I Built a Retail Park Where EVERYONE Wants to Shop in Cities Skylines!

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Causing Traffic to Solve Traffic.....WHAT??? Plus Retail Therapy! Enjoy :-)
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@paulleah5887 2 жыл бұрын

Just sat waiting for Biffa to realise he's cocked up his roundabout. It's like he's never lived in the UK. 😂

@IvoVybiral 2 жыл бұрын

Was just about to write the same... 😂

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Until this week, I've built 99% of my roundabouts the US way 😂

@Symbioticism 2 жыл бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I was coming into the comments to say the roundabout goes the wrong way around too...

@paulleah5887 2 жыл бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I knew there'd be these little hitches with you doing it UK style. It's all good fun, and gives us all the opportunity to sit here going, "awh no Biffa, you've got that wrong". 😂

@spartacus987 2 жыл бұрын

Just gotta wait 1 or 2 minutes. He fixed it quickly after. I held off my comment just in case, and he fixed :)

@matk6978 2 жыл бұрын

Even though I live in continental Europe, this whole build feels so much more familiar, or even 'home', to me, in comparison to all the US style builds you usually see on KZfaq. Absolutely loving it, thanks Biffa :)

@eddyerkelens 2 жыл бұрын

Aldough there is in reality always a small (walk)way between the garden, in cause of fire to escape.

@nickbooker5579 2 жыл бұрын

For a realistic experience don't forget to put any public transport stops on the opposite side of a huge car park to the customer entrances, or preferably the wrong side of a 4 lane stroad. If there are cycle tracks and footpaths make sure they don't have an entrance anywhere near the cycle parking or the entrances, to maximise discomfort of active travel users so they have to walk across said huge car park rather than having a short, comfortable route.

@edwardmiessner6502 2 жыл бұрын

And always put the bus routes on the roads with bike paths so the cyclists would have to dodge the buses when they stop for passengers

@nickbooker5579 2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardmiessner6502 Yes typically the realistic experience is shared use only with no extra space provided to make up for the bus shelter and boarding area, leaving narrow scraps of space to move past it. Don't forget to also put lots of obstacles on the footpath too, like BT junction boxes and traffic light controllers. There are actually solutions to that in real life - known variously as the floating bus stop or the bus stop bypass, or in the shared use case just providing additional space for the boarding and waiting area and other obstacles rather than carving that space out of the (usually already too narrow) path. Hopefully the new design standard LTN1/20 will improve things but I am not holding my breath.

@jamieparslow-williams7567 2 жыл бұрын

Great retail park, check - Poor access roads, check - Loads of traffic, check. You have made the perfect British retail park!!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@jt5765 2 жыл бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I'd just like to add most fuel stations positioned so close to a roundabout like this often have the exit side of the fuel station cutting the roundabout out so they exit directly onto the main road or at least an exit road then onto the main road. Love the build though. Terraces remind me of the street my Nan lived on. Keep it up dude UK aesthetic is a breath of fresh air compared to the usual USA or mainland Europe builds.

@geebee1769 2 жыл бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines The petrol station is the wrong way around. The price sign should be by the road or facing the main entrance to the retail park

@N0-1_H3r3 2 жыл бұрын

Reiterating my name suggestion from last time: Biffingham (taken from the old Anglo-Saxon meaning "home of Biffa's people"), a town located not far from the River Tetley.

@healsnails 2 жыл бұрын

Biffingham-on-Tetley. Call the river Tetley and away ya go!

@healsnails 2 жыл бұрын

Or maybe Biffingham-on-Tea as i think Yorkshire tea is the preferred and biffingham-on-yorkshire doesn't work. I'm Irish and we have a few places that are somewhere-on-someplace but I think it's a very English/British way of naming somewhere.

@glumrvigmadr 2 жыл бұрын

Much better than what I was thinking… Litteale Britain

2 жыл бұрын

Teachester 😉🤣 Tea, teach, Chester 😉

@edwardmiessner6502 2 жыл бұрын

@ actually Chester I think is from the Roman _castrum_ meaning military camp. So back in the day, the Romans built their camp and named it after the nearby River Tea, named way back by the native / Celtic Britons. Same thing with Teacester.

