City Built by a Psychopath - CITIES SKYLINES 2 IS PERFECTLY BALANCED

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  • No taxes, high earning potential, luxury settlements! Anything is possible in Cities Skylines 2! Today I'm diving back into Cities Skylines 2: a challenging city-building simulation game from Paradox Interactive. In this video we're going to build the city of New Scammington - where people propser but train lines prosper even more!
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    What is cities Skylines? Well according to steam If you can dream it, you can build it. Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into the thriving metropolis only you can imagine. You've never experienced building on this scale. With deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II delivers world-building without limits.
    Lay the foundations for your city to begin. Create the roads, infrastructure, and systems that make life possible day to day. It's up to you - all of it.
    How your city grows is your call too, but plan strategically. Every decision has an impact. Can you energize local industries while also using trade to boost the economy? What will make residential districts flourish without killing the buzz downtown? How will you meet the needs and desires of citizens while balancing the city's budget?
    Chapters
    00:00 - ZERO TAX CITY
    00:54 - 15-Hours City
    02:52 - Subway of Financial Ruin
    08:00 - First Citizen Journey Complete!
    11:35 - Moving to High-Density
    14:40 - Second Longest-Ever Journey
    20:08 - Birds-Eye View
    22:33 - What's Next? Becoming a Member?
    TITLE: Zero Tax City Built by a Psychopath - CITIES SKYLINES 2 IS PERFECTLY BALANCED
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  • @angusmewton7525
    @angusmewton7525 8 місяців тому +6451

    Y'know Spiff, as a British Person living in Norfolk, my greatest fear is that my local council will be inspired by this video and somehow make public transport worse.

    • @Bruno-xl2fk
      @Bruno-xl2fk 8 місяців тому +44

      I live in Britannia aswell in Durham

    • @mbogucki1
      @mbogucki1 8 місяців тому +109

      At least you are not in North America.

    • @FizzlNet
      @FizzlNet 8 місяців тому +41

      I also live in Britannia, in Britain. The largest City of Britannia.

    • @MalleusSemperVictor
      @MalleusSemperVictor 8 місяців тому +86

      @@mbogucki1 I'd rather drive than leave any level of government in North America in charge of public transport.

    • @Jept
      @Jept 8 місяців тому +29

      I suspect you're lying because anybody living in Yorkshire would know there's basically no public transport left in Britain 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @RealCivilEngineerGaming
    @RealCivilEngineerGaming 8 місяців тому +2700

    Roundabouts are pretty special though ngl

    • @szupko
      @szupko 8 місяців тому +92

      OMG! Hey RCE👋
      Yes! Roundabouts are superior 💪

    • @thespiffingbrit
      @thespiffingbrit  8 місяців тому +947

      Not as special as you my darling engineer 💗

    • @InertiaDriven07
      @InertiaDriven07 8 місяців тому +71

      I’m so glad that RCE saw this video. Your sewage dump seemed to be arguably the strongest design of the entire city

    • @andrewbogard2411
      @andrewbogard2411 8 місяців тому +16

      The island he created had the perfect shape.

    • @Brokenlordike
      @Brokenlordike 8 місяців тому +9

      An architect would say that.

  • @VanadiumBromide
    @VanadiumBromide 8 місяців тому +313

    It's a baffling that happiness isn't affected by commute time in CS:2. In Simcity 4, if commute time is long enough, desirability drops and lots go abandoned.

    • @UncleUncleRj
      @UncleUncleRj 7 місяців тому +49

      Yeah, everyone loves these Cities Skylines games, but imo both the gameplay and the simulation itself are not very good. We need a modern SimCity in the same style as SC4 and SC3k

    • @tristanridley1601
      @tristanridley1601 7 місяців тому +10

      @@UncleUncleRj The question I've asked myself repeatedly, is if there's enough people like you and me to justify making a decent game. And by 'modern' does that mean it needs photo-realistic graphics?

    • @UncleUncleRj
      @UncleUncleRj 7 місяців тому +22

      @@tristanridley1601 SimCity does not need photo-realism, better graphics are just the cherry on top- modern just means two things - it has to work on a modern PC (SC4 cannot without work well without hacks) and since modern PCs can handle WAY more than a 90's or early 00's PC, the game can be updated to do so much more, like have an improved simulation engine. SC was just plain fun. However, they kinda ruined the series with SimCity 2013 because they strayed so much from the formula.

    • @Saren-yc1rk
      @Saren-yc1rk 7 місяців тому +9

      Simcity 4 was amazing
      Too bad it's considered long-lost technology nowadays.

    • @pfeilspitze
      @pfeilspitze 7 місяців тому +5

      ​@@tristanridley1601 The only chance it has, I think, is a niche game with mediocre graphics. But that's ok; the people who just "play" cities skylines like it's a really bad version of blender for making pictures wouldn't be interested in the more complex model anyway. So basic stylized graphics would be completely fine.(TBH, I'd probably be fine with just isometric pixel art, but these days basic 3D is probably cheaper.)

  • @charliegrpdixon5944
    @charliegrpdixon5944 8 місяців тому +131

    8:16 you can fly from London to Australia in that time and it took that dude that amount of time to cross the city. Perfectly balanced

    • @Saren-yc1rk
      @Saren-yc1rk 7 місяців тому +6

      If London to Australia flight cost only $96...

