Removing Highways to Create a Past for Reddington in Cities: Skylines

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The default highways and railroads have been removed to replace them with the very old country roads that connected Reddington to satellite towns and the outside world. Don't worry, we'll put highways back in, but not until after we work through the evolution of North American transportation as we go forward building Reddington up from its roots.
This city starts out fresh on the Green Plains map, which comes with the base version of Cities: Skylines. Rather than being a planned and platted city, Reddington begins with just a town square and branches out on this verdant peninsula from there!
00:00 What happened to the highways?!?
02:38 How to remove ALL the highways on a map quickly
05:12 Determining Reddington's transportation history
08:47 Why our outside connections will not be paved
09:57 Terraforming Reddington's river landing
12:25 Connecting to the river landing
14:46 Reddington's first river crossing
20:33 Finding a realistic location for a bridge
24:13 Connecting more roads on the peninsula
25:40 Where to build the first road connections?
28:31 Building Reddington's first road connection
30:55 Why you want to be careful how you connect outside
32:43 Interconnecting roads to avoid traffic
34:27 2nd outside connection
36:15 3rd outside connection
37:12 BIG OOPS!!!
39:03 Reddington's industrial future
41:07 Checking the new roads for connectivity & traffic
42:57 Understanding import/export problems
44:43 What happens next?
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@thesilentdork4303 3 жыл бұрын

yes. this is exactly how i play. i find the realistic outcome of having to figure out your highways after your city is developed makes more sense. since very few towns are built around a pre existing highway

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah...most towns existed decades or centuries before any highways were built...so it really makes sense to use that bulldozer!

@IxamusMC 3 жыл бұрын

So true!

@vincem5353 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Stuff! As great as this game is, it has always been really frustrating how the un-modified game makes you "unlock" rail and sea access deep into the development of a city, when in reality, cities were built *around* those modes of transit in their infancy. It was one of my favorite aspects of simcity 3000 that if you started in 1900, all you had was roads, rails, seaports, so you had no choice but to use those as the foundation for the city instead of Highways.

@lukejams 3 жыл бұрын

absolutely agree with you, even i am not very happy about the starting mechanism of this otherwise superb game. highways shouldn't be prebuilt on the map, we just need rail and build the interstate ourselves

@user-tx3xy7lw6w 3 жыл бұрын

@@lukejams yeah but not everyone wants to autistically plan out a city from 1850-2020 while basically writing a dissertation on it’s history, planning, culture, climate etc. most ppl just play the game and slap roads down wherever and however. They just want to build a city regardless of if it’s 100% realistic and historically accurate.

@analogbunny 3 жыл бұрын

I still can't understand why C:S has canals but not locks - especially since it's made in Europe.

@user-qi7ol9pf6n 3 жыл бұрын

So true! Also, despite being made in Europe, it basically ignores a lot of characteristics of European cities -- like Mid rise neighborhoods, which differ very clearly from Low and High rise neighborhoods, and mixed use districts like in many European city centers. Basically, without mods there's no way to get anything somewhat realistic.

@JoyBuildsCities 3 жыл бұрын

Glad I was able to catch the premiere. I loved this episode! I’ve been wanting to move my highways but maybe I’ll just get rid of them. Thanks Lee!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes that's the way to go! And then put them in later...or not at all 😁

@JoyBuildsCities 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto yeah, I like that idea. 😊

@_Meriwether 3 жыл бұрын

08:47 Yes, you need to put the country roads in. It's the country roads that take us home, to the place where we beloooooooooong.. *_John Denver intensifies_*

@aaronjgrey 3 жыл бұрын

I recently started a new city with a similar idea - I bought up 25 tiles and demolished the highways. It’s been a fun journey - I am currently upgrading some of my country roads to highway and it it much more organic than having kept the original map’s highway.

@1oVVa 3 жыл бұрын

I especially hate the maps where the highway cuts right through the middle of the starting tile.

@drangusbadger1976 3 жыл бұрын

This gives me new ideas for another city. Screw those highways- it always bothered me that vanilla had so many highway connections that almost acted like boundaries.

