Disastrous Island Traffic that sent me INSANE...!! Cities: Skylines Fix Your City

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

➤Buy Cities Skylines Industries via my Affiliate link & support the channel: paradoxinteractive.pxf.io/c/1318251/524451/8792 ➤Want me to FIX your City in a future episode? 1) Upload your City save to the Steam Workshop (please remove unnecesary mods & music packs) 2) Send me the link here or on Twitter (@Biffa2001) 3) Tell me what you want FIXED! Parks? Industry? Mass Transit? Traffic? Let me know! :-)

[@Hannymcfee]

How was the comment 2 hours ago when it just came out?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Magic ;-)

[@wannamayer8994]

How do you use the traffic thing? When you change where lans go?

[@atkin207]

Hi, would mods would you recommend for a beginner of the game?

[@sethwillerton5667]

I bought this game because of you :) unfortunately im on Mac so this game throttles my fan all the time. ALSO what is that roundabout builder mod you use.

[@Socomhunter]

that awkward moment when your city has such bad traffic your citizens are happy to be killed by a tsunami :p

[@jjdpr]

I don't think that's the way to fix your traffic level?

[@HibiscusOrchid]

@@jjdpr There won't be bad traffic if there's no one on traffic :p

[@FlurAhFlur]

I laughed hard at this

[@blakedup6190]

Best Comment Ever!

[@Hackanhacker]

Ah finaly im getting out of here .. a wave is comming !!!

[@sepakurei]

I enjoy watching him fixing people cities. I don't owned this game. Just enjoyed watching him fixing

[@davecrupel2817]

I HIGHLY reccomend you pick this one up at some point. Easily the best city sim i have so far touched. DLC is excellent as well. All worth the price.

[@jaiho6127]

isi t same as xbox?

[@shadowwolf1762]

own*

[@somecrewmate1776]

Jai Ho Xbox doesn’t have mods 😐

[@jaiho6127]

@@somecrewmate1776 thx for answering me..im waiting for that..thx u

[@leetingfung]

Tsunami: Exist Everyone in the city: :)

[@BlazingsNL]

Hahahah that was indeed an interesting response. Especially in the middle of winter.

[@Freezezonian]

Everyone was just happy they got to experience the sweet freedom from cars and can switch to boats if everything is flooded.

[@kalysbourque2857]

yeah, they are just mocking him.

[@matthoward6130]

They are all surf-bros. Tasty waves!

[@VukMujovic]

(HAPPY DROWNING NOISES)

[@creatorsremose]

Why am I addicted to these videos?! I don't even play that damn game!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Glad you are! ;-)

[@jaroj1112]

Biffa Plays Indie Games is city skylines a indie game

[@bel4vel793]

@@jaroj1112 yes it is

[@Metalhammer1993]

My PC can´t handle it so I watch Biffa´s videos^^

[@zombi233]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines the most brittish thing that brain colonisation c: Dont have the game as well, it's just so much satisfying to watch, thank you)

[@Snarfindorf]

This city is very aesthetically pleasing. Good effort, just a few small things compounding to completely annihilate your traffic

[@zmc9403]

My guess is that the intersections at 18:06 were mostly an aesthetic decision. Viewing it from above at 18:20, it looks like the ‘crown jewel’ of the city. It’s a shame that it was so much less efficient than the rectangular intersections which replaced it, as the rectangular intersections were much less visually appealing. It’s possible the ‘jewel’ (that’s what I’m going to call it) intersections were still viable, as I’d wager a good portion of the backups were due to the traffic type limitation, which were removed later in the video.

[@maxgamesst1]

@@zmc9403 I think a turbine intersection would look just as good and probably be even better than the rectangle. Might take up too much room

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@zmc9403 perhaps a viaduct over that crown jewel interchange would have alleviated much of the cross-highway and exiting traffic by taking the neighborhood to neighborhood traffic off of the ramp system.

[@zmc9403]

@@maxgamesst1 I have seen some beautiful turbine intersections, though I do think I prefer the jewel. A well designed turbine might be the best of both worlds.

