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The Boston Project

***Lots of deprecated and old mods in the collection, I've been trying to update everything to get this save working again, but not having any success. Please take caution when subscribing.


Welcome to The Boston Project!

This was a project I started at the beginning of quarantine where I have been walking around the city of Boston and attempting to make it in Cities Skylines. This map primarily includes downtown Boston, reaching out as far as Melnea Cass Boulevard. All roads were hand placed and should be reflective of the real streets they are based on.

I added as many MBTA routes as I could, with most bus, subway, and commuter rail stops in the downtown area included. The North End, Financial District, West End, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, South End, Seaport, and South Boston neighborhoods are all built up. As much as I would love to continue this project, this unfortunately is as much as I can add to this map for the foreseeable future. My hope is that those of you that subscribe can add to this map and build areas which I may not have been able to reach.

Notes for running the map properly:

1) Make sure to subscribe and turn on all mods before loading the save. You’ll have to restart CS before you head in to the save game. Here is the asset and mod collection: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2196596586

2) (optional) My Visual Settings are here:
Global Light Intensity: 5.3625
Ambient Light Intensity: 0.7360001
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Theme: Autumn Theme

3) (optional) In the plop the growables mod, turn off building level ups. Otherwise, when you start the game, it will drastically increase the population from the 107k it is right now, and will make the map significantly harder to run.

4) (optional) To run the red line trains which Nitehawk made, you will need to make the following quick edit:
Go to:
%LocalAppData%\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\TrainConverter-Config.xml
Open the file in notepad, and then in the underground trains to metro tab, type:
<items description="Boston Red Line - Bombardier" workshop-id="2224337295"/>
Save it in the same location, and next time you load up your city, you should be able to see it as an option for a metro train.


Thanks for everyone who has supported me on this project, from the asset creators to those who gave constructive feedback on specific areas. If you enjoyed this map, don’t forget to rate it for the workshop!