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steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1775594889 From this point on about 100.000 people die, and my economy crashes. I don't know how to avoid this. I play on a potato, so if you could avoid using too many mods, I'd appreciate it, as I am not able to run mods. In addition my Metro and Rail Network is a total mess, and I feel the ~80% traffic flow is a lie. Help me, Biffa, my city is dying. ps. if you have any tips for draining out the remaining river so I can fit the chirpX launch site, I'd appreciate it.
Every time I see a video like this I don't understand it. I don't understand the way some people play and why they end up resorting to others to solve their own problems in a game that is about solving problems... It seems that neither one really wants to play the game. The fun of creating a city is just to create a city yourself and not resort to another to redo what you did wrong. It's like I'm playing chess and at some point saying: "Hey RUclips friend, I can not win this game and I'm about to lose, this guy is really good and I need help to beat him."... Then comes the RUclips friend, makes some moves and leaves the board to the point of checkmate. I return to the board, and in a couple of moves I achieves checkmate. Then I feel good about myself for winning... WTF!!!
Hey Biffa. A learned a lot from your videos (mostly traffic management), but this city under my control has reached a point, and the population is not growing whatever I'm doing. Can you please teak a look at it and help me fix if it's possible. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1775981486
The next time I'm in a traffic jam that seems to clear up for no reason, I'm going to assume Biffa fixed something. I'll also keep an eye out for flying police cars.
Biffa: remember lane mathematics from previous episode? Also Biffa: *upgrade road before off ramp to 4 lane when he can downgrade the straight lane to 2 lane*
Reduce the speed on roundabouts and wait a minute, lane mathematics is all well and good but traffic can't get on to a roundabout with cars flying around at 60+
I like that you're doing lane REDUCTIONS on this map, rather than just bumping up lane count before exits and after on ramps. Reducing lanes can be just as effective (in this game) for managing traffic. Have you seen a mod that can provide a traffic counter for a selected road segment? It would be nice to know things like "cars per day" or "cars per week" similar to what we get for metro stations. Great video! *sip o' tea*
I don't think that's how the monorail is supposed to work... there are roads with the tracks already on them. You had anarchy on and just plopped track support poles in the driving lanes... Also, that's way too many stations in such a small area.
But Flabaliki would spend his budget decorating, Sam would complain about the bad city planning and Biffa would drop in a bunch of roundabouts and call it time for tea.
I've discovered you some times ago with your more recent traffic fixes and lane mathematics has become so natural to me when I play C:S that when I watch your older fixes and see that "reverse" lane mathematics you used to do it feels so strange and counter intuitive. Really amazing how it helps and how much it's used around my country irl but it feels so weird to use in that game.
"Alright so you see here you're all chock-a-block. We'll fix it by putting in a roundabout here, and performing some lane mathematics here. Ah! Quick save, sip of tea. Now you go here, you go here, you go here, you go here. They'll do a bit of horky-borky lane switching but that's alright. I'll run the game a bit and let it figure itself out. There! 98% traffic!" - Biffa's episodes in a nut shell
Thanks to you and your tips, my glorious city of "FirstTry" (yeah, I suck at naming things) recovered from 23% of traffic flow to now 87%. It just took a grand total of 6 roundabouts, some traffic managing, one "bypass" street for the farmers to the cargo station, and two hours full of cursing and fiddling around. I finally figured out how to raise streets above ground level, so I even got those fancy pedestrian crossings above the streets ;) Keep up the good work! I enjoy every video of you and I "blame" you that I bought this game (and all the hours of fun I had with it so far.)
19:30 the cargo hub area reminds me when i use to deliver produce down into San Fran. They would charge you to come in to the place then had to pay for every dock you bumped then pay again to leave. ( turned out the mob owned the damn place ) avg cost about $300 every time to get in there.
With that turbine interchange, I always replace where there's two off ramps merging with a two lane highway to mitigate that jam up. Then I usually do two lane and Two lane into 4 lane.
I used to consider therapy for my anxiety towards the chaos we call society. Biffas traffic solving abilities soothes me so much that I haven't felt that anxiety in months! 😃 Those who claims that RUclips is just a waste of time, doesn't have a clue what they're talking about! Thanks, mate and keep the traffic moving 😁👍
The out of control flying police car part with your commentary was hilarious. Little things like that in your videos is what makes you so enjoyable to watch! :-)
Real world - Cars on roundabout have priority City Skylines - Every car has priority Biffa fix - behave like real world Do the CS developers need an assistant? Works for tea ;)
You can't walk / cycle between those little pods since they are all connected via highways. Pedestrian paths and cycle ways will help out that traffic a lot too.