[@zmc9403]

@@edwardmiessner6502 Probably, though if I’m not mis-imagining your intended design, it would ruin the aesthetic. :/

[@jhhwild]

Using your knowledge I wonder if you can get a city with perfect traffic and make it as bad as possible. Bring it down to 0%!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Mmm, not sure 😋

[@whiskizyo2067]

easy - one road leading into town, town being one big, long, spirally, whacky road and no public transport :p

[@jhhwild]

@@whiskizyo2067 make it a one-way road labyrinth or a convoluted dirt road. He could use mods to make the speed limit like 2mph, lol.

[@eduardoferrarimagalhaes899]

@@whiskizyo2067 Man, once i watche d avideo of a one Road only town, it actually worked pretty well

[@eduardoferrarimagalhaes899]

@@whiskizyo2067 Found it "kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6GYlJp9bct1adE"

[@xzchc]

I had such a flooding recently. It was caused by me upgrading a bridge, and accidentially having the Fine Road Tool mode set to force the ground to road elevation. So without me noticing at first, I turned the bridge into a dam causing a flood.

[@chetanaik]

Same, nearly wiped out my entire oil district before I noticed. Then an earthquake came along and finished the job -_-

[@ultimaxkom8728]

^At least the job is finished.

[@YendaPremar]

"Oh they're really happy about that wave!" I don't know why but it made me laugh :D So out of the blue

[@MikeWillSee]

As was the wave lol

[@sillvvasensei]

No more neighbors!

[@stevengalloway8052]

"I can tell your mass transit isn't working (small pause, realizes) because you don't have any." Hilarious, Biffa! 😆 Meanwhile, I don't think I could have the patience to pull this what you're doing. I'd throw my arms in the air and just forget it. 😆 But I have to say that you've persevered. It's clear to me that mass transit would be a must in this city, and the more the better. Throw everything at it. 😆 Look forward to the next video...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Steven Galloway :-)

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

That's like 90% of US cities lol

[@james2042]

Building a city without any mass transit is just dumb

[@ammo2224]

Then you haven't seen Florida, it's hard to do that here because I could pretty easily cave in 😕. Would be useful though....

[@AAGEnzee]

@@ammo2224 Doesn't have to be underground, and the bigger cities have semi-decent bus lines. I grew up in West Palm, but their bus stops were pretty spread out to reliably use it in some areas.

[@heredownunder]

TIP: In the Traffic Manager, go to Options > Overlays tab and select Vehicle Restrictions: On. Then when you use the tool, it will show where all your vehicle restrictions are on every road (if you have previously placed them). Not more searching every road to find them.

[@casimircreer2295]

My god thank you. Mine is permanently showing which is good unless I want to do other things and every junction view is obscured. Wasn't sure why but I think this is it.

[@saccharin-]

can you come to portland and fix the actual roads my job would be so less stressfull lol

[@JETZcorp]

I was looking on Google satellite view at Portland to see what could be improved without having to pour any new concrete. Both bridges over the Columbia demand some better Biffa Lane Mathematics, as does the 405 loop. And while I'm usually conservative with recommending big expensive public transit projects, extending the MAX into Vancouver is SO necessary. The C-Tran buses sitting on the bridge in traffic with the rest of rush hour aren't helping anybody.

[@bocahdongo7769]

@@JETZcorp Is the driver good enough to obey the Lane Mathematic? I mean, lane matematic require super aware driver to consider which lane they should use and the driver itself should totally obey with literally unwritten law of traffic direction In City Skyline everything is controlled by computer, but IRL, we are just human that accidentially choose leftest lane when doing right turn

[@JETZcorp]

@@bocahdongo7769 The biggest area where the lane mathematics are important and needed in Portland, are the on-ramps. A lot of our bottlenecks are caused by ramp lanes merging with each other or with existing highway lanes. Portland drivers are more orderly at merging than most, usually zipper-merging on their own, but they are cautious and do it slowly. So it's common to see high speed traffic come to a halt, bunch up behind a merge point, then drag-race away once everyone has their lane. The most common thing this does is severely back up the on-ramps, which then gridlock the rest of the city as people get in the 2-mile waiting line. Better lane mathematics mean more instances where the on-ramp traffic can simply continue without forcing a bunch of merging all in one spot. With regards to what you're saying though, there is at least one pretty notable section where "no lane switching" is in effect for a decent distance leading up to a 3-way split, where 2 of the 3 options are wildly more congested than the middle. Occasionally someone will cut in line through the middle, but it's usually someone with out-of-State plates and they have one hell of a time getting anyone to let them back in line. It's not exactly Japan, but drivers here will play ball better than most.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@bocahdongo7769 you're right about lane mathematics --- Cities Skyline's algorithm is apparently modelled after European driving habits while American drivers tend to drive in the center or left lane below the speed limit or weave all over the road and make an exit dive at the last second. Highway police officers tend to do this to so whenever one of them stops us, we're angry that the traffic rules are enforced on us.

