How a Disaster becomes and Opportunity for NEW HUBS in Cities Skylines | VB 118c 

Gotta say, as a Dutch person, I really appreciate the below sea level metro station. Very daring!

Watching the cruise ships jumping rocks like a 70s cop show while Phil is on a landscaping binge is priceless 😂

And as the tsunami hit the city the mayor was talking about growing the town💀

The reason why there are so many passengers waiting for the monorail is because the new asset has a glitch where the monorails just disappear in the stop before. I couldn't get it fixed so I just added a normal station right next to the hub and it started working again. Great videos by the way! :)

A cruise terminal that empties into a shopping mall is the dream of every tourist trap!

The new harbor looks amazing, but I have to say a little part of me died seeing several towers get demolished to make room for parking.

The new harbor looks great! And I think the number of victims from the tsunami is a good indication that you should update your disaster protection coverage (mainly add more shelters, I guess?). Great vid, as always!

At first I thought this was an April fool video, but then you placed the water pipes underneath the road, right where they belong so I realised I was wrong. By the way I’m an Italian subscriber and I love your videos!

Lovely episode, but PLEASE don't dostroy builings next to central station for a parking garage... That's some of THE most valuable land in downtown Verde Beach! Downtowns in real cities are ofeten hollowed out for parking spots, but i'd love to see downtown verde stay lively.

I love so much that the tram network is being expanded. I'm hoping to see even further expansion, the new roads open up so many possibilities

You should keep the disaster response unit with the vehicles and just add the airbase as an extension of the city’s disaster response capabilities. The city has grown a lot, more help for the citizens might not be a bad thing. Edit: In addition, a floodwall for Oceanside might not be terrible. Worse views, but you could make it up to them by adding something to the area maybe.

I’ll admit, I was skeptical of the landscaping around the new harbor, but the finished product looks amazing!

I like the mini episodes. Sometimes the longer ones feel right, but sometimes they feel too long. Mini episodes have much less issue with feeling too long, and it’s probably better to have them feel not long enough to entice a return to the next episode.

Maybe not the best idea… but would you be able to create a large sandbar/quay wall to protect certain areas of the city from future tsunamis? Loving the series!

It adds so much story to a city. In mine I had a meteor hit a large part of my downtown. I used the area to create a memorial park for it. It really adds to the landscape

I was really looking foreward to Verde Bluffs today, but this is fine.

Many people would love to live this close to so much transit. If you extended the peninsula by around 50% and added some high density residential and some high density commercial, it could add to the usefulness of the hub even more.

Love the new build! Looks great! I have a few ideas for future builds that I think you add to the city: 1) A liberal arts collage, the last type of university from the campus DLC 2) A small prison complex (your city has no jail right now) 3) You have the airport from the airport dlc as the main big airport for the city, but maybe using the 3 single asset airports from the base game to make a second, smaller airport on the other side of the city would be cool. Many large cities have more than one airport to both increase air transport capacity and to have a diversionary airport among other reasons. 4) Now that we have a bunch of new sports stadiums, a large sports complex would be cool. 5) I know that from a gameplay perspective, all of the city's power is generated by the fusion reactor, but I think a few smaller power stations around the city would be cool for redundancy. Maybe drake oil has their own personal oil plant so they can generate their own electricity, or maybe there is a solar plant by the garden city. Something like that. 6) Make sure you have a pumping service station to clear the roads after a tsunami even faster. Its a big city, make adding a few around the map could be smart. 7) I know its just a worse tram, but trolleybuses are still cool. If you have a low-density mixed use suburb, might be a nice spot. 8) IT cluster offices (and offices in general) are something you have not added in a while. Also, giving the industry dlc industries extra areas of zones industrial growable that are specialized to their industry seems like a realistic thing to do. 9) Along the coast, there are a few attractions, but maybe adding a few more (jet ski, fishing pier, fishing tour, marina, restaurant pier would make it more lively. 10) Now that the vanilla game has its own parking lots, are you considering replacing the custom ones with these new ones? 11) You have a bunch of city parks, and a couple nature reserves, but as far as I can remember, only one amusement park (hamilton experience). Thinking of adding a second one? 12) Always remember that if you don't want to place an asset because it needs a road, pedestrian roads are your friend!

Thank you for thinking about us and making these mini episodes, we really appreciate your effort 🙏

I found you looking for a way to make an artificial lake and then ended up watching your entire Verde Beach series. I struggled a lot to enjoy making realistic cities until I learned a bunch of your tricks over time. Made an entire geological feature that includes a "spring" on a mountain top that trickles down and creates some vanilla "waterfalls" and then eroded an entire canyon with a flowing river and turned it into a city park with nature trails. The water outlet is used as a manmade reenforced cave that protects the spring source inside the cave. The water pump is hidden at the end of the ravine behind rocks and trees. Afterwards you play with the elevation and rocks to adjust the water height to your liking and you've made a working artificial river. I've also added a lot of tree and vegetation props that I probably would have never gotten if I didn't watch your videos and how to landscape on the game which can be very tricky as I've learned watching you so I don't feel as bad that I'm also equally struggling.