Biffa: Deletes a tractor-trailer for trying to merge so he can deliver his load Also Biffa: Leaves a cop car that's glitching out and thereby wasting system resources to go about its glitching
You and another RUclipsr make this game more interesting than it is to me when I'm playing it myself. I think it'd take me more than a few weeks to get a huge population going.
15:46 the "roundabout" at the top right corner, right by the underground road, there are cars doing "horky borky" things - U-turning without proper authorization.
@16:21 I had the same issue with that interchange, but a quick fix makes it very viable, I added two-lane only too the connecting roads as the two lanes into one bottleneck was then eliminated. then doing the usual four-lane upgrade and lane managing the exits into separate lanes giving two for the thru traffic. I also downgraded the three-lane crossover points to two lanes, flows beautifully now.
never been so satisfied seeing a city fix like this one biffa! i like you've put allot of time and effort to fix it! please we want a new series where you build a city( do one as SeniacTwo) thank you!
Hi biffa i have a trick for you! If you have TM open and select the signs (give way and stuff) you can hold L Shift and click on a road. It Will do all give way stuff you are doing from one junction to another (on the road you click on) saves a lot of clicking and sipping tea!
Wouldn't the "sponge" for the cargo area be more beneficial for the incoming traffic rather than the outgoing traffic? I would think the outgoing you would want to get out onto the roads as quick as you could and the incoming would be more of a build up. Although, I suppose it wouldn't much matter if they leave as quick as they come.
Just wanted to share with you my day. No idea why RUclips showed me your video but I watched it, then I watched over 20 more whilst working throughout the day... I didn't even own the game when I started... I do now. Cheers. Looking forward to getting home, throwing my kid in bed, and getting my creative city building head on. 👍😎
its really like seeing people building knots in arterys and wondering why the traffic doesnt flow....i highly advise some of these people to watch open ttd tutorials just to learn how various junction styles work
1:01 using this map would make it a little easier to explain this one I think, the road that comes from the south seen from this perspective could use a additional change. The T-crossing in there may need to change to a 4-way crossing. This way you could use the new road to connect to the city block on the east side of that highway as well. It would give a additional way for the people that wish to go there or leave from there. I notice you added only slip lanes to that area if I payed well enough attention (sorry, had surgery yesterday and still rather fuzzy before my eyes, haha) 15:55 That roundabout type (steam workshop item) is indeed a bit odd. Yes it will need a update to make it work a lot better. But aside from that it really isn't the worst I see on the steam workshop by far, this one is actually one of the better ones even but far from perfect.
Have a two-lane road going directly into the doors of cargo stations, rather a one way road that runs parallel. It's much faster, the trucks do not need to slow down at all to enter and exit the cargo station, and it connects up just fine. It's a little finicky placing it in exactly the right spot so that the trucks can drive in a perfectly straight line, but once you got it your cargo station traffic will move much much much faster
I play on console and traffic manager is not an option but my traffic is constantly above 83% and more. I've had many completed cities with traffic flow at 85% or more even. It definitely can be done without traffic mod but it takes alot of playing time and also RUclips is full of how to videos of traffic management including one's without traffic mod. Obviously traffic mod makes it alot easier and if I had the choice to have it I probably would use it just for the fact of that is the only way you can make cars use just certain lanes without manipulating the roads. Other than that with the right planning traffic management can be done without traffic mod. It does take alot of playing time and watching videos to get good with traffic without mods.
@@nanfredman1991 spreading the city out with lots of highway excess with a good amount of on and off ramps spread out just right with a smooth connections that doesn't interrupt traffic. I also modify my roundabouts which is a must for continue traffic flow when you don't have the traffic president mod. Modifying roundabouts can be done on your own. I also rarely have any 4 way intersections and if I do I have a modified roundabout to keep traffic flowing. I also try and keep my regular road connections spread out enough so to keep traffic flowing.
In this episode, Biffa, experiences, the horrors, the HORRORS, that residents of the cities he's sent experience. When he levels the roads and the highways without warning. Maybe, the game should have tools to shut down roads fur renovations, so we won't have such sacrifices. Like the brave police officer who is currently somewhere, beyond the clouds, in low orbit.
Hey Biffa? Have you ever watched DBZA? The scene where vegeta goes: "Mine-mine-mine-mine" in the Android saga? This is basicially you whenever you see traffic jams: "Round-round-round-round-round-round-round *punches trafficjam and deletes the roads* Roundabout!"
Hey, Biffa. Love your videos. I realized one thing you could do for the cargo terminal feeder fix you did that would reduce the impact of your changes. You could use the traffic manager to make the outside lane of that original 6-lane road a "dedicated" one. It's similar to how highway off-ramps get a run-off lane, so that thru-traffic ignores that outside lane and keeps on going past. I don't know if that's an optimal solution or not, but it seemed like this was a good use case for that, especially since the city did not have infinite money active.
