Over 21,337 Citizens Wanted this End Game Item! (Cities Skylines 2) Kettlebridge #7

[@cylisplaysgames]

"Everything is going very well" at the end of the end-video flythrough, meanwhile the fire in the zone in the middle of the screen is out of control.... Classic Biffa video. Looking forward to the next one.

[@TemptressTeelia]

And they are drinking polluted water…. Fun times

[@pandetanay]

55:30 Upbeat music with the forestry on fire. Like that everything is okay meme. Loving the series.

[@justinboggin9086]

You only need at most 2 post offices at your population (and probably only 1). Boxes give service coverage exactly the same as offices. Post offices are for processing capacity.

[@C17H23NO2]

I am at 13k population and i just placed my third post office cause the others were slowly but surely filling up with letters ( already did major upgrades to them ). On the other hand ( maybe related to all the wrecked state of exporting ) the post sorting facility is useless. It didn't do anything at all but eat money lol.

[@duskeyowl2507]

@@C17H23NO2 in the menu under communication, just click the open letter symbol. Then you can place individual mailboxes around your city for postal trucks to pick up.

[@ChasetotheFinish]

@@C17H23NO2 depends on if you use the cargo terminals or not. Cargo terminals bug out the post offices. I went over this in a video and explained the fixes for now.

[@C17H23NO2]

No Cargo terminals in my city so far.

[@IvZDaMatrak]

yes box letter do the staff instead of adding post office. And for bigger population, network is the convenient upgrade with network terminal and pack server until satellite.

[@simonmay1671]

Surely you don't need that many post offices, just pop down a mail box and it increases coverage

[@ElShotte]

Yup, as long as you're processing the mail and can store it well enough. I've found that one central post office is good to about 20K people.

[@JoshuaPalley]

Mailboxes only collect mail from pedestrians. Post office trucks collect from mailboxes and collect+deliver to buildings.

[@Secretsofsociety]

It gets kind of insane late game. Really hard to get enough processing.

[@simonmay1671]

@@Secretsofsociety I did notice my cargo terminal had about 1000t of mail sitting in it at one point... I assumed it was fine 🤔

[@Secretsofsociety]

@@simonmay1671 Seems to be a similar problem to waste management. If you fall behind in processing you can't catch up. It's also possible I did fix it but the simulation is running really slow at 200k so it will take a year to have effect.

[@sparkyails123]

You are overusing the water reservoir and it has been polluted. You may want to add the better filter and move one of the pumps to a different area. Loved the video, have a great week.

[@benidasw]

You've gotta draw the off-Ramp of the Highway in after you upgraded it to a merging lane. The other way round, you come up with a winki wonki lane which diverges from the outa lane, but is centered to the middle lane(40:28)

[@ravenbathory9471]

You can always use the upgrade tool with snapping off to fix that issue afterwards. Due to nodes, it's sometimes better to do it this way round

[@nell-mariikappa5387]

He forgot to upgrade one segment to four lane

[@johnrobinson523]

6:32 pedestrian access to the top area would be nice. I can imagine walking along that lovely quay seeing my house belopw and having to walk all the way around to get in.

[@arttops2563]

You should probably add public transit stops outside your education buildings, specifically your unis and the Technical uni. It may help lower income students to get to the unis and may increase enrollment as public transit may be cheaper than using their car(?)

[@mexieboy1]

you are overusing the water reservoir, it sais using above 100% therefore it will drain and eventually go empty. its better to spread the water extracting over multiple reservoirs or just pump from the rivers( which is cheaper anyway :) )

[@hanzzel6086]

That and it has been polluted, which is causing people to become sick (so he does, in fact, need the advanced water filters).

[@ScooterBug96]

I was thinking most of the chirps I was seeing are related to healthcare or the water making them sick. @@hanzzel6086

[@V8HiluxZX6R]

The first one was only at 55% efficiency which should of been a warning... probably cause of where it's positioned... also when he spead up the game you could see it shrinking.

[@jeffmasson1979]

You don't need post office and boxes! It's not a bug. You just need enough post offices to cover the amount of boxes you have or just have post offices

[@dalanoyo]

Restricting your police stations to their districts helps with the crime. Otherwise you'll have police cars from one station all the way across town when there is a crime happening literally right next to the station.

