That car was definitely Harry and Ron flying across London towards Hogwarts

@m.e.t6810

Жыл бұрын

We need HP themed props and buildings for this game

@marco_grt4460

Жыл бұрын

They change car because is difficult to park this days

@livingkoan242

Жыл бұрын

The Weasleys bought a new car

@MegaDobieDog

Жыл бұрын

@@livingkoan242 new car and yet the invisibility booster is still faulty

@aaroncfriedman

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me

Making little corner shops in your residential areas might help you have even less traffic

@peterbrinkworth7549

Жыл бұрын

I was coming to say this

@kaltaron1284

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, he often skips the small corner shops and pubs. Shame. With PICO he doesn't even need to change the buildings.

@Minotaur1975

Жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 Indeed. A true British town will have a pub on every corner

@aethan27

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been doing that in mine

@dorianleakey

Жыл бұрын

@@Minotaur1975 Every corner? Every single corner?

In the Orpington area maybe you could turn one of the corner houses in to a pub? If I remember rightly there is a pub as a corner unit that you've used in a previous video. And also a mid terrace house in to a good old british newsagents?

@brianparker3150

Жыл бұрын

I used to live in a pub that looked like them corner houses

@legojenn

Жыл бұрын

@@brianparker3150 If he keeps the name Orpington, then some chicken coops from the farm are needed. Orpington is a popular breed of chicken developed in Orpington before it was annexed into London.

@danieljathatcher

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I like that idea. Areas like that definitely need a pub, and a few need to be turned into an off-licence and also a chippy.

Loving the look of this new district! One thing I did notice is that the end houses with the side doors, you've put hedgerows right against them, perhaps just set the hedges back just a fraction and pretend there's a footpath alongside? For a name, perhaps something like Providence Gardens (PG for short) 😉

I can't agree more with the others, Blightea-on-the-Wold is one of my favourite series and it looks fantastic (but I could be bias because I am British), the planters look great, but could do with a few benches and bins, maybe one of our famous red phone boxes somewhere on the corner, other than that, I love the houses, and the fact that they're colour changeable, the kiddies park looks really good with easy access as it's in the middle of the estate, not sure if "no parking within 10 meters of a junction" really applies, but there are a lot of people parking on your T junctions, not sure if this is bad for traffic in game, but I know you like things to be realistic. Can't wait to see more of Blightea-on-the-wold. thanks for another fantastic episode Biffa.

@kaltaron1284

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it matters for the game and let's be honest that in reality in such neighbourhoods they will use the space whether it's allowed or not. BTW the rule in Germany is a bit stupid. You are not allowed to park before and after a crossing but that distance is calculated from where both streets meet if you extend their sidewalks. So if the crossing has a very wide curve, this rule is meaningless.

I really love this series, it’s nice to see an English/British city being built! I also still would love to see the Rich Tea area built (the expensive mansions around the lake)

There are corner houses that are set back! you can see them at 2:29 - the corner ones on the left of that row are set back, while the corner ones on the right of the row butt up to the road. When you moved them with MoveIt, they lost the gap I think, thanks to snapping. I think you should go back and swap them out!!

@kaltaron1284

Жыл бұрын

True but they don't have anything in front so it wouldn't make a difference if he uses them or puts the others back a bit with MoveIt.

@PhilipWatson1

Жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 yep you’re right there. It’d be nice if they also had a little garden, but hey.

@kaltaron1284

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilipWatson1 They all have a teeny tiny backyard but I think they would more likely commute to another spot of communal gardens (what were they called again?) instead. Maybe we should have another one?

I really love this series. Not only because I'm playing Cities Skylines myself (like an absolute noob in comparison) but mainly beacause of your humour and pleasantly relaxed attitude. It's simply a wholesome experience watching you built this beautiful city of yours. So, just a heartfelt thank you for these great videos.

Biffa: *adding a bus loop going in the other direction* Me: finally… inner peace

@marcuskintz4908

Жыл бұрын

I've lost sleep before after so many builds. Finally! We did it!!!

At the old medieval village, I'd say that most of the buildings would be Tudor and some later stone ones, like a pub or two mixed in the street. But it's all becoming livelier and lovelier by the second!

