How To Build Thriving Industries in Cities Skylines 2 

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tysm for this, now i get why my first city's industry demand kept going up and up. I didnt do proper chains and they all stayed like lvl1 or two, never leveling up

Well, thanks for your video. I hope I can save my city before it is too late.

Would you say the advice in this video is affected by the resource utilization bugs the developer has revealed are present in the release version of the game?

It makes very little sense that it's both expensive to import and export. If they're expensive to purchase elsewhere, they should sell for more, and vice versa.

I"m still early in my city but didn't know about limiting industries to not make too much, I assumed it would just auto adjust to excess sold for profit out-side wouldn't be a bad thing, interesting.

Hi, your video inspired me a lot. But I still have some questions. Thanks for your time if you could answer them. 1. How to encourage/discourage the specific business area in the city, is it only manually controlled by tax rate? I thought even under the same rate, the market would prefer the area with a cheaper local surplus. But even though I have a lot of lumber and some furniture factories, there is only one sawmill pop-up and it has a poor profit.😢 2. Some of my commercial zones say they lack customers. How to solve it? Is commercial the customer only retail citizens and tourists? Do they sell to the industry or export? 3. Might be silly, But is that the same when using one or more farms to produce on the same size of fertile land? Thanks!

Great tips. Thank you.

I know you briefly touched on it but some more info on how bit to make each specialised industry building? I appreciate you said not to go too far above deficit but is it better to make the one building have a larger area (e.g. the entire circle, half of it etc) or make another building for it?

Here I've been sitting on 250+ tons of surplus stone like I'm rich! It's no wonder I'm not lol. Thanks!

Such a bad idea to make players wait for level 3 to get specialized industry. Specialized industry would be the first kind of industry a real town has in many cases. Towns get built because of something like a coal/ore mine why would you not let players start like that, its crazy to me.

When making specialised industry buildings are you better off making farms with almost maxed out size or a bunch of smaller ones. I haven't been able to figure out which is better

Does export works for you? I've set up external connection for water, power and cargo train but my export is still 0.00$. I've seen posts on Reddit and Steam of people reporting the same issue and that exporting might be actually bugged atm.

Thank you for the video it's really helpful! I don't understand something still though, the industry demand doesn't seem to change when I added specialized wood industry.. does this mean it only goes down if I added an industry zone?

If too much surplus reduces a business profits and importing does as well, then this games mechanics needs adjusting. In the real world, import/export is a multi-trillion dollar enterprise. In SC2, is a lazy execution of a business model.

So far I'm pretty unhappy with industrial zoning. You cannot control what type of industry it is and it does not provide jobs for some reason.

Nice one. Thanks.

Industry rss is currently broken. They did mention it . Special industry g e t exported while your normal industry rss need that in storage they would still try to import

exporting good by train, boat and plane is bugged as they only import and do not export - I hope they fix this soon

Why would exporting goods not be profitable for the companies? Or the city for that matter?

Can you show how does the wastewater treatment plant work

1:15 specialized industries do not have any effect on the regular industries. They don't buy/sell local resources in the current version of the game.

Love this content, please continue! I would like more vidoes about how to design road networks for efficient transport of people

Why these RU-vidrs never put the name of the map in description

i think the basic of this game are way deeper then what you claim to make a progressional early start village to a megapole high tech and skyscraping utopia which is utter madness, i will try a new playthrough using developpement tactics and expanding in different area of the maps for different purpose and using customs taxes to increase profits with a supply chain money making strategy involving demand import and export, at the beginning importing the high cost industrials good is too costly and not efficient enough, what a small village require is stone wich in reality is multiple type compounds using in construction, that should either be the second or even the first low taxes import and productions and bi product taxes hustles, cattles for food should be the first or also second depending on your types of playthrough to start slow, also starting slow brick by brick house by house different zoning, so at the start a small village should have low rent small 2x2 2x3 3x2 low housing in long segments in a sort of underdevelopped country region that is starting an assembly for a village, i think reducing taxes for industrial import of agricultures primary product should be the main focus, and a few medium large small commercial zoning with an increase of 1-2% taxes over the industrial product required for the commercial goods, a small village would need a small accomodations goods like a medium food business, i think the trick is to micromanage every single taxes till the end of the playthrough using many concepts of regional colonisation and expansion, you need to make the industry makes a profit and also the commercial too, by rotating taxes for early tier product and good to try and attract potential money profits making companies in a witful pattern depending on your strategy, theres an algorithm to the game i think that is way deeper to understand for the common teenage young adult and even senior gamer wich is driving confusion and anger, they wouldnt be giving singled out custom taxes windows for profits monitor of cities, educational system that is deep and import export rates as well as tiered industrial specification, at the start the lowest import is the easiest route a village need food to survive so its normal to play with taxes to reduce and increased them elsewhere in expensive incomes or vice versa,there is a lot of micromanagement,this is a 10 years old cycles playing sections, you could spend many years on 1 play through even at this point till they release dlc pass season and pack its a strategy game now made to be a regional colonial economical capita based stimulation, and i believe theres hidden mechanics with various goods, regional administration is a hard domain with many unknown based on factors but at the start a colony need to attract the good commercial business and industrial and making a buck and reduce expense, electricity is a good money balancer if you can manage to produce more electricity with cheap goods, think gas factory would produce more with oil based economy with production of gas at low cost efficiently,or nuclear with an insane load of minerals and high tech industry, or if a terraforming a high debit rivers in the mountain with a dam or with additional power output of geothermal bassin its absolutly deep the concept of boom and region expansion the main goal at the start should be the make to start a main center of the region with a main core used for multiples sectorial expansion and readjusting of functions and then go for outter zone with early access to train remember your arent forced into adjacent tiles you can go focus elsewhere forregion expansion close to railway and even make your own national highways also road are costly so is everyother segment like pipes or power lines start producing industrial primary product such as agriculture and stones and then timber or a 3 way balanced expansion with small villages close by for the workers you know what i mean if your wise enough to understand core mechanics of this game stimulation

