I think the home teams should all have similar colours and the trams and buses should be that colour so we know at a glance what ones are going to the games!

Clubs and pubs in the stadium district! Good place for the NPCs to go before and after games and also makes the area not so dead whenever a game isnt going on. Also will make the tram stops within the area not so useless whenever nothing is happening nearby.

The people getting run over by the bus outside the bookstore feels very realistic to me. I hope you leave it. I relate to those people on a spiritual level.

Best episode so far!! My favourite thing about this game is looking at the lil people use the public transport ngl. I just realised. I love how we completely forgot about the campus area.

Bedford Square is looking good! I love the stadium area, it looks super busy with all the different stadiums so close together. Maybe you could place some little food stands/market stalls around the entrances? Like the food trucks from the parks, I think it'd make for some nice detailing in the future.

I’m loving how you’re doing gameplay for this series. It feels like hanging out and I’m here for it!

All the stadiums together near the highway is super realistic, I live nearby that area in my city and I see it in most American cities. Another thing they have near them usually are bars, casino, hotels, "leisure" things like that. So people coming for a weekend game can stay nearby and gamble too lol

0:00 I think I speak for the community when I accept your apology and say: we are just happy to hear you're enjoying the game, James! Keep having fun. That's the point, isn't it??

Someone mentioned using the food truck park assets and I love the idea of having some food trucks near the tram turn around and plaza, like a place to grab a quick lunch/breakfast while waiting for your train/bus/tram! Also there is a lone tree smack in the middle of the in field behind 2nd in the small baseball field closer to the coast.

I actually loved having so much progress made at the start of the episode! I particularly like the highway junction with the bypass lanes and the road markings - it looks great and really realistic. And I'm glad you had such a good time playing Cities all the day, that's all we want for you ❤️

I can not tell you how much I’ve been needing this today! This series is incredible and I love it so much!

The redo of the townhouse area is awesome now! I definitely saw/liked the vision you had but I think for me it was just the particular assets that weren't doing it. Also the jumps in-between episodes are cool too, its like a time jump in a tv show or something, it gives a sense of progress happening without being tediously involved with everything along the way.

You need high fences around the 2 football pitches. When someone yeets the ball off target the ball will go miles 🤣

there's a mod called ROTTERdam that came out after you stopped playing two years ago that fixes terrain tearing glitches like the one at 14:50 ;) edit: also, toll booths don't have sidewalks, so the stadium area is inaccessible to pedestrians coming from the beach or the residential area unless they take public transit

You could put one of the emergency radio towers nearby the radio station so it looks like they use that one for broadcasting

I'm still in the beginning of the video at the tour of the new midrise area behind the library (bedford square i think?) - I love love love how that turned out!!! The brick walls for height changes, the green spaces, it looks so neat!

I love what you have done to the old old town area, I have a suggestion, could make a hiking trail sort of thing behind it on that small mountain beside the future cargo port area

I feel like this time arround you trully have way more fun playing this game. You really needed a break. Love this run so much, the downtown looks great ! About the intercity train : I feel like you should just tunnel under the river and the rest of the city to avoid headaches, it's fine. I'm guessing also there's underground train stations now, it would be a way to link the university directly to the downtown.

Love the stadium area! Though I reckon you should definitely have more food and merchandise stores around them

I love the chapters you included! It’s really helpful on longer videos, awesome work James! 🇦🇺

I'd add a small police station to the stadium zone, I think it would compliment the existing services.

You built a Spaghetti Bowl (interchange with a ton of bridges)! I love it!!! We have on here in Utah, USA and it's one of my favorite things to drive past.

I think the statue of industry should go under the rails. Cause think of how cool it would be to see that statue, as four different trains roll over you. Then think of how awful it would be if you where sitting in a park, eating a sandwich, when four different trains roll over you.

Since the original idea for this series was so that you could play as you wanted (originally without mods), I think it's good that you did a bit of building off-camera.. and enjoyed doing so. If you feel like doing that again, I'm okay with that. I liked the "tour" at the beginning because it helped to catch up with what you've done. Thanks, James.

@flabs main suggestion i would say as someone whos played american sports my whole life. Most often the professional stadiums are not surrounded by smaller recreational ones. I can only think of a few places where that is the case. What DOES happen often, and I have gone to these my whole life, are large sports complex's where amatuer and youth players would play for their club or travel teams. These will often mix together the sports, with baseball next to baseball, football next to football, and soccer next to soccer, with a central area for concession and parking, and the fields surrounding them.

we love that you're enjoying playing this series. its so much fun to just watch you build and figure stuff out for hours, i find it really relaxing! i think a metro system would work the best for the stadiums, the trams look awesome though. love the changes you made to the mid-rise area, looks super outskirts of a city now. i think some hotels and resteraunts around that area or near the stadiums would look nice, makes sense that a lot of people would travel for the games and potentially want to stay overnight?

Maybe consider having express transit (tram, bus, etc) to the stadiums from the most popular stops, maybe even for a specific stadium. Seems like a lot of people go from the train station/main entrance to the stop in front of the soccer field so maybe have a line that only goes to those 3 places, for example.

