An Oil Boom Leads to a New Boom Town! | MC #15

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Did you find the 🪑?

[@AitorIbaceta]

🪑 Spotted at 16:35

[@shavranotheferanox7809]

yes, at 16:35, idk if its just my adhd brain but it stood out like a soar thumb

[@GrabbingTrumpByTheBussy]

I left my stool in the toilet.

[@mateuszgawlikowski3553]

Forget the chair, did you see two bears walking out of your university in the intro at 00:09?

[@Payne-Train]

I thought this was about "Chairity" Bay High School! 😂

[@DocBrown086]

"Mr. Governor... There's a major problem with fires over in..." "Shhhh hush now Ed. I've told you not to bother me while I'm out working in the garden."

[@CityPlannerPlays]

[@averyvincent8361]

OMG like 4k people died in that massive fire. that's gonna be a significant historical event that needs a memorial

[@FrenchPeopleAreCool-Liberte]

Sounds like something a good politician might try to cover up with a massive amusement park project

[@CityPlannerPlays]

[@DeadSlowV2]

Pretty sure Chuckles is an eldritch horror that summons fire and other disasters when angered.

[@Bierbuxe]

Only that this time he's on the right side? Maybe? Maybe he's Tom Bombadil, protecting the woods - he kinda looks the part

[@geauxlsut]

The only explanation

[@jase_allen]

The Verde Beach pyro was never found. What do we really know about Chuckles, and where is he from?

[@catmac2011]

Chuckles is a menace

[@Catussy-Wetter]

I sense the birth of an eco terrorist

[@simonsv9449]

We need buses to Charity Island and Bailey now. They currently have no public transport at all, which doesn’t make sense with the people who would commute there for work. You could add loops with bus only lanes for the buses to turn around. A bus route could go from Charity Island via the industrial area and Bend to Bailey.

[@johngibbons7724]

It actually makes a lot of sense. A rural community where basically everyone who lives there works at either the fuel plant, the cargo terminal or the various farms around Bailey. Realistically, there wouldn’t be that many people from bend working at that oil plant. It’s so far away and there wouldn’t be enough demand to justify the cost of a bus system from Bailey to anywhere. An argument could be made for a bus route from bend to charity island but again, realistically the demand likely wouldn’t be there. Also, it doesn’t really make sense to have busses connecting multiple rural Midwest towns. I have never seen such a system in reality

[@bertkears6208]

A train station would make sense.

[@CyanideCarrot]

I think the oil company would oppose making their employees less reliant on their product

[@NithinJune]

especially because you need college educated people

[@EvanAdnams]

Heh, living in a primarily oil and gas region, my experience is they will always prefer commuting alone in their giant pickups, even if it makes zero practical sense.

[@turtle5298]

My immediate reaction to hearing about the town of Bailey was to smile, because my wife's name is Bailey! Would you mind naming a street Ithaca? That's the place where we met.

[@Zyo117]

You could do some interesting lore work with that too! Bailey is the wife of an executive at the company that built the town, and he leaned on the city planner to get a plot of land at the corner of Ithaca and Main street. The place the main arterial streets 'meet'.

[@AspynW]

I support this Ithaca proposition!

[@NocturneS711]

YES! This is such a cute idea!

[@RedBear345]

​@@Zyo117 Maybe the corner of Ithaca and Turtle? (The OPs KZbin name).

[@basscadia]

This is the sweetest thing I've heard all week :)

[@Wilkwayadventures]

A small town like that would historically have a very active business section on the main street facing the main road. Bars, restaurants, boutiques, etc.

[@SaucyAlfredo]

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Town where I grew up looked exactly like it. Main street with sidewalks for businesses and residential behind it on roads without sidewalks

[@kengrantk]

With street parking. In CO, basically all of the two lane road small towns have a "main drag" with small businesses and street parking, not tree lined avenues.

[@Zeakthecat]

realistically speaking, not many small towns have that. you might see maybe a few towns here and there that might have that, but for the most part, you're not gonna see much in walkability in about 90% of small towns out there. and where theres a lack in walkability, theres a lack of shopping in downtown.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I think I got in my own head there a bit. You're right!

