I want to, but it's not allowed here in the Netherlands because then everyone wants it and there is group forming. I'm tired of covid. There's my rant.
You could call it the Erl King Canal. Erl King was the first ship to carry a cargo of tea through the Suez Canal, arriving in London on 4 August 1870 after a passage of 61 days.
Walking paths connecting the islands vertically, the roads already connect them horizontally, I believe those would help the citizens living on the inner islands, to more easily get around on foot and via tram.
@@jonathanhall6602 Yeah, I tried finding a pun as well, but it's like everything in that city is specifically designed to be tea-pun-resistant. Meanwhile, a simple tea-related phrase in Italian sounds like something a hoity-toity self-sufficient solar-powered district would want to call itself.
Or “erl king canal because erl king was the first ship to carry tea through the Suez Canal (not getting stuck thankfully) the ship arrived in London on 4th august 1870 after a voyage of 61 days
You should add a monorail station on the part of the line you can see at 19:19 with a pedestrian bridge linking to the tram stop. That will make it much easier for people to get to other parts of the city. A tram route going the opposite way around the circle would help people too.
I've been without internet for the last few months and I forgot how soothing your videos are. It's lovely to hear your voice again, Biffa. Hope you and your family are well!
I’d love to see a more organic layout version. The gridded islands remind me of a dystopia where people refer to their address as sector 3B. Then again all American grids make me think that
Hmmm ... the U.S.A. copy only the Roman Empire as they found "cologne 4711" and many other cities and places in the past. It came from the typical castell into these times where every place must be arrived into a short time. So many U.S. cities named Fort - the english military name copy of a castell.
Well, in the inner City of Mannheim, Germany, constructed in the 17th century, the blocks are counted exactly like that. From Block A1 to L15 to U6. And yes, the address B3 exists. And by the way, square B3 is a park called "Schillerplatz".
Hey Chris, not sure if you’re American or not but this might be interesting either way for you. Some cities like the smaller ones outside and around Miami still use the grid system, but they are set up different. The grids cover miles of road, making square-mile squares between the intersections. In these squares, there are small communities that can be accessed from several locations to these grid roads. Each community is different and holds a certain character while still allowing for fast travel outside. Public transport like busses will drop people in front of the entrances but not inside, letting foot traffic and local drivers have the only reason to travel there. Most of the exits/entrances will have stop signs, exit lanes, and median breaks like most highways. The communities themselves are slower traffic, windy roads with a few cul de sacs and roundabouts. Efficiency never seems the main goal, but some type of natural and organic property setting in the space that is so rigidly set aside for living. It’s actually a decent contrast, for someone who lives in such a location.
Two ideas I have are connecting the tram line to the monorail and having a tram line going the other direction since it's looping in only one direction at the moment.
Had to chuckle..."Overcooked Egg" @8:55 - you slay me! I'm glad I came back to binge-watch this older series...lots of Biffa joy as always but it's incredible to see how far the game has come in the last 3 years! I know I'm waaay late but you could name your IT area Olivetea S.p.A. in honor of "Olivetti S.p.A. - an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers, and other such business products as calculators and fax machines." You may not be old enough to remember them.
You can have ferries to connect to the ferry lines down the river as a way to not clog up metro or monorail. Just around the square closest to the river toward where you might have the Uni or something like that. You might want to have an industry area close by so there are jobs for the people who move in but don't have education yet. Love this city and the way you build it. A joy to watch! Enjoy the rest of your day!
I'd love seeing nice pathways that connect the squares together. And a centralized park or a wedge connecting two squares together as a park area would be interesting.
Hooray for #TeaVille! I'm still loving this series... but boy, when that last track starts in, I get the anxiety of knowing the episode's nearly over! :D Thanks again for your hard work, Sir Biffa!