I love your content, it s really satisfiing to see the traffic disappear. I would lave to do optimizing puzzles like this as well, Im not playing this game myself but really like the fixing stuf! Keep doing it!
I really enjoy when you start to fix a problem then one min later you comment "that you shouldn't do like this" and change what you've just changed! LOL! (12:25: Changing 3 lanes to 4 lanes, 13:42; changing 4 lanes into 3 lanes) HAHA!!!
I have 130k city, i don't use mods for traffic, i don't have public transport (middle of remaking it) and my traffic still flows at 85%. Use roundabouts on major roads and have plenty of exits(shortcuts) from inner city to highways. Make industrial zones have their own place with highway connection, so they don't interfere with civil traffic.
just ez to get 85+ like u, just in case every map he take are bad player ... 10min to finish his city 'llooll'! 240k for me and still 90% but in bigmap
22:10 Why'd you want to make a sponge for trucks leaving the cargo terminal? Shouldn't it be for those entering it? Also it would be better to have a second lane so the city service vehicles could get to the terminal faster.
Yeah, sponge for outbound cargo traffic makes no sense. You have an infinite sponge in the terminal itself. The terminal will keep spawning trucks if there's space, and if there's no space, the terminal will wait with the spawn untill there's space. So when there are many trains, truck will keep spawning even if the trains are already departed again.
The point of the toll booths is to make money from the cargo going through, moving the cargo station elsewhere to bypass the toll booths entirely ignore why the area was setup that way, you should have at least added another toll booth just for that new area. (around 19:30)
Bahaha, downloaded a map that asked for Biffa to fix it. Thought I'd have a go at it. Meanwhile, the traffic situation went down all the way to 3%... there's traffic everywhere! lol May end up changing the whole darned city lol
22:10 You did the "sponge" the wrong way around. You want to have the long part for the incomming traffic because the entrance to the terminal is what slows things down, not the exit to the roundabout.
Yah! Have you finally squashed your 'despawning' beef? Congrats Biffa!? (also, your lane mathematics needs some work at 24:39, you got a 6-lane out of the round-a-bout into a 4-lane :D)
Despawning beef? I just got some comments about using despawning, but the TM:PE settings are save dependant, so they are set how the save owner had them set...but I much prefer the challenge of fixing with no despawning...using car despawning is far too easy to fix (no comments on other city fixing channels) ;-)
I love your videos not only because of how fantastic they are but your voice is very soothing and pleasant to listen to as well. RUclipsrs with annoying voices no matter how great the gameplay may be is ALWAYS a deal breaker. You however brilliantly combine the best of both worlds into Triple a video viewing. I tip my hat to you good Sir. I would recommend the Queen Knighting you. =)
There's a tiny bit of two-way six-lane road under the track at 24:28 that should be changed to four-lane. The extra intersection between four- and six-lane roads is slowing them down again.
A pattern I am seeing is making 3 ways in and out of an area. One of those ways should be a main artery, and another that can handle higher flow too. The turbine interchanges need to have 2 lanes joining the main roads to keep flowing too.
People should try to build their home towns, or a section of it, and see how the traffic is and send it in to see how it could be better... then send it into city hall lol.
Interesting thing found in testing. Your rail depot sponges? Dont actually increase the flow/buffer traffic as much as one thinks. Turns out what it does is it increases road distance and that seems to slow demand. Having side road is good though for as you show, keeping them out of main traffic, but what I recommend instead of sponge? more depots! Spread out them demands so it doesnt back up in addition to a parallel siding!
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Indeed! But I did some checking, and having it snake actually seems to reduce demand because the road is longer. I run a side road parallel, separate from main industrial road too, but use a few terminals now. It is like how traffic will shortcut through a city if it is quicker than going up onto the highway. Trucks will export by city if rail connection is further. It also can spread out trains as city grows so they dont back up at one terminal. Just a suggestion for perhaps something different to try if you get a city fix where terminal backs up and no space to isolate nicely. See where terminal traffic is coming from, perhaps can split it up. Less snake also means more will use terminals. So it reduces truck exports as well as long distance import hauling. Latest city of mine for example has six to service a large scale central industrial complex. Is something to behold seeing all of the trains zipping about and no jamming up.
The turbine interchange works really well, if you set up all lanes. So 1+1+2=2+2=4 (the ones going roud are one lane, they merge into two lanes and those two lanes merge with two lanes of straight traffic). If you leave the merge as one lane, you get problems. - Edit: a minute later you did exactly that.
