100 MORE Tips You'll Wish You Knew Before Playing Cities: Skylines II 

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Straight to business, useful tips, no fillers, fast pacing. Very high quality content, thank you!

I wish you could choose what time to pause the day/night cycle at. The game looks so much better when there are shadows and lighting changes instead of full brightness everywhere.

What I recently noticed is that cars use high beams on highways without lights. They turn them off when there is traffic from the other direction and back on when that traffic has passed. I like those little things that add realism :)

SO MANY other creators NEED to watch your video. They are driving me crazy. "No, it's not a bug. You don't understand how a city functions." Your video proofs my reaction to them is correct. Bless you.

I do want to share one nightmare story for cranking parking prices to max everywhere. By setting all parking to $50, it eventually made my Household Wealth go down (didn't notice until it was hitting rock bottom). This in turn made it so that all my Commercial zones had Not Enough Customers, because none of my cims could pay for it, which created a death spiral of no jobs, no money, no employment, etc.

as a new player of city skylines, im adoring this series. These tips are all so helpful and fun! please keep it up

Easy to listen to. The most normal talking person so far on this game cause theres just some extreme sounding youtubers out there lol. Great vid.

really liking these gameplay tips, i finally found time to get into the game and these are helping me get started on the right foot and avoiding all the fussing involved in discovering these all myself :)

So useful! As someone who is not very creative I doubt I would have ever found out most of these tips so a big thanks. Now to rethink my city!

while it is true that you can ignore low density residential completely, it takes a very long time for them to start moving in, while at the same time high density low rent residential wont be constructed if there isnt enough demand for it. so the best way i've found to force the transition is to delete all of the highway connections, disable the rail station/subway/airport/seaport buildings, then zone a bunch of high density low rent residential or medium density row houses (preferably both) and finally delete a bunch of low density residential zones. this will force the people already in the city to invest on whatever is available, but they will eventually go bankrupt if they cannot sustain it, so low rent apartments are crucial to keep this in check until they can finish high level education to sustain themselves with office/industrial jobs. additionally its a good idea to have at least a little bit of industrial since once they level up to max they can import a massive amount of resources to cushion your commercial sector, this will ensure that even if your imports are coming in waves instead of a constant stream it wont crash the economy whenever your commercial buildings run out of stock. building more map connections with freeways also helps create a more constant stream of imports which should be carefully regulated since they can also artificially congest your road infrastructure if you dont have your residential districts enforce a truck/lorry ban. while rail/seaport infrastructure are the most capable of bringing in vast amounts of resources, they come in waves and are largely unreliable for the most part, theoretically you can build more train yards to create a steady stream of imports by rail but unless your existing trains are already close to full storage capacity it really isnt worth it. another thing to note is that if you build too much industry, you'll quickly find yourself in a position where you're producing waaaaaaay too much trash, which is very difficult to combat with incinerators/recycling centers. its best not to go overboard with industry even if its a quick early game way to earn money since it will hurt in the long run. for now with the current build you can just delete the landfill to make all the accumulated trash magically disappear, but later versions of the game will definitely remove this. it is confirmed as a bug, not a feature. in the topic of rail infrastructure, while it does seem practical to have passenger rail on the same network as cargo rail, it should be limited to cross country connections or connections to distant parts of your map, its not practical to build passenger rail infrastructure within various parts of your city since it takes up too much space and isnt meant to shuttle people across short distances. its often a good idea to plan your passenger rail sparsely and then supplement it with subway infrastructure (which can be built above ground and below ground) to support the thoroughflow of the city interior. while passenger rail stations can act as the inflow of people from other regions of your map or immigrants/tourists from other maps. also sewage isnt really a big problem as long as you can find (or make) a river with a fast enough flow rate, since fast moving rivers can apparently clean the sewage before it stagnates like what we're used to seeing. if you cant find any river to do this trick on then you can wait until you have hydropower tech and then build one to block off a large source of water, then create a spillway to control the outflow while creating an artificial fast flowing river to wash away your sewage. until you get there however you can just export your sewage. and finally i think that people should start getting used to respecting the topography of the map they're playing in instead of just flattening everything. sooner or later that terraform tool is going to cost money to use, so its best not to get comfortable with it. and on maps with especially steep topography with rivers, its just not practical to flatten everything when that river could spill right in your city just because you were careless. its a good idea to get used to the slope tool if you want a smoother area to build your city without making it totally flat.