[@jackllewellyn746]

@@Zeakthecat you are thinking as a modern American. Cars are a relatively new phenomenon. Towns that were settled in the 19th or even early 20th century were not designed around cars because they didn't exist or, at the very least, were only affordable to the wealthy few, so by default they were "walkable"... because that was the only means of transport (other than horse and carriage which again the common person did not have).

[@grim69skull]

I think it's time to place a Early Disaster Warning System or put large fire stations included with rescue unit

[@WLLFRNCZK]

Fire watch towers too

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I completely agree. Time to invest in a lot of disaster protection and recovery services!

[@nightdraggerd3241]

Hey. Close call on the water tower. Drinking water usually works with gravity. Adding a water tower on the lowest part, while all the farms and oil companies are actually higher than the top of the water tower was really odd. Also, you usually don't see may water towers when there are hills nearby. It's cheaper to build a water basin on the next hill than building and maintaining a huge tower. In addition, (at least here in Austria), it's part of the critical infrastructure. So, ideally, not everybody should know the location to prevent somebody poisoning it or blew it up. This is the reason why I think a basin or underground facility up the next hill would make more sense.

[@JackDaloots]

Can confirm it's like that in California too. Up on the tops of our mountains you'll find large water storage, but the mountain is the "tower" part, they're just ground level up there. Also, we have big cisterns up there to store water. If only we could make some lakes up top.

[@johngibbons7724]

You’re totally right about for the first part. I’ve never seen a water tower on a hill. But almost every western Canadian and mid west town has their water tower in a central location. Bailey is a small town where everyone knows each other, and it’s miles away from the next closest town. Nobody is gonna be poisoning that water tower

[@HolyAdolfJesus]

@@josephh6697 I once saw Frankie Macdonald buying video games here.

[@nogardmarith]

Cheyenne wyoming get their water from the snowy range, it actually is a series of pipelines and reservoirs that feed that city.

[@simongeard4824]

Yeah, water *towers* are what you do when nature hasn't provided suitable high terrain - you can build a much bigger reservoir more cheaply if you can built it on solid ground. Here in Auckland NZ, we've got a lot of old volcanic cones dotting the city, and so unsurprisingly, many of them have water storage built on or into them. They're not high-capacity - just local buffers for the much larger sources (dams, rivers) outside of town - but there are quite a lot of them.

[@VaingloriousGaming]

Merch store needs "I Survived the Great Fire of '28" with the Magnolia County logo... Edit to add... 16:34. Still not THE chair though...

[@EricMesa]

I think this is absolutely necessary!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

LOVE that idea, haha!

[@VaingloriousGaming]

@@CityPlannerPlays I'll buy the first one!

[@trulseidsvold5400]

This series coming out less than before makes me really appreciate them, when they’re eventually out. Thank you for entertaining both city-planning nerds and gaming enthusiasts all over! ❤️

[@CatPerson-LoFi]

It's essentially the same concept as edging

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I appreciate that! Really hoping we see some updates that allow me to put them out faster! Almost back from vacation though, so there will be a flurry of videos soon

[@jessicawadleigh1246]

“Underneath the path, where I guess it can go” shouldn’t have made me laugh as hard as it did. Another great build! Nice to be getting a mix of content from the channel.

[@TitanianBlueFrog-Ribit]

It means there is order, of some variety.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

[@doberandkats]

You are so spot on with your comment about things like this happening in the real world. Here in Georgia a few days ago they announced that an Alabama company has started the permit process to strip mine near Okefenokee Swamp. Okefenokee is the nation's largest blackwater swamp, and a Wetland of International Importance (RAMSAR Convention - 1971), which also happens to be home to many threatened and endangered species.

[@RampantFirefly]

No disrespect to Phil's amazing lore, but to me Bailey looks more like an industrial era town than something that would spring up to facilitate shale gas extraction in the 21st century. But that's just me.

[@watchthe1369]

The Texas City explosion was a lesson in safety space around certain industryies. More recently a town called West in Texas had a heavily damaged High School and a cpouple apartments of retirees leveled when a fertilizer plant went all anfo-ish during planting season.

[@watchthe1369]

A lot of big oil companies have a fire station where they have specialist equipment. You may want to go with a FULL fire station. With a couple heavy and light units all out of the same station like the original "88's" that squad 51 was dispersed out from.