Its always amazing how a few roundabouts fix up traffic so much! I dont know how it is in other countries, but there really aren't too many roundabouts in America. Sure seems it would fix up a lot of the terrible highway traffic!
in real life roundabouts are insidious. they must be carefully planned considering the right alternation between high-traffic roads to avoid damage! In my city there was a big intersection surmounted by a huge overpass that allowed to bypass the intersection for those who went straight and everything worked well. Recently it was demolished for old age and replaced by a huge roundabout ... now it takes an hour to cross it. In another area, building a roundabout proved to be the holy grail of traffic-solving
Biffa, i kinda wish you'd numbered your traffic fixes. Im about a million hours into watching them and am still not sure which ones ive seen 3 times already or which ones i haven't
Hi Biffa at 20:00 you couled have moved in a toll station bevor the Cargo hub just to get some money and to keep sense of the original creator of the City had set it up.
Why would he bother? He does everything rough just to get it going and give you idea. Creator can move things on his own afterwards and tidy it up a bit.
Every time you mention road mathematics it makes me think of a song that is crying out to have a "road mathematics" version of it made. It's Cherry Ghost - mathematics. Listen to it, you'll see what I mean.
I have watched some of your traffic fixing. It is better than any other. However, some time you connect cargo train station to a road or a roundabout with 90° sharp connection. Like on this video you could send traffic straight away on roundabout instead of through both way road.
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From this point on about 100.000 people die, and my economy crashes. I don't know how to avoid this. I play on a potato, so if you could avoid using too many mods, I'd appreciate it, as I am not able to run mods.
In addition my Metro and Rail Network is a total mess, and I feel the ~80% traffic flow is a lie.
Help me, Biffa, my city is dying.
ps. if you have any tips for draining out the remaining river so I can fit the chirpX launch site, I'd appreciate it.
Which road mods do you use?
Every time I see a video like this I don't understand it. I don't understand the way some people play and why they end up resorting to others to solve their own problems in a game that is about solving problems...
It seems that neither one really wants to play the game. The fun of creating a city is just to create a city yourself and not resort to another to redo what you did wrong.
It's like I'm playing chess and at some point saying: "Hey RUclips friend, I can not win this game and I'm about to lose, this guy is really good and I need help to beat him."... Then comes the RUclips friend, makes some moves and leaves the board to the point of checkmate. I return to the board, and in a couple of moves I achieves checkmate. Then I feel good about myself for winning... WTF!!!
Hey Biffa.
A learned a lot from your videos (mostly traffic management), but this city under my control has reached a point, and the population is not growing whatever I'm doing. Can you please teak a look at it and help me fix if it's possible.
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Couldn’t help noticing you HOLDING SHIFT on that roundabout, BIFFA
The next time I'm in a traffic jam that seems to clear up for no reason, I'm going to assume Biffa fixed something. I'll also keep an eye out for flying police cars.
that's not how i imagine police car patrolling the highway
Now fitted with "Air Enforcer" suspension! Hop over obstructions and collar the perp from above!
One loose cannon cop in the whole city and people instantly start complaining.
They put one of the police helicopter pilots in a squad car...
You've misspelled "trolling". :P
I bet he was just 1 day away from retirement too
18:16 How to solve your cities' traffic problems; raise the taxes until there are less cars on the roads 🤣
It's the Democrat way!
17:45 Biffa gets frustrated when he realizes he doesn't have unlimited money. I feel ya bro
:-)
No one :
Absolutely no one :
Biffa : Chock a block...I think you know what that means!
Biffa: remember lane mathematics from previous episode?
Also Biffa: *upgrade road before off ramp to 4 lane when he can downgrade the straight lane to 2 lane*
Biffa you should make a city with stacked roundabouts, like 2 or three on top of each other and see how it works out
Interesting :-)
I already did that!
@@machr293 ok
With two helices connecting them
That time lapse of traffic flowing by at @13:00...thats the most satisfying thing I've ever seen on RUclips!
:-)
Reduce the speed on roundabouts and wait a minute, lane mathematics is all well and good but traffic can't get on to a roundabout with cars flying around at 60+
Watch me, given the right car! 🤣🤣🤣
Nor can cargo trucks negotiate hairpin turns coming into a cargo terminal doing 60 km/h
I put them to 40
2:15 Bill was retiring tomorrow, it was his last day on the job. It just not right, damn it! These streets are too dangerous...
The main problem with the turbine interchange on ramps were that they cut across the whole interstate and bunching people up behind them.
This city started with 39.000 people and ended up with 74.000!
I like that you're doing lane REDUCTIONS on this map, rather than just bumping up lane count before exits and after on ramps. Reducing lanes can be just as effective (in this game) for managing traffic.
Have you seen a mod that can provide a traffic counter for a selected road segment? It would be nice to know things like "cars per day" or "cars per week" similar to what we get for metro stations.
