tip: in the beginning go to your budget and drop both water and electricity to 50%. you are overproducing and losing money for resources you do not immediately need.
The tip is solid. At the start of the game, cash flow needs to be managed more than any other time in the game. Once you can start utilising the services more then raise their funding until you reach 100%, after which time you can build more power, water, etc.
Honestly I've seen some people making fun of the fact that he's constantly saying it's fine but what a thing to say. He's trying to reassure us because with games like these, it's very easy to be super perfectionist about it and it can drive people up the wall. He's kinda reminding us that it doesn't need to be that way. So thanks Luetin! xD
These reassuring comments were actually helpful. I tend to be super perfectionist and very "oh crap" when things go wrong. This video was WAY more helpful than I initially gave it credit for. 11/10. This video helped me so much.
@CyberKollider not probably. It is the best. Atleast if you want to build a real good looking city and not just a small village or focus on diplomacy as in tropico
Probably the best introduction/tutorial to this game ever. Especially for people who worry about using all 100% covered and worry too much about a formula or whatever. Definitely made me stop and take a look at how I play the game and helped me adjust my view as to how to play to enjoy, instead of play to win.
“Yeah we’re gonna lose houses, we’re gonna lose businesses here, don’t even worry about it it’s fine, it’s not the end of the world, they’ll deal with it.” - Robert Moses on gentrifying New York City, 1942
Without gentrification we wouldn't have big cities. Nobody wants to live next to an unemployed crackhead on food stamps when you make 80k a year and, if that's the only option, a professional (you know, they guy that pays for the crack head's foodstamps) will likely look for a different job in a more favorable city. Mostly because he/she has options because they've earned them. They didn't spend their lives smoking drugs and shitting on the floor in the supermarket so, curiously, things are catered toward productive people.
Gentrification is a good thing. Gentrification means making things more valuable. I'm sorry you're too stupid and poor to buy property #NotMyProblem you wanna see where anti gentrification gets you? Detroit.
@@BH-yv3xg Yeah so shouldn't we try to make it less of a shithole by buying property and making it a more desirable place to live? What do you think "gentrifying" is? Hello!
This game is ridiculously fun once you get it up and running and once you actually get out of the "negative income" where you are put into debt, literally you don't ever stop playing, you always have something to do and problems are constantly arising which means you have to find ways to solve those problems. It's so addicting that I find myself playing for hours on end never finding myself in a bored position once. This game, is amazing.
how do u get out of the hegative income? and then everything that i am able to build cant build it says not enough money...? cuz once i build roads its always going down no matter what i do....
Ive found once I get out of the red and the city starts being successful then the game becomes boring. It doesnt seem like there is any challenge beyond trying to fix traffic jams. maybe I should get some of the dlc's but usually i only buy dlc if the base game is fun enough to keep me interested.
Now in my first game; Everything was going great even without guides. Had several millions to spend and 40.000 citizens. Income was up to nearly 100.000 a day. Then THE catastrophe happened in a blitz; Didn't have enough power for a long while while I was looking at stuff forgetting to check the status. When I checked, the population had gone down to15.000 and I was nearly broke. I panicked. Which resulted in me deleting a powersupply AND a main road at the very moment I went into debt. Debt plunged down to 30.000.000(!) Yes, 30 MILLIONS! I really thought that was it. My very first game so proud. But I am determined. For many days I sat managing everything to get some income. took me around 70 hrs before I was debt free. Today, 2 days after I was in debt, my city is at 90.000 population and I have 2 million gold to spend. I am proud to ahve my city back. I'll bever stop playing that. 10/10. And I'd do it again.
So... I did exactly what you said. And everything was going great. And then... *A wild meteor (severity 4) appears* Boom, my whole residential zone dead. Thx natural disasters for making me restart :P
It's actually not because roundabouts aren't good for high traffic per se, but because of relying too heavily on a single intersection (as in the fastest route for too much traffic). It's technically the opposite; they're good for filtering plenty of traffic quickly, but everything has a limit. Not being able to spread traffic around enough seems like a pretty common issue in this game, and one factor for the fear of traffic lights :D
The one lane syndrome? If they don't have reasons to use all the lanes on a road, they won't. Simple rules for simple AI that always uses the fastest route, haha :) There's actually a nice example of good six lane road placement in this video at 40:50. All lanes are being used by vehicles at intersections because there are destinations in all directions more or less equally. Works a charm with more intersections too as long as there aren't too frequent stop lights.
I love how you're like It's ok, it's fine, it's not the end of the world. It makes me feel so much better because I'm a real neat freak, so I have trouble playing games like these... ^_^
Good video. I learned a few things. No. 1 Lesson: Start Small. I was trying to over build my residential areas too much at the beginning. Then I saw you start with just a few blocks, and I tried that...and it worked. I'm just about to cross the 1,500 population marker and things seem to be running smoothly so far. I'm about to build a bridge over the river and open up the whole other side. It'll be a big investment, but it should pay off in the long run. Thanks for the tips!
This guy is the Bob Ross of City Skylines, we need more people like this. This video was really encouraging and makes me want to play this game more, great video.