[@bocahdongo7769]

@@edwardmiessner6502 Not specifically which country are modelled actually. Since CS vanilla's traffic algorithm is as crap as you can imagine. They only manageable because despawn exist. In order to use lane matemathic, you still need Traffic Manager mod (a.k.a make some absolute law of good driving) or else it's useless.

[@B3Band]

The game shouldn't force drivers to be obedient. Any sane driver who sees two completely empty lanes with 2 miles to go before their exit would take the damn extra lanes and merge later.

[@mariokart6309]

That would be difficult to program and also defeat the point of a lot of the micromanaging tools in the game if drivers would just ignore them.

[@swapode]

I think the problem usually isn't so much obidience but a general tendency to needlessly ignore lanes. Like highways with no special rules having traffic stopped for miles on a single lane. Still probably somewhat difficult to fix since you probably can't spend many cpu cycles on each car.

[@IDSKoT]

I do wish there were some way of drivers to prioritize lanes based on how many people are in them. Because very frequently if someone is turning right, and there's a right only lane and a straight / right lane, they'll stay in the straight/right lane even though there's a queue for it... and the right-only lane is wide opened, or only has a small percentage of the drivers.

[@SianaGearz]

I think the game computes important routes including lane switching using a search algorithm, and then it can just reuse the routes for a bunch of cars that are spawned; or simply memoizes route fragments and then reuses them between cars so that each spawned car only needs to compute a short fragment of a route. This strategy is remarkable because it's highly asynchronous, the game won't just stop or slow down every simulation timestep to figure out where the cars need to go. Attempts to give drivers individual lane switching AI via mods have been made, but haven't been technically very successful, as in extreme CPU overhead. Maybe a fix would be a cost-management function for the route calculation that would take into account that congested routes are slow and would make them seem longer to the planner. Also to the extent that there is memoization, maybe count how often a particular route has been used and on a timer, regularly kick the hottest route out of the cache and force its recalculation, which would then re-route it to a lower congestion alternative. It still wouldn't be entirely realistic, but single-lane traffic jams would at least resolve themselves in bursts. As if people were listening to a radio which would periodically tell them "please dont go there, there's a massive jam" so they pile up on another route for a while. To make the presented modification less reactive and seem more predictive and cause less pile up, it might make sense rather than taking congestion from the simulation as it's running, to calculate an estimate from running routes in-flight that have already been scheduled but not necessarily executed.

[@AAGEnzee]

Yea, and the OPTIMAL way to drive (in real life) is for drivers to do exactly that, merge at the last possible moment. But, for some reason (at least here in America) we think that's 'rude'. If you try to skip a huge backup of cars by driving up half a mile on a clear road, people tend to not let you in when you get up there, which then makes the whole problem worse.

[@simearsov]

18:20 *Fixing many roads for almost half an hour* -> "Let's have a quick look at the..How's it going" (enraged) 30?!? (calms down quickly) We're going up!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😋

[@DerAua]

😂

[@glitzyx4x852]

😅

[@ribbon8677]

20:33 finally the rectangabout is a thing, thanks Biffa!

[@theflyingwolf5528]

You taught me over time how to fix my city, Much

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome :-)

[@Soken50]

Making an Island city and not put Ferries is a heresy, it's the perfect map for it !

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)

[@riannaHermione]

Yes, agreed. It's possible the person didn't understand how to make the ferry lines work and gave up. Creating the line from depot to ferry stops was a struggle at first. I didn't know. I was a ferry noob.. but then I learned. Now I'm an intermediate.. lol.

[@guyo]

I mean, there's no public transportation available what more of ferries?