Great video! *sip o' tea*
Paul Smyers ignore me please :D
Just want to know if there is such a mod
I don't think that's how the monorail is supposed to work... there are roads with the tracks already on them. You had anarchy on and just plopped track support poles in the driving lanes...
Also, that's way too many stations in such a small area.
You'd be better off walking to your destination in that area
I challenge you to compete with flabaliki and sam burr and see who can fix a city the best.
yes!!!!
this would have interesting outcomes depending on the rules such as; A fixed budget, time, amount of destruction, mods, etc.
a head to head speedrun. who can get the same 4% save up to 70% in the least amount of tea drank.
That would be awesome hopefully they will collab
But Flabaliki would spend his budget decorating, Sam would complain about the bad city planning and Biffa would drop in a bunch of roundabouts and call it time for tea.
It is so amazing how calming and interesting it is to watch him fix traffic problems.
I've discovered you some times ago with your more recent traffic fixes and lane mathematics has become so natural to me when I play C:S that when I watch your older fixes and see that "reverse" lane mathematics you used to do it feels so strange and counter intuitive. Really amazing how it helps and how much it's used around my country irl but it feels so weird to use in that game.
"Ooops! Ran it too long,and we're losing 7,000 people. No big deal.." lolz #cryinglaughing
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"Alright so you see here you're all chock-a-block. We'll fix it by putting in a roundabout here, and performing some lane mathematics here. Ah! Quick save, sip of tea. Now you go here, you go here, you go here, you go here. They'll do a bit of horky-borky lane switching but that's alright. I'll run the game a bit and let it figure itself out. There! 98% traffic!"
- Biffa's episodes in a nut shell
😋
Ayo Biffa! The way you say "You keep goin' thru' and you keep goin' thruuuu" just makes my day :D
At 7:44 you could've changed the turn into a right turn only. So all of those peeps would use the roundabout to do a U-turn
Thanks to you and your tips, my glorious city of "FirstTry" (yeah, I suck at naming things) recovered from 23% of traffic flow to now 87%. It just took a grand total of 6 roundabouts, some traffic managing, one "bypass" street for the farmers to the cargo station, and two hours full of cursing and fiddling around.
I finally figured out how to raise streets above ground level, so I even got those fancy pedestrian crossings above the streets ;)
Keep up the good work! I enjoy every video of you and I "blame" you that I bought this game (and all the hours of fun I had with it so far.)
Thanks and congrats on what sounds like a great city :-)
19:30 the cargo hub area reminds me when i use to deliver produce down into San Fran. They would charge you to come in to the place then had to pay for every dock you bumped then pay again to leave. ( turned out the mob owned the damn place ) avg cost about $300 every time to get in there.
With that turbine interchange, I always replace where there's two off ramps merging with a two lane highway to mitigate that jam up. Then I usually do two lane and Two lane into 4 lane.
I used to consider therapy for my anxiety towards the chaos we call society. Biffas traffic solving abilities soothes me so much that I haven't felt that anxiety in months! 😃 Those who claims that RUclips is just a waste of time, doesn't have a clue what they're talking about! Thanks, mate and keep the traffic moving 😁👍
Nice, good to hear. Thanks :-)
The out of control flying police car part with your commentary was hilarious. Little things like that in your videos is what makes you so enjoyable to watch! :-)
Hehe :-)
Real world - Cars on roundabout have priority
City Skylines - Every car has priority
Biffa fix - behave like real world
Do the CS developers need an assistant? Works for tea ;)
You can't walk / cycle between those little pods since they are all connected via highways. Pedestrian paths and cycle ways will help out that traffic a lot too.
Yeah, this video is from back in June. Nowadays, he adds walking paths, bicycle lanes, and light rail.
7:42 the smal road could stay connected and turn right only. If they want to turn left they have to use the roundabout.
Biffa: Deletes a tractor-trailer for trying to merge so he can deliver his load
Also Biffa: Leaves a cop car that's glitching out and thereby wasting system resources to go about its glitching
He left the cop car flying because it is funny and he wanted to share that with the builder of the city who sent it in. lol
Great fix Biffa :)
Now....pls fix Manila....it’s getting worse everyday ;-;
:-)
Fix Boston traffic.
You and another RUclipsr make this game more interesting than it is to me when I'm playing it myself. I think it'd take me more than a few weeks to get a huge population going.
Biffa "Cities Skylines," Handyman
Now when I get issues in my city, I know who to call.
Nothing like getting home from work and watching Biffa's newest video, along with the beeping chair and a sip of tea.
Lol 👍
The way Biffa says "give way" is the most British thing I've ever heard.
Love this series so much! It’s taught me a lot and entertaining too.