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you have a point about the building the roads it dosent matter what shape they are dose it people have ago at me for have derpy roads but i turn around and say well at the end of the day it become content :)
For anyone watching in 2020: As you become better at this game, you learn to be more future-proof. This means better planning, preemptive preparation, and some of best tips are as follows: 1. If you use wind turbines, you can use them to help spread the power grid, definitely cheaper in the long run than running coal + several connections. 2. Use commercial zones to connect the residential zones to any noisy/polluted zones. 3. Try to zone industrial zones CLOSER to highway entrances, so trucks don't have to travel through the whole town when you import/export. 4. DEFINITELY pause the game before you're done setting up the basics. 5. DEFINITELY adjust budget, taxes, as soon as you are able to. 6. DEFINITELY know that "IT'S FINE" no matter how bad you screw up, just enjoy yourself! Might take awhile to get better, but you DO get better, and you will find yourself sitting infront of your screen designing a crazy city for hours nonstop!
Distance is not the factor, it's about not having trucks drive through town. As long as the industry has his own way of getting on and off the highway it's fine really. So yes i do agree that his industry is not really smart since it has to drive straight through town. Be reminded that industry does produce goods for you town (for commercial zones) so having it in the middle of nowhere close to the highway is not always the best option ;)
I usually start with a split in the road as soon as possible - one going to the industrial area, and the other going to your town. A third main road then links industry with residential. This triangle configuration keeps your traffic under control for a very long time.
To make the the Intermodal system efficient, hence why industrial parks are close to ports....in real life that is...i habe no fuc*;#g clue what this weird game is, i stumbled upon this.
Within 20 mins you had 1000 residents. I played for an hour, ran out of money, people abandoned their houses, and ranted at me on the Twitter thing in game. This was helpful for my next city, thanks.
After watching your video I just want to say one tip. Put your commercial zones next to where you know the busy traffic is going to be. And put your residential behind those commercials. Your value will go up higher and faster. Another trick is to build a small commercial area somewhat close to your industrial area. That’ll make both your industry and commercial go higher in value also.
I just want to say thank you for reminding me that this a game and I just need to relax with it. stressing out about how straight my roads are and stuff like that shouldn't make me wanna stop playing. thank you again for reminding me. will continue to watch your videos.
Thanks for explaining this city to me I was trying to build mine so fast at the start and not looking at taxes, money, what I needed instead of what I didn't need. Thanks very much for the guide.
I just got this game and I was having difficulty on it. I searched up some videos and yours is the first one. its basically a year old and still accurate till this day. you were easy going laid back and efficient. which I am all of those but it did help a lot man. thanks for an amazing video
I absolutely love simulations like these. I don't class these as 'games', they ARE in fact SIMULATIONS. I believe that simulations such as 'Sim City' , Skylines', 'Total War', 'Civilization', 'Empire Earth', Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix', and many more, are EDUCATIONAL! They could be used in schools to really give kids an idea of what it takes to build and run a city, or to drive a Formula One car, or to know what it was like during a war simulation (such as Total War which actually brings history to life). Or even to know how civilisation started (such as playing through 'Empire Earth'). This is where, I feel, that the PCs really come into their own, far and above consoles.
Really like the message of this video, I've been putting off playing this for so long for the very reason that you mention. I tend to overthink the planning of my city and when things don't work out at first, I don't like it but you're absolutely right! :) I'm gonna start up a game and "just go with it" right now!
Lets just put some happy residential zones down here....like this. It will be our small little secret. I love residential zones. They really make your city come alive.
I'd like to add that you no longer need the traffic lights mod. If you open the left side panel and go to I believe Junctions (should be the bottom right icon on vanilla), you can set up if you want lights, stop signs, or nothing at all.
Nice to see others currently playing this game and loving this 5 year old video! It was very inf and I'm hoping to find more on his channel. I always get the "not enough educated workers" issue, even with elementary schools, high schools and universities placed no clue what I'm doing wrong.
I found your video quite informative! I really like the game, but I keep getting stuck because of traffic issues. I will usually get a city up to 25-30k people and suddenly, trash and corpses will pile up everywhere and they will go "WE NEED GRAVEYARDS! WE NEED GARBAGE DISPOSALS!" and yet I have 10+ incinerators running at 1% capacity and I've got 2 landfills at 1% capacity, and I've got graveyards all over the city with plenty of room, AND crematoriums... Ugh. Traffic always kills me in this game, how picky the traffic is. I remember the old days of SC3K where you didn't have to worry about it as much. BUT, I saw a few ideas in your video to try for my next city, and the map that you show looks like an excellent starter map, especially with that windy river which is perfect for river wind turbines later on.
Your trash issue is coming from the trucks not being able to get into your city. They may be stuck in traffic, or they might just be too far away from some parts of your city. Try giving garbage its own direct "highway" into the part of the city it's farthest from. As for the deathcare, Cities Skylines is rather notorious for having "deathwaves", when a lot of people die at once. Unaddressed, they can abandon buildings and chunk off your population a couple thousand. At 25-30k, you'd probably be about in your first one. This is pretty much unavoidable and more or less a fact of the game, but can be mitigated. Make sure you have good deathcare coverage and good traffic flow so buildings won't abandon, but other than that, my only advice is to wait it out. It will eventually solve itself and things usually bounce back pretty quickly.
Incognito Burrito yeah it happens on a regular basis one time my city got from 120k to 80k
6 лет назад
Definitely the most simple easiest guide. Ive watched people make guides for this game and start you off by creating the George Washington Bridge and a layout that looks like Manhattan ffs. And than they have the nerve to say “Simply do this and do that”. Keyword; “simply” im just watching with my mouth open dont even what the hell he clicked. This guy here i like a lot , what a buddy for keeping it on ground zero! Thank you buddy!!
i’ve purchased this game after being a longtime maxis game player, so jumping from simcity: cities of tomorrow to this scared the hell out of me. this video was very informative, and now i feel like i’m ready. thank you!!!