[@lesnicus]

23:20 you can see, that one of the major exits from the roundabout is blocked as well leading to the north of the highway. Thanks for a good and very educational vid!

[@fuzzymandrake]

Bit crazy how micromanaging even a bit too harshly can really mess up everything

[@jacobite2353]

ECP in cities skylines LOL

[@shreyasmurali9348]

Hey biffa. I accidentally saw one of your videos. Love what you did so much that I bought the game the next day and am having a great time. Thank you so much !!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome, enjoy 😀👍

[@Hackanhacker]

XD dont take much to spend money xD

[@Hackanhacker]

Welcome to Our community

[@thatisjustwhatisaid]

In a sense, you are paid to do this through KZbin ad revenue, and that's honestly amazing. Keep up the good work!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed. Thankyou 😀

[@DennisSchmitz]

followed all yours and Sam Bur's advice building my first city, Now sitting at 89% traffic at a population of around 22000. Not bad I think lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice 😀

[@sycocysx]

98% traffic with 100000 people

[@DennisSchmitz]

@@sycocysx wow

[@mandozzz__]

150,000 pop with 84% traffic on PS4

[@DaggerOneMike]

@@mandozzz__ I never knew it was on console, thats pretty sweet. How does it perform on the PS4?

[@Merkyor]

using trains, planes, and boats to bring people into the city will help ease traffic as well, especially the highways

[@lilecho6802]

I truly admire your patience! I dont play these types of games because I dont have the patience for them. I love watching your videos on them! keep up the great work!!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Lil Echo187 :-)

[@audey0147]

This is the forth of your "fix it" videos i have watched, my cities are running smoother due to it. the Metro loops are so straight forward and simple, i had tunnels going all over the shop and backing up. Making a 4 lane on a freeway to add a filter lane . lots of other more mod related also with regards to priority/give way and flow i didnt know existed. thank you biffa, good vid's. and you sound like you enjoy the challenge of this escapade which makes it more fun/ enjoyable to watch.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Great to hear, thankyou 😀

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

One thing with roundabouts that I have noticed that helps is having a bridge and tunnel for each of the roads that intersect the roundabout. That way only cars that are turning enter the roundabout

[@sammbo250]

7% --> ~80% Traffic "Not too Shabby"

[@hs1626]

Me: My city has traffic issues. Biffa: Have you heard of Milton Keynes?

[@TammieM3ENF]

Seeing how your traffic fixes have changed over the last three years is fascinating to watch… going from adding a lane before a junction to removing it after. So much better!

[@roeld8606]

Hi Biffa. Love your video's. Still have some tips for you: instead of first fixing roundabouts and priority signs on roads no one is using, start with fixing the source of the traffic jam. This wil definitely decrease the time you have go spend on fixing traffic. Keep up the good work! Good luck!

[@joehydro9630]

I can't believe it took 6 months to learn about shift s for traffic manager. Now I can fix issues in a second. Thanks Biffa!

[@stefanmodigh7897]

21:49 Truck drive is like, screw this! lol!

[@Daniero1994]

I know exactly what this guy did wrong. I made the same mistake. So when using Traffic Manager and not knowing the controls sometimes you click on the wrong lane. To undo any disaster you basically click onto all lanes with the attitude of "f..k it, let them go wherever they want". Thank god I watched this episode, so I know how to clean my lines.

[@CreeperCraft73]

I love the editorial commentary 😹

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol :-)

[@SomeTigerBass]

Oh my. Comfortably your greatest achievement in the series so far. (Also the closest you've come to telling the builder off :P)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol yep on both counts 😀👍

[@peperoni3140]

You should reduce the highway to 2 lane between the intersections (2 lanes going straight, 1 turning), not 4 lane before and after, you end up creating bottlenecks

[@vellaco7168]

let's hope Biffa will try it on the next city fix...

[@x-man7356]

Felipe RB Can u explain further. How does it create additional trafffic

[@peperoni3140]

@@x-man7356Sure. If you have 3 lanes leading up to an offramp, then it would make sense to change to a 2 lane straight after the offramp (1 lane to enter offramp, 2 lanes to carry on straight). Same with the following onramp. Straight after the onramp you change to 3 lanes againb (2 lanes to carry on straight, 1 lane to enter). If you increase the size of the highway before the offramp, you are increasing the number of cars entering that section of highway (even though some are still leaving via the offramp), ther highway goes back to 3 lane between of off/onramps, then increasing again after the onramp to 4 lanes (increased number of cars from before + cars from onramp) and then back to 3 lane. That is called bottlenecking

[@ViolettaVie]

Or you could have 4 lane highways all throughout the map and 1 or 2 lane off ramps. When I play this way without the traffic mod, vehicles choose their lanes properly.

