not run a giant deficit or have constantly sick people. Now after your videos I have an actual functioning city making money and am able to really dive into the little details and intricacies of the city building process that make this game so awesome

Spent my first 12 hours running on fumes and government subsidies. Picking up just enough every progression level to make it to the next one. UNTIL yesterday when I was randomly making 80k/hour for some reason.

Would love your take on the economy dynamics essentially being in "off" mode. Seems commercial buildings import material exclusively, the specialized industrial zones do nothing.

You made my playing experience way better with the two tutorials in this series so far cant wait to see more!

Hello CPP ! Thank Your for this amazing work. Definitely the best guide for this game I have seen from far. Slow improvements, micro analysis, going deep in game features, detailed commentaries etc. I'll jump into the 3rd episode of this "show" and learning more and more with your peaceful & chill ambiance. When i watch your CSII videos, it's like having a coffee and reading my books in a smart coffee shop !

6:41 if you add a pedestrian path then delete it, it refocuses the grid without you needing to keep the path. I.e. the Grid is "sticky" so if you focus it on one side with a path then remove it it "sticks" to where it already is. Edit: If it does not seem to work, try adding zoning where you want it to be then remove the path. Because the game seems to not like to break zoning already in place

Loving this series for the interim before the map editor comes out and you decide on a main city series to do. In honor of Notre Dame being close to bring rebuilt after the fire, will you use it in Twotoria?

I am really glad that I played this game along with you, in addition to watching your episodes on the specs and settings that work best with this game, depending on your equipment. I like to keep my day and night cycle on, that means I usually just let the game run during the nighttime and watch the city scenes while waiting for daytime hours to come. I learned a couple of interesting things about some of gameplay graphics. One evening I zeroed in on a gasoline truck making deliveries.....to residential homes. As soon as the truck finished, it returned to its gas station of origin, made another pickup, and delivered to a different house. After the second trip back to the station, the same gasoline truck had to go pick up more supply for the station out of town. I think the truck makes deliveries of heating fuel for residential homes only. I have never seen this feature before, because the first few times I started cities, I was so obsessed with keeping up with the demand meter. Every city I had looked like LA's City of Industry, with only a tiny bit less commercial. By the time my cities went between 20,000 and 30,000 all demand for single family housing had almost completely vanished, and the only desired residential was medium density or greater. I am guessing that by creating so many businesses, that none of them had their full quota of workers, and therefore all the jobs being filled were low paying, despite having colleges and universities. With a city chocked full of low-income workers, there was no real need for single family homes. I had a city that maybe had 5% residential homes for all residents, that is why I never saw a fuel delivery truck before. The medical clinics----Not only do the ambulances deliver patients, but they also drive in, and there are also a few urgent care spaces for patients with a medical emergency that drive in. Also, it appears that the medical treatments are quite lengthy, at least six hours long, possibly longer, exactly like most appointments I have had. When residents use their vehicles, they actually walk to the exact place where their car is parked before they drive off in it. None of that Sims 3 stuff, walking out to the street and the vehicle magically appears out of thin air. It makes me happy when game developers realize that we have not yet put into place that wonderful George Jetson car in the suitcase technology. When residents drive to gas stations to make fuel purchases, they do not drive up to the pump, they park it on the side of the street and make a purchase. Police functions----When you check out a police crime scene at a residential building, you can actually find the person getting arrested, and on their personal marker it will list their occupation as robber. I wonder if we could mod that to say Encyclopedia Salesman? They listed her as getting arrested; however, she was not driven away in the police car. She instead made the walk un-escorted. She only lived about .2 miles from the police station, and she only made it halfway before she turned around and went home. Misdemeanor? The attendance for the elementary school and high school is a tiny bit wonky. In the mornings you will see students walking to both with a reasonable amount of time before class, however, you will also see some of them leaving prior to 10:00 am. Elementary Night School? Most of the high school students have jobs in addition to their educational classes. I guess class attendance is not a huge deal, compared to all of the amazing and marvelous details about this game. Thanks for all your videos, huge fan. FYI, if you want the residential to fill in, play it more my style. I added about 30 to 50 percent more industrial zoning, plus maybe 6 to 8 commercial property tracts. Boom, all those hot residential properties filled in, plus some of the row homes zoning that had not filled in yet. This was still nothing like I was doing before, but it was enough to balance the scales. Thanks for all of your videos, big fan!

