20-25 minutes is the sweet spot imo. With some 5 minutes or so of live play. I enjoy the timelapse more, personally. Guess it's because the framerate is smoother.

The duration is fine, but personally I would like the timelapse to be longer in comparison to the live play

Fun to watch as a seattlite! One small suggestion: in the seattle area, there is like no light-brown-dusty-dirt anywhere like there is in CA around buildings or as a result of a footpath. Instead, when a footpath is formed, it tends to be a dark and muddy type path haha. Not a big deal at all and doesnt detract from this project. Nice work!

the different levels of the city makes it so gorgeous, keep it up edit: also, I appreciate how you are making updates and changes along the way 👏🗣️

Damn three comments is a lot but to get the lrt over to the Portland area, maybe try a lrt only bridge like the skytrain one in Vancouver that was built around 2010 I think. It’s the longest transit only bridge in the world as far as I know. Maybe it could be a few hundred metres away from the Sydney one

I think if someone made a square or rectangular concrete block that works like one of those rocks, it would make building on slopes so much easier . Awesome build !

Looks so good! Love the way it's coming together.

I was very impressed with how you arranged the plants so that they looked realistic to me pres! Good job man.

Very good job Pres... When im thinking of how could possibly this city look in the future.... Oh man.. amazing..

Those last two shots with the mountain in the background *chef's kiss*! That's quite a lot of people using the station. They're jonesing for public transport over there lol! Adding the trolley bus line was not a bad idea. You could expand on that in the future; maybe some kind of transport hub around that area.

Amazing!

Great episode! The hilly area by the station gives me strong berkeley vibes with the park, mix of density and old + new buildings

Yeah definitely check out the West Point Lighthouse/Discovery Park area. It's this nice park bordered by a sewage treatment facility. It's real cool

The poor peeps have to cross onto the road to get the light rail! Shame there isn't a variation of that road type where instead the rails are next to the sidewalk. *hint hint asset creators if your reading* Awesome vid none the less dude!

The current length of the video is perfectly fine. I'm satisfied with it

Love your videos and this is one of my favourite Columbia city ones so far, I tend to switch off a little in the live play segments of the videos, I suppose cause not too much is happening it means I often don't end up seeing cinematic though. Otherwise I don't think I have too much feedback

Such a cool build. The rocks really just tied everything together. It’s really awesome seeing the transit come together - the first person ride was awesome, and the other lines seem like they’ll be really cool. BRT would be a cool build to see, even though rails are always better. Also, not sure if you’re interested for New Windsor, but someone did an MBTA reskin of Ninja’s XD40 New Flyer. Haven’t seen it in game, but it might be nice.

The longer, the better 👌👌

For the bridge, perhaps it be "commuter rail" or other intercity transit? Perhaps it was once the only passenger rail link across the Bay, but with the new light rail it was kept as an "express" link? :)

Using some green for the rebrand would be pretty cool. Also, the station and the surrounding area look great :)

I love what you do with hills. Have you ever considered doing a Midwest-style river city like Cincinnati or Pittsburgh? I'd love to see you take a crack at the hillside neighborhoods with the incline railways (Cincinnati used to have several, and Pittsburgh still has one) overlooking the rivers. I imagine you'd have fun with the old industrial riverfronts and subsequent gentrification, and lots of historic building styles. Cincinnati is my hometown, and is absolutely gorgeous, so I'd really love to see you try your hand at it (especially if you fulfill my fantasy of a restored streetcar network)!

DC is full of the mixed zoning like that, there are tons of apartments mixed in around single family homes, though those are usually townhouses. But I don't think its that unrealistic to have them mixed together

Hey Pres! Funny ... this is my first youtube comment ever and I think that I saved it for the right moment! ;) Just wanted to say, that this is my favorit build where some of my stuff is used ! :) Awesome ! Don't be confused regarding the name youtube name... "it's Clus writing" ;) keep it up ! Great work !!

An elevated tram station would be really cool, love the videos

the views from that apartment tho 🤩🤩

30minutes is good coz I love your detail :)

Very cool Pres!! Keep it up! Question as well, do you have or done New episode. Concerning parking lots? There way to have a zoneable version?

More cinematic of the build and the city in general 🥰🥰🥰

Looks great pres. Thanks for uploading, it’s nice after a day of school to relax and watch your videos. How are you doing?

Pres I don't care if you do New Windsor, Columbia City, or Calavera Beach. So long as it's a Cities Skylines video!

i hope you can copy paste your suburbs elsewhere in your city so you don't lose all that good work when you replace it.

You could jus kind off selectively remove some of the low density and replace with high density. Not at all unusual in PNW. NIMBY's abound but reality for many property owners is that property values skyrocket as more and more high density is built near by. Developers justify increased cost by simply adding more units per lot which results in even higher densities as land prices increase. The addition of light rail obviously has the same effect on property value and density which you capture so well in this video.

