An Oil Boom Leads to a New Boom Town! | MC #15

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  • čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
  • Researchers from the University of Superior's College of Geography and Natural Resources have made a stunning discovery in Magnolia County - significant deposits of shale oil. When Governor Johnson Catches wind of this, she quiets discussion and immediately works to find an energy company to extra and process the oil. She also works to establish the "Superior Basic Fund," which will provide a share of the oil revenue to each and every resident of the state.
    After securing an energy company to developer the fields and a processing plant, this company - Hancock Energies - secures a short-line railroad to serve the development, and begins putting shovels in the ground. At the same time, developers purchase land near the shale fields to develop a small community.
    In this episode, we're going to be building these oil fields! We'll also build cargo rail infrastructure to serve the area, a fuel plant, and a brand new city. We'll also make a few fixes based on YOUR feedback... but not before a HUGE issue occurs...
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  • @CityPlannerPlays
    @CityPlannerPlays  Před 3 měsíci +242

    Did you find the 🪑?

    • @AitorIbaceta
      @AitorIbaceta Před 3 měsíci +25

      🪑 Spotted at 16:35

    • @shavranotheferanox7809
      @shavranotheferanox7809 Před 3 měsíci +15

      yes, at 16:35, idk if its just my adhd brain but it stood out like a soar thumb

    • @GrabbingTrumpByTheBussy
      @GrabbingTrumpByTheBussy Před 3 měsíci

      I left my stool in the toilet.

    • @Jenny-Marie
      @Jenny-Marie Před 3 měsíci +8

      16:36 Looks like Watford City ND carved a a giant chair into their landscape to try and emulate the Cerne Abbas giant and Uffington White Horse in Dorset England shame the chair is earth coloured and not white chalk but who's else is now inspired to go to Dorset and carve out a giant chair in chalk? 😜

    • @mateuszgawlikowski3553
      @mateuszgawlikowski3553 Před 3 měsíci +22

      Forget the chair, did you see two bears walking out of your university in the intro at 00:09?

  • @averyvincent8361
    @averyvincent8361 Před 3 měsíci +320

    OMG like 4k people died in that massive fire. that's gonna be a significant historical event that needs a memorial

  • @DocBrown086
    @DocBrown086 Před 3 měsíci +232

    "Mr. Governor... There's a major problem with fires over in..."
    "Shhhh hush now Ed. I've told you not to bother me while I'm out working in the garden."

  • @DeadSlowV2
    @DeadSlowV2 Před 3 měsíci +312

    Pretty sure Chuckles is an eldritch horror that summons fire and other disasters when angered.

    • @Bierbuxe
      @Bierbuxe Před 3 měsíci +17

      Only that this time he's on the right side? Maybe? Maybe he's Tom Bombadil, protecting the woods - he kinda looks the part

    • @matthewthibodoux4539
      @matthewthibodoux4539 Před 3 měsíci +2

      The only explanation

    • @jase_allen
      @jase_allen Před 3 měsíci +20

      The Verde Beach pyro was never found. What do we really know about Chuckles, and where is he from?

    • @catmac2011
      @catmac2011 Před 3 měsíci +4

      Chuckles is a menace

    • @Catussy-Wetter
      @Catussy-Wetter Před 3 měsíci

      I sense the birth of an eco terrorist

  • @simonsv9449
    @simonsv9449 Před 3 měsíci +548

    We need buses to Charity Island and Bailey now. They currently have no public transport at all, which doesn’t make sense with the people who would commute there for work. You could add loops with bus only lanes for the buses to turn around. A bus route could go from Charity Island via the industrial area and Bend to Bailey.

    • @johngibbons7724
      @johngibbons7724 Před 3 měsíci +55

      It actually makes a lot of sense. A rural community where basically everyone who lives there works at either the fuel plant, the cargo terminal or the various farms around Bailey. Realistically, there wouldn’t be that many people from bend working at that oil plant. It’s so far away and there wouldn’t be enough demand to justify the cost of a bus system from Bailey to anywhere. An argument could be made for a bus route from bend to charity island but again, realistically the demand likely wouldn’t be there. Also, it doesn’t really make sense to have busses connecting multiple rural Midwest towns. I have never seen such a system in reality

    • @bertkears6208
      @bertkears6208 Před 3 měsíci +10

      A train station would make sense.

    • @CyanideCarrot
      @CyanideCarrot Před 3 měsíci +21

      I think the oil company would oppose making their employees less reliant on their product

    • @NithinJune
      @NithinJune Před 3 měsíci +3

      especially because you need college educated people

    • @EvanAdnams
      @EvanAdnams Před 3 měsíci +7

      Heh, living in a primarily oil and gas region, my experience is they will always prefer commuting alone in their giant pickups, even if it makes zero practical sense.