I have learned more in the past two episodes than the past 18 months of watching people randomly place zones and streets. Please continue to make more of these!

I tried playing this build again with 2.0 and got crushed by debt.

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My favorite quote of the video: "Just like cities skylines, you can add nodes" 😂😂 I love your videos, man! Highly educational and as a returning player to the cities universe, after several years away, I appreciate your guidance very much!

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Currently up to level 3 with a population of 1682 and can not wait to follow along and continue to grow my city of Lake View. Thank you for all the great videos that you produce. Been watching for a while now and finally got a PC that can run the game so super excited to continue along with you. Lets do this!

I’m so glad you and Biffa are finally coming out with regular videos again. The dry spell is over 🤩

I don't have the game yet but I'm still watching this series anyway, I just love watching someone playing these kinds of games normally instead of all the shenanigans most other creators would do for once. Might come back to these videos once I do have the game.

Wow man, you're doing a great job with these videos! I remember watching years back when I was learning Cities Skylines 1, and those were great too, just awesome to see how far you've come since then. Great narration, great production, keep up the excellent work! Making me want to pickup CS2 now...

great tip to use pedestrian paths to adjust the zoning! Thanks !👏

Really enjoy series like this. Cities Skylines is way too complicated for me to enjoy playing it but I love watching people build awesome stuff.

Been watching this channel for over a year now and it’s always a good time!

Good stuff ! Im liking the budget aspect of it. Its makes more of a realistic approach to city. Cant just plop or zone and go. Actually need to pay attention.

I have always enjoyed the satisfaction of building insurances--but OMG I don't think I've ever had this much FUN building an interchange! 🙌🙌🙌

As a landscaper by trade I love creating and designing new city's, your videos have helped me understand some of the finer details. I do love the way you design your city's which help with my designs. Great content thank you.

I have found that disabling snap to grid, guidelines, and keeping on snap to angle and length helps a lot in ensuring good griding. Also when making cures and such, you can toggle the snap options at any point when drawing a road. Also, to get over roads and raillines, you have to be 10m over it. You will notice that even at 7.5m, the bridge kind of bends upwards over the highway because it wants to be 10m. You can use a path to split a block to allow for same depth row homes. After all the lots are made you can delete and put an alley way in then since you normally would have alleys behind row homes for trash and whatnot.

Went from not being comfortable using the terrain tools in cs1 and rarely using them, to using the terrain tools for almost every build in cs2. Love the new tools 🎉❤

This tutorial is going to help a lot of people. Thank you! In short: sell what you can sell (e.g. water and electricity), increase your population (by adjusting the density) and increase taxes...

appreciate all the hard work you put into these videos! Any one else having the issue with the city chirper constantly complaining about Medical services? could have 6 clinics and still complaining

"Press i so I can see what I'm doing" should be the game's subtitle, and you're the only reason I know it's an option. Thank you!

New player and new subscriber here! Gosh I’ve been addicted to this game AND your videos since it came out. Your content feels so genuine and one on one with the audience, keep up the great work! I need a traffic control and city transit setup video next! Haha

Your videos are inspiring me to be more creative and more deliberate with my city. My low density residential demand is currently out of control, so I’ve been expanding a very basic grid and basically zoning en masse. Definitely going to try and slow growth down and be much more deliberate, adding unique parks and such. Probably not going to create a culdasac neighborhood. Having grown up in the unwalkable suburbs I really despise them. But definitely going to create some unique parks!

I have 6 minutes of playtime of Skylines 1, and dont have part 2 but I like watching your videos for some reason. Here is a sub.

Please keep working and growing this city, I want to learn how to reach the last city stage. I've barely made it half way before in the first game! You're very talented and doing a great job, me and my fiancee are enjoying your videos!

Thanks for attempting to balance the budget (I know parts of it are broken right now) . Still, the greatest thing I took away from this episode was the employee availability stats, once I balanced that my city came back into the green. Awesome content, keep it up. Peace from a Appleton expat now living in Sweden.