15:46 the "roundabout" at the top right corner, right by the underground road, there are cars doing "horky borky" things - U-turning without proper authorization.
@16:21 I had the same issue with that interchange, but a quick fix makes it very viable, I added two-lane only too the connecting roads as the two lanes into one bottleneck was then eliminated.
then doing the usual four-lane upgrade and lane managing the exits into separate lanes giving two for the thru traffic.
I also downgraded the three-lane crossover points to two lanes, flows beautifully now.
Runoff lanes are probably the single best tip I've received from your videos. So simple, so obvious. Why I never considered them is beyond me. :-)
:-)
never been so satisfied seeing a city fix like this one biffa! i like you've put allot of time and effort to fix it! please we want a new series where you build a city( do one as SeniacTwo) thank you!
30 seconds in and instant laughter. Gotta love it! I got my biffa mug coming in the mail 😃 Thanks for the great work, always a good stress relief!
Thank you Jose Martorell :-)
Hi biffa i have a trick for you! If you have TM open and select the signs (give way and stuff) you can hold L Shift and click on a road. It Will do all give way stuff you are doing from one junction to another (on the road you click on) saves a lot of clicking and sipping tea!
Wow, that monorail. He's got TOO MANY stations. You don't need a station every two blocks.
Biffa, congratulations on creating the most cathartic series of videos on RUclips, love these!
Thank you Steve Matson :-)
Wouldn't the "sponge" for the cargo area be more beneficial for the incoming traffic rather than the outgoing traffic? I would think the outgoing you would want to get out onto the roads as quick as you could and the incoming would be more of a build up. Although, I suppose it wouldn't much matter if they leave as quick as they come.
Just wanted to share with you my day. No idea why RUclips showed me your video but I watched it, then I watched over 20 more whilst working throughout the day... I didn't even own the game when I started... I do now. Cheers. Looking forward to getting home, throwing my kid in bed, and getting my creative city building head on. 👍😎
Enjoy, you'll love it 😀
How to fix traffic:
1. Add roundabouts
2. Remove all traffic lights
3. Remove all convenient roads
4. Don't let anyone turn anywhere
5. Ban cars
its really like seeing people building knots in arterys and wondering why the traffic doesnt flow....i highly advise some of these people to watch open ttd tutorials just to learn how various junction styles work
1:01 using this map would make it a little easier to explain this one I think, the road that comes from the south seen from this perspective could use a additional change. The T-crossing in there may need to change to a 4-way crossing. This way you could use the new road to connect to the city block on the east side of that highway as well. It would give a additional way for the people that wish to go there or leave from there. I notice you added only slip lanes to that area if I payed well enough attention (sorry, had surgery yesterday and still rather fuzzy before my eyes, haha)
15:55 That roundabout type (steam workshop item) is indeed a bit odd. Yes it will need a update to make it work a lot better. But aside from that it really isn't the worst I see on the steam workshop by far, this one is actually one of the better ones even but far from perfect.
Have a two-lane road going directly into the doors of cargo stations, rather a one way road that runs parallel. It's much faster, the trucks do not need to slow down at all to enter and exit the cargo station, and it connects up just fine. It's a little finicky placing it in exactly the right spot so that the trucks can drive in a perfectly straight line, but once you got it your cargo station traffic will move much much much faster
The number one tip should be: "Get the traffic mod". Without that the game is close to useless.
*cough* t4rget's design and manage *cough*
I play on console and traffic manager is not an option but my traffic is constantly above 83% and more. I've had many completed cities with traffic flow at 85% or more even. It definitely can be done without traffic mod but it takes alot of playing time and also RUclips is full of how to videos of traffic management including one's without traffic mod. Obviously traffic mod makes it alot easier and if I had the choice to have it I probably would use it just for the fact of that is the only way you can make cars use just certain lanes without manipulating the roads. Other than that with the right planning traffic management can be done without traffic mod. It does take alot of playing time and watching videos to get good with traffic without mods.
@@stanplutnicki7620 Seems like one needs to spread the city out a bit w/o the mod.
@@nanfredman1991 spreading the city out with lots of highway excess with a good amount of on and off ramps spread out just right with a smooth connections that doesn't interrupt traffic. I also modify my roundabouts which is a must for continue traffic flow when you don't have the traffic president mod. Modifying roundabouts can be done on your own. I also rarely have any 4 way intersections and if I do I have a modified roundabout to keep traffic flowing. I also try and keep my regular road connections spread out enough so to keep traffic flowing.
@@nanfredman1991 no need to spread the city, just spread the off ramp to different location and give as many access to that location as possible.
