Hey everyone! One of the channel patrons, Martino found that you can actually move a bus stop and the route will follow to the new location. That's one I didn't realize was possible, so a HUGE shout out to Martino for finding that!

Imagine living in a nice inner city house your entire life, but then your house gets demolished and in its place they put a bus station that immediately gets closed 1 hour after finishing its construction.

Watching these is like watching the Bob Ross of city builders, relaxing and informative but in an organic way! This series is great so far!

I love that you're showing how to use these game elements through organic gameplay. It really helps me to incorporate the city services more effectively while picking up on all the little bits of more advanced road and zoning techniques along the way. This is my favorite series right now because it really complements my own playthrough!

No matter how long I watch this channel for, there’s one thing that never changes; I love transit episodes!

Quick suggestion: in the area where you built offices next to the frontage roads, there are very few connections across the frontage road. Perhaps add a pedestrian path so people can cross the road without having to walk far out of their way

Those old buildings that already are on the map (22:15) can be moved. There are more on most maps, and together make a great "old village" wich can become a tourist attraction. Great for filling up a difficult spot on the map and to get more income.

I was having a lot of traffic issues with my city, just jams everywhereee. I definitely waited too long to add transit because it intimidated me. So anyway, I finally added busses and taxis and it helped a bit with traffic. Then I added trams and now I have no traffic jams. My bus stops/routes are still a hot mess though. I’m now inspired to fix them! Lol

Every single time I follow along with the tutorial, I start expanding a bit more just to see whether my instincts mesh with yours. Usually it's completely different and I end up rebuilding, but the area between the high school and the bridge/radio tower, I actually got pretty close! I know I don't have to rebuild anything, but my goal of following along with the tutorials is to get a better feel for designing a city myself. I try out ideas and learn new ones in the process, sometimes realizing, "Oh, I didn't think to do that!" I also started mine with a different grid pattern (200x96), so it's forced me to take some creative liberties by not being able to do a 1:1 with the tutorial.

Just gotta love that you named the outside connection Nicolet Bay

The road tools in this game are just a joy to use. Huge improvement over CS1.

I really love how you tied Twotoria into the Philoverse! Nicolet Bay for the win! EDIT: What about changing Cooper Dale into Applewood Way, referencing the gorgeous apple trees that the area becomes known for? I can imagine in real life that those offices along the (other side of the) couplet would really be popular, and the entire area growing into an iconic view as you enter/exit the city. Signage, sitting areas, big windows, and corner offices worthy of Chuckles himself.

Hi Phil! It's really good to see you instruct people how to upgrade their city with transit. I love the series already, in my opinion better than CS1 beginners guide!

I thought you were going to explain bus lines in the sense that, how to decide the routes along the city, this is actually my major handicap when setting up any kind of public transportation, my mind just goes blank, that taxi improvement has been like a blessing for me

I’m never going to actually play city skylines but these videos are so fun!

Another amazing episode! As a former landscaper, I really enjoyed seeing you put in those parks and add in a variety of trees. My fiancee says she enjoys the way you incorporated the office space into the surrounding commercial areas. The long center road that curves into the bridge also is pleasing aesthetically when juxtaposed to the city grid. We can't wait for the next episode!

please do trams and metro next! those tripped me up in cs1 and i’d love to learn how to do them in cs2

as far as the shelters for bus stops go, it may not reflect reality -- but as someone who is disabled, I feel like *every* bus stop should have a shelter so that people are able to sit down while they wait for their bus! obviously this is just a game and it's not going to affect much either way, but that's just my two cents :)

I have to say, I am new to Cities Skylines, but these are such helpful tips and I APPLAUD your editing. Showing how the city improved and just the light emphasis you put in specific areas is just incredible. Thank for the full guides and taking the time to show the differences at the end!

50:22 You got to name one of your districts blooming apple to cheer for the trees you planted to grow pretty

i first started watching this channel when i bought cs and couldn’t figure out how to play, then enjoyed watching the channel so much that i haven’t played the game since. i’ll never play cs2 but im obsessed with this series! thanks for the great content!

In the industrial area, also called Marlor Glen, you should name it Crewtoria. And if you make a district full of mountainous or coastal housing, name it Viewtoria. EDIT: You could instead change the original industrial area, this being called Autumn Springs, to Crewtoria.

I really hope the developers watch your videos. I think these tutorial style videos show the pros and cons of all the new features (or lack-thereof) in CS2.

Hey CPP, one thing I’ve come to love is using the 3-point curve (complex curve tool?) for “S” bends like at 20:00. Click once when inline with the first road, click again when inline with the second road, but where you want the apex to be, then click to connect to the second road. It saves you a little time using two road tools (continuous bend and simple curve) and looks great! Love your channel and I’m addicted to your CS:II content!