You can call it “Canal Communitea” You can put the low density commercial to be organic and local produce and the canal communitea would look good and it will also look cool if you put ferries
As a Dutch person, I really like this district. Perhaps getting bicycle paths tot connect the islands vertically (encourage biking) and perhaps extending the canals to the surrounding water on al sides. Perhaps building the university area in the same way (between the offices and the nearby monorail) and connecting it to the rest of the city via this district by ferry. Suggestion for a name: Theezakjeswaard (Theezakjes = Dutch for tea bags, because you drop those in the water. Waard = Dutch for flat landscape near a river ).
Also you've got to do something about those strips of grass. Cities tend to make them into park areas. And city parks are free of charge, of course ;) It could be as simple as a few pedestrian paths through the grass, or you can add some flower beds, some rocks, a statue or two, maybe some public restrooms, a few portable snacks vendors, etc.
With all those channels, it is definitely Teanice. PS: I'd like to have a second Monorail stop at the top end of the area. There is one at the large crossing already.
This community is just steeping in success :D Add some more walking paths, and I'd like to see buses or something for the inner islands to help the citizens get around.
Here's a pro tip from a Dutch guy living in a canal city. If you want the water lapping up against your doorstep... you have to level your building area to just above the water line. I know, this is advanced waterworking stuff, but free tip for you there =D On a more serious note, I'd love to see you do a proper canal city build. Take a look at the maps of Amsterdam, Delft, Utrecht, or Venice, Suzhou, Bankok, or Cape Coral. There are some pretty awesome ideas there.
This sort of reminds me of Star, Palm and Hibiscus Islands in Miami/Biscayne Bay Florida. Super exclusive residences there. Pretty much all A celebrities and C level executives live there.
Except less well done, not nearly as "natural" looking, and not designed for boat access on the canals. Also, can't we collectively admit the swamp draining and island creation plans were poorly thought out and not a great idea?
Due to their borders with the canals each of the rectangular parts of this new area of Teaville looks like a (tea) cup. And this, together with making almost all the buildings self sustaining makes this area an area of *Green Tea Cups.*
Love it. I saw the video from Overcharged Egg and made a version of this myself. He did some more walking paths and trees etc between the segments which would be cool to add but I need to learn how to flatten terrain to a set level like you do.... nice work as always Biffa.
I love this new canals area. Instead of putting in a big parking area, you could put little parking strips along the sections that have nothing on them. The strips between the road and the canal. They have a similar parking set up along the canals in the Netherlands.
Yeah I think some more organic-ness (eg connecting some together of the land masses or even extending the area with some curved canal sections) would be cool Also if boats were to travel in them that'd look really cool too (if not for transport, are boats able to fish in them?)
Some suggestions since you're looking for more ideas: 1) I think a zoo or nature preserve would fit really well between the canal zone, IT cluster/metro hub, and that coastal district. There's plenty of space for something big and open, and a huge metro hub nearby for visitors 2) The canals seem like a great place to use cable cars. They don't seem to get a lot of use, and this seems like a great area for something gimmicky. Barring that, river boats would also be fitting. Just a little something extra to move through the middle area while the tram covers the periphery. 3) Also want to second the idea of a park island in the center of the new district. Maybe combine two of the islands and delete a third to make room for some recreational docks.
9:54 "Every single little oblong square, whatever you wanna call them" As an Italian I found it such an odd thing to wonder about, as city blocks are literally named after islands, lol ("isola": island; "insula" (latin): old Roman high density residential blocks; "isolato": how we call American city blocks, less common for Italian cities)
9:15 if you want a park, that big area right in view would provide the bright amount of plain open area for a decent park. You could just place some park things in there with gates in the right locations, zone it off and Bob's your uncle.
Watching your videos is like watching Art. Hard to make it by yourself, enjoying to see talented and passionate person making this... Appreciate a lot the "welcome back to the 2020 water watching championships" moment! The voice, the intonation... ;)
you could call it "The Samovar". a samovar holds a bunch of water and keeps it hot and ready for making tea whenever. it would be especially fitting if you added one of the water tank buildings to the district, or a couple of water towers. I prefer kettles myself, but we've been using an electric samovar lately, because you can't use a cast iron kettle on a glass topped stove. :(
Randomly thought of a name for a district last night while playing my own city: Cuppateainamin Squares. Ironically it seems fitting, considering the content of the video.
