THIS is why you have to build SLOWLY in Cities Skylines 2 | MC #17
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- The day has finally come - Emily Timmons, the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources - has declared her candidacy for governor. And while Governor Johnson was hoping it would not come to this, she is not surprised and has something planned to compete with the news - Spasm Electronics intent to build a new factory in Magnolia County. One resident doesn't seem particularly impressed by either announcement or either candidate....
In this episode, we're going to focus on one Signature Building - Switchon. We'll build slowly, giving the asset the respect it deserves as a major regional employer. This means that we'll turn it into a campus, not just plop it on a roadside. We'll also build complimentary uses nearly and hopefully show you why building slower can be better.
In addition, We'll also learn about how the electrical grid works in Cities Skylines 2 and build many farms and rural subdivisions. And near the end, we'll make some fixes based on YOUR feedback.
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CHAPTERS
OMG, She did it - 0:00
Hmm... Where do we put this thing? - 2:32
Why Spasm Electronics? It's a horrible name - 5:59
I need to generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity, so we need high voltage - 15:23
If I can't escape these things, you can't escape these things - 19:24
FINALLY - it's been so long! - 25:22
Spraying Trees for 5 minutes - 29:44
"City Tour" - 34:54
Wait wait, that was a FAST episode. Are you alright? - 35:49 - Hry
The save for this episode has been posted on my Discord! To check it out, head to discord.gg/cityplannerplays and head to "announcements"
I just downloaded CS2 but everytime that I play and try to place roads my screen goes yellow and thats the same with water pipes. Also I cant download mods off the Thunderstore. Is there anyway that you can help me
# name me 1 town- has both electronics and farming land, so I think the name should be combination of both something like Ampere Acres or Watt Meadows etc.
#Chuckles4Govenor
For the Electronics factory, I regularly drive past Intel in Oregon and they have quite a massive substation on what basically is a campus of buildings. Worth looking at the area and fleshing it out
Yellow screen is usually because you're trying to play without a dedicated graphics card@@BasketballBoy1521
2024 presidential race❌
2024 Superior Governor Race ✅
Trump 2024
#ChucklesforGovernor
Nah chuckles for president nobody want have a president that doesn't believe in rights for a person@nickcollins1528
@@nickcollins1528 no not here man we don't want to upset the wrong crowd let's keep this to ourselves 👌
Since Switchon is a tech firm, I feel like a Solar Array would be a great fit for the campus! Solves your power problems and you can export the extra electricity via the nearby HV lines.
How about some nature reserve in MC to balance the loss of land? To pacify people like Chuckle. Let's see how that works out.
@@unything2696 solar array and nature perserve... that could be good episode ideas. i wonder what CPP says about it.
I could see the community being very concerned about power draw from a large place like this and requiring some sort of electricity generation to offset its massive draw.
Chuckles' redemption arc from cs1 is peak storytelling. Chuckles for governor!
#Chuckles4Governor
He’s got my vote
I really hope he cleans up with a suit #noclowns
@@TheRetacon I could see him refusing to abandon his clown ways on principle. While not wearing clown suits as governor, you just know he would be the type to wear eye-watering colored suits and Hawaiian ties.
Chuckles must have a hidden agenda
Hello Phil! In the spirit on the upcoming election season, it could be a fun idea to set up a CZcams poll where your viewers (citizens of Superior State) can vote for the next Governor! Also, if there are any proposals for new developments, perhaps on occasion you can incorporate votes as an interactive way of engaging with the narrative and lore of the series.
Yes! I second this
There is a poll in the discord for CZcams/Patreon/Twitch members
Chuckles has my vote ☑
Also, my favorite part of every video is when we get the Faffing Music - music for when you're faffing around and slowly losing your sanity while CS2 makes the weirdest road decisions. (Wii shop music)
Bro you are a hero! Youre the comment I was looking for, lol. It was on the tip of my tongue. Now i remember it was from wii. I was thinking of the DSi shop lol
it's so relatable too LOL! I do mapdesign for my fav RTS games and sometimes the mapeditor just goes WACK! and you can spend 30 minutes just faffing with that shit lmao
It doesn’t seem impossible for transit service to exist to such a large employer. In East Idaho we have the Idaho National Laboratory which employs about 6000. It runs shuttle buses to all the towns in the area for the workers because it is located in the middle of nowhere. Keep in mind that Idaho is a very rural and (unfortunately) not transit oriented state, but still this exists. It would be very cool to see a similar motor coach service run to the electronics factory in MC.