This series is incredibly helpful. Thank you!!

Everything about this video is total perfection. Thabk you!

#92 about placing trees is so simple and brilliant. Thanks Toadie!

Toadie you’ve done it again 👏👏

Round'-a-boot'. Love it! 🍁

BRUH, THANK YOU FRICKING MUCH!!, you dont know how long i was looking for an explanation for the rci demand OMG!! thank u! life saver!

Had an Aurora just yesterday, I didn't even know they were a thing and wondered why the night was getting brighter (and greener) all of a sudden. Was very cool to look at

If CO had you as their PR person, the game would be selling more. A lot of people don't know about these tidbits of information, but they are crucial to understanding the game. That's why most of the people think that the game is undercooked and doesn't have enough features. Small things like bulldozing tip, moving the road while turning off snapping, different relations and positions of network elements mean a lot and suddenly game looks a lot more intelligent and worth playing. Thank you for the tips. If I may suggest shorter videos (=< 10 mins.). You can make more of them and people won't lose focus and/or forget about the tips at the end of the video. I would really like to see more of them.

Thank you, great video! Going to have to watch it more than once for sure.

Actually very insightful and plenty of new but very useful tips! Thank you

Wow! This is an answer I have been looking for!❤

This was fun. I made it all the way through without tapping the forward button a single time. Regarding tip#78, if you also toggle "Snap to zoning cell length" to on, it won't mess up your grid. In fact, the best way to extend a grid is to have those three options selected when you click the road beginning, then to untoggle "Snap to grid" so that you don't accidentally snap onto a misaligned grid. Of course different width roads will screw you over every time, but eh; that's paths are for blocking zoning. ;)

Great video. Thanks!!!

Aurora Borealis? In my cities skylines games? Centered entirely in my toadiezzz video??? Can I see it? Sure 😂

Great tips thank you !!!

This was a pretty groovy video. The zone tips was most helpful, Ive tried to look online on the exact meaning for some of them as they can be a little vague at times.

Thanks for all the tips! I am in grad school and haven't had the time to play around with the game mechanics and this is going to help make me be a pro on start. haha

wow i hope this channel gets as big as you want it to. this was great! also thanks for the shoutout to endy mayors. i feel parasocially seen 🤓

This is great. Lots of useful tips. No padding. Thanks!

This was soo helpful

Thank you for all these tips!

Trams also reverse at stops in roads with medium. The path to connect the metro stations is and amazing hidden gem :D!

nice video! congratz

Thanks alot. Really helpfull video

Great info! I knew some of these, while others I haven't explored yet, so this is a nice treat.

62 - mindblown! either way, thanks for all the work on putting all this together! I hope more people will see this!

Loved it 😊

Thanks! I'm glad I watched this! 👍

Fantastic tips, thankyou 😁👍

Great video!

Very helpfull, thank you 🙂

TIP n° 10 at 2:18 is the best, I didn't know you could export more than 400 MW of electricity.

Tram tip was perfect, forgot that I really wanted to do that :)

Unreal. Best deep dive into CSII available on YT. Thanks for the great work and no-nonsense presentation. This answered MANY questions that have come up during gameplay. sidenote... what's with the 'aboot'?

Love how you say roundabout

This girl is killing the RU-vid algorithm as I have rewound and rewatched portions of this video at least 20 times already and I'm not even halfway through lol. Tip after tip after tip, my brain can't process that fast haha. I love this!!