Hi Biffa. Good to see you giving credit to overs for ideas / inspiration. For me , i would add 1 x ferry stop next to the tram depot on the south end. Also up on the north end you have a monorail passing by, so why not add i station. This would give that new local district 2 additional options to connect to other neighborhoods Regards George
Maybe an idea. In the middle, there are a couple "plots" that hasn't any transportation. Maybe an idea with a bus route to connect them to a couple tram stops? It's just a suggestion :)
Shaoshing-Found this Green Tea related canal name from a Chinese tea district in the 1870s ish. This is the text extract”The manafactured leaf is brought down from Teen Kai by rasts or very small boats. From Ken Whan, near Moyune, requires a land portage of 10 miles. Arrived at Sing-ling, the tea is carried by transport boats the rest of the way to Teen Kai; from Teen Kai to Yih Chia, near Hangchow, the journey is made without change of boat. At Yih Chia it is carried over to the Shaoshing Canal, and on this canal it is conveyed to the Taingo River, carried in wheelbarrows a short distance to a ferry boat, ferried over the river to the town of Pah Kwan, placed in boats in the canal, which convey it to the Yuyao branch of the l'ung River; thence to Ningpo it is conveyed in four boats, and subject to three short portages while en route to this port.”🤔🩺☕️
That looks really cool. Maybe set a monorail station on the main road going nearby so they have a way to get downtown without driving? You could do a pretty footbridge over the canal to the station. Maybe use one that has the road built in? Love the design.
You could (im not sure, but maybe) increase land value with long thin parks, that span the canals that have the two-squares of unzoned grass either side. If you also have walking paths between some of the blocks, you could make some money from them ^^ Such a cool area, I love the look of it !!
You could call it the Infusion Village, which combines the tea theme and the water. Or, because it looks like a perforated teabag, you could call it Bag End Estate. :D
you MUST put some tiny parks in. Remove one canal between a block and replace that with a park. Diagonal foot bridges across the chamomile canals to connect surrounding blocks to the park. More than one tiny park.
As a Dutch person I had a different picture in my mind when you mentioned 'canals'... but this is very nice. There should definitely be some boats on the water however.
„Strainer district“ because obviously it looks like it and it’s best for a brew 🤫. I’d love to see the monorail into it, maybe enhance the roundabout station to a real hub with the tram... maybe a ferry at the bottom by the tram depot and extend the mainroad to there too.
In Phoenix, we use a canal system for our water which is controlled by Salt River Project, and their is the Arizona Tea Company. Sice it's a self sufficent area, call it the Arizona Green Tea Project
One thing to be aware, maybe you are, so just putting it out there: Reducing the number of vehicles on the line is not always the best idea as i have noticed in my own city. Let me explain. With certain mod (possibly advanced public transport whatever it is called) every public stop has a timer. Timer represents the time until people leave the stop if they don't have any vehicle come pick them up. If timer gets to 0, people start leaving the stop. So the reason you might not have anybody on the stop is that people waited too long for public transport and if it didn't arrive, they left. Then you might check your own line and see you have 0 passangers, so you will think: "Hey this line is not used enough, lets reduce number of vehicles". But it was the lack of vehicles that created the lack of passangers in the first place. What I have done was I went through stops individually and checked the timers and when people started leaving and adjusted the number of vehicles accordingly, so that the timer would never fall to 0 on any stop on the lines. Again, you might be aware of it already, so just putting it out there for other people too. :) Great city by the way
Canals look great, maybe need to add some footbridges to join some of the islands together, particularly the middle section - roads just go around the outside
I love the idea of an island for parking! I was wondering why you didn't use the watchtowers instead of the fire station, it would save you some space and provide a very good coverage (especially with the fire plane station nearby). Maybe an express bus line from the canals to the IT center could be useful :).