[@ulysseslee9541]

For me, roundabout always same number of lanes as the road connect the roundabout entry, so 3-lane entry, that part to 1st exit will be 3-lane, other parts are 2-lane or u can still do a 2 lane roundabout and have a individual turning way for the 1st exit

[@norrlandjr]

Love to see the progress of your traffic fixing techniques! Getting some older videos like this mixed in with your recent content really shows the difference :D.

[@denizissimo]

I've never even played this game and I'm loving these videos! I definitely find them relaxing/therapeutic but I'm not sure I'd feel the same way having to fix these messes myself aha

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I'm twitching by the end 😋

[@mrmacc1312]

Ha ha ha wacky races reference, love it! Awesome job showing us how to fix it, things like shift S for the lane commands, is there a series of short vids on fix it ideas showing things like the commands?

[@kevinj834]

I honestly don't like adding priority roads. It seems like it backs traffic up, unnecessarily because they aren't quite moving. There's gotta be another way however, Between you and Sam But I've gotten my road and traffic managing skills way better! I now have a city of about 70k people and traffic at about 80-90% ! That's awesome. My only struggle area is the stupid cargo train hub Because no matter what, the line backs up because of how long it takes to let one car in. Oh well.

[@SanguiniusEntar]

Really liking the fix your city series. Please keep doing it!!!

[@nealjroberts4050]

The odd road blocked to traffic? With no logic to it? No wonder you were being driven crazy... Couldn't believe there was no mass transit either!

[@smgibb]

I can see the logic the person was going for, the traffic was killing the city services and the odd road that blocked traffic were limited to service vehicles. So he was trying to get the services going again.

[@TinyEle]

@@smgibb It absolutely made sense if you are someone who doesn't understand why the traffic is so bad. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve anything beyond the immediate short term.

[@smgibb]

@@TinyEle not saying it was a GOOD idea, just that I see what the thinking was

[@Zip_Zero_ZILCH]

At 16:51, you change Wood bridge from 2 lanes to 1 and keep it merging with Harris highway and it stays 3 lanes at the roundabout but you scanned the mouse right over the tool that makes the traffic on Harris use the two lanes and Wood bridge the third. It seems the original interchange may have still worked but traffic was still allowed to cross lanes before the roundabout causing the backup.

[@ulysseslee9541]

The most important of fixing traffic: build your interchange properly / well planed before u build

[@karljohan4680]

This is the best episode in the Fix It series!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Karl Johan :-)

[@sheepco]

Man, love your city fixing vids! Every day im looking forward to you having a small aneurysm because we cant build or cities right :D

[@RacingAtHome]

I wish we had Traffic Manager on console.

[@shadowprince4482]

I almost did a spit take all over my laptop when he did the "fun" on the screen at 24:30.

[@AndyHoward]

"*gulp* Here we go!" "[Eye Of the Tiger" starts playing] Patton Oswalt -- "The Ham Incident"

[@jvhoad]

Been Binge watching a lot of these. Learning as much as I can. Traffic is really where I struggle.

[@JohnGreene2041]

I do not even play this game but have been watching your episodes for the last week. Thank you for the entertainment!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you for watching 😁

[@bobdillion440]

I love when even games prove Americans wrong that roundabouts are better than traffic lights

[@rawovunlapin8201]

I can relate to this on a spiritual level.

[@emeliehedstrom7770]

This is so relaxing, have never heard of this game before, saw one video and now I’m hooked

[@kiro_f]

4:56 you sounded so much like the narrator from the stanley parable

[@AAGEnzee]

man.. I haven't even played this game, but I love your videos. I've not had a decent gaming PC (just an old laptop) but I've finally bought one that is arriving next week. Can't wait to start playing Cities Skylines. Maybe in a few weeks/months I'll have a city you can fix its traffic for me! I might even make one with horrendous traffic on purpose! :D

[@stanplutnicki7620]

I was a day late watching this one... good job fixing that one. Your really funny and entertaining that's why I really enjoy these.... I've gotten good with traffic awhile ago I've mentioned before but I enjoy it for the entertainment and to see how you would go about it and it really is a great series!