  • @Wilkwayadventures
    @Wilkwayadventures Před 3 měsíci +159

    A small town like that would historically have a very active business section on the main street facing the main road. Bars, restaurants, boutiques, etc.

    • @SaucyAlfredo
      @SaucyAlfredo Před 3 měsíci +8

      Yeah that's what I was thinking. Town where I grew up looked exactly like it. Main street with sidewalks for businesses and residential behind it on roads without sidewalks

    • @kengrantk
      @kengrantk Před 3 měsíci +4

      With street parking. In CO, basically all of the two lane road small towns have a "main drag" with small businesses and street parking, not tree lined avenues.

    • @Zeakthecat
      @Zeakthecat Před 3 měsíci

      realistically speaking, not many small towns have that. you might see maybe a few towns here and there that might have that, but for the most part, you're not gonna see much in walkability in about 90% of small towns out there.
      and where theres a lack in walkability, theres a lack of shopping in downtown.

    • @CityPlannerPlays
      @CityPlannerPlays  Před 3 měsíci +6

      I think I got in my own head there a bit. You're right!

  • @VaingloriousGaming
    @VaingloriousGaming Před 3 měsíci +311

    Merch store needs "I Survived the Great Fire of '28" with the Magnolia County logo...
    Edit to add... 16:34. Still not THE chair though...

  • @grim69skull
    @grim69skull Před 3 měsíci +88

    I think it's time to place a Early Disaster Warning System or put large fire stations included with rescue unit

    • @WLLFRNCZK
      @WLLFRNCZK Před 3 měsíci +4

      Fire watch towers too

    • @CityPlannerPlays
      @CityPlannerPlays  Před 3 měsíci +16

      I completely agree. Time to invest in a lot of disaster protection and recovery services!

  • @turtle5298
    @turtle5298 Před 3 měsíci +419

    My immediate reaction to hearing about the town of Bailey was to smile, because my wife's name is Bailey! Would you mind naming a street Ithaca? That's the place where we met.

    • @Zyo117
      @Zyo117 Před 3 měsíci +61

      You could do some interesting lore work with that too! Bailey is the wife of an executive at the company that built the town, and he leaned on the city planner to get a plot of land at the corner of Ithaca and Main street. The place the main arterial streets 'meet'.

    • @AspynW
      @AspynW Před 3 měsíci +28

      I support this Ithaca proposition!

    • @NocturneS711
      @NocturneS711 Před 3 měsíci +7

      YES! This is such a cute idea!

    • @RedBear345
      @RedBear345 Před 3 měsíci +10

      ​@@Zyo117 Maybe the corner of Ithaca and Turtle? (The OPs CZcams name).

    • @basscadia
      @basscadia Před 3 měsíci +4

      This is the sweetest thing I've heard all week :)

  • @nightdraggerd3241
    @nightdraggerd3241 Před 3 měsíci +92

    Hey.
    Close call on the water tower. Drinking water usually works with gravity. Adding a water tower on the lowest part, while all the farms and oil companies are actually higher than the top of the water tower was really odd.
    Also, you usually don't see may water towers when there are hills nearby. It's cheaper to build a water basin on the next hill than building and maintaining a huge tower.
    In addition, (at least here in Austria), it's part of the critical infrastructure. So, ideally, not everybody should know the location to prevent somebody poisoning it or blew it up. This is the reason why I think a basin or underground facility up the next hill would make more sense.

    • @JackDaloots
      @JackDaloots Před 3 měsíci +14

      Can confirm it's like that in California too. Up on the tops of our mountains you'll find large water storage, but the mountain is the "tower" part, they're just ground level up there. Also, we have big cisterns up there to store water. If only we could make some lakes up top.

    • @johngibbons7724
      @johngibbons7724 Před 3 měsíci +7

      You’re totally right about for the first part. I’ve never seen a water tower on a hill. But almost every western Canadian and mid west town has their water tower in a central location. Bailey is a small town where everyone knows each other, and it’s miles away from the next closest town. Nobody is gonna be poisoning that water tower

    • @josephh6697
      @josephh6697 Před 3 měsíci +2

      In a small Canadian town called North Sydney, I once found the water basin. It was on a hill behind one of the two grocery stores, completely hidden in the forest.

    • @HolyAdolfJesus
      @HolyAdolfJesus Před 3 měsíci

      @@josephh6697 I once saw Frankie Macdonald buying video games here.