Did not know about the "additional" electric node to external city. Good to know. In one city I have the small coal plant and a gas powered plant, plus a couple windmills I started with and it's always been capped out. You mention how you can bump parking fees to the roof and they will still use it. I believe the regular parking lots are listed as Leisure, since they show up in that info view. But the underground and above ground parking are not. I also noticed when dropping the fees on those 2 down to 0 and increased the others all the way, and they still will not park in the under/above ground, but will even cause traffic jams to get into the regular parking lots. They are looking at them as leisure spots. Spent an hour the other day trying to fix traffic until I realized it was the parking lots. Wondered if this was a bug. Spending all those points for the under/above parking and it doesn't get used. I also wondered about the exporting of goods. At one point one of my cities was maxed in the green for abundance, but I was not exporting anything. The trains were always empty, but in one info view it would list how much there really was being exported. So idk if one part is broke or what. It still wasn't much. Along with poo, idk how but I'm always making money with trash. As if I'm importing it from outside? You mentioned increasing tax on cars... After the update I had this really weird issue with Lumber, which went from making over 25 million, to instantly and spontaneously losing over 45 mil. I thought it was a bug, but after it leveled out, the same thing happened the next day with pharma. It quickly went from making 45 mil to costing me 94 mil. While it was doing that, I decreased the taxes to -10 and it went from - to + income. Then as it leveled out (and started losing again) I increased it back up to 15% and it was back to normal. Granted this city just hit 80k yesterday, so it's making a lot now. Pharma then Lumber are my biggest money makers. Concrete is a close 3rd at 15-20 mil. And a pointer for making additional nodes on a road, like the bus stop thing you were talking about, turning off all snapping works much better. Obv still using the straight road tool and double click.

RE: Tip 53: If you MAX ZOOM IN on the arrow over the water, you'll notice two of the points of the triangle have less pixels, they're kind of flattened, the one point that is perfectly done is the true direction of the water. But it is as they say, pretty still and not-moving.

This is helpful, im a subscriber now. Glad i found your channel

Lot of good stuff here

Good tips!

Awesome guide. Liked and subscribed :)

You just got a new sub :)

Phenomenal video ❤❤❤

I adore how you pronounce roundaboot 🥰 Also: Thank you for this extremely helpful content. Almost makes me want to play this game again.

“Round-a-boot”. Gotta love our neighbors to the north. Great video by the way.

Subscribed when I heard the first "round-a-boot"

6:11 you can create a butress bridge on flat land at a hight of 7.5 m for the span of the bridge , to get this bring the road to the crossing point at that hight then create the other sides butress , then span the bridge , a bridge without gaps between the span and the bridge ramp

Toadie, you really made me skipp Biffa and RCV, sure i know you know both. I really like the way you do this kind of videos. Even if I know the stuff already. I totally agree

25:59 Sadly any specialized building that have extended landfills doesnt work if you place it under power line eventhough IRL you can do that expecially under farmlands which is quite common in my country like in paddy fields

3:00 My city used to have excessive low density demand, but the city kept on losing money, tired of it and stopped zoning them, and so comes the medium and high density demand, 100% works! My city went from 8k to 20k population in the same area by simply replacing low density with high density

gritty dive into some very mysterious mechanics

About the parking prices. I noticed that when I maxed out the prices on both district policy and parking lots the household wealth dropped. When I made it free, their household wealth increased. Not by a lot, but noticable. I could be wrong and there could have been other factors, but it makes sense as not everyone is able to not have a car and then forced to park.

12:11 she really did the Scherbatsky and thought we wouldn't notice

Commenting and liking to boost the stats

Damn high quality content here! Being a canadian though, pretty sure I'd just get a boot to the face saying it like this :P

Holy Canadian accent, girl! You said it once and my eyebrow went up, then you said it again... "Round-a-boot". I moved away years ago and it is nice to hear the accent every once in a while. 😁

the international airport has build in cago by default its the few points that are close to the road/train track side that can handle it but be sure to connect some roads there because they have their own exits

the round aboots got me to sub

the international air port has a cargo airport built in, its the ones towards teh front not connected to a gate. theres four

This is great

Hello, Thank you for all this useful information. I would like to ask, I have Parks, Pools and soccer fields but non of my Sims use them. What should I be doing to make my Sims want to use the parks I build? Thanks =)