@matthias5441 2 жыл бұрын

I think you should ban cars from driving on the street in front of the "big wave" so that they park in the actual parking lot and walk from there. Also there should be pedestian crossings from the parking to the shops. And a walkway from the housing area to the shops would also help with the huge amount of traffic.

@davidius74 2 жыл бұрын

Not only that but cars should be banned from driving behind the shops too so that is free for trucks only

@hayleyp1179 2 жыл бұрын

Literally was just going to say this haha Ban the cars around the shopping area, so it's just the trucks accessing it for deliveries, and more walkways from the housing bit to the shopping centre 😊

@KDonn3 2 жыл бұрын

My heart goes out to all of you living in places where Toys-R-Us no longer exists. You are always welcome to come over and visit us here in Canada. We still have our stores, and they still give off that old nostalgic feeling when walking through them.

@BlockBKanal 2 жыл бұрын

I think there should be some additional pedestrian paths going to the retail park. I remember going to my local tesco and having a dedicated path that we could use to access the suburbs. Also a bit more walkability would ease the traffic!

@JayROwen 2 жыл бұрын

I have to walk over a small bridge over a stream to reach my local Asda!

@user-qp6lj6gu7s 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, but I wasn't sure what the standard in UK is so I'm glad someone that knows commented :)

@haztj1 2 жыл бұрын

I think some overhead padestrian bridges would also stop that crossing the road issue and be more real to life in a retail park type setting

@mildertduck 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I think it would certainly help!

@brotherman2823 2 жыл бұрын

100% Those houses behind the McDonald’s need access!

@lindsaykat3675 2 жыл бұрын

I'm an American who has been in the UK for 2.5 years and I absolutely love how Biffa describes the UK! I got weirdly excited when he plopped down the ASDA.

@floingroove 2 жыл бұрын

With Biffa, a 39 minutes video feels like 5 minutes because I always enjoy it so much and feel like: "No, it can't be already the end!" I really love this new city. Thank you Biffa for the amazing content ^^

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it! Thank you :-)

@humphreychannel582 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing when i finished.

@boli2746 2 жыл бұрын

You should put pubs and shops at the end of each of the rows... or have a small row of shops in the middle. (e.g. scatter commericial) and yes, I grew up in exactly the same sort of houses :)

@bobblebardsley 2 жыл бұрын

Corner shops, corner chippies and corner pubs would all be excellent additions :D and about a million kebab shops!

@FoxDren 2 жыл бұрын

But they'd have to be empty closed pubs

@chimleypot 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the paper shop on the corner for the nostalgia and the vape shops on the main strip for modern realism

@geebee1769 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Commercial on the corners

@Mazulan 2 жыл бұрын

I would remove some trees from the main entrance. As city planner plays mentioned with his Walmart placement the retailers would want people to see their stores and in general with that much traffic going in and out safe visibility would be important 😄

@rohanvarshnei 2 жыл бұрын

12:15 - Roundabout in the wrong direction!!

@jamieparslow-williams7567 2 жыл бұрын

Also, it is not correct on both sides, see 12:48 where the lorry goes the right way around and the other traffic is going the wrong way around.

@spartacus987 2 жыл бұрын

Fixed one minute later.

@tigonologdring9189 2 жыл бұрын

Back alleys are spot on Biff! Just like home (of childhood)... maybe want to remove private car access from the frontage roads at The Wave and place some crossings from the car park to the shops. Also, the way off the Flying Saucer (you just know that the locals would call the giant elevated roundabout that) is only 1-lane... just in case you'd forgotten. Loving this build BTW.

@u76bo7h 2 жыл бұрын

After the petrol station got messed up you turned it the wrong way. Looks slightly weird this way imo

@buginabassbin 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Needs to be rotated 90 counter clockwise so the sign with the petrol prices is by the roadside.

