Fix 3 MAJOR Mistakes That Break a City NOW in Fix Your Cities!

[@tinuviel874]

A theme I've noticed in a lot of your city fixes is a lack of connectivity. This city in particular had a seemingly deliberate lack of road connections in certain areas which no doubt exacerbated the service problems. You're always going have issues if it takes forever for the service vehicles to get where they need to go!

[@Vandassar]

This is also reflected in the budget (only saying as it was briefly mentioned in the video). Lowing/increasing the budget for services decrease and increase the "shift time" for each worker before they head back to base. Longer shifts mean they can reach more distance (Cover more land).

[@superdau]

I've been pointing that out for don't know how many "fixes" (years...). Biffa barely mentions it, not even in those cases where there's whole district connected with just a single road. Sure, changing intersections and lanes will fix traffic in the short term. But add another 10 000 people to the city and you're back a square one again when the root cause of missing road connections isn't fixed.

[@TAP7a]

@@superdau people love seeing interchange fixes because they are charismatic and compelling and Americans tend to suffer from chronic car-itis. No one likes hearing that the way to solve traffic is to make sure every other mode of transport is a more compelling offer than the car, no matter what, and that if you absolutely need to be on the road the local connections should be prioritised over the arterials within the built up area. It doesn’t help that the game explicitly gets you to focus on cars first (every game starts with a highway connection and road building rather than arbitrary housing surrounding a reason to exist that gets built around and towards)

[@zlamanit]

That's a great point. I like using small roads for these connections, with trucks and private vehicles disabled. People can walk very long distances in the game, but cannot enter motorways so these connections and extra walking paths remove a lot of car traffic.

[@NPSao]

I always find the two sliders for day and night so annoying. I wish I could lock them so I adjust both at the same time.

[@ulysseslee9541]

I think so too

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

I get what they were going for adding it, but unfortunately I don't feel like it really worked out all that well in the game...(esp cause doing anything when everything is dark is kind of a pain in the butt, which is why most people set it to only daytime making nighttime kind of useless anyway..)

[@elvanlukas8161]

These "fix" videos are my drug. Well done. Watching this video I realized how much I would like a "planning mode". Like being able to plan my expansion early on and then "upgrade" everything to "real" stuff.

[@svendiamond]

Ohh great idea. In the meantime, maybe you could lay out the basic road network ahead of time (if you have the spare cash) and get to the zoning and other details later. I'm going to try that in my game!

[@rfresa]

So a simulation of a simulation?

[@bobblebardsley]

I love that road in Lafayette Square that just spirals in on itself then spits the traffic out via a huge tunnel :D

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

6:27

[@HP_Burrito]

On console under the delete button you can select to only delete abandoned buildings. Highly useful, if pc doesn't have this i call that a win for ps4 and friends lol

[@epiccollision]

That’s what mods are for.

[@dracula3811]

Thx for the tip!

[@unknownname6519]

@@epiccollision sad thing that you need Mods for this

[@Tearnofear]

@@unknownname6519 but the Mod is better as you don't have to do anything (once set up)

[@lynks123]

I was going to comment this but you beat me too it.

[@devononair]

Biffa: don't use the auto bulldoze mod. Me: Auto bulldoze mod? Wow! Awesome! I'm downloading that!

[@Rincenso]

There was a button for deleting abandoned buildings when I used one of those the last time. No need to have it on fully automated.

[@devononair]

@@Rincenso Thanks; I'll look for that!

[@martinandersen1849]

Good to have Fix Your City back. A serie I learned a lot from. Thank you.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Glad to hear it! :-)

[@hansdietrich9245]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I bought the industries dlc on ps4 because of your lane mathematics. My 214,000 citizens are running smoothly. Thanks very much. Greetings from Germany. I love your channel.

[@hquest]

About the economy sliders, yes, they change the services coverage by reducing the amount of vehicles out there and therefore reducing how far they go before coming back to base. Which is why there are different sliders for day and night: you may want to use certain vehicles at certain times - for instance, trash only at night.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

True, but I've not seen it make a huge different to be honest as the traffic doesn't change at day or night, like perhaps if you were using the Real Time mod that simulates, school times, work opening hours etc.

[@varazir]

Hmm, I thought it only matterad if you used the day/night rotation. If you always have day mode it doesn't.

[@bombaclat123]

@@varazir It does, but the game inherently doesn't do anything different from day and night other than having less light to see with.

[@lander1591]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I see a difference of around 30k income between night and day, those sliders do something but it's not that visual, it affects the budget outcomes alot though.

[@OzoneGrif]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines With Real-Time the sliders are very useful. Without Real-Time, they make no much sense.

