From Empty Tile to Authentic European City in Cities Skylines 2!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@Doheminarmy]

Guten tag

[@Doheminarmy]

Bonjour

[@Madafaka2343]

District name: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz It translates to "i like tea"

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤣

[@gastah5so170]

The translation says “Beef Labeling Supervision Task Transfer Act” 😂

[@joshcuffe1168]

Old Brauenburg as the district name! Play on words with Brewburgh, with a german twist

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Ooh clever! :-)

[@lg.studio]

Then go with Alt, instead of Old, do be more German.

[@StarShadowPrimal]

I like it, but you could also play on that and then let the name evolve in a more organic way that ended up with the English-speaking locals calling it something that sounds more like words they know, like Old Brownsburg, or shortening it to something Obrunsburg.

[@DrakeGamer85]

Really clever! Didn't think of that! XD

[@inyobill]

Alt Braueberg

[@maxscharff1267]

If we would wanna go tea-related: the most famous German tea is the „Friesentee“ or „Ostfriesentee“… so i propose „East Friesen“ or maybe you could call the River Friesen

[@edwardtheinsane]

For your very deep river, you could just lean in and emphasize its canyon-ness. And turn it into a feature and make it a national park or something. I haven't really seen anyone do that.

[@TheZzuzy]

Its time to name it Biffaburg city in honor of all your hard work and dedication over the years!

[@szabolcsbenedek1504]

I don't know, seems a bit odd to me. There doesn't seem to be a clear center of this conglomerate of separately grown up cities. It's like they grew into eachother, and even the street layouts don't seem to be centered towards anything. The old town's streets in Europe always lead to a square, or towards a destination. And from one to another were conected for better transportation. I can't see the evolution from one part of town to the next, it seems as if Autumn Medows was the ”new city, built on the shining hill up above”, just so that the others can be conglomerated. I like the small triangles for the firehouse, and the crematorium. They are built in the right places, look like the type of square I was talking about, being a destination around destinations

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

I love how the french and german buildings blend so nicely!! Looking good!! Really did give a bump up to CS2. Great build Biffa 🤩

[@cheech-7-7-7]

I never ever saw a carpark in the middle of a german housing complex Biffman. Usually like in Belin you could walk around a houseblock without finding an entrance to the backyard. You can only enter those little green islands through the house itself

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I bestowed upon them the beauty of a close by parked car :-)

[@rahansk8200]

In the rental in Berlin, where I was, there was a small car park in the courtyard of the building. And I was 10 minutes from the center by metro.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

So what you're saying is someone commented something on the Internet as fact and your own personal irl situation proved them wrong 👍😅

[@cheech-7-7-7]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I was talking about those Building Complexes wich are made in 1920 to 1950, most of those old houses have been bombed in WW2. The ones that still exist usually had no carparks inside...lots of them have a garage under the house

[@sprknsntatterh8r515]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines where on PDX is that car park?

[@Comdroid66]

Just watching biffa with my cat and a nice hot cupper. Life is good

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice! :-)

[@darthseti9492]

Biffa this city is breathtaking!! Wow I'm glad you are still making amazing content, Happy Festive Season 🎉🎉

[@TheDigitalDevils]

Missed opportunity to start and place the German train station with full upgrades for doublesided access and in what would be the center of the town and expand outwards from that. That is the way most older European towns actually are built. That and churches galore with huge empty squares for the towns people to meet up at the farmers markets etc. Most things use centers to expand outwards from. This is just "plop one here, something else here etc."

[@Japonicastar]

“Just adds a little something something” that’s ConflictNerd’s level of description! Love you both by the way! 😊

[@Al-Brown_BluesChannel]

Yey !!! Biffa is back and takes my hometown of Berlin as a building example !!!

[@magikal_maddi2130]

I absolutely lost it at 11:26 with the Pikachu!

[@nealjroberts4050]

These areas are usually called something like Old Town by the locals so Oldbrew? Altenbräu in German. Or perhaps Oude Brouwsel for that Dutch element.