Imagine the powerful facepalm I did when you explained about not painting a lot of zoning at once. My powerlines run EVERYWHERE. Thank you for this video! (only 11 minutes in and I already realize what I could do better!)
I haven't played this game at all yet, but watched a few let's builds and then this ... and now I REALLY want to play this game. Thank you for sharing!
Just picked this game up yesterday in the sale. I had no clue how to work this game out and kept going bankrupt. You my friend have honestly helped me so much. I cant thank you enough! Earned a thumbs up and a sub man. Defo gonna check out your other videos. Also ignore the haters man.
the reason you don't like grid style cities is because youre an englishman! im the same.. grids are alien to us.. england is so old theres barely a straight road in the whole country.
Best tutorial so far. Just explains to have fun and doesn’t try to teach you the entire game straight away and set everything up for the future. The idea of your first city is you go with the flow. If you want to build it’s foundations to make it great then make a new city when you are better at the game
I bought the game today after watching some videos from another youtuber. Didnt have a clue where to start.. but this was sooo crazy helpful! i appreciate this!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I’ve been struggling a lot with getting any city off the ground, and when I put your methods into practice and my city is booming with success! Thank you!
This video fixed every issue I was having after my first few hours trying this game. From people getting sick to crashing my economy. I just started a new game and followed along
great tutorial, I'm an old school city builder fan from the Caesar 3 and Pharaoh era and your tutorial made me realize how simple and enjoyable the game is, I just bought it for 7 dollars.
OCD means obsessive compulsive disorder, just because you get stressed doesen't mean you have OCD. It just means you're human, we all get stressed for a variety of differen reasons. IF you get stressed particularly often you COULD have an anger or anxiety or even a stress disorder. OCD simply means that you have a mental disorder that causes you to obsess over every little detail and chase perfection in life. it's not something to take lightly or joke about, people with OCD are generally disliked by most non OCD people and it can cause other things like depression, which can lead to suicide if it becomes a big enough problem. IF you do have OCD I wouldn't recommend announcing that fact as if it's something to be proud of. IDK what it is with you kids, all of you think you have bipolar or OCD or ADHD because of a few personality quirks. A quirk does not equal a diagnosis.
@18:10 "You can just enjoy playing the game, that's fine!" Blasphemy! No video game was EVER created for anyone's enjoyment! lol I tease. Great video! Saw it half way through yesterday and I'm already a professional urban planner! Gonna watch the other half now
Dude you just nailed it. This explanation took a weight out of my back. I was going for the "efficiency" route and was very worried that something was wrong, and then you were like "Don't panic" or "It's Fine" or "It's cool!" aaaaaaah the relief is great. Also great tutorial. 1 + sub 1 + like.
I really like the "it's fine, just have fun" approach. These aren't my typical genres to play and by watching other tutorials i mostly end up fiddling building the perfect roundabout in 8 hours an lose interest.
A lot of the more newly built subdivisions in my city (edmonton) is built that way, high density residential and commercial however are the classic small grid style
Good video if you want to use mods. Not all mods are game breaking but that turning the lights on and off. IMO, gives you a false confidence as I believe anyone could use those mods with little to no experience and have similar results. I was really perplexed that you were so flippant with traffic flow and design at the beginning. Then we got into mods and turning traffic lights on and off......Now I understand why you had that attitude. For someone who wants to tweak the game to where there is no challenge just visually putting down a city, this is a good guide for that. IMO the game was meant to have a lot of those features you remove with mods. If every road (six lane junctions!??) have no lights then I believe that removes a lot of challenge and misrepresents a big concept of the game. To each their own though.
Death Mwauthzyx thia tutorial is great and works perfect without mods. And if you want mods it takes 20 sec and is the easiest thing in the world to do except if you have a codex version
7 лет назад+9
You don't need mods to add/remove traffic lights. You just need to go to Info Views > Traffic Routes menu and add/remove them on the Junction Tab. The mod he uses just makes it faster to do it.
Ziggurt It's just that you should've been in charge of traffic lights in the first place. It's not like they just pop up whenever you lay down a stretch of asfalt (in real life I mean). You as "the city planner" are the one who has to opt for them imo if you seem them necessary so the mod just added a function that should've been there from the start anyway so I don't look at it as a cheat.
Thank you so much for you guidance 🙏 I had done 3 towns that failed, prior to your video. Each was in massive debt, going into year 2 and 3. After taking your tips, my town was earning +2k/week and had 900 residents, before the first year was up! Thanks again!
This was actually really helpful. I just got this game and I could not for the life of me figure out how the power worked. I was trying to put in towers across the whole town, and going bankrupt because of it. Plus it gave me a bunch of other new knowledge on the game too. Thank you!
I can't stop building grid style cities and I hate it so much. They look so boring. I really want to waste some space and have an interesting looking city instead lol
I just bought this game from Steam. This tutorial is good as a guidance for beginners. Easy to understand. And feel a lot less pressure bcuz this guy keep comforting us 😄😄😄
The perfectionist in me is gonna have a bad time (and will take forever) with building a city. But thanks for the helpful tips, especially improving according to demand, and the fact that area layouts don't affect placement, so it's much more free to have abstract road designs for example.
you make it seem so easy i'm new to the game. my first 3 cities were a bust, had to start over the current 1 I have is a total mess road wise. I need that stop sign mod to kill all the lights. Oh how to do link the bus routes?
