Part 11: James continues to struggle with tree density

That hospital is definitely broken - it said 0 current patients and 0 patients in the last year.

Hiii James don't forget the unique buildings in the industry tab! Its the lemonade factory and the car factory you unlocked and they will buy the goods that are now in excess!

I think it would be cool to also make a botanical garden / national park / big city park on the other side of the river where there's the small curvy river - with lots of small foot bridges

"Man, that's an ugly building, but good ugly, horrible brutal structure.. I'm gonna make that historical." It's what every USSR architect thought.. 😅 ..... Also, puts loud water tower in park surrounded with loud high density commercial zone and wonders, why people are dying. They can easily die from noise... I learned that hard way. 😅

I love how the industry looks now! Totally looks like it's a part of the city, rather than the random stuff on the other side of the highway. The national park looks awesome too; can't wait for the next episode.

I really love this LP!!!!!! I feel like it’s so much custom. Custom forest, custom neighborhoods, custom offices, custom industry… custom everything! (We’ll get our custom Uni, eventually!) It’s more to Semaj’s style and a way for us to get a glimpse into his mind. I really like it!!

Hey James, I'm loooving the series, tho I have a suggestion - that clear area in the national park would be really good for a festival area! Maybe you could figure out a way to run a road to the area, or maybe even leave that road to service vehicles and busses, do a parking place outside of the park and make a bus route that takes people from that parking place to the festival area. I have a lot of ideas but i think this would be really fun, I've been in a lot of festivals that happen in a forest of a national park!

I love the idea of adding small towns around the map once you unlock more tiles! There could be little towns near the more hilly parts of the map

Hey, James! The Parkify mod can help with your problem at 0:55. It lets you place park buildings on paths inside park areas.

i actually can’t even tell you how much i look forward to these! back when i was a teen (😂) i would wake up early (or stay up late) and the first thing i would do was watch your cities videos. i am just so excited that you’re doing this one. it’s my favorite thing to wake up to!

FYI James, you deleted the water tower in Bedford when you bulldozed everything there.

For the future, A airport all around farms would look pretty realistic as most Airports are far form cities to prevent noise pollution.

Hey Flabaliki, it will be great to put a monument/ statue on the top of National park hill. Just a suggestion. Have fun, stay safe!

Some of the high density buildings placed next to the trainstation only had 3 households on them despite the size. Might want to doublecheck and edit those buildings to fit more people in?

James, man, I waited for this video deperately to boost my mood. You deliver as always! Thank you for your content and consistency and thanks for being able to rely on you to entertain us all! ❤️

I liked you acknowledged the fact we're liking longer videos! Definitely a good challenge to unlock the tiles, but it really doesn't make sense in the way you want to build all this, so I'd say go for it! (:

This series is such an escape from reality, it's so relaxing. I love watching it after work, I'm looking forward to every episode! Thank you, James

Hey James download the Advanced Building Level Control mod it lets you downgrade and upgrade the level of buildings so if they complain about land value just downgrade them. Another thing is you can use your RICO mod to change the population I think in a building so if you think there should be more households in it or use the realistic population mod that makes the size of buildings change how much people should live or work there.

53:00 Regarding detailing the ore industry: Perhaps do stepwise platforms that go deeper towards the center where the ore mining occurs, with ore trucks on the sides (then fill with dirt texture and random industry objects at the bottom). Simply google search ore mining to see what I mean ;)

I'm just now bingeing this LP, and i really really really hope you haven't gotten rid of the one lil tree in the area you're saving for a university, it makes me smile every time I see it.

1:21:44 The problem with that exit is that cars coming off the highway are having to cross over lanes of opposing traffic. If that exit passes over the road and joins up on the other side via an overhead ramp, it should work much better.

Personally, C:S is the perfect game for watching in the background while working on other stuffs so imo the longer the video the better. I could easily watch a 2hr video as well.

Love it! Might be cool to end these similar to the Transport Fever videos with a 1st person journey through parts of the city? There's a mod that lets you go into 1st person for people/vehicles/transport

The biggest things with industry are traffic (I think you got that sorted) and balancing output. You need to make sure you have enough refinery buildings (meat, glass, plastic, etc.) to process almost all of your raw output, but not so much that you start importing raw resources. It is substantially more valuable to sell those than raw resources. The other thing is you should honestly probably demolish a lot of that storage, storage for raw resources is mostly just for buffering IMO as it can actually cost money because if your city can't supply enough resources, it will start buying them. Oh and remember that industry DLC areas don't satisfy demand. And you should totally set up a fishing industry on some of those islands. P.S. Yeah go ahead and buy it all, then you don't have to worry about the free water and power because you will start paying for them.