@kaltaron1284

Жыл бұрын

That would be great. I'm not a huge fan of the current ones, their style is just a bit too different.

@notreallyryan8277

Жыл бұрын

@@kaltaron1284 I agree, they don't look medieval, they look like some weird fantasy game.

@kaltaron1284

Жыл бұрын

@@notreallyryan8277 Might be because they are from one. It's not a bad look, it just doesn't really fit.

How about Sippington for Orpington? Homage to the Victorian, pinky-raised tea sipping? :)

@Caro2Late

Жыл бұрын

I like this!

oh I just had a thought, in some British suburbs you will get an alley way that has nothing but garages down them, I think this city should have a few of those as well

Victorian Terrace disctrict could be called "Darjeeling" :- a blend of black tea that has a full-bodied taste and a red-golden colouration. Sometimes called the "champagne of black teas" its the most refined, noble and precious Indian tea.

@Lisa-nm8ij

Жыл бұрын

Or Darjeelington to britishify it?

@KG-xt4oq

Жыл бұрын

@@Lisa-nm8ij Darteelington...

@jameshg1900

Жыл бұрын

Surely 'Darjealing' - to tie in with Ealing, the district in West London famous for its historic cinema output.

Suggestion: More mix uses, We need atleast some stores to buy our tea within that little area without taking the car

@Caro2Late

Жыл бұрын

and potentially a place to drink it too lol

@Zyo117

Жыл бұрын

And potentially a local pub. What kind of traditional British neighbourhood has no pub?

@pontusedberg

Жыл бұрын

@@Zyo117 picture being forced to take the car to your pup, how would you get back from a full nights drinking?

@Zyo117

Жыл бұрын

@@pontusedberg and so public transit must also be a priority. Also stop providing massive parking lots at pubs 😂

Can you please change the walking paths to the ones with trees on both sides... I feel like those would fit the vibe more!

@cochemoche

Жыл бұрын

The alley walking paths? If so, yes I think the dirt looking paths don't fit

love this city!!! A nice name could be the Nighteangale (Florence Nightingale) or even Mountbattean for the Victorian district

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

Жыл бұрын

I like it!

@bescotdude9121

Жыл бұрын

is the name mountbattean inspired by lord mountbatten

@mateuszkunda9400

Жыл бұрын

@@bescotdude9121 rather!

At 20:27 I think Orpington would benefit greatly from upgrading some of its roads to the road with those blue bike lanes. It could start at at the junction at the top left side of the screen, go straight through the middle and end at the junction with the road leading (who could potentialy also be upgraded to a road w/ bike lanes) to the roundabout. Another loop could start at the junction at the top right side of the screen, come down 2 blocks then go straight left to the school, go up again one block then straight right until it connects back to the road in the middle, just one block down of the junction. I thnik it would be very efficient !

Really getting a 'Rising Damp' vibe off some of these big Victorian terrace houses. Once splendid houses reduced to shabby, poky boarding rooms.

Maybe a park adjacent to the wall? I don’t know about you but living next to a giant wall might let little light in and lower the land value

I’d love to see the new district called something like: - Darjeeling (for the tea); - Queen Anne (this architectural style boomed mid 1800s) - Gidea Park (a conservation area) Many conservation areas established from mid-to-late 1800s (I.e. Victorian) we’re focussed on suburbanisation. This includes the introduction of ponds, parks, and lidos close to houses.

That Orpington estate looks so much like my own housing estate in a northern British mining town, the realism of this city is just fantastic to watch develop.

Wonderful! :D It’s been amazing to see the city grown and prosper.

"Duplexitea" could be a neat name for the new area with all the duplexes.

Oh wow. Seeing how you disconnect the path and reconnect it to stop that long connection thingy it does is a game changer!! It’s always the little things Biffa does that I pick up on and learn that I love. Biffa, your builds are really inspirational and all the things I’ve learnt from watching you are really appreciated.

*Always knew we needed Victorian terraces lol! looking forward to watching! cheers Biff* 💪👍

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

Жыл бұрын

Enjoy :-)

Whether you like it or not, you really NEED the Bane of Britain, Coffington! The Slums with ugly highrises next to the river, with a good portion of wastewater, to make it even more like coffee! 3k people for that much space used just won't cut it.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

Жыл бұрын

🤣

Without a doubt the best city skylines series!! I’d love to see a prison and or a holiday resort in Blightea…

@jameshg1900

Жыл бұрын

Make it like Butlins and it can be both.