My first map I had issues with the landfills just filling up, having to put new ones in and the pollution both of noise and physical made nearby zones irritable, had to drop rent for those areas I hadn't planned it through properly so I am glad there are now videos like this one to walk me around such noob mistakes.
I just got the game today from humble bundle and I was trying so hard and getting stuck and not knowing what I was doing wrong! THANK YOU so much for this video, now I can go back and try again and hopefully enjoy this game!!
I tried to pause the video so I could pan around to take a look at his water system. I only bought the game last night though, so I don't really have an excuse.... Just special.
Just downloaded this game a couple nights ago and made the mistake of laying down too many streets and getting frustrated. Thanks for the tips, especially starting out small and branching out from there.
I just started yesterday and have not even saved my first map yet. That being said, your video really gave me a lot of knowledge and I’m going to work on building a more successful city. Thanks a million!
tip: in the beginning go to your budget and drop both water and electricity to 50%. you are overproducing and losing money for resources you do not immediately need.
good tip, i wish I had realized this sooner
not necessarily I started with mine in 100% and started earning money fast
Wilmer Perez oh lol well, in my case it was my first step time playing and I was failing haha.
The tip is solid. At the start of the game, cash flow needs to be managed more than any other time in the game. Once you can start utilising the services more then raise their funding until you reach 100%, after which time you can build more power, water, etc.
Thanks
Honestly I've seen some people making fun of the fact that he's constantly saying it's fine but what a thing to say. He's trying to reassure us because with games like these, it's very easy to be super perfectionist about it and it can drive people up the wall. He's kinda reminding us that it doesn't need to be that way. So thanks Luetin! xD
These reassuring comments were actually helpful. I tend to be super perfectionist and very "oh crap" when things go wrong. This video was WAY more helpful than I initially gave it credit for. 11/10. This video helped me so much.
this was crazy helpful. i've been tearing my hair out trying to figure this game out. this made a world of difference. thank you!
wasn't expecting to see you here 👀
are you Lame?
Even tho I have played citie skylines for a while, I will still use this advice
Funny I thought this was a Simcity knockoff but it turned out to be a far better game.
Robert Kowalke yep F*** Simcity 2013 and EA
@CyberKollider not probably. It is the best. Atleast if you want to build a real good looking city and not just a small village or focus on diplomacy as in tropico
@@user-wq9mw2xz3jtropico is more of country simulator
Simcity 4 was the best Simcity
@@glenn1975 💯 The music was fab
those starbucks are so realistic.... three in one place
Nathan Creek, IKR
White girls gotta have their coffee.
I live in Seattle and this is painfully true.
quiero ver pilicula de vaquero
I have 0 Starbucks in my place.
"it's fine, it's okay."
just bought the game, really needed to hear that.
Probably the best introduction/tutorial to this game ever. Especially for people who worry about using all 100% covered and worry too much about a formula or whatever. Definitely made me stop and take a look at how I play the game and helped me adjust my view as to how to play to enjoy, instead of play to win.
awesome thanks for such a kind comment :D
Can I download the map from somewhere else than Steam workshop, since I took the game from piratebay?
Just buy the game.
The game is only €6.99 in the winter sales. How could anyone go wrong?
Mr.Mister
yeah,
im gonna buy it.
“Yeah we’re gonna lose houses, we’re gonna lose businesses here, don’t even worry about it it’s fine, it’s not the end of the world, they’ll deal with it.” - Robert Moses on gentrifying New York City, 1942
Without gentrification we wouldn't have big cities. Nobody wants to live next to an unemployed crackhead on food stamps when you make 80k a year and, if that's the only option, a professional (you know, they guy that pays for the crack head's foodstamps) will likely look for a different job in a more favorable city. Mostly because he/she has options because they've earned them. They didn't spend their lives smoking drugs and shitting on the floor in the supermarket so, curiously, things are catered toward productive people.
@@TheRetrostorian listen here. Ive been a total piece of shit crack head. But never once did I shit on the floor
Gentrification is a good thing. Gentrification means making things more valuable. I'm sorry you're too stupid and poor to buy property #NotMyProblem you wanna see where anti gentrification gets you? Detroit.
@@waynepayne9875 I think that Detroit's fall has more to do with the death of american auto manufacturing but go off I guess
@@BH-yv3xg Yeah so shouldn't we try to make it less of a shithole by buying property and making it a more desirable place to live? What do you think "gentrifying" is? Hello!
This game is ridiculously fun once you get it up and running and once you actually get out of the "negative income" where you are put into debt, literally you don't ever stop playing, you always have something to do and problems are constantly arising which means you have to find ways to solve those problems. It's so addicting that I find myself playing for hours on end never finding myself in a bored position once. This game, is amazing.
Are you bored yet?
TheBanjoShow haha 150k population
How about now? Still playing?
how do u get out of the hegative income? and then everything that i am able to build cant build it says not enough money...? cuz once i build roads its always going down no matter what i do....
Ive found once I get out of the red and the city starts being successful then the game becomes boring. It doesnt seem like there is any challenge beyond trying to fix traffic jams. maybe I should get some of the dlc's but usually i only buy dlc if the base game is fun enough to keep me interested.
you know it's British because the first thing he does is lay down a roundabout
Drinking game: take a shot every time he says 'it's fine'
I was thinking similarly - drinking game for, "i'm just being a bit rough, banging this together"
@@mnr612 what map did the video use?
I'm dRunK nOw
Wela imtinhk im Fine. I’m farly sobber.
I had so many shots. What an chaotic and inefficient city You show for beginners, with no awareness of what's in the future.