@stevieinselby 2 жыл бұрын

You could improve the traffic flow into the retail park by making the two roads along the sides connect in front of McDogs to form a loop (yes, you would need to lose a bit of car park, but there's plenty) that you could make one-way. That would stop traffic crossing over at the entrance to the car park. And if you add pedestrian access into the retail park at McDogs then you might get more people walking there and fewer cars!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

That would make perfect sense and work really well, but I don't believe I have been to a retail perk that was ever designed with perfect sense and working really well in mind 😂

@drjonritz 2 жыл бұрын

In the 3-lane roundabouts, make the outside lane more like a sliplane forcing only the oncoming traffic into it and allowing them to only turn off at the next node. Traffic that's already on the roundabout can proceed forward only from the middle two lanes, and can turn off the next node from the center lane or continue-on. This way they're not choosing the outer lane two nodes before their turn-off.

@james_m_yt 2 жыл бұрын

the retail park detail is excellent, just like the ones near my town for sure. Petrol station next to a busy roundabout too is very realistic!

@anderslindstrom3110 2 жыл бұрын

Love the shopping center. I was saying to my self, you need a backroad for the delivery truck's Biffa and then they came 🙂

@MattR336 2 жыл бұрын

Realistic population mod is cool but really weird on the settings. I had to change every single commercial building because 1 building was covering all commercial needs and still needed more workers. I has to set everything custom to even things out, also raised the house limit on high density items to 75-100+. Love the series, can’t wait for more!

@ScottRae 2 жыл бұрын

Well if you're going to do a British theme, then you need British traffic, and this looks about right - gridlock! :'D Especially the petrol station - perfect! As for the long rows, I remember going somewhere in East London and it just being rows and rows of identikit terraces - soul crushing!

@iaidanlfc3335 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure how realistic you're aiming for with this series, but just as a point of note - a retail park like that would need a MUCH bigger car park, an asda by itself would likely have a car park 2-3x as big as that - apart from that though, looks great so far and really captures the spirit of a UK retail park!

@RimbleJim 2 жыл бұрын

In my experience in that big grassy area behind the petrol station and the pets at home would be a piece of “Art” like a big stag made of steel or a big red double helix! Also a path from the housing estates into the retail park would be super useful for the public

@mr.awesome2196 2 жыл бұрын

You should put walkways at the backend of the shopping park, so people can walk in to shop and work😉

@sgthree 2 жыл бұрын

you might need to call your retail park 'Historic Names Retail Park' as apart from Next and Pets at Home, all the ones you picked have either gone out of business, or don't have separate retail stores any more. Surprised there isn't a Woolworths!!

@kgapaneseschoolgirlb 2 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about? (Aside from Toys “R” Us which is coming back) I’ve literally been to every one of these stores in the last year (noticed how I said last year and not this year because we haven’t even had 2 weeks of this year yet), some stores more than others. I think only “Laura Ashley Home” is kinda not around anymore, but there’s still two near me that are…”somewhat” open. But yeah, these stores aren’t “historic” they’re still very much a thing…

@sgthree 2 жыл бұрын

@@kgapaneseschoolgirlb Laura Ashley; nearly all Homebase stores; Argos standalone stores (now all stores are based inside branches of Sainsbury's); Mothercare - all gone.

@kgapaneseschoolgirlb 2 жыл бұрын

@@sgthree Once again mate, if I could be arsed, I could go round and take pictures of all of those places and show you that they are still very much open and have standalone stores. Heck, ASDA is the biggest store I’ve ever been in!

@sgthree 2 жыл бұрын

@@kgapaneseschoolgirlb I didn't say Asda was closed!

@sgthree 2 жыл бұрын

@@kgapaneseschoolgirlb Mothercare went bust and started closing its stores in 2019. Laura Ashley, as you have acknowledged does not exist in the form shown. Argos standalone stores are closing since they were bought out by Sainsbury's. Toys 'R'Us, as Biffa acknowledged is history. Check your facts before you try to make people look stupid because all it does is make you look very silly.

@RobZebedee 2 жыл бұрын

The road coming off the motorway roundabout only has one lane with parking on it. Might want a few more lanes for the main road into town.

@MooseZybort 2 жыл бұрын

If you do more of that terrace housing coming off a main road, I've seen it where it alternates one-way roads going in and out from the main road.

@zainshahid4044 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Biffa, I'd advise putting a small road on the back of the shops and changing the building spawn point to that back road so the trucks and other non-customer vehicles can pull up to the back and load/unload. It would look neater and also more realistic. Loving the series btw! Edit: nevermind lol

@qtolympus3527 2 жыл бұрын

I have basically exactly the same shopping estate near my house. It looks like a just stepped out of my house and had a walk. Love the series, great work.

