Starting A NEW Realistic Mega City in Cities Skylines | Crystal Reef EP1

Welcome to Crystal Reef County, Florida - our chosen spot for the start of a new realistic mega city in Cities Skylines! Come along as we attempt to build realistic cities and areas using only Vanilla Assets!

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All my Cities: Skylines Series playlists:

Crystal Reef County:

Coniferia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP8H42mY1vk&list=PLX9x9HoC3rHvUwAuPWyY5MfcTJpjBN9Df

The American Dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXcddpwml9c&list=PLX9x9HoC3rHs9yaTZSFkJToQ9px1ITk-p

Project JAPAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-cG5kutfc&list=PLX9x9HoC3rHuz7QwsmGY7QWKFhgvcgAeE

Building a realistic European/UK city (really old series!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxX4RjjK0E&list=PLX9x9HoC3rHsYLd1zMpxnVNR61TMZMOib

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- What's the rationale behind this project:
With Cities Skylines 2 coming sometime this year, the time feels right for an attempt at an all-Vanilla Assets build - this is something I have been contemplating for a bit and hinted at earlier.

Q & A:
Do you have a MOD/Asset list?
Step 1: Get the Skyve mod from Steam workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881031511
Step 2: Get the Crystal Reef MOD collection here: https://pixeldrain.com/u/NzF4Zz87
Step 3: Use Skyve profile feature to import the MOD collection.

Which map is this?
- Anhaven Keys by Sidai: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2922044059

Which Theme and LUT are you using?
- Theme and LUT is Seychelles by Ronyx69

How do you place residential buildings so fast in suburbs/neighbourhoods?
- I use a tag-based trick with the Find It mod, I've made a tutorial here: https://youtu.be/2vciisubWtI

Which visual MODS do you use?
- Grab the MODs linked above - then open up Ultimate Eyecandy (Shift+U) and set Global Light Intensity to 5.27, and Ambient Light Intensity to 1.27.

Which graphic settings does your game run?
- Everything is set to high, 1440p resolution.

Hardware specs?
- 3080, 32 GB ram, I5-12600KF.

Music;
https://artlist.io/

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