Now in my first game; Everything was going great even without guides. Had several millions to spend and 40.000 citizens. Income was up to nearly 100.000 a day.
Then THE catastrophe happened in a blitz; Didn't have enough power for a long while while I was looking at stuff forgetting to check the status. When I checked, the population had gone down to15.000 and I was nearly broke. I panicked. Which resulted in me deleting a powersupply AND a main road at the very moment I went into debt.
Debt plunged down to 30.000.000(!) Yes, 30 MILLIONS! I really thought that was it. My very first game so proud. But I am determined. For many days I sat managing everything to get some income. took me around 70 hrs before I was debt free. Today, 2 days after I was in debt, my city is at 90.000 population and I have 2 million gold to spend.
I am proud to ahve my city back. I'll bever stop playing that.
10/10. And I'd do it again.
Great.
Me too
that destruction you experienced sounds more fun than anything else though!
Seventy hours...
At that point i would not saved the game process and restart the game to get back to my last save tbh.
So...
I did exactly what you said.
And everything was going great.
And then...
*A wild meteor (severity 4) appears*
Boom, my whole residential zone dead.
Thx natural disasters for making me restart :P
Turn off natural fisasters
😂 that must've sucked!
Lol we both have doge photos!
I had a tornado
Well I did it better: 10 minutes in an earthquake with intesity 8.3 hit like everything
14:01
*"You can just start bangin' buildings."*
_Please don't bang any buildings._
you seem like you had a quite a bit of experience in that matter.
@@ritwikreddy5670 👏
Instead of that, i bang my windows every tuesday and saturday.
@@xmexov I prefer to bang my chimney. Windows have too many side hustles. At least with a chimney you know There's only two other partners
In my experience, roundabouts are only good for light traffic areas. Once there's heavy traffic they easily become congested
It's actually not because roundabouts aren't good for high traffic per se, but because of relying too heavily on a single intersection (as in the fastest route for too much traffic). It's technically the opposite; they're good for filtering plenty of traffic quickly, but everything has a limit. Not being able to spread traffic around enough seems like a pretty common issue in this game, and one factor for the fear of traffic lights :D
Risto Salonen Also the AI have no clue how to use lanes properly :P
The one lane syndrome? If they don't have reasons to use all the lanes on a road, they won't. Simple rules for simple AI that always uses the fastest route, haha :) There's actually a nice example of good six lane road placement in this video at 40:50. All lanes are being used by vehicles at intersections because there are destinations in all directions more or less equally. Works a charm with more intersections too as long as there aren't too frequent stop lights.
Risto Salonen Yeah. Traffic++ has become essential to me because of the lane management :P
MrC0MPUT3R
You can get them to use all lanes in just vanilla too, but I'm of course not blaming anyone for using traffic mods. Helps the creativity :)
I love how you're like It's ok, it's fine, it's not the end of the world. It makes me feel so much better because I'm a real neat freak, so I have trouble playing games like these... ^_^
Good video. I learned a few things. No. 1 Lesson: Start Small. I was trying to over build my residential areas too much at the beginning. Then I saw you start with just a few blocks, and I tried that...and it worked. I'm just about to cross the 1,500 population marker and things seem to be running smoothly so far. I'm about to build a bridge over the river and open up the whole other side. It'll be a big investment, but it should pay off in the long run. Thanks for the tips!
Put an automatic toll booth on the ends of the bridge lol
This guy is the Bob Ross of City Skylines, we need more people like this. This video was really encouraging and makes me want to play this game more, great video.
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+LuetinGaming Thank man =)
Do you need the traffic light mod?
what mods are you using
+SuperModTester No. You do not need it.
you have a point about the building the roads it dosent matter what shape they are dose it people have ago at me for have derpy roads but i turn around and say well at the end of the day it become content :)
I remember first playing this game and i used to put coal power plants near so many houses for energy and i would get so confused why people got sick.
I am a major noob at vanilla Cities Skylines, this helped a ton Thanks!!!
For anyone watching in 2020:
As you become better at this game, you learn to be more future-proof.
This means better planning, preemptive preparation, and some of best tips are as follows:
1. If you use wind turbines, you can use them to help spread the power grid, definitely cheaper in the long run than running coal + several connections.
2. Use commercial zones to connect the residential zones to any noisy/polluted zones.
3. Try to zone industrial zones CLOSER to highway entrances, so trucks don't have to travel through the whole town when you import/export.
4. DEFINITELY pause the game before you're done setting up the basics.
5. DEFINITELY adjust budget, taxes, as soon as you are able to.
6. DEFINITELY know that "IT'S FINE" no matter how bad you screw up, just enjoy yourself!
Might take awhile to get better, but you DO get better, and you will find yourself sitting infront of your screen designing a crazy city for hours nonstop!
Thank you
Not a bad guide but in the very beginning it is good to have the industry zone as close as possible to the highway access.
I think so too, that's how it generally is in real life metro areas.
J'mar DDM
I thought industry zones are sort of in urban, downtown type areas IRL
Distance is not the factor, it's about not having trucks drive through town. As long as the industry has his own way of getting on and off the highway it's fine really. So yes i do agree that his industry is not really smart since it has to drive straight through town. Be reminded that industry does produce goods for you town (for commercial zones) so having it in the middle of nowhere close to the highway is not always the best option ;)
I usually start with a split in the road as soon as possible - one going to the industrial area, and the other going to your town. A third main road then links industry with residential. This triangle configuration keeps your traffic under control for a very long time.