[@thezegamez9569]

How many people knew instantly Biffa was changing that interchange?

[@jennybachmann9047]

Biffa, you are killing me with the text-over commentary. I was laughing my butt of just now on the train until people were staring at me. Thanks for that ;)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Hehe :-)

[@pritzaun4952]

I take a closer look on the thumbnail and I found out that it is a traffic in Thailand as the taxis are so colorful lol. The traffic in Thailand drives me mad too. However, thanks for the video. I really enjoy it :)

[@devilisdutch]

You used the word therapeutic. I think that describes these videos perfectly. At least for me anyway.

[@ViolettaVie]

Yes, definitely!

[@spaceboyxyz]

Poor biffa troubled with that city... almost looked to me as the original creator was building in those banned car obstacles on purpose! Happily biffa found them all!! Easter coming up, and all eggs found :)

[@peterw.8434]

You should delete the Traffic after you fixed stuff in the city. Especially with these clocked up roundabouts.

[@wwerules01]

I have watched all the videos on this series so far and I am loving it, keep up the great work Biffa. To me it's like a tips and tricks series that I an implement into my own cities. Would say can you do more vanilla ones as I play on console please.

[@Saturn2888]

Fixing this is what it's like when I have to work on a legacy codebase. Except that refactoring one part tends to make everything else break worse.

[@Hjominbonrun]

Was thinking about the news report couple of days ago. Traffic lights were disabled due to road works and a road that was normally a nightmare in the rush hour was suddenly fantastic. People were phoning into the show complaining that the traffic was better when there was roadworks, than when it was fully functioning,the best it has ever been in years.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol :-)

[@Faceman400]

You are a mastermind with this game. We all love building cities!!!!!

[@paulsmyers203]

I found a couple really interesting metro stations that I think would have worked great for the "connector" stations you built in this video. It uses one pedestrian entrance and goes to two different sets of station platforms. One asset has them parallel and the other has them crossing. Both instances have the tracks separated vertically enough that they don't interfere with each other. That way the pedestrians don't have to leave the tube area, and it saves some surface space.

[@mezzodave]

"...and I notice that your mass transit is doing nothing because you do not have any." I literally spit out my coffee when I heard this. LoL.

[@AsuraDandy]

been binge watching your fix it series, trying to pick up all the techniques before I tackle cities skylines again after so long. One question I have is, are they ANY uses for traffic lights? Cause it always seems like they're the bane of traffic flow.

[@RailGun19]

Of course there are! Just like in real life. Imagine an intersection with two 4-lane roads connecting. One is the main road with priority and more cars, the other is the sub road. It being a sub road doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't a lot of people using it. If you use give way signs, cars in the sub road just won't be able to move because there always will be a massive amount of oncoming traffic on the main road. Here's where traffic lights come in handy. Waiting time on the main road should always be lower than on the sub road.

[@TheCamiclo]

As always, your videos are funny, entertaining and educational. Tough one this city. Love the series.

[@SweetShawn999]

Idk why or how but when I first saw one of these vids ive been so hooked. Why is it so satisying

[@JBIRNI3]

quality effort biffa loved it! Never knew about the priority road thing somehow. Good job fixing this. Stay frosty.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@shaileshrana7165]

They should show these videos at City Planning schools.

[@Gkkiux]

I found that roundabout lane assignment mess to be really effective when done correctly. One or two lanes end up wrong every other time (I then find my buses going to the other island to turn around), but it allows cars to use all available lanes much more effectively. Ofc I wouldn't need that if I went back to fix the general layout, but that's a different issue altogether

[@ferrenberg]

Beautiful work and beautiful city!

[@danthiel8623]

“Fun” is a understatement

[@RickeyRoach]

The patience you've got to spend an entire day to resolve this "traffic" issue. Good on you!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks, it was tough to say the least 🤣

[@TheOrangeProot]

people on that flooding part: YAY IM GOING TO DIE (puts smiley face on a screen so mayor sees it) Mayor: WTF???!!