I almost gave up on 2 cities after my budget fiasco and started a third one today. I needed this video so much. Thank you for this.

Thanks for going as in depth as you do! I've been playing a pretty low spec laptop and am having a great time with this game. Can't wait to see what becomes of this over time!

I made a profit thank to you :) One thing I found that you missed is that you can currently export sewage for less cost then running your own service, also that you can make a district and make money form people parking on the street with the parking policy this can only be found when you make distirics. I managed to get a balance at 9% tax for residental and 14 % for everything else. 9% for resident make them happy

Cleared all those trees in the park, then left it until the end to replant some. Ya had me worried 😅 I do like that you're saying the hotkey you're hitting, especially if some things have changed or are new. That is really gonna be helpful for me once I get playing myself. So thanks for that!

Loved how you did the highway on ramps/off ramps from the bridge. Great ideas

Man watching your videos and playing so intelligently and thought out it makes me crazy how everyone in forums has just been completely bashing this game. I finally got some time in since launch and up to a 14k city, it's going well. I haven't actually touched taxes at all but making a decent profit. I basically put every industry resource as I could which seemed to have a massive impact to industry taxes like crops, chicken farms, all the farm types, then a little stone, wood, coal, metal. I even built a cargo port to help industry even more. Funny enough my industrial zoning is a fraction of everything else, i don't have a lot of normal industry zoning but I am pulling in like 250k in industrial taxes which is about same as residential which takes up a Signiant portion of my city. My commercial also has a lot of zoning but for whatever reason commercial just doesn't pull in a lot of taxes, i think only like 100k. I also met demand of every type of service needed, mail, internet, garbage, school, etc. i have literally 0 negatives on the happy meter and yet only 10% city wide tax and still making usually 3-6k a month. I'm up to 14 mil in my bank in 2024 with a 14k pop. Also I don'ts think that the monthly budget total amount is accurate, early on when i was seeing like a -1k deficit i would look at the actual money available going up each tick, unless there is suddenly a huge expense tick like at the end of month or year, i am not certain you are always actually losing money when it's in the red, which is weird. I wish I had the experience you have when it comes to such fine control over road placement, terrain, zone placement etc. I think I just been impatient with my first city just wanting to see what I can do with getting a big city as fast as I can. My city is pretty ugly as a result, but it's working! I do miss the ability to adjust taxes of services that adjust capacity, for schools maybe does not make sense but other services it would still make sense because it just doesn't make senses to build a service that can essentially service a 20k city when you have only 5k, surely in real life they may make the building future proof but not completely fill it out at first if the capacity is needed, like policy could hire more vehicles and staff over time instead of going full blown maxed out on the building right at the start, i do wish you could control the individual budgets of service buildings like in city skylines 1, that said again it is possible even at a small city 5-10k to provide all services and still profit without adjusting any taxes like I did. I think again industrial production is a huge key like farms and all.

Very nice! I don't own the game yet, but I'm learning a lot from your entertaining content. I love how in the winter, the cars drive around with their windshields completely covered in snow. It's exactly like where I live! Heehee!

Cant wait to see how this city is gonna evolve! I dont even have the game but im still watching these until I do get it

Hey dude, don't know if anybody has said this yet, but your city-tour editing was quite nice! Love how some of the scenes were in-time with the music, very nice touch!

I really love this project. I am absolute new to Cities Skylines and were so lost. I for now follow along and build with u. On the other hand I try to do my own city on a different map. Its so much fun. Looking forward for some new parts to even evolve more! Love u and thanks!...

I’m following your city guide I suck at building cities and with the game being so new I just want a city that’s somewhat organized compared to what i normally build. Thanks

Just moved to CS2 from CS1, hopefully at the right moment. It is a great great guide, as allways, so clear and self explanatory. Saaaadly, from this video is quite outdated with Economy patch 2.0. Personally, I am stuck in 6 tales, without being able to expand, coz of the upkeep costs. Suggestions? Loans?

I love this series. I wish it was daily. I’ve been wanting since the first episode.

Great stuff! In terms of cul-de-sac endings, I’ve found that you can make pseudo cul-de-sac bulbs by placing roundabouts at the end of the road and making a small circular road loop around it. This can also leave a bit of space in the centre of the bulb for a playground or some decoration

I love the new landscaping tools. I suck at landscaping and it makes it much easier. Love the game too! I think a lot of people are comparing the completed CS1 with all the mods with the basic CS2. I think this game is going to be great for years to come!

