7 things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Cities Skylines 

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Biggest tip is to always detail. The trees, rocks, bushes, and vegitation is extremely useful for noise pollution.

Lol the ending.. A SHADE OF BLUE! Hahaha!

Hi, very good information. I play on PC, and it took me about 3 to 4 years to develop the skills - and more importantly the style to have traffic most time at 83-86 percent. The secret is do not connect every road to every other road, some areas like a suburb, so off a highway have a 3 or 4 way intersection, but donot create that new zone and link it to every other area that is left / right / up down to the new intersection you created, Rail - rail is very important Commuter, use a simple single railway station - that is your "out of city station" intercity Then nearby - walking distance, use a multi station / platform railway and use that like a "octopus" to spread throughout your map. the from each railway station, create a small 4 to 8 stop metro Do this as a wheel within a wheel, the large outer wheel is the railway line, then the inner wheels are metros. For example the most simplest is have 4 railway station, far north , far east , far south, far west and middle ( ok it is 5 ) of the map These people will travel long distance ( 20 -100 miles or 30 to 60 minutesin real life ) via tran Then around each train station, you set up metros, say 1 to 3 per suburb and a smaller loop, like main road the rail is the highway and the subway is the arterial or local roads. You can expand it one more step and use busses - but i dont use busses because the are road traffic - the only time i do is say a metro is in one spot, but i have a beach line ( or youhave residential around a mountain ) and a long road, then i just set up a bus from metro and make it run the long road and back Cargo, set up a separate cargo line - it will join the commuter rail at the edge of the map , but for the main map create a seperate rail line that only connects cargo lines. Also if you have water use a water / cargo station, if you have plenty of ocean and rives, use 3 or 4 cargo ship yards. Now this is important, each sea cargo , you must create a loop road, and connect a rail cargo station. Your loop road will need, police, fire, hospital, death care, garbage to function Now you have full import / export of goods, and also a way to send then internally in your map So another important thing is donot connect every cargo station on the same line - you will bog down in cargo rail trains, that i do is have say a south line and have 4 to 6 cargo station, that is it, then a north line, and 4 to6 cargo station interconnected, but they donot connect to other areas Do this for North / South East / West You only need 1 cargo station to connect to the outside railway line that goes put past the border / spawn area It is very important, all industry areas as well as large commercial areas have cargo rail, otherwise the go 100% via trucks, this was 90% of cargo is by seaat or train, and the last loop station to shop or industry is via trucks, you will end up using very little trucks If you have a lot of hills, them this is a good time, to use cable cars , it is the only time i use then and only if i have say residential and no school or large commercial, then i use a cable car just to climb the large hill With airport you only need one, place a railway or metro next to it and make it non stop to the main railway station, but use common sense if the airport is far north and the main multi rail far south, then use 3 or 4 stops on the way, it is silly to go airport far north, then 1 stop to lower south multi rail, only to have commuters catch 2 train sand metro to go back up north That is is, but the biggest help is just dont connect every road to every other road, people will find short cuts and avoid highways and they will use 1 and 2 lane roads to travel across the map, I am in australia and at one stage new estates made in 0's to 90's were of main road and fed into many cul-de-sacs, so basically a suburb of 500-2000 houses only have 1 x highway 2 x 4 lane road and the rest is 2 and 1 lane roads to each house - it congests the highway turn of and 4 lane road - but eventually trickles down ( of the highway, just have a before main and and after exit - that breaks main highway turn off by 1/3 rd) For the train hub senario, you can google search cities skylines wheel within a wheel or hub within hub for sample of what i am trying todescribe Regards George

Slow down residential zoning, but my residential demand is through the roof, regardless of how much I'm zoning and despite there being a lot of empty green zones 😂

I play PC but still found the information helpful & interesting. Honestly hadn't thought about multiple cargo train depots to help with the distribution of goods and resources within the city. And I agree: If it's "blue" then it SHOULD BE commercial! lol

This was so helpful. I definitely have a simcity mindset starting out. Now i'm dealing with major gridlock.

