50K Population in 10 Hours Challenge | Cities Skylines

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I love this, you made it look extremely neat! What I enjoyed most wasn't really the challenge, but more seeing the entire island transformed and a city built up and finished in one video. I love that you actually made it look good. I would love to see more videos like these where you build and finish a city altho you can probably do without the challenge and allow yourself to speed up. The commentary/video style was very nice to watch too, not hours of watching someone build a small detailled thing, but also no time-lapses where you can't really see what's actually being built anymore. Would love to see more!

Love how there're always wildland fires going on in Shirley. This is more attractive than a normal island city --- "Shirley, the city of (literal) fire"

I'd love to see more standalone challenges for Cities Skylines like this, there's so much potential in there.

This is a great, simple concept - lot's of fun! I'm tempted to try something similar :D

I love that you used classic SimCity and The Sims music with this video. SUCH A NOSTALGIA TRIP!! - and playing those games as a kid is part of the reason I love Cities Skylines now. Fantastic work - would love to see more projects and challenges like this. :)

I can't wait to see Shirley Island again! May I suggest keeping a similar "normal names" convention and naming one of the beach towns Gabe?

One of the most enjoyable and funny Cities: Skylines videos I've ever watched, I would love to see more of these!

That was really good fun and very well done 😁

The Sims and Simcity 4 Soundtracks are just the best gems for this kind of plays! Its simply divine to the ears

I looove that you use sims background music, it’s so soothing and nostalgic for me. Also the forest fire still raging at the end killed me 😂 good job at hitting 50k!

This may be my favourite Cities Skylines video ever made ❤ not only you're a great city builder but also a fantastic storyteller!

The city's initially called 100 000 citizens challenge lol

I love how while you are panning over the city there are massive forest fires raging

Great content man! Love your other series, but these make a nice addition to your catalouge! Love to see it coming!

Amazing video really enjoyed this "let's play" type aspect, also the SimCity 3000 music hit me right in the feels

I love these little episodes besides your main series doing some kind of challenges, would like to see more of them in the future

This was absolutely awesome $2!!! You've outdone yourself, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Good job! I like how there's a story behind it and also the focus on Shirley :) Then that you manage to make it look nice while trying to reach your goal is an added bonus. You're a very accomplished Skyliner good Sir!

That’s a really neat idea to name the city after the very resident that moves in. I hadn’t ever thought to do that. You’re correct that a lot of traditional cities were named either after a person that first resided in the area (either their first or last name) or after the group/tribe/clan that dwelled there. In the US, cities and towns also get names in other ways. The most common is to name the new city/town after where the early residents came from. I my state we have a city named Prague because the founding residents were Czech (the city still celebrates its Czech heritage). However, to ensure there’s no confusion between this city and the one in Europe the founding residents referred to this city with the pronunciation of “Pray-g” which is how it’s still referred to even though the spelling is the same. Other cities were named after their founders, but some are railroad cities so the owners of the railroad named them. My city was named after a character in Arthurian stories by the railroad chief. Some towns/cities were named by the US Post Office. Sometimes this was done by local post masters with the permission of the residents to come up with a name or it was done because the residents had chosen a name that was already used nearby by another town/city. The name was supposed to be temporary until residents chose a different name, but the residents didn’t get around to it. Sometimes cities/towns were named by combining or shortening other place names. Example: Lahoma is just Oklahoma without the Ok in it. Okarche is Oklahoma-Arapaho-Cherokee shortened to Okarche. Then you have cities/towns with corporate names either because the company was a founding company or because the company paid the town to rename itself. DISH, Texas is an example of the latter while Hershey, Pennsylvania is an example of the former. And of course there’s plenty of cities/towns with names of heroes, be they historical or of the town. Same with street names. In my home town the original streets were numbers and letters except 1st was named Grand and the wide road that connected the eastern portions to downtown was named Broadway and the main street into town that had businesses on it was called Market. Broadway and Grand are still named that and their intersection (Grand is north-south street; Broadway is east-west) is the center of the grid with N/S, E/W of street names starting there (all streets north of Broadway are named north whatever and south of Broadway are south whatever and all streets east of Grand are east whatever and west of Grand are west whatever). To the north the other streets are named after trees while to the south the other east-west streets are named after places. The north-south streets east of Grand are numbered while west they’re named after US Presidents. That makes two other major streets Van Buren and Cleveland. There’s them themed neighborhoods further west and east in which the developers named them accordingly (like one that’s American colonial history named: Constitution, Monticello, Franklin, Mount Vernon, etc as street names). And we have streets named after the developers. I grew up on a street named after the developer of the neighborhood whom my grandparents knew and whom they purchased the houses from (their house and my parents house). Randolph is a major street named after an early developer. One east-west street was renamed after the Spanish-American War to Maine after the USS Maine which exploded in Havana Bay, Cuba...the incident which the US government used to declare war on Spain. Market was also renamed in the 1970s to Owen K. Garriott, named after a local guy who went on to become an astronaut with NASA. The city museum has his return capsule. Likewise the local airport is named after a local early aviation pioneer who helped encourage the city to build the airport. Other street names are after the railroads that cross the city. They usually got their name from the station located there. An example is Rock Island. The city is still a major railroad hub (and has a railroad museum). When I lived in another city in my state the same kind of history exists with their street names. They literally have a street named Flood because whenever it would rain for several days at a time in spring and fall the street would flood making it unusable. It no longer floods (better drainage, etc), but the name stuck. Schools also get names like that. In my hometown the elementary schools are named after Presidents usually with two exceptions: one was an early school that was built as part of another community that eventually merged into the city, Glenwood, so the school continues with its name (while it has a new building, the original one-room school house is still on the property and used). The other is Prairie View which was a name submitted by students across the district and then voted on by the first students to attend the school. Middle schools are named after poets like Longfellow and Emerson, but the newest one was named by the school board after the superintendent of the district that had, at the time, sought to modernize the schools (this was the early 1960s). So that middle school bears his name. There’s only one high school and it is named after the city. In the other city I lived in they have two high schools, both named after the city with their geographical location of the second school indicating the difference. Thus Norman High School and Norman High School North. The district had discussed building another high school in the southern part of the city where the city had grown rapidly over the last several decades. The name for it? Norman High School South, of course! The city my niece’s dad was from the high schools are similar except that instead of a geographical designation like north, south, etc they name it with the street name the high school is on: Edmond High School Santa Fe (because it’s on Santa Fe Road). In Oklahoma City metro area cities/towns sometimes merge so Putnam City High School is a school in Oklahoma City, but its name gives away some history. Anyways, you’re the second video I’ve watched of someone playing the game and developing characteristics to the city that make it feel real! You named it after the first resident (and even made her house historical and preserved it). The other person had businesses, parks, neighborhoods, etc named after cims. These are great ways to play the game with more depth. I’ll admit that I hadn’t thought to do that letting the game provide me with such info (i.e. using the cims themselves). I mean, I have named the city, streets, etc, but they were names I chose on my own from nowhere. Using the game itself to get those names and build it into a history is a neat way to play that I hadn’t considered. I think I will give it a try. Great video! It was fun both watching you challenge yourself as well as just watching you weave a unique history for your city. Thanks for making and sharing!