FIRST EVER City has 8% Traffic Disaster in Cities Skylines!

[@bulletproofblouse]

2:29 IMAGINE if that were your job. "What do you do Barry?" "I drive a truck... from a cargo stop, round a corner to another cargo stop, then around a corner back to the first one. All day. Every day. I have listened to every audiobook in the world".

[@joa8593]

Isn't this basically what port truckers do except it's not literally a tiny loop?

[@pol1315]

@@joa8593 no, they go to many different places and stations not only 2

[@GalaxyGeassS2]

I think you highly underestimate how likely this is. I for example, drive a truck, not a regular truck, but a TMA (Truck Moutned Attenuator), to a traffic control site, I sit there, watch Netflix for 6-10 hours, then drive back to the yard and go home. Lots of idiots in this job, but perfect for someone who wants to self study, trade stocks, or whatever else, during work hours, can almost 100% focus on other things.

[@tabchanzero8229]

Oh there's plenty of jobs like that.

[@brandonlink6568]

That's the perfect job for a driverless truck

[@MagikarpPoop]

“We’re losing people” yes because they can actually get out of the city now that you’ve fixed a part of the horrendous traffic

[@heliam_4688]

420 like nice

[@prajaktajoshi6280]

🤣

[@Xs2...]

@@heliam_4688 590

[@andyvan9531]

this goes to very top of my favourite youtube comments of all time :D

[@TheBritt2001]

FREEEEDOOOOOOOM!

[@ultimatejaffacakes6876]

Stop signs were introduced in Mass Transit. The only 2 types of highway were 3 lanes (with or without sound barriers) and highway ramps. There were so few options back then, which makes me think how lucky we are to have all of these options, with steam workshop and mods!

[@Kowzorz]

Technically stop signs existed before. You had two types of intersections at the very start: stop signs (treated as yields) and stoplights (treated as stoplights). I remember doing a lot of black magic with connecting specific roads to others so that there wasn't a stoplight. Then they introduced an easy to use UI to disable/enable stop signs and lights after the mod creations showed people wanted it.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)

[@0V3CHKiN]

I just opened one of my oldest save files and had similar roads / railways to Biffa. You're right that the DLC and workshop mods have come a long way to make a flowing and presentable city.

[@Thingsyourollup]

A moment of silence for the poor souls who play this on console.

[@ABHIii_i]

The original cities skylines also had no underground roads/tunnels

[@j.munday7913]

Biffas citizens: Hey should I take the metro today and listen as it scrapes along the side of the tunnel the whole time OR go stand in an empty field and hope a bus comes by? Decisions... decisions....

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😂

[@Eon2641]

The new metro, now with complimentary industrial earmuffs

[@jaroj1112]

Or should I try to take the underwater road?

[@Xs2...]

Now that is humor ;) wd.

[@danthiel8623]

I’m wondering if there was any bus stops placed then roads were deleted

[@VTOLfreak]

"So many bad decisions" and it still looks better than my first attempts.

[@394wowman394]

It still looks better than my current attempts 😅

[@ashleywinsor8140]

My last map looks like something I’d send to biff to fix.

[@theXANADER]

@@394wowman394 so true me too 😂😂😂

[@elessartelcontar147]

Me after watching several of Biffa's videos: I'm going to build a nice simple town that actually works Also me, on that same day: WHY THESE GRIDS DON'T WORK? WHY THERE'S GARBAGE EVERYWHERE? WHY MY TRAFFIC IS AT 69%?????

[@overbeb]

@@elessartelcontar147 Really try to master roadway hierarchy and commit to always use it. local roads into collector roads, collectors into arterials, and arterials into highways. Once you have it down then creatively find ways to break the rules. As a general rule keep industry close to highway connections and use district policy to ban truck traffic from residential areas.

[@amberxai]

Biffa from the past: “‘My City looks great!” Biffa from the Future: “What was i even thinking!”