    • @charliegrpdixon5944
      @charliegrpdixon5944 6 місяців тому

      @@Saren-yc1rk oh I wish 🤣🤣

  • @nazamroth8427
    @nazamroth8427 8 місяців тому +992

    The most unbelievable thing about all of this, is that none of the citizens just go "Right, I can either spend a day and a fortune on public transit, or walk across that field in half an hour"

    • @johngleeman8347
      @johngleeman8347 8 місяців тому +126

      The field is surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with concertina wire.

    • @LaBambaMan
      @LaBambaMan 8 місяців тому +130

      But there's no path! How will they ever find their way?

    • @nazamroth8427
      @nazamroth8427 8 місяців тому +111

      @@LaBambaMan He who walks across the field, *makes* the way.

    • @faustinpippin9208
      @faustinpippin9208 8 місяців тому +87

      @@nazamroth8427 I bet the person who would walk over the field would end up in jail
      the gov always has great ways to secure their monopoly and ensure that there is no other option left

    • @darthmaul216
      @darthmaul216 8 місяців тому +34

      @@faustinpippin9208 that’s what car infrastructure does bud

  • @Durp-E-Derp
    @Durp-E-Derp 8 місяців тому +1712

    Slow, expensive, unreliable public transport, im proud that Spiff is exporting the UKs "brilliant" transport to the world, brings a tear to my eye

    • @billywilaon3285
      @billywilaon3285 8 місяців тому +34

      I moved in this city about a year ago and at first I thought I was crazy to pay $200 a day just to go back and fourth but the jobs here are great and taxes are basically nonexistent.

    • @alatamore
      @alatamore 8 місяців тому +47

      Whenever you feel depressed at the terrible state of government services in the UK, like public transport (what's that?), health care (what do you mean you don't take ride share in emergencies to the hospital?), or housing (hahahahaha), just take a quick holiday across the pond to visit your rebellious colonial relations. We put the fun in dysfunctional because working yourself to death to be proud of a nuclear arsenal is just our way!

    • @whoareyouyouareclearlylost323
      @whoareyouyouareclearlylost323 8 місяців тому +1

      Tears of joy i suppose...

    • @MeCooper
      @MeCooper 8 місяців тому +9

      The only reason I want to visit England is to see exactly how bad their public transport is.
      When I was living in Western Australia I experienced such high levels of public transport that I ended up forgetting to renew my licence for two months... At the time I was working with a guy from North London who kept mentioning how our system was almost as bad as theirs. I never really got a solid explanation of why it is so bad, WA was the best public transport experience of my life lol

    • @awakeandwatching953
      @awakeandwatching953 8 місяців тому +7

      hmmm.. yes but i think he misses the concerns with 15 min citys.. which is surprising considering hes the type of mind that could have conceived of citys divided in to multiple prison sectors that you cant leave with out permission... maybe spiff need to realise theres a german version of him at the WEF who sees humans as NPCs to be manipulated and has the UI to pull it off

  • @bloodspray8194
    @bloodspray8194 7 місяців тому +112

    It took Travis a full month to get to his place of work. Spiff has once again made a perfectly balanced transport system

  • @notanother1745
    @notanother1745 7 місяців тому +36

    This is diabolical! I love it! Now, you just need to lower the speed limit for roads to 20 mph so they all feel welsh.

    • @pfeilspitze
      @pfeilspitze 7 місяців тому +4

      If only that was something they'd added in CS2, but no, all they did was add some node flags. (You can't even make a 2-way stop in this game; it's all-way-stop or nothing.)

  • @juances
    @juances 8 місяців тому +1094

    If this city was real, bosses would still complain that workers prefer home office over commuting to work.

    • @Robocopnik
      @Robocopnik 8 місяців тому +66

      Or they'd just make them live (and work remotely) on the trains, too.

    • @jarrod752
      @jarrod752 8 місяців тому +52

      Bosses would be the first ones working remotely in this city don't get it twisted.
      Probably make you show up at 8am for a meeting he zooms into.

    • @cerealpeer
      @cerealpeer 7 місяців тому +3

      i can really feel you channeling your inner bostonian

    • @Red-Tower
      @Red-Tower 7 місяців тому +5

      This has made me imagine what a nightmare world Spiff has created by the end. Spending months in these tiny moving cabins with a bunch of random people all living and working from their cramped seats, everyone trying to do zoom calls right next to each other, probably having drones deliver shitty takeout for every meal, unable to shower, and I don't even want to think about needing to "use the restroom" 😫. And that's all just going one way!

    • @tonyhakston536
      @tonyhakston536 7 місяців тому +4

      @@jarrod752bosses are hypocrites so they’d do both.

  • @tusken9669
    @tusken9669 8 місяців тому +514

    Can the train schedules be adjusted so that the passengers barely miss their next train as much as possible?

    • @FTW23-qq8nb
      @FTW23-qq8nb 7 місяців тому +35

      In Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands the integrated timed-transfer or pulse timetable is used to coordinate transfers from one line to another. The concept is that vehicles should arrive simultaneously at certain pulse points acting as transfer hubs. A clockface timetable has vehicles arriving/departing at consistent intervals often at frequency of an integer per hour.