@hitzu111 3 жыл бұрын

Electriks tools mod can show you the exact road grade so you won't need to calculate it

@davidsdesign543 3 жыл бұрын

Love the winding roads, so satisfying! Great episode, you *killed* it

@zuthalsoraniz6764 2 жыл бұрын

One specific little thing I do not like about the highways in this map: The rail goes over the highways on an overpass, exactly the opposite of how it works - the rails stay level, while the roads dip below or go over. Not just because the rails were there first, but also because cars are far better than trains at managing steeper grades!

@toneDef77 3 жыл бұрын

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal ran along side the Potomac River through the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland, so there's definitely precedence for using canals in your region.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I keep thinking to myself if this town being oriented the way it is wouldn't actually be more like Tennessee since the river flows north and the mountains are south...idk...I don't know how many canals they built across to Tennessee...I think the railroads came along and took over pretty quick.

@toneDef77 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto that makes sense with Tennessee. I know there are several fairly prominent rivers that flow north through West Virginia and Kentucky before emptying into the Ohio River, so your rivers here in Reddington would have a similar flow heading towards the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. I also agree on railroad eventually taking over for the early canals that were built, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal came along slightly before railroads became predominant (1831-1924), but parallel railroad routes were built that ended up taking the bulk of that traffic (before highways came along.)

@jimmyjohn8008 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto look up the Augusta canal no locks needed and is also used as a source of power and water.

@jimmyjohn8008 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto tennessee valley association didn't exist until 1933 so well after the railroads.

@radtech497 3 жыл бұрын

When you do add highways to the map, maybe you could limit them to either 2-lane-2-way highways or, at most, to pairs of 2-lane-1-way National Roads; in fact, both could be used, with the National Roads representing State Highways and the smaller 2-way highways representing County Roads. Unlike freeways, these two highways can be treated as expressways, with at-grade intersections with the surface streets (interchanges are not ruled out by any means; they are just more expensive to build, and as such, are less likely to be found outside of major cities with freeway connections). Most American towns lack freeway access, but nearly all have some degree of highway access.

@shawnbrownlee8657 3 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy watching and working through the different tips and good practices you share in each video. Worked today's schedule around this one!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your support! I'm happy to inspire and teach 😊

@johnterpack3940 Жыл бұрын

I can't tell you how much I appreciate the effort you put into following the terrain. Great video.

@heretolevitateme 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the more creative lets plays I've seen in a long time. Thanks for bringing us along, Lee!

@richy77 3 жыл бұрын

Reminder on! Sadly I’ll have class so probably can’t make the premiere 😢

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Bummer! I'll be happy to hear your thoughts afterward then!

@sharpless 3 жыл бұрын

Looking at old Swedish roads, I've come to the conclusion that roads here mostly didn't get built where it was easiest to build in less flat areas, but rather that roads were built where they didn't impact the arable land

@matiashernandez1 3 жыл бұрын

I'm definitely subscribing after this video! The way the roads looks at the end is so realistic and it makes a lot of sense. I always find a little odd to have a massive highway system in some maps for no apparent reason. I know it's a game and you need some connectivity to start your city, but I love to play imagining that my city have an history and at some point started like a little settlement like this one and not just a random metropolis that just spawned in the middle of nowhere xD I'm looking forward to seeing how this town will look at the end. Great content btw!

@aslake3848 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Lee, I hope you're well. Just revisited Redington and would love to see your unique play-style unfold here.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I have more coming in the next couple weeks!

@streetracer-sam6152 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love the idea! Can't wait to see how you implement it and what I can learn from it.

@thesilentdork4303 3 жыл бұрын

agreed he always has good little tidbits. this whole new wave of 5b1c has really spawned a great work of tutorials.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

😊

@amherstburgerpicker5786 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I have learned so much from new builders that are new to me thanks to 5b1c!!

@Ubi2447 3 жыл бұрын

I love your formula for content. I Love hearing the reasoning and thought process behind your decisions. Also, the length of your episodes being 45+ min is ideal for me. Thank you for your content!

@CitiesbySteven 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome idea Lee! This is really exciting!!

@GovindYaswanth 3 жыл бұрын

Commenting after just watching till 6:57. Wow.. the start you are doing & thought process of bringing a port as outside connection is excellent...

@wscheets1600 3 жыл бұрын

I love this engineering and thinking. For me I do all the story telling. Still learning the game thou. The mechanics with traffic and industry and how to manage highway traffic. Getting better. But my favorite part is designing and creating stories. Making the city highways functional and not gridlock. That's the hard part.