Loved this video! It might work to have one (or both) of the middle tracks at the train station, cross the bay/river by bridging the first half, then going into a tunnel at the island to pop out somewhere near the university area. Or just tunnel the whole river. And it could be cool to put a garage or a building over the tram turn around so it just looks like they're going into another part of the depot.

Loving the series! Looks like the stadiums could use a small police department to help with coverage in that area. I also really like the rework of Bedford, especially the small commercial area.

“I’m actually excited to see people leave” is such heavy introvert vibes tbh

Always look forward to these vids! Really love what you did with that nightclub by the train station, looks so cool!

Making sure matches are on different days and using more roundabouts within the city might ease possible busy traffic

watching it right now, and I'm chillin edit: I think you can download custom stadiums. I'm not sure with the university stadium being the main stadium of the city.

i love that he left a space open in the "old"part of the city for a campus but still hasnt done them and now he has a varsity sports stadium without varsity team

Love what your doing James it's great, I thought a subway connection from the stadium to your main train station and bus station, something similar to Sydney olympic park

I have a suggestion for the rail lines going north out of the downtown towards the suburbs. You’ve got 4 lines right now, with one line hooked up with the suburb section of the line. What if the other three lines went up towards the Bedford Village area and then diverged from there? You could have one line that goes west (maybe it even loops all the way around and connects to the station from the south?). You could have a line that just goes on and continues north. And you could have a line for outside connections that bridges over around where you have that highway bridge. That third rail could snake around the undeveloped perimeter of the suburbs and eventually hook into the intercity rail line once you buy a few tiles.

I love the detailing with the housing you did between episodes! The apartment complexes look fantastic!

I loved this episode so much! I’ve never seen what happens with stadium events before so it was so good to see! Thanks James😁

Bring one railwaytrack through the Uni, past the farming industry and then on to the airport. What would also be sick is if you put a Toronto space needle kinda building where the bowling alley was under the rail, have it stick out between in the middle:)

You should definitely put some bars/pubs in the stadium area! That would be veryyy realistic :) Love the series, thanks James!

Welcome back to my heart Flabs! (Is a play in your intro… not some sort of pass)

We're very happy to have you back making videos and good to hear you're enjoying it. i've missed this content and this series is shaping up to be one of your best on Cities!

i love this series

I’ve watched every second of this series and I am so invested in Bowser Bay. The city is looking so good! Seriously James! Really cool design and I love seeing your thought process behind everything you’re doing.

I look forward to finding these 🙃 Love that your addicted to this currently ❤️

I'm a city planner in Sydney. Every day I go to work and plan Sydney and then I come home and watch your videos to see how I should have actually done it. Love the series keep it up.

I’m so happy you went a different direction from more townhouses, however the tiny row you did put in looks amazing. I’m also really digging the open tunnel train line. Lookin good!

Love that new bedford square area and those little townhomes. Try using move it and resetting it to get cars to stop floating.

We appreciate you playing City Skylines all day, James! What I really think could help the train lines is also thinking about adding 'nature corridors' BUT also nature corridors would just be amazing to see! Think it could present interesting challenges when having to also factor in for nature. Land bridges for wildlife, green corridors, from coast to the nature reserve, all connected, potentially via the train lines. The work looks amazing! I love the raised station with all the shops in the arches below.

This episode was amazing!!

Loving this series! The city is looking amazing, I love all of the little details.

Woah! Loved the layers of the new residential area by the stadiums

This is a great series, can't wait for the next episode!

Oh wow, that parade of people walking down the paths on match day to the stadium is almost nostalgic for me in a sense, I love it! Just imagine the atmosphere, the build up to the massive game taking place……ah!

I love this gameplay so much. I’m so glad you’re taking time to make YOU happy!

Such a great series to just sit, chill and watch after a hard day at work! Love it.

Suggestion: actually do not start recording everything you build/do. I think it’ll quickly kill your enthusiasm for the game - I’m pretty sure that’s how it’d work for me at least. Your mileage may vary of course, just a random thought I wanted to share. Also: I actually really like starting the episode with a bunch of result before diving into the process.

long time watcher, first time commenting. just wanted to say that seeing the crowd of people walking to the stadium gave me a vivid flashback of going to see yankees games as a kid with my grandfather. thanks for that!

I love the confusing highway lane splitting and whatnot. Feels like exactly what kinda chaos you run into when in bigger cities

The apartment complex at 14:00 reminds me so much of the apartment complex you built in the Sims 3 with Deli!

I like that the bus picks people up like a roomba

Really enjoyed this part. Love the little fun things like the one car doing highly realistic parking and the 900 people at a tram stop :D

more timelapses please! Awesome series, very relaxing!

Good for you for using the chapters feature! Super under valued

I'm loving this series!! Btw, it was funny seeing you disallowing parking on the one lane streets with parking next to the stadium area 😂 maybe you should change to the four lane one

I love this series so much

loving this series- Looking forward to the university area build :-)

Loving this series so far! Started late but binged it so now I'm caught up . I think the stadium area looks really cool, but I feel like the high school sports fields don't really make sense. Who wants to go through a toll booth to see their kid play? It could be nice to make some high schools like that big elementary school you did, placing the fields behind them or nearby. They could also make good 'green space' parks or something.