I'm playing on console so this was very helpful! I've been learning to adjust my budgets more effectively, boosting my electricity spending instead of spending on a new turbine or reactor. Also, taxes! 12% please 👍

Pro tips: 1. You can have a whole district dedicated to industrial zones that doesn’t clog the traffic much. Just connect it directly to the highway and make sure to have high capacity entrance/exit ramps. Have at least one cargo station within the district to lessen export/import trips. Place a metro station and some bus stops to eliminate as many cars. Also, aside from the highway, have a separate road that goes from your industrial complex to your busy districts (with commercial zones) to lessen traffic on the highway. 2. Do not make your city car-centric. Plan the transport hierarchy in your city ahead of time and make it really efficient. I suggest you follow some Cims and see if they can go to their destination relatively quickly. If not, you might want to either revise your design or just add more. Making your city car-centric will cause a lot of headaches in the future! 3. For those that don’t own the game yet, DO NOT BUY from EPIC GAMES! Doing so will still let you play the base game and even let you buy all the DLC’s. BUT you will have no access to mods and assets created by the community. Some of the mods are really useful and thus provide a greater experience throughout playing the game. Some of the greatest mods I know are: a) TMPE or Traffic Manager - this mod will let you configure lane arrows, speed limits, pedestrian lanes, traffic lights, etc. This one is the most useful when it comes to managing traffic. b) Move it! - allows you to freely move objects even when it’s already built, to your desired location, and shape/curvature, or whatever. c) many more mods, just check it out on steam lol. I currently don’t have access to any of the mods because I bought the game from Epic Games. I learnt that the hard way.

Traffic in this game can be a real problem if you don't manage it correctly. You must know at least about roads hierarchy. It will save you a lot of restarts.

I agree about the office zones! Why are they blue?? 😂

I play on PC, yet, this is more helpful than all of the PC tips out there.

I know its a while ago but thanks for this!! I had no idea about the "Blue" offices being industrial. :D

Bus stations and routes seems so complicated to start.. I ended up making my city 4 lane all over and put taxi stands and cab depots all over

Damn I've been playing the game for so long and didn't know office was industrial

These are some really good tips for people who are starting the game!

Good info. Liked the quick little rant at the end about office color. I agree. haha

One thing I noticed which caused traffic nightmares was that the buses don't use the bus stops in the 5 lane asymmetric roads. They stop in the driving lane and traffic stops behind them.

I had huge problems with traffic when I started to play this game but then I came across a Korean guy his channel name is LOAD2MAP and this guy is a monster. That and I started to add pathways for pedestrian and bycicle in my cities and now I'm staying at more than 90% traffic all the time.

Heres a tip from me: use small business benefactor and big business benefactor, it can 7x your economy my went from 15,000 per week to almost 80,000 per week.

Zone your commercial/industry the same way you zone residential. Have footpaths running parallel to collector roads cutting through your residential, and use a small section of a different one lane road type to give those roads cross walks.

Been playing for a while, added the industry pack, “highly recommend it if you like laying out roads and playing with the traffic,” this was the best first time playing video I’ve seen.. I did not know office space was industrial. Never even really used them but now I think I will incorporate into my city.. going to check out your other videos now.. 👍

I have to rewatch this very helpful. Traffic is my main issue

lol nice little outburst on office zones

bro really became Giga chad and a console player instead a pc player

Didn’t know why my IT buildings where saying “not enough buyers” read online I need more commercial buildings 😅 what alittle research can do ! Loved the video short and sweet

TIP: want more population, just fill in the whole square with residential (make sure to add jobs)

I place office zones in my industrial area too

Never even knew there was a console version lol

Office zones can be placed between Residential and Industrial zones to block the noise. Keep internal cargo trains separate from external ones and separate again from passenger trains otherwise you risk your train lines getting clogged up with trains Make use of "flying junctions" when connecting two lines as they eliminate conflicting moves Remember "Lane Mathematics" with highway roads (when a lane leaves, the main highway is reduced by one lane. When a lane joins the main highway is increased by one lane)

So due to you, we do not have to look at videos about City Skylines, whilst looking at a video about City Skylines. Yeah right, I have got it. I think.

Offices is non comersial in the sense that nobody goes there to buy stuff or get services.