[@sp3lllz]

still wish that the add on buildings could be placed in a small vicinity of the the building rather than only directly to the building itself. its still very realistic for say a high school to have the sports filed on the other side of the road than the school

[@lukasr5867]

Yes, that and / or being able to attach to attachments as well (e.g. for the elementary school, attach the clinic thing to the school itself, then attach the playground to the clinic).

[@nickharper5354]

Than panning shot with the forest on fire to close it out... *chef's kiss*

[@TurpoChargedGaming]

I'd love a no parking sign to go with the other road signs. In my area we don't have wide sidewalks or grass/trees you just can't park on the main roads

[@C17H23NO2]

Yea, that's something so basic, I expected that to be in the vanilla game.

[@dnmitch]

Watch those come with DLC that costs $50 …… very scared that this is going to end up like The Sims with a RIDICULOUSLY amount of dlc and “stuff packs” that barely extend the game.

[@TurpoChargedGaming]

@@dnmitch the idiot that I am bought all the cs1 dlc despite my pc not being able to play it (I love a sale) and I also pre-ordered the ultimate edition 🤣 I love the idea of this game. Hopefully my new pc will enjoy my dlc addiction

[@Geronimobluejay]

Isn’t a sign in the parking section? You just have to unlock it with the points. I’m not 100% sure but I could’ve swore there are “no parking” signs.

[@TurpoChargedGaming]

@@Geronimobluejay I've seen 100% playthroughs. No parking signs yet

[@TheSirLancelot2]

50:01 Biffa is so cruel to the poor school kids. Placing a water park rigth across from them where they can hear and see all the other people that aren'T requiered to be in school having fun and enjoying the sumemr weather

[@ryanjohnson8960]

They should add a feature where the citizens protest and projects get put on hold or are denied/need to be voted on to initiate. That would be so cool and slow down the hyper growth aspect of the game

[@JamesKennedy33]

Post boxes and post offices will share coverage Bif, surely? Because, if you're posting something, and you live around the corner from the post office, you'd post it there. You wouldn't need a post box outside your house as well.

[@machintrucGaming]

Gotta love the forestry on fire for the whole night at the end...

[@cooperAA1]

Don’t really play too much of cities but love your channel. Really appreciate the attention to detail and the care that’s put into building your cities.

[@kazwhite]

Love the blazing fire in the distance at the end in such a soothing time lapse of the landscape lol

[@legion65]

For the terras street or what it's called I would use 2 one-way roads to cross over so that the cars don't have to cross lanes like it is now

[@Stymnus1]

42:06 That's not a pig...that's a deer skin and deer antlers :)

[@xPOSSUMx]

beautiful cinematic of your forest burning down at the end

[@adimanarulfikri8262]

Finally Spring is here

[@naitdeth]

Using a path to jazz up the zoning. Brilliant! Thank you biffa!

[@ElwoodGaming]

I truly am loving everything about this series and the launch of the new game. The in game music is super relaxing. The detail is wonderful. And the gameplay mechanics are very interesting. Keep it up Biffa, this is wonderful!!❤

[@mc_abber]

the postal service issue seems to be that the cargo harbour and terminal keeps hoarding resources and doesn't deliver it fast enough and one of the things it hoards is 'local mail.' don't think the mail trucks have access to the mail stored within the cargo storages and it just stays stuck there and the pops just get madder and madder as time moves on.

[@DeepLab_]

One of the greatest tips was to size each house/building to manage the cost of renting Should be good to have a mod or setting to set the maximum square block for each building

[@thadizzie1]

Another good one biffa. The terrace road area looks way better. It was all cluttered before. Too bad there is no parklife. That whole strip woulda been good aa a park. Oh well.

[@Stormcrow_1]

Those ground water pumps, look like they're sucking the aquifer dry.

[@hanzzel6086]

They are, and they need those advanced filters because because it is also polluted.

[@thesunnynationg]

46:58 maybe its like CS1 where the attractiveness raises when you put certain things around it. CS2 is maybe similar, but the hotel only pop's up when certain things are in a radius of zonings.

[@thirdofherne9232]

Make sure you put your medieaval castle on a hill! Needs to be in a defendable place.

[@johnrobinson523]

schools seem to create an aoe green circle. would be nice to be able to set up a school bus system to reach the red areas without having to build a school in that area. TEST: does mass-transit change this effect if directly routed to the school from outside neighbourhoods?