I just want to say that I really appreciate the "mini" episodes. Not that I dislike the regular ones, but now and then a shorter one is kinda nice.

It's crazy how much the city has expanded over the years. i remember sterling estates being added and the thinking how big the map was, but its wayy bigger now

Binged this whole series for the last month, it's fantastic! I know that you mentioned awhile back that the Intestine is your greatest regret - there was another video in City Planner Tips where the creator had built beautiful Hollywood Hills style homes and you commented on how great they look! I would love to see you Mulligan intestine way or create somewhere this type of housing as it would very fitting for Verde Beach if it's not in your plans already. Love you, bye!

Considering adding bus lanes to the new hub area? A taxi stand might be cool too. Also, bike lanes and a small train station would really make this a mega transit hub. ( I know the metro is close, but the normal train station is at the central station. A short line from the harbor to central station could be cool.)

Love the verde beach series. You have helped me ALOT to make better cities myself thank you for teaching me.

Wow, those cruise liners were "Verde Beached" while you did all that crazy clever landscaping.

Pretty good start for my birthday! Thanks Phil as always!🙂

Love the way it turned out bank looks much better than key walls

Cold not stop watching the Money bouncing up and down trough the episode, was actually super interesting

can't believe I finally reached the end of Verde Beach playlist 😭😭🎉 thank you so much for this series CPP it was such a pleasure to watch it all, excited for what's to come 💙

I am all caught up now, I have seen all of Verde Beach and ready for more!

I definitely gave that harbor shoreline the side-eye but... You certainly came through in the end.

Can't wait to watch this episode! Always enjoy watching you build cities. Looking forward to whatever you make, tbh. XD

Shout out to that cruise ship Captain riding the wave like a boss.

lol I love that moment 16:02 the boat in the top right

Love how natural the rock wall looks in the harbor

Hi Phil, I know you like stories in your cities so I thougt I'd share something from my own story universe that might spur some ideas for expansion. Gerald Gronoset - great grandson of the business magnate J.G Gronoset who established the renown Gronoset Locomotive Works in the town of Bellaville, Mass in 1886 - is the current owner of Gronoset Heavy Industries with its seat of operation on the shores of Lake Superior. Togeather with his brothers Bjorn and Nils, Gerald manages the Gronoset concern which employs over 14,000 people between its Superior plant and the locomotive works. GHI is known for building large specialised industrial equipment such as power plant, mining and refinery components, as well as crane barges and dredgers. Gerald is looking to expand beond Lake Superior though and considers founding an additional site in another location (such as in Verde Beach or Clearwater County). The company would offer jobs and an economic boost to the area. Gerald and the Gronoset concern also funds local park and beautification projects as he loves to walk his beloved collie dogs Cypress and Beau.

Ever considered expanding the coverage for the helicopter emergency services? There are both standard and high capacity helicopter depots for fire, EMS, and police (high capacity great for downtown, low capacity great for the suburbs), and I think it could really help the city. Also, with the 2 ferry hubs that this new build has, might be worth it to take a look at some of the canals that cities skylines has to offer, would make the city cool for tourists and the canals can be used to move water around for artificial lakes as well.

Love the new harbor hub, excellent work, Phil!

I always love the longer episodes, but this is looking amazing! Keep it up :)

Enjoying watching this from a hotel in Philly. My first time at the APA National Planning Conference! Thanks for your inspiration and the depth of meaning you bring to the RU-vid side of the Planning profession!

Love the videos phill, keep up the great work 🎉

Loving the build! I feel like phasing out the landscaping on the sides would make it feel like a more natural part of the entire city. Keep it coming!

Looks good! Thanks!

I was anticipating another Verde Bluffs episode today

The ships docking anyway is killing me 17:32

After a few weeks of binge watching, I've finally caught up on the series and will now be able to tell you all the things you forget as you do them!

Disaster became opportunity in my city. Thank you so much!

New harbor is looking great! The way that Verde Beaches central train station, it's subway hub, and now the harbor all kind of flow into each other just looks really smooth.

Great video, didn’t see the monorail moving out to the terminal

Nice. Harbor looks like it should in Verde Beach.

Incredible! Verda Beach engineers learned from the last tsunami!

i love these holliday size snacks. feel free to make more of these mayor phill.

Really awesome build, the recovery was also amazing.

I really liked the short videos format of Verde Beach, especially because we had more frequent uploads and also it felt more concise, solving one issue at a time, so it had a nice pace.

Thank you for the video it is so much pleasure watching you

This looks great, reminds me of lonsdale quay in North Vancouver a little big.

Bruh Starting this episode with a Mulligan Tsunami lol

With the Hamilton experience and the harbor, a third artificial peninsula would not be too outrageous (as you already did it twice before). Not sure what you would put there, but if you want to expand your downtown, know that tourists would find this type of thing unique, as opposed to boring cities with normal coastlines.

