Crafting the Perfect University Campus in Cities Skylines 2!

[@ybokors8524]

That pedestrian bridge looks janky, it would look way more natural if it were a straight slope down, or if that's too steep it should have a slope next to the retention wall (as it could be mounted on or just stabilized by it) and then bridge across the river.

[@lordraven2264]

Totally agree, it looks like a soar thumb. I was thinking it should slope down following the wall until it's at a reasonable height to cross the river. Maybe even switch-back a little at the wall, but use the wall to blend the slope.

[@leestoddart7014]

Came to say this! I agree it looks crazy and would never have been built like that in real life. A slope down beside the retaining wall would certainly have been incorporated and probably a slope on the bridge itself and finally another slope down on the other side of the river.

[@Kopa_Malphas]

100% agree, a switchback style pedestrian path to bringing it to a more manageable height for a bridge would fix the look.

[@paulknight5018]

Although a little janky there are a number of curly wurly bridges built in the 60's in new towns I know there is one in Martins way Stevenage and one over the m4 in Swindon. it needs to be a bit more plane though.

[@vincentnoordhuis7040]

This was exactly what I was thinking!

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

Biffa that bridge. Run it parallel with the quay wall then gradually run it down to a nicer gradient then across the river.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

But the view!! 😅

[@kylek3627]

That bridge is insane lol 🤯

[@EdwardClayMeow]

The pedestrian bridge reminds me of a rollercoaster. As for the rest of the build, it is looking good.

[@pyromncer410]

All I can think of watching this is all the students that will fall down off the bridge or onto the rail after a night out drinking 😱 Hopefully the schools have set up some good fences around the place!

[@MobiusOne1005]

I think it would make more sense to actually tunnel the train line through your college campus. With how low down the line exits the quay wall, a tunnel is just more practical, plus you get the added benefit of not having to have all those bridges over the train trench. ALSO: YAY for finally connecting the train and bus terminals with a pedestrian bridge!

[@jameswiebe8956]

Biffa - Yeah, that bridge is terrifying. IRL, the bridge would run right beside and at the same level as the train bridge, with pedestrians going under the tunnel on the university side. Then, the path would curve up to the university ground level within the university property area. The other option would be as mentioned elsewhere - sloping down on the outside of the retaining wall until it was level with the road on the opposite side, allowing a level walking bridge. One other point - there is a triangle of ground where the train tracks diverge on the other side of the university grounds. At present, you have kept the ground in the middle of the triangle at university height. This results in a huge expense of retaining wall around a piece of ground that is not otherwise accessible. IRL, this ground would all be taken down to train track height, so the only retaining walls are those directly between the train tracks and the university level. (Frankly, they likely would have left a steep slope if possible - retaining walls like that are *expensive* to build. Keep the slope but have it tree-covered is best of all.)

[@sparkymarky68]

oops - i should have read all the comments - agree with you.

[@EternalGamingNet]

Such a beautiful build today. Historically I have a feeling the traditional university has been there a while and through grants and endowments they were able to build the modern medical University. The only thing missing is a couple of medium density and low rent residential zones for student housing. Great video!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank your and great idea 👍

[@therussianprincess7036]

I was also thinking the rocks added around the base of that land reminded me of a moat - with the ruins already there, there could’ve been some fortifications that a university got added to ages ago, and then got modernized as you said!

[@plip13]

Hi Biffa. Maybe the railway tracks should be a tunnel. Then you'd have more room for either a station (more convenient for people) or to put your bookshop or other additional element. Congratulations on this campus, it looks great. Now we need to dig up the river (just a little!!). Thank you very much.

[@juliejongkryg6296]

Any dormitory to go with the university and maybe a coffee shop?

[@kathyweber2089]

28:43 is a perfect spot for those two small buildings from your ruins. Like they were houses that were abandoned on that little cliff. I like the new University area! Really pretty on that cliff.

[@t1a2n3e4r5i6c7a8]

I think with that big of a university you’d have a lot of dorms and apartments. Maybe right by the train station near the end of the pedestrian bridge. That’s how my college was! The gym and apartments were a pedestrian bridge away from campus.

[@YHY88]

You forgot to add the 3rd university. Once you place it, you will have extra bonuses city wide plus some unique buildings.

[@rahansk8200]

Train station for student maybe ?

[@nikicroft]

The pedestrian bridge. I would never, too high. My suggestion Slope down close to the wall, straight bridge and slope dow to the ground level.

