the thumbnail tho 😳😳

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

Жыл бұрын

😁

@andrewplck

Жыл бұрын

Average elephant rides enjoyer.

@heavyarms55

Жыл бұрын

It worked, didn't it?

@samtro

Жыл бұрын

First I thought Josh from Let's Game It Out made another Planet Zoo video ^ ^

@blackineese

Жыл бұрын

Hahahah I nearly missed the video

Loved the bike bridge & ferries (and your videos), but the ferry path broke the beautiful bike bridge you put in at 6:27 (see also 30:23 next to the car bridge, the bike bridge is still broken) Would be a shame for people to miss out on the sea breeze on their bike trip 😊

After this you said you are going to remove the paths at the entrance of the zoo so they can’t get in without paying… (at 16:07 the ticket price slider shows that you ticket price is 0…)

Great episode. For the trade school, you definitely need to get leveled up to add the School of Tourism building-which would go perfectly with the zoo being right there! You could add the bison enclosure to the zoo and say that they're the campus mascot, the Fighting Biffaloes! 😁

Love the new ferry system! However, I feel like it might be a good idea to keep the original loop line as well. There seemed to be quite a few people using it, and it was a good and direct way to get point A to point B along the river banks.

@spartacus987

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, should look at the PNW ferries (largest in the world). Would incorporate straight lines, but also diagnol points, sort of "hubs"

@caroapfelmus

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe a zig zag line :)

@BrendanWinterSC81

Жыл бұрын

@@spartacus987 That's funny I was just considering suggesting looking at Seattle area Ferry lines which have a fairly complex set of paths.

@dara8D.

Жыл бұрын

@@caroapfelmus agreed. The line shouldn't go along the coast, but the one far left that is not in use could go to the zoo ferry stop.

ESPECIALLY on rail, use the slop tool on the network multi-tool. Don't be afraid to use arrange line tool also, especially on rail.

@stevieinselby

Жыл бұрын

Yes, a much more realistic way for the railway branch to dive under the mainline would be to have it going down a gradient parallel to the mainline before using a tunnel just for the last bit ... although as the railway and the road are elevated I don't think you would really have a tunnel there at all.

Ooh maybe the trade school should be some kind of veterinary college, since it's right next to a zoo

As you have the space for two ferries at the Autumn District, you could add a line from there, to the area over at the stadium in the Cherry Center District. Love your videos!

@beth7808

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this

Hey biffa. Love you content. Just a suggestion. Setting up a ferry stop at the zoo. I live in Sydney and we have a dedicated ferry line from the cbd to the zoo (Taronga).

As a person from a city with a lot of ferries, in a country with even more of them, it is not unusual that there are both quick ferries and longer ones. Quick for quick crossing and longer ones for them that goes on longer comutes. Usualy there go from the same ferryport/station in intervalls.

@emilygreen6159

Жыл бұрын

This is a great point. in our city, the loop crosses the the river at every point which means that anyone who just wants to pop across can but you still have access to the rest of the river.

@adept5500

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, where I’m from there is basically a Point-to-Point between any two ports.

I think you should fence the zoo off! Also, the trees behind the moose enclosure looked nice, it fit in with the path that goes behind it, like a little "grove walk", around the moose. It's cool. Maybe you can change the trees on the enclosure with a mod to fit in with the trees around the area.

I don't know if you switched editors or what but the recent videos have been hilarious, the editing is just enough to where it's funny but it's not forcing a joke every two seconds plus the thumbnails have been great! even as a well-established KZread you still find ways to make episodes more and more enjoyable which is hard to find nowadays, so from your community we thank you :)❤

Connecting the university to the zoo and the ferry by metro would be great!

30 seconds into the game and I'm thinking having a zoo next to a university could mean there's research synergies to be had!

@WeAreThePeople1690

Жыл бұрын

Not as far for the animal rights mob to travel if it's on campus 🤣 Biffa thinking about traffic ahead of time!

@shanoncg

Жыл бұрын

This could be very good or very bad. Hahaha.

@noemierollindedebeaumont1130

Жыл бұрын

For the veterinary and animal behavior sciences students, this would be a golden opportunity !

@simongeard4824

Жыл бұрын

"The Zoo" is the name for one of the end grandstands at a stadium in Dunedin, NZ... because that's where all the rowdy university students sit.

i think the ferry loop and the zoo road could benefit from dedicated bus lanes. I love this series!