Assuming I'm correct and the SwitchOn is based on the Gigafactory or something similar, it DOES have multiple buses for multiple surrounding towns. (Source: I work there)
Pretty much the same as you said, more or less.
I propose the large lake near the factory to be named “Minneikaphyu”, after the Lakota words “minne” (lake) and “icahpe-hu” (cornflower), the lore being that the occasional flooding of the lake’s banks resulted many cornflowers blooming in the damp soil. Name me #1 could be “Cornflower View” and Name me #2 could be “Kaphyu Junction” (knowing the settlers they’d probably butcher the names).
i love those names, i hope he chooses them!
Excellent suggestion ! So cool !
yesss!! So cute!
To add to this - Name me #6 “Pennacook”
From Algonquian meaning at the foot of the hills
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennacook
I love that the Chuckles meeting took place at the pharmacy. Wonder what sort of pharmacy that is...?
The pharmacy/marina that sells the nightcrawlers and 🍆 pills, of course!
Gotta be where chuckles gets the opiates from. No way his taxi cab business is legit. No way it’s so successful in magnolia county where everyone drives. I think he’s a secret drug lord using his taxi business as a front to smuggle opiates around magnolia county
It's legal in Michigan...
(don't know about the fictional state of Superior)
Lmao 🤣
Depending on the type of electronics being developed and produced, you might see an extremely dense, tall wall of trees facing those farms. The trees would be low pollen, low detritus species. The reason is that they act as a dust filter that helps keep the factory air easier to keep as clean as possible.
1) I never get bored of the "Philip goes ham" music when either something goes wrong, or you do (e.g. you let perfect be the enemy of good in your own inimitable fashion)
2) I've never heard "oppressive little shopping centre" sound quite so cheerful or inviting (around the 25 min mark)
The lore before every episode starts is the best addition he's ever made 💯
The Governor's ex-secretary running for office? "Chuckles" for Governor? This is nuts!
It's like having a professional wrestler as a governer, which has never ever happened. Nope. Especially not in Minnesota during the early 2000s.
Politics is already a circus show, who's better prepared for it other than a PROFESSIONAL clown?
Well the professional could be competent and we can't have that@@mikewinterborn
@@mikewinterborn calling politics a circus show is an insult to circuses! A good show has to be well-managed and coordinated, with people actually working together for a shared goal. Only Chuckles has the right mindset of the three!
@@honeycomblord9384 and California got an actor... twice!
1:26 Ironic to see the owner of a taxi company become an environmentalist.
Not sure if you saw the other comments, but a flood video would be great. The houses on the river bank are not built to withstand an overflowing river. Also erosion exists, thus, the land is very loose. I live in Illinois, flooding happens often.
very reminiscient of the fathers day flood that happened not too far from where magnolia county is set
@@flamingoLake ikr
I would really reconsider that aggregate mine, electronics production is very sensitive to movement, seismic blasting nearby would be a major detriment to the factory. Likewise generally you need a lot of other production nearby to be cost effective (think shenzen) so I'd consider the other industrial uses in the area.
adding onto this the dust coming from that mine would blow onto the fields causing lots of issues for the farmers
@Invalid_eSports i was thinking the same, not only from dust but potentially harmful water runoff after rain (from diesel and chemicals needed to run the machinery), which would then likely go into the lake there, creating even more environmental hazards and make any nearby bore water or underground water deposits toxic and unsuitable for farming.
I also live in an area with a lot of farms, and the only quarries nearby are over 5km away from us, the only 'farm' near them is a small cattle farm. The most prevalent industry in our more immediate area is forestry (huuuuge pine plantation less than a kilometre away from our house). Which also benefits the farmers cause they use sawdust and mulch on the farms and for compost. Our farmers would fight tooth and nail to keep any form of mining at minimim of 1-2km away from them.
Also a lot of farmers here would be pushing for better highway or road access to minimise the maintenance and upkeep of machinery (bloody potholes), and keep any potential accidents down. Even if it meant a small portion of their property was bought by the department of main roads. They'd also likely ask for better public transit because it brings in workers that dont have cars, such as foreign workers.
Thank you! I really like Magnolia County.
I want to share some information from around the world:
In Turkey, most factory workers usually don't drive to work, and many of them don't even have a car.
Instead, companies help their workers get to their job by giving them transportation as a bonus. Companies either use their own buses or hire transportation services to pick up and drop off workers. These buses follow routes like regular public buses and stop at specific places to pick up workers. This way, companies use their valuable land for production (in Turkey, industrial zones are generally very valuable) instead of using it for parking. Also employees can save money and time by using these buses instead of their own car. For example, they can read or sleep in the bus instead of driving.
