I recreated a REAL CITY to prove Cities Skylines 2 isn't broken!

We're checking out Cities Skylines 2 (City Skyline 2) today, and what better way to do it than to recreate a real city?

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[chief_exe]

You're building a british city and your citizens are happy, this is a perfect example of why City Skylines 2 isnt realistic.

[wintermath]

7:40 I remember hearing about an interview with the creator of Sim City where he said that they initially aimed for a realistic amount of parking, until they realized that cities with so much parking look terrible!

[jcbcran]

Living quite close to bath i can say matt did a good job at replicating it. Hard city to do with so many alleyways

[Streaky]

Actually Matt, trains can go around roads. There was an incident in Canada many years ago where a small, fairly isolated town lost power after a storm. They drove a locomotive, or maybe 2, I forget, off the train tracks and down the road to get it to a position where they could connect the generator into the towns power grid and use it as effectively a big emergency generator. A diesel electric locomotive is effectively just a diesel generator on wheels.
Now, I don't advise running a train on the it dug groves into the tarmac, and the wheel sets on the locomotive needed an overhaul before it could go back on the rails, but it CAN be done.

[SnowGaming...]

use the tree brush to remove the trees

[swoshy]

Omg I’ve lived in bath my whole life I can’t believe he’s managed this because there’s so many little lanes and paths everywhere

[theroadstopshere]

Using a British town layout as the template to test whether City Skylines 2 is functional? That's just adding an additional difficulty handicap, innit?

[markbuhler]

I don't understand why Cities doesn't include the "snap to road" buildings. Many other city builders have it, so that everything next to the road gets built without those gigantic holes in between at an angle.

[SKy_the_Thunder]

The secret is mixed zoning. If you have a bit of everything everywhere, people don't need to go as far to do/get stuff, so you effectively take them off the road. And for necessary commute you can add targeted public transit as an option, cutting that down by a large part as well.
And keeping the road capacity limited will encourage the population to actually make use of those alternatives as well.

[brettmaddux]

Hmmm... If the size of the paths was more important, footpaths might have been the way to handle some or even all of the pedestrian streets? Depends on what you wanted from them I suppose.

[mute_ed]

Matt - for that project a little free Software like "Nomacs Image Lounge" could come in handy. It basically can be used as an additional semitransparent layer over the running program. E.g. Screenshot of Bath the right scale you want to use. And you can work underneath in Cities Skylines. I used it to design my car liveries in Forza Horizon but I'm quite confident it works here too.

[DeviousDumplin]

The second I saw your thumbnail I knew exactly what city you were building. I lived in Bath for around 6 months, and it's remarkable how recognizable the city is on a map. The Avon river's giant belly is so distinct. It was honor having my former flat rendered in city skylines by yours truly.

[quoniam]

14:33 Those used to be the gasometers. They seem to have been demolished.
You should have added busses because the city has a bus station and about 15 bus lines.

[rampaginwalrus]

"Avon" is celtic for "river". When the romans came in and started drawing maps, they'd point to a river and ask the locals, "What's it called?" and of course they answered, "That's a river."

And thus, there are at least 10 rivers in the UK named "River Avon"

[FrankieBoiledEgg]

I actually live just outside of where you built here so I love that you've shown the little city that could some love! Fun fact, the circus and royal crescent were designed by a father and then later his son. The father designed the circus and in heavily inspired by druidic lore and masonic symbology, the circle of the circus actually forms a key with Queen's square just to the south of it. Also, the circus and royal crescent are said to represent the sun and a crescent moon.

[punma]

13:52: I love how the big forest fire wasn't acknowledged

[theeutecticpoint]

Royal Crescent in Bath predates the Royal Crescent in London, the one in Bath predates the regency, while the one in London was built when Victoria was still a brand new Queen.

[michaelanderson]

I love cities that are older than cars and have had to attempt to adapt to allow them. That is how you get the odd one way to two way transitions.

[TheTIGSY]

Was a very weird feeling having youtube randomly pick a video whilst I was away and coming back to my PC to see somebody zooming into a satellite image of my house XD

[Sigh_Bold]

The reason he choose Bath over any other city is that strong connection between Royal Cresent and the Circus.😂 12:22