[@Jimulacrum]

One thing I see you doing here that maybe warrants more explanation is how you've connected the subways. Someone who doesn't know better might try to connect them by creating a junction of the underground tracks and making a new connector route that overlaps the existing routes. When you have significant metro ridership, the game tends to handle that situation rather poorly (read: gridlock), which is why it's almost always best to simply place two unconnected metro stations within a short walking distance of each other. That's about as close as you can get to having metro lines that share a platform for easy transfers. It would be really nice if you could draw underground pedestrian paths to connect nearby metro stops, but I don't believe there's a way to make that work.

[@cyberdefault]

Thanks for the tip I had no idea on what to do for multiple lines

[@hackarma2072]

Being back at 85 000 at the end was astonishing. I'm feeling fear envisioning the death wave that is coming.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Not anymore as I've used all the anti-death wave buildings...or children's care center and elder care :-)

[@vambranzukizumofu223]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines anti-death sounds so dark despite the positive effect lol

[@vambranzukizumofu223]

70k people added in a few mins... if that deathwave comes it will be a big one

[@Jimulacrum]

I don't recall ever seeing abandoned buildings getting auto-removed by the game. The best case I've seen where this could have happened was a city of 85K+ that I let die (trying to get unique buildings, don't judge me) and grow back organically. The resurrection took a really long time, and in the interim, the abandoned buildings stayed put except when I manually bulldozed. They only seem to go away automatically when there is sufficient demand to redevelop an area, in which case they get immediately rebuilt rather than demolished down to a bare lot.

[@starlaaster523]

It does bulldoze them but it takes beyond forever. You have to have zero demand and it does so much harm that I never leave it long enough for the game to bulldoze it. But as a newbie player I would have a big issue after a major die off. That's the only time I saw the game bulldoze without rebuilding.

[@scottjohnson926]

I had a massive headache trying to get that unique building without destroying my entire city haha multiple days trying to keep land value and demand positive

[@bazzakrak]

A good little video. And I really like the educational method you use to show how landvalue rises when demolishing abandoned buildings around 14:30 one can really see the blue slowly creeping forward like Pennywise from a servergrate ;)

[@SeanLamb-I-Am]

Way too many cul-de-sac roads that themselves are way too long. Blocks that have connections at both ends are way too long. There aren't enough connections between districts. And the streets themselves in most cases are way too big for their uses; there is no road hierarchy at all here. There are a metric butt-tonne of interconnections that are needed, not only in roads and transit, but also in walking and biking paths. Paths can clip into and attach to the paths in the base game parks, so do that too.

[@CesariaMagento]

I can't believe Biffa didn't mention all these cul-de-sacs as a mistake! They are limiting access to the services heavily, not to mention traffic and lack of pedestrian connections between these cul-de-sac segments.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

For some reason people like to build urban archipelagos in this game. Pockets of isolated, unconnected urbanity.

[@swivel_z1371]

My city had a low of 13% traffic flow and after about a day of troubleshooting and taking tips from your videos I was actually able to fix the traffic myself and I now sit at a cool 80-83% It all still looks like a mess, but it's apparently a functional mess now

[@generalsociety9607]

I had to pause at 0:50 to stare in awe and appreciate the horrific design of the roundabout on screen.

[@Tearnofear]

I think the Problem is that many think "ohnoes, Parks and all the Services cost me too much Money, wich i dont have to begin with". But it's the opposite, if you have a good coverage of these you will gain Money and if not you will loose Money. It all starts at the beginning of a City, with Power and the Waterstuffs. Not done the right way you might end up with a restart early on^^

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

Parks are especially cheap. They're kind of overpowered when considering the stabilization effect they have for how much they cost.

[@MirzaMughal86]

This channel gave me the confidence to play again and I have to say Hugo's Lane Mathematics are mind-blowing in terms of efficiency. Still have a kms long backup though so not there yet lol

[@PascalDjiknavorian]

Nice Fix your city clip That mini interchange at 25:00 could have used an exit lane that just goes over all of it so it goes directly to the left.. One thing was weird.. when they were forced right to the big round about.. they did not seem to come back to the left..

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

I noticed that too. They must’ve thought of better places to go before making it all the way around the circle.. That interchange would’ve been best served by a classic par-clo which would allow those left turners to use the loop and flow unimpeded.

[@nhatminhtranngoc8940]

I missed antarcteaca - no episode for 1 month

[@MaxVax-dh7rh]

They need a Indian Mod. Where everything just crosses each other like ants, with a Honking Concert. But Stops once a Cow walks over the Streets.