[@lukejams]

now this is the right way to play cities skylines, placing buildings by hand, block by block, looks so much more organic.

[@roybmanofmerlin]

I love how your Horky Porky Road layouts still seem organised and pretty looking. Maybe the suburb could be called Brewlin. Or Brewlin Gardens

[@time_to_teaparty]

I have a suggestion about the highway in the EU section. In Berlin there is the "A100" highway that wraps around south/west Berlin. Most section of west Berlin have that highway sunken into the ground so the connection roads are not cut in half. They function as on- and offramps too. When you need more inspiration, there are some nice road layouts around "Savignyplatz", "Meyerinckplatz" and subwaystation "Spichernstr." West Berlin wasn't as much destroyed as the east in the war so you find more old style layouts there. For the future Japanpack I can suggest you some cool layouts in Tokyo. Interesting enough, the city of Pyongyang has some interesting street layouts and island builds.

[@FaithlessEmoRacing]

Could call this area TeaSong Mills. As a small tribute to its foundation but with a new Tea related twist.

[@feliciiaab]

I’ve been re-watching Blightea-on-the-wold and missing that city. This video came just in time and gave me more european vibes!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Cities 2 UK build coming soon 👍😁

[@feliciiaab]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Ouhh! Looking forward to it 🤩

[@derbygaz]

Biffa, I think if you push the High School back a bit further and turn the alley into a road, the resulting triangle would look great with medium dwellings on. This would look normal in an old town

[@BlueDirico]

Love that start for the old city, the Berlin's inspiration is very nice with the river around !

[@ExpedientFalcon]

Classic anarchy mode adding random extra nodes and breaking your roundabouts.

[@sampreston200]

I'm impressed that you always have your tea on stand by, I salute you.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

o7

[@cheech-7-7-7]

Oh yeah, I had the same Idea to show you a map of Hamburg or Berlin to show you that we have kind of huge house blocks but there is mostly a huge space in the middle like a park with big trees.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yeah it was great inspiration 😁

[@666JGNotts]

Great idea, looking forward to it taking shape over the next few episodes 😊 It’s a shame though that the river level seems to be a lot lower than street level as far as I can see…. I could be wrong though!

[@YHY88]

25:28 for a district name: Palais des Thés (FR) or Ronnefeldt (DE). Both are well-known tea brands.

[@GCOSBenbow]

The old city/cradle of Paris is known as Île de la Cité (City Island), most will say the equivalent in Berlin is Nikolaiviertel (Nicholas's Quarter). Maybe take inspiration from both and call it 'Brew City Quarter'?

[@Likasense]

London had one too, but it connected it with the neigbouring landmass

[@iwanlloyd703]

love this new addition to the city

[@EldGames]

Had to watch 20:40 a few times, thought you said "Housing Mistakes" and I was like, "No, those look good, I don't think they are mistakes." Turns out it was my mistake - "Houseing and Estates"

[@zendorin]

The name of the district could be The AnTEAque District 😁

[@PontusAleryd]

here here! love this idea :)

[@EternalGamingNet]

Just made a fresh cup of tea and looking forward to this build!

[@dijikstra8]

Very nice! I wouldn't really call it "old town" though, those buildings are more like 19th-early 20th century, the kind that make up large parts of European inner cities. "Old town" to me at least connotates a much older area, like medieveal era.

[@mattazmy]

Great concept; this is the first time we have seen you do this.

[@ws_stelzi79]

District name: Bräuburg - This would be an almost literal German translation of "Brewburgh" without the "new" part. It also has a very fancy (at least in English) looking "ä" that really makes sense here and isn't some fancy style thing. 🤪

[@JDKempton]

I like the river cutting through the mountain gives a canyon look IMHO

[@SMITHY705]

Going back a couple of videos but I definitely think the university should be called fort brewberg university (FBU). With the ruins there it sure has an old fort feel 👍

[@nacoran]

Not sure for the whole city, but one of the blocks should be Tea Square. A hotel called The Four Celestial Seasons, a pair of tall buildings called the Twinning Towers...

[@brustavez]

Really loving the combo of French and German packs!

