St. Giles' Common is MAHOOSIVE! With its two main entry points, two sets of "service catchment areas" and the football pitch in the middle, don't you think the local authority and the community itself would view it as effectively being two separate estates? Having a "St. Giles' East" and "St. Giles' West" would be fun, I think... and you just know the residents would have a dumb, low-level rivalry! "Don't wanna go past the footie pitch bruv, them sods over by the new junction are a right bunch. Think they're so great just 'cos they got the only library in town."
Mate I'm from St Giles West and TBH the left siders can count to 12 on their hands if you know what I mean. Have you never heard of the St Giles derby? It's like the MIlan derby... only smaller.
No mate, I grew up around a place pretty much like this in boro but larger and i can tell you, we didn't think of any side as separate and we considered everyone near from the same area. Ayresome Park if anyone is wondering.
Congratulations, you managed to build Old Trafford! A football stadium in the middle of a whole bunch of terraced housing and general residential stuff. I remember living nearby and pretty much being there every game even though I'm not a fan because we could hear every goal and we got football crowds right down our street!
You definitely need a stately home and lands/gardens as a park à la national trust for people to walk their dogs maybe the odd country pub for a pie lunch!
I’d love to see you add some classic British playgrounds (recs) to the residential areas. Perhaps some concrete based for the built up places and more fieldy ones for the village and sprawling estates. I’m loving this series! 👍🏻
I like the way you adjusted the hights of the houses to conform to the rise of the terrain when you built the football pitch. I wonder if you could do that more often so that the undulating terrain could be better reflected in the buildings that sit upon it and you don't have to do quite as much terrain leveling. This way the buildings and landscape can can appear more harmonious and natural.
There used to be a bus that went from Bolton to Stockport via Bury up here in Greater Manchester which is around 27 miles. Routes like that used to be far more common before they privatised the busses.
There's one that goes from Street to Bristol Bus Station. That is a massive journey according to Google. 29 miles one way. Pretty buses though and nice view out of the top deck over the mendips.
To build up the Englishness I'd say you need a stadium in every major town you build, and one of them should even have 2 - Blightea Rovers v FC United of Blightea, even the small village you did in the last video should have a pitch!
I remember the old Arsenal stadium had a fish and chips right across the road from one of the gates. The tables and chairs were that bad that you couldn't or shouldn't move too much around in or around them, but the food was great.
Deffo looking great, the only thing I would add in would be a couple of corner shops/newsagents at a couple of the road intersections within the housing area and a greasy spoon type cafe by the football stadium - got to have a pie and a cup of tea at match half time!
26:00 - you set it to vanilla (base game) rather than to the default option for that school. Not sure what the vanilla size is for that but I'm guessing it's not the 566. Poor thornaby HS lol
Lacking a dodgy Wetherspoon or Sizzler, a dozen Indian takeaways/chipy, a religious building, and the do-it-all newsagents. Other than that pretty accurate
Wonder why the "London" buses all look like they've been through a massive sandstorm (or been left at the scrappy's for 15 years)... the addition of the footie ground is good, kinda like Maine Road of old (but a bit smaller). That thing about the parking and it being banned on match day? That was when _everyone_ parked in the street! With a dozen double-deckers at the end of the road alongside the school, waiting for the crowd to come out after the game. Things have changed a bit these days I guess...
The complement other people's comments about adding some shops to the new area you've created a couple of gaps when you angled the last section of houses and you could easily fit a couple of small shops in plus a pub is needed to complete the look. A community centre/Hall close or next to the school would also be a good thing to have.
I'm assuming the team will be playing at the national league level so Blighty Spartans after Blyth Spartans. You should put a pub next to the stadium for all the fans to congregate before and after the match.
Soccer is also British English. When in 1863, the Football Association was founded and adopted the Cambridge Rules, people said, they were playing "Association Football", differently than for instance "Gaelic Football", "Rugby Football" or "Canadian Football". And because "Association Football" was too long, they shortened it to "Soc", or as the fashion of the time was, to "Soccer".
CPP: "Respect the topography." Biffa: "I like it flat." car parks don't have to be flat. It's quite common that they're slightly sloped or even on an incline. Actually they usually are sloped to help drain the water. Of course "slightly sloped" in cities skylines looks ridiculous, but perfectly flat isn't natural either. Also when you put in railroad, if you use "old fashioned" stations you need to consider that the rails probably were there before everything else, so you should have a path between the buildings for the tracks to make it look right - so it looks like the town was built around the tracks, like most places naturally did
Hyped! thanks for the video and thanks for realising the industry lane issue! As soon as the video starts you show the personal vehicles take the roundabout under the highway like they should! That issue just bugged me that much in the previous Blightea-on-the-Wold video.
What is needed for such a terrain are those kind of British houses with the ground floor half-submerged into the ground, with a kind of a trench around the windows, a small flight of stairs to the first floor and to the ground floor. Being a wretched foreigner, I don't know what they're called.
In terms of road planning, the first set of houses you pasted should have been rotated 180 degrees so either side of the football pitch you had a short street. Whoever was in charge of planning would of either mirrored the houses either side of the stadium or in the case of the stadium being built after the housing development, it would have replaced what have been a longer street. Think of the UK areas which have been regenerated in this way. Also, in advance of your ore industry, please remember to include some terraced bungalows. All mining towns in the North have dedicated streets like this reserved for miners widows.
