The game lets you build a bus company anywhere in the world!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Hope that you enjoyed the video! The stream follow-up of this video can be found here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXa1koCEiNpmpa8

[@fredashay]

Can you drive a bus in this game?

[@fredashay]

You also need a bar crawl bus! In college, the college contracted with the city bus company to run a bus from all the dorms to all the bars downtown and back. Good times 🙂

[@IstasPumaNevada]

"This game was made in Germany." I am the least amount of surprised possible.

[@ctm92]

Everyone always thinks Germany's public transport is always on time. It's not. When riding a train, it is more often not on time than it is on time.

[@ericofantastico]

@@ctm92 Yeah, no. Public transport in Germany is not delayed as much as long-distance trains (~60% punctuality; delay < 6 min). Regional train services and commuter rail aswell as busses are pretty solid and have a higher punctuality (~90%).

[@automation7295]

​@@ericofantastico > Public transport in Germany is not delayed Well it probably depends on the scenario and/or where you are. Buses are usually frequent in cities, some bus routes aren't as frequent and might come every 15 minutes. Delays can happen with any bus services. Such as a bus breaking down at the bus stop, or due to inconvenient traffic, or some idiot blocking the bus lane, etc.

[@automation7295]

@@ctm92 No pubic transport is 100% perfect.

[@ericofantastico]

@@automation7295 Ofc public transport has delays and I never wrote it doesn't. I wrote that it "is not delayed as much as long distance trains". There is btw a great video about german public transport and its dealys by "Traines" called "Pünktlichkeit ist eine Verteilung" (punctuality is a distribution); it also has english subtitles and is very objective.

[@leleite1]

I'll send this game to my city mayor, he's dream is to end public transport... maybe someone in his team is a gamer

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I'll never understand folks like that. It's like having a dream to stop snow plowing.... it's an essential city service providing mobility for residents.

[@jasperbean1]

As a dutchman, hearing those words seem wild to me. My whole country is built on transit.

[@Wico90YT]

Is he Ron Swanson?

[@relytretlaw387]

@@CityPlannerPlays *cries is a 20k population city with no public transit*

[@ThatGuyVlogs]

@@CityPlannerPlaysmy town of Warner Robins Georgia has little to no public transit it fucking sucks maybe you could help me figure out how to get one established

[@braydentoth8442]

The use of open street maps is amazing. I’d love to see this same concept applied in a grander way in the future so we can design light rail, tram, or subway systems in any city.

[@patrickhundley1203]

There’s a game called nimby rails which does just this!

[@1337dingus]

Check out NIMBY Rails, it's pretty much just that.

[@sihollett]

@@patrickhundley1203 Nimby Rails has the benefit of being far less management-driven than CBM, but I've not played it when they killed basic gameplay by overcomplicating the construction to make it much more detailed. I just want to get my crayons out and draw lines on the map and then run vehicles along them.

[@babyrage1763]

@@sihollett want to be able to watch my train

[@EmmaWithoutOrgans]

@@sihollettGive it a spin again it’s not that difficult and is a lot of fun

[@htilden42]

Honestly wasn't expecting this level of detail and customization from a game that has a "play anywhere in the world" feature. This looks pretty cool and I might want to pick it up.

[@bigpopakap]

As a transit operator, the first skill you need: interior design

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Fact, haha!

[@Crafter_H]

Was about to comment this 🤣🤣

[@venettore3601]

@@CityPlannerPlays tbh, a lot of city planning principles translates very directly into architectural layout and interior decoration - managing the flow of "traffic" (i.e. walking around your house) to your "destinations" (i.e. points of interest like desks, appliances, etc.). Even things like building barriers to hide more unsightly things and to reduce noise in specific areas like bedrooms - as well as things like beautifying areas to make people want to spend more time there. Very surprising amounts of the skill sets overlap.

[@benicetoyourselfforonce]

Hooray! More transit-oriented content!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

[@бебравоз-будоражник]

Finally, the game where you can make a normal bus transportation in your city instead of those traffic jamming share taxis.

[@бебравоз-будоражник]

Or screw things up to the limit ^^

[@TotoDG]

8:02. You know Phil's stress levels have jumped to an all-time high when the Wii Shop music speeds up.

[@Crazyclay78YT]

just move the camera around to make it easier. not hard

[@Franimus]

Fun fact: the busway you mentioned got added to open street maps on the 25th and there's been a flurry of updates to it since then to tag it correctly and thoroughly. The joy of OSM!!!! So if you were to update the in-game map or start a new Madison map it should have a working busway now.