I believe large companies in India offer the same kind of service to their employees.
However in France, where I live, they usually don't because public transportation is often quite good and reliable. And I feel that in North America, where Magnolia County is supposed to be, this doesn't exist either even though public transportation is not up to European standards but just because almost everyone owns a car.
You know what that big ol' community needs?
Transportation and connection with Bend!
I was just about to suggest public transportation too. How could he forget that?
@@davidroddini1512 i dunno
Maybe his intention was to build an autonomous township/DOD
@@davidroddini1512 because it's supposed to be realistic'ish America
@@kelleroid Realistic American? That ship has sailed already. The roads are too well maintained and the trains aren’t derailing on a regular basis. 😉
@@davidroddini1512 ask anyone in the world if they think their roads are well maintained...
Name me #1 should be called Behemoth after the absolutely massive aggregate drill that dominates the landscape. And even if that eventually redevelops, the name will be a simple reminder of what was once there.
To be fair, some construction equipment are massive. I drive a tractor scraper(the real “terraforming tool”) and they are huge but I’ve also operated huge loaders to move minerals and other equipment that could definitely be bigger than a barn.
Phil is the Bob Ross of City Planning. I have such a nice and enjoyable time watching all of his videos.
Chuckles for President
#ChucklesforGovernor ✊
He would just make the whole county an amusement park😂
hell nah...
Chuckles 2024!!!
I use your videos to calm down before bed to avoid having nightmares. The slower pacing and your voice
Same here, very relaxing
Same
💯💯
Hearing your voice on this intro after the AI one, I realize how I love your voice.
We listen to your CZcams channel since many years now.
You grounded us and you keep us sane and calm through so much in our life.
Your voice and your laugh is probably your best asset! Please continue be your self!
Thank you so much for your time.
Wow!
There was a video with an AI voice over?
What are you talking about with the AI one?
@@iain.sm.c The introduction to the previous video with the news segment used an AI voice
@@weerribben47 Ah, just went to that video's comments, cheers!
Aggregate mines tend get plotted below the surrounding ground level and then surrounded by dense bushing and or a knoll.
Also a factory of that size and that isolated would have easily been able to subsidize their own solar field with the local governments.
A factory that size would easily have gone for more parking that might later turn into a parking garage as surrounding property values inevitably increase. Especially being located so far away from where many of their workers live.
I was also about to comment saying that I would have backed the aggregate mine a little bit off the roads to provide some vegetation buffer and to prevent the roads from slipping into the mine...
Those big trucks on the mine being as big as a barn is probably to scale. The large trucks they use in mining sites like that are absurdly large. Like, unironically the size of a barn.
My favorite part of this episode is the little neighborhoods and farms you placed between the city and the new community. I grew up in rural NC and that's exactly how my town/county was. We have one HUGE employer (a military base) just outside out of town, with a few miles of farmland, small subdivisions and houses directly on country roads separating our town and the base. Great episode Phil!
One of the first CS videos I watched I saw Biffa’s Rock Park. Before I knew who Biffa was. You need to name another Biffa Rock Park!
I'm waiting for Chuckles' ecoterrorist arc
It would be cool to see some town names based on French words given how prevalent the French were in the area. Some suggestions Rivière (river), Aulne (alder tree), Collines (hills), Fluer (flower). All of these are just from google translate so not to sure about the translations.
Maybe a sister city to Riviere-du-Loup, QC :p
Engagement!
31:50 quarry diggers really are just that huge. I also thought it was funny you were worried about road noise for that little farmhouse... meanwhile a literal mountain remover is causing earthquakes in the back yard X3
14:27 I loved the SimCity 2000 reference! Nostalgia FTW 🎉
I'm sad I had to scroll so far down to see a comment on this.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one who appreciated it!
5:38 fun fact, you will often see grid corrections on north/south roads just like that to account for latitude as you go further north/south.
I find adding realistic (vast) amounts of parking to be great for storytelling. As you've done previously in your series' - plopping lots of parking in the first instance, but later on, replacing empty or unused parking with commercial/offices really adds to the lifespan of areas that could otherwise be "plop + forget".
Something worth considering might be putting a line of trees, sound barrier, or even just a guardrail on the stretch of highway next to the football stadium. Seems like something there could be some concerns about, such as stadium lights blinding traffic at night, or having child recreation right next to a highway with no barrier in between.