[@matthewkrohn6486]

I think a great name for the college would Yorkshire UniversiTEA! All the tea puns! 😃

[@jameswiebe8956]

FYI - Weird piece of info for slopes of walking paths. The maximum slope allowed is about 8% (1:12) - this is for wheelchair accessibility - paths through forests need not follow this rule. For Cities Skylines, each unit (square) is supposed to be 8 metres, and each elevation line is 1 metre. So to make your pedestrian path slopes legal, you can go down 2 elevation lines for every 3 units (squares) forward. For roads, most areas limit you to 12% - 15% (1:8 to 1:6ish). So you can go up/down one elevation line for each unit (square) of road and still be acceptably safe. Where I come From (Canada), collector roads are limited to 8% (1:12 - same as wheelchair rules above), and local roads are limited to 10% (1:10 - somewhere between 1 unit forward for each elevation line and 3 units forward for every 2 elevation lines) without getting special permission.

[@chetanaik]

Couple of suggestions: - For the pedestrian bridge, why not make the bridge lower height (maybe equal to the train bridge) and the make a ramp or swirly UP to the university level on the other bank. Make the bridge a stick out a little less - Consider using the road builder mod! Gives absolute flexibility in road selection and design - it even has a mini road workshop within the mod where you can use other user's roads!

[@BillinhoBamford]

Having dropped my daughter off at uni a few weeks ago, what shocked me was the amount of student accommodation that exists for a modern uni. Maybe NBU (New Brewburgh Uni) needs some more dorms/accomodation?

[@wolfgangBuonarotti]

i bet the occupancy rates on those dorms are gonna be in decline until they repurpose them. short of a solar flare, nothing is reversing the online-ing trend.

[@stuartmayberry666]

I wish that the university pieces were smaller like they were in Cities Skylines. If they were, I think some elevation tiers would be cool. Plus that could make the pedestrian bridge look a bit less terrifying.

[@Scoreface]

I think a cable car from the trainstation to the University would look great.

[@IdentityAcaSi]

Ahhh yes a biffa city 2 vid , time to get the kettle on

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy the tea! 😁

[@sea75300]

The district/university should be called "Golden heights", because the view at sundown looks awesome ☀️😊.

[@Solstice261]

Glad to see the game is more stable now, also from my experience as a European student the university always ends up outside the city in the edge of new development with barely any ground, not this weird posh campus stuff, Where is my claustrophobic public education. Well anyways really cool build, really begins to give the city personality

[@roybmanofmerlin]

Biffa you moved a bunch of standing stones, hopefully this will not unleash a curse upon the city, or they may have been an earlier version of Alien Rock Park 😨☠😈🧙‍♂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅👍

[@aldershotcoinclub]

Cup of Yorkshire tea + 2 biscuits + watching biffa detail = my afternoon relaxation done ✔️ 😊

[@svenraether2898]

Another brewteaful morning with Biffa

[@adamcastle2691]

Put the train line under ground

[@roybmanofmerlin]

it could be called 'Eye of the Teager' Campus as it's all Rocky 🥊🥊

[@mygerms9568]

I feel as if a high density shopping area would be good for the next episode. With the citizens having lower taxes and therefore more money to spend as well as the low commercial tax this would make sense!

[@amaresch66]

It looks like the university add-ons would plop down over the top of the sunken rail line, which gives you more options to make the entire campus fit together better.

[@ryryk6977]

That’s one thing I wish they would fix the elementary schools it don’t how many you put they just fill up so quick

[@DrakeGamer85]

Also, University Name: Brewburgh Technic Campus

[@DarkPegasus8774]

Oh my goodness! The amount of detailing you put into this Riverside college front is so gorgeous. The amount of exquisite grass, trees, props and various items to make this more beautiful 😍😍😍

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you so much!

[@DarkPegasus8774]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I think I'm really interesting idea. You should nibly the streams that you see throughout your city. You should make them big waterways for fairies to get through to carry passengers to other parts of the city. Even though you have monorail buses and trains, etc. I think this will be an opportunity to use the water as a transport system and make a big Central harbor Hub for cargo and passenger ships

[@JimBones1990]

@@DarkPegasus8774 That's a ferry good idea.

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

Was reading comments about the bridge and all I could think is I like that high bridge!! We just went thru a thousand year flood and the higher the better is how I feel now🤩

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

THANK YOU! Someone who enjoys the fun aspect of building in a sandbox game! 😅

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines That's the best part!! 😄

[@JayWalker]

Love the spiral ramp for the pedestrian bridge.. the skateboarders would love it, IF the game had skateboards ;)

[@ghassenjabri959]

this game needs some sort of stairs for pedestrians

[@fil23ralliart]

BTW I build my Rock walls using Random rocks, random rotation and the line tool... still looks quite random, as expected

[@AshtonRG]

looks like no one is parking at the new hospital. maybe road is glitched.

[@circumcenter13]

Beautiful Campus! I suggest mimicking the train bridge with your pedestrian bridge and have it tunnel under the same way as to lower the precarious height and make a little more reasonable... I thought the train cutting through like that was pretty ingenious though.