[@Franimus]

Unfortunately I looked it up and I think the game devs have to manually pull updates from OSM and run them through a process. I hope they make that moddable or even user-facing!

[@CallMeInfinite0000]

I love this game because its customization aspect, Its also a very interesting take on how transportation planning in the real world too. Next game on the wishlist we go!

[@blob0000]

I found this game a good while ago and was so confused about why not many indie youtubers were making videos about it. So happy to see that it is finally getting some attention! Thank You for this great video!

[@Houze968]

As a Jeremy.... the "Germy" pronunciation is hilarious -- Love you CPP, thank you for introducing me to this game and all that you do

[@CyanideCarrot]

"We're gonna extend service into the bar hours on Fridays" True Wisconsinite (and smart thinking too, we don't need more drunk drivers)

[@kai45654]

Love that you're playing all these unique and interesting games recently

[@gorgonaught]

As a former Madisonian, this hit me right in the feels! Would love to see more of this in the future.

[@PoplarPonderosa]

What a cool concept! I was aware of the game but didn't know you could import real world data. That's huge!

[@fishrsa9046]

The reason public transport works in south africa is because bus drivers here don't follow the laws, so it will be interesting to see what this game makes of our transit system (if it's even possible to download maps from here)

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Do the busses have giant bull-bars on the front that they can use to just shove cars out of the way?

[@fishrsa9046]

@@IstasPumaNevada some of them have big bullbars, particularly the minibuses but they're usually just cosmetic and fold very easily

[@makkusaiko]

I hate that in PE if you wanna get the bus schedules, you have to call the schedule dept at the bus co

[@fishrsa9046]

@@makkusaiko same in western cape. We have the single elwerda bus that runs through coastal towns and it's never on time. An hour or two hours late sometimes

[@thebearded_guardian3671]

Give us more of this - I think you mentioned you were a transportation planner. I think we can all appreciate you play this game. I hope it becomes a series

[@Critical_Hit]

Short distance tickets are a ticket type used by many German transit agencies. They are valid for just a few stops, about 6 stops usually

[@duncantalksalot]

I've been playing this game since beta, and it's truly been progressing so much, the devs are really dedicated to making this game great, and so is its community of players and modders, which is so awesome to see. Hopefully you playing this game will help us attract more American players and esp. modders, I for one could use some good US buses in the workshop. 😅

[@dbthesuperstar]

The return of Editor Phil. My favourite side character in CPP Videos.

[@patrickhundley1203]

I hope at some point in the future you give Nimby Rails a try! It’s very similar to this, except with trains, metros, and trams! I have sunk so many hours into the game designing dream transit systems for my state!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I have it and will give it a go!

[@patrickhundley1203]

@@CityPlannerPlays May lead to some struggle is rail moments😂. The UI isn’t quite as nice, but my train nerd brain is addicted to it

[@babyrage1763]

thanks for this, would like to jump into this

[@szymex22]

Personally I refunded that game, way too much of a chore to build anything in it. Transport fever 2 is still the goat. (Though nimby has the advantage of a real map)

[@lightplane]

The timetables are very powerful. By combining timetables you can make branches, short-turn trips, peak hour extension and express trips or deviations. You do this by turn on or off bus stops for each timetable. If a bus stop I'd turn off for a timetable the bus will ignore that stop. It's a lot of fun.

[@mundzine]

This is pretty cool kinda like nimby rails but more fleshed out as a game

[@monteb6276]

Love that the min specs require 5 gigs of storage but 8 gigs of ram, great news for all the people who have more free ram than storage

[@IbisCiteasSoundaufnahmen]

About the custom aspect of this game ist huge. You can build really complicated lines. And with all the mod buses, its huge. Hopfully some of your viewers, who wants to play this game, can build in blender and make some american buses :D thank you for playing this gem

[@rachelher6095]

Happy Madison BRT launch! This game looks great. Love the transit focus and seeing our city grow.

[@Burklebricke]

I remember my dad talking about lending computing power to number crunching in the 90's and early 00's, and seeing a game like this so connected to real life makesme think of new ways to crowdsource data. Imagine a government sponsored game like this that gathers design data to help influence efficient designs for public transit IRL!

[@JKenettOfficial]

i like that when the bus driver crashes the bus, atleast he is friendly :D i love this. would you continue this series?

[@JKenettOfficial]

just got to the part that this will be continued on stream LOL

[@szszg]

Wow, amazing! Brilliant touch to use real maps. Wouldn't mind a series of this from you, Phil.