    • @nogardmarith
      @nogardmarith Před 3 měsíci +1

      Cheyenne wyoming get their water from the snowy range, it actually is a series of pipelines and reservoirs that feed that city.

  • @trulseidsvold5400
    @trulseidsvold5400 Před 3 měsíci +220

    This series coming out less than before makes me really appreciate them, when they’re eventually out. Thank you for entertaining both city-planning nerds and gaming enthusiasts all over! ❤️

    • @CatPerson-LoFi
      @CatPerson-LoFi Před 3 měsíci +4

      It's essentially the same concept as edging

    • @CityPlannerPlays
      @CityPlannerPlays  Před 3 měsíci +8

      I appreciate that! Really hoping we see some updates that allow me to put them out faster! Almost back from vacation though, so there will be a flurry of videos soon

  • @jessicawadleigh1246
    @jessicawadleigh1246 Před 3 měsíci +61

    “Underneath the path, where I guess it can go” shouldn’t have made me laugh as hard as it did. Another great build! Nice to be getting a mix of content from the channel.

  • @doberandkats
    @doberandkats Před 3 měsíci +50

    You are so spot on with your comment about things like this happening in the real world. Here in Georgia a few days ago they announced that an Alabama company has started the permit process to strip mine near Okefenokee Swamp. Okefenokee is the nation's largest blackwater swamp, and a Wetland of International Importance (RAMSAR Convention - 1971), which also happens to be home to many threatened and endangered species.

    • @RampantFirefly
      @RampantFirefly Před 3 měsíci +5

      No disrespect to Phil's amazing lore, but to me Bailey looks more like an industrial era town than something that would spring up to facilitate shale gas extraction in the 21st century. But that's just me.

  • @amshermansen
    @amshermansen Před 3 měsíci +37

    The island "off of " Bailey would make for an amazing wildlife park, to offset the very heavy industry added with the oil fields and refineries. Limited access to the citizens ( like a fenced off campsite area or something, reserving the lion's share to trees and animals)

    • @tbone1975uk
      @tbone1975uk Před 3 měsíci

      Yes that's what I was thinking. A nice like predestination bridge to the small island and then another to the big island. Could have some of the campfire around the outside with paths connecting them and leave the middle alone.

  • @watchthe1369
    @watchthe1369 Před 3 měsíci +30

    The Texas City explosion was a lesson in safety space around certain industryies. More recently a town called West in Texas had a heavily damaged High School and a cpouple apartments of retirees leveled when a fertilizer plant went all anfo-ish during planting season.

    • @watchthe1369
      @watchthe1369 Před 3 měsíci +17

      A lot of big oil companies have a fire station where they have specialist equipment. You may want to go with a FULL fire station. With a couple heavy and light units all out of the same station like the original "88's" that squad 51 was dispersed out from.

  • @sleepinred1577
    @sleepinred1577 Před 3 měsíci +12

    This fire needs to be an event that has a meaning in the whole storyline

  • @ThirdLadderEnt
    @ThirdLadderEnt Před 3 měsíci +66

    I'd like to see more Fire Departments in your builds.

    • @mollieherlocker5918
      @mollieherlocker5918 Před 3 měsíci +9

      Seconding this. As a Californian, the lack of fire services is giving me trauma.

    • @Catussy-Wetter
      @Catussy-Wetter Před 3 měsíci +2

      I for one am a fan of the devastation that comes with massive fires.

    • @imnotfitz
      @imnotfitz Před 3 měsíci +15

      So would the 3000 people that passed away

    • @ThirdLadderEnt
      @ThirdLadderEnt Před měsícem

      @@Catussy-Wetter Be careful of what you say you might get what you speak of.

  • @yellsgaming
    @yellsgaming Před 3 měsíci +111

    Am I the only one who spotted 2 bears casually walking on the university grounds in the first 5 seconds of the video. 🐻

    • @SamMathewsOfficial
      @SamMathewsOfficial Před 3 měsíci +1

      I saw those too! I was wondering if he saw them or not.

    • @AhhhhMyLeg
      @AhhhhMyLeg Před 3 měsíci +9

      They must be BEAR-ey studious

    • @NithinJune
      @NithinJune Před 3 měsíci

      wtf 😮

    • @NithinJune
      @NithinJune Před 3 měsíci +8

      as a student on a university ground rn i find this concerning

    • @NithinJune
      @NithinJune Před 3 měsíci +5

      maybe it’s the mascot

  • @jonblair5470
    @jonblair5470 Před 3 měsíci +33

    I was talking with Algernon about a mod that would color the roads and railways, green for good, yellow for acceptable, red for unrealistic.