And privacy for corporate espionage 😳
Phil if you haven't already, watch Infrastructurist. He builds a fully custom train station that fits so well into his town. Love to see something like this is Magnolia County
i LOVE these slower paced episodes. it makes sense to have many more farms & rural subdivisions that get changed over time. great build :)
Great video. 😊 What about a pond on the Switchon campus and maybe even a simple baseball diamond? It seems like that is happening at big employers where land is cheap. It also is a good use for expansion land.
Regarding the "scale issue" with the mines... based on how enormous these machines are in real life, I actually don't think there is an issue, it's just that those kinds of machines are absolutely massive.
Aw man, missed a chance for a "green" factory campus. Windmills/solar power plant next door.
Do aggregate mines really end up so close to farmland? It's a feature a few times in Magnolia County now. genuine question from someone unfamiliar with the industry
its been a while since i watched the start of one of your regions, but man it feels like MC has so much already built for only being 17 episodes in. cant tell if its a you having improved that much or a CS 2 change. thanks for the videos man, cheers
You should post a poll on the community where you explain the candidates ideas for the future of mc and we can vote who we like the best
This is my first time commenting on this channel, even though I've been watching for a few years now and never missed an episode of Magnolia County! This is so amazing! It's also so damn cool to see the Signature Buildings coming into play in a realistic fashion! Are you planning on using that Service Station signature building at all, since you were looking into it for a while in earlier episodes. Other than that, though, so, so, so happy to see how things are shaping up! The storytelling is easily 10/10, and the building... look, you're the best Cities: Skylines player I've ever had the pleasure of watching, and there's some strong competition there! I can't wait to see how things keep going, this series is amazing!
Always enjoy your videos and love the story that goes with each episode. It makes each episode feel focussed and important. One thing I would like to see is a tourist spot with some of the more unique buildings and show us how to adjust transport effectively to bring the area to life.
Hey Phil! Loving the care and detail you put in to each of your videos!! Can we get a POV of a person just walking through the city? It would give us a different perspective of the city if we can walk in it and see things from the perspective of a person living in the city ❤
Really enjoying the story and intros! Great build as always. It always amazes me how much industrial uses spend on landscaping. It's great to see but is still surprising.
You and Biffa are doing outstanding work now with CS:2. Really enjoyed this build, and I like how you explain your choices. Nice one! Can't wait until we get the assets we bought and also the promised pack.
I always love these uploads. They're so chill I'll just have them play while I work
Would like to see a school board, City Council, and Mayor Element added to the Series. Chuckles, i mean Charles, should run for that position.
And it would be cool to see there, National Senator, House of Representative, and their State counterparts campaign in the city
Nice job again Phil, loving the back stories Bud.. lol Thank you
love the meta-story! I've been goin back and watching Verde Beach and it's the big thing missing in early episodes. You have a little of it with the naming, but this whole thing w/ Chuckles and so on is awesome.
if you build a car factory, you NEED to build a test track area please!!!
Would be really cool to build there, now that we got a electronic factory....Love the series!
I always look forward to these! Thanks so much for the quality entertainment and inspiration!
As a central Ohio resident, who not infrequently drives past the future site of that big Intel plant, I have to say this all looks very familiar. There are a lot of high tech facilities in the area on what were very recently farm fields, so surrounding the factory with farms was a good idea. The roads around the factory remind me a lot of Beech Road (a road with numerous data centers located on it) with the trees on the sides and the green space between the road and the factory. A decade ago that road was just a little 2 lane country road, like the other roads you didn’t upgrade. I can see in the future some of those smaller roads getting upgraded and some of the farms replaced by more industry.
"Name me #2" could be Columbia Heights. It was the last neighborhood in DC I lived in before moving to Logan Circle. I think the hillside could match the "heights" part of it.
I am such a fan of the "story" you are telling in your videos... It´s not just CS just are making it feel more alive and exciting to watch... +1 for engagement...
Just caught up to this point in the series, I just found your channel and watching this while learning a little bit about city planning has become my new hyperdilation, time to go watch all of Verde beach for the first time!
How about "Town of Spasm"? Hershey, PA was founded as a factory town for it's workers at Hershey. Maybe the Town of Spasm is a factory town for it's workers. Up in Bailey, how about "Town of Oxbow", for the oxbow in the river.