[@gearmob3555]

I've had those road glitches show up myself. They cannot be deleted even with Move It. I found that if I draw short segments of gravel road on a diagonal across the offending road, when I delete those segments, parts of the glitched road will disappear. The only traffic fix I haven't learned from you. Keep the videos coming.

[@Wiimeiser]

Might be a phantom node or lane, there might be a mod to detect and fix them.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

Sometimes stuff like that can be deleted but the problem is that the grab point is somewhere unexpected. I've done this to myself when using Move It with something attached to the object. The road or rail or whatever stretches without adding additional nodes and I need to find the center point of one really long piece to get it to highlight. And there is a broken node detector. It's made by the same people who produce Traffic Manager; it's actually listed as a suggested companion install on the TMPE page.

[@paulmarchi1393]

@@Wiimeiser Broken Nodes Detector Mod does just that

[@ehsnils]

This looks like a challenge scenario map for everyone to take on.

[@grtninja]

it is a stock map, anyone can play it. it's a pretty good blank canvas that can go many ways.

[@ehsnils]

@@grtninja I was considering the built map that Biffa presented here, not the empty map.

[@kimlightfoot]

@@ehsnils I agree with you. send him a comment on his community page or emall the link to this page and ask him to upload the saved map to steam?? i have zero clue if what I am suggesting is how to email Biffa, roflol. check his links above I think that is where he gets his fanmails.

[@psychodrela]

Yes!

[@rikdhuyvetters1953]

I would like that. A list of 'Fix this city' challenge maps for us to have as much fun on as Biffa has on these kinds of maps.

[@JonathanCorwin]

"We don't need an elementary school as I put down a Hadron collider" - Is that the modern day equivalent of sending your kids to work in the cotton mills?

[@PerfectAlibi1]

No, the wonder actually provides all the education for kids, teens AND young adults XD

[@thezerb]

@@PerfectAlibi1 That said, if your universities are money making powerhouses, you may want to turn teh university boost off so as not to tank your income ;)

[@benrgrogan]

They were very forward looking here. They basically just predicted all the students learning via Zoom in Covid times

[@Eon2641]

You gotta collide the hadrons with _something_

[@MrJCAT]

2015 Biffa: Creating clusters of free open park space between these snaking roads will be a nice relaxing treat for my citizens. Park Life DLC Biffa: I CAN EXTORT SO MUCH FLIPPING MONEY FROM PEOPLE!!!

[@wighty5860]

New Biffington. Now under "new" management. This might make for a nice Rebuild It series.

[@Punz18]

"Yeah let's not look at that" - Biffa 2020 fixing his own city

[@OzzFan1000]

15:13 "Let's take a look at the main highway." 15:15 "Yeah, let's not look at that." 🤣🤣🤣

[@brimstone5931]

Your first ever city makes my first ever city look like a a shed on a dirt road. 5 years ago, how far the game has come

[@chrisbeveridge6891]

I went back to one of my first ones after a year of playing and mastering some mods and design work. It was definitely an interesting experience in seeing what I didn't understand, knowing ways to fix it now, etc. A lot owed to Biffa, natch.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Chris Beveridge :-)

[@FurryEskimo]

I wish CS had a multiplayer mode! I always tend to fixate on a few projects, and never effectively expand into train and boat networks. I’d love to have someone designing a city with me, sharing ideas together and building off of one another.

[@doesitmatter3642]

Proof that Biffa can fix literally *anything* :D Jokes aside, this shows how much you've learned since then and I am very very impressed...and encouraged for my own bumbling attempts at playing this game! I certainly learned a lot from watching your videos, so thanks Biffa :) (also the buildings in the middle of the roundabouts hurt my soul)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Very true! Thank you too :-)

[@BKPrice]

Biffa made this city before he ever took a class on lane mathematics.

[@bastdanica]

I just finished watching the first 36 videos making this city and I swear I was yelling at the screen as if it was a football match since I originally started watching you a year ago with the "fix your city" series. The weird road down the river was one that you'd put in hoping citizens would move into the empty riverbed after you built the dam, and left it there after deleting the dam. It was fun watching 2015 Biffa learn how to use the bendy-road tool - it create a lot of wonky roads. It was so much fun to watch and see 2015 versus 2020. I love your laughter and there was something about "flippin' chickens". That made me lose it.. I think I sprayed my martini across the room. Your C&S videos are truly fun to watch.