As someone who grew up in the real life Orpington, this is disturbingly accurate. Though of course most British towns would never had such a grid system in place!

Since the “story” is that the city originally grew out from the old town with the medieval center my suggestion would be to have a progressively “older” look going towards the medieval part. Maybe some Victorian industrial looking stuff. Red brick buildings etc.

Always like your residential builds the best. It's nice to see a neighbourhood come together. The epiphany about using the marking tools to recolor the bike lanes at the end was a nice touch.

When you start adding bushes at 23:00 you begin blocking the entrances to the second residence of the corner houses.

It's past time to search for high rise & high density, Biffa! You know that area between The Wold and the main city? Why don't you make a modern-looking high rise/skyline city? I think it would be a heck of a help for the huuuuge population target 😃

It looks so great! I think you can put houses one square away from the road without road access issues if you want to move the end houses back for the garden ones to make it even. I swear one set looked like it was further back, though!

This is easily my favorite build and you keep just making it better and better. I can't wait to buy the last couple pieces of my PC so I can make something, even though it won't be even half as beautiful as this

For the new areas, you might want to consider what a "redeveloped" area might look like. Think example an area that was bombed during the war, or had a massive catastrophic fire event or something... so UK buildings, but 1950s style and up. Maybe consider the idea of areas that might have higher rise buildings as the council has decided to add density. Things like that.

I still don't know I need those terraces but Blightea-on-the-Woald certainly needed them. I would recommend putting the corner houses back to align the roof tops. You could use the free space for some props like a post box or telephone box. Or a small kiosk?

Especially love how Biffa planted bushes right in front people's front door! ^^

The thing with older style houses, especially Victorian, is you can place them anywhere, haphazardly because that's how they were originally built. A block of 10, followlled by a smaller block of 3 squeezed in, then a big corner building. 😂

My suggestion is some sort of rich people area, that's a few houses on a hill (they pay for the view). Ideally overlooking The Wold, but any nice valley/forestey area would be good too.

At first I was worried that Biffa had completely lost it and was about to praise British terraced houses, but then I realised it's still in a videogame.

Looking great biffa 👍🏻 The path at the back would be called a ginnel a lot of the time it’s where people would put their bins.

I think you could definitely get away with calling the new area the Tetley Terraces. If you want to change it just a bit you could call it the Tetleigh Terraces. Love the way they look. If I were you, I might be tempted to move the corner houses back from the road enough to line up with those that have the front gardens, but they look okay like they are, too. Love what you did at the end to get the blue bike paths, you could just say those were more freshly painted than the others.

That little central green space should obviously have a little football pitch. I'd love to see a few more of them dotted around the city, along with some small churches.

For your new Georgian area you could have the name as Orpintea Teastate of Victorian Houses

11:15 How about Trivet Alley? It's grown since its alley days when it used to house many of the servants who worked in the castle :)

The new area looks great. Maybe a need for some older style high rise in these council type areas.

You need to change all those 4 way crossroads to tiny roundabouts, a homage to roundabout city Milton Keynes. We are in England! :) You can get a tiny roundabout decal off the workshop and just pop the tiny circle in the middle of each crossroad if you haven’t got the room to make real ones! :D

I've said it before, but I'll say it again; This county needs more pubs! The new area, Orpington (or whatever it will be named) should have a couple at least with a population of over 3000.

Liking the new Victorian terraces. I wish they would add flowers to them or little gardens because that would be lovely! Great job today. It out a nice size population in place. Still want to know where the floating car went 😂

This is one of my favorite builds. I love the theme and how you keep managing to find new buildings to fit it. The houses and detailing were great. You decorated this area really well, I hope you go back to that commercial district, to what should have been a triangle-about, and detail and decorate it like this as well. :)

This is one of my favorite cities you've been building. I noticed where you put in your first three-lane road that the disconnected sideroad overlaps a bit oddly and needs adjustments at the end. It looks like you need to pull the node back a smidge to smooth out the terrain.