Chuckles 2024!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@5:50 roads not matching up is due to which tile you had purchased and used at the time. You can only draw in roads on the inside of a purchased tile. then later when you buy the tiles surrounding, your new grid could be on the opposite side of the dotted border line. IT's fine becasue i see country roads have a jog at intersections all the time. 😃
superior highway should probably have dedicated turning lanes for the exits by myrtle park :) Also i think just the name phoenix avenue on an exit sign would look really cool in real life :)
Love your videos! I Work for an electrical provider. A large factory of this scale would at least have a dedicated "low voltage" line, or even a "high voltage" line and a transformer. Keep up the awesome work!
I don't have a name for a district in particular, however I want to suggest it anyways. If you're planning on making one of the small local developments into a more metropolitan area, perhaps a transport hub from Bend to the Spasm Electronics building, may I recommend the name 'Lilydale'? It's the name of a town in Victoria, Australia, roughly 30km out from Melbourne. The reason I mention Lilydale, is that in the early 1920s it was a small town with a few townhouses and stores down Main Street, with a railway passing through ~30 years prior, but now It's developed so much, and it's amazing to see the sprawling suburbia and the new station design, that's all, but this series is one of my favourites, and a must watch for me, keep it up!!
Unrelated to this but something I did myself was add forest and grass surfaces over fields to give the illusion of different growth stages and plant types.
25:17 While you were cleaning up the roads on the new shopping mall, I think that Park lane could use an alignment (with complex curve tool) with the intersection into the mall. That way you would avoid a staggered intersection.
Love your stuff. Always a relaxing watch
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I really hope the surfaces will eventually be updated to work better with snow. I'm coming around to liking them, but the lack of snow is a bummer. 31:15 LOVE that gazebo 😍
I just want to say that I'm really, really glad that you hired an artist for the character portraits and moved away from the really uncanny AI-generated stuff. My feelings on AI image generations are complicated but Chuckles' bellybutton being gone is a huge relief.
hey CPP, with such a large facility, at least at least here in South Africa and Mozambique (where i am from originally), although in a rural setting, they usually build a town or large scale village attached to it (or nearby) which will sustain a workforce for the facility, cutting expenses such as commute times, schooling, shopping - with the already built up shopping centre, etc in order to attract and house the employees nearby. but besides that thank you for such an awesome wholesome channel. The story telling is beyond awesome. and chuckles for President.
Oh hey, something I'm actually familiar with!
I live in an area with a couple mega-corp campuses, the types that employ well into the quad digits, and a couple things where your implementation diverges from reality. First, is that the campus footprint is *much* larger than you have here. Not only would there be way more parking, but there'd be multiple buildings (like could be modeled with industrial and offices in-game) spanning the campus surrounding the main one, with walking space in between (much like a college campus) and various security checkpoints, maybe even some on-campus transit. Second, the campuses *really* try and stay hidden from view. Of the two in my area, one his a landscaped hill surrounding the entire thing (like a hollow square-shaped hill around the entire block) so it's impossible to see inside of the block at all, and the other has big lines of trees and forests blocking any type of view. To actually see the tech company at all, you have to actually go into the campus itself, otherwise it's near invisible.
The real-world footprint would probably be about 5 or 6x the size it is here, probably a tad smaller than the university you built earlier in the series.
That's at least compared to the ones in my area, which I'm not sure how many they actually employ and might actually be *much* larger than the 1500 of the one in-game, so maybe not entirely applicable.
@31:54 I'm pretty sure that the scaling is spot on. The hilarity comes from the fact that those trucks ARE the size of a small house.
I’m finally up to date on this series, absolutely loved it so far.
I always put bushes by paths too. I think it has something to do with how jarring the transition from the grey path to green terrain is, it just doesn't look natural without something to distract from it.
There are no scaling issues with the excavator. You should check out how massive some excavators and dump trucks can be, especially in quarries and similar environments. For example, the Caterpillar 6090 FS is a hydraulic mining shovel that weighs around 1,000 tons and has a bucket capacity of 52 cubic meters. It’s designed to load gigantic haul trucks like the Caterpillar 797F, which itself can carry up to 400 tons of material.
Just wanna say: the TV scene in the intro is next level editing. Kudos!
If I were an employee at Spasm I would love to have a tiny manmade pond next to the pavilion. This could boost the view a lot and people are gonna love it. I think there’s a mod available to add water source to the map :)
Love the videos, keep up the good work man!
I know I’m a bit late for this, but as someone that lives in an area a lot like this, I have a bit of a tweak for you, that being the rural subdivisions.