@wscheets1600 3 жыл бұрын

I compartmentalize alot. Which helped me get to the 100k+ population easy now. No problem. But now the compartments are failing due to the long distance and to many different accesses to the same highway. I'm thinking of doing 4 seperare highway roads instead of 2. And make one a truck only, and the other be passengers. Maybe split the needs and accesses up. Idk. Thats my next attempt at fixing my tornado alley scenario highway system.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I've always loved all of it! Every aspect is a blast to me! I'm so happy to have a game so rich in options that it's fairly easy to tell any story one can think of!

@EricNicholsdesign 3 жыл бұрын

Learned a lot! This is a fantastic concept, great job as always!

@tylerpoppy8095 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy how you make your cities tell a story. It makes it feel so much more alive.

@Schuman4x 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! I'm loving all of the historical insight you're providing with this city since little pockets of America that inspired a build like Reddington are both fascinating and important. Much of what you're highlighting reminds me of a book I read a few years ago, "Nearby History", which demonstrates how the grand scheme of time is important, but countless local areas likely have a vast & rich history; each little "neck of the woods" many of us call home can tell a marvelous story! Looking forward to more Reddington content, as well as your next stint in 5B1C!

@ashleyn.9166 3 жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to try this, thanks for giving me the bravery to try this out!!!

@eddielopez2373 2 жыл бұрын

As someone from North Carolina, it’s nice to hear someone finally recognize that we’ve got good wood.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I have driven through the Piedmont many times…LOTS of furniture going on there!

@nianbird1999 3 жыл бұрын

I drive for a living and you are spot on with your feel for the topography and the crazy roads that result. Loving the content.

@watchthe1369 Жыл бұрын

Reddington being a shipping hub would be a good concept. Transfer ship cargo to railroad is a cool way to connect with the rest of the world.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Жыл бұрын

It seems rational…it’s kind of a bummer there aren’t more intermodal assets for intercity barge to rail 😔 oh well…

@quizlers 2 жыл бұрын

I have a tip if someone hasn't told you already: In "Moveit!" you have a picker option. It is the first selection in the selector menu in the mod. Select the picker icon, select the road you wanted to highlight and it will only affect that one type of road and nothing else. Be sure that all other selectors are not selected for this to work. I appreciate your videos, please keep it up. Thank you!!

@xremming 3 жыл бұрын

I can really understand the method behind your madness. :D This series is exactly the kind of Cities Skylines content I love.

@dlwatib 3 жыл бұрын

@ 19:01 Don't let the road network put a node right in the center of a bridge. It will build a pier right in the middle of the river... the deepest and most swiftly moving part of the river, the last place a bridge engineer wants to put a bridge pier. Much better to have two piers in shallower water close to the shorelines.

@Clayfacer 3 жыл бұрын

great episode! I think this is the first time I have ever seen a cities skylines series where the highways got completely removed and replaced with dirt roads as if it was the way the city started. I like this approach, cant wait for the next episode.

@RAI-1911 3 жыл бұрын

Love the end result of the windy roads... Thanks for the entertainment!

@jaspertjong6500 3 жыл бұрын

Great show! I now have a third C:S channel that I want to follow because of HOW you play.

@magnusaugust8489 3 жыл бұрын

I'm loving the way you explain how roads evolve

@AlejoEremita 3 жыл бұрын

That time lapse got 10 times more epic with the William Tell Overture in the background

@andreasask6791 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful! Looks great. Much more realistic!

@astrocleric 2 жыл бұрын

This is such a great series. I'd love to see more frequent videos on this build. They are too infrequent!

@wowhero75 Жыл бұрын

You are simply the best at this. I go to all your videos for help and ideas and ways to fix problems i run into that i don't have the patients to figure out. Thank you.! Would love to see you make a new city Like this start with maybe on a tropical island and show how those turn into tourist towns. Would love that. But none the less Thank you for all that you have made. Love the Seaport city as well.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’m so glad you’ve benefited! I haven’t tried an island city just yet…it’s an interesting idea 👍🏻

@Lucas-hh4oh 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, Lee! I'm looking forward to this series. I hope you upload more frequently for this series!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I thought I'd have another epi this week but I am SPENT...it's been a long week or two!