[@sangarios]

"yeah, let's not look at that"! 😂 that could be said for all! 😂 this is a brilliant video. to see biffa's past, present and development is nice.

[@craigfjay]

Just saw this bit too. He sounded so proud that it was fixed... if only it was

[@koko-lores]

The first couple of minutes remind me of the time when I cleaned up my uni documents and got hold of "papers" I wrote in the first year... ;-)

[@jsob1970]

Great episode. I personally would e interested in a multi-episode series where you come back and improve and modernize this city.

[@daelra]

The optimal number of lanes in a roundabout is the same number as the number of Exits (-1). Also, changing the road going in to the same number of lanes, it (I use asymmetric roads here) helps with flow. So a four road roundabout works best with a 3 lanes, a 3 road roundabout works well with just 2 lanes. If you put a 3 lane road going into a four road/3 lane roundabout, you can actually see where the car will go before it even gets on the roundabout. If you have one way roads going in/out, just count the exits, not the entrances.

[@vickirothe3761]

This was fun!! Everyone had a first city, and everyone was just trying to get a population growing, and with a little luck (because we had no skill yet), making some money. I really liked seeing your own fascination with 6 lane roads hoping more lanes would ease traffic. You started just like we did!! Bravo Biffa for being brave enough to show us this, and then fix it too. Well done. 😊☺ 👏👏👏👏👏

[@Davini994]

He's a bit daft that Biffa, isn't he? He clearly hadn't watched your videos.

[@arvindhmani06]

Where was Biffa when Biffa needed him!

[@miladjaberi6686]

The most serious and dangerous glitches are the glitches we have when you show those glitches dear Biffa! 😐😄😩🥴

[@marysue4729]

Oh wow, all those 6-lane roads bring back the memories... I used to think they were the cure for bad traffic, and then I discovered your KZbin channel.

[@AntoinettetheMoosewitch]

I am not sure that I will ever play this game again, because my computer is so bad right now, but for the last year or so I have been using thee videos as basically ASMR while doing homework for continuing teacher education courses, daily marking and report card writing. The comment of at 16:49 of "mmm, I need a sip of tea, my eyes are starting to twitch now " MIGHT be the most 2020 comment of all time it made me smile after a very long day. SO thank you for that and for keeping me company over the last year and a bit.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome, glad I can help a little bit :-)

[@pfeilspitze]

3:33 "No one-way roads" he says with a 6-lane one-way road on screen, and then zooms into a 2-lane one-way road at 3:43...

[@naerbo19]

The "uhmm" at @16:59 made me laugh so hard. This is gold Biffa! Gold I tell you!

[@christopheralvarez6230]

I wish I had kept my first city! It's amazing how much someone can learn, even from a short time, and how your cities can improve so much! This was a great video!

[@jasoncoates1835]

After about 8 months of watching your videos I went back to my first city and sorted the traffic mess there, too. Wasn't quite 8%, was running in the 30s, but now we're cooking in the mid 80s with only one or two unavoidable hot spots. This stuff works. =)

[@abebuckingham8198]

I see the first flirtations between you and roundabouts began early. It's so cute to see you smitten.

[@jamessoy9616]

This was awesome to watch. I started a few weeks go watching this city from episode 1. i couldn't believe some of the things you were doing in this early build, it was crazy. Glad to see you went back to fix it.

[@83Adelaide]

Would LOVE to see @BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines revisit this again with pedestrian roads and plazas!