[@SineN0mine3]

I'm not sure about the AoE map, but adding transport connections definitely increases the number of students in your schools. Cims will definitely travel from outside the green radius to reach a school which is helpful because a lot of the buildings are massive. A smaller highschool would be very useful since it takes ages for the large one to be fully utilised.

[@johnrobinson523]

@@SineN0mine3 very clear. I would still love to see it tested. :) thanks for the reply.

[@CallsignArchangel]

for postal services, you really only need one building for a huge section of city. I put 2 or 3 mail boxes per neighborhood on side streets. I then put a post sorting facility near my highway connection to collect mail from the post offices and send it outside the city or to whatever local post office for delivery to local residences and businesses.

[@supaflytoon7684]

From my experience so far I never had issues with the mail complain - the way to handle it is simply to make sure people have INTERNET everywhere .... emails are a thing... Just to be clear - 20K town never moans about postal service if there is internet available.

[@faustinpippin9208]

oh so now it actually makes sense....When i heard about "mail" in this game I was thinking "who tf is using mail nowadays, whats the point of simulating this ancient mail stuff relic"

[@C17H23NO2]

My people still heavily use postal service and it gives a big major boost to happiness in city overall. I got Internet in every corner of my 13k pop city but my 2 post offices are filling up and on perma duty. :D

[@tonymack]

It's all that online shopping their doing with their internet..gotta get packages. 😊

[@Xenon0000000000001]

My city has topped 80k now, and some parts of the city showed -15 for unhappiness with mail services. Mail just goes nuts when your city gets bigger and you have cargo stations and a cargo port (they bring in insane amounts of mail). There are confirmed bug reports on the Paradox forums about the way it handles mail.

[@jnsjknn]

That castle will needs its own island.

[@yestesii216]

yes, own island or on top of a mountain.

[@hanzzel6086]

​@@yestesii216Both, both is good.

[@Jbear_Minecraft]

I love that trick of putting down a path to remove the grid where you don't want it so buildings to come in on the street you want it to come in on. I really miss the mods that can do that type of thing and hope we get them soon. But until then would you consider making a video that shows us all of the various tricks and tips like that you have?

[@thr3308]

i know the teachers at that high school were furious when a literal water park went in right behind the school 😂 good luck getting the kids to pay attention to their lessons!

[@vasilis_sjoegren]

Great series Biffa! Loving the content! I was thinking it would be so nice if they would make the parking lots zone like their farming/ore industry. Maybe an idea for a mod? Keep it up, I’m loving the new game so far!

[@brentriffel1685]

All that time biffa didn't notice that he had -1 polluted water

[@ajfrancis6365]

Love how there's just a fire casually chilling in the bg in the end cinematic 🤣🤣🤣

[@michaelg7022]

Thanks for the vid biffa! Loving the city!

[@quaternarytetrad4039]

43:23 - such nostalgia!

[@zugy]

Be careful when you get rid of parking on streets that you give people enough parking lots. Low parking leads to a ton of "looking for spots" traffic >.< Oh and I've found in heavy pedestrian/traffic areas that I have to eliminate crosswalks and make pedestrian over/under crossings so traffic can keep moving. Otherwise people crossing will slow up turning traffic.

[@sacb0y]

In my experience you want a post box nearly every block. There's no down sides and they should not be spaced out. As long as the game gives you exp for the placement, that placement is useful.

[@Josh00044]

Even with the few bugs and little performance hiccups I still absolutely love this game and cannot wait to play it!! People complain now but for they delayed it they would have still complained.

[@Joschimoto2000]

Seeing that changing of the zoning area with walk ways, what happened to the road feature from the preview, where you could change the build area on streets like only left side, only right side, none at all? oO

[@lukasr5867]

Was that actually in the preview, though? I somehow thought so as well, but I think it was only in C:S1 where they added it earlier this year, as one of the last updates.

[@stevenwest0]

Erm... there's a major fire in the distance burning all your lovely trees 😂

[@SharkytheGunzel]

The Castle should go on its own separate Island and be a tourist attraction. Maybe with some trams to get people there????

[@Grathamare]

Im pretty sure that you don't need the post office to cover the area but the mailboxes will do the coverage and just a couple offices to have the trucks to get the mail from the boxes.

[@Gary87]

The junction with the 2 roundabout coming off the highway needs a big rework, it’s not working well at all

[@fullmetalboy84]

You can diactivate Chirper notifications in Options - Interface - Chirper Popups. Also, you can remove all un-needed crosswalks when adding smaller roads.

