My most UNIQUE CUSTOM build in Cities Skylines 2 [War fort and historic district]

[@Infrastructurist]

EDIT: This fort might have played a role in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, not the Civil War. Hi everyone! Hope you've all had a great weekend! For early access to most videos (such as this one) and sneak peeks, check out www.patreon.com/infrastructurist For merch designed by me, check out infrastructurist-shop.fourthwall.com Hola

[@____-fv4bm]

Infra are you gonna go into trillions of dollars of debt to keep the playthrough authentic for an American city?

[@Infrastructurist]

ALL IN TEH NAME OF REALISM BABY!

[@dalton-at-work]

i hope so! but also debt is fake and used a weapon - they bailed out wall street multiple times but wont bail out medical and student debt.

[@RonaldTrumpOfficial]

@@InfrastructuristAlso, I haven’t seen enough highways going through poor neighbourhoods, or homeless encampments with drugs scattered everywhere

[@Cjandtheoccult]

Maybe he can send some of the money to other players and charge his citizens maxed out taxes...

[@Glasstable2011]

As soon as he notices he can tax the wealthiest a little bit more so they pay their fair share, the authenticity ends

[@Blackrew]

That fort is definitely one of the most unique CS2 builds I've seen so far

[@z_yt_96]

Don't worry about the tone of your voice, i can put you on 1.5x and you sound like you've had 3 espressos and you're infodumping at the café

[@Infrastructurist]

HAhahahahahahaha, weirdly relatable

[@BlazingsNL]

Can't unhear the vocal fry tho :(

[@iea96]

I watch all his videos on 2.25x. Sorry 😬

[@bluemoonproductions9012]

@@iea96 i can burn thru an hour episode in only half an hour 😁

[@wrick17]

Watching the money go down that fast has been the most stressful thing ever. Can't stress enough. Please get more taxpayers. That aside, superb episode and the city is forming BEAUTIFULLY!! Can't wait for the next episode.

[@Infrastructurist]

Hahahah, sorry! Yeah things are getting a little dangerous now :D And thank you!

[@penguintux3025]

Also may need to raise taxes. I don't remember what they're set at for New Haven; Next episode should be adding in more taxpayers and assessing the budget & tax situation.

[@tomb2bomb]

Nice Job with the Fort! One major Detail ist missing though. Maybe you could add a big Flagpole in the middle of the round place in the center of the Fort?

[@tigonologdring9189]

Maybe try changing the access type of your custom hospital from "Front" to "Rear" to see if that lets your ambulances access the rear spawner you added. (Make sure that the spawn marker was actually attached too remember, autoparenting of objects is off by default...) Great build though! Look forward to seeing how the whole settlement comes together in the end. Definitely need that industry and office space to bring in the taxes though.

[@YukonAdmiral]

You should add a Coast Guard / Helicopter Rescue station out front of the fort. It would make sense for the city to refurbish an old revolutionary war harbor into a more modern use.

[@timk1480]

Fort McHenry looks great! Looks just like Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland's harbor. It played a huge role in the war of 1812

[@luksamislavbarisic8249]

People often say that cities skylines viewership has plummeted since the release of sc2, yours didn't, why is it so? Man I love your videos.

[@dukkiegamer1733]

Probably a bit of different audience. He doesn't cover updates as in depth as others. This channel could be fun to watch even if you don't play the game. All this channel is, is pure creative city building/management without all the other stuff surrounding CS2.

[@luksamislavbarisic8249]

@@dukkiegamer1733 I know, but Thanks. (It was a rhetorical question showing how much I like his videos)

[@cloudsss1755]

Exactly, I dont play nor plan to but I love these videos ​@@dukkiegamer1733

[@danonck]

You just keep outdoing yourself. The fort and Battery Hill area turned out absolutely stunningly. You're a true master of planning areas and then filling them up realistically.

[@Infrastructurist]

Thank you for the never ending support, champ

[@jamesascott1]

The industrial building you placed on Dale Lane made your deficit go from $1k to $9k

[@art_em_ill4319]

Using roads to create fort walls is just a genious idea, I love it

[@lachrizz1542]

I love your videos! I learned so much while watching them. In the beginning I had lots of issues with starting a city from zero. Most of my cities looked the same and I redid a lot of them after I grew them and started detailing and custom building a lot. Now my cities look unique and have character. Thank you for showing us all these tricks and also sharing your thoughts. It helps a lot to know that even you are unsure sometimes and just start building and see where it brings you...