@Lucas-hh4oh 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto Ahh, it's alright. Take your time, Lee!

@ayindestevens6152 3 жыл бұрын

Loving this new build!

@gabyregistrado 2 жыл бұрын

great episode!!

@drewliedtke2377 2 жыл бұрын

It’s refreshing to see a city planned like this. Too many builders hyper-design cities and they’re just not realistic.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I have to agree with you! Most players just work around all the highways being where they are at the beginning and I think it just looks awfully unrealistic, seeing as highways came along dead LAST lol

@tsm2112 3 жыл бұрын

Augusta, Ga still has canals throughout the old industrial district on the savannah river. For a lot of towns, I think it was easier to just develop industrial areas along an existing river instead of constructing canals (see Asheville, NC). Railroads probably came along early enough that most towns had not yet needed to branch out too far from the river.

@jimmyjohn8008 3 жыл бұрын

Look up the Augusta canal. Still in use and has multiple uses... provides transportation and power water for the city. The power is provided by multiple dams from the mills orginally, and the canal is still in use. Plus no locks needed.

@chunyinanimation 3 жыл бұрын

The classical music goes really well with the time lapses :D

@user-qi7ol9pf6n 3 жыл бұрын

I just love your ideas about city building in CS. I have been developing cities in similar manner for some time: traditional connections like rail and ferries, grid layouts, mostly self-sufficient local economies. Of course, a bunch of mods for enhanced realism. I suggest you take a look at creating CS maps from real-world heightmaps, you may find it interesting. It adds so much more realism, especially if you find yourself a good river valley or something like that and give it just a bit of editing in the map editor. Also, the usual heightmap websites built specifically for CS are not very useful, so for that kind of stuff I suggest using Tangram Heightmapper, because it has height data both for above and below water level. Anyway, thank you for great work, I'm really enjoying your playthroughs! Keep it up!

@speedbrake22 3 жыл бұрын

I love this idea, gives much better opportunities for organically growing (y)our cities

@watchthe1369 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that map looks like it has a California style freeway grid. 5-10 miles in any direction and you find a freeway, usually erring on the side of 5 miles with the grid modified by connecting harbors and inland destinations. For places prior to 1960 or so you see the "Trader's Trails" for the "Wells Fargo Wagon" that would come through every week to month with the catalog freight orders on it. The train made bigger items available with more frequent service.

@thesilentdork4303 3 жыл бұрын

i think that turned out really good. also probably wanna look into using the mod "not so unique" this means you can place multiples of unique factories so you can really have a huge furniture export.

@TMaekler 3 жыл бұрын

Nice tip: You can double click on "tracks" (or any other option in MoveIt!) and all other options are deselected automatically.

@Xucaboa 3 жыл бұрын

This is going to be awesome

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

😀

@Xucaboa 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto it was awesome, as predicted 😸👍

@ericrsa2348 3 жыл бұрын

Well done !!!!!

@Styrestian 3 жыл бұрын

Awsome! I want to do this, Im not good at building intersections.. 🤣 love to see the progress of this City.

@systemfox4724 2 жыл бұрын

I love these series. I used to play C:S religiously couple years ago and my passion slowly burnt out. Your channel reignited the embers. One comment: If I am not mistaken, Move It mod has inverse selection capability - meaning if you selected your city you should have had the option to select everything outside the city. Might save you a few minutes in the future if I am not mistaken.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! And also thanks for noting that...I’ll have to check into it...

@jadieramacdougal5621 Жыл бұрын

Hi Lee: Great explanations of what you are doing in this series. Great help to me. I can't help wondering, however, why you did not build outside connection roads via the obvious mapmaker's tree line corridors? Also, coud you maybe go into more detail about how you figure out the grades of the roads? I get that following the contour lines result in a flat road, but can't follow how to move up/down grade lines to keep the grade small (the closer the contours, the steeper the slope if I remember correctly). Thanks for your vids. Keep on keeping on!

@floydbyrd9358 3 жыл бұрын

Love how organic your road layout look. Very natural...If you don't mind, I'm would like to take inspiration from today's road network.