  • @staplegunnr
    @staplegunnr Před 3 měsíci +40

    A few side deals to make the oil more "attractive" 1. For each disturbed acre, to include roads, rail roads and facilities, the oil producers needs to purchase 5 acres of forest land and dedicate it to a "state" park in perpetuity. 2. Have the new rail build and connect to the Clearwater southern rail and allow Clearwater southern to use the rail facilities lease free.

    • @nemacrow
      @nemacrow Před 3 měsíci +4

      Would that not be difficult? They already secured the permit and built it out. To them be forced to give access to their competitors AND be forced to buy land for conservation would be a completely blinding deal that could force them to pull out

  • @andrewlangowski1802
    @andrewlangowski1802 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Hey! Watford City! Couple things you may want to consider is when the oil boom hit Watford, the town was small with small lots and houses. Then big developments of duplexes, commercials, and apartments everywhere. Take a close look at Williston and Watford City how it grew from 2009 to now. Definite old and new clashing. Also, oil wells pop up in the middle of fields and all over, including hard to reach places using dirt roads mainly. Great series!

  • @bryangroves7666
    @bryangroves7666 Před 3 měsíci +16

    Watching this from the Municipal District of Greenview in Alberta as a medic for oilfield work!

  • @MiddleVeen
    @MiddleVeen Před 3 měsíci +8

    I would highly recommend doing a few fire breaks between cities and the forests. All it would take is a space roughly the size of the tallest tree nearby. a 10ft break if it is 10ft tall. This might help prevent the fires spreading to the cities at least.

  • @wadeab
    @wadeab Před 3 měsíci +5

    Speaking as someone who sets rules for oil and gas development, you mostly nailed the look with the sections and square pads. One note is that with setbacks, you would usually only see one pad per section. There are also lots of multi-well pads, but CS1 is much better for modeling that. "I drink your milkshake" is the best description of why setbacks exist.

  • @subressor1
    @subressor1 Před 3 měsíci +23

    Literally just sat down to eat, you couldn't have timed this any better!

    • @FrenchPeopleAreCool-Liberte
      @FrenchPeopleAreCool-Liberte Před 3 měsíci +1

      Ordering food, and waiting for it to arrive to watch this video, is more exciting than a field trip in school.

  • @thegentlemanfish7504
    @thegentlemanfish7504 Před 3 měsíci +5

    The idealized beautification with parks and detailing I wouldn't worry about. Most places don't pay attention to that stuff anymore even though it is good for the soul. Small towns used to focus on that just as much as large cities for that very reason.

  • @MrHoot50
    @MrHoot50 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I live in a city called Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia. We have a street called Short Street. Running off this street is another street called Shorter Street. It's good to know that sometime in the past our local councilors had a sense of humour! Love this series, thanks :)

  • @N0isybag
    @N0isybag Před 3 měsíci +17

    The Great Fire of August 2028. RIP

  • @theorixlux2605
    @theorixlux2605 Před 3 měsíci +9

    To get the petrochemical plant to change goods, it needs to change company. Either wait for one to replace it or rebuild it

  • @Matej_Sojka
    @Matej_Sojka Před 3 měsíci +4

    You still need an industrial zoning in the new area for petrol industry and for forestry industry. You are building in a heavily forested region, and you should take advantage of that. Especially as your existing rail network can transport the goods.

  • @Hockeyfox628Gaming
    @Hockeyfox628Gaming Před 3 měsíci +1

    You should add a bike trail between the towns. Example being a scenic trail along the river. I think this would be extremely valuable to the residents of the county and possibly attract some regional tourism.

  • @gogofuntime_yt
    @gogofuntime_yt Před 3 měsíci +14

    CPP! 14:20 water towers belong on hills! This allows the water to build pressure in the pipes just by using gravity. Water from the tower would not flow uphill.
    Edit: Fixed later in the video!

  • @electric_dreamer
    @electric_dreamer Před 3 měsíci +4

    Loved seeing the connection to Iron Mountain, and brining in the name Hancock. I have lived in both those towns! :D

  • @TheDecWhale
    @TheDecWhale Před 3 měsíci +10

    I really like the idea of starting the oil industry there, feels like a good way to start a neat story line

  • @ibrayuri8386
    @ibrayuri8386 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Thank you mr. editor
    I feel your pain with the parking lots

  • @TheAlbertaboy18
    @TheAlbertaboy18 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I work in the oilfield. To be realistic, you would have lots of leases "the little squares" all over the area, each one of those lease sites is where the wells are drilled. Those would all connect to a bigger gas plants and battery sites via pipeline. They aren't mines they are well sites. And each site would be leveled by cut and fill based on the geography of the area. They are all "temporary" and will be reclamated at some point.