[@albertotognoni4819]

the game is truly in the present a lot of calistenics parks, because calisthenics is a booming trend in the young generation

[@666JGNotts]

Great stuff 😊 I’ve worked out why I’m always hungry when watching your videos - first we had cool beans, then nuts and now cheese 😂

[@stevengalloway8052]

Love the look of your city, Biffa It looks very interesting... 😏

[@jabcmw1]

With all that street parking, i would suggest more parking lots. You shouldn't pump out of the same aquafer, you'll dry it up

[@hanzzel6086]

It made 2 mistakes there: Firstly, he is using more than 100% of it's replenishment. And secondly, he needs the filters because it is (slightly) polluted (which also isn't helping his healthcare).

[@lorenzobattaglia1837]

I've just noticed that there is a suitability for the types of zoned housing, when u click on them the road color changes. Maybe that is supposed to help with keep rent at the right price? Because foe instance for low housing(richer people) the area was green right where u built the sports arenas and the park, while it was red for medium.

[@DrakeGamer85]

Nice to see the Spencer Croft district coming along nicely! Really like it. I got a few suggestions for this city: 1. I'm thinking the farm area next to the surburbs might wanna be moved away, a sign that urban encroachment is upon it and the farmers have had to move to new pastures. 2. You need a busline to run to the university, so all the Kettlebridge people can reach it with ease! 3. The university grounds should be its own district; and choose another Patreon donator for the name of the grounds and university! 4. If you ever decide to plop the Medieval Castle into the city, why not name it Blightea Castle, in honor of your British city on Cities Skylines 1?

[@albertotognoni4819]

"Darn you game" Creep me up😂

[@LeverActionLarry]

Good stuff, thanks! ☕

[@Konrad-z9w]

Here in Germany the Deutsche Post has to have a postbox every 1000 meters.

[@doesitmatter3642]

I'm really liking this new series (ended up buying the game with your link Biffa!) For the elementary/high schools, why not make the two small roads into a single one-way road? :) Happy to see the devs working on optimizing the game :) I don't know if this will help anyone, but you can also go into your GPU settings and customises how it handles CS2.

[@paulseath9247]

Biffa. Really enjoying this series and your positivity about the new game. It is running great for me. I have it on game pass for PC. Love the name Kettlebridge as there is a wee village near my hometown in Scotland called Kettlebridge, along with Kingskettle. Just one question, where did you get the large circular fountain from?

[@TheSanpletext]

Are you sure that mailbox coverage overlapping post office is bug, and not intended? I would imagine the vans that office sends out will go and empty the mailboxes that people of the area can use to send mail. Or atleast that's how it works where I live (Finland, home of CO).

[@ulruc]

I noticed since the patch dropped that my commercial demand is always through the roof. Even putting the commercial taxes at 30% is not bringing it down at all. Completly crazy!

[@CestLaVie.]

Dear Biffa Plays India Games, I believe we are playing on the same map (Lakeland, the lake one, whatever) and what I have done with my city of 30,000 pops is make the starting island the real urban core of my city. All the commercial and high density residential, as well as office and industry is on the island. All of the land surrounding the island I have made into low density residential suburbs. So far it has worked out and with the abundance of possible highway connections I have made the city into an industrial powerhouse; However, my only concern with the city is traffic, yet that'd be an easy fix. Goodluck, HaHa

[@przyjaznykanalyoutube]

I'm Polish and the tittle of this video encouraged me to watch it with passion. Polska gurom!!!!

[@c.morland]

Really enjoying this series

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou.

[@tristenfulbright122]

I love this series keep up the good work

[@williamstory158]

Greeting a "Nero" vibe as you close out with the forest area inflame in the background lol

[@arkhangellsk2163]

What is that glorious circular fountain in the croft!? I need it in my city!!

[@gonzalocainzo7579]

I figure out that the Mail problem in my City was that the Post Offices only work locally inside your City, you need to build the next biger building for outside City mail (post sorting or something like that) at least it fixes the problem for me. I hope this help someone

[@gonzalocainzo7579]

Aaaand yeah you did build one sorry 😂

[@TurpoChargedGaming]

I second a few comments I've seen on post offices. People will travel to the post office or to the mail boxes (i assume), not sure the coverage doubling up is a bug

[@andreascandolera267]

To make it prettier, plant a few trees or flowers in the spaces between the various houses

[@antongliu6444]

To keep the theme you should really refrain from using open parking lots

[@Gnaaal]

It does say in the post office text that it also functions as a drop off point for mail, i.e. doubling the coverage with post boxes shouldn't be needed.