In this episode, Biffa, experiences, the horrors, the HORRORS, that residents of the cities he's sent experience. When he levels the roads and the highways without warning. Maybe, the game should have tools to shut down roads fur renovations, so we won't have such sacrifices. Like the brave police officer who is currently somewhere, beyond the clouds, in low orbit.
... Last seen passing Jupiter
Biffa just got a traffic-gasm in this one! ^^
Didn’t we all!
Hey Biffa?
Have you ever watched DBZA?
The scene where vegeta goes: "Mine-mine-mine-mine" in the Android saga?
This is basicially you whenever you see traffic jams:
"Round-round-round-round-round-round-round
*punches trafficjam and deletes the roads*
Roundabout!"
It takes minutes to sleep to one of your videos. I love them becaue i have problems to sleep but with a video from you i can sleep really good.
Hey, Biffa. Love your videos. I realized one thing you could do for the cargo terminal feeder fix you did that would reduce the impact of your changes. You could use the traffic manager to make the outside lane of that original 6-lane road a "dedicated" one. It's similar to how highway off-ramps get a run-off lane, so that thru-traffic ignores that outside lane and keeps on going past. I don't know if that's an optimal solution or not, but it seemed like this was a good use case for that, especially since the city did not have infinite money active.
I just had to like, the first 3 minutes were glorious with the crazy flyng police car!
20:10 looks like your new roundabout has to potty LUL
Those highway ramps... Terrible! Glad you fixed them eventually lol
Perfect way to end the school day- feeling smug about how good my traffic is 🤪😏
:-)
I love your content, it s really satisfiing to see the traffic disappear.
I would lave to do optimizing puzzles like this as well, Im not playing this game myself but really like the fixing stuf!
Keep doing it!
The Blues Brothers have taken over Biffa’s police car 😂
20:00 That's a mighty fine rectangleabout you have there.
These tailbacks look like our REAL traffic here. Well done, Cities Skylines :D
I really enjoy when you start to fix a problem then one min later you comment "that you shouldn't do like this" and change what you've just changed! LOL! (12:25: Changing 3 lanes to 4 lanes, 13:42; changing 4 lanes into 3 lanes) HAHA!!!
No-one's perfect ;-)
Neverending tailbacks that inflict regret: it's just Tuesday and my normal commute.
Lol 🤣
Hopefully, I will, one day, build a city that actually makes money long enough to gave Biffa-fixing level traffic problems. ;-)
I've learned two things watching this channel:
1. Roundabouts are great.
2. Citiies Skylines vehicle AI is horribly dumb.
19:00 "I don't know what this is for..." *rip rip rip* lmao.
I have 130k city, i don't use mods for traffic, i don't have public transport (middle of remaking it) and my traffic still flows at 85%. Use roundabouts on major roads and have plenty of exits(shortcuts) from inner city to highways. Make industrial zones have their own place with highway connection, so they don't interfere with civil traffic.
just ez to get 85+ like u, just in case every map he take are bad player ... 10min to finish his city 'llooll'! 240k for me and still 90% but in bigmap
Me too I never got below 80% cuz of biffa ... It was 60% but I fixed it and got it to 84% ... And it felt awesome seeing the traffic fixed
22:10 Why'd you want to make a sponge for trucks leaving the cargo terminal? Shouldn't it be for those entering it? Also it would be better to have a second lane so the city service vehicles could get to the terminal faster.
Yeah, sponge for outbound cargo traffic makes no sense. You have an infinite sponge in the terminal itself. The terminal will keep spawning trucks if there's space, and if there's no space, the terminal will wait with the spawn untill there's space. So when there are many trains, truck will keep spawning even if the trains are already departed again.
Its actually quite a nice city layout
11:59
WHY aren't you simply replacing those two road types with a high-way road type?
Hey Biffa!! Thanks for your videos - I went out and started playing thanks to how exciting you have made this game!!
You're welcome :-)
The point of the toll booths is to make money from the cargo going through, moving the cargo station elsewhere to bypass the toll booths entirely ignore why the area was setup that way, you should have at least added another toll booth just for that new area. (around 19:30)
The city owner can easily do that 😀
A big thumbs up from me, well done fixing the traffic.
:-)
We need an “Autosave, sip of Tea” t-shirt 😂
Bahaha, downloaded a map that asked for Biffa to fix it. Thought I'd have a go at it. Meanwhile, the traffic situation went down all the way to 3%... there's traffic everywhere! lol May end up changing the whole darned city lol
Is that junction hiding under the raised tracks at 24:22 a 4- to 2-lane, two way?
22:10 You did the "sponge" the wrong way around. You want to have the long part for the incomming traffic because the entrance to the terminal is what slows things down, not the exit to the roundabout.
Yah! Have you finally squashed your 'despawning' beef? Congrats Biffa!?