This is one thing I really hope there will be an mod for in the future: These normally privately owned services should be private. I want Radio Tower, Taxi Depots, Trash Collection and like that to be spawned automatically in the commercial and industry spaces. All do still have a reason to be city owned in certain situations still. For example: Mobile carriers don't really invest in areas with a low density of housing. In these cases local governments would build the towers themselves and rent these to the carriers. So a mechanic with automatically added towers in higher density areas would be realistic, and the player still needs to add some into areas that wouldn't be profitable. Same with Taxis: Private companies start independently when enough interest is there. But to strengthen underdeveloped areas or boost the amount of taxis present the player can start their own taxi service. And the taxi stands still effect privately owned taxis so they can be at least a bit controlled. To be honest, this can also be happening to garbage, power, water and sewage treatment. It is not uncommon to have cities buy these from private companies. Owning them theirselves is expensive investment cost but, if the demand is there, can reduce the price and with that boost the economy in the city. I also would love to see that with private schools and colleges. Maybe even private security firms that popping up when police present is to low but results in worse satisfaction of the citizens and more expenses to companies. Volunteer firefighters with lower response times. Private doctors and medical treatment facilities that are more expensive. Privately owned parks and recreational facilities like sport clubs. With these the gameplay would become more accessible and far more in depth at the same time. New players won't get overwhelmed by the amount of things they need to care for, while experienced players can far better micromanage the city.

Thank you, I have a deep desire to hear "Cats Walking" again in the background your videos! Amazing production!

Veteran player of CS1, and been watching your series for years. I've been following along with this tutorial just to familiarize myself with the changes that CS2 has made, and it's been great. Thanks for doing this, your videos are always a joy!

Just popped into the comments to say that I think your videos are super clean and well-edited. I was waiting to buy CS2 but watching all these videos got me too excited, so I bit the bullet and am now fully immersed in my first city. Probably gonna call a mulligan on it now that I've learned so many good tips and tricks from your videos!

Hi. You can add only one bus stop and then start to plan your route. When you are done, you can add bus stops afterwards. You place them on the dots. It's easier that way.

A few tips I picked up through trial and error with buses: 1) Don't assign too many buses to a route, otherwise you'll get traffic jams of empty buses. 2) Don't assign more than about 3 bus routes to one bus stop, otherwise you'll get long queues of buses at the stop, trying to drop off and pick up people. Build a 2nd bus stop a little bit further along and spread the buses out a bit. 3) Don't build bus stops too close to intersections (again, they'll cause a jam). 4) Don't build too many bus lanes, especially on narrow roads, because you'll actually create more traffic than a normal road (although I'm not sure this is totally realistic, but that's how the game works anyway). 5) Once your bus lines get busy, replace your highest usage bus lines with tram lines, as they're much more space efficient and will keep traffic down.

I was so happy to see the fire at 9:11 cause after watching all your Verde Beach and other cities, it really does not feel like a City Planner Plays video without something burning.

Not only is the info super valuable but the editing is on point and love how it's used to track the growth

Hey Phil. I love the fact, that you preserved the old mill and found a way to develop your city around it. So how about we call the district after this tiny building. Let's rename Park Brook -> Millville

I love this game, and I begin playing it all rushed up. Just making stuff for the sake of making it. Watching this makes me get involved with my cities, the neighborhoods, the bus stops, the roads, for the love of god the way the buildings are oriented! Not just zoning all out and all at once. Love this. Super entertaining. Super educational. Just excellent all around

You probably already know but in case you or someone else isn't aware of it, at 36:14 you make new stop for the bus and then shift the line over before deleting the old stop. You can actually just mark the stop and move it like any other building as well. It's really helpful if you have several lines going to the same stop so you don't have to re-drag each one to the new stop :)

CPP you have such a unique way of playing this game. It feels like your play style fueled a lot of the CS2 mechanics in the development of this game.

Having played this game for a while now, I'm actually a big fan of the cost trade off of things like garage extensions on taxi depots. I know it's been criticized by a lot of people, but I like having to weigh "do I place a new building, which has a larger footprint but lower upkeep, or do I upgrade my current building, meaning I keep the footprint smaller and get to keep all my upgrades?"

I started watching this because I didn't know how traffic actually needed to be handled, but now im just watching this for fun because its so relaxing!

I love your videos, they bring a whole new depth to this game for me. I find myself watching you building almost as much as I spend time playing!

I think I’ve never heard a KZfaqr thank me for my time. I felt special heheh. Thank you for the appreciation. 😄

Totally blew my mind with this video. I'm close to 70 hours into the game, and I had no idea a) you could connect to your neighboring cities; and b) you could just paint the bus lanes. Your videos have been great for years, but this tutorial series with the C:S II has been so useful. Thanks Phil! (Also, hello from a fellow Sconie).