To make the the Intermodal system efficient, hence why industrial parks are close to ports....in real life that is...i habe no fuc*;#g clue what this weird game is, i stumbled upon this.
Within 20 mins you had 1000 residents.
I played for an hour, ran out of money, people abandoned their houses, and ranted at me on the Twitter thing in game.
This was helpful for my next city, thanks.
Yes me too 😭😭😭
"Mods are really, really important to the game."
I love that you brought this up. ^_^
"Don't panic! It's fine!" love this. thank you :) seriously, i'm a perfectionist - so i actually needed to hear this. lol
Great guide, sir. I was definitely feeling frustrated with the early stages of the game and your guide helped tremendously.
After watching your video I just want to say one tip. Put your commercial zones next to where you know the busy traffic is going to be. And put your residential behind those commercials. Your value will go up higher and faster. Another trick is to build a small commercial area somewhat close to your industrial area. That’ll make both your industry and commercial go higher in value also.
I need to stop worrying about being so precise in my town or I'll never have fun.
After going bankrupt 4 times in a row, your video helped me build my first functioning city! Thanks so much!
Glad to hear this is still useful 3 years later
I just want to say thank you for reminding me that this a game and I just need to relax with it. stressing out about how straight my roads are and stuff like that shouldn't make me wanna stop playing. thank you again for reminding me. will continue to watch your videos.
Thanks for explaining this city to me I was trying to build mine so fast at the start and not looking at taxes, money, what I needed instead of what I didn't need. Thanks very much for the guide.
"Its ok, its gonna be fine..." Ok. (great video btw. thx :D )
dont panic!
I just got this game and I was having difficulty on it. I searched up some videos and yours is the first one. its basically a year old and still accurate till this day. you were easy going laid back and efficient. which I am all of those but it did help a lot man. thanks for an amazing video
Me: But Luetin, my whole family just died and my house is on fire!!
Luetin: Just wait "It's F I N E"
I absolutely love simulations like these. I don't class these as 'games', they ARE in fact SIMULATIONS. I believe that simulations such as 'Sim City' , Skylines', 'Total War', 'Civilization', 'Empire Earth', Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix', and many more, are EDUCATIONAL!
They could be used in schools to really give kids an idea of what it takes to build and run a city, or to drive a Formula One car, or to know what it was like during a war simulation (such as Total War which actually brings history to life). Or even to know how civilisation started (such as playing through 'Empire Earth').
This is where, I feel, that the PCs really come into their own, far and above consoles.
If allowed, I'd use video/PC games for instruction because students bore easily with traditional instruction methods.
"It's not the end of the world if your roads look bad." Try telling that to Flabaliki
Googlebrains and dylan
Yes and try having watched flab’s videos then getting this game on Xbox one trying to make good looking roads lol
AdrianAtGaming yeah Lol
LOLOLOLOLOL
This game turned out to be a lot more complex than I was expecting. Your video was so helpful, and I love your stress-free approach
Really like the message of this video, I've been putting off playing this for so long for the very reason that you mention. I tend to overthink the planning of my city and when things don't work out at first, I don't like it but you're absolutely right! :) I'm gonna start up a game and "just go with it" right now!
The overusage of the words "don't panic" and "it's fine" are quite important and I'm glad you kept stating that.
Your attitude reminds me of Bob Ross. :)
I know right!
Happy houses!
Daxelinho9 do you can say please the name of this map? Please
Lets just put some happy residential zones down here....like this. It will be our small little secret. I love residential zones. They really make your city come alive.
Happy mistakes
I'd like to add that you no longer need the traffic lights mod. If you open the left side panel and go to I believe Junctions (should be the bottom right icon on vanilla), you can set up if you want lights, stop signs, or nothing at all.
who is now here because this game is free on epic games
me
me bro.
yep - just started it with my son
Oh boy 😂💪
Have always wanted the game but never had the money for it, but now thanks to epic games I got to play it
Nice to see others currently playing this game and loving this 5 year old video! It was very inf and I'm hoping to find more on his channel. I always get the "not enough educated workers" issue, even with elementary schools, high schools and universities placed no clue what I'm doing wrong.
I found your video quite informative! I really like the game, but I keep getting stuck because of traffic issues. I will usually get a city up to 25-30k people and suddenly, trash and corpses will pile up everywhere and they will go "WE NEED GRAVEYARDS! WE NEED GARBAGE DISPOSALS!" and yet I have 10+ incinerators running at 1% capacity and I've got 2 landfills at 1% capacity, and I've got graveyards all over the city with plenty of room, AND crematoriums...
Ugh.
Traffic always kills me in this game, how picky the traffic is. I remember the old days of SC3K where you didn't have to worry about it as much. BUT, I saw a few ideas in your video to try for my next city, and the map that you show looks like an excellent starter map, especially with that windy river which is perfect for river wind turbines later on.
Your trash issue is coming from the trucks not being able to get into your city. They may be stuck in traffic, or they might just be too far away from some parts of your city. Try giving garbage its own direct "highway" into the part of the city it's farthest from.
As for the deathcare, Cities Skylines is rather notorious for having "deathwaves", when a lot of people die at once. Unaddressed, they can abandon buildings and chunk off your population a couple thousand. At 25-30k, you'd probably be about in your first one. This is pretty much unavoidable and more or less a fact of the game, but can be mitigated. Make sure you have good deathcare coverage and good traffic flow so buildings won't abandon, but other than that, my only advice is to wait it out. It will eventually solve itself and things usually bounce back pretty quickly.