@watchthe1369 Жыл бұрын

Make a herringbone pattern with the roads. Follow a slope into a dead end, due to steep slopes. Find some more favorable slopes partway back on the road that dead ended. Once you get that done you can maybe spot a way to make a curving road directly through it all and have some ready made "Logging Roads" for future guidance.

@yourdearestfriend 2 жыл бұрын

You _need_ to continue this series.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I have 2 more episodes in the can...keep a lookout over the coming weeks!

@joelhammer3538 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto 💙😍yess!

@Paul-un2bj 3 жыл бұрын

Hi new to your channel hope you continue to make more videos and grow this city

@RustyWalker 3 жыл бұрын

The end of that lake looks like a good spot for a fishing village.

@wearloga 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode! I'm going to try this in my cities as well, if I remember it. I did forget, though, are those outside connection mods required for this, or could you add those connections with just the 81 Tiles Mod an Move It?

@edwardmiessner6502 3 жыл бұрын

I like how you got rid of the freeways and replaced them with country roads. The one by that one river could in the future be restored with a two-lane state or U.S. highway. And that bridge you built across the left side river, may I suggest a name for it. It's inspired by one of Biffa's phrases for SNAFU and here I'd like it to be modelled as an indigenous name for the river: the Winkeewonkee River Bridge.

@IceDree 3 жыл бұрын

It'll be interesting to see how the new roads will affect the supply stream for the power plants.

@subedipradeep Жыл бұрын

Loved the way you play thank you 👌🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@liscosity 3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to 5B1C!

@wrex509 2 жыл бұрын

The vast majority of the world's wealth and economic activity is within 50 miles of coastlines and the majority of the rest of the wealth is found along major rivers. As critical as water is to life, it is just as critical for commerce, hence your explanation. So it is nice to see you build using principals that mimic that reality.

@richy77 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I finally got around to finishing this video lol. Great job Lee! But just wondering, would roadbuilders several hundred years ago worry that much about grade? :)

@Valthalin 3 жыл бұрын

Train tracks would have been the outside connections of choice before roads for vehicles were added into the area historically. If only there was an old steam locomotive station for the game and a mod to support how it actually worked way back when. Wagon trails, then barge/steamboat traffic on the rivers, then rails, then roads for vehicles would be the actual order of things. I wonder how hard it would be to incorporate that into the game?

@droe2570 2 жыл бұрын

Watch a CS video, learn some history. This is easily the best and most interesting CS channel around.

@ArrowMiner10 2 жыл бұрын

When Is the next video? I've been watching the series but there are no episodes on the series lately... When will the next episode be?

@potatoesforsale 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could start with a nap with a road network like this.

@imahecha 3 жыл бұрын

I would build a canal between the river to the left, just below the bridge, where there is a kind of turn, and the "port". This way i avoid the rocks

@erikguzik8204 3 жыл бұрын

ok Question... cause i have tried different mods and nothing has worked. What are you using to make this outside connections?????? Thanks so much

@craigroaring 3 жыл бұрын

30:36 Looks like a Feynman diagram.

@gmtm2162 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode Lee. Do you think it would be reasonable to make dozens of small farmsteads dotted around the map, using the Farming Industry DLC? One or two small fields, one barn, one small silo, and a single homestead? The processing sites and factories could be located in the industrial area of Reddington. The area could be famous for breeding Red Angus cattle, hence the name Reddington. Just my two cents! Keep up the great content!

@daniellxnder 3 жыл бұрын

Can we hope for a Pittsburgh-esque steel mill by the river? Or a mountain mining town? 🙈 Can't wait until the rails and some shipping activities to happen! There's an obvious lack of respect and understanding towards realistic railroads by most CS youtuber :(( [well, the devs made this game too cars and highway dependant in the first place tho 👀] I wish there were more historically accurate city development contents like this one! Great job~

@dash1dash2 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure you can change those super long dirt roads with a bidirectional national road at this point. There's not a single city in that region nowadays that has this size population and only has dirt roads as a connection lol, especially since the center is all paved.

@dlwatib 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think you should be too concerned about terraforming to correct map faults. It's actually quite unusual to have geology that is characterized by rivers flowing through deep canyons where the cliffs don't match in height on each side of the river. Also, don't underestimate the amount of earth our ancestors would have moved to build a large infrastructure project. The Erie Canal is a perfect example of a large earthworks project built before the railroad age. I don't know of any similar examples in the South, but it wasn't for lack of manual labor. They had slaves to do any unskilled labor.