Tea used to be packaged in bricks for transport across the oceans, and in one particularly famous case they were thrown into the water, ergo: Boston Brew
I did this earlier in the week without seeing any videos. I'm playing with no cheats,no mods, and a fulltime job, lol. I havent played it out long enough yet, i did no roads connecting them. So far its working. I was trying to solve the crazy traffic jams at my highway roundabouts before 50 000 people. Industry DLC killed it. Had a 170 000 city before DLC with 85% traffic without even trying. Game on PS4 needs alot of patches
I was skeptical of canals but i think you made it work, perhpas a some more organic shapes would have been nice. Can you showcase some of the supertall buildings from the workshop in your city? perhpas on the river bank between the city centre and the hamilton district to help knit the city together. love watching your city develop.
"So today we are gonna dive into a canal!"
- Biffa 2020
Lol :-)
👌😹👌
I want to, but it's not allowed here in the Netherlands because then everyone wants it and there is group forming. I'm tired of covid. There's my rant.
@@edewaal97 mate we are all in the same boat.
WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
You could call it the Erl King Canal. Erl King was the first ship to carry a cargo of tea through the Suez Canal, arriving in London on 4 August 1870 after a passage of 61 days.
Winning suggestion imho
You should make it earl king canal
Noooooo way mate! Thanks for the shoutout! Super happy you enjoyed it :D
"Overcooked Egg"🤣🤣
Hi watch Koral Tea
Dude I love your channel so much.
😂
I love your videos
Chamomile Canals! (You know, because it's so calming.....)
I was going to try and come up with a name but I won't bother now! If he doesn't choose camomile canals there is no justice 👍🏼
Beat me to it aha
I just had a go at suggesting a name but yours is way way better lol
I guess im too late suggesting chamomile canals lol
Boston Tea Party District - there's enough canals to throw lots of tea inside :-)
:-)
Walking paths connecting the islands vertically, the roads already connect them horizontally, I believe those would help the citizens living on the inner islands, to more easily get around on foot and via tram.
This is a must.
A park in the centre with only foot bridges to it would be loverly.
Add small parks bothsides on the empty space on each island with walking path.
How about naming the canal district "L'ora Del Tè", which is "Tea Time" in Italian. Because of Venice.
I was trying to think of a venice tea pun but love your idea better.
@@jonathanhall6602 Yeah, I tried finding a pun as well, but it's like everything in that city is specifically designed to be tea-pun-resistant.
Meanwhile, a simple tea-related phrase in Italian sounds like something a hoity-toity self-sufficient solar-powered district would want to call itself.
This one is my favorite. If he has a mod where he can put Gondolas in the canals, that'd make it perfect.
I love that
Or “erl king canal because erl king was the first ship to carry tea through the Suez Canal (not getting stuck thankfully) the ship arrived in London on 4th august 1870 after a voyage of 61 days
You should add a monorail station on the part of the line you can see at 19:19 with a pedestrian bridge linking to the tram stop. That will make it much easier for people to get to other parts of the city.
A tram route going the opposite way around the circle would help people too.
I gave you the 68th like, almost there
I've been without internet for the last few months and I forgot how soothing your videos are. It's lovely to hear your voice again, Biffa. Hope you and your family are well!
I’d love to see a more organic layout version. The gridded islands remind me of a dystopia where people refer to their address as sector 3B.
Then again all American grids make me think that
Hmmm ... the U.S.A. copy only the Roman Empire as they found "cologne 4711" and many other cities and places in the past. It came from the typical castell into these times where every place must be arrived into a short time.
So many U.S. cities named Fort - the english military name copy of a castell.
Well, in the inner City of Mannheim, Germany, constructed in the 17th century, the blocks are counted exactly like that. From Block A1 to L15 to U6. And yes, the address B3 exists. And by the way, square B3 is a park called "Schillerplatz".