Incognito Burrito yeah it happens on a regular basis one time my city got from 120k to 80k
Definitely the most simple easiest guide. Ive watched people make guides for this game and start you off by creating the George Washington Bridge and a layout that looks like Manhattan ffs. And than they have the nerve to say “Simply do this and do that”. Keyword; “simply” im just watching with my mouth open dont even what the hell he clicked. This guy here i like a lot , what a buddy for keeping it on ground zero! Thank you buddy!!
It's OK, it's fine. Don't worry about it! xD
edit: ThAnKs FoR THe LiKEs 👁👄👁
Ok lewis.
Bob Ross anyone?
Theoneandmarlboroman how is that so funny?
My new life mantra
Woo-hoow I will show you how to play the game but ooh wait I use mods because otherwise I can't play the game. Pfff wanker
i’ve purchased this game after being a longtime maxis game player, so jumping from simcity: cities of tomorrow to this scared the hell out of me. this video was very informative, and now i feel like i’m ready. thank you!!!
You can increase tax to 13 percent and people won't complain, just lower it by 1 when people start complaining
12% taxes = no complaints ever!
12% for low density, 13% for high and office is literally perfect
Check your happiness level for the city on the info sheet ;)
Imagine the powerful facepalm I did when you explained about not painting a lot of zoning at once. My powerlines run EVERYWHERE. Thank you for this video! (only 11 minutes in and I already realize what I could do better!)
This tutorial is really useful and helped me get into the game!! Tysm for making it!!
I haven't played this game at all yet, but watched a few let's builds and then this ... and now I REALLY want to play this game. Thank you for sharing!
Great video didnt think i would watch it all but i did
Just picked this game up yesterday in the sale. I had no clue how to work this game out and kept going bankrupt. You my friend have honestly helped me so much. I cant thank you enough! Earned a thumbs up and a sub man. Defo gonna check out your other videos. Also ignore the haters man.
the reason you don't like grid style cities is because youre an englishman! im the same.. grids are alien to us.. england is so old theres barely a straight road in the whole country.
yeah and a feckin hedge or fence right up to the edge!!!!!!!! FFS
The Romans built straight roads all over England. No excuses!
Best tutorial so far. Just explains to have fun and doesn’t try to teach you the entire game straight away and set everything up for the future. The idea of your first city is you go with the flow. If you want to build it’s foundations to make it great then make a new city when you are better at the game
Lol I got a 1 hour and 22 minute ad and it was someones GTA livestream :D
Sparky mad
Install browser extension Ublock origin. Boom. No more ads.
I bought the game today after watching some videos from another youtuber. Didnt have a clue where to start.. but this was sooo crazy helpful! i appreciate this!
Wow this game is unplayable when it's night.
You can turn off the day night cycle
how
Its in the gameplay options i think
Thx for tip
Btw you could use the enhanced mouse light on the mod section workshop
How TF is it unplayable
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I’ve been struggling a lot with getting any city off the ground, and when I put your methods into practice and my city is booming with success! Thank you!
Anyone else watching this vid because it's a PS PLUS game for May?
This video fixed every issue I was having after my first few hours trying this game. From people getting sick to crashing my economy. I just started a new game and followed along
"first of all i like to start a map with a roundabout i did in my editor".... great...
great tutorial, I'm an old school city builder fan from the Caesar 3 and Pharaoh era and your tutorial made me realize how simple and enjoyable the game is, I just bought it for 7 dollars.
my ocd is starting to kick in
sry dude but what happens if ocd starts?
+AbodiVoidHD I have too but basically you get kinda stressed if for example he makes some road very uneven. I wish I could do it fluently
so i was right i knew it :D and i maybe have ocd cuz i do get stressesd
OCD means obsessive compulsive disorder, just because you get stressed doesen't mean you have OCD. It just means you're human, we all get stressed for a variety of differen reasons. IF you get stressed particularly often you COULD have an anger or anxiety or even a stress disorder. OCD simply means that you have a mental disorder that causes you to obsess over every little detail and chase perfection in life. it's not something to take lightly or joke about, people with OCD are generally disliked by most non OCD people and it can cause other things like depression, which can lead to suicide if it becomes a big enough problem. IF you do have OCD I wouldn't recommend announcing that fact as if it's something to be proud of. IDK what it is with you kids, all of you think you have bipolar or OCD or ADHD because of a few personality quirks. A quirk does not equal a diagnosis.
J'mar DDM it's a joke dude, calm down. Everyone knows that OCD is very serious, but it's okay to joke about things like that
@18:10 "You can just enjoy playing the game, that's fine!"
Blasphemy! No video game was EVER created for anyone's enjoyment! lol I tease. Great video! Saw it half way through yesterday and I'm already a professional urban planner! Gonna watch the other half now
your industry heavy traffic has to go through your Residential and comercial zone. Traffic is going to be absolutely chaotic!!!
Yeah, I can't understand why he didn't just build industry next to his filthy coal plant.
Dude you just nailed it. This explanation took a weight out of my back. I was going for the "efficiency" route and was very worried that something was wrong, and then you were like "Don't panic" or "It's Fine" or "It's cool!" aaaaaaah the relief is great. Also great tutorial. 1 + sub 1 + like.
Drinking game: Take a sip every time he does
@@quantitativediseasing9988 lol I thought it was kinda funny
I really like the "it's fine, just have fun" approach. These aren't my typical genres to play and by watching other tutorials i mostly end up fiddling building the perfect roundabout in 8 hours an lose interest.