Nice build! Reminds me of where I used to live in Twickenham, just round the corner from the stadium. Having been living away from the UK for the last 20 years or so, this series is making me all kinds of nostalgic!
I think Biffa, you might need some red-brick commercial, a small shopping center with shops lining the ouside and a large clock forming a commercial focussed town mainstreet by St.Giles' would feel quite appropriate near the schools and library, possibly serving as the center around which Thornaby township formed I'd actually suggest moving the schools to fit it in beside the library and park, and have the schools opposite each other on this new mini town center. It would also be an idea to put in a police station, and if you can find the asset, I'm horrified by this brittish town that somehow doesn't have a post office or four!! Always remember, cities naturally are formed from multiple towns, and will have multiple "main streets".
What you'd find in my area, is that for these huge housing areas, there would be one or 2 mini-presincts, where there would be a corner shop and mini markets for grocery's and such. would be a nice touch to this estate area
I'm currently playing through a vanilla city and the traffic management is torture. These vids give me the strength to continue pushing and complete my city before i run back into the comforting arms of the mods
Loving this series! I think future terraced houses should change direction more and be smaller areas. As in a block that goes horizontal and then the next one is vertical and offset slightly with some more commercial dotted around.
To get the realistic vibe you could demolish some houses and put the railway on arches. A lot of times the Victorian housing estates predated the railway and the wealthy railway owners just bulldozed the slums out the way. One thing that is definitely missing from the estate is fish and chip shops (complete with bad puns)
I cannot thank you enough Biffa for your entertaining content. I've been suffering from a high fever for the past two days (covid sucks...) which was accompanied by occasional nausea. Focusing on your voice and the video helped soothe it immensely. Thank you!
Side note, before I started watching EPL, I had never heard the term "pitch" in a way that means "playing surface"/"field." In summary, "football pitch" = "soccer field." Love your content.
Love the victorian terrace houses. Very similar to where I live. I reckon some areas of Blightea could do with allotments! And the football club needs a terrible burger van!
As always enjoyment and inspiration are boundless with you Biffa. But from a mother's point of view: your estates are great but too far to go and get milk and bread. And the children would demand going into town after school or a game, for a snack. So I would suggest some UK village shops added by the sauna, by the school and one by the stadium. I like the shops by Starshall and Sparks.
for the too high/too low terraced house issue, i'd just imagine they have fire escape-style steps up to the the front doors - i've seen places hilly enough where this has been the case
On a steep hill, you really need to go for the individual 1-width terraced houses rather than the blocks of 4, and then you can adjust the height of each of them individually for a more realistic level.
As a Brit I can confirm that the highway, ahem, motorway! is realistic. They are sometimes sunk into the ground and can see rock like the game puts in if u look left or right
Top vid! I think with the schools there should be a big playing field with2-3 football pitches. Most of the schools around my area have at least 1 or rugby field Brilliant series
Love the expansion but one thing it might be missing is police and fire coverage; that might be why those last two houses were complaining about low land value. Did that ever clear up? Great build, loving the series! 👍 🖖
Absolutely need a pub by the footy field. Also i may just be dumb here but could i suggest doing some videos on how to use some of your preferred mods like Move It ect
With a Big Sky Dish and Sky Sports Banner plus a Police Station, maybe multiple pubs Brentford's old ground had a Pub on every corner. Maybe some Chippys, Kebab Shops, Pizza Shops and in general Petrol Stations.
as a blue i feel obliged to suggest manchester citea. teachester? manchaister? it's a work in progress lmao loving this series so far! cant wait to see what comes next
With the schools I would add a tiny bit of concrete to increase the playground area and if there's any playground/sports decals on the workshop then maybe adding one or two would look good. With regards to the train station location I think it would look better on the otherside of the motorway and you could extend or create another area from it.
That green space next to the high school to me should be playing fields, with a rugby/football pitch and running lanes for the inevitable sports days! ;-P
My father in-law actually attended the high school you call brilliant at 17:45. All the schools from that pack are reasonably faithful reproductions of Toronto schools.
Hi Biffa really enjoyed this build. Usually the times when I have problems getting my words out is when I am overly tired. I know you recovered from covid recently, but hope you've been taking care of yourself and resting.
Looking good, but i think the area is really desperate for a couple corner shops or some such? It also looks like more parking could be useful, are you still using the parking mod?
WAIT! A Football stadium that doesn't have noise?! That can't be a UK one then that's GOT to be Canadian, they're the only ones I can imagine are nice enough to not be CRAZY loud as there team is winning!
I'm Canadian and I don't know why you've gotten so many comments about St. Giles Common not being British. That is exactly what I picture when I think of British housing!
to increase land value you only need some parks and a few services, isn't it typical to have a couple of commercial roads and even a plaza next to those kind of extensive neighbourhoods?
I believe you do have the option of giving your schools a custom population. You were fiddling with the levers on the right but directly underneath the picture there's a custom population field into which you could enter a number. Might make things a bit easier for you next time? Cheers, Biffa!
I used to live about 200m from Manchester City's old ground at Maine Road, and it was exactly like this, with dense terraced houses right up against the stadium even though the stadium was huge (35000 people if I remember)
