Engineering the MEGA GRID in Cities Skylines 2! 

Me:

More grids than a fifa celebration for who won the World Cup??

More grids than a Fifa celebr...

Day 46 of asking Matt to play no man’s sky

I’m sorry day 47

the death waves

I'd give it about 2 minutes

I 2nd this

Yes!

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Be gone from this world demon!!!!!!!!!!

@@Panzer-Hobbies hello

I was searching for this 😁

Meee toooo

Avenues are about as wide, streets are not, streets are one lane in most if not all of nyc, the grid is also rectangles. Austin on the other hand...

nah salt lake city we live in one already

Industries are never in the center. Offices are.

@@dennisdexter5602 that is the point of the challenge. dummy

That’s what he said

@@jotoqi8728 so is he agreeing with because his comment makes it sound like he does not understand that the point of the challenge is to build a city with the industrial area in its center rather than at the edge.

Its based on pop density i think

@@Hr07hgar87 Yup. I think the 2x2 grids do limit the building types that can be spawned, so even for high density building the area won't hold as much people as other cities.

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well, technically it is a 4 by 4 cell grid. the road is two cells wide, and the open/buildable space also is two cells wide, which gives the grid pattern an edge length of 4 cells.

Yea this is my usual strategy for controlling traffic on smaller roads in Cities Skylines one. At the start of the game I can't make 4-6 lane roads, but as my population goes up the traffic gets terrible on the starter 2 lane roads, so making them one way does a lot to alleviate traffic issues.

While this makes sense in theory, I do want to point one issue out. If every road is one way and alternates direction, then every intersection will alternate from only straight/right to only straight/left turns. There would still be a need for traffic lights because traffic would enter from one direction at one intersection then from the opposite side at the next, so every type of turn is still encountered, just not all at the same time. Edit: Actually, with dedicated turn lanes that merge off each time, I suppose it could’ve avoided entirely since there’s never oncoming traffic, only entering traffic. Oversight on my own mental picturing of it.

i think a Hex Grid with one way streets only would be great. for each block the traffic direction around it alternates between clockwise, counter-clockwise and alternating. This would also remove essentially all intersection conflict points, since that is spread out over the Streets via lane changes. You could also view this idea as a gigantic grid of magic roundabouts :D

it can be annoying to get around, but that is how Detroit is actually set up in some places, some roads are 1 way, while being connected with a couple 2 way larger streets

America Europe style

nah grids aren't bad, America would be a long line of parallel stroads nearly connected by 4 lane roads but cut off to create thousands of cul de sacs

amm, I mean you need a sunken highways and interstate isnt it?

@@HDTomothey ain’t but you can still do better

This is just a mega grid thankfully. If it was an American city sim then there would be a lot more abandoned low rent housing lol.

unless you build it on top of an old burial ground :P

Longer grids works better than individual grids Using alleys allows for more compressed roads, meaning more houses, meaning more peeps moving in

wouldn't that effectively be a city of roundabouts, but square?

@@Darke_Exelbirth Yes; this is how lots and lots of cities in the US that were built between ~1840 and 1920 are built. They had larger roads than the older ones back east, for carriages and wagons, but not wide enough for two-way roads once we switched to cars. You will find entire sections of places like Denver, Albuquerque, cities in Illinois and Iowa and Kansas and the Dakotas, down through West Texas and Arizona that have series of one-way grids. Mostly they have been replaced where they aren't in residential or low-traffic areas, they cause a lot of accidents, but if you look carefully in a lot of those places you can also see how the original grids were built, and had to be expanded through tearing down adjacent buildings. But basically any city built after the steam engine caught on, but before the internal combustion auto was mass-produced, you'll find those grids in the US. Canada to a lesser degree. The problem is corners, and people forgetting which direction the next street is going. Houses and businesses have things that block view, people park too close to the corners, and wrecks happen all the time. When people were only going 10mph drawn by horses, that wasn't an issue. Even when people were only going 15-25 in early cars, not much of an issue.

I concur. I used to live in Iowa, USA , which is really flat. The wind was awful in central Iowa. My car would shake on the highway from the wind.

welll to be fair industry causes more ground and air pollution, not so much water pollution which he was worried about.

Happy birthday fellow engineer!

Alleys.

​@@hanzzel6086the problem is its not two way, resulting in horrible, no good, bad bad, terrible traffic

@@jc_art_ Well realistically speaking, on a grid this tight together you'd probably be better off having a lot of one way streets. Say north to south all 2 way, but east to west all 1 way, alternating from all 1 way east then the next all 1 way west, etc.... In that kind of grid you could probably make the 1-ways be continuous, no stops, and have stops only on the 2 way streets that intersect. Would make getting far across the city much quicker.

@@Astraeus.. but what if youre in the middle and need to go the other way, you gotta go all the way to the end to make a turn

I don't think that's possible in the early game.

He paved paradise

In the first game the smallest assest that can grow in a zone are 1x1. In cities 2 the smallest assest are the 2x1 row homes, for every other zone type it's 2x2. Since every building is at least two squares deep, there's no reason for the game to draw the grid when no buildings would spawn.

What if it clogs, though? Then you need to offroad to fix it

@@justinbremer2281 that doesn't happen in the game

@@darthgonk4398. . . yet......

@@justinbremer2281 in the game if something needs to be connected to a road it says "Road access required"

​@@darthgonk4398 Funny thing about that requirement, because (unless it's different in CS2) you don't need a road connected to any actual other roads for "road access". You can literally just build a tiny stretch of road next to whatever the thing is that needs road access and it works.