I personally like to build big grids, and within the blocks build smaller spaces with curvy roads in them
Googlebrains I like your idea because everything is organized without as much wasted space. Plus it's more realistic
Agreed
A lot of the more newly built subdivisions in my city (edmonton) is built that way, high density residential and commercial however are the classic small grid style
Wow best tutorial for beginner like me I think, I used to be overwhelmed with this game but after watching this video I have so much fun playing it
Good video if you want to use mods. Not all mods are game breaking but that turning the lights on and off. IMO, gives you a false confidence as I believe anyone could use those mods with little to no experience and have similar results. I was really perplexed that you were so flippant with traffic flow and design at the beginning. Then we got into mods and turning traffic lights on and off......Now I understand why you had that attitude. For someone who wants to tweak the game to where there is no challenge just visually putting down a city, this is a good guide for that. IMO the game was meant to have a lot of those features you remove with mods. If every road (six lane junctions!??) have no lights then I believe that removes a lot of challenge and misrepresents a big concept of the game. To each their own though.
Death Mwauthzyx ???
Death Mwauthzyx thia tutorial is great and works perfect without mods. And if you want mods it takes 20 sec and is the easiest thing in the world to do except if you have a codex version
You don't need mods to add/remove traffic lights. You just need to go to Info Views > Traffic Routes menu and add/remove them on the Junction Tab. The mod he uses just makes it faster to do it.
Ziggurt
"Death's point is valid."
That sure is something.
Ziggurt It's just that you should've been in charge of traffic lights in the first place. It's not like they just pop up whenever you lay down a stretch of asfalt (in real life I mean). You as "the city planner" are the one who has to opt for them imo if you seem them necessary so the mod just added a function that should've been there from the start anyway so I don't look at it as a cheat.
Thank you so much for you guidance 🙏 I had done 3 towns that failed, prior to your video. Each was in massive debt, going into year 2 and 3. After taking your tips, my town was earning +2k/week and had 900 residents, before the first year was up! Thanks again!
My takeaway: It's fine.
This was actually really helpful. I just got this game and I could not for the life of me figure out how the power worked. I was trying to put in towers across the whole town, and going bankrupt because of it. Plus it gave me a bunch of other new knowledge on the game too. Thank you!
TY so much. Great tutorial. You helped me out big time. I think I've restarted the game 20 times thinking I messed up. You earned a new sub
Dude, this is fantastic. It's clear, concise, and considerate for anxious beginners like myself. This helped me SO MUCH!
Thank you ❤️
I can't handle space that's wasted >
Never visit a UK town then lol
I can't stop building grid style cities and I hate it so much. They look so boring. I really want to waste some space and have an interesting looking city instead lol
Zanny Pants Just W4sted space...
Conflictnerd would be upset if he seen this video lol
I know how you feel :D Just started the game today for my firtst time, but it's IMPOSSIBLE to waste space !!!!
Great introductory video. As a new Cities Skylines player on Xbox this was a big help thanks. You've earned another subscriber.
I like this guy...
I subscribe
I just bought this game from Steam. This tutorial is good as a guidance for beginners. Easy to understand. And feel a lot less pressure bcuz this guy keep comforting us 😄😄😄
but i love it when a plan comes together X)
Honestly the best introduction video to a game I've ever played
This helped me a lot thank you so much for this
Help me out by subbing and sharing :D
The perfectionist in me is gonna have a bad time (and will take forever) with building a city. But thanks for the helpful tips, especially improving according to demand, and the fact that area layouts don't affect placement, so it's much more free to have abstract road designs for example.
you make it seem so easy i'm new to the game. my first 3 cities were a bust, had to start over the current 1 I have is a total mess road wise. I need that stop sign mod to kill all the lights. Oh how to do link the bus routes?
This was almost like therapy. I love this game but I panic on knowing what to do, but you word this like a fully qualified teacher
You explained about being rough and not over thinking things about 100 times and it really gets painful when you keep repeating yourself
It's fine, don't worry about it.
My first map I had issues with the landfills just filling up, having to put new ones in and the pollution both of noise and physical made nearby zones irritable, had to drop rent for those areas I hadn't planned it through properly so I am glad there are now videos like this one to walk me around such noob mistakes.
There was a city skyline advert on this video
I just got the game today from humble bundle and I was trying so hard and getting stuck and not knowing what I was doing wrong! THANK YOU so much for this video, now I can go back and try again and hopefully enjoy this game!!
BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!! SO HELPED ME! AND i AM GOING TO WATCH IT AGAIN.
I love the reassurance of being calm and patient cause things can wait
Anyone else click on the video thinking is the actual game? lol I play waaay too much
yes i have that actualy with allot of game vids lols
yes, all the time! Especially when I have a gameplay video up and I'm playing the game at the same time haha
Yes, I do too, strange!!!
I tried to pause the video so I could pan around to take a look at his water system. I only bought the game last night though, so I don't really have an excuse.... Just special.
Noneya Deezwax what is the name of this map? Please answer
Just downloaded this game a couple nights ago and made the mistake of laying down too many streets and getting frustrated. Thanks for the tips, especially starting out small and branching out from there.
How do you place down a mass majority of trees instead of clicking one tree down at a time
There's a mod for it: 'Extra Landscaping Tools'
@@MissingPixieSticks Thank you!!!
I just started yesterday and have not even saved my first map yet. That being said, your video really gave me a lot of knowledge and I’m going to work on building a more successful city. Thanks a million!
"I play it for the enjoyment of the game".... How dare you not manipulate the moving images on screen in a serious methodical manner!
great video man just bought the game not knowing anything and now i know how to play. thanks