[@rowangilbert1098]

I really really like this game, i enjoyed watching a professional play and walk through a game like this, is has its kinks but as a viewer i really enjoyed watching a video of this length, at such detail with the commentary, make it a series please

[@themaster5842]

7:49 howling at the wall building 😂 Was not expecting that music to pop up on here, took me by surprise! 😂😂 Not sure about the glass door to the toilet tho! 🙈

[@Zyo117]

It prevents loitering! 🤣

[@phjstreams8702]

I just love the way you do series on your channel. You know so much about the game already and your like teaching us how to play while playing. Same with Manor Lords, i loved that series!

[@danielhulan3058]

Wow, you can even negotiate the pay of staff. This game literally has it all. This is the second game I've seen and it's amazing that you can build in areas that are real.

[@ash1794]

I've been following your channel for so long. Although I haven't followed recently! It's really nice to put a face to that voice I've heard for 3 years. Esp through covid! Thanks for what you do.

[@derorgelmeister]

I love that you're playing this game! It's a fun one to play, and, I feel it's right up your alley!

[@groof14]

Madisonian here! You did a better job than what we currently have

[@netkitten]

One of my earliest memories was playing with matchbox cars and buses on chalkboard cities and I used to love making bus routes. This has me so excited! Imagine if they implemented a mode like Bus Simulator too where you could first person drive the routes.

[@noahcuroe]

This game looks awesome! Seeing lot's of inspiration from the Two Point games, and incredible customization options. Definitely gonna give this a shot, looks like it's right up my alley.

[@Reminators1]

What an incredible game! Would love to see a series on this actually, more content please!

[@yomamasfavour1te]

I really hope you make this a full series i would love to watch you maybe fix other cities public transport Maybe eventually u could make a series where u take peoples recomendations on what city to fix next

[@FabiVoltair]

Nice! I like, when you explore a new game from time to time :)

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I plan on continuing to do this. It's been a ton of fun!

[@Spectrahx]

15:30 gnarly move there

[@justindewees6837]

Here's one Wisconsinite who's happy you chose our capital. Cheers

[@johannesgutsmiedl366]

One thing I'd immediately want to see is some way to upgrade roads to have bus lanes, maybe in several steps from simple repurposed lanes to full on BRT corridors. Should be more of a mid to late game option, but would really increase the realism of the game.

[@bw4593]

I am a newer driver for metro transit in the twin cities MN, and the planning and cost of all this stuff is mind blowing, and I only know a very small part of the big picture. This is def something I’m gonna check out!

[@yorkie_pudd]

This is the first City Bus Manager video that didn't feel like the game would be overwhelming for me. Putting some bushes and tres around the depot is interesting, where I live it's just a lot of concrete in an industrial estate with a garage

[@jspace20]

It's so crazy to see my own city in a video!! great video i love it

[@mattkieffer5328]

Fort Wayne being listed as the first random suggestion might just be the sign from the universe that I needed to check this game out 🤣

[@noahwise9159]

This is absolutely the nerdiest game I've ever seen and I NEED more of it

[@CaperCafe_]

GREAT! 😡 JUST GREAT! 😠 not only do I now have a new game that I want to buy, I REALLY want to visit Madison!!

[@mrfathed3129]

THis talk of buses in Madison is making me nostalgic to when I was a student at UW.

[@boines]

crazy thing is i played this using my local map and made my city much better which also costs less and brought it up to a city meeting where i met some folks who will now be implementing some of my changes for routes in the near future. maybe if more ppl play simulations games we all can make a change for our areas. This was way better than city skylines and other city sims bc uses real data sort of.

[@johnhelinski]

I really thought this was going to be dumb, but I watched it anyway, and now I want to get this game. I'll see you during your stream!

[@joshpluck8299]

Love playing this game and I’d love to see you carry on the journey of making a new bus company

[@DouglasMcComb]

OMG, I saw your face. Now that I know that you're a real person, and not an AI with a preternatural ability to design natural and functional cities, I'm gonna go ahead an throw you a like & subscribe

[@zoeanne_]

Would love to see more of this if you get chance! Great video Phil😊

[@ZooTycoon223]

Oh, I'd watch a whole series of you playing this game

[@matthew_thefallen]

I'm gonna watch this later, but oh boy this looks so good! This is my kind of game haha

[@samminicksm]

I work for my local public transit agency. I see so much of this in a day at work😂

[@evilamy5]

Oh geez. My home town was in the first screen of random locations XD Small-town jumpscare lol

[@blbelt2001]

"1 service desk isn't enough, so I'm going to add a second one" See you've already lost the bus line realism right there.

[@simonsv9449]

I have played this game for long. My most successful bus company ever was in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

[@Franimus]

Oh gosh I think i have to try this to see what convenient transit for me would look like in terms of feasibility!