@@stieeleon99 That is an extremely German thing to do haha
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Hey Chris, not sure if you’re American or not but this might be interesting either way for you. Some cities like the smaller ones outside and around Miami still use the grid system, but they are set up different. The grids cover miles of road, making square-mile squares between the intersections. In these squares, there are small communities that can be accessed from several locations to these grid roads. Each community is different and holds a certain character while still allowing for fast travel outside. Public transport like busses will drop people in front of the entrances but not inside, letting foot traffic and local drivers have the only reason to travel there. Most of the exits/entrances will have stop signs, exit lanes, and median breaks like most highways. The communities themselves are slower traffic, windy roads with a few cul de sacs and roundabouts. Efficiency never seems the main goal, but some type of natural and organic property setting in the space that is so rigidly set aside for living. It’s actually a decent contrast, for someone who lives in such a location.
Two ideas I have are connecting the tram line to the monorail and having a tram line going the other direction since it's looping in only one direction at the moment.
Had to chuckle..."Overcooked Egg" @8:55 - you slay me!
I'm glad I came back to binge-watch this older series...lots of Biffa joy as always but it's incredible to see how far the game has come in the last 3 years! I know I'm waaay late but you could name your IT area Olivetea S.p.A. in honor of "Olivetti S.p.A. - an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers, and other such business products as calculators and fax machines." You may not be old enough to remember them.
How about some pedestrian bridges? This would give a nice Venice-like flair!
It makes a major difference for traffic
You can have ferries to connect to the ferry lines down the river as a way to not clog up metro or monorail. Just around the square closest to the river toward where you might have the Uni or something like that. You might want to have an industry area close by so there are jobs for the people who move in but don't have education yet.
Love this city and the way you build it. A joy to watch! Enjoy the rest of your day!
8:55 he really said “overcooked egg” instead of overcharged egg 😂😂😂
Lol did I??? :P
Yes you did biffa plays Indie games
Replay the video
Yeah, I noticed it too 😅
Yeah, funny.
We should take a minute and pay our respects to all of the kidly winklies that have fell into the canal
tea related name for canals... I suppose AmsTeaDam would work
I'd love seeing nice pathways that connect the squares together. And a centralized park or a wedge connecting two squares together as a park area would be interesting.
Calling this area the ''Floating Gardens'' would be quite fitting, no?
Floatea Gardens.
Instead of a park in the middle turn the whole area into a park and plant flowers in all the grass areas on the edges.
or maybe Floating Leaf?
@@zke.ac6p2y58 Flo-tea Leaf?
Floating Tea Party maybe?
Hooray for #TeaVille! I'm still loving this series... but boy, when that last track starts in, I get the anxiety of knowing the episode's nearly over! :D Thanks again for your hard work, Sir Biffa!
You can call it “Canal Communitea”
You can put the low density commercial to be organic and local produce and the canal communitea would look good and it will also look cool if you put ferries
I wonder if the workshop has tea trees to line the islands? Not very realistic, but still.
I like this name, but should be reversed, Communitea Canals.
19:11 the park idea sounds awesome!
"Boston district"? Its definitely related to tea and water. The only thing you missing is some sort of a port
And a revolution.
Shhhhhhh. Don't remind the Brits about Boston and tea ;)
@@MajorHickE C'mon, who doesn't like a Party!
I thought this too!
haha well played sir!
As a Dutch person, I really like this district. Perhaps getting bicycle paths tot connect the islands vertically (encourage biking) and perhaps extending the canals to the surrounding water on al sides. Perhaps building the university area in the same way (between the offices and the nearby monorail) and connecting it to the rest of the city via this district by ferry.
Suggestion for a name: Theezakjeswaard (Theezakjes = Dutch for tea bags, because you drop those in the water. Waard = Dutch for flat landscape near a river ).
Dutchblend or TeaNethelands (country with the famous canals in amsterdam, utrecht, haarlem, leiden, delft and many more cities)
Dutchblend is really nice!!
Lorent Ecpèin I love Tea Netherlands!
Loosdrechtse plassen is essentially this....
Amersfoort Vathorst vibes
Ever looked up Giethoorn aka the Dutch Venice ? That is what this reminds me of
Also you've got to do something about those strips of grass. Cities tend to make them into park areas. And city parks are free of charge, of course ;)
It could be as simple as a few pedestrian paths through the grass, or you can add some flower beds, some rocks, a statue or two, maybe some public restrooms, a few portable snacks vendors, etc.