[@leesdogs]

The school you placed would look great as a central building in the fort. Looks very typical of a central armory or even a jail which were common in forts.

[@danilanedzikau6929]

Great video! Suggention to build some Port industry at the base of the Battery Hill. I think that strong cargo ship port (warehouses, queys, boats, cranes with ship containers) can futher support this island as the main one. Let me to invent some historical background: cities with bigger ports became more influencial as more trade and indusry bring more people. Battery Fort already was mostly abandoned during industrial revolution (there was no military presence at that point) and people wanted to expand port industry. Also it's very logical to have some industry in close proxinity of Downtown, which now is more office/residential than industrial.

[@donnysagala]

24:08 You can make 2 old twin bridges connecting battery hill island with the island in front of it. This bridge used to be the entrance to the fort and to welcome special guests, but until now it is still functioning.

[@jacobc.5557]

i think the elementary school in battery hill might be better placed farther away from the main avenue and industrial zone of winter to keep children walking slightly safer. you could potentially just move it slightly to the corner of amity and poplar lane, or to the other side of the neighborhood near the park to keep public properties together near the fort. great video 😁

[@x0XAlcatrazX0x]

The bottom of Bunker Hill, especially along Cypress, feels like a perfect place to add some of the low density commercial buildings without parking, along with perhaps some newer mixed use/high density. It really seems like a place that would have, especially when the old bridge was there, a streetcar suburb, and it would be a great spot to see that sort of younger and newer development at the foot of the hill of old row housing! You've been using Boston/Massachusetts as a lot of inspiration, but just going to shout out that Portland, Maine would also be a good place for inspiration as it is about as old as Boston, and definitely fits the vibes Easthaven has had.

[@BelleMichele99]

love the longer videos❤

[@jakehussey8957]

I’m thrilled you liked the suggestion Battery Park. I think Battery Hill is even better! Great work 🎉

[@theorixlux]

Newt Smith was a black smith that set up his horseshoe and nail forge near the iron-rich rocks he found near the lake when the archipelago was first settled. Over the centuries people've sought out Newt Island for work, lodging, and industry until its now become an economic hub hosting a bustling financial district encircling Forge Park, Newt's historic plot of land. I recommend naming the new city Newt City :) (Kinda a joke, kinda seriously :P)

[@vitae-studios]

Oh hell yes. The fort is so New England.

[@corderajones]

How, what fort for the civil war were built for the New England area

[@pristinebiscotti5816]

​@@corderajones Perhaps fort Warren?

[@corderajones]

@@pristinebiscotti5816 yeah but the was built for the American Revolutionary War not the civil war. Two different wars 100 years apart

[@Infrastructurist]

@@corderajones Ah, I mixed the two up, DOH. I imagine it was involved in the revolutionary war, not the civil war!

[@FieldMedic4077]

That star fort might be the coolest thing I've seen made in CS2!

[@melle4390]

I don't know what happened but your income went from -1.100 to -10k when you built that large industrial lot at 54:01

[@bvx89]

Perhaps that was the tipping point for when he ran out of electricity, and had to start importing

[@WhatsleftofTom]

I love the creativity and the look of the custom castle. It feels like maybe the old buildings were repurposed into homes

[@iftheshroudfits1148]

Such a cool build. There’s a lot of forts in the coast and even on islands in Massachusetts. I’d check out “George’s Island” in Massachusetts as reference. You can take a ferry there. Also most very tall hills in Massachusetts were used as mental health hospitals with really cool architecture, most are now being redeveloped into condos. Like Danvers State Hospital. The idea being that the beautiful views from the hills and big windows that let in lots of light would help the patients recover.

[@raymondpettit-b3l]

I was about to comment that Massachusetts doesn't have civil war forts and then I saw Fort Warren. Embarrassed as I live in New England :-( Great work. Very enjoyable and the low-key tone/ humor is refreshing. Victor Borge would be proud of you.

[@cartercollins2720]

Infra, love this build…the fort would likely be built out over the water to maximize the range of the cannons for enemy ships. It might also have been accompanied by a nearby dock or port for friendly naval vessels.