The blue cycling lane being a slightly different shade could be easily put down as being freshly done as apposed to the rest that's weathered a bit.

17:12 It looks like you might have broken part of your roundabout footbridge pathing. Love this series and glad to see you finally remembered to put in rear path access for your terraces.

WOOO! love these blighty-on-the-wold episodes ❤ cant wait for the next one, keep it up biffa 💪

@bescotdude9121

Жыл бұрын

your a mumbo jumbo fan your profile pic gives it away

33:40 just have the lore be that the slightly brighter paint is nice new paint while the duller paint is older and just hasn't been gotten around to yet. problem solved with that slight bit of realistic imperfection.

Name suggestion: Chicktea Gardens. Reasoning: Orpington reminded me of Buff Orpingtons, an absolutely lovely breed of chickens that my family had when I was young. So then I was thinking of chickens and how to combine that with tea and my brain was like, "Chickpeas exist." Therefore... Chicktea! It makes almost no sense, but I'm running with it.

I'm an American currently visiting the UK. I spend so much time looking at street signs and lane markings because of you, Biffa.

0:03 Biffa doesn't allow "recreational use". But humans will always be human

What I think would be cool to see, and more realistic, is some different power lines along with mobile towers around at the tops of the hills.

Still hands down my favourite build! The detailing area with seven trees along the road in the planters is really spiffy! I'd love to see some of the British Police Boxes assets (under police in the workshop). I'd also love to see more trams. They were taken out just about everywhere around the world, but are making a comeback, especially with the extra-long ones and with LRT systems. (eg Manchester). Perhaps having a new development with a tram focus. There's some nice coloured terraces: Brighton painted terrace by dazflint and coloured terraces, shops, and townhomes: Sparky's British Seaside Buildings by Sparky66) in the workshop. The parks "UK Terraced Gardens" by Mollemadson works really well with most of the terraced homes. Keep the Orpington name for use somewhere else. I really like the name. 🙂 There's also the NZ Netball asset. It functions as a basketball facility for a university.

Cant recall if I mentioned this, but in the medieval village a small university building…my head canon is that it’s the archeology dept doing work around the castle.

Might be a little late here but some of those houses could have been converted into flats with a single entry still. Especially the corner plots! :)

Victearia Gardens/Terrace (or even square, for all the squares there) I think would be a grand name for the Victorian section.

When showing the houses you’re going to use at the beginning, suggestion to face them into the sun not away, so you can get a better view and better sense of their colour and detail

You might consider some farmland/farm industry in the Medieval part of town- just a small farm plop here and there, and perhaps the main buildings a little outside of town. It wouldn't be uncommon for peasants to surround the farm that they worked on, so running them roads into the middle of a few sections with a grove or field wouldn't be too crazy. (Though the traffic might be... interesting.)

Victearia Terrace. Love your vids Biffa! Keep it up!!

Maybe name the new area Liptington, mix of orpington and Lipton

I don’t know if there’s an equivalent in the Uk, but in the states if you have a place where you want a crossing but you don’t want a traffic light that shifts automatically, you can just put in one that only shifts when people are there to press the button to cross. That way traffic is only impeded when there are people actually there and not when there aren’t. I suppose I’m also not certain there’s anything like that in the game either

Hi ... 25:38 This bus line review was a little bit surprising. It is quite a long line and gives access to some education, some healthcare, some shopping ... but it does not connect to higher capacity transit (existing or new metro station, 25:47 shows a potential location for a fill-in) that would give access to basically the whole map. Living in Essen, Germany, a city of ~580000 population, we have dozens of bus lines. Every single one connects either to a regional rail, (underground) light rail or tram line with only one exception that shuttles between a suburban bus hub (with at least an express bus connection) and a bridge in disrepair - this is actually our worst connected bus line in the whole city. Transfer options (to higher-capacity transit) are the cherry on the cake for almost every low-capacity line - they quickly become the most popular stop. Adding such a connection should really boost your ridership numbers.

I love the new neighborhood and seeing the landvalue your sims seem to love it as well :) I hope you'll find use for the other houses you have downloaded as shown in the beginning of the video. I can imagine a few of the u shaped blocks with perhaps a parking in the middle making a nice new part of this town.