  • @birbeyboop
    @birbeyboop Před 3 měsíci +4

    Nice to see that the University of Superior welcomes all kinds of different students 🐻

  • @herpderp9774
    @herpderp9774 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Coming from a pretty fire prone area in Australia, I would recommend adding some considerable fire breaks along each Jeffersonian grid definition to help break up, slow and stop any wild fires.
    It is a pretty consistent thing that gets done over here along most roadways and several dirt road sections built in more rural areas to help the SES here in containing bush fires.
    Without them we would be looking at some pretty serious body counts due to fires as well and I think this would help your build out greatly with the abundance of trees there.

  • @justinbremer2281
    @justinbremer2281 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thanks to you, I am now realizing that SimCity on the SNES kind of locked me into an "efficiency overload," leave no map square un-developed, "Right angles are the only angles!!" kind of mindset

  • @MasterThief117
    @MasterThief117 Před 3 měsíci +2

    You know you can use the curve tools when laying pipes and cables, and with fewer nodes in between. It's much easier and faster to trace a road this way.

  • @marcrubin9359
    @marcrubin9359 Před 3 měsíci +1

    If you build roads straight up hills and concentrate row houses on those it looks really nice with no terrain work! Looks like the old steel town I lived in.

  • @skyechimes658
    @skyechimes658 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I’m behind on the series, but even in a small company town like Bailey, I think you could reasonably add a one or two small offices, there would probably be an insurance agency, payroll or billing processing company, a lawyer, etc. Even the dying former factory town I grew up where almost everyone had worked for the one company that had left and most people only had a high school education had 2 small office buildings for these types of things.

  • @ander4163
    @ander4163 Před 3 měsíci +11

    For the first time in a long time, I'm quite okay with the amount of parking near the oil plant hahah

  • @Mattburt2000
    @Mattburt2000 Před 3 měsíci +1

    A quick point related to volume of parking spaces.
    Consider the type of building you are providing additional spaces for. A large portion of industry these days are at least 24 hours, 5 days a week. For 900 work spaces, we could assume 30% per shift (3 shifts) and remaining 90 daily office staff, you will have 360 staff at most. Obviously the more public transport in place the lower the spaces required but directionally correct.
    I used this calculation more in CS1.

  • @alanmcdonald3864
    @alanmcdonald3864 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Hey Phil! Happy belated birthday! I know you weren't thrilled about adding the high school to Bailey so early, but I wanted to say that this actually reminds me of where I went to college. It's in the middle of nowhere really, but it had one of the major community colleges. I think it would make sense to add a community College here as sort of one of the driving factors of the community and to get people to come work and live there. To me, students from the university may not want to come all the way out to work at the fuel plant and have to relocate, but the community College would be attractive to students moving out of high school and looking to get away from home, and then after they graduate, the fuel plant would be the perfect way to retain them within the community

  • @onutaoyusao
    @onutaoyusao Před 3 měsíci +6

    Go Chuckles! Man knows wealth does not equate only to money or power.

    • @dragonbornexpress5650
      @dragonbornexpress5650 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Ironic coming from him.

    • @onutaoyusao
      @onutaoyusao Před 3 měsíci

      He may be a money loving capitalist, but he's also a money loving capitalist with 30% electric fleet. @@dragonbornexpress5650

  • @spkennedy951
    @spkennedy951 Před 3 měsíci +2

    As part of the expansion of a local quarry, the county required the company to pay for road improvements, which has ultimately included turning intersections in the middle of nowhere (except for the quarry) into something you'd expect to see in an industrial zone instead of surrounded by corn fields with very, very wide turns to accommodate semis. Perhaps the paved road for the shale extraction should be similar, with dirt roads still indicating the old USPLSS grid?
    Unrelated and as someone who can't play CS2 for spec reasons; I love the changes to farms that allow for rural areas to look like (ish) the rural areas I grew up around. Field everywhere instead of just a couple like CS1. Also, my only critique of the nice new ethanol plant is the parking lots are paved. All of the ethanol facilites I've done work at just had a ~massive~ gravel lot.

  • @KaiDettman
    @KaiDettman Před 3 měsíci +1

    Loving your increased usage of the complex curve tool!

  • @Rsfan259
    @Rsfan259 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Lots of industrial places (Oil refineries, Paper Mills, etc) of that size will have a private fire brigade or office I feel like you need a really tiny single or 2 engine fire department for just the refinery.

