Can you beat Cities Skylines 2 WITHOUT building a city?

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We're checking out Cities Skylines 2 (City Skyline 2) today, and this time we try and beat the game without building a city... It's Village Skylines!

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[RealCivilEngineerGaming]

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[rgtlm]

I have built a rural town with only gravel roads, low density houses, industry only farming and logging. The town was in deep forest and looked stunning

[oasntet]

After the economic update, it's far easier to dig yourself into a hole and go bankrupt. You can play with villages, but in general you need to slow down and address needs as they arise, keeping budgets low as things grow up. You want to stay cash positive at all times, and that often means waiting a while for existing buildings to level up so they can pay more taxes.

[BleuSquid]

I wish there were more rural build options. We have septic tanks and wells out here. The only thing we need to get from the road come over wires!

[lukevandevenis]

Here in The Netherlands there are villages inside of cities; most of the times when cities keep growing they surround small villages who are close by and they just absorb them. But sometimes the villages want to stay independent and then you have enclaves of villages inside city’s.

One instance of this is ‘Oostendorp’ inside of ‘Elburg’ a city in the province Gelderland.

[vendelin]

10:30 matt did not notice the nearly done strongest shape

[VekhGaming]

You could've just done a sneaky and build a normal city.
Then say "Its a village, it doesn't have city rights".

Works for the other European villages making fun of nearby smaller cities.

[infinitenex]

I think youre using roads that are way too wide for a European style village. Ud rarely see 4 lane roads and highways being the main village infrastructure. Also, town squares are a thing. You need some central feature that the village sprawls out from.

[charlesingram]

What killed it for you was Tile upkeep. Install the 529 tiles mod and turn down the tile upkeep till youre happy, mine is set at 40% but i have all tiles unlocked.

[chandradvaipayana]

City Skylines II: Unique Building exist

RCE : Oooh! It's a new village theme.

[agathoklesmartinios]

01:15: "Sorry, I'm like, real engineer nerding out"

Real Civil EngiNerd

[AeroSparrow]

As a new englander who lives in a village, we have villages everywhere! A lot of the time multiple villages make up one town! 0:28

[SkyGuyGaminYT]

if you want inspiration, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina is classified as a village. not a single 4 lane road in sight, and only 960 people live there.

[localhardware]

12:14

Matt : They could sell

Tables and chairs ❌

Sticks for dogs ✅

[blob]

A tip is to use the zoning mod! Then you can choose where you want to zone without using paths.

[WiglyWorm]

you need to look at the revenue tab and see what you're exporting and importing. Build specialized industry and become a net exporter.

special farms like cotton and carrot don't need to be on fertile land, only base farms. excited for this series.

[writili]

0:41 "Imagine All The Bridges" this remind me of a song on spotify

[SlateTiara]

I was so rooting for this to work! Mainly because I grew up in an area like this I suppose? But a lot of the economy relied on the giant nearby industry zones where everyone's dad had a decent paying job at Shell, Philip Morris, etc. However in the Netherlands there were many rural area's that thrived on local fishery and farms. Too bad they're now marginalized by stupid laws that incriminate them of being not environemental friendly, while those huge polluting factories have no issues at all. So I guess CS2 is pretty realistic at that.

[Mrnachocheese]

Village skylines?
Villages have skylines?

[SnyperMKJclL]

Revisit this premise but play it differently... you CAN NOT play CS2 like CS1, so you cant have a district of shops 6 miles away from where people live and expect the shops to do well... you need to start out with a little town center and save space for future buildings. A main street with shops, a major road near the highway or railway for industrial and shopping and side streets for residental neighborhoods with shops closer to the major intersections. Go walk around where you live, look at how homes, shops and industry is actually laid out and attempt to recreate a realistic layout for your villages. Then focus on one villagenor maybe 2 until they both level up and become prosperous before expanding and adding things like a Highschool for when you ACTUALLY need "Highly skilled laborers". Expand each village slowly as you come across new demands and necessities instead of well before thus wasting money.
Im not gonna lie, id actually love to see you take on a more serious and realistically laid out city for a youtube series where you still do some silly things and have fun. I just think altering the way you layout zoning to be more realistic will take your cities much further and much more easily than trying to play it like CS1. Id binge the crap outta that series man!