With all those channels, it is definitely Teanice.
PS: I'd like to have a second Monorail stop at the top end of the area. There is one at the large crossing already.
This community is just steeping in success :D Add some more walking paths, and I'd like to see buses or something for the inner islands to help the citizens get around.
'Today we are going to dive into a canal' :-) To be honest it's so warm in the UK today I would like to dive in a canal.
its 47 degrees in Turkey
You'd hit the bottom, not as deep as they look.
Jack Price How do you know? Did you try what Biffa said?
Same here /Sweden
Rafael Travis Define “warm”
You should put a monorail station at the entrance to the district.
Love your Teaville videos :)
6:10 You should use surface painter to fill in that corner.
bifa horked it when he started by raising all the land up instead of lowering the whole thing
19:30
A section with 4 vehicules in 2 ways road :
The game : Paint it red
Biffa : "Pffff! What traffic is it?!"
Name for the new area: Wat-tea-ry gardens.
Wat-tea-ry squares.
oh my goodness, yes!
Biffa 8:54 “like overcooked egg”
"Biscuit Park", looks like a bunch of them in a package
I swear Biffa says "around the outside" every episode and it always makes me think of the song xD
I’d call it Sugar Cube Park! Because you know, Tea and cubes. 😂
Sugar Cube Squares
Here's a pro tip from a Dutch guy living in a canal city.
If you want the water lapping up against your doorstep... you have to level your building area to just above the water line. I know, this is advanced waterworking stuff, but free tip for you there =D
On a more serious note, I'd love to see you do a proper canal city build. Take a look at the maps of Amsterdam, Delft, Utrecht, or Venice, Suzhou, Bankok, or Cape Coral. There are some pretty awesome ideas there.
This sort of reminds me of Star, Palm and Hibiscus Islands in Miami/Biscayne Bay Florida. Super exclusive residences there. Pretty much all A celebrities and C level executives live there.
Except less well done, not nearly as "natural" looking, and not designed for boat access on the canals.
Also, can't we collectively admit the swamp draining and island creation plans were poorly thought out and not a great idea?
Biffa i gotta hand it to you, „Scuse my squeaky chair“😂
Due to their borders with the canals each of the rectangular parts of this new area of Teaville looks like a (tea) cup. And this, together with making almost all the buildings self sustaining makes this area an area of *Green Tea Cups.*
I'd call it Teapath after the canals' towpaths. Good on you for the shout out to Overcharged Egg, Biffa - you always do things the right way.
Nobody:
Phone on the table: 6:47
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Love it. I saw the video from Overcharged Egg and made a version of this myself. He did some more walking paths and trees etc between the segments which would be cool to add but I need to learn how to flatten terrain to a set level like you do.... nice work as always Biffa.
“Hang on to your lunch folks, we’re goin’ done” 😂
I love this new canals area. Instead of putting in a big parking area, you could put little parking strips along the sections that have nothing on them. The strips between the road and the canal. They have a similar parking set up along the canals in the Netherlands.
Yeah I think some more organic-ness (eg connecting some together of the land masses or even extending the area with some curved canal sections) would be cool
Also if boats were to travel in them that'd look really cool too (if not for transport, are boats able to fish in them?)
I don’t think so, have you ever seen someone try?
Some suggestions since you're looking for more ideas:
1) I think a zoo or nature preserve would fit really well between the canal zone, IT cluster/metro hub, and that coastal district. There's plenty of space for something big and open, and a huge metro hub nearby for visitors
2) The canals seem like a great place to use cable cars. They don't seem to get a lot of use, and this seems like a great area for something gimmicky. Barring that, river boats would also be fitting. Just a little something extra to move through the middle area while the tram covers the periphery.
3) Also want to second the idea of a park island in the center of the new district. Maybe combine two of the islands and delete a third to make room for some recreational docks.
"Canalmile tea district"
Like chamomile tea. It's bad but I tried:')
Love that
'Canelomile Tea' sprang to my mind too.