[@GEP118]

47:00 I'm happy you learn it :D Your videos make my studies a lot less stressful

[@ithen75]

10:24 perfect music, love it

[@nsxfever9513]

Great build. Love all the detailing 👍

[@Adrian-cb3ub]

Maybe place some custom sound barriers alongside the exit ramps and the highway where neighbourhoods are actually located. should be pretty easy to find a fitting fence (maybe the one used at 37:15 ?) and align it with the road, you can always keep the “green wall” of bushes and trees to make it look nicer :)

[@galdorofnihelm6798]

I love your videos, I also enjoy a lot where you integrate zoning and custom, as I personally dont like when its just a lot of custom made, gets a bit slow for me, however I think how youve been doing it for this city so far has been perfect. Also for the name of this city, as its a kinda historical place now, with the fort and such, id recommend giving the fort a name of some historical officer (can be fictional too ofc), from just brief googling and not knowing civil war history very well, you got both Major General Joseph Hooker, and Major general Nathanial Banks from Massachusetts, so you could for instance have "Fort Banks", sounds pretty good to me at least. When it comes to the city name, I dont know what could be a good name, but something like "New Kirkwall" could work, as thats a major city in the Orkney island in Scotland, which has a similar ish landscape as this, though not as dramatic with the archipelago.

[@PoplarPonderosa]

Dude. This is so inspiring. You may have given me ideas for future maps. ❤

[@AnnPrimrose]

Oh this kinda reminds me of (one of the) first episodes of yellow hills back then, when skib did a star fort. The Nostalgia. Cities has come far since then. And cs2 seems to work better for detailing now, too

[@C_K3_A]

Maybe the middle of the fort should have a big satellite mast. Realistically because of the forts positioning against the bay, it would’ve been adapted for war time for WW1 and WW2. Or you could add one or two of the old style ariels back to the buildings since they would’ve had radios in them for the bots during war time.

[@williamschulman5698]

Really nicevideo! You should consider placing some spotlights to really light up that fort. Could potentially look nice.

[@thegratelucky]

Can't wait to see how this shapes out!

[@dukkiegamer1733]

For the sidewalk you could change the shoulder type on your custom alley in road builder.

[@JdohilGENSHIN]

Never seen anybody make anything like this before in CS2! Looks fantastic :)

[@afatpenguin6999]

The park near the Fort looks like a War memorial with the little fountain mounts being the name plates for the fallen in wars pasts. Maybe the street name leading up to the fort and park could be called "Veterans Lane" or "Memorial Lane."

[@Cup0Tea22]

Hey mate about your money situation, it could be that you have some city services that you built when you had the 'more jobs' mod enabled that is now costing you a lot with the new economy patch. I recommend looking over all your services and double checking how much each is costing you. If I remember correctly their was a school in Chowder Bay that had an upkeep of 200,000+ each month due to having 70 employees for a school of 1000 or something.

[@kylekuntz7346]

infra is feeding us with this series

[@luksamislavbarisic8249]

Beverley Hills looks amazing and the fort is very cool. For the industrial/business park is very realistic, i can imagine myself driving through it exiting the city, and i live in europe, but i guess this is universally relatebel😢. Lmao I just wanted to add that the name new Zagreb would still make sence for the city since the settlement the island is named after would have been abandoned before the Civil War.

[@BlazingsNL]

I saw the -17k/h in the beginning and was internally screaming "pause the gaaaame". What would you do if you actually ran out of money and can't build what you want to advance the city? Honestly impressive how you can keep thinking of new original things to build in this game. Love the fort as well! Maybe you could change the road for the ambulances to red as if it's for them only?

[@Infrastructurist]

Hahaha, it's getting a little desperate financially! But the solution is simple: Lots of debt ofcourse, we'll just take out massive loans! And that's a great suggestion for the dedicated ambulance road!

[@BlazingsNL]

@@Infrastructurist Oh right! I forgot loans were a thing because they were basically obsolete before the economy 2.0 update hahah

[@pimpnameslickback1049]

Place some type of shed/warehouse build over the ambulance spawn

[@fsxlover]

Just for future reference, in most of the US the "capital" of a county is called the county seat.

[@ma-eu-ch8944]

City name suggestion: Trebuet (Tree for the excessive amount of trees and beuat-iful because it will be very beautiful: ( im am your biggest fun!