I think you should add a path between the offices and another bus stop in the middle of the other two and a taxi stand to provide more acces to the area 🐎

I do think it's important to take advantage of the rivers view and have some key wall streets and pedestrian along the river in some parts of the city

First, I wanna thank you for showing the game functions in such a natural way! Makes it even more enjoyable to watch and play! And second, I wanna suggest you to create some bus lines from the suburbs to schools and the college. It seems a nice way to encourage people to use the transit.

Loving the green grass on the buildings while the snow you can't turn off pours down. The dedication to making it look bad by CO is amazing.

Looking forward to seeing the other transport options especially the airport and its role in cargo and tourism. Before you build out too much consider some small parking lots around the offices and commercial hubs for the citizens that don’t want to partake in transit

Ive really been loving the CS2 content. I think my favorite part is when he leaves little misclicks in like making a terrain hole and having to patch it up. Always worth a giggle and makes me go "Its not just me!" lol

Great video! Loved finding out about renaming outside connections, that's so cool. As a fellow GISer, did you notice that the districts and outline areas (landfill, industry) have basic topology built in?! Hopefully, this means they'll be able to add in the ability to split up districts with just a "split" line. The potential of this could be huge...

I'm at about 20 min I the video, and that looked like the absolute perfect place to demonstrate the complex curve tool. It makes S-Bends like that sooooo easy.

i really enjoy your realistic + genuine approach to playing this game and cs1. its definitely showed me i like this type of stuff as more than just a video game hobby

42:37 wow, waypoints are HUGE. That was one of my biggest immersion-breaking gripes with CS1, was the illogical bus route looping that would occur and the stop management to prevent it (while also not spamming stops at every corner/bend lol)! very glad to see a good solution implemented

I'm really happy you tackled transit options in this one! My network is struggling, so this is a big help.

You can also connect Bus Stations to farflung area's of the city. So you can have an internal downtown bus route stop at a Bus Station (not a depot, seperate building!) and have the bus station have a seperate route to say, a farming community. Can help with long distance travel if your map is wonkey and you have some tiles out in the middle of heck all no where.

I like that you are addressing actual game elements... CS1 was a low difficulty city painter... this is an actual game.

I would rename „Cooper Dale“ to „Twotoria Belt“. Because it looks like a belt through the city 😅

Thank you for the videos, they have really been helping me. I could have sworn we started with 88x112 grids and now it is 88x120. Maybe I missed a part where you changed it up.

I think Autumn Springs should be renamed Mulligan Industrial Park, seeing as your industrial zone was the first mulligan of the series, stinky air and all :)

I learn SO MUCH from watching you build and explain as you go along, as to "why" you're doing something the way you're doing it. My cities are looking and doing so much better now because of this. I still haven't quite mastered the buses yet, but I'll get there.

At 42:30 with rerouting the bus line, I think it defaulted to the weird looking way to avoid extra left turns. Your fix had three lefts and then a right, and some large vehicle operations would avoid that.

What is necessary for our Guy to be interviewed by "99% Invisible"? This hit's 100% on all themes that have been touched on. In case you haven't heard the podcast, it discusses everything from train bridge height, to district gerrymandering.

Finally a high quality content from the man himself

Thanks for working so hard to entertain us and I really truly enjoy your video!!❤🎉

I find it difficult to communicate the sheer glee I felt when I remembered that, since it's Saturday, there ought to be a new CPP video and, upon checking, realized there was and it was 53 minutes long. Can't wait to watch it!

This is one of the most enjoyable "lets play" I've seen, keep it up!

I've always used two bus lines that run parallel to each other in opposite directions. That only really makes sense if you have a ton of people using them where you need more than the maximum number of buses on a single line, right? Maybe i should switch over. Makes them a lot more managable i'd imagine.

Heck yea! Man I am enjoying your series here and learning soooo much. I’m catching up but man I can’t wait until you start another series from scratch. But until then… keep on growing and keep on teaching me!

As a bus driver for my school I always enjoy bus episodes

Just bought the game after binging your Magnolia County playlist and I’ve learned I do not know what I’m doing 😅 so thanks for your videos

It’s the subways and trains that I cannot get to connect and work properly, love an episode on subways and trains

Absolutely the best channel about C:S II.

The production quality is insane!

Your voice is incredible. I feel very tranquil watching your vids.

Damn I love how you just make it look so easy to make your cities look real. I've started about 10 New Cities because I always get stuck with layout. I'm always in negative budget and can barely get positive. I will keep watching hoping your videos to hopefully learn more.

