Cities: Skylines - Part 42 

I feel like the city looks weird because the tallest buildings are kinda all line up at the back. You should mix it up a little bit and have some shorter buildings behind them. If that makes sense... D:

Hey flabs, I know that someone already mentioned this, but I'd highly recommend spacing the tall buildings out more in the skyline areas (both old and new) as buildings that large IRL would have quite a lot of "plaza" space around them, or take up entire city blocks, thus leaving the wide streets in between. Also, the housing near the central station near the beach should be upgraded to high density, and that would open up much more room for you to place skyline buildings. Also, the two large grey buildings in the main skyline area look very similar in design (probably by accident) and as such would look excellent if you placed them right next to each other as if they were sister buildings!

Trains are like airplanes. You use them to cross long distances. Subway and monorails are to keep a lot of traffic off densely populated streets. Buses and trams are to convey cims to the subway or monorails or to train stations, usually in smaller townships with low density. That is why trains are not being used as much.

Maybe you can fill an entire island with the casino stuff, might look cool. Great series!

You should space out your buildings. It is not very realistic to have big and tall buildings so close together. Also you should add parking around them, not a lot but a few. In NYC there are policies to not block out too much sun so buildings have to work around that. If you spread them out, it would look better.

I would like to see you develop the rural parts of the land a bit: some scattered villages, dispersed industry (mines, wood cutting, ...), tourist villages at the shoreline, .... just a thought. But nevertheless, I like watching your city building videos. Good stuff.

Your downtown area is too close together. In actuality city planning/zoning ordinances wouldn't allow them to be THAT close to one another. I also think compositionally it would look nicer with some space between the tallest buildings. Just a little architecture student opinion tho, no worries if you don't agree!!

In the UK we would call what you built a retail park. Also, Woolworths was a big UK thing too, but all of their shops have closed down in the last 10 years (although apparently they're being brought back).

Why (on the new area) is there never any residential​ along the beach/waterfront? It's always stores, tourism, or offices. Residential on the coast = higher land value, and more realistic

Flabaliki trying to figure out American malls and shopping centers was just hilarious. I didn't know they didn't do that type of stuff in Australia though.

Love the new building assets, they look much more brighter and nicer looking! Now we just gotta find a nice boardwalk amusement area for the beach and we'll be all set for that area

Those basketball courts are horrible in the middle of downtown...Just put a green space or park. You dont need to have an actual park you could just put some trees and a fountain or something.

That area of shops you built at the end is called a Strip Mall in the US! You should add the Costco gas station to it, and maybe the Ikea!!!

The contemporary resort looks SO much like the real one! Legit replayed that part 3 times and paused to look at it haha

1: Ooh, new Flabs vid 2: This makes me want to play C:S 3: Ooh new asset? 4: This author has a lot of cool stuff 5: He has a cool collection aswell 6: He has a RU-vid series too? 7: That was good, what's this on the right? *Rinse and Repeat*

The first 2/3 of the cities let's play is so nice. Love your city and I love how you now combined the last third of the video with another brick in the mall. Really missed the series ;P

I don't even have notifications turned on for you but I still end up refreshing my subscriptions as you post everyday. Must be some sort of telepathy

I think the skyscrapers are a bit to near to each other but I really enjoyed this episode

With large stores and giant car parks in the US are called strip malls.

Hey good video but your skyline that's in the new area is very unrealistic. It is just next to low level residential areas. In addition the buildings are all too close together which leaves no sight lines. Look at the city of Chicago for example. There are sections of taller buildings and the whole density of the city flows well between neighborhoods. Also you can always find sunlight.

when you are done with series is the city going up to the steam workshop?

Thanks for finally downloading new building assets but I'm not sure I like the way you placed them in the downtown area. I think that the First Canadian Place is a bit too tall and should maybe move it to the other side of the bay when (or if) you start building there along with the building directly across from the central station and make a sort of a 'second downtown' area and maybe make it a tourist area.

Chuck all the casinos on one of the islands. Party island!!

I feel like the skyscrapers in the city are to close together they should be more spread out in the city

I feel like you should add more medium size skyscrapers on the backside of the main city by the stadium.

Could you put a gas station or fast food place on the corner of the strip mall/retail park? It'd really complete the look.

make an area next to the beach and call it Aussie central and add some fresh food people and coles, mitre 10 ect...

I haven't t seen a Woolworths in years they closed down in the uk I think

Shoutout to the UK branches of Woolworths that all closed down ages ago and legit broke everyone's hearts

Yo those buildings in the cbd are way too close together, I'd suggest just leaving small gaps between and not having them so compact

about the forest beneath the tall building you can make a nice pathway park that lead to the residential below get rid of the trees and make a nice Esplanade over aridge with fences and all the details :)

You could add a subway stop on the purple line in the commercial part of Robin Hills. The commercial area between the main roads. Too left corner area when looking from the ocean/river

The prison is in a weird place. You should make a prison in the middle of a lake

Im really curious to see the land value through out the city. Can you show us that on the next episode pls?