  • @davetuttle3380
    @davetuttle3380 Před 3 měsíci +1

    When you added the health clinic in Bailey, I noticed that the average health of the citizens isnt great. 65%. With all the dead bodies, it may be a good opportunity for the county to invest in healthcare in general and add a large regional hospital. You could look at Charlottesville VA as an example of a relatively small area (about 30k) with a large hospital and university centered around it (UVA). Love the builds as always!

  • @ExpedientFalcon
    @ExpedientFalcon Před 3 měsíci +6

    Totally unrelated thought, but they really should've just called Internet in the game Cell Coverage instead, because that's really what it is. Most internet is served to homes via cables underground, not via radio towers like cell phones are.

    • @amshermansen
      @amshermansen Před 3 měsíci +1

      Or just "Communication" as a broad term to cover radio, cell and internet coverage.

    • @Xiyng
      @Xiyng Před 3 měsíci

      I'm not sure that's universally true. Here in Finland, mobile internet is very common, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was more common than cable.

    • @amshermansen
      @amshermansen Před 3 měsíci

      While CO are in Finland, it doesn't really reflect how internet is laid out elsewhere as a whole. :)

  • @colecleveland8179
    @colecleveland8179 Před 3 měsíci +5

    For the small drilling rigs those plots of land are always surrounded by low berms. I don't know how well you could recrate that in CS2 but if you could include them it would surely make them look great! In small townships like Bailey you almost always have a "Main Street" which is usually made up of older style buildings which are typically businesses, bars, restaurants, motels, with at least a couple modern gas stations mixed in. I think next video you should construct some kind of memorial for the ~3000 people who died as that would surely be pretty severely etched into the memory of the county (the whole country really) I mean for comparison about 300 people died in the Chicago Fire and kicked off the "Great Rebuilding" so it could also serve as a way to go back in and modernize small parts of the city to reflect that! I love when you can go back into areas and add detail to smaller areas since it truly gives the city the feeling that it wasn't all built at once. Places grow, parts grow faster than others while some parts fall down prompting reconstruction. City Planners and civil engineers and architects are artists in my eyes, their works reflect the growth and advancement of mankind on the pristine tapestry that is our home Earth.

  • @CobaltTurquoise_
    @CobaltTurquoise_ Před 3 měsíci +3

    that HUGE fire ... and in an election year ?! heads must roll !!!

  • @Caladas
    @Caladas Před 3 měsíci +1

    Bailey turned out the nicest looking coomunity in Magnolia so far I reckon, looks really nice! :)

  • @viggohauser732
    @viggohauser732 Před 3 měsíci

    i started watching your channel with the clearwater county build and I've gotten very into city planning because of it. Since then I've started my own study in 'Built Environment' in the Netherlands! You have been a huge inspiration for why i chose the study and I'm thoroughly enjoying my time at school!

  • @jameswakim5863
    @jameswakim5863 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I'm really curious why you created that viaduct over the train lines rather than sending a road under the train bridge and up the hill to the mines/farms from Bailey? Seems like it would be a lot cheaper and easier to build a road with some terraforming rather than that long bridge. It would have also connected Bailey to the outside with the same external connection from the mines and the new external connection that paralleled the trains was therefore unnecessary. (Or you could remove the mines external connection and use the parallel connection which would make a lot of sense also).
    Good episode and interesting politics shown. Thanks for the update!

  • @starrwulfe
    @starrwulfe Před 3 měsíci +3

    Phil, your storytelling is tabletop RPG level S-class! I can't wait to see what Chuckles does to counter this! (maybe a nature preserve? green energy plant? Who knows!)

  • @bailey29_
    @bailey29_ Před 3 měsíci +1

    Nice build thanks for the shoutout!

  • @Ottoplemeniti
    @Ottoplemeniti Před 3 měsíci +1

    A train connection to the university would make a lot of sense, to help get Bailey-ites (?) more educated for the plant.

  • @restcure
    @restcure Před 3 měsíci +1

    On those small islands, like in Bailey Lake or on the river bend, might I suggest a couple of props, like a rowboat (do they exist?) or a small tent. Surely there must be an adventurous citizen (not necessarily named Shirley) who'd sneak in a small trespass every now and then.

  • @33milesanthony
    @33milesanthony Před 3 měsíci +5

    Chuckles can’t catch a break

  • @darvo110
    @darvo110 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Absolutely love that even Phil's own editor is calling out his parking obsession now.

  • @SmileeSmiles
    @SmileeSmiles Před 3 měsíci +1

    Please add fire breaks around Bend. With very common wildfires that have destroyed bend, I believe the county would invest in fire breaks to better protect the towns.