Ok, my first comment was made after watching 14 seconds. You answer a lot more than just one question I have. And yes, turn on nighttime to get the aurora borealis, wow!😮

The international airport can do cargo without an upgrade, it can't do train cargo, and the trucks use the driveways on the side instead of the main entrance

Yes you can have your city massively indutrialized, which is a great start, idealy how cities truly grow. This keeps costs down by not needing a ton of expensive schools, but you can change this later by adjusting tax rates. I'm at roughly 100k pop with over 200 mil, exporting twice as much as imports. I now cant build enough schools for the influx to office space now after adjusting tax to bring in office buildings. This actually goes in proper build of large buildings for cities, where as allot of people try to go for skyscrapers way to early in city size.

I actually need a whole video on sewage and that treatment facility. Actually throw in exporting water and power too. Bc I just can’t seem to figure it out.

So with the bus/tram/train stops just put one down then use the route tool to draw the route you want left mouse click to add stops along the way.

The parking fee part is kinda realistic, especially here in Europe. We have outrageous fees for parking in city centers yet people choose to bring their cars because some of us just have to for one reason or another, Im one of them. For me it's all about saving time when doing my erands, it's more than worth it to pay for expensive parking rather than waiting for public transportation every time I need to get to another part of the city. Don't get me wrong, public transport in Europe is great, but cars are still just more convenient and faster in many smaller cities. Take my home city Lund in Sweden as an example. Driving from my house to my parents takes around 5min, but it takes 30min by buss due to the simple fact that we live at opposite ends of the same buss route.

"If you're like me, you'll find this screen fist by pressing 'v' on the keyboard, when you meant to open your bulldozer with 'b'." That one hit home. This happens so often to me. Glad to hear I am not the only one 😅

21:00 No, the North American there has a lighter outline (the light blue outline) and European a dark line.

Hey, could you make a tutorial on the pedestrian path in underground metro stations! I tried to follow your video but I couldn't connect the path to the metro exit. Thank you I love your videos.

Turning of the volumetric fog and turning the shadows down to medium helped performance a ton my CPU didnt go over 65f all day and zero crashing.

I'm from Central Saskatchewan Canada, and even I don't have those thick a-BOOTs when I say about. I really thought that was just an exaggeration the rest of the world makes fun of us for but apparently not! 🤣Great video too btw!

Excellent video! I noticed that you say, "a-boot" instead of "a-bout". As a Canadian, you are the only person I've ever heard using this pronunciation. Vaguely, where are you from? Is it standard pronunciation there?

Great advice here. I got to 100k without ever zoning low density. I stalled a bit at that point, mostly because the simulation slowed to a halt. Do you know what exactly drives residential demand? The only thing I can tell seems to be job availability.

"Bedbug Hostel" LOL, what a warm and inviting name for a hostel!

I love this video

Regarding tip #79 at 21:44 : Divided roads and 2-way tram roads don't need the nubbin to get the tram to reverse; it just works! Unfortunately, pedestrian roads are not considered divided roads.

"make a save when its not raining" made me chuckle

Well done on an excellent video and I find your information extremely helpful and enjoyable to watch and listen and learn. God bless you for what you do and please stay well and safe during these times.

In Scotland we say "Roon-aboot" not "Round about". Could be Canadian you are doing though so either way is fine i guess but just wanted to offer the option XD

At 19:43, only because you asked: Think of it when your partner has reached depths you couldn't have imagined. It is not just "Oh" face but fact: "Deep Oh"

Is there a boot in the middle of that roundabout? Great video!

Wow, I feel like I just drank from a Canadian fire hose for 27 minutes and 59 seconds. Subscribed! By any chance do you have a version that goes a little slower and describes how to do some of the things in more detail? I'm old and have also enjoyed years and years of drug and alcohol abuse. Thanks for the great video!

VERY GOOD 👍👍👍👍

12:20 That file extension💀💀💀

26:00 I hope the pedestrian walkway from one metro stop to the next one can be hidden underground!

I dont know if it was a later patch, but the international airport has cargo, its on the edge at the street side.

I like the "VAGley"