@DemonofChaos264 2 жыл бұрын

Those long straight roads full of terraced houses like that is basically Newark in Nottinghamshire. I live in the south now so there are a few bends and hills in our terraced house rows but what you did was peak Newark, its completely realistic.

@ashlyy1341 2 жыл бұрын

they're a staple of ex-industrial towns imo - our version of the US gridded layout. my hometown has lots of wiggly roads and odd shapes, but all the old town housing is these long terraced roads

@joshuaking8424 2 жыл бұрын

Nooo! It’s a London eastend look 😂

@N0-1_H3r3 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Reading, and lived in a terraced house just like that for most of my childhood and much of my adult life. They're often Victorian era, built in large quantities to support an influx of workers for big new factories.

@bobblebardsley 2 жыл бұрын

Also looks quite uncannily like Parsonage Retail Park in Leigh (near Wigan, not the posh southern Leigh-on-Sea!) and the terraced streets just east of it.

@CriticalRider 2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of Belfast

@brutalwookie 2 жыл бұрын

loving it. I feel like the small roundabout where everyone is turning left into the shopping area because both lanes are left turn only, and they are turning in and going around in front of the shops and coming out again instead of going straight through the roundabout. 31:50

@PradhannJi 2 жыл бұрын

Loving the series already! ❤❤ Loved the retail complex, reminded me of my Uni days about 3 years ago in Loughborough. I would suggest to make the road around the parking a one way so cars dont cross at the entrance

@DrakeGamer85 2 жыл бұрын

Aww, I can't believe ya forgot to name the city! I bet every inhabitant is going: "Mayor Biffa! What name will we get for our new home? Will it inspire us to be loving our favourite hot beverage a lot?"

@DrakeGamer85 2 жыл бұрын

Also, I do hope we get to see a really great town park be formed! Even a town square and a great city hall! With your skill, they'd be great to see! I wonder if someone could make you a British-themed statue to use, one with something relating to tea as the main theme of it?

@greener_cfc4842 2 жыл бұрын

One of the things missing from the game is light industrial, in our towns and cities we generally don’t have heavy industry or big spewing factories, we mostly have small warehouse type industries or business parks, small industrial areas with things like a mechanics, independent kitchen or bathroom shop, smaller manufacturing.

@simongeard4824 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, and such places are usually low-pollution and low-noise, quite capable of co-existing with residential use. I walk past a bunch of them on the way to work... sign-writers, small workshops, etc. Quite a few of the apartments and offices in the area are refitted warehouses and the like...

@daud1740 2 жыл бұрын

That shopping estate is so familiar to me as a resident of a UK town - the awkward petrol station near the roundabout on the way in, the massive next/pets at home/homebase shops, the big supermarket, the strategically placed McDonald's... Great job, so fun to watch

@hannelarsen4918 2 жыл бұрын

Primark and Nando, so British.. must be added it. Remember hearing and seeing it so much during my trips to Liverpool years back.

@georgeowen2553 2 жыл бұрын

21:25 nice to see Iceland (a supermarket) delivering to Asda (another supermarket)! Love the HGV models, how do you get them in-game?

@remcoland 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Biffa, you need to download the vehicles to props mod. This will make a prop version of all your vehicles. That way you can get your Asda vans 😉

@simongeard4824 2 жыл бұрын

At which point we'd be treated to videos of Biffa constantly re-arranging his toy cars... ;)

@svendemeyer6278 2 жыл бұрын

new to the channel, but loving you're vids. suggestion for the small area behind the gas station. i live in belgium. just like the game we have a lot off roundabouts with gas stations and big shopping centers.. but most off the time behind the gas station we have like a litle area wit a picknic bench or 3 and some bins for the trash... so that when you buy stuff at the gas station, you can enjoy you're meal outside on the benches.. when it's not raining at least :D

@feather8000 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely loving this series already. Terraced houses= winner. Retail park = winner. Thank you king biffa x

@gorgonzola86 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Biffa, maybe when building the next block of terraced houses, have the the path at the back have a connection to the front after six to ten houses in a row, if the rows will be that long. In my opinion that is realistic and the walking will be more effective.