@theonlinejourneypodcast 3 жыл бұрын

I love how you do this with yoúr builds 🤣

@leshawnjefferson6150 3 жыл бұрын

More barns and wearhouses will help gice you more trucks to export and take the long trip out of town and back. 1 house a barn and some detail will look like mini farms and could be cute

@FriedShrimpPoBoy Жыл бұрын

Is there anyway to change the 6 lane superslabs to rural 4 and 2 lane highways on a map before staring a new build?

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Жыл бұрын

I suppose so, but especially in the case with these old base game maps, the roads are routed in _the_ strangest ways and just defy realism…so I’ve never decided to do that. You may need mods to deal with them in the map editor.

@jesseveenstra9605 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have a save file for this episode? Would love to fiddle with reddington now it's starting to look like a real place.

@MoolbniBrie 3 жыл бұрын

Oohhh. I didn't know this was a historical city. I wonder if there are any good old old southern houses or u.s georgian/colonial townhouses on the workshop.

@DanielEShrdlu 3 жыл бұрын

I was pretty surprised by the premise, but I love the result. Does anyone know if there are any maps like this in the Steam workshop or anything? This just looks so much more like a real place to me than the default setup of a tiny town off a major highway inexplicably criss-crossing an empty swathe of land.

@user-qi7ol9pf6n 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if there are any such maps on the workshop (i guess there are some), but i've found out that using real-world heightmaps gives such a better look for a C:S city. Of course, they need some editing afterwards, but the results are gorgeous!

@jonlyn8372 3 жыл бұрын

Lee: Ther Too much highway Me: Is this some joke that I am to American to understand

@NJHProductions512 Жыл бұрын

I'm wondering, do you plan on modernizing the city eventually? As time goes on, and as the city gets bigger do you plan on adding freeways, an airport, and modern power plants? Or are you going to keep it in a 1800s setting?

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Жыл бұрын

The city will go through time and will develop according to shifts in transportation technologies...so yes. I just wanted to start way back before railroads and cars changed everything.

@NJHProductions512 Жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto ok cool, im looking forward to it!

@joelhammer3538 2 жыл бұрын

Its literally a crime if you dont continue this series😭

@urosgrubisic8446 3 жыл бұрын

finallyy :DDD

@lishbow 3 жыл бұрын

since you are laying down the regional network, your city will be responsible for the maintenance cost of the new roads.

@morris2095 3 жыл бұрын

steam workshop dutch canals and lock mod pack work great

@blujitsu2180 3 жыл бұрын

There are some good canal lock assets out there, namely by Epic Lurker: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2381768586 While they’re prototypical of canals in the Netherlands, there’s no real difference for old American lock systems. They also have a great selection of accompanying road assets. Important note: they’re nonfunctional, though maybe you could fake it if you really tried.

@woltews 2 жыл бұрын

the community would be near the bridge or the landing

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily...a lot of cities were founded way before bridges were ever built, and they didn’t always stay near the landing because it was on low ground which could have been inhospitable wetland (especially for farming) or just prone to flooding. Another big factor is the location of resources, such as arable land, and probably an even bigger one yet is defense, especially for much older cities. A lot of factors go into where a city pops up.

@woltews 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto most of them are still fairly close to the landing on the nearest safe ground as people would have to unload boats and put the stuff from the boats onto wagons . Those people would want to live near their work as well as the people that would repair the boats and wagons . You would also pay more for items that had to be moved farther so people would go to where the boats were unloaded to get the lowest price and first pick of what was unloaded off the boat . An dont forget having water that didnt need a well dug .

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

@@woltews you're assuming that the river route is the only reason why this city exists ;-) there are other possibilities...

@woltews 2 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto before you have mechanized transportation, it is very hard to move very much by road ( wagons are labour-intensive , slow, expensive and have low capacity as well unpaved roads are unusable for good portions of the year due to mud snow and security concerns ) You also have to haul water to your settlement of pump it ( where I live had no river or lake, and it took thousands of tones of coal per year to pump water to make the place livable and was not possible for more than a few thousand to live here before the railroad got here to move that coal )