[@stormfire962imastarcitizen5]

Biffa as I have said before this city you are creating keeps looking more amazing with each video you do. Also, if I may suggest. You might want to consider adding small archway bridges over the trainlines. If you can and possibly a sloped retaining wall along the trainline as well if it exists for the game. Also, have an idea for that very high walking path bridge which doesn't feel right to me. Try changing the walking path run parallel to the retaining wall slope down and a bit off from it and then build a bridge over the river to where you want it to go. It will look more realistic and make better sense then what you have now. Another thing you might want to look into with that powerful Road Builder mod is creating custom walking paths since it might give better road to path connections. Had another idea you might want to explore when it comes to the rocks. Try use tall rocks to push them in the terrain and I think you might get better results. In addition, had a though on some of the game crashes you get from time to time with CS2. It might be a good idea to consider upgrading your PC to an AMD 7900XTX GPU instead. Because something about the RTX 4090 that you might not be aware of and could exist in your GPU. At the of the release of this GPU there were and still are a shortage of VRAM chips. Which resulted in some cards be sold with lesser powerful VRAM chips and to maker matters worse customers weren't aware of it because the car manufacture never printed that information on the box. The information is only available in the card's serial number.

[@mgunter]

Just do a switchback style bridge to step-up.

[@shaneord7527]

Pedestrian bridge would be more cost effective /realistic if it had key wall stairs/zig-zag slopes against the key wall down to bank lavel on the other side so the bridge is not so high.

[@AdamHinckley]

9:38 you could utilise the same level with the railway for a station so that people could get over there by train if they wanted to

[@aluxtube3089]

Biffa your timlapse got better graphic color settings than your playthrough graphics Kindly keep the prior one throughout the video

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It was an editing decision in post, I liked it 👍

[@jamesrobinson23]

Lovely build, I love seeing education and healthcare services (practice clinic) being built. Great job as always.

[@Miedeth1]

Is it possible to sneak another rail line through there? Maybe get the cargo separated to it's own line so it's not getting in the way of the passenger rail.

[@kn3448]

I'd call it Percival Grainger-Tipps universitea. Mr Grainger-Tipps being the person who initially founded the campus.

[@leestoddart7014]

Yes - good old Mr Tipps (or PG as we always called him) was such an altruistic benefactor of education

[@colinclark9963]

Maybe the bridge should keep the incline closer to the cliff. A switchback to reduce elevation and then going straight across, lower than the trains would seem more appropriaite. If you want to be more experimental, I'd do a full 360 turn going down then straight across or visa-versa (which you did but stretched it out)

[@fil23ralliart]

Seems the University precinct was built on some old castle ruins...? Cant think of a name though, not too familiar with castles us Aussies... I do know Japanese ones but not british... Himeji is the best Japanese castle IMO, bcos its where I lived

[@Japonicastar]

Well there’s Hever Castle in Kent which is the family seat of Anne Boleyn. It’s said Hee-ver so goes very well with Teaver… Teaver University perhaps? 😊

[@bonknana]

​​@@Japonicastar I love Teaver University! Or perhaps Teaver Castle University/Royal Teaver University?

[@SethDueck]

9:58 I wish there was some way to build your university with almost no earth moving because a university on a hill that gradually curves down to two rivers would be so beautiful

[@samlukas2299]

Could've used the mountain cable car instead of that janky pedestrian bridge

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Not in csl2 you can't 😉

[@samlukas2299]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Boo. Fix it devs

[@Gabriel.-_-.]

Name for the University, how about UniTea

[@marcrubin9359]

Pedestrian bridge aside, a really great build. I think it looks amazing. Right in the heart of the city. It looks like nearby there may be some space to build a college town of sorts. The only thing it is missing is some housing! If you do build a housing college town area, just run a shuttle back and fourth for realism (we know they won't all live in that area). Great job!

[@antoinemorel9654]

Great video! Your pedestrian bridge looks really unrealistically high, I would put stairs on the cliff on by the university and put a lower bridge instead. Also it'd be nice to have some university housing nearby the university, maybe on the other side of your collector road that joins everything together.

[@christopherjunkins]

5:04 OHROBOJESUS! Talk about a jump scare! 🤣

[@thadizzie1]

Good stuff Biffa! Maybe you can add the small colleges/university to the campuses. They can be like extention wings and they are the size of libraries.

[@magicalmac7505]

The devs should make it so that when a path becomes too steep, it turns into stairs. Or at least add the option to upgrade paths to stairs

[@jeison00]

I don't know about the pedestrian bridge, I would run that parallel to the key wall as it lowers gradually then once it is at a more manageable height then make a bridge across the river coming down to the road height.

