How To Prepare Your Vanilla City For A Downtown In Cities Skylines! | Noobs Guide

Today we are setting up the downtown road network frame and discussing how important this can be for managing your downtown's traffic. We bring over several large capacity road networks, cycling, monorail, metro and introduce a bayside ring road to help relieve pressure on everything else! Very fun setting these things up, enjoy.
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0:00 Intro
1:52 Getting to 30k population
9:53 Setting up the ring road cavity
17:13 The cross-bay bridges
24:04 Attacking the topography
28:45 The initial frame
31:10 Creating a ring road exit junction
37:36 Tieing all connections together
52:34 Detailing timelapse
55:45 Outro & goodbye kisses
56:52 Cinematics
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[@honkot6225]

I never really reach the point in C:S where I would create the downtown, I either give up earlier or realize in panic that the downtown is needed and abort mission. This episode really makes me want to finally create one.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Definitely give one a go! One of the most fun things to build, especially when you start crafting the skyline :)

[@HelenDing]

I'm the same. I have built lots of cities but just abandoned for a different idea on a different map when it came time to start a down town. not this time!

[@PuffyRainbowCloud]

Not all cities need a downtown proper! You can make maps of smaller, interconnected communities, or a smaller city with more of a centre than a downtown. A little bit of density with parks and plazas spacing things out makes for a nice, European style smaller city or town.

[@SigmaRho2922]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG I am able to create a downtown office district easily thanks to a gridded city.

[@user-ib9pz6id5b]

Another giver-up here

[@taylorc1030]

These kinds of road layout-heavy episodes are really satisfying imo.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Glad to hear :)

[@SimmerChell]

You have quickly become one of my favourite cities builder and really have done a brilliant job of even teaching me all the mechanics of the game. You even got me through covid with a mega binge watch of all your past content. This city is looking so amazing for no mods and mod assets 😍

[@wyzemann]

@Simmer Chell EGG is the undisputed master of Cities: Skylines aesthetics and balanced gameplay. I'm improving my cities with each iteration, thanks to him. We are all truly fortunate to have his level of expertise at our fintgertips🙏🏾👊🏾.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you so much! Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos. Really appreciate the kind words :) Hope Covid isn't hitting you too hard!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

@@wyzemann Thank you bro

[@TwilightStar91]

This is the first video of yours I'm watching (I heard of you through CPP) and now I have to binge all your videos 😂👀 Love episodes focusing on road layout, it's something that's so important. Also love seeing a whole area pre-planned. I loved seeing how you use your highway and metro as like a "spine" of your city, built past the existing used infrastructure. Like a lot of people build train stations but don't put the rail out the other side until they need another station. I recognised the map instantly, Flabaliki did a 75-part series on it back when Mass Transit released and I've done a city on it too. Love how you kept the Stonehenge thing, when Flabaliki bulldozed it his comments were full of pain. Interestingly, you both chose to like, make the waterfront in the bay under the bridges a useful space - he did offices and a canal, you're using it for a ring-road. Love how you used that steep cliff part to line the ring-road. Gonna go back and watch the video where you built the residential area, I'm still figuring out how to terrace stuff like you showed. The way you ended your highway was really interesting, I'd never seen anyone recommend just putting it into a t-junction at-grade. The way you curved the two sides to different places to diffuse traffic is 😍. One suggestion though - since there's only two directions to turn off of it, might be better to have a two-lane highway piece where it joins the road? Unless one direction of turning is busy enough for two lanes of course. Subscribed, liked, shared with friends and will recommend, even to non-noobs downtown areas can be hard to get right.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Ah thank you so much, really nice to read your kind words

[@grampagord]

You make it look so easy! Well done, I'm enjoying this series. Thanks a lot.

[@raytbrown2]

Wow! I have been playing this game (for years & years - loving it) all wrong. Thanks for showing me what its all about! I totally appreciate your time & effort. Actually, it was the way you approach terraforming that changed the way I view things -- which opened up the possibilities for me. Thank you!

[@valleyplays]

what a fantastic layout, and a very helpful tutorial I must say! Thanks Egg, the gift that keeps on giving!

[@thargoff]

Love the vanilla spice and the throwback to Burgusia (for me at least) with the tutorial style, but also having the new things learnt on the way. Great mix, and can learn a lot as well! Just perfect. 😃

[@illizcit1]

This ep really highlights how everything you've (well, us noobs) been playing around with in the previous video regarding zoning, paths, roads etc. really came to shine. I can't wait to see this populated.