[@stephenrowan8128]

at 31:37, you removed the sidewalks from 2/3'rds of the wonkyabout. Might be worth putting back in some overpaths for pedestrians etc.

[@soonerproud]

Love the city fix series Biffa. What do you think about a city flip concept where you take some else's completed city and you reimagine and transform it into something different?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Interesting... :-)

[@kiranm.p.7990]

Even though I don't play city skylines, I love biffa's fix your city

[@Francois424]

So glad this series is going again. And yeah, seeing this city I get flashbacks to my first city or two. Then again way back when I played without mods and there wasn't a lot of road choices. ( Tho watching Quill18's stream from 6 years ago, I would've used a mismatch of all road types available to manage those dedicated lanes... But as a newb, you just do whatever lol). Nice fix. BTW pretty sure that the service thing was a mod. There's one that auto-adjust and to be honest it does a pathetic job at it too. More of this series Biffa ! More !

[@jonathanmarsh8119]

Recognised some mistakes that I used to make, also recognise some mistakes I still make. Always a great learning experience with Biffa's City Fixes!

[@carstenzimmermann4435]

Road hierarchy is so important, but should better be explained at the end, when population ist back high. With only 15k people in a City for 80k, you usually don't see the problems... the satisfaction of a dead city returning to life does not get old😊

[@shawnp6653]

As a new player, I learn a lot from these -- thank you! Now I just need to play more and maybe upgrade the computer so I can get mods/assets/DLCs eventually :)

[@wreckingopossum]

24:10 I kept hoping he would make dedicated exit ramps so people could effectively make a left turn without the horky-borky left turn you see at 25:16. Maybe a proper stack interchange there, a cloverleaf at the very least.

[@Zarosian_Ice]

The only budget effect i have noticed is the police budget, i'll let it run on a lower budget during the day because that gives me most profit during the day, and depending on how badly crime rate builds up i'll set the night budget either on 100 or 150, it works fine for me, but like you've said i don't think there is really much of a need for it, with a low crime rate police cars won't just start driving around.

[@brianbecking1]

Just started to get into the modded City Skylines, really like it and getting some more idea's/info from your videos really help me with it. Thank you.

[@Valthalin]

That block length is terrible. Whatever services are put in will not affect nearly the amount of sims that they would otherwise be able to handle. My first objective would be to add in roads to connect each area to itself better and also add in connections from one area to other areas. Then do the usual city traffic fix things.

[@Everie]

0:30 What in the name of Sir Isaac Newton is that junction?

[@sazzysoultv]

I am LOVING the music you’re choosing for this video!! Such a great vibe! 👏🏾👌🏾

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you 🙌

[@H4rd5tyl3]

When I see that population drop so hard I would just delete, thats my main takeaway here, absolute ruin and despair don't mean it has to end :D. But yeah this little vid really shows so well how everything is linked and how all services are so very critical for your city. Loved it!

[@AB-dx1co]

key problem is that neighboring streets don't connect so if you build service building on one street people have to go around even though they live there

[@tomsullivan8534]

Cracking episode. Watching Biffa is my guilty pleasure. I love it! Keep up the good work.

[@poelmeister]

I don’t want to be mean in any way towards the original mayor, because we all tend to make our mistakes in good faith, and of course we don’t know what we don’t know. But this city was one of the biggest messes I’ve seen you fix in a long, long time. :)

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

31:55 where's the "oh no, everything's gone all horkey borkey" drum sound? 😂😂

[@cojac0]

While tips are nice, i don't really like background of this video. They wouldn't be able to build city that much with all this land value problem, probably used eden project and it was deleted on purpose ( the same as metro lines). There could be more focus on real problems of this city (like connectivity). But glad it went back to starting point at the end ;]

[@nspring06]

Just a tip for Biffa, you can set your bulldozer to only bulldoze abandoned buildings and then use the large brush to pretty much bulldoze everything

[@vriskaserket8058]

Personally I like to use traffic manager to make my roundabouts much more efficient. I dont allow traffic in the outer lane unless they are turning out at the next intersection.

[@malkotokote8523]

I thought that i build bad cities but after seeing this my cities are 10/10

[@piersnivans5983]

I really enjoyed this City fix more than the other ones for some reason. Great work!

[@PleegWat]

31:36 potatoabout?

[@lifeoftheparty2121]

Heh I remember before new tealand when you were doing city fixes you had no idea about road heirarchy. Neither did i. Im pretty sure you got that from City Planner? Its cool the way all the youtubers contribute knowledge in different ways with this game

[@x4mm4x]

We need "Commuter Destination Mod" but for districts. Now we only assuming people are working in the nearest commercial/industry district.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice idea :-)

[@Sarrett.Studios]

I love these fix your city videos, I’ve literally watched and liked all of them. Could you give my city a look?