[@ThirdLadderEnt]

I'd like to see more Fire Departments in your builds.

[@mollieherlocker5918]

Seconding this. As a Californian, the lack of fire services is giving me trauma.

[@Catussy-Wetter]

I for one am a fan of the devastation that comes with massive fires.

[@imnotfitz]

So would the 3000 people that passed away

[@ThirdLadderEnt]

@@Catussy-Wetter Be careful of what you say you might get what you speak of.

[@yellsgaming]

Am I the only one who spotted 2 bears casually walking on the university grounds in the first 5 seconds of the video. 🐻

[@SamMathewsOfficial]

I saw those too! I was wondering if he saw them or not.

[@AhhhhMyLeg]

They must be BEAR-ey studious

[@NithinJune]

wtf 😮

[@NithinJune]

as a student on a university ground rn i find this concerning

[@NithinJune]

maybe it’s the mascot

[@amshermansen]

The island "off of " Bailey would make for an amazing wildlife park, to offset the very heavy industry added with the oil fields and refineries. Limited access to the citizens ( like a fenced off campsite area or something, reserving the lion's share to trees and animals)

[@tbone1975uk]

Yes that's what I was thinking. A nice like predestination bridge to the small island and then another to the big island. Could have some of the campfire around the outside with paths connecting them and leave the middle alone.

[@staplegunnr]

A few side deals to make the oil more "attractive" 1. For each disturbed acre, to include roads, rail roads and facilities, the oil producers needs to purchase 5 acres of forest land and dedicate it to a "state" park in perpetuity. 2. Have the new rail build and connect to the Clearwater southern rail and allow Clearwater southern to use the rail facilities lease free.

[@nemacrow]

Would that not be difficult? They already secured the permit and built it out. To them be forced to give access to their competitors AND be forced to buy land for conservation would be a completely blinding deal that could force them to pull out

[@jonblair5470]

I was talking with Algernon about a mod that would color the roads and railways, green for good, yellow for acceptable, red for unrealistic.

[@nickberry5520]

I'd use that mod

[@bryangroves7666]

Watching this from the Municipal District of Greenview in Alberta as a medic for oilfield work!

[@sleepinred1577]

This fire needs to be an event that has a meaning in the whole storyline

[@MiddleVeen]

I would highly recommend doing a few fire breaks between cities and the forests. All it would take is a space roughly the size of the tallest tree nearby. a 10ft break if it is 10ft tall. This might help prevent the fires spreading to the cities at least.

[@wadeab]

Speaking as someone who sets rules for oil and gas development, you mostly nailed the look with the sections and square pads. One note is that with setbacks, you would usually only see one pad per section. There are also lots of multi-well pads, but CS1 is much better for modeling that. "I drink your milkshake" is the best description of why setbacks exist.

[@andrewlangowski1802]

Hey! Watford City! Couple things you may want to consider is when the oil boom hit Watford, the town was small with small lots and houses. Then big developments of duplexes, commercials, and apartments everywhere. Take a close look at Williston and Watford City how it grew from 2009 to now. Definite old and new clashing. Also, oil wells pop up in the middle of fields and all over, including hard to reach places using dirt roads mainly. Great series!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I might do that on the next stream! Great idea!

[@MrHoot50]

I live in a city called Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia. We have a street called Short Street. Running off this street is another street called Shorter Street. It's good to know that sometime in the past our local councilors had a sense of humour! Love this series, thanks :)

[@subressor1]

Literally just sat down to eat, you couldn't have timed this any better!

[@FrenchPeopleAreCool-Liberte]

Ordering food, and waiting for it to arrive to watch this video, is more exciting than a field trip in school.

[@ibrayuri8386]

Thank you mr. editor I feel your pain with the parking lots

[@thegentlemanfish7504]

The idealized beautification with parks and detailing I wouldn't worry about. Most places don't pay attention to that stuff anymore even though it is good for the soul. Small towns used to focus on that just as much as large cities for that very reason.

[@gogofuntime_yt]

CPP! 14:20 water towers belong on hills! This allows the water to build pressure in the pipes just by using gravity. Water from the tower would not flow uphill. Edit: Fixed later in the video!