9:54 "Every single little oblong square, whatever you wanna call them"
As an Italian I found it such an odd thing to wonder about, as city blocks are literally named after islands, lol
("isola": island; "insula" (latin): old Roman high density residential blocks; "isolato": how we call American city blocks, less common for Italian cities)
Relaxing to your videos is always great so I look forward to whenever your videos are uploaded =)
Thank you OofyMcBoofy :-)
9:15 if you want a park, that big area right in view would provide the bright amount of plain open area for a decent park. You could just place some park things in there with gates in the right locations, zone it off and Bob's your uncle.
District name: Kanalitea Insanitea
Watching your videos is like watching Art.
Hard to make it by yourself, enjoying to see talented and passionate person making this...
Appreciate a lot the "welcome back to the 2020 water watching championships" moment! The voice, the intonation... ;)
Thank you so much 😀
For a second I thought this was a video from Let's Game It Out when I read the title.
Yeah, what's with the GrayStillPlays inspired Titling 😅
you could call it "The Samovar". a samovar holds a bunch of water and keeps it hot and ready for making tea whenever. it would be especially fitting if you added one of the water tank buildings to the district, or a couple of water towers.
I prefer kettles myself, but we've been using an electric samovar lately, because you can't use a cast iron kettle on a glass topped stove. :(
Randomly thought of a name for a district last night while playing my own city: Cuppateainamin Squares. Ironically it seems fitting, considering the content of the video.
-inamin and i would agree
@@chris1978nl Tianamen Square is a real place on Bejing, China. That's where the name was derived from.
@@ShadowRun221 learned something.
19:27 ahhh it’s so nice with the car going of the road
maybe put some parks on each little island, on the edges of each one
Tea Box Bay! The area looks like little tea boxes all lined up!
You should do a second university, you were talking about building one couple episodes ago.
I absolutely love watching buildings go up in this game
Perhaps "Long Islands of Self Sufficentea"
Cities Skyline's water physics always gets me
Connect to the monorail line that's running alongside it?
Scone District. Goes perfectly with all the tea.
If it was Italy you'd go with Cannoli Canals and call it a day.
"CanaliTea Square"
When I think of Tea and lots of water, I think of the Boston Tea Party. Maybe "TeaVille Tea Party"?
First❤
Indeed :-)
Biffa ... Builds a canal 100m above water level then wonders why it doesn't fill ... BIG BRAIN.. love you biffa
I love that and Overcharge Egg is such a good youtuber, Has some great ideas and shoutouts other youtubers.
Hi Biffa.
Good to see you giving credit to overs for ideas / inspiration.
For me , i would add 1 x ferry stop next to the tram depot on the south end.
Also up on the north end you have a monorail passing by, so why not add i station.
This would give that new local district 2 additional options to connect to other neighborhoods
Regards
George
19:25 the car crossing over the canal haha
Now that's how you take an idea and run with it. Great videos from Biffa and Overcharged Egg
You should definitely add a monorail stop on the road that borders this lovely neighbourhood!
Maybe an idea. In the middle, there are a couple "plots" that hasn't any transportation. Maybe an idea with a bus route to connect them to a couple tram stops? It's just a suggestion :)
Shaoshing-Found this Green Tea related canal name from a Chinese tea district in the 1870s ish.
This is the text extract”The manafactured leaf is brought down from Teen Kai by rasts or very small boats. From Ken Whan, near Moyune, requires a land portage of 10 miles. Arrived at Sing-ling, the tea is carried by transport boats the rest of the way to Teen Kai; from Teen Kai to Yih Chia, near Hangchow, the journey is made without change of boat. At Yih Chia it is carried over to the Shaoshing Canal, and on this canal it is conveyed to the Taingo River, carried in wheelbarrows a short distance to a ferry boat, ferried over the river to the town of Pah Kwan, placed in boats in the canal, which convey it to the Yuyao branch of the l'ung River; thence to Ningpo it is conveyed in four boats, and subject to three short portages while en route to this port.”🤔🩺☕️
You should add a CCW version of the tram route, and a couple of ferry stops to get from this section to another coastal area.