[@iain.sm.c]

I don't know how you were able to pull off making that fort so well, especially with CS2's jankiness, but it looks amazing. Also, screw the "realism", the trees in front of the hospital look great. It's a video game at the end of the day.

[@austinmarx4783]

btw the capitol of a county is just called a county seat. Also, the star fortress and other such bastion forts would have been largely obsolete by the civil war because of rifled artillery, so what they mostly did was reinforce seaward facing walls of important preexisting forts with earthworks or such, or sometimes they did nothing depending on the geography and hoped for the best. For a fort in Massachusetts, they probably wouldn't have considered it to be important enough to update it during the civil war, and they probably would have instead used it for another purpose like a prison camp or logistics or something. I'm just telling you this in case you care about your head canon.

[@mallysh1998]

Great work, that industry part is so American. We lack some big box stores now to finish the vibe😅

[@nickd8310]

I think it would help the spacing and look of the area if you implemented the single lane, one way road with parking in some of the other hilltop row house areas where you currently have 2 way roads. You could also move the houses closer to the street since that's more historically realistic

[@erikw1251]

A small war cemetery just outside the fort would look cool

[@RandomPerson-ql8py]

1:08 he was kinda out of eye dears

[@imnobosh]

Pedestrians actually walk on the darker portion of the road rather then outside the road how you have the cobblestone marked. The way you have it now it seems as if the fire hydrants are in the road

[@FigureInMind]

Another great video

[@lewismorris4257]

You should call the fort district “Fort Adam” and the surrounding neighbourhood Adamstown. The fort and surrounding neighbourhood are located where the old English colony was and was chose as the hill provided an advantage over the Native tribes of the area. It was soon abandoned however, as the lower lying land near the coast was more favourable to start a small fishing village (later becoming downtown). The fort was instrumental in the Revolutionary War against the English as the hill allowed for commanders to signal other costal outposts of incoming British Navy Ships. It then fell into disuse until the American Civil war where it was used as an ammunitions store and hospital. Adamstown was then built to house injured soldiers and hospital workers. This was later densified as demand in downtown demand rose and became the area became gentrified. The Fort continued to be used for these purposes into the early 1900’s but again fell into disuse. The fort currently acts as a civil war educational centre, with neighbouring Adamstown being an up and coming area for Upper-Middle class citizens of Clearwater County.

[@bjornk14]

Infra: "wait i CAN streamline this with math" Me, internally: Oh thank god. Infra: yeah, angles and measurments like this. Also infra: *starts freehanding the points* Me: but... no... wait, thats not what math means. please use the centre point for angles. Infra: *makes starfort attached to a square* Me: aaaaaagh >.< Now, theres def some funky historical designs, even attached to or somewhat square, and it looks good! This just wasnt what i was expecting when you mentioned math xD

[@LoganKaylani]

hey infra! just so you know, the hearse/ambulance notification is never going to go away on your custom train station, as the central building has been elevated to a height where it is no longer connected to the road. maybe consider converting that building to a prop?

[@ЮрийЗаворошкин]

it would be cool to see more pedestrian connection (not between parts of the entire city, ofc usa) like corner cuts or courtyards passages, connection to the roads. For example - back door of the new school or main entrance of a hospital:)

[@Vekhh]

It would be great if those roads would've been paved. The same stuff as pedestrian roads are made of - you can make that kind of road with Road Builder. That kind of roads are mostly what is seen in European Old Towns.

[@craigstephens93]

46:15 what you said here about greenery and healthcare - you should look up Maggie's Centres in the UK.

[@Illumiae]

Should add more industry in winter under the highway

[@MurderMNation]

looking very nice can't wait to get the game myself if I could only recommend 2 things for battery hill cannons on the fort and some other props of that type and also streetlamps but the little 3 light ones, they look more old-world and then just remove the modern streetlights

[@chrisbeveridge6891]

When did the "state" get crossed out for commonwealth? As a resident, that cracks me up to see. Nicely done.

[@GreenWorm-lw7em]

(defunct)Saint John, again, But modified! Saint john was a fort built during the civil war in 1857, being one of the most unused, broken, and forgetten forts in America. After about 50 years, it got repurposed for residential use and just sat there. Nothing really happened until around the 70s when cities began to explode with popularity, and the island got bought out by land devs. Skyscrapers popped up left and right, and became what we know. The city name was inherited by the nearby fort.