[@ethanfranzen8684]

Perfect circles are cool, but so are uneven blobs. It was definitely nearly hopeless, before, but you destroyed a bit of stuff that you didn't need to. For instance, you made the giant roundabout that you looked at in the beginning circular and wide enough to destroy houses! You wrecked the look of the rounded square shape and kept it so big, even after disconnecting it from the roads. Instead of scrapping the intersection on ground level, you should have made it a second, smaller and separate roundabout to handle the vertical and horizontal directions, while the original rotary handles only the diagonal directions. This was arguably the better and more obvious solution. Traffic problems paled in comparison to this city's crazy service deficiencies, so you probably should have balanced it with more traffic fixing.

[@keiraussher]

I always aim to have my budgets for services at 150% as early as I can afford it in a new city. As soon as I move them even slightly I hear the dings of upgrading happening. Citizens love it when you overfund the city!

[@dandiehm8414]

Yay - another City Fix! These are the best videos on your Channel, Biffa. Keep up the great work!

[@Culinaryreject]

Biffa built a tunnel 😱

[@teekayfourtwoone4686]

Make that "FOUR major mistakes..." 9:42 The drinking water is polluted.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

The polluted water from the sewage drains is all downstream from the water intake

[@teekayfourtwoone4686]

@@jefffinkbonner9551 It says right there on the screen that the drinking water is polluted. The drinking water in the pipes going to citizens is polluted.

[@BattleJacket]

I really like this fix your city content, nice fix! Such a shame that we didn't get to see how those metros were doing though.

[@steph_man372]

4th major mistake - thinking bigger roads = better

[@cabin3118]

I don't mind the expense of the services it's just that they take up so much room. Feel like to have good coverage there's not enough room for zoned buildings.

[@patrickrobin7963]

@Biffa Plays Indie Games: Hi, i have one simple question. How did you get the TMPE Button into Unified UI Mod? Thanks in advance

[@rfresa]

I was hoping you would add pedestrian bridges to those roundabouts.

[@stevengalloway8052]

Biffa, two words: Pinwheel Roundabout! 😆

[@Snokennnn]

Everyones 2 first cities looks like this.

[@dbronkinator]

How do you change the direction of lanes I've looked everywhere on google and the game and cant find it, I'm on pc

[@blackineese]

For the bulldoze... in vanilla (console) you can select bulldoze houses only and make a big brush and sweep over the city deleting abandon houses only. Is that option not on PC??? Also you don't have to brace big highway roundabouts only small road and small road converted to highway!

[@adamhoughton9516]

Yeah, it's one of the few things console does better! I also like seeing the option to walk/drive around the city on console which is another thing the PC version doesn't have in vanilla (although there are a few mods that try and recreate these functions)

[@blackineese]

@@adamhoughton9516 oohh ok ok got you

[@adamhoughton9516]

@@blackineese I'm assuming they put it in as it's easier to "miss click" on console? Or at least I assume it is, I'm pretty much exclusively a PC gamer (although I do have a Switch). I'm not sure if bulldozer works the same way on console, but it does have a nice feature on PC. If you're bulldozing a road for example and hold the mouse button down, it will only bulldoze road even if you happen to brush over something else until you release the mouse button. Makes it way easier to delete large sections of one type of thing

[@homietclown]

Woo Hoo like number 480! Well you finally broke me Biffa and I bought a copy for my Xbox. I can’t wait to play in a few days when the updates finally download. Living off the grid has a couple of flaws. Woo Hoo delayed gratification!

[@MrLumaan]

I'll make a city, a big city that needs repair. ;) So Biffa have enough to fidget with. :) All fun. Hehe. But keep them coming.

[@jonodrummerboy]

A level slate… did you mea a clean slate or a level playing field 😂 love the content

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

14:20 Imagine how it must feel when for the first time in your life people listened when you said “Get off my lawn!” Nice, peaceful neighborhood of nobody but nice, empty lots. Ahhhh. Finally.

[@sinemokay8862]

Hello! Did you stop posting about Antarcteaca? :( I was very into Antarcteaca and New Tealand series!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Just recording one today :-)

[@maddogtunes]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylinesBiffa please reply big fan❤️❤️ Biffa on my Highway threeway intersection traffic gets stuck how do I fix that?

[@sinemokay8862]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Thanks for your answer and keep up the good work! Your content and cities are awesome!

[@pilotmanthing2590]

Biffa I don't think you'll notice this even though, I recently got snowfall and had to uninstall it as it made every map stock and downloaded (from steam) snow. I was wondering if you could help.