That looks really cool.
Maybe set a monorail station on the main road going nearby so they have a way to get downtown without driving? You could do a pretty footbridge over the canal to the station. Maybe use one that has the road built in?
Love the design.
I love canals, really does add a bit of class and luxury
You could (im not sure, but maybe) increase land value with long thin parks, that span the canals that have the two-squares of unzoned grass either side. If you also have walking paths between some of the blocks, you could make some money from them ^^
Such a cool area, I love the look of it !!
The canal district looks like a place I’d love to live. Well done!
You could call it the Infusion Village, which combines the tea theme and the water. Or, because it looks like a perforated teabag, you could call it Bag End Estate. :D
you MUST put some tiny parks in. Remove one canal between a block and replace that with a park. Diagonal foot bridges across the chamomile canals to connect surrounding blocks to the park. More than one tiny park.
As a Dutch person I had a different picture in my mind when you mentioned 'canals'... but this is very nice. There should definitely be some boats on the water however.
Reminds me of a newer area of Copenhagen call "Sluseholmen". Same idea of apartments together with the occasional shops all connected via canals.
Yorkshire has some canals in it. And who doesn't love some good ole Yorkshire Tea
Man a ferry running around the outside would look amazing! I also think you need fish markets and maybe fishing industry around the outsides
„Strainer district“ because obviously it looks like it and it’s best for a brew 🤫. I’d love to see the monorail into it, maybe enhance the roundabout station to a real hub with the tram... maybe a ferry at the bottom by the tram depot and extend the mainroad to there too.
In Phoenix, we use a canal system for our water which is controlled by Salt River Project, and their is the Arizona Tea Company. Sice it's a self sufficent area, call it the Arizona Green Tea Project
One thing to be aware, maybe you are, so just putting it out there:
Reducing the number of vehicles on the line is not always the best idea as i have noticed in my own city. Let me explain. With certain mod (possibly advanced public transport whatever it is called) every public stop has a timer. Timer represents the time until people leave the stop if they don't have any vehicle come pick them up. If timer gets to 0, people start leaving the stop.
So the reason you might not have anybody on the stop is that people waited too long for public transport and if it didn't arrive, they left. Then you might check your own line and see you have 0 passangers, so you will think: "Hey this line is not used enough, lets reduce number of vehicles". But it was the lack of vehicles that created the lack of passangers in the first place.
What I have done was I went through stops individually and checked the timers and when people started leaving and adjusted the number of vehicles accordingly, so that the timer would never fall to 0 on any stop on the lines. Again, you might be aware of it already, so just putting it out there for other people too. :) Great city by the way
LOL 2:14 & 7:56 I swear you should become a sports commentator Biffa!
Canals look great, maybe need to add some footbridges to join some of the islands together, particularly the middle section - roads just go around the outside
I love the idea of an island for parking!
I was wondering why you didn't use the watchtowers instead of the fire station, it would save you some space and provide a very good coverage (especially with the fire plane station nearby).
Maybe an express bus line from the canals to the IT center could be useful :).
Tea used to be packaged in bricks for transport across the oceans, and in one particularly famous case they were thrown into the water, ergo:
Boston Brew
Looks awesome ! The "Earl Greywater" district !
I did this earlier in the week without seeing any videos. I'm playing with no cheats,no mods, and a fulltime job, lol. I havent played it out long enough yet, i did no roads connecting them. So far its working. I was trying to solve the crazy traffic jams at my highway roundabouts before 50 000 people. Industry DLC killed it. Had a 170 000 city before DLC with 85% traffic without even trying. Game on PS4 needs alot of patches
Reminds me of snacks you'd eat with tea. Shortbread Flats, maybe?
I was skeptical of canals but i think you made it work, perhpas a some more organic shapes would have been nice. Can you showcase some of the supertall buildings from the workshop in your city? perhpas on the river bank between the city centre and the hamilton district to help knit the city together. love watching your city develop.
Area name “Little Itealy”
Love your work Biffa 😁