 Hello everyone and welcome back. Well, I can't really say welcome back But I can say welcome to this new series here on my channel where we are going to be playing city skylines Now I know I'm pretty late to the party of making videos about city skylines Many youtubers have done it a lot before me But I thought maybe it's time. I do give this a try try getting back into the gaming scheme of making content and Try going a little bit better on a city and going a little bit more in-depth. I've been playing this game for about a year now I'm definitely not the best at it. I'm not I'm I'm no city planner plays, but I am trying to get better At the game itself. So we are here in a brand new world called marathon valley I do have quite a few mods installed One specifically that will allow me to have access to almost all the plots here Of course we lock them off as we go and as well as a couple different district themes and things along here at Bottom I also do not have every DLC in the game But I do have some that will hopefully enhance the playing experience at least a little bit To make this a fun experience for y'all So I think the first thing we're gonna want to do is get started with just our entry point The map I'm on is a recreation of Appleton, Wisconsin and this marathon Valley is a little bit based off of like marathon County Style so that's what I'm gonna try to do. I'm gonna try to be pretty Midwestern because I live in The Marathon County area So this will be kind of fun to experiment and try to build something very similar throughout this series I am going to bring up inspiration from different cities and here from things like Google Earth and cities that I know Just try to give myself some inspiration along the way So of course, let's first get started here with the interchange now. I'm not the best at it I will purchase a little bit of land on this side and on this side just to give a self Just to give us a little bit more wiggle room around here So let's zoom in right about here. Let's go into our roads. So I'm going to expand this out See so we we're coming from a three lane highway here a one-way three-lane highway Let's see So I always like trying to come off and letting the traffic spread out a little bit When it does come out here So I am going to go three out and I'm just gonna go off that way a little bit And into this way a little bit and I know I'm not following the guidelines of like starting off with dirt roads. I've never really done that I know a lot of people say that you really should But I've just never really found use in why I should do something like that so I've always just attempted to be a little bit more creative and Go right into it as it goes. So Once this will work, which is actually giving me a really weird output here. I Don't know what's happening There we go, so I go out there and then I'm also going to come directly in Right here So I'm gonna probably just make this a lot more simple than what I was thinking here and we're just gonna go in Right in the center Right about there too. Oh, is that not even possible? That is really strange Okay, so again I'm totally not the best at this either So that's not gonna be as pretty as I hoped but again, it's just bringing people into the city and I Think see I probably should maybe lay that out a little bit better Let's look into this a little bit more so I'm gonna try and Curve this coming in come to right about there and then make that a straight Road in but then I'm going to split that so I'm gonna go a little bit further in on a highway Before trying. Oh, I'm not going there yet. We're gonna go into a four-lane highway with two rows and We're gonna bring that in Before letting this highway guy come out here I'll let it come out just a little bit That it's giving me quite a hard time here Um There we go. Okay, so that certainly doesn't look pretty But it should be decent enough just to get us started Coming in and now that we're on a road like this. This of course is a highway I am going to bring that in and just convert it to a regular town road. I'll probably Okay, good. So I like having a little bit grass on the side I think that gives a little bit of a prettier aspect now if you look here if I bring up the information menu You'll see we're gonna go off on a dip here and that's not the best way to come in with a road Of course what I could do with a little bit of knowledge that I have on this game We could go in to our tools and flatten this out Which I would be totally fine for doing and maybe in this case. I will do that So I'll make that a little bit bigger We're gonna cut it right where this one is and we're just gonna straighten that out But what I would actually recommend doing is if you're gonna build a road down one of those cliffs To follow the contours of it and just kind of build it into the landscape Because that will create a better overall looking city there for you So let's go in right here and now we have these nice grass grassy sides of the road With the sidewalk along it as well this we could overall just make this whole path here Just the main street that comes into our city And as you see we will have to split off into different areas and that's always something I enjoy doing But I am going to treat this kind of like a highway I will have off ramps so that this will be like the one road that leads right through our city Or I could pull like an average county type thing and just have multiple different zones that come right off the highway But just to get started in here for this first episode We are going to just go into this area Therefore it doesn't need to have everything just it just needs to have enough so I'm gonna come up with some wider part Side walk lanes here, and we are going to go into a little bit of a dip there, which should be okay, and I'm gonna go and start doing some suburban type things Subdivisions whatever you want to call it These will be regular roads coming in actually think I will add grass to the side of these of course again And I'm gonna try to get as much land inside here, so I'm gonna line up right there And see I can get all the squares in so if I do it right here You're gonna see I'm gonna maximize my space and all of that can be used for housing now And I'm gonna do a similar thing right here Do that there Now here of course we're going into a dip again So I'm trying to think I think in this case I will just go ahead and do that as you can see it's again automatically flatten it out decently There for us as well Now I will connect all of these up Oh, so that one came out a little bit too far there, and I bet you guys probably caught that before I did Gonna line that up There we go now all these should all line up at a nice 90 degree angle And just because I don't want to cut off of this main road. I'm not gonna go any further I probably could like come in half