Wow, you've gotten REALLY good at this game since the last series.

Download the uk retail rico plopables, then make a retail space with shops and car parks 👍🏼

Love it buddy, keep up the good work. I haven't really checked out the workshop, but what about getting some new Hospital and medical assets? Like you have a super modern trauma/teaching/everything and then you have like an older General Hospital type one. Just seeing the same Hospitals over and over again is kinda blah. Love this city!

(Haven't watched the full video) are you gonna do name suggestions for future districts?

We need some suburbs and little curvy roads with a few houses here and there 😁

I feel like the highway junctions would look more realistic if most of the elevated approach roads were stuck to the ground, even if they are like 10m in the air, and that only the section crossing the highway is elevated. You can ust smooth out the rough edges. This is actually what they do in real life, and it just gives it more of a realistic look EDIT: I also think you should use that Surface tool trick to remove the pavements from the highways.

Name ideas: for the leisure district -> pleasure district hickory square -> hickey square

We do have those roads with lots of big-box stores in Melbourne - Whitehorse Rd and Springvale Rd are both like that.

21:16 Holland Casino? That's in my town D: I live in the Netherlands, that casino is in Enschede, where I live D: I feel noticed lol

you should get restaurants to go with the shopping center.

Yo Flabs, you should make a big casino road - kinda like the strip in season 3 (ep. 5 i think) - and then fill the road with plaza's, casino's etc. Maybe even close to a waterfront! I think that would be so cool!!! love the series by the way :)

Oh i love these one hour episodes 💜

Hey James can you please go back to the warmer tone game look i really think it looked better then the cool tone you have in this episode cheers Buddy !!

That city looks so beautiful. I wish the Xbox one version of city skylines had mods and assets so I could make me city look at lest half as nice as yours

a monorail goes right through the center of the contemporary hotel, it's the main path to get to the magic kingdom.

I wish i had i good computer to play this game on

in the uk those shopping areas are called retail parks c:

Your whole map looks different, are you now using a custom theme?

please do a walkaround in first person in the city

What style is that housing in the university area?

there used to be a Woolworths where I live but it got changed into a Waterstones bookshop.

The building that he put at 33:20 is the one destroyed most number of times by Battlefield 4 players. The Shanghai tower! C point in conquest. ;)

Small/big business benefactor increases traffic as well since they need more goods deliveries.

When you build large areas that are really far from the city you can force them to go work downtown and use the train to get there.

Flabs, your manually placed highrises are way too close together~

I really like how this city looks. :)

lol i love how he put in the siege of shanghai tower from battlefield 4

You should make an inner city to add some more depth

I think the skyline looks ok but it looks like the skyscrapers are placed in with no space.

I work at coles but still got exited when I saw a woolworths!

hey flabaliki! you put some skyscrapers on your island if you want!

James, you should add the grocery store to your strip mall, across the parking lot from Costco

You could name one of the waterfront districts "Wetfront" It's not very good or funny name but at least it's a little bit dirty.

i really want him to get rid of that industrial area in the middle of the city, it is right on the canal, he should keep the entertainment district all the way up the canal, a nice place

Its called a strip mall in America. the ones with parking lots and big box stores.

It has a monorail stop in it (which they totally should've added)

In the U.K. We call that a retail park

Make an area like the Las Vegas strip! You can even call it flabs strip

You HAVE to name the red subway/bus/any red line "Redtube" lol

why didn't you add more buildings in the main downtown area

The little town called "Middle square" should be called "Square-on-Poop".

Can you please level the ground or parking lot by Costco?

Can you show city stats or maybe post an Imgur album of screenshots of it?

How do you get al thos buildings !?

The colorful building!!!!!!

when the hell will you continue thrill ville?

you should put the vape shop back on the corner of the strip mall

Every time I build a city I come across the same problem (not enough workers and not enough educated workers) eventually all the buildings go abandoned and it takes too long to demolish them how can I fix this

When James doesn't know what a strip mall is called

Yay 1h video now I have something to Do!

you acn get something like times sqaure in the little concrete park in the downtown

Take out the low density around the banking and hotel districts

I don't if it's because they are too close together but this skyscrapers look way to tall. Like unrealistically tall

Add some more stores to the shopping center. Like Barnes & Noble and Best Buy.

Flabs placing buildings with prop anarchy on and there's trees in the buildings lmao

There is a contemporary resort with a monorail station in it

Mulberry square => Mole Heights

do some farming industry and so some suburbs with it on the other side of the mountain

I worked at First Canadian Place for awhile :')

is it me or is it super light now? like the tropical theme has gone

42:38 --- the word you're looking for is plaza.

Flabes the buildings you put by the mounten they it is called a stip mall also i think the parkinglot needs to be bigger

That moment when I work at woolworths 😂

Woolworths used to be in Britain as well

That's the Siege of Shanghai building at 32:55 lol

That shopping center is called a strip mall in America