I think your ferry system could include some diagonal lines so that people can move both along and crossways on the river. The NYC East River ferry system does a good job of bouncing back and forth between Manhattan & queens/ Brooklyn. Their system map might be a good reference to have a glance at.

A small detail, but when you changed the roads outside of the ferry stop to one way you removed the buss stop on the way back since it was on the "wrong" side. :) Love the episode!

The zoo line is so popular because it also connects the ferry to the train by the university. What if you ran a trolleybus, small tram, or monorail along the shore from the ferry to the zoo, with a new entrance on the shore side of the zoo? You could then route the bus from the ferry through the district then back to the university/train.

Biffa to be logical, I think you should have smaller ferry stops connecting to nearby ferry stops directly as you just did in the video and the big ferry stops should also be able to connect to each other so they have a purpose being big. Something you would have for like domestic flights and international flights

Howdi Biffa - love the videos! How about you utilise the Bus-Ferry exchange more? I feel the hub tab is underutilised by many!

It's not a rule, but my experience is that unless operating up and down a river, ferries are _usually_ point to point service. They don't do complicated routes with many stops... they bounce back and forward across a body of water, serving just two wharves, maybe a third if there's something in a compelling location between the two main points. Having lots of stops is usually undesirable, because ferries are relatively slow to dock and to board... a stop for a bus might be 20 seconds, but a stop for a ferry might be 5 minutes. Better to load a few hundred people at point A, go to point B and unload them all, then repeat in reverse. The exception does tend to be river ferries, which go up and down the river, stopping at both sides... so they're functioning both as local bridges *and* long-distance routes.

For the trade school -- Biffalo Countea Communitea College. Also, add dorms to increase capacity and attractiveness.

26:36 The Biffalo InsTEAtute!

Loving the new rail connection. But from EP1 in that series this motorway next to the railway is waaay to high above the ground. So maybe you can drop it a bit so that it does not overshadows the buildings in the area. Absolutely love the series, very enjoyable to watch. Take care Biffa!

Hey Biffa, love the videos! One day I hope to make cities half as good as you! For your Campus what about, Biffalo Countea Insteatution of Learning?

Great video as usual Biffa. I had a few suggestions for the city: I would put one farry line along the coast that has the most people living there. I'm from Hamburg in Germany and there is main line that goes from the main ferry terminal into multiple direction with one large main line along the city part of the harbour, while there are multiple lines that cross over to the industry and container terminals Hamburg in general could give would a helping hand here in this setting. For the looks you could put the three big schools like the Police Acedemy right by a larger road and dorms at the 1u two way streets, just to tie that all together nto a need bow. Also just for realism sake for the zoo, have all the enclosures far away from the roads so the animals wouldn't be bothered by the car noises. And the small road in front of the Zoo entrance should just go. That will be a nightmare to come, because it's right up to the road that goes to the highway.

Biffa, I LOVE the Zoolander references, especially for a Zoo! Glad to see you're doing well and I've been enjoying the steady stream of new videos! Take care!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Thanks :-)

I think the addition of bike lanes around the campus would encourage people to come by bike

Maby you can connect one of the pedestrian road from the plaza dlc at the zoo entrance? If you have more buses, one to each block or something, connect every line at the zoo, ferry or subway, then people has more choices for going home, and there would be more space in each bus cause people are not going to the same destination.

With the new tile available, i was hoping very strongly for a total redo of the highway connections, train and bus depot (intercity station?) connection 😉 It was all crammed in in what space was available before due to lack of space, but now there's no reason not to make it more realistic with connections that make sense...

To add on to what I said with my last comment. I loose it every time you edit sound effects and camera shake like with the bulldozing ferry lanes. Or when the game snaps and you put in a crack sound. I HAVE to appreciate how that's exactly the way it feels playing the game. Like someone's grabbed my head and snapped it to look a diffrent direction. Or that you feel a weird sort of aggression when you have to click something multiple times. Haha. Keep up the good work. Editing is often underappreciated as well, but I see you there hahah

The *boing* followed by the snap when adjusting the sunken raised station was like poetry! 👌

The sign in the thumbnail is fantastic. Wonderful reference.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

Жыл бұрын

👍😁

Hi Biffa, love your videos. Your ferry terminals in the pedestrian zones aren't getting serviced (for bins etc.), because they aren't within the pedestrian zoning. You may need to fiddle with the zoning to sort this. For the road in front of the zoo, could you make the 4 lane road you banned cars from into a bluestone pedestrian street? May stop the cars getting confused.