[@fewcandy]

Can't wait to see this with the skyline in! What an amazing, inventive layout, all those layers of height, and not forgetting the quay porn... lovely stuff OE! 😄

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Quay porn gang rise up! Thank you so much FewC! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@pixxa37]

Brilliant episode! So many good ideas on how to develop and expand the network around the new district, you really gave me much to think about :)

[@andyg806]

I have struggled with my "downtown" areas so this has been a very helpful guide. Thank you

[@michaelw6222]

Yes! This is awesome. To address your questions, this is most certainly my kind of build. Just doing the road/transit layout was perfect for this episode and I'm thrilled you are including a ring road for the downtown. And yes, the walkability and public transport use in my city is phenomenal. As you've demonstrated, it's something you have to tend to from the start of the build and it really pays off. Even the quays are getting a good deal of traffic. They only differences I'm seeing is I think I have less bicyclists on the bike paths. I've got more bike roads, so maybe they are just more spread out? The other thing is, though my mass transit layout is virtually identical to yours, I get a bunch of tourists using their pocket cars to leave the campus stadium after a game. I get a ton that swarm up to the metro, but a large number still pop into their cars. I've got bus stops that are even closer than the metro, so not sure why so many are popping to cars. Anyway, I'm having so much fun with this series.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you bro! Definitely sounds like your cyclist's will be more spread out if you have more bike roads than I do :) You could check their routes once they get off the metro, see where they're headed?

[@graspienjo2850]

I just realised this is the same map that City Planner Plays uses for his noobs guide too! lol

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

It is! I didn't realise too until someone told me lol! Thanks for watching :)

[@DaJeanius]

It’s a great map.

[@dazcadden6544]

What's the map?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

@@dazcadden6544 Diamond Coast from the base game :)

[@Black_Shaheen]

I really enjoy your vanilla videos and love your style of building your cities.It became common for me when i open my youtube to check your new videos first. Keep it up your doing a great job!!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you! Thats really nice of you :)

[@ben0329]

It’s always great to see the downtown frames come together! I’d absolutely love to see the above ground metro and underground metro stations be placed on exactly the same road so the cims basically treat it as one massive station hub

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Sounds good to me :) Thank you!

[@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat]

Fun Fact: In the US a ring road is called a beltway. The DC beltway is the most notorious for traffic.

[@BarredowelGaming]

That's fantastic Bro...❤👌

[@YouKnowJus]

super informative and inspirational thank you

[@ndl1324]

OMG EGG!! And that's just the DT grid! I can't wait to watch the build!

[@christoph90er]

Really looking good! :)

[@cieramist1]

Thank you so much for this video. I honestly learned WAY MORE than you might think

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Glad it was helpful! You are welcome :)

[@autoparts101]

Bro is single handedly keeping my motivation up to play cities:skylines

[@nightrider_]

Oh I love a downtown network video, which means downtown is coming soon! Honestly love this series, when I start a new city deciding on what to do next is the struggle for me. I just follow this series along on a different map, cause I don't want to just copy what you do, and I haven't abandoned that city yet. :D Really love the aesthetic of the road with palm trees next to the beach, it's gonna look even more beautiful once there are cims and buildings around it. This map is so beautiful with its beaches it's a shame we don't have a modular beach stuff dlc, I just want my cims to go to the beach and actually do something there dammit. xD Love the video Egg! Also 1:40 lol.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you Aeode! Glad to hear that :) Incoming skyline next week ;)

[@jamesmulholland540]

I went from playing games such as call of duty, gran turismo and dayz to city skylines and I've never looked back , definitely the most creative game I've ever played , would love to try it on pc

[@rbursell1]

Awesome... Luv this content

[@jonnyhallsworth]

This is the bit of this game that I struggle most with. I'm alright with suburbs and little town centres. Downtown always ends up being a nightmare.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Hopefully this can help! :D

[@bigalthecrusher]

Looking awesome as usual good Sir. Having a big IT cluster there as a back drop to some beachfront hotels and tourism would look killer. Also maybe nature reserve around that ring feature?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Solid ideas bro! Thank you :)

[@T.C.C.797]

That was very informative 👍 love tje the fact that you are helping others 😀

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thanks for watching, Tim!