For types of decoration around the industrial area, use terrain paint, construction/work equipment, rocks/fallen trees, portables/trailers, storage containers, and pools of water (used commonly in ore processing). Just some ideas

i’ve been watching this lp religiously while doing my chores or simply to relax and fall asleep. it’s so nice to see the city (cities?) grow even though i wouldn’t know how to do it myself for my life :D kudos to u for this series, keep up the amazing work

James; Builds city up to 26k Also James; builds huge ore and farm industry Also also James; destroys half the city in 2 seconds…

When you said about a park that you can put in the middle of the greenway without a road, I thought maybe you can get an invisible road from the workshop, I looked it up and they do have them.

You can use the forest brush and go to single size there to place the trees/shrubs from your brush selection. It is much easier than looking up a specific tree in the landscaping section. The single placement also doesn't calculate space and just places where ever you are pointing.

You need to use the mode parkify or university park. They allow you to place buildings insides parks. But I do believe you need access for service as I always have this problems.

00:49:24 For the Waste Processing Plants and it's collector sites, the Waste Processing Plant basically makes a lot of noise and pollution to make up for the collector sites not doing as much. The main concern is traffic, because it means that the trucks have to go between all your collector sites and the Plant. So the trucks from the Plant go to your waste collecting places, the trucks from the waste collecting places go out through the neighbourhoods. I know links aren't allowed on KZfaq comments but if you go to the Garbage Disposal page on the Cities Skylines wiki, it has a great picture to show the flow of trash 😊 Loving having the Skylines videos back, when I saw you were playing Cities again I literally did a little cheer. You're the player that got me into this game and that led to me getting back into gaming in general. Also, if you want examples of how Australia marks their roads with lines and stuff, there's a free to download guide that has all the examples you'd see in Australia.

The destruction at the end was very satisfying

The city is looking pretty good! Keep the vids coming!

Great video James! I’m totally fine with you unlocking all the tiles now. It’s a fun challenge like you said, but you should build the city how you want it now.

Instead of getting rid of road connections. Use the heavy traffic ban on certain districts if you notice too much traffic following through a zone!

you should rename the Benford area "Benford-on-Hagley." as a parody of The Sims 4 Cottage Living world "Henford-on-Bagley".

I always think the ore mining looks good if make a hole in the terrain and put the drilling in there, but usually i build the ore mining near the mountains. Having higher and lower terrain with cliff edges makes it look alot better in my opinion.

You had water issues at the end because you had a water tower near Bedford that you deleted when you removed everything! You can see it on 59:11

I agree working within the challenge of unlocking tiles was a great starting point, but yeah the time has come to use unlock all I think haha. Loving how the city is coming along, loving the content! (By the way, you accidentally connected to the power on the river bed that you call ‘cheating’ so I dunno if you wanna rectify that or not. I’d say possibly the best way forward is just to delete all your power plants and use the map to your advantage (and gain a tonne of space near the city), plus with all the tiles assumingly unlocked now you can build a proper power station somewhere else on the map, which I like the idea of!)

I went from watching this while working to actually paying attention to this. love this LP!

I think the only way to make the ore industry look good is what you did in a city waaaaaay back where you built a pseudo mine using the terrain tools to form a giant pit. This map has so much water around it so I don't know how much that would make sense, so perhaps you could do the opposite and make a giant mountain with flat sections containing the mining buildings instead. The only problem with doing it that way is you get much less actual industry because a fraction of the buildings are used compared to an entirely flat grid placement.

James in order to really boost your population and create demand for residential, you should lower taxes! As you're not struggling for money at all, it would be a good way to boost population.

I actually really like the look of the "temporary" residential area that you built to get the population up to get the next tile. You should look up the map of the Seattle area - the Spruce Heights area you built reminds me of Mercer Island which is across a long bring just East of Seattle, and then East of that is a town called Bellevue. The middle river reminds me of Lake Washington and with the amount of waterways that you have on this map, the layout of the Seattle area could be helpful to look at!

I think it would feel more natural to have the main road from the new highway intersection to join directly to the bridge in Spruce Heights. That way traffic can flow straight across the river rather than having to flow through the already busy junction.

Just in time for my 3/4am pump. This should keep me awake while I make my baby food 😂💜

I think that the Old Town Policy could help ban through-traffic in low-density residential areas and help promote vehicles on the main roads :)

i LOVE this series WOW

Industry income tends to jump up and down a looooot, like one minute you're positive $20k and the next you're negative $15k. It just happens... But the best way to maximize their profit is to use the unique factories and use all of those materials to make stuff. Also yes, unlock all of the tiles! I find that once high density unlocks, the population numbers the game asks for become way high and you pretty much HAVE to zone crazy high density blocks like you did today to progress the city. I like to just unlock all tiles once I've got to high density so I can properly plan a CBD 😊

James playing cities skyline reminds me of a time where I used his cities skylines videos as an escape! Love to see it again ❤️

I love this series so so much ❤️ The episode length is perfect!

In the National Park you could put the water source closer to the top of the mountain and have some small waterfalls as is makes its way to the bigger river. It would look really nice to have some small bridges and pathways around a mountain stream.