@humphreychannel582 2 жыл бұрын

Loving this series already biffa, there’s a lovely retail park Burger King on the workshop from my home town Telford someones made, he’s also doing the matching KFC. Maybe you can add those to this park or the next one. Loving all the roundabouts in a row for it, however all that’s missing is a teeny tiny one before the parking, one of those that really doesn’t make much difference at all. Haha

@bobblebardsley 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there's a mini roundabout decal that you can just stamp onto the tarmac at a node, to give the look of a mini roundabout that everyone will just drive over anyway :P

@bossfight6125 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your new commercial area, several stores, a gas station, a McDonalds and a warehouse makes this place look great. Great way to use these Assets

@trythisj 2 жыл бұрын

Loving thus series! One comment on the commercial parking lot..most of the roads leading to a massive tesco/asda/morrisons/etc are not really straight. It sort of winds around in a confusing pattern until you're either wind up in the parking lot or missed it completely!😂 at least that's true in most of them where i used to live in the north west. Funny as well that an iceland lorry is delivering to Asda.🤭

@matthewparker9276 2 жыл бұрын

You should check the simulation accuracy in traffic manager. It might have reset to "low," which appears to be synonymous with "off."

@andrewmilsted9361 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you spotted the issue with the Lorries unloading at the front of the stores, it was bugging me throughout the video.

@stigoftdump 2 жыл бұрын

I've tried a British city before but I could never get the modlist right. Loving the series! I'd love you to put in loads of subways like we have in the UK. There's always a grafitti-strewn subway underneath busy roundabouts for people to walk under and I think it'll help with walkability. OMG the car park snapping tool! I stopped using that parking mods cos I couldn't face manually putting everything down. This'll change my life.

@whynotagain3639 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see your finally making exactly what I do with all my cities, just need the sprawling 1930's 3 bedroom semi-detached estates, more realistic Victorian terraces, 80's terraces, huge council estates and modern mixed use commercial residential blocks. Then I'd be scared you copied me. Lol

@_Cazot 2 жыл бұрын

I have one that is super similar near my house and to be honest, you have done an amazing job biffa, keep on making this british town!

@1_epic_gamer 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video, but I recomend that you use some Node Controller on the bri'ish roundabout to make it more wide so vehicles can drive better on it for better traffic. And to change the color you can use painter mod. And maybe a pedstrian connection from the suburbs to the mall and planters for the trees.

@RobboKempie1995 2 жыл бұрын

Biffa! For the ultimate British realism, the introduction of mini-roundabouts has to be a must, surely? 😊 love the City Skylines series! Keep up the great work!!

@beforelifewaschaos 2 жыл бұрын

That's absolutely beautiful ! I like your perfectionism. I'm still learning how to use mods and which ones are important. I only played Cities Skylines for a very long time on Playstation until i bought a new laptop a few months ago. There's a lot of new learning, but yeah... i will get there.. someday.. maybe xD

@jammymillipede290 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely should be named "Old Bligh-Tea"

@ChilliCheezus 2 жыл бұрын

I was going to ask last episode when we get to see the a mini roundabout and the one going in to the retail park is perfect! The real challenge will be infamous double mini roundabout

@An0therR0gue 2 жыл бұрын

I lived in Manchester (North West, UK) for 35+ years, and there are tons of areas that are exactly like your terraced house area. Mostly in lower-income areas in industrial cities like Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham. I believe they were made around the 50/60's. I know a lot have been knocked down now or they have cosmetically changed the outsides (by adding cladding). I don't think anyone under 20 will have seen them. FYI, loving the series Biffa

@miy-kal_ 2 жыл бұрын

This is awesome, I started in the christmas break doing things like this in my city's. Saw it on a diffrent channel and thought this makes it so more realistic, more sense and makes the look of the city way better.

@emilcentiu 2 жыл бұрын

Use the painted mini-roundabout! I didn't see them in any other country apart from the UK

@tigonologdring9189 2 жыл бұрын

This! ^^^ OK, we use roundabouts but so do many other countries... but the mini-roundabout, with a little painted hump? Not sure I've ever seen one elsewhere other than the UK.