Great again Biffa. About the University I would move the Police Academy a slight touch off the Main building to leave a large area in front for a park that give a view of the Main. U. building. And don't forget to put zoo fences around the zoo for not having lions or gazelles walking downtown.

Love the reference to the Hugo There school for people who can't traffic good. 😉

Amazing episode! Just a suggestion, Idk if you were just waiting for the zoo to be max level to put everything then a fence because you don’t want the animals running around the city

that zoo name is such a great callback to zoolander, good one biffa! 😂😂😂

Trees add attractiveness. So go nuts with detailing.

Two High points bus line indicates either need for subway or at the very least direct bus line between two points. As in express Ferry to zoo, express Ferry to train, express train to zoo. then have a bus line that hits slow points for each.

just here to give my appreciation for that thumbnail and especially the sign on it

At 31:40, I think the reason the bus does that funny loop is because you have a stop between the junction and the preceding node and it's in a right-turn-only lane, so after the bus stop there's no way for the bus to do anything other than turn right.

33:55 You don't want a left turn, or the cars and buses will just go round in circles (or triangles in this case).

I haven't even watched the video yet but OMG that thumbnail is glorious

Istanbul is a good example of running good ferries

I really like the city and very excited to see more!

Put a metro instead of a bus line on that route if it's too busy!

Love the sound effects, makes me laugh every time!! Always get excited to see you upload Biffa, keep up the amazing work!

At the very least attach the ferry in the middle to the two across the river. Short 3 stop loop or 2 2 stops so it is still useful. Same could be said about the other isolated ferry that you have scheduled to only go to a yet to be built island. Getting it to the industrial area (fishing) could help as well.

Hi ... 37:06 The small four lane road has a dedicated right and a combined lane for straight-on and left-turning traffic. You did not do that, I think the setup routine for the timed traffic lights did it. Maybe putting in lane connectors can stop TMPE from making such questionable choices. 37:11 You are splitting the routes of the bus, keeping one direction on the large road, the other direction goes through Zoo St. Do passengers accept this solution? Check the bus stop in Zoo St with the Commuter Destinations Mod - are there people with destination on the "left side" [seen from this camera angle]? In this case people don't accept the main road bus stop for the other direction (towards Autumn District) but choose to travel a detour via the new campus and back instead ... this might explain the overcrowding of the bus line.

I think a good name for the uni could be "University of Lyons", which I like because it not only makes a reference to Lyons tea, but also the real life University of Lyon (although I'm not sure how your British citizens would feel studying in a school that makes a pun on a French institution and Irish tea).

@robfenwitch7403

Жыл бұрын

It's all a bit more cosmopolitan than that! From Wikipedia: "Lyons Tea was first produced by J. Lyons and Co., a catering empire created and built by the Salmons and Glucksteins, a German-Jewish immigrant family based in London. Starting in 1904, J Lyons began selling packaged tea through its network of teashops. "

@noemierollindedebeaumont1130

Жыл бұрын

Today, i learned that Lyon tea is a thing that exists. How well known is it ? Thanks 😏

@robfenwitch7403

Жыл бұрын

@@noemierollindedebeaumont1130 In England, probably better known by older people but in Ireland and the USA it has more exposure.

Great episode today! Loving the mixture of Zoo and University. For some reason it works! Bus was really popular. Glad you put the big boys on it 🤩

That slip lane was great use of what would otherwise be empty space. I think the zoo gate was on the zoneless parkway there. The coathanger road at the ferry has a lane that's looping, both lanes need to go right. The zoo definitely needs a sea life enclosure

2:05 perfect

I just had a thought about your crates falling. My brain just thought logically they must have collision on, then I thought why, and I realised that when you have disasters all sorts of things fly about especially cars and viechles. So these shipping containers must be an asset designed to be used with the moving models of trucks and trains rather than ploppable. I'm not sure fully, but if they're a downloaded asset perhaps that's where those models are sourced and there's some underlying code that's affecting it. I could be completely wrong Haha. But mods aren't my strong suit and maybe my thought process might help. I mean, that's got it be it right? Why else would they do that.