Hi James, I’ve been binge watching your cities videos over the past few days and I love them. Last night I got covid and had a fever. My fever dreams were all about cities (I was worrying about road placement and zoning 😂), thanks a lot. I’m just kidding I won’t stop watching these, can’t get enough of them, just thought that was super interesting!

Very nice episode! I'd add some services (police, etc) near the industry! Also if you add a bypass road, you could add a toll to bring in some money :)

I'm still loving this series, it's sooo good and I'm learning new things. It just feels like hanging out with ya, seeing your thought process and enjoying the silly moments. It's great, keep them coming pleeaaase. 😁

That feeling where you are just finishing the last one and your phone pops up a notification that a new one is out 😟 ➡️ 😍

언어는 통하지 않아도 재미있게 잘 보고 있어요. 자연스럽고 예쁜 동네를 만들고 싶어도 잘 안되는데 여기서 대리만족하고 감!😻

So I wasn't going to get attached to the temporary area because I never get attached to stuff like this, but then you built it in (kinda) the shape of the Millenium Falcon and now I can't unsee it. Before you added the last bit to it, that is. Also, I'm not totally sure but it looks like you maybe connected to the pre-built power coming from the waterdamn with the ore industry.

Oh heck yeah! We're moving up in the world~ It felt very satisfying to see you grind your way to the milestone even if we're gonna unlock all of them next time. ^^

I’m ill today so I’ve got plenty of time to watch your series and catch up!

I love this series.🥰 I literally watch it from start to finish, even then im like "ooh already at the end?"❤

I kinda like the dystopian ghetto downtown thing. Like, every city has a bad neighborhood right, I feel like you should build one. Lots of the same building, roads with tons of potholes, liquor stores everywhere. NO POLICE :). Considering this is like your 3rd temporary area in this lets play already, I feel like the city should have a ghetto for historical sentimental purposes

Looking good! Can't wiat for you to build the university and the city!

There's an option in Tree Anarchy to turn off the trees showing through when you load in. Just found it last night. With the Network Multitool thing, you can use TMPE from the Unified UI, so you could move the Unified UI button up there and then the menu for the modes goes downwards and doesn't get blocked. Also, there's a mod that's called something like Sort Mod Settings and it puts your mods in alphabetical order in the Options menu. You can get mods that sort your roads and healthcare into categories too, the roads one adds like bus, bike, industrial, rural and sorts the normal roads by how many units they take up and how many lanes they have. So even in it's own tab, if it's all 2 unit wide roads, they start with like one lane roads, then two, then asymmetrical, etc. I know this is probably late but what I see happen in Perth a lot is that there's normal square grids in the actual small streets but it's the avenues that curve or go on an angle.

Been waiting all day to watch this, so ready to chill and see what unfolds this episode.

love the suicide pier in the national park

Ngl, I actually like the first part of your temporary residential setup. If you actually decide to keep it, I wouldn't mind at all

don’t unlock all of the tiles at once, it’s so cool to see the progress!!

A other lightning would be better. A sunny afternoon, semilong shadow would look awesome :)

The big six house holds building could actually be like a condo building where each floor is a separate property

26:14 Adding an adult film store to the backside of a high school is an interesting choice. 😂

57:04 that chopper scared me. THEN, i wanted to learn more about it's life.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

These videos are becoming the highlight of my day. Thank you!

So obsessed with this series!❤

The control for unified is just to move the Unified button or the popup not the buttons inside unified.

Welcome to a new episode of Cities : Skylines 'Municipal center" haha

You forget to put lemonade factory... :( It would also use glass, which complained, that there's not enough buyers. :)

Maybe just painting sand around some of the mines, might help.

You should get realistic population mod to help with housholds in apartment blocks. It’s so dumb that big buildings have 3 or 4 households :D

Love the long episodes! Keep up the good work!😄

I agree, the industry area looks really cool!

Good to see this back, James!

U need a big hole for the ore industry with sand texture

Realistic population mod would help the apartment blocks having proper number of households per.

For the mine you should use the paint brush to change the texture of the soil from grass to dirt to make it look better

I believe, that it would be nice to have an office campus area, such as google or amazon - big corporate, which belongs to one company, and has multiple little sister companies woriking in one area. 😉

So excited for Episode 12!!!!!

Loving this series. Missed skylines

i literally live for this lets play amazing so relaxing i loveeee

James my dude it's nice to see you back to playing Skylines.... this and The Sims are my two favorite games so i just let your vids play in the background while I play on my main screen. Also you can change household sizes in the R.I.C.O. Mod Settings

surface painter will make your industrial area look nice

Loved the vid good industry area. Would like to see a large sort of New York style area. Also would like to see a prison architect series if you are down to play the new dlc

yayaya super long episode love it!!!

We love looooong videos! Useful for when you have covid just like me lol

Always excited to see you posted!

1h 36min ???!!!!! I love it 🙏🏼🤓

Remember to add child and eldercare buildings to help with the population

If I was staying in this city I would definitely stay in Bedford

Come on James, old people love farms