[@riverplasmahero2508]

You know, considering you had no mods and that it was your first city, that wasn't half bad. My first several cities died before I ever got anywhere close to that many people. Thank you for the fun episode Biffa! :D

[@thesteelrodent1796]

before the mass transit dlc we had 2 lane roads, 2 lane one-way, 4 lane, 6 lane, 6 lane one-way - all with/without grass and trees - and then 3 lane highway, and 1 lane highway ramp. It came (still do) with a premade roundabout, a highway T-junction, and a (terrible) highway cloverleaf junction. The game also had two or three revisions to how it manages traffic since launch (it was awful in the beginning), so road designs that would completely destroy your city originally can partially work now (depending on how terrible it is). The bus stop glitch is completely normal for original vanilla cities when you load them into the current game. They changed how busses work like a year or two after the game came out - which is why they now stop and wait at bus stops instead of immediately leaving - and somewhere along the way when they added more transport types it just broke the old saves and bus stops went all over the place. Actually impressed you could load a save this old at all. Many of them won't work at all and just spits out errors, but maybe it's because it's so old it's from before the major updates

[@HardcoreQtip]

42 minutes of pure Biffa! I'm gonna need a lot of tea for this one!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

This is a brave episode to post, haha! I actually pulled my first city of my old PC before giving it away. Thinking of doing the same thing. Like you, my city was... ahem... broken.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yeah it was certainly a disaster! :P

[@artsky261]

hey Biffa, your videos not only make me a better Cities Skylines player, and give me something to binge watch while snacking, but you also reduced my fear of multi-lane roads in real life, you know what they say, you are scared by what you don't understand. and now i do understand them.

[@Thingsyourollup]

I'm having PTSD watching this, remembering my early days of CS trying to play it on PS4 without mods... or a mouse... or a keyboard.... This game right here is the sole reason my PS4 has not been turned on in two years - because I switched to PC forever.

[@elvinadhludhlu5380]

This is quite interesting; in that I'd never heard of this game until Utube recommended your vids to me. Now though, I'm enjoying learning how it all works. Your voice helps too.😉😁

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Welcome aboard and thank you :-)

[@housedawg-vw9zw]

heres the pov of a citizen in the city citizen: Its been 3 weeks on the highway i haven't seen my children in forever biffa: fix's roads citizen: oh my wife in kids died cause the ambulance was stuck in traffic

[@grahamsopp]

I'm actually at this stage now, my first city, totally vanilla on the pc, but I have the huge advantage of having watched many of Biffa's videos, so while i have ugly roads, and messy junctions the traffic flows. all thanks to Biffmeister

[@juanjodpr]

20:22 Just what is that intersection lol. First thing I learnt form traffic manager: options -> remove all traffic lights. It works nice indeed. This city is, as exected, bad because of a beginner but my first city was pretty much like this. I started this game in 2019 from Vanilla so I have a little idea of how it could work once I learnt about the workshop and stuff but back in the day in 2015...I feel pity for those poor souls who struggled a ton back in the day.

[@annana6098]

Biffa, I like your problem solving episodes best, my sister likes your building episodes best. I watch them all, but pay more attention during the fixing. Loved this one!

[@bastdanica]

All those roundabouts! It was literally a pick and drop all over those sections of the maps. Apparently you were anti-grid at the time. LOL. Madison Square was the first square that got demolished. Those highway junks turned out super weirdly - really creative solutions though.

[@Tchelow]

You came a long way since your first city. Amazing growth. It was fun to watch ☺️

[@mosa_0815]

This was one of the funniest episodes ever... great stuff!! Can we download this old city too? Would be nice to fix a Biffa city myself.. maybe we make a challenge out of it?

[@janekgrochal2041]

I am amazed at the fact that those were just minor changes. Each time I used to have traffic problems I just ripped everything out and started building roads from the beggining

[@ThomasWalters2469]

Thanks for freeing me from that traffic jam! Spending the past 5 years stuck on a motorway hasn't been easy...

[@grungeface87]

Biffa! I've recently been watching your Sipatea Citea and SipaGreenTea Citea series and was going to suggest you revisit those for the same reason! Some of the bits on Sipatea videos especially where you look at traffic that's clearly backing up all the way down the highway and go "it's busy but it's not backing up" :D

[@davethomas8968]

This brightened up my day. So many shocking road connections going nowhere or doing the same thing. Absolutely loved it. 😄 And the disbelief in what you had created, "What was I thinking?"