[@TheDecWhale]

I really like the idea of starting the oil industry there, feels like a good way to start a neat story line

[@Dmc-contracting]

I work in the oilfield. To be realistic, you would have lots of leases "the little squares" all over the area, each one of those lease sites is where the wells are drilled. Those would all connect to a bigger gas plants and battery sites via pipeline. They aren't mines they are well sites. And each site would be leveled by cut and fill based on the geography of the area. They are all "temporary" and will be reclamated at some point.

[@BrentDnD]

This isn't as necessary as it used to be. With with fracking in oil and natural gas deposits in shale formations and horizontal drilling able to pull resources from as far as about 2 miles away, you don't need as many surface rigs anymore. One drilling site can cover about 12 square miles and as much as 30,000 feet deep.

[@Matej_Sojka]

You still need an industrial zoning in the new area for petrol industry and for forestry industry. You are building in a heavily forested region, and you should take advantage of that. Especially as your existing rail network can transport the goods.

[@ander4163]

For the first time in a long time, I'm quite okay with the amount of parking near the oil plant hahah

[@MasterThief117]

You know you can use the curve tools when laying pipes and cables, and with fewer nodes in between. It's much easier and faster to trace a road this way.

[@electric_dreamer]

Loved seeing the connection to Iron Mountain, and brining in the name Hancock. I have lived in both those towns! :D

[@birbeyboop]

Nice to see that the University of Superior welcomes all kinds of different students 🐻

[@herpderp9774]

Coming from a pretty fire prone area in Australia, I would recommend adding some considerable fire breaks along each Jeffersonian grid definition to help break up, slow and stop any wild fires. It is a pretty consistent thing that gets done over here along most roadways and several dirt road sections built in more rural areas to help the SES here in containing bush fires. Without them we would be looking at some pretty serious body counts due to fires as well and I think this would help your build out greatly with the abundance of trees there.

[@theorixlux]

To get the petrochemical plant to change goods, it needs to change company. Either wait for one to replace it or rebuild it

[@spkennedy951]

As part of the expansion of a local quarry, the county required the company to pay for road improvements, which has ultimately included turning intersections in the middle of nowhere (except for the quarry) into something you'd expect to see in an industrial zone instead of surrounded by corn fields with very, very wide turns to accommodate semis. Perhaps the paved road for the shale extraction should be similar, with dirt roads still indicating the old USPLSS grid? Unrelated and as someone who can't play CS2 for spec reasons; I love the changes to farms that allow for rural areas to look like (ish) the rural areas I grew up around. Field everywhere instead of just a couple like CS1. Also, my only critique of the nice new ethanol plant is the parking lots are paved. All of the ethanol facilites I've done work at just had a ~massive~ gravel lot.

[@justinbremer2281]

Thanks to you, I am now realizing that SimCity on the SNES kind of locked me into an "efficiency overload," leave no map square un-developed, "Right angles are the only angles!!" kind of mindset

[@Hockeyfox628Gaming]

You should add a bike trail between the towns. Example being a scenic trail along the river. I think this would be extremely valuable to the residents of the county and possibly attract some regional tourism.

[@skyechimes658]

I’m behind on the series, but even in a small company town like Bailey, I think you could reasonably add a one or two small offices, there would probably be an insurance agency, payroll or billing processing company, a lawyer, etc. Even the dying former factory town I grew up where almost everyone had worked for the one company that had left and most people only had a high school education had 2 small office buildings for these types of things.

[@colecleveland8179]

For the small drilling rigs those plots of land are always surrounded by low berms. I don't know how well you could recrate that in CS2 but if you could include them it would surely make them look great! In small townships like Bailey you almost always have a "Main Street" which is usually made up of older style buildings which are typically businesses, bars, restaurants, motels, with at least a couple modern gas stations mixed in. I think next video you should construct some kind of memorial for the ~3000 people who died as that would surely be pretty severely etched into the memory of the county (the whole country really) I mean for comparison about 300 people died in the Chicago Fire and kicked off the "Great Rebuilding" so it could also serve as a way to go back in and modernize small parts of the city to reflect that! I love when you can go back into areas and add detail to smaller areas since it truly gives the city the feeling that it wasn't all built at once. Places grow, parts grow faster than others while some parts fall down prompting reconstruction. City Planners and civil engineers and architects are artists in my eyes, their works reflect the growth and advancement of mankind on the pristine tapestry that is our home Earth.