Hahah the cruise ship just going thru the tsunami

Love the way you did the rock and plant decor around there, it looks great!

that area looks amazing, would love an asmr stile video just on mass transit pov's

Such a convenient tsunami, lol! It was a fantastic justification to redo that area.

Thank you for the fun video! (I thought I heard it said with the latest update that they had dialed back the number of spawns on transit vehicles? Sure doesn't seem to be the case!)

what a relaxing video this is after a long day of work you know I am a civil engineer and I meet a lots of workers everyday and argue with them so the houses and structures satisfy the owners. thankyou very much man

Enjoying the mini-videos. With so many mulligans, any chance of either VB acquiring a district called Mulligan Beach or maybe an entire new city with that name?

I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!

Pretty good April fools prank from that Tsunami

Feel like you missed a trick not extending the metro from central station down into the new ferry terminal too, that would reduce the amount of transfers people would have to make

You might want to get some rock tiles from the workshop. All these individal rocks will end up being a problem if you start hitting the prop cap. 😅

A fence in the new harbour district obstructs nice view if you want to walk there on a sidewalk. You could either make a seaside promenade between the fence and the water or make the fence a bit smaller.

I am very happy with the redevelopment!

4:02 I've never heard a more crestfallen "significant".

Keep up the amazing work

That's a lotta rocks!

Music was Amazing at the End need morre of that & it would have been nice to see you make changes to the community that got destroyed as well.

After this episode. I really would like to see Phil retool his lines with Ryde assets. I think custom vehicles and some custom props would really add to all the detailing work here.

Credit to the ferries and cruise ships for just keeping calm and carrying on over a large tsunami

"*Hopefully* they're built in safe locations. Never really thought about that." CS really is the most realistic game of its kind.

I would have also brought a metro station in to the area, I know there is already a heap or transit, but you had a line terminating at the main metro station at central that could have easily continued to the dock area and then on to the metro stops at the experience area, and even discontinuing the existing line and instead heading under the port ares. you could use the extra capacity with the spare platform at the metro station to create a new line to service areas of the city that have never had a metro service to them.

I bought the DLCs day 1...still haven't played with them once. This is making me want too.

A fire, tornado and then tsunami... I thought this Mulligan episodes gonna end with meteor shower or something XD

add spotlights on the middle of those rocks, or pointing towards them... I guess it would be lit *wink*, and probably safer for the ships?

You could add sand dunes along the road/beach in the areas that flooded the worst.

Babe!!! City Planner Plays just posted another update for Verde Beach!!!!

I can imagine the pumps drinking the water with a straw sound affect or a GULP GULP GULP

2:48, hmmmm, convenient. Sounds to me like the city planner had something to do with the catastrophe.

You can (and should) make tsunami shields offshore. Just like, two strips of levee separated by a good bit of water, and with overlapping gaps in the middle to allow ships through.

Keep the videos coming.

I love the new harbor! And maybe I’m being silly and never noticed but the city looks like a bird flying 😅 I love it

The hubs glitched in my city too. Monorail and ship in the red half despawning.

Fully thought this was gonna be an April fools video ahah, pleasant surprise getting a full episode! So the monorail platforms on the hub are currently broken, this is what is causing your issue. The devs are aware and said they are working on a fix!

1:17 I reckon there'll be a congressional hearing for the Verde Beach disaster response team asking why it took so long to tell citizens to evacuate

The new harbor hub is sooo good. I love the new design

Looks great, you should put a skyscraper landmark of some kind where the stone sea wall ends on the beach by the pedestrian path to balance out the Chinese pearl tower on the other side of the harbor. Just a thought.

Have you considered building jettys to prevent high chop (and tsunamis) reaching the shore. I live on a coastal town and in multiple locations the town has built either stone, concrete, sand, etc jettys to stop violent storm waves from damaging areas at high risk

I'd be curious to get your perspective on climate resilience planning. I don't know how much is possible with this game but maybe you could do a short series/episode for Earth Day in a few weeks talking about it?

That monorail harbor was broken for me when I tried to build with it the other day, no monorails was spawn from it or the next stop along the route.

4:08 the reason that area gets demolished so bad is probably because of the cliff there, the water would hit that cliff and the force would continue to compound on those houses until it was able to continue moving in the direction it wants to move. I'm not an engineer so I don't know for sure but from looking at the amount of damage there compared to other areas I think this is what's happening.

Me: I feel like CPP often goes a little ham of the decorations. Also me: Wow, his cities look so much more alive and real than mine ever do. I just find it so hard to not play Cities Skylines with a gamer efficient mentality (which isn't always easy when you're not 100% sure how the AI works, like trying to figure out how you can have the same item as both your biggest import and export. Building a system of cargo rail stations throughout my city seemed to help). Maybe an attempt at a light district green city will get me there. Wanna see if I can hit Megalopolis using only light residential/commercial (all self sufficient and (mostly) organic/local produce) sustained by a massive farm and fishing. Still need to determine if the Crops you produce in a farm industry district count as "zoned agricultural product".