    • @veggiet2009
      @veggiet2009 7 місяців тому +10

      ​@@FTW23-qq8nbthat's amazing! Would that every country/nation/principality/town should implement such a thing!

    • @kuhluhOG
      @kuhluhOG 4 місяці тому +3

      @@FTW23-qq8nb and somehow my home town has f'ed their table up in a way that the thing OP describes actually happen
      And since it's this way now for over a decade, I doubt that's going to change.

  • @miihikari3905
    @miihikari3905 7 місяців тому +9

    This is the best DB Simulator! As a non german in germany, this is THE best way to explain how it feels to take the train here. ESPECIALLY if you're in a hurry!😊

    • @brynieke
      @brynieke 4 місяці тому

      As a german I strongly agree ☺️👍

  • @Traptfanatic
    @Traptfanatic 7 місяців тому +6

    with the Tram, Spiff gently dipped onto the madness of Letsgameitout, and its wonderful.

  • @ryaneiler1422
    @ryaneiler1422 8 місяців тому +404

    The slight bump on the hill awakens me from my slumber. I blink my eyes in disbelief as tears begin to well up. We've crossed the last cut-back before the final station. Only mere hours to go! I begin to comb my impressive beard and spit-clean my glasses. I pull my fingers through my grease-knotted hair in preparation for my first day of work. Soon. So soon. I hope my wife and children are well. The horrid smell of the cramped tram, devoid of privacy or restrooms, has seeped into my jacket, stained through from my sweat and other bodily fluids. The other patrons of the public transportation system in the city all waver, bobbing slightly to the motion of the tram, corpse-like as we slide along the track. Soon.

    • @zinthos0019
      @zinthos0019 7 місяців тому +20

      I honestly don’t know how to feel about this

    • @devinrobinson3128
      @devinrobinson3128 3 місяці тому +2

      This is horrifying

    • @johart309
      @johart309 2 місяці тому

      just an old Russian prose with different make-up. lmao

  • @MrDavidMoyer
    @MrDavidMoyer 8 місяців тому +368

    New Scammington is not a scam. Spiff just wanted to turn Cities: Skylines into Railroad Tycoon 7.

  • @kaptainkiwi
    @kaptainkiwi 8 місяців тому +2

    I have been suffering from a bad bout of the flu for the past week and this Vid made my day I laughed so much I thought I was going to cough out a lung or piss myself laughing truly made my week thanks for the cheering up Spiff cant wait for the next vid

  • @unknownvariable2456
    @unknownvariable2456 3 місяці тому +3

    most reasonable public transportation I've ever seen.
    and that isn't a lie because I've never seen any public transportation beyond a school bus.

  • @Konpekikaminari
    @Konpekikaminari 8 місяців тому +306

    Albert Camus: one must imagine Sisyphus happy
    Spiff, designing that tram: one must imagine Sisyphus having to pay each time he needs to start rolling that boulder

  • @francojara3534
    @francojara3534 8 місяців тому +278

    The story of Travis is truly inspiring. He never gave up, keep it up Travis 💪

    • @nogohoho
      @nogohoho 8 місяців тому +3

      Thanks. I needed that today.

    • @VidelxSpopovich
      @VidelxSpopovich 8 місяців тому +4

      @@nogohoho Beat me to it. I’m also a Travis.

    • @Red-Tower
      @Red-Tower 7 місяців тому +1

      It would have been neat to see how Travis was doing at the end of the video! Even if he was probably just stuck on a multi-month-long team ride 🙃

    • @birdehh4503
      @birdehh4503 7 місяців тому +1

      The Travis that could

  • @timothyoswald8618
    @timothyoswald8618 7 місяців тому

    I love how you get the same evil ideas that I do while playing games, but with a better accent. Many thanks!

  • @boringskull2196
    @boringskull2196 8 місяців тому +1

    New Scamminton is not a scam!!
    nice video btw Spiff.

  • @JessWLStuart
    @JessWLStuart 8 місяців тому +166

    "Nothing jimmies my pickle quite like playing God ..." - The Spiffing Brit, 2023

    • @Zeppathy
      @Zeppathy 7 місяців тому

      "Nothing Jimmies my pickle quite like playing TheSpiffingBrit." - God. 2023

  • @therealgiyutomioka2639
    @therealgiyutomioka2639 8 місяців тому +220

    The nightmare of game devs uploads once again

    • @The_musical_gamer
      @The_musical_gamer 7 місяців тому +2

      More like headache when you have something really bad but haven’t found out he’s the perfect game tester but you now because of that you fix it

  • @satyropodobny101
    @satyropodobny101 7 місяців тому +15

    Oh wow can't believe he perfectly recreated Wrocław's entire tram system in such a short amount of time.

    • @juszi6925
      @juszi6925 Місяць тому

      I was just thinking to myself, "if our city council sees that, we're even more fucked"

  • @VKURDR
    @VKURDR 2 місяці тому

    This reminds me of a time when I was a kid, and I used to play a game called Stronghold Crusaders, and in it I would decrease the tax to 0%, and it was even possible to pay them to live there, then I'd add a bunch of "nice things" as the game called it, which simply boosted morale of all the citizens, and soldier units. They would then proceed to be "happy" and not require other things such as "food", which I could tell you became outrageously annoying to upkeep. So then you could just forever last in a siege from inside the castle, without worrying about food shortages, and simple sell things. There was also a glitch in the game where you could build walls around production areas, so the units would be stuck inside working, and place the ox tethers (the transfer of good produced to warehouses) inside your castle, meaning nobody got hurt, so long as you kept the production building closed by walls.