[@Mattburt2000]

A quick point related to volume of parking spaces. Consider the type of building you are providing additional spaces for. A large portion of industry these days are at least 24 hours, 5 days a week. For 900 work spaces, we could assume 30% per shift (3 shifts) and remaining 90 daily office staff, you will have 360 staff at most. Obviously the more public transport in place the lower the spaces required but directionally correct. I used this calculation more in CS1.

[@marcrubin9359]

If you build roads straight up hills and concentrate row houses on those it looks really nice with no terrain work! Looks like the old steel town I lived in.

[@davetuttle3380]

When you added the health clinic in Bailey, I noticed that the average health of the citizens isnt great. 65%. With all the dead bodies, it may be a good opportunity for the county to invest in healthcare in general and add a large regional hospital. You could look at Charlottesville VA as an example of a relatively small area (about 30k) with a large hospital and university centered around it (UVA). Love the builds as always!

[@SlicesofHistory]

🔥 series! If I may recommend a plot point: maybe have someone from Magnolia become a state representative and try and advocate for the citizens instead of more self serving interests like the governor seems to be doing Or maybe have more local politics like a mayor or city council interact with things like zoning and roads😊

[@alanmcdonald3864]

Hey Phil! Happy belated birthday! I know you weren't thrilled about adding the high school to Bailey so early, but I wanted to say that this actually reminds me of where I went to college. It's in the middle of nowhere really, but it had one of the major community colleges. I think it would make sense to add a community College here as sort of one of the driving factors of the community and to get people to come work and live there. To me, students from the university may not want to come all the way out to work at the fuel plant and have to relocate, but the community College would be attractive to students moving out of high school and looking to get away from home, and then after they graduate, the fuel plant would be the perfect way to retain them within the community

[@KaiDettman]

Loving your increased usage of the complex curve tool!

[@N0isybag]

The Great Fire of August 2028. RIP

[@user-zh8ph7tm9r]

I'm going for the oil!, i used to build a city with a large oil deposit underneath. I started to invest in the infrastructures needed to extract the oil and overtime my city becomes filthy rich haha. And at some point i have to diversify that income and i built semiconductor and financial services industry out of that money and even expand the city to have more workforce for the new industry.. so many good memories and this series reminds me of that

[@restcure]

On those small islands, like in Bailey Lake or on the river bend, might I suggest a couple of props, like a rowboat (do they exist?) or a small tent. Surely there must be an adventurous citizen (not necessarily named Shirley) who'd sneak in a small trespass every now and then.

[@Studio-yy5io]

As a former BNSF employee, your mainline should’ve run through the rail yard on the double track mainline. Sticking as close to 1-2% should be a more realistic goal to try and achieve. One thing to remember is the railroads plan rail lines with the least amount of resistance in mind curving along the edges of hills to climb.

[@christoffereilskov5006]

Love a lot of this build, it might even be too little parking at the plant! BUT that bridge over the rails makes me so sad! It feels wildly out of place for a community of this size, and the rails company would fight such a bridge with everything they got.

[@CobaltTurquoise_]

that HUGE fire ... and in an election year ?! heads must roll !!!

[@joelhalfwassen9241]

My family has been involved in industrial development. Rail IS an important first step in any major industrial project like this.

[@Caladas]

Bailey turned out the nicest looking coomunity in Magnolia so far I reckon, looks really nice! :)

[@CornflakesYognaut]

A train connection to the university would make a lot of sense, to help get Bailey-ites (?) more educated for the plant.

[@arushiiru]

25:50 the forest fire can be used as a plot device for housing. The state may find it profitable than reforesting the area.

[@Phoenixpick86]

The Alberta mines were likely shaped due to the Alberta Township System which covers the whole province. The lots are either one section, quarter-section or some combination or further breakdown that make smaller and smaller squares in a 6x6 grid within. Further the roads off main highways follow the edges of the sections.

[@VictorAmarante]

This series brings me so much hope for this game! I have dropped it, but watching such a fantastic build makes me root for the game to raise from the ashes!