  • @shaneintheuk2026
    @shaneintheuk2026 Před 3 měsíci

    It’s wonderful seeing you use the surface tool to such effect. The parks and oil refinery really look great.

  • @metalslinger
    @metalslinger Před 3 měsíci

    The most extreme railroad grade was the Saluda Grade in Western North Carolina, running from Asheville North Carolina down to Spartanburg South Carolina. It had a grade of 4.7%. It was built in the 1870s and eventually bought by Norfolk Southern, who operated it until 2001. It is now slated to become a walking trail.
    ETA: Love your content BTW. I'm hoping Paradox can fix the problems with the game and their marketing department.

  • @OriaXu
    @OriaXu Před 3 měsíci +1

    Respect for your creativity! I am very practical and logical, but i never manage to be creative on that level!

  • @bartito_sicario5761
    @bartito_sicario5761 Před 3 měsíci

    I just love how you make parks...Bravo my good sir.

  • @jimhearsonwriter
    @jimhearsonwriter Před 3 měsíci

    The surface painting tool is so simple yet adds so much - particularly when paired with the tree line tool. It helps make cities unique, which is kinda the whole point of the game.

  • @VictorAmarante
    @VictorAmarante Před 3 měsíci +1

    This series brings me so much hope for this game! I have dropped it, but watching such a fantastic build makes me root for the game to raise from the ashes!

  • @SlicesofHistory
    @SlicesofHistory Před 3 měsíci +1

    🔥 series!
    If I may recommend a plot point: maybe have someone from Magnolia become a state representative and try and advocate for the citizens instead of more self serving interests like the governor seems to be doing
    Or maybe have more local politics like a mayor or city council interact with things like zoning and roads😊

  • @burmanphd
    @burmanphd Před 3 měsíci +1

    Fun bit of trivia for engagement: the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, in London, is called The Old Bailey

  • @positronalpha
    @positronalpha Před 3 měsíci

    Love your editing and your city layouts. Your videos are so relaxing.

  • @jfrakes9644
    @jfrakes9644 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Coming from someone who's spent the majority of his life in the oil & gas industry, there's very, very few paved roads. Especially in the Permian Basin. There's a few in the Utica/Marcellus basin. If you want any "real world" examples, I go back to work in a couple of days. I can get you some pictures if you need them.

    • @johngibbons7724
      @johngibbons7724 Před 3 měsíci +1

      That’s probably my biggest pet peeve about this build. Being around small towns and rural areas for most my life, only the highways and the roads in the town are paved. All those farms he made right at the start of the series should not have a paved grid. No way an unincorporated community is having a paved country mile grid system

  • @lisamagnussonbiel5695
    @lisamagnussonbiel5695 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I love these episodes, can't wait to see how you deal with the aftermath of the lowered population!

  • @Studio-yy5io
    @Studio-yy5io Před 2 měsíci

    As a former BNSF employee, your mainline should’ve run through the rail yard on the double track mainline. Sticking as close to 1-2% should be a more realistic goal to try and achieve. One thing to remember is the railroads plan rail lines with the least amount of resistance in mind curving along the edges of hills to climb.

  • @sleambean
    @sleambean Před 3 měsíci

    The landscaping was beautiful and so detailed this episode phil! loved it

  • @arushiiru
    @arushiiru Před 3 měsíci +1

    25:50 the forest fire can be used as a plot device for housing. The state may find it profitable than reforesting the area.

  • @xXRVBCabooseXx
    @xXRVBCabooseXx Před 3 měsíci

    Hey Phil, love your content! You've given me a lot of perspective to the organization behind the roads I drive every day, and I find myself thinking "how would Phil fix this road" all the time. I live in East Lansing Michigan, which has some horribly laid out roads that make my head scratch as to how they got past the planning phase. I was thinking that you should do a "city review" of East Lansing where you recreate small chunks in Cities 2 and then talk about how you would fix them! The east side of highway 127 where it diffuses into Saginaw and Grand River is the part that I think would make great content, and the amount of satisfaction I would get from seeing you fix this stretch of road that makes my life miserable can not be understated! Keep up the good work! Luv u bud

  • @audiopie5885
    @audiopie5885 Před 3 měsíci

    I’m from the u.p. So it’s really cool hearing all this, when you mentioned iron mountain I woke up my wife just to tell her. It’s super cool and neat that it’s being talked about

  • @jokester347
    @jokester347 Před 3 měsíci

    I’m really loving the builds! I can’t play as much as I want too seeing your builds helps a little of my sanity on building. Hope you and your family are doing well Phill.