[@yaboiandrew2058]

Thought this was cs1 and got hyped for a second

[@Adamci_]

Lovely video. Are you planning to make another video from the Scandinavian project? I really enjoyed it! 🤗

[@ajkplayz9924]

You should change the street lamps on the road to an older kind of street lamp or a more rustic one 12:01

[@melle4390]

Three episodes in and we finally have some zoning!

[@kimlele1971]

bro has the best background music

[@tomascampos7872]

you can use the decals to put in the fort, the surface damage and stain

[@laesseV]

Wouldn't it be more realistic if you'd remove the streetlamps from the fort walls. The tree inside the high voltage sub station is a bit of a fire hazard. Love your videos, a different perspective on cities skylines II

[@tomascampos7872]

new district, castle rock

[@christryba5536]

CTRL+H in move it mod still works for aligning heights of the buildings ;)

[@Amaram7274]

maybe rename sterling hill to stirling hights or smtn cus theres already cemetary hill and battery hill

[@matthijsrp4]

Can you add more places with water like ponds or canals or something? I realy like your videos!!

[@renzwwww]

Amazing 😍

[@MuttermilchWZ]

Nice one

[@celsorosajunior]

I think you should paint the garage building white. I think this way it would integrate better with the hospital.

[@fjmarcliff1390]

Actually the streets would have been all cobblestone so you cound try a darker color for the streets

[@azahel542]

As someone who always watches your flyby outros, I wonder what your retention graph looks like once the video is "over". Do many people watch it too or do they just leave?

[@raphaeldal3020]

Me who was thinking about a little ruine in a big forest on a hill : I mean... it works too

[@Gentleman...Driver]

The background story of the fortress could be that it wasnt necessary anymore because of geopolitical reasons. Like at some point it was necessary, because it was a colony in enemy territory, or at least was endangered by foreign powers. But it lost its purpose and maybe was converted into a hospital at some point. The facility was demilitarized. At some point the hospital was relocated to a modern building which was more suited to treat the wounded and the ill. The fortress was abandoned, and now, the city wants to make this into a tourist attraction and has renovated some of the buildings, but not all of them, and certainly not to a point where it was. They have a small museum and a souvenir shop and thats it. Everything else would cost too much without donations.

[@grassblizzard]

I would love to see a massive Walmart build in this city at some point

[@petterv6604]

What mod is that? He can chooses all the houses individually and place them down

[@Comdroid66]

Yay new vid!

[@JulienB_BTW]

My man is bleeding money over here !

[@citieman]

Let's go a fort awesome

[@arttusalonen9800]

i have to admit that while you start mumbling and graceously mess up the words i start laughing my ass off its just so funny no offence meant im not good at english either. Also when you get really excited and giddy i start wondering where is infras sentences going to end up but these videos have been my highlights recently and i really love the long almost movie length episodes:)

[@quemzzy7397]

Infra I have to say the Fort looks awfully familiar to a build that Imperatur did months ago. did you get inspiration from him?

[@sadfrog1192]

You've probably said already but what lumina settings do you use? I always find in my cities the shadows are super dark but in your city they look much nicer. Oh and awesome vid as always

[@juliuserikbunda3946]

looks great just make the island bigger imo

[@darandomduo5673]

I feel like you haven’t zoned much commercial for a “downtown” area. Certainly there’d be some trying to profit off tourists and parkgoers

[@EcardEcardian]

This forts have a name you know, bastion forts, but it looks like a star so some people say star fortress, the pointy bits on a star fortress are the bastions. Calling it a snowflake, that was new for me at least.

[@kubassko3043]

The fortress immediately reminded me of Suomenlinna in Helsinki, did you take inspiration?

[@Merecir]

He is Danish, so probably more inspired by Kastellet in Copenhagen.

[@jenndagger5839]

Seeing the handwritten "Commonwealth" made me laugh so hard you have no idea. As someone who works in the US in compliance and government financing, the only thing unrealistic about your playthroughs is that you keep a relatively balanced budget and don't green light every real estate developer with tax free downtown properties to build a 5 over 1 and/or parking lot on. Loved your content ever since Kendrick

[@nexusdog]

@Infrastructurist Great vid, thank you. What lighting settings are you using, as mine are awful no matter what I try to change in the game? Thanks again

[@all_the_moga]

Should be called The Autumn Fort. (Because of the Autumn Lane.