[@starrwulfe]

Phil, your storytelling is tabletop RPG level S-class! I can't wait to see what Chuckles does to counter this! (maybe a nature preserve? green energy plant? Who knows!)

[@OriaXu]

Respect for your creativity! I am very practical and logical, but i never manage to be creative on that level!

[@SmileeSmiles]

Please add fire breaks around Bend. With very common wildfires that have destroyed bend, I believe the county would invest in fire breaks to better protect the towns.

[@jfrakes9644]

Coming from someone who's spent the majority of his life in the oil & gas industry, there's very, very few paved roads. Especially in the Permian Basin. There's a few in the Utica/Marcellus basin. If you want any "real world" examples, I go back to work in a couple of days. I can get you some pictures if you need them.

[@johngibbons7724]

That’s probably my biggest pet peeve about this build. Being around small towns and rural areas for most my life, only the highways and the roads in the town are paved. All those farms he made right at the start of the series should not have a paved grid. No way an unincorporated community is having a paved country mile grid system

[@onutaoyusao]

Go Chuckles! Man knows wealth does not equate only to money or power.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Ironic coming from him.

[@onutaoyusao]

He may be a money loving capitalist, but he's also a money loving capitalist with 30% electric fleet. @@dragonbornexpress5650

[@metalheaded666]

With an upgrade of the watertower, you can make it a lookout point as well, making it more attractive for people to visit and enjoy the view

[@zjshafe]

The railroad around the 6 minute mark makes me think of the Altoona Horseshoe Curve - a railroad the respects the topography and curves around a mountain range so they didn't have to build a bridge. It was a field trip location in elementary school

[@jameswakim5863]

I'm really curious why you created that viaduct over the train lines rather than sending a road under the train bridge and up the hill to the mines/farms from Bailey? Seems like it would be a lot cheaper and easier to build a road with some terraforming rather than that long bridge. It would have also connected Bailey to the outside with the same external connection from the mines and the new external connection that paralleled the trains was therefore unnecessary. (Or you could remove the mines external connection and use the parallel connection which would make a lot of sense also). Good episode and interesting politics shown. Thanks for the update!

[@michelleli1509]

Watching you build cities always makes me happy. Very real and I wish I could build like you. 😁 My game crashed and I don't know if I could recover it after the last updates. 😮‍💨 As for this new part of the city, it needs transportation to bring in those educated workers. That fire was brutal ......

[@audiopie5885]

I’m from the u.p. So it’s really cool hearing all this, when you mentioned iron mountain I woke up my wife just to tell her. It’s super cool and neat that it’s being talked about

[@Spartacus005]

I understand why we're renaming Odinville, but that's such a great name! Hopefully we can name a future town that because it can't be lost!

[@CrispyBakedPotato]

I mentioned in an earlier episode of naming a road on chairity Island for the stevedors. You could also name a road in Bailey for the roughnecks (oil workers), making it a theme for every industry to name a road as sort of a nod to the workers.

[@rosac6631]

I thought the bridge was perfect as it was. I regularly go over that exact bridge here is eastern Wa state. I-90 Vantage bridge, please take a look. It was so cool to see a bridge that I’ve been using my whole life come to life in one your builds. I never really comment but I love the content Phil!

[@ExpedientFalcon]

Totally unrelated thought, but they really should've just called Internet in the game Cell Coverage instead, because that's really what it is. Most internet is served to homes via cables underground, not via radio towers like cell phones are.

[@amshermansen]

Or just "Communication" as a broad term to cover radio, cell and internet coverage.

[@Xiyng]

I'm not sure that's universally true. Here in Finland, mobile internet is very common, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was more common than cable.

[@amshermansen]

While CO are in Finland, it doesn't really reflect how internet is laid out elsewhere as a whole. :)

[@viggohauser732]

i started watching your channel with the clearwater county build and I've gotten very into city planning because of it. Since then I've started my own study in 'Built Environment' in the Netherlands! You have been a huge inspiration for why i chose the study and I'm thoroughly enjoying my time at school!

[@JamesPalmer173]

With the map and the semi-rural locations, I think Magnolia County would benefit from an Air Ambulance service. I work for a company now that carries out maintenance for a local air ambulance, and it’s completely life changing. A 50 minute ride to the nearest hospital is cut down to just 9 minutes. Plus it frees up a lot of the land ambulances, and allows for people to be rescued from more precarious situations. Biggest thing is that the Air Ambulance is a trust and entirely publicly funded. Thoughts?