You should change the houses in the medieval village to villas and 1800s like apartment builndings like in visby in sweden

I think that area needs at *least* one pub ("Quar-tea-main's Arms", or "The Quar-tea-main" per my earlier comment). I also reckon there'd be a few little shops in there too - particularly around the park. Love this little area!

Loving this series and I was thinking as you were knocking down building to make way for roads, this is exactly what happened in a lot of cities in the UK and you see end terraces without the nice corner buildings. Not sure if you could cope with that 😉

Re: The School car park... it felt right to me there might be a sudden gap in the houses. A lot of Victorian and Georgian terraces were bombed in the war and that a car park corner filled the gap rather than rebuilding houses seems reasonable to me

32:50 Biffa:"We'll make do with the green lanes." Don't you have intersection marking tool? That mod can also color in lanes on road segments. Edit: Ah, he figured it out in the last 3 seconds of the video.

By the playground in Orpington I would remove. One of the end houses and place a corner pub there and on one of the other sides just add a couple of shops in just to add to the realism and I think that's about it really for that area. I think the bus routes could be done a little bit better making them a bit more stream lined rather that looping everything.

You should do a town centre with a big town hall and have a restaurants, bars and clubs dotted around the town centre!!

Next up on Blightea-on-the Wold: Fix your air traffic with Biffa 🛸🚗 I love this city ❤

@11:12 Oolong T-Corner. Oolong Tea was most popular brand of tea in UK in that era.

If you put 2 opposite corner houses together you would get quarter villas which are quite common here in Scotland.

Do a completely vanilla district just to show the difference between vanilla and modded. You can delete it after even but It would be interesting to see if it either blends in or completely sticks out.

I think the new area should be call Orping-TEA-URN

I love how this district is looking. It could so with a little corner shop or post office in there somewhere. I'd call it Victearia

New merch idea: something with "My brain hurts", since you almost always say it once in each episode. You could probably put a flying car above a house on it too :)

You could name the area ‘Place des Vosges’ after the area in Paris that’s one of the oldest known blocks of terrace houses. It could be an enclave of French settlers who came to the UK and settled in Blighty on the Wold :)

There were some corner pieces that Were Set back but you moved all of them with the move it mod when you’re lining them up. the right corners together the lift corners together and so on, so you can’t see it :)

"...where we're going we don't need roads..." - Dr. Emmett Brown

I think its close enough that you could rename Orpington to Oolongton

Biffa. One word. Butlins. How could you build this monument to Britain without such a vital institution? Loving the content. :)

@Caro2Late

Жыл бұрын

lol I'm having a blast googling peoples references down here in the comment section ☺ But Butlings.. gives me a range of pictures from a resort. Is this what you meant?

14:15 That short section of road needs to be four lanes, so there's dedicated turning lanes at both junctions.

Centrally located with great walkability, loving this build

The medieval town should be called "Old Blightea" since it's the original town that formed near The Wold.

I haven't watched Eastenders in five or six years, but I still have a lot offection for the show and many of the characters. A replication or reimagining of Albert Square in Blighty on the Wold would be better than fabulous.

@Caro2Late

Жыл бұрын

I googled the reference for I haven't see the show, but yeh the images that came up look like they could very well belong in Blighty on the Wold for sure! ☺

Great video. You started the series of wanting to do many small villages but the realistic population mod pushed you to have one big city.

Maybe a pub is your new housing estate? The ones that have a little car park and maybe a kids play area out the back 🤔

Looks good and integrated well, love it when we have housings of all era in Blightea-on-the-Wold... Thanks for the entertainment as always! :)

Nothing like Orpington, but the new Victorian area should be called either: Aymestea, Little Blightea, or Darjeelington

"Where we're going we don't need roads. "

Have you thought about changing your streetlights? As you must be aware in the UK we have a kind of hierarchy in streetlights with lesser roads having smaller lighting than major roads for example. Not sure if you use the CSR Mod but you could change the lighting even on existing roads by using it...

Loved the Harry Potter car, lol. I started using the park paths, I think they look better, but they allow you to use the paint tool without causing those weird glitches on the sidewalk.