  • @metascorpion
    @metascorpion 8 місяців тому +687

    There's no better way to procrastinate than watching Spiff torment hapless digital citizens. Change my mind.

    • @badoem5353
      @badoem5353 8 місяців тому +5

      No

    • @Blue_Sonnet
      @Blue_Sonnet 8 місяців тому +5

      No²

    • @Puchuchi747
      @Puchuchi747 8 місяців тому +3

      Dam I was coming to tell you, no need to change your mind. Because you're right.

    • @jessekeeler4899
      @jessekeeler4899 8 місяців тому

      Not a scam

    • @homerman76
      @homerman76 8 місяців тому +1

      How about Spiff tormenting real life players through his menace creations 🤔

  • @zengrath
    @zengrath 8 місяців тому +158

    Your Boss: We need you to come in to the office, John called out.
    You: Ok, will be there in 4 months.
    The crazy thing is, back in day before vehicles, planes, etc. it wouldn't be unheard of to take 4 months to get somewhere, the world seemed like a significantly bigger place back then.

    • @TwoGendersOnly
      @TwoGendersOnly 8 місяців тому +20

      Bruh, armies marched for a month or more to get to a battle just to die in the first five minutes or less. 😅

    • @RaihanBrine
      @RaihanBrine 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@TwoGendersOnly I know it's rude for the people who willingly fight to protect their country but... *SKILL ISSUE!*

  • @andriusdraugelis2092
    @andriusdraugelis2092 7 місяців тому +1

    Please, give us more of this glorious game 🥳

  • @HH-mf8qz
    @HH-mf8qz 7 місяців тому

    I would love a series of this where you do a viewer challenge in each video/city

  • @gamingking1
    @gamingking1 8 місяців тому +141

    Are we optimizing for income or human suffering?
    Spiff: Yes

  • @korosheht5446
    @korosheht5446 8 місяців тому +655

    Fair taxes
    Plenty of public transportation
    High level of education
    A lot of jobs
    Truly a paradise

    • @sintua
      @sintua 8 місяців тому +9

      All this town needs is a remote economy surge!

    • @elimgarak1127
      @elimgarak1127 8 місяців тому +5

      Public transportation only works well in video games. It's kinda hilarious. Minus a small handful of racially homogeneous countries. Either way, it's wasteful. Middlemen can't be cost-effective.

    • @dreadhead5719
      @dreadhead5719 8 місяців тому +23

      @@elimgarak1127 its pretty decent where i live

    • @r0nn7
      @r0nn7 8 місяців тому +47

      @@elimgarak1127 What does race have to do with public transport???

    • @randomtinypotatocried
      @randomtinypotatocried 8 місяців тому +35

      @@r0nn7They just want to be angry about public transportation. Honestly I love now living somewhere I can use public transportation and not have to slowly get pissy at someone not knowing how to use their turn signal

  • @aleckretschmar
    @aleckretschmar 7 місяців тому

    Was really hoping to ride the tram in its entirety, sadly half way down the wheel over heated from going so long and the tram got stuck. Had to swim back to the station and catch the next one. I love this city.

  • @andrewdodd3408
    @andrewdodd3408 8 місяців тому

    I have watched many of your balance and fair gameplay videos, but Spiff, good Sir, this, this right here is your monsterpiece, the bar is now in the stratosphere, how will you now beat this. I await your next genius/diabolical fair and balanced gameplay monstrosity.

  • @Javaritto
    @Javaritto 8 місяців тому +440

    Adam Something: builds a functioning public transit system for an American city.
    Spiff: builds a public transit system the way an American city planner actually would.

    • @darthmaul216
      @darthmaul216 8 місяців тому +14

      Lol. I Just Watched that video

    • @Ryann9
      @Ryann9 8 місяців тому +50

      Adam Something: I'm going to add tons of public transport, so that people won't use cars to drive around the city. Also I broke the game due to the sheer amount of public transport I have in my city.
      TheSpiffingBrit: I'm going to add tons of public transport, so that people won't use cars to drive around the city. Also I broke the game due to the sheer amount of public transport I have in my city.

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 8 місяців тому +3

      @@Ryann9 If anything that outcome should've taught that dogmatic Czech that his jihad against cars and tourists won't work, but he shows no signs of realising even the absolute basics of transportation.
      It's worrying how many people believe in carless fairytales.

    • @toxicatto6074
      @toxicatto6074 7 місяців тому +11

      @@nvelsen1975 Jihad against what now? Are we really just throwing words-we-don't-even-know-the-meaning-of around as a substitute of English proficiency now lol.

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 7 місяців тому

      @@toxicatto6074 Jihad, holy war, like when they remove parking spaces, make roads difficult and argue it also works to spend 3-5 hours a day every working day getting to work instead of driving 30-60 minutes.