way But I to be honest I don't think that looks very good if you look down here So I don't think I'm gonna end up going through with that So I'm just gonna go there and now we have this nice four lane road We're coming off of but we have a lot of traffic lights I Think that's a lot of traffic lights to have here in one spot So I am going to go into this TM PE mod. I'm gonna turn all these off And I'm going to replace them instead With a stop light on this end or not a stop light a stop sign on this end here that literally is just here to Make sure that these guys have the right of way when they're coming through and I plan to go across that river And then we can expand into stuff over there It looks like we have some train tracks and stuff we can hook up to on that side as well So let's also go because we have a lot more room on this side Let's also go into here I'm actually gonna go out a little bit further on this side and You're gonna see what I'm gonna do a bit later on And we're gonna do that there so now we have this nice little chunk here now I'm going to continue on with the idea of doing the straight line so it go cuts right across on this edge But I am also even though I don't need it I am going to just for the decoration of it. I'm going to run a nice boulevard down the center here Just to give it a little bit of a nice feel Now if I look here again, I'm gonna look back in because I feel like now. Yes, we're gonna need stop sites stop signs on this end to Just finish that off nicely So now that we have that in we have nice stop signs here So everyone's blocked off decently. Well, and now we have these subdivisions now, of course I'm not just gonna leave that like that. I am gonna put these into a district It pre-names it elk I'm gonna try to be a little bit community Intensive in this series. So I'm gonna have you guys help me out. It will stay elk district just for now But I will gonna change the styles in here. So I think for here. I'm going to go with I'm gonna try I'm gonna do the Midwest suburbs because I feel like that will Fit nicely with what we're trying to figure out here and because I'm doing that I will be Let's zone this all out for nicer residential. There'll be low density and then I'll also do Low density on this side Just because that's a nice low density area And we now we need to fill in our services. So I like having this nice entry road I forget the official name of it I'm gonna extend this out just a little bit. Of course, we're gonna change that later on But I forget with the official name of this road I think I think this is like a feeder or a main road that comes in from the highway That's really nice because now we shouldn't have too many traffic problems coming in either because we only have one stoplight right here Stop and go like that's letting but not letting people in Which is good to have there. So now that we have that I think it's time to go into our city services Let's just go right across We probably don't need the big clinic just to get started We don't need the big hospital or even the high density one. I will end up installing a lot of these later on Let's just start off with this low density clinic. I will end up installing that somewhere along this road I don't think I'm gonna put anything on this side Just because that's more industrial stuff is going to be going in and out on that side So we probably better off putting something right around here So you have to notice that's gonna cut off stuff in the end. So I'm gonna put it right there Once we get into our fire also that does a similar thing I will also end up leaving that on the side of the road on that end and then the police station That one I think we might have to just go a little bit further in on this end and Create a bigger more high-density police station just because That should help us out there. So then there's our main city services They're just kind of sitting here on the road and at this stage in the city We don't need to go super in-depth on the design. That'll be once we're starting to turn profit in the city This is also a time for me to start going into the ordinances right around here So this should apply to the whole city at this point. So I always try to go so much stuff for all my cities We're gonna do a smoking ban. Even though that costs us money It will improve the health and just make our city a little bit cleaner I always try to do an education boost. We have some smarter people in our cities and add in the Parks and Recreation. I also want to have more high-tech housing here Which I think will be nice and that should be all we're gonna need just to get started In here as well now because this is kind of our like main area I do think along the edge here. I am going to make this Some nice low density Commercial district stuff and because we don't have many workers at this point. I'm just gonna do those So now we have the minor minor Layout we're gonna need to install some water systems, which is easy enough It's just really just running these under the road Getting all that installed and which easily doesn't take very long at all And of course this is kind of tedious I mean if if we're gonna start building some country homes, I would like to find a mod or something that allows us to Make these homes to self-sufficient With like their own well system and maybe that is an option in here. I don't really know I don't think so actually so I thought there'd be like a self-sufficient thing, but clearly there isn't But that would be nice if there was because that would allow these homes to have their own well system And they wouldn't need all that Now we need to figure out where we're going to pull in our water from looks like the stream is going downward So in that case it would be a good idea to have our pumping station I'm actually going to go with the higher and bigger capacity one First just to get started there and then lower down the line We'll do our output plants here and I think I'm going to install two of those Just to be safe Now we're going to connect that up there Connect this one up here And that covers our water. So water is practically done now all we have left is electricity and garbage Now if we go into our taxes, of course, we can't see anything because we haven't started the city, but I will increase that up to like 12 on all of these Just because um and these ones will always do a little bit more Um just because we will need that extra money to get the city off the ground In that case now, I'm also I have a really weird train of thought But I am going to immediately put a park into here Even though it's cutting out of some of our precious land space I think that including a park in here is necessary For the Well health of our citizens and I feel like having a park will help out with all that So now we have a playground over there and a nice Little plaza