lol nodding donkey? First time I have ever heard a pump jack called that.😂😂😂😂

I tried the earn positive income from your last video but well educated wont come to my city .... i tweak a bit then the come in like water ... I have to make extra road to the highway rather relying on the current city entrance

At 180k population, my grain deficit is 12,000 tons where I'm producing 3,000 tons. I'm tempted just to delete them all my farmsband get space back as the game doesn't allow you to unlock the full map.

Is it ok to only have one form of industry? What if I only wanted Forrestry in my city? Could I do that and still be efficient?

Question... Can you place livestock farms on none fertile lands? Would that effect productivity like the wheat and vegie farms?

In some of my specialized industries I have a problem with garbage piling up for some unknown reason. I build a dunpster next to it, assigned it to the industries and nothing. There is still that same garbage pb. My only solution is to destroy and rebuild. Any help?

@TotalXclipse hey mate, btw thank you for your videos but i have one question, in my playthrough i import aaaa lot of grains farms and i cant build this much to compensate that what they need. So my question is, if i have to compensate that or is it enough to build of them how much i can.

keep it short and efficient!

My problem with industry is that the city keeps wanting more, and I must place them in areas so that the wind would blow the smog away while also being close enough for people to work there.

very interesting video ,thanks for sharing this, i have question,where i can find Coal and i don't see on the map or in list of recources ??? .

i set all the Taxes to 5% and still in positive money income.. pop at around 30k

The first thing i did was to make all specialized industries as big as possible, because more surplus = more money right? But you say that it's best to balance, because a surplus require companies to export goods wich reduce their profits. How does that work? How can exporting a huge surplus reduce income?

Good video. Thank you. However, the more I learn about how to play this game. the more Im not liking playing it. I still enjoy CS1 much more. Aside from the terrible performance I get from CS1. it runs horrible. and CS2 runs like butter. I wish this game had an "EASY MODE" like i find CS1 to be. It lets me be creative and have fun. Rather than just trying to get my city to NOT HATE ME. This game feels like a CHORE.

At least ur pc can handle the game. Mine is almost catching on fire xD

meanwhile my industries just keep complaining about high rent lol

Love the content but you should upload sons of the forest again!

So u tell us, u didn`t see that economy is not working?

For some reason my industries are not making me any money can anyone help

is it possible to have a city that only have office type of industry? and how to grow them

I never saw the point in using ressources that deplete.

I despise the new look of these industries. I miss my neat lines or orchards and wheat fields. Cattle grazing. Actually having to put some thought into things like traffic flow. Now? "Oh I just plop a fence down." As advanced and involved as they strove to make this game it all feels so.... Hands off and uninvolved.

2:33 why does it reduce their profits when they export it. shouldn´t they make more money with the exporting of their goods?

Oh my God, it's the Federal Reserve, your city is doomed. 10:38.

My industry keeps getting abandoned, why does that happen?

I remember Sim City 5, all simulation was fake. The game was giving you what you were expected to get, but it wasn't really simulating anything. My question is: Is this game real simulation or just another fake simulation?

Why dont you turn on TAA + FSR? You'll get a much less noisy and at the same time sharper picture (FSR at 80-90% compensates sharpness via CAS/Lanzos hybrid algorithm). Also you can keep native monitor resolution for UI this way. It's so strange that very few are using this combo, probably only because TAA is available only in advanced settings for some reason. I guess years of flight sims in VR teach to tweak graphics well since everything is pretty much SC2 by performance if you don't 😅

The farms look so weird with all those buildings. What is the point of that?

How can anyone release videos like this when even Colosal has admiten the game is broken?

Trade is broken, no point in making industry. Commercial will never go bankrupt even without industrial and without trade.

It’s a shame for me with a 3070 running like dog shlt, and need to wait them to improve the perfomance😢

the performance is negligible

ok but my people dont want industries so i cant build them