Wish Switch would get some of the updates other console and PC players get

Very helpful tips! Great video ☺️

I always see pc players be able to build roads while having the elevation contours map switched on. Do you know how we can do that for console?

As a console player, I love this. Thank you! ❤

• Always have bypass tracks around stations, so that trains will not be held by a stopped train using the station. • IT Clusters (Green Cities DLC) produce goods without producing truck traffic. • Build fire helicopter depots (Natural Disasters DLC) near a body of water so that they can fill their buckets immediately after leaving the depot. • Evacuation buses (Natural Disasters DLC) can have a stop in a bus station/hub. • A bus stop can be placed inside the Large Emergency Shelter (Natural Disasters DLC). • Organic and Local Produce zones (Green Cities) do not have any noise at all. • Except Self-Sufficient specialization (Green Cities DLC), all specializations only have 1 level. • Cable cars (Mass Transit DLC) can serve a bus route that suffers too much gridlock from industrial traffic. • Prior to unlocking Fusion Power Plant, heating services (Snowfall DLC) are cheaper than electricty during cold spells. • Intercity bus hubs and stations (Sunset Harbor DLC) can accomodate regular and evacuation bus stops on their platforms. • The Metro Plaza (Train Stations CCP) have two pairs of bypass tracks on the upper levels. • The Clock Tower unique building (Parklife DLC) increases top speed and acceleration of all trains city-wide and its clock face is functional. • The Coronor's Van's (Vehicles of the World CCP) capacity is 20 corpses (at the cost of mediocre acceleration and top speed). Useful during deathwaves. Select a deathcare building to choose the vehicle fleet.

Ur voice sounds similar to a sesame street character... its nice

The first thing I wish I knew was how unintuitive the controls are on Xbox. It’s like the game was built to fight you on everything you want to do.

For me it was clear right away that offices were industry 😅 never even thought for it to be commercial

Thank You for the helpful tips!

I'm actually getting quite frustrated just trying to build basic roads the way I want. The controls are so clunky.

I do know all of these already but..... This seems very helpfull!

WHAT? Office is industrial? But they don't have any deliveries or any traffic of any kind. I have them along my collector roads and have no issues at 100,000 population (note, I do have extensive bike and public transit infrastructure)

I love this video thank you so much!

How to put menu on the left on console ? I’ve also acquired new suburban packs but I don’t know how to choose type of house when marking 😢

hey does this 4x4 mean something in steam / iMac I have been using that . I also wish you would do a video on how to zone to reduce traffic.

Im wanting to play the game with unlimited everything on just to get a grip of the game but I'm so confused with it all is the fear of the massive game play just putting me off being able to understand it all? 😂

Good video

How do you manually draw the grid for the 4x4 residentials? Mine just auto-groups them as one who block :(

Not to be mean or anything but you industrial area is pretty clogged and the reason buildings are randomly generated is because it’s more realistic, and quite honestly if everything is uniform and similar your city looses its beauty quickly. Think of it as a store where everything is grey, white and black. Also, offices have a different color because even though they have the same use as industrial zones, 1. They require highly educated citizens, 2. They are for more urbanized areas and are supposed to be able to be near commercial and residential areas without causing problems.

All good tips

I have a problem that I need help with. When I’m placing zones, only some of the zones get built. Does anyone know why?

I play on Xbox, how do you paint the zone 4x4 or whatever size you want? It just paint the whole plot automatically for me.

Girl thank you lol.. 🎉🎉

Pretty cool!

how can i zone manually??

I'm a new subscriber... Do you have tips on making money with a new start. How do you make millions with only 5000 or more residentials?....

Thank youuuuuuu!!!!!!!

offices are next to industry so its kinda obvious

That's why I never use collector roads they cause problems abd the sins get mad

Switch version doesn’t even get DLC

What map is that?

Your voice is buried in the music and game sounds

And some of these “tips” aren’t really- tips.

Get a PC it’ll be the best decision ever

I suggest adding to your research this man: T4rget. Made gameplays on PC, but only vanilla way... and his creations are stunning!

There is so much in this game and i suck bad :D sim city mindset, good one :Dl