James, 4:51 is absolutely GENIUS!!!! Love the idea!

great episode!

anyway we can see the city at night I feel like it would look so cool. love this series keep on expanding

I'm 6mins in and I LOVE the interchange especially the one that goes into the city, all the line work looks amazing too

i love this series so much!!!!

Everything is looking so good! i actually love how much rail is happening in the city. As a Sydney-ite, it gives me strong Central vibes. those other lines in the centre could join up to the other lines just in front but then branch off to other far flung parts of the city yet to be made, i feel it, and they could stop at the same stops but then go to the other sections thereby creating connections in those already exisiting parts to the new sections. i like it.

I’m so glad you’re doing this series again. Maybe another round of Planet Coaster, too?! Please 😆

Don't tear up the city for a bypass line, just run it on the other side of the map where the tile border is. Don't go through the nature area either, just space the trains out it's okay. Remember this is not suppose to be stressful, just for fun and calm.

Amazing entro ! Keep going !

i LOVE the amount of detail. i didn't know this city could get any better but i was wrong.

The stadium area is going to look so good with the beachy tourism right beside it!! exciting!

BIG CHANGE But you could move the train station backwards towards Bedford and the Waterway and then you could even add in another ferry line. And then the rails could go around the downtown area city instead of between. Idk. Just a thought. It would look a lot neater but be a big change

I live in the Netherlands where trains are a vital method of transport, both for intercity travelling and comuters. And as far as I know the 3 biggest cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague all use elevated rail for their main stations. In Rotterdam the train tracks in eastern direction go directly from elevated tracks to tunnels. So for busy downtown areas elevated railway tracks are the most efficient way to bring in the trains, even though they might not look the prettiest.

There goes my early night 🤣 loving these videos

God I love this series so much

Making a small metro-ring-line like the one in Glasgow could be cool:) and then not expanding it and having a lot of different bus connections could be cool:)

Intercity trains get assigned a random platform when placed so it's likely they are assigned to the platforms not connected to the network.

James you do your best work off camera!!

Fun fact about American football. When Penn state university has home football games it can be recorded on the Richter scale, so their buildings on campus have to be structurally designed to reduce vibrations 😅

Pump up the Tram, pump it up!🎶is what i was singing in my head when you got more of them. Love the stadium area and how you need to pay toll when using a car. I guess it maybe influences how many people use public transport as well. It's a shame you cant set a policy to double public transport on game days like how you can make it free. That would be a nice feature to have. Ooh also if you're looking for a good tram, i use one called Railwhale from the workshop, theres a 3 car variant with 200 capacity, ad a 6 car version with 410 capacity i use and theres other versions as well. (and a metro version) Also also.. Instead of the ugly crematorium there is a nicer looking building in the other tab in the health category. Its a cryopreservatory but functions like a crematorium. Could be usefull when you need deathcare in an area you dont want a crematorium. Enough rambling, love the series. You do you and how you want to play. Love seeing just the results just as much as the process.

This may be more complex than you want to deal with, but separating out the tram lines so that the baseball and football stadiums have separate lines might make it a little less crowded.

In case anyone didn't know, base game for Cities: Skylines is free on the Epic Games Store until next week! A lot of the DLC is on sale as well!

I did enjoy the let’s tour at the start of this let’s play. 😂

This is my favorite city skylines series

Thanks for this series. At 1:10:53, just a hint about your TM:PE settings. You mentioned in the past that you hated that cars were only using one lane. If you change the slider of Dynamic Lane Selection to something above 30-50%, that might get cars using more lanes. Also in TM:PE, in the policies tab, there is a button for BUSES IGNORE LANE ARROWS. You can use that so that you don't have buses making loops all over the place where you don't want. In the same policies tab, you can also make flowing through intersections the default instead of changing all the intersections. Just suggestions. Keep up the great work!

Need a mod recap for this series! Love how it’s turning out - strongly recommend Metro - super efficient

Instead of having the roads as bridge over the rail ditch, upgrade the street to ground level. And turn a small section of rail into tunnel. It will look a lot better and you will be able to use the street space normally on ground. The short sections of rail tunnels will look as if the street is a bridge. Make the tunnels aa short as possible, right to the street edge.

I have to watch the video after this one, but I'll still put thoughts here, having not watched the newest one just yet. I love the toll roads that you've added for the Stadium. What i'd do next, is add a toll on the "Express Way", or on the main highway once you get that complete. If you build an Airport, you could add a Toll there. For the University -- as you get that way, I'd add the Varsity Stadium there, and an Aquatics Center :) Just a thought!

i liked the statue between the rails!

Watching these videos make me want to get a whole plan of Dublin and re create it in city skylines

i reckon you should also add some medium tall hotels or maybe some tourism commercial in the stadium area to make up for the gap in the skyline

I think adding some big shady trees and benches to the area in front of the library would be nice. Lets people go to the library and enjoy the nice weather