@esseil 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure if they're exactly the same, but these sound very much like what they call "calming circles" in Seattle. Personally, I think they tick people off more than they calm anyone! A very few of them also have plants in the center, so I'm glad I don't depend on the fire trucks being able to get through.

@tigonologdring9189 2 жыл бұрын

@@esseil Nope, they are actual roundabouts, but tiny little ones made out of road paint (sometimes built up in layers to make a small bump).

@smoken81 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great, would a path on the left side (away from the asda warehouse) of the McDonald’s connecting the shopping park to the neighborhood be realistic? Also, would adding entrances to the parking lot closer to the McD’s on either side eliminate the bottleneck at the front?

@dmore 2 жыл бұрын

This city is shaping up amazingly, can’t wait to see the area grow! One thing I’d change though are those huge trees in front of Toys’R’Us. Realistically they’d probably have paid a premium for that spot because it can be seen from the main road and they’d have the trees there cut down to increase passing trade!

@alexreeves3817 2 жыл бұрын

I used to live on a Victorian terrace row where the houses were garden to garden with no ally! Either way it's great to see a British inspired city ☺️

@Ghettopixel 2 жыл бұрын

woohoo how brilliant is this🤩 liking the details and literally growing up my friends and extended family would purchase in the same streets and then create great community

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 😊

@williamgill2450 2 жыл бұрын

Just a thought, you could add a new spawn point just for the cars and move it into the parking lot then you wouldn't get the cars spawning in the road to block traffic.

@trev8591 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Retail Park, mate. Top work! (Pleased you put the alleyways in, must have been a lot of fiddling around to do that).

@depeshpatel933 2 жыл бұрын

Those terrace houses remind me when i was younger. I remember the houses having a small alleyway between houses to stop having the long access road behind the houses but both seems the norm. Really realistic, retail park with one way in and a roundabout full of traffic. :D

@nowlz 2 жыл бұрын

Empty shelves in a british town? Didn't know CS was so realistic.

@dantusmaximus 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to suggest Ster-on-tea for the name. Where of course the local football team are 'the spoons'. The town is looking great, love the retail park, it does need a Costa though!

@suewilliams1768 2 жыл бұрын

It's English, lots of terraced houses in Liverpool (one of many places) I grew up in one. Back alleys are important, where else do you learn to ride a bike, even on cobblestones. Love it Biffa, have a cuppa hun, you deserve at least a whole teapot worth for this 😎

@damienhufford 2 жыл бұрын

this looks amazing, i am about a month behind on your videos but slowly catching up. looking forward to getting to this one! much more realistic to us brits.

@kevinoneill2884 2 жыл бұрын

How are you a month behind if your commenting on this video?

@damienhufford 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinoneill2884 because i get notified to biffa videos. not watched it yet, it caught my eye and had to comment.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

@DaedalusYoung 2 жыл бұрын

You need an area next to some train tracks that people use to flytip. Preferably behind a police station.

@stigoftdump 2 жыл бұрын

someone needs to make an asset that's a bin with porn in it.

@patersor 2 жыл бұрын

Biffa, I'd remove the road round the end of the Toys 'R' Us between the car park and the loading bay roads. There's no need for that road (cars can't get out), and it just adds another junction that cars have to negotiate to leave. Could also move McDs in a little and complete the road round the back as a drive thru.... Love your work!!!!

@atillathekitteh3957 2 жыл бұрын

Please say I am not the only one that was thinking "thats pretty quiet traffic-wise for a UK retail park..." Glad you made the roundabout more effective. But to make it more accurate you need to place in the hell-spawns that are mini roundabouts. Pretty sure its law that you have to use them at the entrances to all british retail parks!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man, don't you know it lol :-)

@UKChrisC 2 жыл бұрын

For added retail park he’ll, ANPR cameras, On a related note does an6 of the uk roads have average speed camera gantries or Gatsos on them

@MrYoubadi 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Biffa I love watching your videos, just one little tip for your roundabout at the entrance of the city.... you should sink the highway and make the roundabout ground level because it's not realistic to have it up in the air like that (bridge and all....)....always fun to follow you :-)

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Keep watching :-)

@bunningssausagesizzles0831 2 жыл бұрын

Has someone suggested Teashire as a name?