[@jimhearsonwriter]

The surface painting tool is so simple yet adds so much - particularly when paired with the tree line tool. It helps make cities unique, which is kinda the whole point of the game.

[@shaneintheuk2026]

It’s wonderful seeing you use the surface tool to such effect. The parks and oil refinery really look great.

[@User2o2]

Currently, the steepest mainline railroad grade in the US is the 3.5% Raton Pass grade in New Mexico, with the original steepest being the 4.7% Saluda Grade in North Carolina, which was taken out of service in 2001.

[@WhiskeyHunterVAT69]

Fun build. Thank you for the VOD. 🥃🥃

[@burmanphd]

Fun bit of trivia for engagement: the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, in London, is called The Old Bailey

[@henryattfield8979]

I very much side with chuckles. I am an environmentalist, and I greatly dislike shale for its damaging effects

[@lisamagnussonbiel5695]

I love these episodes, can't wait to see how you deal with the aftermath of the lowered population!

[@BrettWms]

On woodland street by the medical center you have street parking enabled. I think you redid the road there as it’s the only part of that road that seems to have street parking.

[@Rsfan259]

Lots of industrial places (Oil refineries, Paper Mills, etc) of that size will have a private fire brigade or office I feel like you need a really tiny single or 2 engine fire department for just the refinery.

[@grievinglux]

I really like the perspective of being able to fix this imperfect town in the future! It gives me hope that real cities will (continue to) improve their infrastructure in the future!

[@jokester347]

I’m really loving the builds! I can’t play as much as I want too seeing your builds helps a little of my sanity on building. Hope you and your family are doing well Phill.

[@bailey29_]

Nice build thanks for the shoutout!

[@upthebet]

Just a thought for making the mines look better. Maybe make the holes bigger and only use the industry area for the bottom layer, that way you get the better looking cliffs and terrain showing the mines

[@homasoftwares8124]

Love this story. It seems so realistic and impacts all the main characters. Controversial builds are part of this series as much as anything and I find it superb. Keep it up!

[@TRichardsBlades]

One thing I'd like to see them add to the game is a 1-way alley maybe the size of the path, maybe with no zoning so you could run thin alleys through towns just like you did with the paths

[@user-qv6sn9xy9k]

I have never played this game. I am enjoying your videos very much. As far as the fire problem is concerned, I think there is a way you can run better fire prevention around the town, and also a way to cheat. If you get rid of the wild trees around the outside borders of your towns,( not all of the trees just a certain with) it would create a fire break. If you want to cheat, well, this is fun. As soon as you see a fire, pause the game. Immediately go over to the wild fire and immediately remove all the trees in the area and unpause the game. I bet the fire will immediately put itself out. Just leave the forest bald spots (if you will, lol). Don’t replace the trees, it’s just future fuel for fire.

[@EtherPump]

The moment you said you needed a bridge, i thought that a slightly curved (or at least not a straight) bridge would look really good over the river from the "mainland" to Bailey.

[@lukeshave1238]

Your video making skills are impeccable! realism and enthusiam towards the game makes it great to watch! Fantastic video!!!

[@nogardmarith]

So the biggest thing is the oil fields would use pipelines and try to keep things gravity feed even to the rail yard. So the plant being down hill would work but you would have to have the rail yard down there too. Otherwise I would of put it right next to the railyard as most refineries have rail access going straight into them. Also add a industrial waste water treatment facility to treat all the ground water that comes up with the oil and natural gas. That would need to be properly treated. Finally all those pads with be level out. As they drill the equipment for drilling needs to be on level pads which you see it pilled up adjacent to the property to be placed back after the land lease is up.

[@TrevorD19]

please make sure the houses on the riverbank are high enough to prevent flooding, considering this is a Midwest build, flooding is quite common

[@NithinJune]

23:43 I feel like it makes sense being next to a water supply as well

[@darvo110]

Absolutely love that even Phil's own editor is calling out his parking obsession now.

[@maurogferrandiz]

What an amazing episode! I absolutely love the farming and oil industry area, as well as the layout of the community.