[@gustavosantos106]

Is there any reason to adjust funds differently from day to night or it is just to make us adjust every bar twice? 8:40

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I've never noticed a need really.

[@gustavosantos106]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Thx!

[@brittanyeastep4866]

I love these city fixing videos

[@soapymargherita]

That was a good one. Nice to see you actually have to work hard, lol

[@playtimewithdragonfire]

Fun to see you fixing cities again.

[@jandoyt]

at 22:37 you raise the road. Which key or button are you using, I have the move it mod-

[@H31ntz-s7r]

Page Up/Down

[@DadOmega]

Keep up the great work I really appreciate it

[@weirdalfan1980]

I would of named that city "New Detroit"

[@mickeypigduck2307]

A video full of great information.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Glad it was helpful! :-)

[@RezoanurRahman]

Wow...its keeps on getting better and better..

[@OliverWieland]

Hi Biffa, I wondered if you ever tried to solve the "traffic scenario" (don't know the english name, the name of the city is Appletown) which comes with the mass transit DLC? Do you want to make a video about this? Greetings from Germany

[@OliverWieland]

I found the videos ;-) Would you try to solve this with TM and despawning off?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Pretty sure I've done a video on every single scenario worth looking at on the steam workshop :-)

[@mjdeep]

Love your videos Biffa, could you help me find the mod to sort Education system? I would like it to look like yours separated by Elementary, High, University Etc.

[@holgualoxford3871]

You did amazing work here. I would of broken out a big ol bomb and started over =)

[@anthonymorris479]

Great tips Biffa. Great city fix.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 👍

[@BedRocker-]

What tips/tricks/help do you have for 1 that has played the game 1 time. No mods, no DLC's no nothing but the game. All i know about the game is from the 1 build and a few vids like yours. My city grows, makes money but i think in your eyes it would be a small to medium nightmare lol. Any mods i should look in to maybe?

[@Madigman]

what do u think about the "no abandoned buildings"-Mod where u still see the issues buildings have and u can fix them but u dont have to destroy the abandoned buildings all the time?

[@carolynguarino-voglermd1121]

You realize there’s a demolish abandoned buildings only option in vanilla game right? Just wave the cursor over with button pressed and it takes out all the abandoned buildings.

[@Nerd_of_Anarchy]

16:05 Biffa goes through City Policies. Says Education Boost city wide is bad. If using Campus DLC, I disagree. Had 2 at 3 stars, would go to 4 then attendance drop, 3 star. Turned on Education Boost, 1 Campus shot up to over 3k, the other (which doesn't have an athletics program) over 4k. Anyone else notice this?

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

I guess it depends on whether a city is more industry-focussed or skilled workers focussed or how big and diversified the city’s economy is.

[@Bruhimz]

Ah Tips Ill Be Using 5 Years Later Because I Dont Have A Pc

[@gore_spore7060]

cool fix ..thanks Biffa :)

[@IdaPie]

You braced the huge roundabout. But then moved one of the connecting roads and ended up with a wonky about...

[@EvilNecroid]

ive never seen so many abandoned buildings before

[@jandraelune1]

Just noticed that glitch of the ground spiking to LEO in height.

[@charliearblaster]

Morning biffa!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Hi de ho :-)

[@moshehim1000]

Hi Biffa, You turned the roads of the main roundabout to highway, and now there's no walkability there and people can't cross from one side to another. There are no alternative paths, either. Also, no bike lanes, anywhere. How American of you...

[@WuxianTec]

Seems this city was just a bit much for an episode. You could always spend more time improving the cities, but you have to recognize that just recording, editing and uploading this video must have taken 3+ hours.

[@BadDriversSLA]

I once put my night budget low and then turned on the day/night cycle and I lost like $80k.

[@ft3917]

atomatic bulldoze is better than no bulldoze. when i make an area, i normaly put all services there, so " no problem here at all " it is like : a real cock tease is better than no tease at all. keeps the hunting instinct alive

[@CCFCArcher]

I have a city that I think even Biffa wouldn't be able to fix 😬😵‍💫

[@Incogneto1981]

Can't wait for you to have a look at mine lol

[@phillip5174]

What about 1% water pollution?

[@Rincenso]

When it doesn't conform to the rules of a roundabout it's called a traffic circle...

[@dldayjr]

Morning all

[@newcastlets]

G’morning!

[@davereckoning9530]

Good Darrell to you, Sir. Er....I mean, good Day.

[@denisewall9315]

The cover picture with the roundabout, it the biggest mistake you can make.

[@cheezewizz2000]

This whole city gives me agita. Made me realise my arterials are a little too close though.