@Slikx666 2 жыл бұрын

Biffa. As a fellow English person I can say that you've captioned the flavour of England really well. There's a few things missing, but they might need to be unlocked. Students. They're normally out till around 3am being drunk and loud. (Not all of them but 50%) Litter from fast food places. There's usually litter left laying about by people who can't quite figure out how a bin works. Unkept gardens. Every city has its fare share, normally they have half a car or a mattress in them. Speeding cars. Normally it's a BMW or AUDI driven at twice the speed limit. And lastly roadworks. For those who live in England you'll know about this. Someone will pick a road in good condition and dig up half of it, weeks later they'll finish whatever they're doing and fill the hole back in. Unfortunately no-one can fill a hole properly and we get left with potholes. a few weeks later someone else will dig up another part of the same road and create more potholes. This will carry on until the entire road is a pothole and is perfectly flat, then some idiot will say "that road looks like it needs to be resurfaced" so then the entire road is shut while the work is done, "yippee" says everyone "it's a beautiful fresh road" then about a week after the new surface is laid someone will come along and gig a hole in the road. 🤬 And then there's the motorway roadworks. We drive along a motorway, see a sign saying that there's 'roadworks ahead' one of the lanes will be closed off by cones, the speed limit will be temporarily lowered and you'll never see anyone doing any work! (See Jeremy Clarkson talking about roadworks). England is weird and I love it. 😋👍

@kaltaron1284 2 жыл бұрын

Love the series. I was a bit surprised that you didn't add a walking option at the backend of the shopping area but the service backroads also give some additional options.

@fritspas 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when all this was fields.

@jackwilson9312 2 жыл бұрын

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@samsam21amb 2 жыл бұрын

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@slot0it 2 жыл бұрын

Damn

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@DrakeGamer85 2 жыл бұрын

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@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed :-)

@thatotherguy186 2 жыл бұрын

Loving how much more involved your getting with this city. Super excited to see it grow!!!

@SBragg88 Жыл бұрын

The addition of the maccydees to the retail park was spot on, loving this series :)

@Warren_L. 2 жыл бұрын

Why do people care about being the first comment? Nonetheless, here I am! Loving this series and really digging The Wave!!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Warren L. :-)

@MrBuyerman 2 жыл бұрын

Nice build, good to see the staples being used. I think to make it more authentic the access roads should go to the back of the stores as the trucks will usually go to the rear of all the stores to unload. They can still be anchored to the road, just at the back rather than the front. And just as I mention it Biffa makes the same realization. Doh.

@captainjonna1034 4 ай бұрын

I just came from your latest video about city skylines 2 Biffa i'm new to your channel, in my comment in that video i said your building was fantastic......but seeing you build a British town with so many assets that i myself being English feel at home aswell but yeah this series is making my jaw drop and me smiling ear to ear, all i've played is a handful of hours on the Xbox X but oooh my days, Xbox is like demo compared to PC modded so many powerful tools you have. I'm sold, i'm so watching this entire series over the coming months, Thank you Biffa, great work ma man.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 4 ай бұрын

Thankyou and enjoy! It may even return one day 😁

@nytedanny1289 2 жыл бұрын

Keep up the great work Biffa. Always happy when I get a new video notification. 👍 I think the new road into the car park messed up the access to it. Didn't see any cars going in to it after you updated the road. I could be wrong though.

@battlehawk77 2 жыл бұрын

Loving this so far! One thing that may help with your traffic around the back of your shops is to restrict cars and such from those sections that go back there, then, in your TMPE options window, on your policies tab, you can increase the vehicle restriction aggression to either High or Strict to make sure only trucks go back there. :)

@edstowell5489 2 жыл бұрын

The row houses are just like my Grandmothers home in Newport. She was in the middle one, my friend Richard and his family were on the right and a old man lived alone on the left. In the back was a garden with a wooden fence around it. If we went out the back gate we were on a path that connected all the houses but we also had a stream that ran behind our house and we would go play in the water with rope swings and climb the big trees.

@stormfire962imastarcitizen5 2 жыл бұрын

I used to work for Toys R Us corporate office for 23 years and I miss it a lot since that was my first best job ever. I even got a chance to talk with Charles Lazarus one of the nicest person you ever met who made me feel welcome to work for them.