I expect the future of this city

The building at the corner looks like it's an old skyscraper, but the starbucks doesn't match with it, it would look cool if you deleted the starbucks sign.

I love the graphic mods of this city. Looks like a photo of any west coast city. Do you have a video where you show our settings for Columbia city? I cant really get it right in my Seattle inspired city så I have been trying to copy this graphic but I don't success.

No city would approve a center station with track crossings today or in the last 25 years.

You should do a light rail station like Orenco station close to Portland Oregon

Really enjoyed this one! But, oh my, how would the waterfront improve if that eyesore of a raised highway was removed.

How did you get the mixed use development to work? Whenever I use it I get weird floating things occurring with the buildings.

I'm not sure if you don't like how you did the high school but I think it's good. It should be moved further out from downtown into more of the suburbs but it's a good high school just not located in the right spot

But you should switch the direction of the lrt loop by the viaduct so trains don’t end up having to cross eachother’s path

what part of Seattle is the Columbia city station in?

Can you show your game eyecandy settings??

What mod at 5:31 with all those sliders for textures ?

Have you had any ideas on what to call the sky tower?

Hey Pres, what do you think about an episode dedicated to lighting your city for night? I’m not sure what’s available in terms of lighting assets but I think it would make for a very unique and interesting episode 🙂 plus I can already see how good the nighttime photorealistic screenshots would be 😃

What asset is that building under construction?

Could you make a park using the mossy rocks that is similar to Whytecliff Park in Vancouver?

You should add the United center somewhere downtown

giant sims statue

You should build a model of the UC Berkley campus

Did he used to have the Columbia Center as part of the downtown skyline? Or am I just crazy?

Does anyone know how the train converter mod works I'm trying to put my costom trams on the tramway but they are spawning on the the standard passenger train tracks can anyone help me out?

When will you build more suburbs ??

In regards to video length, maybe don't let the timelapse go over 25 minutes and aim for maybe 15 to 20 minutes, live play is fine. And are you keeping the Sydney Harbour Bridge then? Edit, I'm going to look through your collection for that construction site building

What is LUT and Map Theme. Please answer. :D

How to men have colours realistic?

You could do a Phoenix style race track

I think you should speed up the time lapse when you are doing shrubbery

Hey Pres, I'm following you since something like 2 years now. For me, videos lenght is good and the amount of videos per week is perfect (1 per week is really good, thats more than many other citybuilders), the only thing I would appreciate is more timelapses or something like before-after views/cinematics (I know that may be hard to do and time consuming.. ^^) Finaly, to make your construction sites more alive, you should place some workers there, nope? (something like steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1363340295) Greetings from a fan.

You should make an extensive ferry network

More stations!!!!!!!!! Please

Having a modern apartment next to your single family home isn’t satisfying when it’s literally in your backyard.

Could you build a border in Colombia City?

I feel like you’re the donoteat of public transit and bicycles, so if you’re gonna change things in the video maybe make some more commentary on insights into real life infrastructure projects, by incorporating things like the planned city in Portland called Orenco in this city, with those weird curvy sidewalks; or in Calvera beach there can be evidence of an intersection that once had just stop streets, but now is a round about (like one in Laguna Beach); and maybe in New Windsor, a tolled parkway that abruptly ends with an intersection, with evidence that the community past it must have blocked the authorities from demolishing their homes to make way for more of the freeway. I feel you more than a lot of other CS: players have the ability to create these hidden stories, (like the episode with the overgrown downtown construction site) which I feel gives you the opportunity to expand on this and really add a dynamic layer to your series. Other than this, maybe add some evidence of the other cities in your builds, like referencing New Windsor in Columbia, (I still believe the I90 must be connecting these two cities 😉) and perhaps when you build the airport in Columbia city, you could follow a plane taking off on its way to another fictional city like the “Los Angeles” of Calvera. (Also, I definitely think you should add even a vanilla airport, hidden on the map in calvera, watching planes fly over the sea coming into land would be super cool, just adding some realism, California seems to be full of planes) Anyways, other than that, branding wise I don’t really mind about if there’s new thumb nails or a logo. Keep up the great work! Big props, from South Africa 🇿🇦

When i look at your fps and than at mine with much worse pc specks (it’s okay) im rlly afraid when my antivirus with a strong game booster is gone xd

Why don’t you get rid of the vanilla grass sprites. There’s a mod for it

hi .config pc ???

The only thing I want to suggest for the rebrand is, please do not become one of those builders that shows the completed build at the start before the timelapse. I absolutely hate that. Its like a spoiler

Never upload a episode of 24 or 26 minute EVERY EPISODE IS EXACTLY 25 MINUTES.