[@darcassan]

14:50 OMG this made my day!

[@JasperisCasper]

I don't even play this game... but I have been binge watching you since you showed up in my recommendations yesterday xD Maybe I need to start XD

[@lilmeezer]

big wave: appears City skylines people: become extremely happy in masses Big wave: moves away City skylines people: become extremely unhappy (including the dead)

[@varlunmulland3992]

I enjoy your cheerful British attitude! Reminds me of Simon from the Yogscast.

[@ChefJoshPlays]

Biffa you have incredible patience. I wish the console version had the traffic manager tool. Love watching these videos!

[@biggknife]

Love your videos, gives me sooo many ideas on how to keep my city flowing! Thank you!

[@stinaofnoggenfogger5785]

Oh lordy, actually got a slight headache watching him fix this one!

[@RMJ1984]

Some people just wanna micromanage to much, and while that would be fine, if the simulation was complex enough, it isn't. You start micromanaging too much and the whole game just breaks down. I really hope one of the expansions in 2019, is a traffic expansion, that focuses on the AI, Simulation and gives us more build in options of handling traffic. Like i want the AI to understand how a roundabout work. because in real life, its one of the most efficient ways to handle traffic, if the cars actually understand it and use the lanes like their supposed to..

[@kulkarniprabhanjan]

the city was saved thanks to you. but those metro crossovers are not really effective cuz I think they could have a sterling job if those crossover lines stretched in perpendicular to your loop metro line.

[@Marine5D]

I have to say that this city is beautiful. Usually they come with simple blocks and 90 degree corners everywhere, but this one uses a lot of curved roads and from high above it almost looks like leefs.

[@BlenderhilfeDe]

thank you VERY MUUUUCH... biffa is enjoying the submission :D

[@johanwittens7712]

I would have done the metro slightly differently. Instead of the 3 loops connected by many short lines, i'd have the 3 small island loops connected by one large loop crossing the 3 islands. That way people don't have to change trains 4-5 times if they want to get from the bottom island to the top. You can then take the small loop, get to the change station, change to the large loop, continue to the change station on the destination island, and change again to a small loop train. This way, people only need to change trains a maximum of 3 times, no matter where in the city they are going. Same works for trains, busses and combinations of puublic transport. Always have large long distance lines with few stops, connecting larger neigbourhoods/areas of your city, and then connect these "central stations" to local loops that service the neighbourhoods locally. Hierachy of public transport works wonders!

[@zapzone8025]

highway 3 lanes, main roads 2 lanes, side street 1 lane. you don't need 4 lanes ( unless you have cars going both off the left side and right side of the road, but if there is no exit to the left you don't need 4 lanes, an example of this is I290 out of chicago where there are some exits on left and others on right side to spread the traffic across all lanes.

[@EvlEgle]

7:20 was a 5pm toilet tsunami. 5pm everyone had their dinner and took a crap. All the sewage output caused a shift in the water level which spawned a tsunami. I had one city that would experiance that all the time until I built a seawall and then a damn.

[@ReinierKaper]

I don't own this game. I've never even played it. But I'm fascinated by your content. It's a ton of fun to watch, thanks!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@headrockbeats]

Every time I see a malfunctioning city my first guess is "there's no public transport". Even with awful roads and junctions, all your problems can be solved with public transport. As I see it, C:S is just Cities In Motion 3. I don't recall ever having traffic problems in my cities.

[@niallowens6312]

You're the Gordon Ramsey of Cty Skylines

[@insevin7]

"They're happy about that wave" dying xD

[@jimmynguyen9903]

Man this city felt like a gamer versio of the movie SAW, if you cant solve it you die challenge.... GREAT JOB it was really fun and educational.

[@artended]

best video series i have seen in a while. Spent my friday evening watching them, no regrets.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice 👍

[@rpdrajev]

Gotta love how in Cities:Skylines 33k inhabitant cities require highways and massive junctions, a metro and already have skyscrapers. In the real world (in most parts), a 33k inhabitant city probably doesn't have more than 1-2 boulevards with more than 2 lanes per direction and would be lucky to have 1-2 bus lines servicing the city's public transportation, lol