  • @deadbodyman3540
    @deadbodyman3540 8 місяців тому +598

    Spiff is really starting to step into Let's Game It Out territory building that tram monstrosity and im all for it 😂

    • @maltee69
      @maltee69 7 місяців тому +18

      Let‘s Game It Out has become less interesting somehow

    • @MarcGeek
      @MarcGeek 7 місяців тому +5

      It's just plain stealing the whole concept... Even the thing with the D... WTF spiff

    • @Vhargon
      @Vhargon 7 місяців тому +44

      ​@@MarcGeekLGIO is not the first person to intentionally play games wrong while still succeeding. He also does not own the concept. There is no "stealing" that idea.

    • @Arcanua
      @Arcanua 7 місяців тому +2

      Spiff has been at that level for a while now xD

    • @Josip-Broz-Tito
      @Josip-Broz-Tito 7 місяців тому

      i agree@@maltee69

  • @bobdobbolina8376
    @bobdobbolina8376 7 місяців тому

    Your tram seems to trace out Nazca lines. Gorgeous!

  • @midwestmusclecars
    @midwestmusclecars 7 місяців тому

    Love my city skyline content. And now you have a video on it. Let’s go

  • @plick645
    @plick645 8 місяців тому +598

    I appreciate that everything on this channel is really a warning of the dangers of government and ultimate power.

    • @quincykunz3481
      @quincykunz3481 8 місяців тому +64

      The government, corporations, capitalism, technology, Europeans as a species....

    • @jon-michaelsampson1120
      @jon-michaelsampson1120 8 місяців тому

      Capitalism as a term was actually invented by early socialists so just using that term concedes a major point to socialists. The term implies that the system is somehow focused on capital and therefore unequal wealth distribution and exploitation when in reality what they called capitalism is really just economic individualism meaning nothing more than respecting private property. In short, 19th century socialists gave a biased name to their previously unnamed enemy.@@quincykunz3481

    • @SivaExperiment
      @SivaExperiment 8 місяців тому +42

      @@quincykunz3481nah capitalism is fine

    • @You_are_wrong99
      @You_are_wrong99 8 місяців тому +45

      @@SivaExperiment 1800s joined the chat.

    • @jsm364
      @jsm364 8 місяців тому +33

      @@You_are_wrong99 capitalism is much better than the alternatives.

  • @shakeorefined2514
    @shakeorefined2514 8 місяців тому +111

    It's not a scam!
    Also, we need more Pebbles the Dog. She deserves her own video.

  • @isabellagrace7535
    @isabellagrace7535 7 місяців тому

    Reminds me of the train journey to Aberystwyth from Carmarthen where you have to travel out of wales to go back into wales. So you can either travel 8 hours by train to get there or drive there in 1hour and 24 minutes.

  • @rach1759
    @rach1759 7 місяців тому

    Spiff you've outdone yourself. This is a step up on the parkageddon from CS1

  • @almicc
    @almicc 8 місяців тому +35

    They should make it so when routes are simply far too expensive, people will just trek the open plains and produce trails. it would be incredible to see a mass of people covering the fields

    • @gerritvalkering1068
      @gerritvalkering1068 5 місяців тому +1

      not gonna lie, that would be awesome

    • @JC_Cali
      @JC_Cali 3 місяці тому

      What is this, Tropico? Oh well it can't be, since there's no beaches, no starting cities on islands, nor tropical climates and themed maps.

    • @phenethylamine91
      @phenethylamine91 3 місяці тому

      This isn't Foundation

  • @Hrafnskald
    @Hrafnskald 8 місяців тому +200

    20:48 "Just 17 hours and 50 minutes later, you arrive at your destination."
    Spiff has successfully recreated American mass transit. Well played :D

    • @HanSolo__
      @HanSolo__ 7 місяців тому +3

      It would take over 8 hours to travel from my small town in northern Poland to travel one way to the city of Slough.

    • @Hrafnskald
      @Hrafnskald 7 місяців тому +2

      @@HanSolo__ How far is that? 1500km or so? In the US, it takes 26 hours to go from New Orleans to Austin, a distance of around half that (822 km or so). :)

    • @freddiefan1973
      @freddiefan1973 7 місяців тому +1

      Except not taking into account delays, canceled buses (because there aren't enough operators) and having to wait for the next bus because the one that would get you to work relatively on time is so full nobody else will fit

    • @letheas6175
      @letheas6175 7 місяців тому +5

      @@HanSolo__ I'd say Poland might be a bit worse than Germany (and Germany much, much worse than all other surrounding countries) but it's still so much better than in the US.

    • @stuartfury3390
      @stuartfury3390 7 місяців тому

      It's cute when euros compare their tiny little cities with a massive country with almost 400 million people

  • @MrBuyerman
    @MrBuyerman 7 місяців тому +2

    Spiff, You're the Evil Genius we all wish we could be! You need to add a white cat being stroked into your video's

  • @peter_280
    @peter_280 7 місяців тому +1

    With this tram track I can't help to get the feeling, spif has had gotten a lesson from our "Deutsche Bahn". 😅

  • @occularmalice
    @occularmalice 8 місяців тому +21

    New Scammington is not a scam. I live there and it's great. I've been riding the train for 3 weeks straight, and I still haven't got to my location! So much to see.

  • @JohnDoe-vm5rb
    @JohnDoe-vm5rb 8 місяців тому +260

    You're not the most evil british man alive Spiff. You don't import coffee.