[@T.C.C.797]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG not a problem I'll watch anything from you

[@macchi8882]

Thank you for this video man. I just subscribed to your channel. I love this game but i always find it hard to create wonderful grids like yours, given that i have an imagination of a 2 year old

[@Starmanw422007]

Howdie OE, that was a great build for this episode, It gives me ideas for my own city

[@claudiuprodan6855]

there are a lot of great CS youtubers, but you my dude, you have something special.... I like the way you build, explain, nice voice, I even like the thumbnails u use for this videos. I like Palaven a little more then other series, but all are great. Keep up the good work

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you so much man! Appreciate that. Glad to hear you're enjoying the videos!

[@martinbezuidenhout8696]

enjoyed this allot, txs. Gonna start a new city and this time its gonna look like yours (yea right)

[@brickscities3367]

Egg's cities always have some of the greatest infrastructure out there! I can't wait for the buildings.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Too kind man!

[@jivester88]

My kind of episode!

[@dbothefunsmith419]

So good.

[@ClareFlack]

Lol that clip and this is so helpful thank you 😊

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

No problem! Glad you thought so :)

[@liodesaxce8501]

It's great! You don't forget the console player! Great video has always 😄👍

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@skinniestfatman5641]

Whoever made this map is a worshiper of the Dark Gods of Chaos as there's a 8 point star of chaos lol, great video Egg gonna use this idea in my city

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Lol we can call it like Nurgle park or something? Thanks bro!

[@skinniestfatman5641]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG I love that idea, Papa Nurgle Park lol

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

@@skinniestfatman5641 isn't Nurgles realm called the Garden of Nurgle? Lol. We can go for that!

[@skinniestfatman5641]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG very true, that could very well work lol

[@MrSunshine251]

Great build Egg! Echoing many other people here, I often struggle with downtown builds myself - I either never quite get there population wise, or I stuff it up big time. Definitely some good knowledge to be picked up here! 👍 Just a thought, that "stonehengey" area on the edge of your downtown - would you consider making that a major botanical garden-style city park? Like, keep the structure, and lushness, but keep to "clean" and manicured city park paths and assets, as opposed to a nature reserve?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you bro! I love that idea for the Stonehengey bit!

[@Mike-mz9cm]

I think there's a lot of opportunity to make slip road exits from your ring road onto different downtown roads. In Seattle, the I-5 goes right by the downtown and has multiple ramps off the hwy right into the downtown. No big interchanges - just ramps of differing directions connecting with different downtown one-way roads. Good design actually.

[@TheGCDesigns]

Another banger... I would love if you ever had the time to put the music from these videos in to a Spotify list.... So chill.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

It's been on my to do list for a while! I'll get it sorted soon :)

[@TheGCDesigns]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG Yea I have a smaller one made up but only from the videos where you mentioned them in the video.

[@mikejones-xq6vw]

More great content Egg.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

More great comments, Mike! Thank you bro!

[@TasmanStacey]

this is awesome. what's your thinking on terminating boulevards in C:S? I love them IRL.

[@MagnumSXT85]

My Gawd that meme was priceless! 😂

[@EduardoSevero]

now this is my favorite part of cities skylines

[@AkiicToDaHead]

Overcharged Egg- The Bob Ross of Cities Skylines

[@piawarn5594]

Tack!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you so much my friend! Appreciate ya

[@max-lee]

i didnt do enough or any multilevel road. it looks great and lots of detailing you can do with it. Love the guide Egg. Just not a fan of the yellowness of vanilla. 😁

[@Craftycatz1289]

man Egg, you're the city skylines master

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you Emily!

[@Craftycatz1289]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG you're welcome

[@thesuperiorgolem5357]

diamond coast is the best map for beginners without dlc. Amazing map!

[@e.m.b.5090]

22:45 taking the sting out of the ring. Have you considered building, say, a hockey rink? Asking for an endlessly memeing friend...

[@Cypress_tuff418]

This is amazing, Just a question, What map is this?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Diamond Coast from the base game

[@OopsieNoob]

hello, a year late but i had question about the layout. i am already aware of road hiearchy, which im confused about in here. it seems you are goiny from highway to collector to local, skipping arterial. is this normal for downtown? and i noticed a lot of connections not far from the diamond interchange, wont that causr many traffic issues?

[@sebotay8018]

Dude's like the Bob Ross of city building

[@DaJeanius]

Green city High-end Luxury Condos right off of the 4 lane bike road bridge.

[@carminemg]

I'd like to see a feature in (if) skylines 2 where you can define land value.

[@jcosunshine]

#fencegang is pleased ❤💕❤💕

[@Xucaboa]

😸🙌

[@twaticunthearyou1]

What is series name? I came to this from a downtown build search and would love to see the rest of build

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Noobs guide playlist on my channel 😌

[@Koolfrogg]

"Suck up the Brown" should be the name of the downtown district

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Lets do it!