[@hkan_theswed]

Oh to see you building here is just magic and gives me a lot of ideas

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you @hkan_theswed :-)

[@DungeonKeeper]

In Germany we have a special kind of sugar - Kluntje - and it is a rock candy. It is often drunk in dark tee (some like it with cream) in East Frisia (Ostfriesland). Maybe "Kluntje" could be a name for some part of the map :D

[@DanAI17]

I'd go with Alt Buren-burgh, roughly Old Brewburgh in German! Loved Berlin when I went this year so looking forward to seeing this area develop!

[@PartTimeMAYOR]

Seems really nice and natural!

[@PhilSrobeighn]

Oh boy, I'm rarely in early enough for the naming discussion! But all I can come up with is a silly one: how about Heiss-Blattwasser?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Not sure what that means! 😅

[@TheScreamun]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Hot-Leafwater :D

[@brendanwall9513]

Suggestion to use the new ‘old’ French train station instead of the small one. Fits the old city idea better.

[@nortonniersen3154]

Maybe a name that has changed over time. My idear is Kohl-Kaiser-Brück. The original name was Colonia Julius Caesar but after the Roman empire fell the name changed and because of a stone bridge surviving until the Middle ages Brück for Bridge was added. It would simbolise a milenia old history.

[@trainmaniac5524]

At 3:22 on the top of the river is the train station U Spittelmarkt. That is the train station that was closest to my hotel when I was Berlin.

[@lvcas2557]

i think a great name for this could be "Camellia's town" it come from the latin name of the tree where the tea come from, could be good since it's like an old town vibe

[@BillyBnMore]

Wow CS2 is finally coming together

[@Amethyst454]

I love the music in the 15+ min mark

[@mygerms9568]

The area should be called Berghain

[@simongeard4824]

The "islands" you point out at the start look like locks for ships going upriver... I've never been to Berlin, but I saw similar structures in Prague...

[@beratna1]

While I really enjoy this series, I can't shake the feeling that the 4way highway interchange was and still is hugely overbuilt. (Case in point: the tunnel for the industry buildings). The current German themed quarter is a good thing, however I feel like the Autobahn shouldn't be going through the old town.

[@simongeard4824]

Yeah, I think that stack interchange should be downgraded... it's a massive system interchange, but with half of it now converted to urban roads, a simpler service interchange would be more in keeping with how the area is actually being developed.

[@ianfield1250]

New district name, Städmittea. Städmitte is German for town centre, just made it tea on the end 😁

[@AceCat]

I'd like to suggest Old Brüberg for the name. Its Europeany and a nod to it being the OG part of the city... 🤔 Loving the city though!

[@ChaserYohmoi]

Love how biffa keeps putting schools on the basic alley that has no sidewalks 😂

[@cheech-7-7-7]

oh thank you, that´s what I was waiting for...could be a bit longer...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy! Also feel free to watch it at half speed to make it longer 😅

[@mouhamadoudiako]

Name should be Valburgh as the oldest town before urbanization on New Brewburgh!

[@SiqueScarface]

If this new district is modelled after Berlin, it could have a name like Teelow. Seelow is a small town East of Berlin. And Tee is the German word for Tea. We also could get a German-French portmanteau and name it Thelow, with thé being the French word for tea. And to not turn it into the low, maybe Thelau instead.

[@Viltan]

At the square with the parking inside the houses, you can have graffiti or murals on the walls so they doesnt feel so empty.

[@robertrickwood8896]

You could rename Birdsong Mills to East Frisian. It’s in Germany. It’s famous for its tea museum and German tea culture.

[@Saftiger_Teig]

I would replace the level stock interchange, since they are really uncommon in Germany, instead you could use a cloverleaf interchanges, which you see here everywhere.

[@jacobite2353]

Maybe avoid doing so many overpasses it feels unrealistic to me because I am pretty sure those bridges are really expensive compared to a regular crossing.