Love how well edited and scripted your videos are!👌🏻

Im really enjoying that you actually need to pay attention to your spending early game. Something Ive started doing is cutting all my services busgets to minimum asap, making sure I'm not importing goods i can produce, and only building the bare minimum services, then its all about getting people to move in and give them good jobs, so they can pay their taxes. That initial million you get is not for spending, earmark at least 300-350 000 for a deficiency buffer

Thanks to you and Biffa, I have finally managed to get my city under control and start earning money, not to mention that meshing both your ideas together. I think the city actually looks quite good. Love the content

Hey Phil, been loving the new game. My only comment is that RICO is a suggestion now. You do not have to satisfy demands as I currently have a 20K city with nothing but office and commercial as my workspaces. 0 Industries and I am managing imports. It does require setting up your taxes to encourage companies to take on the import cost due to no industries but it's definitely not a requirement.

One thing about commercial zoning, never let the blue bar from the demand meter empty, if anything allow it to remain full. Over zoning commercial will eventually cause the "Not Enough Customers" issues. My 'test city' of 4000 people I over zoned it (emptying the blue bar), had countless not enough customers. My new city I eased up on the zoning and have never seen it once. Tbh, the game is fairly similar to CS1 with Realistic Population. It's generally a good idea to ignore the demand meter, only occasionally looking at it so when you do want to zone something, you know it will build right away. For industry and office, instead of looking at demand, look at the population information to see your unemployment rate. If you have high demand but lower unemployment (5% or less) you might want to hold off with office/industry.

Colossal order have confirmed that they have received reports of a bug with industries at the moment and are working on a fix. The bug is that extractors prefer to export their products instead of selling them to nearby industry instead. That makes it harder to make money with industry at the moment.

I have found it best to straight up ignore the needs meter and just build. If i attempted to satisfy it, i would just build low rise residential.

You could manually create cul-de-sacs by using either the alley (no parking on the side) or smallest one-way road, and the continuous tool to make a perfect circle. Both allow for zoning, and the one-lane one-way road allows for street parking as well. It would be slightly bigger than the smallest roundabout, but much more realistic with zonign all-around.

One more thing that would be neat for these beginner tutorials would be spending 5-10 minutes on the new camera and video modes. The endings of your videos where you show how the city has evolved during the video are awesome and it would be neat to see how to create something similar.

To make a working cul-de-sac just use continuous tool, 1st click 90° away from road(distance min is 13m) loop it up into half-loop, then back down to complete. It's not perfect but you'll have housing around it

The city tour was nice. You certainly added quite a bit this episode. The shot you had near the college with the sun flare really reminded me of a beautiful winter day when that sun shines over the untouched snow. Idk why but it was my favorite shot I've ever seen in this game

I'm one of those doing my best to build along with you in these videos. I just wanted to say thanks for the great content and you have me hooked waiting for each new episode drop.

I have watched this video multiple times trying to balance my budget of my build along city. One thing that bothers me about the video is that CPP did not put the high voltage lines under the road..." Where they belong" lol. Thank you for all the years of videos. You helped me enjoy this game and make my CS1 city thrive. Also helped me build better modern TTRPG maps. Because now the roads look more realistic and so do the districts in my TTRPG games.

Thank u for a new Series. I like the way how you explain things and how much u are in detailing ur city. Its always Fun and one of the best Channels for fresh Cities Input ;) And - i dont know why - but sometimes it makes more fun to watch u build a city then to mess up another one by myself in the Game ;D

building along with you on this one, lesson I have learnt so far is not to expand so quickly. I seem, like many, to have fallen into the speedy growth pit creating too many issues in the infrastructure early on, which means almost a complete redesign of the city before I have even become profitable. Looking forward to building the city out even more over time, and will take some of these lessons and elements into my own city!

Thanks for the videos. I'm brand new to the cities franchise and I've been absorbing as much info as possible. Out of all the good channels for this game you sir have become my favorite. I'm definitely turning on notifications for new video drops. 🔥🔥🔥