[@Jstache23]

Brodie your content is fire. This game I’m am seriously addict to. I drop NBA2K23 for this game. I have a request. I’ve been searching for “snap tool” tutorials but haven’t had good results (just mediocre). Do you plan and I’m asking if you can do one? (Loaded question but I’m a kid again with this game). Thanks in advance. Keeping pushing out content because I literally get better at this game. Appreciate it.

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thanks bro! I'm not sure about snap tool! You may just mean the snapping to mechanics like road guidelines, grid etc! Glad you're enjoying the series bro

[@Jstache23]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG ok. I’ve been watching your videos and I getting the hang of it. Thanks.

[@bradplayscities]

When that first skyscraper goes in

[@Liamd650]

I'm on ps5 and buying all the DLC as we go along. One thing though that is annoying me is the forest brush feature. I can delete single trees and worked out you can hold X but you have to line it up pretty well. It doesn't work for me once I go to the small ring brush though. Am I just a potato or am I missing something?

[@Matt.62]

I’m on PS4, but I would assume it’s the same on PS5: select any tree, switch to the largest brush, increase to the highest strength level, then hold square. This will start deleting trees within the brush radius!

[@scatmanpro]

You said that console players already have a trea brush. I did'nt know that. Where can you find it?

[@erikastamosiunas6410]

How to get the forest brush on xbox? I cant find it

[@Nick-xf8pn]

The video opened with a cim with a cane climbing a pedestrian overpass. Pedestrian overpasses are so clearly the wrong thing, once one realizes that disabled people also need to be able to cross roads. And yet cars, which can easily climb hills, are never the ones required to do it.

[@aims_]

Is there a reason why you don’t use those pier walls with stairs on the cliff sides next to the roads?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

No reason, just didn't include them here :) Totally could though! Would be tricky with the vanilla shoreline mechanic but quay anarchy would make that a ton easier!

[@aims_]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG Ah I see. Yea I could see how it would be tricky with vanilla’s mechanic. I was just curious tho. Love all your content Egg!

[@bannie11]

is this part of a series if so where to start ?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Yes it is, this is part 11. Here is the playlist : kzbin.info/aero/PLW9ZbMsZn0d5MGKEw9et_NKxhuEG6rC8e

[@bannie11]

thank you

[@GregBallotepitech]

It took me 3 cities to be able to create a downtown that worked fluently lol

[@portaltaker]

The Nollywood 😂😂

[@fsfx]

Is this vanilla? Where do the parking lots come from?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Green Cities DLC commercial zoning

[@sushantkadam]

Is there a way to get your save(s) for this video?

[@sushantkadam]

Love your videos! ❤️

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you bro! I release my save files every 10 episodes for subs (You can find this linked in the description of last weeks episode). Tier 3 Patreons receive every save file after each episode of all Cities series :)

[@radityabimopradipta1552]

map?

[@woltews]

the cage is called a truss so its a truss bridge this looks like a Pratt truss so it would be a Pratt truss bridge

[@jcosunshine]

Also, how is your day going?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Lmao Jennifer! It's going well thank you, how is yours!?

[@jcosunshine]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG going great so far!! I got up, went to the gym, did a little shop, you know just for my tea, I'll do a big shop tomorrow.....🤣🤣

[@heartofmadrid216]

after I watch a lot of videos i found out that I am too stupid to play this game .

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

You're not, it just takes time to get used to it. Keep at it, you'll find a playstyle that suits you :)

[@Craftycatz1289]

how about an Asian area, you know like a section of the city for Asian residents?

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Could a fun build in vanilla why not :)

[@Craftycatz1289]

@@OVERCHARGEDEGG yeah! Plus, I've noticed cities tend to have multi cultured places for people

[@AncalagonGames]

why are you running lol

[@kedoka6603]

As amazing as your builds are I find the satisfaction in looking at the overpass walkway between the Monorail 🚝 and the metro 🚇

[@raidermaxx2324]

jesus fuck your cities look so natural how do you do that im a hopeless city builder going back to play sim city :(

[@antoroy5626]

Love the mix of meme and palvalen Edit dont u think beach boulevard should have palm trees so it would be palm beach road Near that road the area would be called seawoods

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Thank you! I love the names :)

[@antoroy5626]

These are real places where I live new bombay in India 🇮🇳 🙌