    • @adamsalt9423
      @adamsalt9423 8 місяців тому

      That would be me

    • @NaughtyShepherd
      @NaughtyShepherd 8 місяців тому +1

      American here, this made me giggle. 😅

    • @brandonchildress4031
      @brandonchildress4031 8 місяців тому +17

      Import coffee, but package it in Yorkshire Tea Gold boxes. But only every other tea bag has coffee grounds, since it's Britain the other half contain spicy peppers, with one guaranteed Carolina Reaper pack in every box!

    • @Blue_Sonnet
      @Blue_Sonnet 8 місяців тому +3

      Has Spiff ever addressed the fact that JackSepticEye sells coffee? It must have come up at some point but I must have missed it!

    • @TiocfaidhArLa34
      @TiocfaidhArLa34 8 місяців тому

      you would have to ask the irish or indians how to topple that. most evil british man is just as hard if not harder to beat than most evil austrian man.

  • @Pearlflower1
    @Pearlflower1 День тому

    Everyday go to work is going to an long vacation, it not that bad , Spiff just make all the citizens Fit and Good looking . And there no Tax too , what a dream city ! Minus the food and toiletries situation I think he make the city version of mad max

  • @MollyDrum28
    @MollyDrum28 7 місяців тому

    More plz!! I love your chaos.

  • @petroventer1220
    @petroventer1220 8 місяців тому +81

    I am in awe of your ability to create a travelling hellscape beyond all comprehension. I couldn't even begin to imagine creating this level of chaos. Well done, sir. Well done.

  • @resileaf9501
    @resileaf9501 8 місяців тому +61

    New Scammington is not a scam! I can safely say that on my twelfth hour of travel on our wonderful train service.
    Edit: Very efficient construction in this city. The train ride got twice as long while I was riding it. But it's fine, I'll be at work tomorrow.
    Edit 2: I want to get off New Scammington's Wild Ride.

    • @sinteleon
      @sinteleon 8 місяців тому +2

      Think of it as a staycation. :V

  • @perrinsedai
    @perrinsedai 7 місяців тому +2

    The fact that the train network wasn't called "the scam tram" is an absolute travesty.

  • @Electric_Bagpipes
    @Electric_Bagpipes 7 місяців тому +5

    If you start designing cities I’m leaving this planet.

  • @thomascondon9447
    @thomascondon9447 8 місяців тому +63

    Every video he gets a little closer to becoming Josh with Let's Game It Out. A Spiff and Josh collab might break the universe.

    • @jhiggins85
      @jhiggins85 8 місяців тому +5

      Spiff and a LGIO collab is something this world needs

    • @jasonr4518
      @jasonr4518 8 місяців тому +3

      I was about to comment the same thing. The torture Spiff was inflicting felt very Josh-like.

    • @carlsiouxfalls
      @carlsiouxfalls 8 місяців тому +4

      Yeah, usually Spiff just likes to focus on making obscene amounts of money while Josh is more into torturing his sims. While the idea of forcing people onto paid-for public transport is the basis of Spiff's wealth generation here, the point this time seemed more on torturing citizen rather than money.

    • @thomascondon9447
      @thomascondon9447 8 місяців тому +2

      I think it's the natural progression for all evil genius gamers to one day become Josh. I know I've been there. Sorry Sims, but if the game lets me sell the pool ladder, I'm going to sell the pool ladder.

    • @aqwevony3275
      @aqwevony3275 8 місяців тому +4

      Ooh add callmekevin in there for maximum chaos

  • @tomfurstyfield
    @tomfurstyfield 8 місяців тому +89

    I'm scared the next generation of city planners will be inspired by this

  • @demoman9116
    @demoman9116 7 місяців тому

    I love the Wii Menu music in the background. Really suits the unhinged chaos vibe

  • @clmastergamer
    @clmastergamer 2 дні тому

    The only catch? It's a city designed by me!
    Nope. Nope. Not a chance. I'd probably be locked in some cubicle, or somehow watch some timeline shenanigans happen as a quicksave somehow resets my work day, so I gotta keep working.

  • @camwyn256
    @camwyn256 8 місяців тому +24

    As the city just dissolves into Metro 2033, as the entire population, effectively, lives in the subway cars

  • @nessesaryschoolthing
    @nessesaryschoolthing 8 місяців тому +81

    Once again, in an attempt to create a dystopia, Spiff has accidentally created the perfect society. If it takes most of a single day just to get to work, and you have to go back home after every day of work, the highest number of days you can actually hypothetically work is 3, 2 if you still get weekends. No wonder everyone is happy, you've given everyone 4-5 days off a week! And they still have to be paid well enough to keep coming to work. Perfectly balanced!

  • @RSProduxx
    @RSProduxx 7 місяців тому

    If there´s one thing I learn about myself from Spiff´s videos, it is that I´m just thinking way too "normal" for these games :)

  • @foz19oz
    @foz19oz 7 місяців тому

    This is insane. Please make more.

  • @tmathis9882
    @tmathis9882 8 місяців тому +16

    No wonder his townspeople are so happy, he just transformed their home into a summer home

  • @VerityFraser
    @VerityFraser 8 місяців тому +9

    "Isn't it great when you get on a train and it actually goes to its destination, instead of a replacement bus service?" As a Torontonian, I hope to experience that at least once before I die.