43:03 You legend Phil. I was doing a run through last night and I was getting frustrated on why I could not add bus lanes nor tram tracks to my City that has now just started taking off beyond 5,000 with medium density starting to come into high demand. THE REPLACE TOOL. Rookie error myside. Should make play through easier today as I do the first bus routes overhaul for my City. Thanks again from one Planner to another 🙂

Thanks for making this series! I would watch any videos expanding on it, even going into detail on more obscure things pro's do that noobs need to know.

Have you thought about letting patreons act like a contractor to develop specific things in a city? For example a contractor creating or redesigning the transit network or redeveloping a city block? I think that would be a neat collab that keeps the city realism

I want this series to continue forever. Ha! It's very enjoyable!

The cemetery asset looks so nice, maybe you could build a little bit of a park area around it. The mausoleum addition could make for an interesting focal point.

Watching it makes me want to play....and then i realise i'm shyte at building cities, but i still love it!

Some tips to have a better public transit system: - Connect train stations/air ports etc. With residential districts while passing through schools, hospitals, shops (this is because people entering the city via other means of transportation other than car, just don't have a car) - connect as many residential districts to workplaces (industrial districts) - try to make routes intersect and place stops near intersections, so residents could change between routes to get anywhere in the city

You do not have to delete placed stand/sign. You can actually just click on it once placed in the world and then, in the menu that shows up, there is a button to "relocate" the selected bus/taxi stand/sign. Doing this is quite useful when you designed your bus lane and then want to do changes to it later on or in situation like the one in video at 36:10.

I've been following along and trying to build my city as to yours - like a kindergarten painting class But this is the one where I start getting overwhelmed

Unless I somehow missed it, he forgot to mention how taxi and bus stops can change the road, adding a lane for buses and taxis to park in so they don't block traffic, and that where you place the stops affects how effective the additional lane is (basically, you don't want those stops where the lane begins or the vehicles can stick out into traffic). You can also move bus stops that have lines connected to them and the line will move with it. Aside from that, great video!

Great video as always! I find these super helpful :) Looking forward to a trains, trams, subway deep dive / how to video as well :) Cheers

Completely addicted to the series ❤ cheerings from Italy 🇮🇹

I couldn't quite get my roads to line up perfectly around my old mill ruins. Then I discovered you can move the ruins. Yay!

whoever came up with TWOtoria is an absolute genius

I was so relieved when you removed the crosswalks. I've seen so many builds where every intersection has crosswalks and I just assumed you couldn't remove them.

Really excited by the potential of the way taxis are implemented-I keep thinking about how this system + a minibus asset from the workshop with somewhat higher capacity would have been perfect for somewhere like Nicolet Bay to simulate the kinds of rural flex-route and paratransit services we actually see in communities like that.

I'm pretty sure that wherever there are multiple intersections really close together, you should replace them with a single intersection or roundabout. Traffic trumps geometry! Examples: - Every time a road crosses both sides of the Amity Street "couplet" (PS: I've never heard it called that before) (roundabout). - Birdsong and Lilac Streets both ending at Elizabeth Street, on the border between Cooper Dale and Autumn Meadows districts (roundabout). - Moore and Hillside Streets both ending at King Street in Autumn Meadows (roundabout). Further down the same King Street: Meadow and Prospect Streets, and Pearl and Beechwood Streets (each a single intersection). - Meadow and Autumn Streets meeting at Wood Street at one corner of the cemetery, and Pearl and other Pearl Streets at the other corner (each a single intersection). - Maybe: the same King Street as earlier, crossing Birch Street and then immediately meeting Garland Street, near Ranger Bridge (roundabout). Alternatively, move the King-Garland intersection further away from Birch. - The aforementioned Hillside and Elizabeth Streets get too close together. You should probably just delete the part of Hillside between Wood and Birdsong, and have Elizabeth become Hillside at Wood (a.k.a. a single intersection).

Hey Phil. Just wanted to let you know the Jacarandas are flowering here in Brisbane, Australia. Flowering Jacaranda = University examination time, so the students (and academics) are hard pressed!

Another banger video for this city. Can’t wait until episode 4.

I like to use my broken grid spots to put parks - the outdoor gym is exceptionally useful for that. 😃

Your videos are extremely helpful. Your explanation of planning a city is one of the best on KZfaq.

Just wanted to say thank you these videos are great. I have never played this game. I don't play many but I am seriously thinking about buying this game. I think it is something I could get into.

I'm really enjoying this video, definitely subbing! Chill, knowledgeable, good audio quality, camera work, and pacing. 👍

That is one nice and realistic looking city. I need to start working on making mine better.

Love this tutorial play along series. I've been building right alongside you this entire time, and it's great learning the intricacies of how to design and layout a city. Keep it up!

I don't play this game but I still love watching your videos. Cheers from WI!

These videos are incredibly well thought out and executed. The city tour is such a good touch.