park here for people to hang out at as well Um, I probably should also while we're going into all this too Um build up the schools. Um, unlike all of those which are on the main system This is more of a residential needed facility Um, I could put it in the center and get the most use out of people But again, I don't want to cut out even more Um, this is a decision I have to make I do think after all with this I'm going to put an elementary school there and a high school Right here as well that should cover the majority of our people at least for this first little bit And that should cover it of course. Oh wait, I forgot about electricity again So now we get to where options do we want to use a coal plant? It does create heavy pollution, but they are very efficient. Um, we have oil Um, we also have solar and the nuclear if we want to go in but the nuclear as you can see is 200 grand Um, that's a lot of money and then after that it's $8,000 a week to keep up Whereas a coal plant is $19,000 and then $560 to build we have a 5.4 or so million dollar budget Currently, um, so I think that's not going to really be a problem if we whichever one we end up doing Um While we're at it though, I will end up installing this little power line system there as well as Um, getting some power fed into the city here. I'm just going to go right in there Just trying not to take up too much space. We kind of have to take up something at least um And I'm also going to come out here With a simple maybe I will do that similar four lane road here even though Not really needed. Um, just out to here And then now it's time to figure out how we're going to do trash and handle that um The the way I try to handle trash is putting it in an area that is not as necessarily seen by people But still somewhere in the city that the trucks can get to so I think I'm just going to put that right about here Um, we're just going to install that and I'll do a small recycling center And then of course this is going to need water like everything else in the city. So I'll run that over here Um as well as of course, it's going to need a power. So let's run a power line out to try to keep that at each angle Right out To there and then that shouldn't take up too much room either So at this point it would appear that we are Again, I keep forgetting about electricity. Okay, so I don't know how much power He's going to use and of course wind turbines are cheap Um, it looks like we have some really nice wind here. It's a lot more windy Down in this area. So I think I am going to do a really quick and simple Just um wind farm Over here as much as I in the real world and not a bigot. I'm not the biggest fan of wind power Um, because it has a lot of upkeep charges and things. So It's definitely not the best practice But just to get started to have a small wind farm like this making decent power Um, we should be okay there And that should be it So now it's time to press go for the first time in our city Start off a little bit quick as you can see the houses are building up pretty quickly Um, and they of course they're going to complain about power until something gets built up In this area, but once that happens everyone's going to have power and they will all be happy Um, but that will take a little bit. Yep. Now everyone you'll see here That now all the power is supplied to the city. Um traveling from house to house This is good to see I'm going to speed up just a little bit more To see how many residents we're going to get into here. Of course, we're losing a lot of money too. You can see we're losing like $8,000 $8,500 Um weekly at this point, but that is normal because we don't have our people paying taxes yet Now we can actually look at our taxes in We can see we're making in three four thousand dollars. That's going to increase by quite a bit Um, we're we're sustainably using like nine thousand a week So if we can surpass that quickly, which it looks like we are going to end up doing We will turn out to have a pretty profitable city right off the bat Or maybe just breaking even. Um, if we want to count it at that point Um, so yeah, we are gonna we're losing a little bit, but that'll be quickly improved Um, once you'll start getting in and if we notice here, we can see how my very amateur system here for cars coming in They seem to Actually be working. Okay Um, it's weird to see that all these people are just like going directly back out of the city But if you look they are coming in and the system seems to be working fine Um, which is very good to see And looks like our wind farm is working now is a good time to check up. So we're making 54 megawatts We're using 21 so we're okay on that front Um, healthcare we are doing okay. I probably should build a graveyard Now that I think about that, um So I'll probably put that there just because we kind of need it. Um, right away Um, just for that and everything else should be okay at least for this first creation of the city As you can see our houses look pretty midwestern. Um, I can't really tell if that theme is working Um, but it seems to be using midwestern suburban Um assets, I can't really tell Um, but it is applied to this district. So we should Be able to see it pulling from it if I look here styles. Okay. It is pulling from that. So we should be okay And then jigsippers. Yeah, I need you and I mean, I'm just gonna leave it at that just for now So that should be okay. I think Okay, now we're starting to see a little bit of a track fic Hold up here as people start to come in Um, but as you'll notice they they should be able to park On their roads or these no parking zones Maybe that extra grass takes away from the parking Okay. Yeah, it does. So they don't actually have the parking usability So maybe this is a good time to as much as I don't like it. Um, Just because we could add in a parking garage. Um, this thing here, which would provide um Some areas of for people Um, so I'll probably provide that over here also the shopping district because That'll help out there and we should start seeing At least some cars get parked up into here as people go shopping or if they want to just keep their cars here while they're leaving Um, because my analogy for this even though it was such a really quick thing Um, they can just grab their they can walk to the parking garage grab their car and just go out like that But I do think that that's where I'm going to wrap up this um first episode of the series I hope you guys enjoyed it. Be sure to like and comment what you want me to do Um, if you know anything about this game again, comment down below and let me know some more information That you may know about city skylines. I'm really interested in learning through the series and getting to know it a little bit better Um, but with all that said, um, thank you again for watching. Have a good rest of your day And goodbye