  • @teawitched
    @teawitched 7 місяців тому

    when I visited New Scammington, its accessible transport system was the best part!

  • @xLaoztu
    @xLaoztu 6 місяців тому

    This has to be the funniest cities skylines video I have ever seen. I'm dying laughing 😂😅 thank you

  • @keithmcvey5389
    @keithmcvey5389 8 місяців тому +22

    Totally not a scam living in New Scammington. 11/10 city. Would live here.

    • @Mac_Omegaly
      @Mac_Omegaly 8 місяців тому +2

      Totally not a scam, think about it. You can probably pack a sleeping bag and sleep in that tram. Play games too. How kind of our city designer to let us use electrical sockets on the tram.
      Think about it this way... $50 for a three night stay is a fantastic deal.

  • @Chris_Sizemore
    @Chris_Sizemore 8 місяців тому +62

    Start of the video: People will walk if it is faster to walk, so I've made the road longer.
    End of the video: I've added 3 days of travel time to the tram.
    ...shouldn't all of the citizens be expert hikers now? That highway that only circles the residential area once seems like a direct route all of a sudden.

    • @miflofbierculles5117
      @miflofbierculles5117 8 місяців тому +6

      i think there is a maximum distance for how long a citizen will walk

    • @NightLexic
      @NightLexic 8 місяців тому +17

      The issue is, the route is still shorter than the highway as the game only takes into account each leg individually. So its shorter to go to the first rail station than it is to walk to the other side.

    • @thespiffingbrit
      @thespiffingbrit  8 місяців тому +20

      @@NightLexic correct! All of the legs are calculated independently allowing for our exploit

    • @zaphod4245
      @zaphod4245 8 місяців тому +5

      @@thespiffingbrit You know, you could have had the tram line go along the streets in the residential and commerce areas, but just not have any stops, so the people on the tram have to literally go along the streets they want to go to, but can't get off lol

  • @Vi-p3r
    @Vi-p3r 7 місяців тому

    Absolutely love this! 100% approve of this city!

  • @josephlinardon3540
    @josephlinardon3540 8 місяців тому

    More please, this game is fabulous

  • @rohitharidas91
    @rohitharidas91 8 місяців тому +25

    If we truly live in a simulation, I just hope I don't end up in the one created by spiff 😅

    • @patrickhenry7721
      @patrickhenry7721 8 місяців тому +2

      So long as you don’t mention the Boston Tea Party you’ll be ok…..probably

    • @farshnuke
      @farshnuke 6 місяців тому

      I think you just explained a lot actually.

  • @jaylebo2025
    @jaylebo2025 8 місяців тому +9

    I don't know why, but I have this image in my head of Spiff having died, finding himself standing before the Pearly Gates, seeing a sign saying "yes, we do judge you for sins committed in video games", and just being like "shit"

    • @JetJeb5648
      @JetJeb5648 7 місяців тому +1

      let´s game it out watching from afar 😶😶

    • @blshouse
      @blshouse 6 місяців тому +1

      Along with the hordes of Rimworld players...

  • @alexsemyonov6993
    @alexsemyonov6993 7 місяців тому

    Please post full commute as timelapse. Look of the city and Fallicon Island should be magnificent!

  • @erniemiller1953
    @erniemiller1953 7 місяців тому

    Travis' commute reminds me a lot of my commute to work in Washington, DC.

  • @jacksonstarky8288
    @jacksonstarky8288 8 місяців тому +9

    Five stops over 106 km... this tram line sounds like the intercity bus route where I live (Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada)... except that it's all folded into a single city. Glorious!
    Edit: And then it became five times as glorious. This is amazing, and I can't wait to see more from Spiff and create my own urban hellscape.

    • @theoneandonlymeshe9174
      @theoneandonlymeshe9174 5 місяців тому +1

      Abbotsford to Aldergrove, Aldergrove to Langley, Langley to Surrey Central, then you can finally hop a Skytrain 😂

  • @Ser_Danielope
    @Ser_Danielope 8 місяців тому +9

    New Scamington is not a scam, I love only having to work 2 days a week

  • @nightmarekanna2922
    @nightmarekanna2922 7 місяців тому

    My girl wants more City Skylines 2! Keep it coming!

  • @kylem7917
    @kylem7917 7 місяців тому

    Beautiful! Spiff should be Prime minister of England and RTgame Ireland. Imagine the infrastructural improvement and quality of life changes they'd bring the UK!

  • @isthatzil
    @isthatzil 8 місяців тому +5

    Travis sat and shows how grateful he is on the city’s very efficient and amazing transportation, the greatest city indeed.

  • @tenebraeusfinsterbann
    @tenebraeusfinsterbann 8 місяців тому +55

    When I see this, I think a collaboration between Let´s Game it out´s Josh and Spiff would be absolute nightmare material planing the most unefficient city xD

    • @Red-Tower
      @Red-Tower 7 місяців тому +6

      I'm not sure how it would work, but I'd love to see a city-planning collab between LGIO, Spiff, RealCivilEngineer, and maybe RTGame and/or CallMeKevin.
      Maybe they each spend like 45mins-an hour starting a city and then hand it off to the next person until everyone has had played with each city and seeing the results. Bonus points if they delete as little as possible so they can all recognize the parts they "contributed" (good or bad).
      I remember Spiff doing something kind of like that as a promotion for (I think?) Two-Point Campus? It was a lot of fun seeing everyone's take on stuff.