[@Everie]

Oooooh sounds like a game to waste my whole teenage-hood left! 😮

[@dumdumsaregood]

We definitely need more of this game!!

[@freakysquirrel7218]

Honestly, combine this and Cities in Motion and we could get an amazing Public Transport game

[@solidXxXtuna]

Very cool, full featured indie game! And perfect for streaming as well -- likely not a game I'll pick up but I'll definitely enjoy watching you play it. Separate note: I watched an Abroad in Japan video featuring Master Planned Music. Not the first channel I've heard playing MPM, but it is the biggest channel.

[@Crafter_H]

7:48 to 8:12 props to your editor

[@d3str0i3r]

two things i'd love two see added 1) an ability to expand into taxis to improve service when you don't necessarily have the money to invest in a new route or a new bus 2) as an expansion on the touristy aspects, exhibition routes, buy and restore antique/classic busses to put on sightseeing routes

[@Trifler500]

They actually just released a tour bus expansion this week :)

[@automation7295]

It's called City Bus Manager, they would have to change the name if they expend into taxis.

[@justsaying4303]

@@automation7295 share taxis also exist

[@brianogy]

As a Madison resident, I approve of this video

[@bs_blackscout]

Now I can replicate my city's sketchy public transportation system! :D

[@fullreinhard]

Buses are nice but they feel 10 billion percent better to be in if they arrive at a consistent time and don’t get stuck in traffic, that’s why I love the Metro G line

[@ralaire]

Transit simulation is my favorite :)

[@WesleyR.V]

I actually dreamt about having my very own bus company because of how inconvenient the travel is to and from my classmates' houses

[@Alphabetical-Soup]

Please continue this as a series 😊😊

[@GabeSyme]

Semi related but another transport game that has timetables is "A-Train: All aboard! Tourism" which I think would make for an interesting episode. It's a Japanese train game that's secretly about transit oriented real estate development.

[@sammarks9146]

Hey, a game for Mac that looks cool! I'm really excited to try this out, especially in my city.

[@userreview2806]

@@sammarks9146 100% I only play this bc it’s one of the only games that works on my mac

[@055f00]

City Bus Manager x NIMBY Rails is something that *needs* to happen!

[@Marten_Zeug]

I work in public transport in Hamburg Germany, and I think they should add Underground trains too, as that is what I'm more familier with.

[@Renate_poool]

Omg this is the first time I'm seeing your face. But with always only hearing your voice I thought you would have like a beard and glasses. So I was a little shocked when that was seriously was a thing !😂 Also loved the video as usual.

[@DrymarchonShaun]

Damn, i havent watched any of your content in a while and i had no idea you were using a facecam now. I'm guessing you've already gotten this a lot, but i'll be honest, not at all what i expected from your voice lol

[@MrNtycn]

About time u came around to this game!!! Yeah!!!

[@oleksandr_teys]

we need more of this game!

[@HenryLoenwind]

Skill level also goes up from people simply working their job, and rather quickly so. I hire by friendliness only, as that isn't as easy to raise.

[@Electrolux219]

Would love to see more of this!

[@NelsonBrown]

I want more city sims that import real city data!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

...Not me over here pining for Junxions!

[@NelsonBrown]

@@CityPlannerPlays wow, Junxions looks amazing! Thanks.

[@ktchpmn]

Reminds me a bit of Cities in Motion. Colossal Order's game series before CS

[@BactineRS]

im a city bus driver in denver, this is really cool to see!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Love it! RTD is such a great organization!

[@undercoverboomer9692]

loved watching you play this, hope it becomes a fixture on the channe

[@tbgms2542]

This is a great watch as a UW Madison student

[@userreview2806]

This game’s great! It’s one of the only games that actually runs on my Mac!

[@PesaTwist2014N]

I'm waiting for a tram game

[@MonkeyBurrito]

You used to work in the Glendale Galleria?!! Awesome!

[@Jayrbrts]

This game just kept impressing me as the video went on too bad Im on console but maybe one day they could make a console version.

[@thedevonianfootiefan9871]

Can’t wait to fix the mess that is public transport in Torquay!

[@lachd2261]

Wow this is pretty cool! Might have a go at this

[@Lizardmium]

With NIMBY Rails you can make your own train/tram/metro company anywhere in the world. It is developed by 1 person. Already have like 300 hours on it 😅

[@corntaco]

what an incredibly novel and delightful game! so many fun features and a surprising level of detail that is still largely intuitive. hiring jeremy literally made me lol 😂