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@peonyfrills]

This was such a great idea. I really enjoyed it and hope that you go back to the ghost of Biffa past many more times! The progress in your city building is now and then is stunning!

[@rainedai7539]

Have to wait till this evening to watch due to work, but super excited to see Biffa fix early Biffa's citeas!!!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy :-)

[@michaelschiessl3519]

41:29 Looks like the trees next to the roundabout are "dancing" to the music. Like it!

[@NameRedacted0]

How many times have you thought about doing this? Seems like a super fun idea

[@TaliyahMC]

I am impressed you got the city to work...and then fixed it...well done!

[@CarinaCoffee]

I was thinking there were a *lot* of buses. I was almost expecting you to spend another episode on public and cargo transport alone. One thing I've noticed, at Biffhattan the one motorway just suddenly ends, I know there's not that much traffic there, but thanks to you we know it should be hooked up to the nearest motorway, all it needs is an intersection so they can make the 90° turn (there's plenty of empty space there to do that).

[@petitcoco42]

I loved this episode. The introduction was amazing. I hope you have more like that coming. Well done Biffa

[@elisevanderwiel]

Such a good map to build the first city on. Build my first city on it as well and had so much fun with it

[@meetalleeka]

This is beautiful, Biffa, absolutely beautiful, although I had to laugh at you saying there were hardly any glitches, then spending the next five minutes going through several really funky glitches, lol. What the hell was that road doing, and all those random mass transit stops? 🤣

[@spartacus987]

Make this city a series! Would love to see it revived all the way!

[@CreatorOfWorlds]

Looking at this ‘fix’ i forgot that it’s 2 years old, I couldn’t get my head around why you didn’t use all the recent additions to the game🙃 Also I couldn’t remember you used left handed driving back in the day. Glad you changed that.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@AlexandreLollini]

It's funny to see how we evolve, the brain can sort itself out in 2, 3 years.

[@gallendugall8913]

Thank you. I feel so much better about my crappy cities seeing your early effort.

[@paracosmicSTL]

"we don't need that elementary school, we have a hadron collider"

[@Ajtait94]

"Biffhattan" - love that! One of my first cities had an island section called "Andrewhattan" that looked almost identical to yours. Great minds think alike!

[@gayahithwen]

2:45 "Did we not have one-way roads when this game first came out?" he says, while pointing at a one-way road. I sip my tea in confusion.

[@FrobergDK]

I've been watching a few of your videos, not quite sure why, but they were nice and relaxing to watch. Made me think about Skylines again. I bought cities and played for a few hours, but got tired with traffic and the lacking management options. Looks like the modding community has come in and saved it a bit, so I may just have to give it a whirl again.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy 😁

[@lowprime]

38:15 just the same trucks going around over and over again, between the cargo trainstations. Funny 😆

[@summertime69]

I've definitely deleted some of my first cities, so I cant really look back and retro fit it knowing what I know now. That being said, I like to think I started out okay because I had watched your videos before getting the game. Your videos have been crucial to me knowing how to play.

[@blackkorean1867]

“Let’s give this one a fair crack of the whip…” got out my snack and drinks and was ready to go on this journey.

[@svanduin]

So nice to see! It reminds of my own first cities. You've come a long way, as have I. :)

[@MinneapolisRaven]

Doesn't matter how good the city is, I love watching and listening to Biffa! -- Horky borky, winky wonky Horray!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Mitch Rossow :-)

[@WheatyWaffle]

Holy cow. I’ve never been here this early! You have some SUCH a long way since New Biffington. Wow. 😳

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@lordfaladar6261]

Paul Atrides = the Spice must Flow Biffa = no The traffic must Flow

[@An_Economist_Plays]