09:57 for a "more realistic" rise the super wealthy community could pay for a gentle sloping tunnel that circles under that mountain. 😁

Just a Serjestion Biffa: I would Serjerst that you awap out the Zoo single ferry for A double ferry point And add a few Conections to the other ferry points, this should help ease the trafic of visitors who just want to go to the zoo atractions and prevent that masive pile up in the parking lots. I would aslo serjest addign a Cargo frery line between you industreal zone and the shoping Center, giving good sand extra route to the area. As a bonus, the river would look alot more active with verius river trafic zippin back and fore.

For the Ferries, I would like to suggest Zigzagging. For rivers, zigzagging works well to allow short hops in both directions. In open areas, loops with fewer stops. with maybe an express service from an outer area to a main hub. My example is Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta river, Australia.

Campus attractiveness is only affected by buildings from the specific campus' assets.

I had a similar issue with the leveling height tool as well as the straight line tool. Buggy for some reason but, after a few attempts and corrections I ended up getting it to work. Same with clicking on icon to setup the lanes… other features in that menu popup instead. 😢

Someone needs to make a mod that replaces zoo animals with dinosaurs lol

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

Жыл бұрын

That would be great!

@noemierollindedebeaumont1130

Жыл бұрын

Ummmm do we want a jurassic park repeat ? Why, yes we do !!

Since you added the one way in and out at the zoo, do you even need that road in the middle intersection anymore? Could probably just remove that to stop the parked cars from pulling out.

Just found you lately and been obsessing over Biffalo Countea. Mine never look this good (I’m basic AF) but you’re inspiring me to detail, detail, detail!

a theme park or big park would be really nice! love your vids, keep it up!

Either I'm mad or no-one else spotted this (yet). The main road that runs in front of the Police Academy. You stubbed in a three-lane asymmetrical road within the frames (and changed them to yields a bit later), but you then connected those three lane roads with a 2u 4-lane. You can see it quite clearly at 26.17. Intentional? Or did morning Biffa need more tea and not math so good? Great call on the ferries btw, and I too hate how you have to spam dorms etc to level up Universities! Don't forget to delete your other, Vanilla uni, else it'll pilfer half your students.

@simongeard4824

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he built 2+1 roads at the intersections to give himself turning lanes for 1+1 roads... but then connected them with a 2+2 road. Relatively harmless, but it does look strange.

33:47 you but that road one way which means that the buses can't use it on the way back

I think you can remove the 4 lane road from directly outside the zoo now that you have the new one way and maybe just put a path there instead to allow people to get to the main road.

That sloping train tunnel you added in just before the 10 minute mark, you could have curved it INTO the mountain, not slope it at all at the top. Curl and slope it inside the mountain and have a straight path out at the bottom.

Hi Biffa! Thx for another great video. *University Name Idea*: taking the name of the world renowned MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and name the University MITea?

Hey Biffa! Low density residents on the Autumn District main road would not prefer waking up to the bleating of deer from the zoo behind their homes in the middle of the night. Maybe you can dezone the low density self sufficient residential buildings on the main road which are right in front of the zoo and add commercial buildings instead?

Lots of ferry use in Brisbane, Australia. It's called the "city cat" and zigzags across the river. So rather than one line just back and forth, perhaps a line that goes from north to south, west to east, then turns back on itself.

You should call the zoo, Territory for Entertaining Animals..... Or T.E.A

Heya Biffa! Love the addition of the Zoo and Trade School! 2 tipps: you used 3-lane roads to connect to 4-lane roads in your new area. You could just leave it at 4-lane all the way. You definitely should expand the metro to include the Zoo and Trade School

Honestly I think the Police Academy being on its own on the bank of the river across the water from the rest of campus would be fantastic. It would preserve the views from the main building to the waterfront and open up the space in front of it for plazas and statues when we unlock those?

For the University: Biffalo's Cop a Tea Colledge. For the train, a nice underground loop to get to the higher level would be nice (you could use the lovely button).

The road opposite the zoo entrance should just be a path (or ped road) to stop the cars leaving the car park on it, and then they can easily get back to the bus line on the main road ☺️

Chai is another word for tea in some parts of the world. How about calling the zoo Chaicross Zoo.