[@DönerMann1]

How are ya Biffa thanks for the vid

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome 😁

[@MyLegion01]

Is like a bay university .... You could do a pedestrian road next to the river and add the ruins near to be an exploration zone

[@ChaserYohmoi]

I feel like a safety fence is needed along the top of the retaining walls around the train track, given the height of it plus the trains running through there

[@Kodanikage]

Fortress Hill University. I had a whole scenario in my head that the University was built upon/around the old ruins of an old fortification

[@macaidwin]

In reality the pedestrian bridge might be combined with the railbridge. Maybe the roadbuilder mod can add a path to the railwaybridge?

[@scriptea]

Just tunnel the train...

[@msar20]

I would say to deepen the river but we all know what biffas like with water. It would be like new tealand all over again ( episode with the Dam near the airport ) 😂

[@MartinLaplace]

You should have at least a couple shuttle buses from main hubs, I thought you were going to add a train stop. Low rent housing for students could look cool as well.

[@bobblebardsley]

College Library: When you plop it down it has two pedestrian access symbols. When you place the road alongside it, one of those disappears. The other is further from the road, like the library's own built-in path to the front door is broken. Could you anarchy in an invisible path between the road and the door? I don't know if that's possible or if it would work but it might be worth trying.

[@fubar4fun]

Ped Bridge needs to slope down before crossing the river along the quay

[@vfxsoup]

You need hanging vines on that concrete wall. Would look excellent!

[@TheMFZB]

I think maybe some trams or busses up to the university area would be nice

[@patrikhjorth3291]

Don't forget to add some affordable housing for students near the university!

[@RahoulJoshi]

Maybe add invisible path to those default ruins so cims can explore and interact with it

[@bluesquare23]

Ngl didn’t get what you were doing till you stated to put the rocks down and then like a bob ross painting it all started to come together and turned out really nice! Although a real campus with open trains would certainly mean a lotta drunk college kids falling down there lolz!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

They'll only do it once!

[@mauriciocarlessoe]

You can add another extension wing on the other side 24:10

[@RoninTX3377]

As high as the quay is, you could have added a second level to it to have like a lower level park or amphitheater at the point.

[@peterbark8452]

I hope it's not to windy or rainy near that pedestrian sky walk to the uni.

[@0blueguitar]

if you look again to the trainline which curves into the trainline with the retainingwalls, there is a connection not correct and it bugs there with a little peak in hight :D

[@brickingwithtoby5280]

You should have custom signs made with the university name to have at the entrance of the university area.

[@sparkymarky68]

my tuppence on the path - run it alongside the train track as that would be more likely than a separate bridge....maybe road builder can build a track with a path on one side.

[@L08Productions]

I don't think I would ever use that pedestrian bridge if it was real. You should see if you could make a lower bridge over the river but then have it snake up the side of the cliff instead?

[@greenspleen385]

maybe add a fence around the train tracks in the new university area

[@666JGNotts]

Would the pedestrian bridge be better if it also crossed over that road as well as the river? This would mean that people wouldn’t need to hold up traffic crossing that road then.

[@jeanneelisabeth6331]

The Brewers University Campus maybe?

[@andyman127]

maybe just me... but the basic terrain with trees would look way better than the rocks. looks like a armored shore like near a chemical plant along the gulf coast of texas

[@cynvision]

Took them two years but finally detailing is back. If your computer has the chops...

[@cynvision]

scale of some buildings is still a bit strange to me

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Two years? Game is 1 year old 😉

[@stevengalloway8052]

Oh, so you're NOW getting some highly educated facilities in your city, Biffa? 😆

[@joeseppe]

N.A.R.U.T.O - New Alien Rock UniversiTEA of Technical Occupations

[@unkl115]

The cost of that giant retaining wall would be similar to the GDP of a small African nation!

[@tomascampos7872]

the pedestrian can slope down to the train station a more direct connection

[@KradenkoZA]

Biffa, what about a small train station in the academic area? Just a stop on the route between the two parts of your city?

[@gwalla]

Biffa I'm not sure if right next to a busy rail line is the best location for a library! Also, why rule out the subway? It seems like an excellent transit option for an area that is otherwise only accessible by a couple of bridges.

[@eldolly]

I think it will be better to split the ramps of the pedestrian bridge between the two sides

[@jim99ful]

Looks great Biffa.

[@player372]

watching biffa first thing in the morning

[@Niscimble]

You know as realistic as this game can look, I am always thrown off by the lack of parking. Like that university area would have at least two parking garages to accommodate all the students and faculty for example. And probably a big surface lot surrounding the stadium.

[@Cities-By-Maps]

A name I thought up was Castle Campus.😊

[@Byronpat]

Ooh didn't realise I was so early. Hi Biffa!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

o7

[@bardsleyboy123]

That Uni deffo looks like a St. Steeping Universitea.

[@Kenny-hq2ln]

So excited for this video! 🙌

[@jimmybrown8225]

Flowing Waters University