[@JeffreyOller]

I'm sure the bug with the mail facility will be... sorted. 😎

[@duskeyowl2507]

in the menu under communication, just click the open letter symbol. Then you can place individual mailboxes around your city for postal trucks to pick up.

[@LiqdPT]

13:58 you realized here you didn't want to change the one way road to 2 way, but you'd already done it to the other half of the couplet. Might need to go back and fix it if you don't do it right after this.

[@kitten9138]

Pretty sure your train depot isn't doing anything including spawning a train because you don't have 2 of the single tracks coming from the large building connected and I believe that's where the trains are made/spawn.

[@hanzzel6086]

Trains can spawn from any track. The unconnected ones are also only for intra-city trains.

[@duskeyowl2507]

in the menu under communication, just click the open letter symbol. Then you can place individual mailboxes around your city for postal trucks to pick up.

[@chrism2440]

32:18 you are over using that water reserve !!! You will run it dry

[@Tim_van_de_Leur]

43:45 Don't care about the bug. That horrendous railyard setup is the true crime ;) You know it has a through track in the middle?

[@MillsterUK]

42:08 Where are you seeing pigs with antlers? xD

[@zantar2482]

The traffic at higher pops is broke. I constantly get cars cutting off lines off traffic to cut in front of an entrire lane of traffic. Like all cars use both lanes, but then they all decide to immediately change lanes at the same spot cutting in front of another lane. It seems worse than cs1

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

City is looking lovely 😍 Really enjoying seeing the new assets and how you are working things to do better with keeping people happy!! Great job!!!

[@thesunnynationg]

maybe you could build an "old town" with a wall surrounding it. but the wall shouldn't enclose everything. just keep "historic" pieces of the wall and maybe a big collector road where the wall "used to be" just an interesting thought when i saw the big retaining wall. we have a town where i live that is, as mentioned.

[@alix3974]

Tożto prawie papieżowa liczba

[@Kilran92]

the Roundabouts on the step are halfroundabouts, if i saw that correctly 07:00.

[@Hive__]

If I were you, I'd put the castle on a little Island, would make for a beatuiful location, use the grand bridges as connecting roads for it

[@creativefox6066]

Performance really increased a lot. Still wondering if the big amount of commercial demand is a bug. Its off the scale very often. Nice vid, thanks.

[@ataith224]

We need a bus line to the new university. Poor student without car can't get there

[@mlf1982]

Could you squeeze a small road behind the row homes for some parking basically, as you remove one side of the road for parking? (I loved this idea, looks so much better and less crowded!).

[@idantal1779]

thank you so much for the video! I'm so happy you are vegan too😍

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome and I'm not vegan 😊

[@publicAvoid-qn3zn]

I haven't finished watching the video yet, altho I tried the new patch and discovered that now I need to fill my city with Elementary schools in order to make up for the demand lol

[@pluxauag7555]

Thank you Auto Shenanigans channel, he covers the real life actual motorways of Britain and has now compared the Intersections/Junctions of Cities Skylines 2 with the large selection of motorway intersections he has covered around the UK. Thumbs up to you Biffa and always love the Motorway shenanigans over on his channel. Will Road Guy Rob and Peter Dibble have a dip into Cities Skylines 2 with their wonderful channels. Note: Road Guy Rob and the science of the CFI Intersection.

[@Mad7H]

You could probably get away with one or two post offices if you scatter some mailboxes around the city like you would do with bus stops. Enjoying this series, Biffa! 😁😁 Edit: Maybe this would redcuce traffic as well, since people don't have to drive to the post office to deliver their mail

[@johnlewis974]

I love the 50+ min episodes!

[@wakcedout]

I went with settings from someone’s vid and. Normal zoom in I average 60fps using ryzen 7 7800 and rx 7600. Not at the top specs req but near there with my setup. All in all, those wanting more, higher fps in a city builder is crazy. 60 to 90 are just fine.

[@marcrubin9359]

You got to place the castle on top of a mountain or higher point than that hill!

[@arakainer]

Super good epizode 😍😍 I enjoyed every single minute 👍👍