    • @Yeetmastr4
      @Yeetmastr4 7 місяців тому +1

      I would love to see a LGIO and Spiff collab. Then again, I would love to have 30 million cats. We can't all get what we want. (Unless we kill each other)

    • @Saren-yc1rk
      @Saren-yc1rk 7 місяців тому

      Unefficient?
      Spiff's city actually makes a fair amount of money

  • @wanaan
    @wanaan 7 місяців тому

    Actually if the tram takes that long, I don't need to buy a house. No mortgage, no property tax. Scammopolis actually have 10mil hidden pop who just go to work, get onto the air conditioned tram and then sleep on it until the morning. They probably just shower at the fitness at lunch.

  • @snoo333
    @snoo333 6 місяців тому

    fantastic as always. love the commentary.

  • @hostergaard
    @hostergaard 8 місяців тому +6

    New Scammington is not a scam. I love going to work on public transport, I especially love the view on the 12th hour!
    Just wish there where food on the tram, my kids starved to dead on the fourth day, but it's all good as me and my wife ate them and made it to the shopping district and boy did they have some good offers!

  • @wombataldebaran9686
    @wombataldebaran9686 8 місяців тому +3

    As a proud citizen of Scammington, that isnt held at gunpoint inside a subway station, I must say that this is the greatest city I will ever be in.

  • @XxKidnoffxX
    @XxKidnoffxX 8 місяців тому +1

    2:12 ''There are just currently a few issues with my design''.... Just a few? Are you sure? lol

  • @luigiistcrazy
    @luigiistcrazy 7 місяців тому +1

    16:55 Deutsche Bahn (German Railways): Allow me to introduce myself

  • @JulianHarris
    @JulianHarris 8 місяців тому +10

    Hands down the funniest, meanest yet most ingeniously profitable CS2 city I’ve seen yet. Gives Let’s Game It Out a run for its money.

  • @Zorgdub
    @Zorgdub 8 місяців тому +4

    Every time Spiff starts cutting down trees for Timber, I get flashback to the Prison Architect video where I first discovered him.

  • @mraidymaddful
    @mraidymaddful 7 місяців тому +1

    I have one of the Sim City games, I haven't played it in a while so I can't remember which one it is. Anyways, I always play on Sandbox Mode as when I play in Career Mode I end up being bankrupted after only a short time. I never thought about doing an evil city until I watched this; LMAO (HYSTERICALLY).
    I have built disastrous roller coasters that no one dares to ride in Planet Coaster and RCT but this is something I might have to try.
    Well worth a subscription.
    Oh and lose the fake British accent, we all know you're from Kansas............

  • @sasaat711
    @sasaat711 7 місяців тому

    Lol! Thats hilarious, would love to explore your city via public transit. So many touristy things to see. Lovely ride through the forest, over the bay an out over the sea. And those skyscrapers, OMG, the skyscrapers... and all that for less then $200 bucks?. Love it. Just... how do i get to your marvelously fair city?
    This whole thing reminds me of that Dr. Who episode, where people were stuck in traffic their entire lives. And they have children who also have children. OMG!!

  • @redpanda_simon
    @redpanda_simon 8 місяців тому +3

    These are the people who also went to your last themepark.

  • @kaihimura3897
    @kaihimura3897 8 місяців тому +7

    If I had to live in New Scammington: I'd open a Restaurant/Grocery shop and live out of it or, due the high level of education, have a job in which I could easily work from home. I'd have a gym membership so I could wash-up there. As long as I can avoid being taxed, you better believe I'd be there.

  • @seanmoley3142
    @seanmoley3142 7 місяців тому

    Just love it Spiff, dont play it but why do you need to when Spiff is such fun to watch

  • @stxejn
    @stxejn 6 місяців тому

    "Sorry I'm late Boss"
    "You're late by 12 days. What happened?!"
    "Well the first subway was late by an hour which caused me to miss each consecutive subway after that and had to wait for their next run to complete."

  • @anarchy4812
    @anarchy4812 8 місяців тому +7

    At first i was horrified and afraid that Spiff had snapped totally... then shrugged as i remembered he did that years ago

  • @ChazDragoon
    @ChazDragoon 8 місяців тому +7

    i feel like someone, someday, will make a horror game about this.

  • @ChelloPortugal
    @ChelloPortugal 7 місяців тому

    As someone from the Boston area, replacement bus services are a way of life here

  • @Creeperfun12
    @Creeperfun12 7 місяців тому +1

    A wise man once said "i follow the laws of the Geneva convention,and to say i follow them is a stretch of the imagination"

  • @AGRM_games
    @AGRM_games 8 місяців тому +5

    I want more cities design by spiff, it just works

  • @Geno5
    @Geno5 8 місяців тому +6

    I effing love your builds. Would this by chance be Professor Moriarty? How about a city with residential, industrial and cemeteries

  • @Vindictator1972
    @Vindictator1972 7 місяців тому +1

    I absolutely love that Spiff tortures himself to settup a city to Torture the sims that live in it.

  • @Beletang
    @Beletang 8 місяців тому

    Truly incredible! Best city ever!