Thanks for all the info on visuals! How's the performance with populations past 500K? Should I purchase the game with a 3070 ti?

Thank you, but maybe they just need to fix the visuals themselves, by fixing the lighting and adding luts ...etc

I feel like I just can't get my city areas looking as great as yours. You just a lot of ground surfacing that I don't use, but I feel like it's just more than that.

Holy spaghetti junction, b@tman! Seems like I can add "seriously overengineered single-occupant vehicle infrastructure" to my list from the last video about signs this channel is MURICAN... :D

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What visual settings do you like to use for your games?

Collège Builder: *posts Me, 3 seconds later: *LIKE 😅

Loving your videos! Any chance you can upload the videos in a higher quality than 1080p? The video tends to blur when in fast mode

Hey what’s the name of this map?

Wow awesome job on this! Your attention to detail is fantastic and you walked through every step so clearly. I haven’t thought about building around terrain like that before and your detailing with the sand textures and trees is picture perfect. I don’t even have the game yet, but once I do I’ll be sure to implement some of your helpful tips. Keep up the good work!

Hey @collegebuilder I hope you compete in @cityplannerplays challenge!!!

I don't know why you don't have more subscribers. Great job, love this video glad that it came across my feed.

we need los angeles type of urban center

Love this series so far! Really hoping for a Coronado Hotel inspired build, I think it would look great on the peninsula because it already kind of resembles Coronado Island.

Another win from you bro! 🎉

I think a modern city centre with a sports arena, is the next area followed by a port town and industry, then several farming towns, focusing on one farming element, eg town of Wheaton for wheat farms, Applethorpe for fruit and veg, Woolstead for cotton, Woodville for the logging industry etc

I'm lost in the details...

Your use of the current mods really spews optimism for the game and adds excitement for me to keep playing, thank you!

The Southern California setting and the palm trees you added is making me hear Everclear’s Santa Monica play in my head when watching this

I've lived near or next so several golfing communities, and one thing they all have in common is they all have had a water tower. That's the east coast tho, but sure about the west coast. Keep up the good work!

Definitely farms next please, i think i speak for many when i say rolling fields really hit that spot. I think it would be great if you could try capture the true scale of farmland as a lot of other creators tend to build farms the size of towns whereas farmland is many times larger and small villages are usually nestled within. Great video as always!

Great work & tips! Thanks for sharing :)

Maybe add a Mission as there are so common to the Southern California area. A museum campus, like Balboa park. Or Something like Coronado island. further inland a movie studio/TV sound stages. a coast line highway.

Very cool build with the industrial / service campus space between the interstate and the rail line. These are the perfect plots for dirty and/or loud industry as they (a) profit from the proximity to the infrastructure and (b) use otherwise low value land as it would not be attractive for residential or most commercial uses. I mean, it's still not a *nice* looking part of town - but industry is a fact of life at this point in human evolution and since we have to have it, why NOT put it where nobody wants to live anyway. And I like the very realistic grungy look of the area! Usually C:S2 assets are just so... clean and unreasonably well maintained. You managed to give it the authentic "nobody cleans anything around here" feeling of modern factory districts. [Edit: Oh and I also very much like Pebble Hills, but for the opposite reasons - it's super beautiful and looks like a spot I couldn't afford to even go on holiday to, but it's super suburban sprawl-y and _realistically_ emphazises the waste of space that is the golf course...]

I admire your dedication to detail, and I noticed how you improved the pacing; it reads much more smoothly. One suggestion: maybe add a small industrial hub near the airport area. It’s common to see logistics warehouses and sometimes a post office nearby. Not sure that something you can fix with decals, am I the only one who thinks the swimming pools on the beach properties assets look too dark? Pools usually pop with that bright, lagoon-blue vibe, don’t they? Your ideas sound interesting! A small marina would be a great addition to complement the wealthy neighborhood.

Its is incredible. It really does look like a satellite image. for another area, what I find interesting is that in California I have witnessed scenic ,rural and agricultural areas become tourist destinations with farm to table restaurants, vineyards, resorts. These are popular as wedding destinations. There are artisans and a mix of things like a farm stand selling cherries next to a contemporary designed winery.

What are your tips for realism? I would love to hear your ideas!

When using netlanes for your fences how do you keep the same fence variation going? I'm sure it is something simple but I find myself getting frustrated trying to keep the same style going when I'm trying to fence in a single property. I'm always making new little sections off to the side until the same variation starts again.

I think a sea port to bring in tourism would be a great addition. Especially with the new fixes to the hotels and tourism issues! I like watching all the train work you do as this is an area I work and work and work on in my own cities and still struggle to make "seem real".

I immediately had thoughts of there being an old deserted mansion and "high end" part of town maybe off into the mountain just a little but still in close proximity. My story would tell that the mine was first built many years ago by a wealthy business man and upon discovery of a rich deposit of mineral a small wealthy town popped up ... but now it is abandoned and these few ramshackle homes are descendants of the original mining families. There are different stories about what was discovered in the mine leading to the downfall of the community. But that story varies depending on which family you descend from ... So why are the people still there? Well many still believe there are still riches to be discovered in the mine. Stories are told of family members who have gone back in but never came back out ... Are the families out to get each other? Killing off the other family members that try to enter the mine? Or is there still a direct decedent of the original mining mogul himself that keeping anyone from entering the mine because he is the sole survivor of that fabled day when the mine came to it's bleak and abysmal end ...?? - I just got back into the city building world and am loving Cities 2 and the community surrounding it. Glad to have stumbled across your content (thank you algorithms lol).

Another really great build!

10:59 is there a mod/surface for the rocks under water?

Impressive build! I live in the IE (at the bottom in Murrieta) about equidistant from LA and San Diego, and the regional inspiration is instantly clear. San Diego is probably my favorite US city, so I love to see inspired builds. Some ideas for future builds: - San Diego’s light rail system - Balboa park(including a zoo) - UCSD or SDSU - Coronado Bridge - Coronado hotel - Petco Stadium

Awesome Episode! The concepts and story are great, and I love the rural town vibes, I feel like you could use a rural schoolhouse and church, and old general store and bar (if there any such assets). Thanks for the entertainment :) 🦇

Very clever and fun! 🧛🐺👻🎃🍬

if you want a watefall efect w foam, you can use Chimneys to make that foam efect! Btw great vidio

Excellent short build. Lots of fun to watch. 👻

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This is awesome!

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In the year CE 2024, they dug too deep, and unleashed a nameless terror from the depth beneath the mine...

🎃🧟🧟‍♂👻 nice build and video... but too bad the tombs look too clean, too recent. A few assets of tombs degraded by time would be nice! maybe a modder will give us this pleasure one day...

🎃👻 what happened to this town???

Hi, great builds. To improve waterfall effects, sink or copy/paste smoky chimneys using move it. Creates a cool effect and brings waterfalls into life. 👊🏿

Love this!

Just binge watched all your videos, all I can say is I can’t wait for the next one. +1 Subscriber

Can you build like a training ground on the golf course with a range and putting greens?

The clean grass next to the train track looks soooooooo much better than the river bed texture. When I first saw it last episode I thought it was just trash lying around at first.

i like the educational/informative voiceover in your videos, keep it up!

Why don’t you add a driving range for the golf course and a designer shopping district