(also, your lane mathematics needs some work at 24:39, you got a 6-lane out of the round-a-bout into a 4-lane :D)
Despawning beef? I just got some comments about using despawning, but the TM:PE settings are save dependant, so they are set how the save owner had them set...but I much prefer the challenge of fixing with no despawning...using car despawning is far too easy to fix (no comments on other city fixing channels) ;-)
I love your videos not only because of how fantastic they are but your voice is very soothing and pleasant to listen to as well. RUclipsrs with annoying voices no matter how great the gameplay may be is ALWAYS a deal breaker. You however brilliantly combine the best of both worlds into Triple a video viewing. I tip my hat to you good Sir.
I would recommend the Queen Knighting you. =)
Many thanks 😀
There's a tiny bit of two-way six-lane road under the track at 24:28 that should be changed to four-lane. The extra intersection between four- and six-lane roads is slowing them down again.
A pattern I am seeing is making 3 ways in and out of an area. One of those ways should be a main artery, and another that can handle higher flow too. The turbine interchanges need to have 2 lanes joining the main roads to keep flowing too.
Hahahaha that police car flying around 😂😂😂😂 rofl! Why is it doing that? 🤣
People should try to build their home towns, or a section of it, and see how the traffic is and send it in to see how it could be better... then send it into city hall lol.
A thing that I learn from here (and like every German city) is that less lanes are often more.
I need you to fix my city: São Paulo
Interesting thing found in testing. Your rail depot sponges? Dont actually increase the flow/buffer traffic as much as one thinks. Turns out what it does is it increases road distance and that seems to slow demand.
Having side road is good though for as you show, keeping them out of main traffic, but what I recommend instead of sponge? more depots! Spread out them demands so it doesnt back up in addition to a parallel siding!
The idea is to keep any cargo trucks off the main road or highway so they don't clog up the traffic :-)
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Indeed! But I did some checking, and having it snake actually seems to reduce demand because the road is longer. I run a side road parallel, separate from main industrial road too, but use a few terminals now.
It is like how traffic will shortcut through a city if it is quicker than going up onto the highway. Trucks will export by city if rail connection is further. It also can spread out trains as city grows so they dont back up at one terminal.
Just a suggestion for perhaps something different to try if you get a city fix where terminal backs up and no space to isolate nicely. See where terminal traffic is coming from, perhaps can split it up. Less snake also means more will use terminals. So it reduces truck exports as well as long distance import hauling.
Latest city of mine for example has six to service a large scale central industrial complex. Is something to behold seeing all of the trains zipping about and no jamming up.
Biffa: delete road, Police: It's a call for ANARCHY!!!
Lol :-)
The turbine interchange works really well, if you set up all lanes. So 1+1+2=2+2=4 (the ones going roud are one lane, they merge into two lanes and those two lanes merge with two lanes of straight traffic). If you leave the merge as one lane, you get problems. - Edit: a minute later you did exactly that.
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Biffa's done it again!
🎶Never ending tailbacks! Ahh ah ahh ahh ah ahh ahh ah ahh!🎶
Its always amazing how a few roundabouts fix up traffic so much! I dont know how it is in other countries, but there really aren't too many roundabouts in America. Sure seems it would fix up a lot of the terrible highway traffic!
in real life roundabouts are insidious. they must be carefully planned considering the right alternation between high-traffic roads to avoid damage! In my city there was a big intersection surmounted by a huge overpass that allowed to bypass the intersection for those who went straight and everything worked well. Recently it was demolished for old age and replaced by a huge roundabout ... now it takes an hour to cross it. In another area, building a roundabout proved to be the holy grail of traffic-solving
Most people in America hate roundabouts
Biffa, i kinda wish you'd numbered your traffic fixes. Im about a million hours into watching them and am still not sure which ones ive seen 3 times already or which ones i haven't
Playlist on my channel 😉
Hi Biffa
at 20:00 you couled have moved in a toll station bevor the Cargo hub just to get some money and to keep sense of the original creator of the City had set it up.
Why would he bother? He does everything rough just to get it going and give you idea. Creator can move things on his own afterwards and tidy it up a bit.
Every time you mention road mathematics it makes me think of a song that is crying out to have a "road mathematics" version of it made. It's Cherry Ghost - mathematics. Listen to it, you'll see what I mean.
You just increased the speed on a small bit of the cargo road so they are breaking and driving faster!!!
Yeah, the gameplay doesn't really factor in the cost of brake maintenance. I used to load semi-trucks and their brakes had to be replaced a lot.
I have watched some of your traffic fixing. It is better than any other. However, some time you connect cargo train station to a road or a roundabout with 90° sharp connection. Like on this video you could send traffic straight away on roundabout instead of through both way road.