  • @NithinJune
    @NithinJune Před 3 měsíci +1

    23:43 I feel like it makes sense being next to a water supply as well

  • @FreakAzoiyd
    @FreakAzoiyd Před 3 měsíci

    The mods you used look epic. Works so well worth the new UI design.

  • @homasoftwares8124
    @homasoftwares8124 Před 3 měsíci

    Love this story. It seems so realistic and impacts all the main characters. Controversial builds are part of this series as much as anything and I find it superb. Keep it up!

  • @RakaTGP
    @RakaTGP Před 3 měsíci +1

    Idea: maybe residents think the Grand Fire of Bend was caused by the Old company causing some backlash or something maybe causing the government to build something to please the residents

  • @lukeshave1238
    @lukeshave1238 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Your video making skills are impeccable! realism and enthusiam towards the game makes it great to watch! Fantastic video!!!

  • @alexhentschel1080
    @alexhentschel1080 Před 3 měsíci +1

    "this place is incredibly flammable!" *massive forrest fire ensues* hahah!

  • @MonkeyBurrito
    @MonkeyBurrito Před 3 měsíci

    That Bailey park is so beautiful!

  • @Eazy2506
    @Eazy2506 Před 3 měsíci

    Can we all give a round of applause to the editor of these videos. The memes are great. I want to see a reaction video of his editing.

  • @Phoenixpick86
    @Phoenixpick86 Před 3 měsíci

    The Alberta mines were likely shaped due to the Alberta Township System which covers the whole province. The lots are either one section, quarter-section or some combination or further breakdown that make smaller and smaller squares in a 6x6 grid within. Further the roads off main highways follow the edges of the sections.

  • @christoffereilskov5006
    @christoffereilskov5006 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Love a lot of this build, it might even be too little parking at the plant! BUT that bridge over the rails makes me so sad! It feels wildly out of place for a community of this size, and the rails company would fight such a bridge with everything they got.

  • @grievinglux
    @grievinglux Před 3 měsíci

    I really like the perspective of being able to fix this imperfect town in the future! It gives me hope that real cities will (continue to) improve their infrastructure in the future!

  • @zjshafe
    @zjshafe Před 3 měsíci

    The railroad around the 6 minute mark makes me think of the Altoona Horseshoe Curve - a railroad the respects the topography and curves around a mountain range so they didn't have to build a bridge. It was a field trip location in elementary school

  • @mygetawayart
    @mygetawayart Před 3 měsíci

    "and if London burns, I'll standing on the beach with my guitar", truly the Superior State motto

  • @CrispyBakedPotato
    @CrispyBakedPotato Před 3 měsíci

    I mentioned in an earlier episode of naming a road on chairity Island for the stevedors. You could also name a road in Bailey for the roughnecks (oil workers), making it a theme for every industry to name a road as sort of a nod to the workers.

  • @michelleli1509
    @michelleli1509 Před 3 měsíci

    Watching you build cities always makes me happy.
    Very real and I wish I could build like you. 😁
    My game crashed and I don't know if I could recover it after the last updates. 😮‍💨
    As for this new part of the city, it needs transportation to bring in those educated workers. That fire was brutal ......

  • @user-zh8ph7tm9r
    @user-zh8ph7tm9r Před 2 měsíci

    I'm going for the oil!, i used to build a city with a large oil deposit underneath. I started to invest in the infrastructures needed to extract the oil and overtime my city becomes filthy rich haha. And at some point i have to diversify that income and i built semiconductor and financial services industry out of that money and even expand the city to have more workforce for the new industry.. so many good memories and this series reminds me of that

  • @KodeeDentares
    @KodeeDentares Před 2 měsíci

    I've been watching a lot of geology content lately, and found myself thinking "Hey! That's going to become an oxbow lake!" where the river runs in front of the new neighborhood

  • @plazma6038
    @plazma6038 Před 3 měsíci +1

    this was a great episode!!!! i love how you used the signature building, you should definitely build them more often :3 also, you should use place object more often!! you could add like picnic tables to parks and such. also third thing lol, you could make bailey lake a national park. it could have hiking trails and the island would be a great lookout point. i love your videos, keep makin em :3

  • @Apophis150
    @Apophis150 Před 3 měsíci

    @CityPlannerPlays, never thought I'd see my home municipal district, Greenview, on one of your videos!
    Love your content, from Alberta :)

  • @donenzonen
    @donenzonen Před 3 měsíci

    Phil looking at the burning hill: "i like the way that looks up there" 😂😂😂