There…isnt really much “subdivision” to the layout out here. Really all the subdivisions are is a single road branching off a Jeffersonian-like grid with houses on it. No roads branching off of them and gridding into others, just houses. And that’s one subdivision. Plus…the roads are paved out here. They aren’t always marked, but they are paved.
Thank you for the additional detailing tips. I too love trees along the road but that's from living in the desert for decades where it is less common.
Also, thank you for showing off the other props. (I honestly thought there were save issues using them, that seems to have been worked out.)
As always, you're a great inspiration and have given me more confidence to return to CS2 to keep going!
Væ Victis O7
28:20 You know it's Phil when he sees a forest and he first thinks to put in housing but not a fire watchtower.
The wittiness of the story in these videos is so charming!
Great relaxing lunchtime fun. Thanks Phil.
38:21 For name me #6, I think it should be called Zailey because it’s the rural part of Bailey and the name similarity would cause both unity and rivalry between the towns. And for the lore It should be two sisters discovered and explored the region but fought over who it would be named after (don’t ask me why they didn’t do their last name) and they claimed opposite sides of the region.
Edit: Maybe for #7 it should be called Midley because it’s in the middle (geographically) between Zailey and Bailey and it has the “ley” suffix.
Edit 2: I’m sorry for the edits I promise this is the last one but I think #8 should be called Kaboom District assuming the company that operates the factory is called Kaboom ( the company is rivals with spasm even though the industries are semi-different )
The battery back ups will only charge from the "local grid" and it'll discharge if power is needed from the "external grid". The locally produced power is cheaper than the external power so the back up battery's purpose is to add a buffer to your local grid so that it doesn't have to take power from the external grid. If the only power available is from the external grid or the backup batteries it'll discharge the backup batteries first before taking power from the external grid.
I also think that once the batteries are discharged the battery backup would act like an expensive transformer kinda like you expected.
Came here to say this. The reason the battery's stored energy was being used instead of imported energy being used is because that is the battery's entire reason for existing. Once it became completely drained the power would start drawing from the outside connection.
Realising you can put all power lines underground was a game changer for me. Don't know why I didn't know this before!
Yeah, even if he wants to preserve the aesthetic, I think going under ground to cross the river would be a wise move.
Great content mate. Keep up the great work
As usual, the build was fantastic. Enjoyed this episode. The only thing that I've noticed is that there was no fire, police, health, and death care in the new area. May I suggest either add or rezone nearby towns to ensure that there is adequate so we don't have a repeat of that horrible fire outbreak.
Dang Phil, first Darryl hits me with throwing shade on the Progress Express, and now Chuckles. You're making me like him more already! He gets my vote. ☑🏡 The whole plot sounds like the song lyrics "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot".
Secretary Emily Timmons looks like a nice lady, nice to see a new face in the series and I'll look forward to how her story affects the county.
The art style for all the characters is great, I love the growing range of expressions for them!
14:26 OMG the Sim City 2000 reference!! ❤
The name Magnolia is of Latin origin, means “great excellence”, and is associated with beauty and grace. I find my wife (Scotti) to be beautiful and graceful as well. The name Scotti is of Latin origin and was derived around the 3rd century. Not only is it unique, but I believe would add an additional touch of class to your region-if you so choose. Thank you for the continued content, you make this all look so easy!
For Village number 3, was thinking Uhrichsville or the rivers name.
If the river is named, it’s spacing my noggin atm.
In my neighboring city, it’s historic downtown is the old village of Willamette named form the river and falls.
The elevator music and video clips when you're struggling to achieve some goal or have made a bad decision never fails to make me laugh.
I think the only thing that seems moderately unrealistic is having a giant aggregate facility in the center of a bunch of farms. Those facilities kick up a ton of dust and that dust would carry and coat all of the plants leading to reduced yields and lower quality products overall. Just some food for thought
In the immortal words of Mr. Denzel Crocker, “FAIRY GODPARENTS!”
you would remind me of that show... 🤣😂
I loove this series and I love the lore
For the high voltage line across the river, its not unreasonable that they'd tie the lines in to the existing rail bridge (with additional isolations) rather than having pylons in the water. If they did have to have pylons for a dedicated crossing, could they be the enlarged +10m pylons to give that extra bit of height for the river crossing. You can also use selective high pylons to smooth the wores' journeys into steep valleys.
I'm sure that 2 minutes of tree spraying in video took about 3 hours of real time. Impressive.
Since they have a "bring your dog to work day" policy, maybe they would appreciate having a dogpark somewhere in the back of the building :)))