2015 Biffa: Tell me the best parts about the year 2020, 2020 Biffa! 2020 Biffa: Traffic Manager, Intersection adjustment mods, great workshop assets, Roundabout Builder - 2015 Biffa: Sorry to interrupt, but that's just all in the game. Tell me *all* the great things about 2020! 2020 Biffa: That's what I've *been* doing... By the way, here's a list of all the dates a Steam sale discounts C:S DLC... :-)

[@Kuznia_]

The struggle was real this episode! It was nice to see the processes come together

[@Oliver-rh5bv]

Seniac just started on his own channel to fix his first ever city. He is now 5 hours in the fixing game and made it up to ~75% with despawning active... The city is huge and has ~400k inhabitants. I tried to load this monstrocity on my own, but due to the lack of 88 diffrenent assets is was not fun to start it.

[@alexanderhindkjrrasmussen7612]

Love the fact that u was'nt using oneways on the roundabouts - half of them are two ways. WHOAH a scary thing to drive on :)

[@AuroraBoredealis]

Biffa criticizing weird highway junctions like gordon ramsay criticizes novelty food.

[@little_old_brit7113]

This has to be the Best Video i have seen of yours and there is no way i could have ever thought that this city was one of your own, it was so enjoyable to watch, so tell us how many other horrors have you got hiding hiding up your sleeve we demand to know lol. Great video keep them coming .

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tlspud]

That was great. You should do an ultimate walking city/public transit challenge with this save game. There is lots of room and the roundabout suburbs would be a walking Mecca.

[@marcuskintz]

Just shrugging me shoulders. XD Thanks for another good one!!

[@repaterion3611]

This video actually inspired me to take a look at my first one, one of the main issues with it is broken roundabouts. They're setup correct but cars disappear stops in the middle of it, even if I remove them and rebuilds them. No I'm not using despawning them.

[@Tearnofear]

Biffa! There is a rly nice Roundaboutstreet with Curbs on the Inside, Bikelanes and green/Trees. I'd guess you love it =) (its named "Bike Friendly Roundabout Roads - grren Bikelane")

[@DivineStride]

In my first city, I solved all the traffic problems using way too many tunnels.

[@martinandersen1849]

Thanks for the video. As a continental european this video never managed to make much sense to me. Driving in the "wrong" side of the road made me confused, so had I been a car I would had disappeared - hehehe.

[@virusuploadin]

I love that Biffa! Please relive anymore of your previous cities!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)

[@StabStabStabStabby]

Imagine being a stuck in that infinite loop of taking things from the outside rail station to the inside rail station. You can never go home.

[@eyespyyourspy1328]

I'm late in life. This city looks better than what I have goin on now. Lol My city Wrong Start was named due to my lack of any form of Cities Knowledge. Been using as many techniques I can from this channel to fix my horror City. Playing this on PS4 with absolutely no DLCs makes things interesting. Wish I had the ability to send Biffa my Skyline to see what he would do to fix my transportation over all

[@tylerm.9408]

This was such a great episode! Loved it

[@CallerRagnarok]

You know, my old cities have that same exact problem with the transit lines: broken routes where there were never any roads, and in some cities, I had no mass transit *at all* (yeah I was that person) and still had broken transit line icons all over the place. Even if I turn all the mods off. And it wouldn't even let me remove them! Must've been some kinda specific programming change between then and now.

[@damienhufford]

Amazing how much you can improve with experience. This makes Teaport look even more amazing.

[@vivapinata7728]

Young Biff missed a golden opportunity to name his oil district "Biffish Petroleum"

[@lisa1162]

Funny thing is, I was watching an old Biffa video yesterday, and was wondering what Biffa would think about it now. 😄

[@al-asadi]

I think that submerged road on 1:55 is when you put a dam on the river, drained the river, built the road with houses and then removed the dam

[@iloveanything1017]

You definitely had One-Way Roads Back then. Also, you started where Lower Bifton and Chronic Crossing is.

[@dogle9258]

Awesome video. Would like for this one map to be a series. You always keep the integrity of the the way the cities were built but what if you was there to fix more then just the traffic. Not one tea themed area in the town. Even old Biffa wouldn’t approve of that.