[@mikedaigle3938]

I have 7-8 overpasses within a 1-2 mile radius. Very realistic in my area lol

[@AceCat]

We have many here in the UK, we are just a tiny country with many rivers 🥹

[@inyobill]

The sims are such boneheads, it takes extreme measures to achieve anything like smooth flow.

[@lisah.7640]

I'm from Germany. The city I live in has 2500 bridges. Venice has 400 for comparison.

[@jacobite2353]

@@AceCat Huh, I guess it's me living in a very rural area cause I don't see any and it just seems more logical to have crossings.

[@esumiwa5583]

Biffa: time to ditch the X and join Bluesky!

[@ipex8772]

My Idea for the new district would be "Kräuterstadt", which is German for "Herb Town".

[@jamielodge140]

District name: Old Tea Pot

[@3ords3orth]

With the mix of German & French assets maybe, Palais des Thés? I think that store has locations in both countries.

[@lordraven2264]

Love the additions. Everything seems to be running so smooth, very cool. I'm still having problems with CS2. "Move It" is causing a crash, had to remove it from the web page just to load my game. Now it crashes every time I click on it in the mod center.

[@Tonydoore]

for the district Schwarztee-on-the-water Schwarztee being a Gernam tea brand

[@shaneintheuk2026]

Are the artificial islands platforms for river taxis? They really have the look of a railway station which made me wonder if they are for river transport?

[@lovecontemplation8607]

It’s called a meandering river 😊

[@brucebacsi]

Krankenwagenstadt as a district name, because we need some beautiful german names in CitiSkylines :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Also, hearing me pronounce that would be fun!

[@risk-rator]

i dont know a name for the whole district, but there you have an absolute "isola tiberina".

[@frenchfriar]

You just built Old Brew burgh!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I did lol :-)

[@frenchfriar]

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines you did ask for a name for that section, right? There you go: Old Brewburgh.

[@nonames4ever]

District name: New Brewlin

[@craigleemonkman2669]

What about Teaside for the new district as you could also name the River Tea

[@captainjaneway2007]

How about Conteanental Heights for the district name? Because the Styles of buildings are from the Continent.

[@Connar]

Didn't play for some time, are those new german/french buildings growable, like the district styles in 1 or just ploppables? Also, is there a modlist biffa uses for cs2?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yes they're growable, like all the new Region packs coming of. Mod list on my Discord 👍

[@simonfromdublin928]

You should name your new district Freman FREnch gerMAn a play on the word freeman just it be a good name for it 😊

[@DeepLab_]

I will suggest Brewling

[@stephenreardon2698]

How about renaming the area Scott Mills, after the new presenter of the Radio 2 Breakfast show, as you have your morning cuppa

[@jameswritessometimes]

Please do let’s plays on frostpunk 2!!!

[@inyobill]

02:15: Them're locks

[@UnfilteredAdventures]

A district name… Tea-nanmen Square? Or would KZbin take issue 😂

[@stevekirkby6570]

rilliant Biffa, as ever.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@stevekirkby6570]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Sorry iffa :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

No prolem

[@madneo87]

Eurotean would be a funny name :P

[@VigorWindelhed]

I think the district should be named Old Brew burgh

[@speedracermike3448]

New area name: Brewlin

[@eurotrashks]

Potzdam might work as a name.

[@rockybrown7678]

District name: Old Citea

[@Nasdegoma]

Actually all corner buldings have a 90° angle. A mod that adapt their shape to the roads angle should be very cool

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

100% that would be great! :-)

[@fuckshitfuckshitfuck]

Name it Brewlin 😉

[@draigaur9543]

18:15 But i like big blocks and i cannot lie .........

[@matthewhewitt341]

What about Brewlin? (Brewdapest would also work)

[@MartinLaplace]

Respect the topography! Sorry, wrong channel hahaha.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:P

[@patchworkboy87]

For a district name, since it is based on Berlin, what about Little Brewlin?

[@vfxsoup]

Classic Biffa, Biffering a brilliantly busy and bustling barrage of beauty.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Bostin' :-)

[@Animus1539]

Name the district "Teeblätter" - tealeaf in German.

[@apihut1]

Call the new area "Brewrope"