@trixilux 2 жыл бұрын

With all these roundabouts you are giving me Milton Keynes vibes 😁 Cracking start to the series Biffa! Love it ❤

@kgapaneseschoolgirlb 2 жыл бұрын

Not too sure if we do this everywhere in the U.K. or if it’s just near where I live, but in big main roundabouts, like the one you have at the entrance to your city, we raise the middle up like a mound and then obviously decorate it with trees or whatnot to stop people from driving over. Obviously people in game won’t do that but I think it might be a nice touch that’s a bit more detail than you usually do, but nothing insanely complicated. Just raising the terrain a teeny bit. Obviously such a thing would have to wait until the city had established itself a big more because terraforming costs waaaay too much as of right now

@JayROwen 2 жыл бұрын

Love the idea to build a delivery road behind the retail park buildings. Much more realistic!

@guy_autordie 2 жыл бұрын

On a other news, I learned a lot with a new city of 75k citizens. My layout is mess up when I add an airport, fret or passengers. I have to redo some roads and trains. Recycling center send out trucks to export raw ressources. Trams are good, but not that good. Exit train lines can be really buggy. I have to do an exit fret railway station. (Only connect to the entering highway to the exiting highway on a one way industrial road.) It curiously helps with my trains, I was stuck with them.

@ghostflames1501 Жыл бұрын

8:04 With this ability, you could theoretically make one hyper building to handle all your residential issues. Pick a dense residential building as a test building first, set it to like five thousand homes, and see what happens. Not sure how the game would deal with that, but this isn't a test of balance so much as a test for stress. If it works, place a bunch of them in a small area. See what happens. Could be a fun challenge, to have one hyper dense residential area and then try to build all the necessary infrastructure to handle it. Just a thought.

@cwnoxid1966 2 жыл бұрын

When I lived in Meltham West Yorkshire I had a paper round that had terrace houses like that on its route. I used to play a game we called the grand national as the houses had front garden with hedges that you could jump over starting from the top of the road. It was so much fun unless you damaged the hedge but the hedges were perfect height for a tall lad like I was to clear without causing any damage. Mischief night was so much fun when I was young. Anyway there are plenty of terraces like this in the towns and cities of Yorkshire.

@newmancl0 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, functional little space. you took care, but you didnt agonize over every shrub. I like this balance.

@chriscorbett9053 2 жыл бұрын

With the roads themselves you made for the delivery trucks, make them trucks only as well instead of just the in/out junction. If you go to a shopping centre the road that goes to the back of the store always say "Deliveries Only" so cars wouldn't use them at all. You could always remove the road at the front leading to the back as well now you have put in a junction for trucks that leads directly to the back of the shops

@walterhbez 2 жыл бұрын

lol i agree with you, when i was in London... I stayed in Turnpike Lane. It was rows and rows of houses looking the same with the same gardens and looked all the same. ( Little boxes) I know what you mean.

@Davefacestation 2 жыл бұрын

19:00 - So glad you moved those wavy roofs together. A road coming off those two larger ones going along the back of the stores would be nice to separate the trucks doing deliveries from the customers. Alas I don't think it's possible.

@Davefacestation 2 жыл бұрын

haha and ten minutes later of course Biffa spots it. Legend.

@cdamore77 2 жыл бұрын

I was going to suggest a couple of walking paths by the McDonald's and a couple of the roads butted up to but not connected to your main roads. It might take some pressure off of your tiny roundabout and slow people from crossing where there are no crossings. As soon as you put those truck access roads in, pedestrians started using them like mad (37:05). Also, maybe a back entrance for trucks by the HomeBase and Pets at Home.

@wickedlee 2 жыл бұрын

I'm really enjoying this series, as Australia is more closely related to Britain in design than it is the US. The town I used to live in (high tourist capacity) has just put in a couple of small roundabouts and the traffic flow is so much better than simple give way junctions.

@diamdante 2 жыл бұрын

Biffa! If you hold [alt] while moving things with the Move It mod, they will automatically move in standardised grid-square steps. So you can simply shift the houses and stuff one step to the side and leave exactly enough space for a path that's one unit wide. Holding [alt] will also allow you to rotate your stuff in 45-degree increments too