Don’t you need a container ‘crane’ for those containers you placed?

Now knowing that you look at feedback for your cities gave me more respect for you, happy I started watching you (biffalo countea is my fav city so far)

Biffa,**please** use the gradient tool for rails, too. Not only for Streets. Also any bus line with 200+ people waiting at multiple stops screams at you that it actually wants to be a tram line.

Loving the Zoolander quotes.

The trailers that you deleted from the cargo port were the correct trailers, just parked the wrong way round! They're what is called skelly trailers and are used for transporting the cargo containers around. It looks like they were loaded with 20 foot containers, if they were loaded with the larger 40 foot containers then they would look similar to the ones that you replaced them with (tilt trailers - canvas sides). The skelly trailers are what transport your cargo containers around the country, they can also be loaded on trains and cargo shops too. Source - I spent several years working with these things!

I do like the "Elk Career Institute" next to the zoo. It makes it sound like Elk who pass the zoo's remedial courses can graduate into trade school.

You should put the ryde trains on the route you made as you have ryde buses and ferries, it would just make sense. Love the revisit to New Tealand Btw

@memediatek

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see the Class 710 (raised) used. They are very flexible and look nice

In my head canon, the university has prestigious environmental ecology, evolutionary biology, and preservation departments that partner with the zoo for research.

nice build you could build some dorms right next to the river or sea

24:00 Campus. Can you put the campus on pedestrian roads?

The ferry mods are based on the ferries in Sydney. The vanilla ferry is like the manly ferry, the river cat goes from circular quay up to Parramatta with stops on the way, and the lady class go around the harbour. Hopes this helps in picking what ferry to go on what type of route.

Ooh just in time for lunch!

Loving the series so far and its great to see all three cities getting some love :). One little niggle thats been bugging me but imho I was thinking that the little beachfront houses put in along the edge of the autumn district seem a little lost 😶‍🌫or overpowered with the direction development has taken around them (industrial mainly beyond the bridge and high density HiRISE's behind them with the zoo up the road. Surely IRL these properties would be worth a bomb and they'd get snapped up and redeveloped?? Thinking of this when re-watching New-Tealand recently I was wondering if an amusement strip park 🎡🎠🎢might now be more in keeping with the area? and we could keep the beachfront bungalows for a quieter spot (maybe their own little inlet/bay) for later in the series? maybe either an upscale gated posh-spot or going the other way a sleepy little cosy island idyll 🏝for old-school residents?? Also maybe I'm just being greedy for more content but I was thinking that maybe you should revisit the Mountainside retreat on on the first island. it was set up for a populace in the eastern aesthetic but I don't remember you ever coming back to finish it off? Its rare that I see such an asthenic ⛩used in skylines build's and I would love to see what you could do with it😍🤩🥰

Nit-pick but hopefully helpful: At about 2:30 in, using node controller to turn off crosswalk marking only deletes the paint -- the crossing still remains. Best to use the TM:PE junction edit tool to remove pedestrian crossings.

So I know you used a tunnel to get the railway to the station, but it seems more appropriate to move the railway station to the other side of the mainline seeing you own the new square and then you would not need the dodgy tunnels to get the rail line to the station. It would seem more likely than the un-natural routes that are there now

@MrJudgementday99

Жыл бұрын

The other thing I would do is to get rid of the one road outside the zoo and just have the one way part

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4:30 how many transfers are the people willing to make for a journey? I've see assertions that they won't transfer more than twice before giving up and just driving, and also that transfers are zero-penalty, which can be read as "transfer as many times as necessary" or simply as "time spent actually doing the transfer doesn't count for route determination". But those two readings could lead to vastly different outcomes, depending how far they end up from the bus stop/metro station/whatever after the second transfer happens....

That thumbnail is the best.

You should extend the metro line directly to the zoo, to take some of the burden off of the bus line.

Excellent work but you definately should seperate the traffic from the University. The way just like you did in the ferry stop would be a good suggestion for also the campus. Only 1 access to the main building (with large trees on both sides maybe) and everything else in the campus are away from the road. What do you think?

Yes :) I needed to see something fun today

Thumbnails - you won 🏆

Looks great! Thanks