How to START your CITY! - Easy Road Layout/Tutorial [ENGLISH/GERMAN] | Cities: Skylines

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[@cryptotim9259]

Anyone who has yet to play this game - be warned, it sucks hundreds of hours of your life into a black hole. But, I always come back for more! So satisfying improving traffic flow for some reason :-)

[@Ant-fe7ku]

yeah i love fixing bad traffic jams

[@Thorpe]

Half of that time is spent making a spaghetti of roads trying to solve traffic jams.

[@chiefkeefgaming2005]

i dont know how to fix traffic and ive played for 52 hours (most loading)

[@scott31312]

Gamers have no life. If you have a life you are no gamer.Warlord Babyvace Lightinghoof server World of Warcraft.

[@ShortsAndSweater]

Main goal of game is maintaining 85% traffic no ?

[@mark-andrehenault7158]

Thank you for this vid. No bullshit intro that takes 5 minutes. You go straight into it. Clear, quick and precise.

[@NvidiATI]

To the point, yes. Exchange the water pump and sewer outlet...

[@black_beast4129]

Mark-Andre Hanault I highly agree

[@amyfung3823]

Yeah there’s no dlcs either! Did you notice?

[@xacfierz]

2:38 when you see "Poo" you can't unsee it

[@Sand.Springs]

xD

[@benjibean8431]

You are so right.

[@sskofu]

XDDDDDDD

[@krisizcelja]

P()[]

[@madingwang7778]

Greg C RTgame has joined the chat *Why do I hear country roads?*

[@Wolta]

My tip would be to place dirt roads first (even on the freeway connection), it's the cheapest road, so if you make a mistake you can demolish it no worries about money. It's also fine to keep the roads dirt until your first milestone, that's usually when I start upgrading the roads. The only limitation with dirt roads is that you can't make tunnels out of dirt roads, only bridges. But usually when I need to tunnel, I'll be at a milestone, or have enough money for normal roads anyway.

[@777TRUTHSPOKEN]

Straight to the point. No talk. No fluff. Shows you the simple mechanics of getting started. Thank you!

[@montyn1281]

This works for the beginning, however later on when you have more traffic this will cause some issues. Nice video though!

[@kovacsgergo8648]

Then what is a good layout? I can’t build a city without traffic issues... feels like this game requires to be Einstein

[@Hu1ud]

Kovacs Gergo intersections too close together is the most common problem people make for themselves

[@TheLinkeX]

@@Hu1ud Thats what I was thinking watching this, I was told in another video you don't want to place intersections too close, which this build does for funsies

[@AshK457]

@@TheLinkeX I tested this layout and you're right, had to take out a lot of intersections along main roads for traffic flow.

[@Trpmanne]

Roads are so fucking complicated!!!

[@birphon]

> Copies exactly > Keeps going - in money > Starts going - in People > Dont have enough $ to build residential > Cant even make it to the 1st milestone > Gets annoyed > Alt F4's > Crys in corner

[@Nelvooo]

True story xD

[@bigbadbear2962]

Residential dosent cost anything xD

[@vasacarapicc]

But you gotta pay the roads.

[@SquidCena]

Cringe...

[@WHatTheFyak]

KoopaTheTurtle I could tell you a in game mod or if you know it it’s called infinite money never runs out you just go to content manager and add unlimited money and you don’t need to be sad

[@battlestar79]

I did not start my first city by building another interchange after the one provided at the game start. I continued the road as an expressway with no zoning on it. But I did leave plenty of undeveloped corridor space to later build it to a freeway design, starting from the original T-interchange. Much later on, upon buying more surrounding land parcels, the original game supplied T-interchange got rebuilt to a full 4-way interchange with fly overs. Also, my arterial road intersection spacing and freeway interchange spacing are much greater than whats shown here. Distances between arterial road signalized intersections is at least 4x what was shown here. Then often use a 4-lane (2lanes each way) wide road segment to act as an entrance or a collector road to a neighbourhood from the arterial. Then 2-lane local roads (1 lane each way) within the neighbourhood. Rarely do I connect the small 2-lane roads directly to the 6-lane (3 lane each way) roads. Neighbourhoods are built as cells to prevent community vehicle traffic shortcutting. But pedestrian trails provide shortcuts for people to get from inside the community to the main roads where commercial stores, offices are located and buses are running. Elementary schools are built in the neighbourhood, not on a arterial road. Distances between an interchange on ramp and the next off ramp on my cities are much greater, about 400m with an added auxiliary weaving lane between the ramps. The ramps are built long enough to allow vehicles to exit at 100km/h then transition to 80km/h then widens out to 4-lanes for turning movements at 60km/h at the signal intersection. This makes for smooth traffic flow at high speeds. Exit ramps are either single lane or 2-lane at the gore diverge point. (The gore zone is where the ramp physically splits off from or onto the freeway mainline).

[@kylanhendrix]

^^This sums up my whole city. I do the same thing you do and it really does help alot for when you city expands. Highway "right of way" is a must

[@bahamutbbob]

I've not played this game in forever, and I remember starting a city being the hardest part. This video helped me barely make it to the first milestone, which got me a cash bonus which let me keep going. Thanks for helping me waste all my time! (I mean it, I love this game, just haven't played it in years!)

[@ziljin]

I like this interchange. Nice and simple. Doesn't use too much room. But better to build it closer to the middle of the tile and spread out from there. That way the traffic can spread out in all directions.

[@angel102ify]

but by the time you need to spread out that much you can also buy neighbouring zones to expand your city as you get each milestone anyway.

[@_M_o_n_k_e]

Step 1: Build a road. You are welcome 🙂

[@ace_callahan]

I've just realized that I'm playing Cities Skylines for one year and I'm doing everything BAD with starting a new city...

[@Nelvooo]

Haha no problem, just try new things :D

[@ace_callahan]

Nelvo I will try. Thanks!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

One suggestion is if you make the narrow blocks 11 units wide and 22 units long you'll get the maximum efficiency out of your water pipes (one pipe every 2 short blocks or 1 long block) AND have space available for alleys, back garden paths, etc.

[@nicolasbergeron2571]

This is a good start and offers enough space to upgrade work the layout of your main roads before things get hairy. Personally, I think it looks nice so that's a win. If I was using this starting layout, I would turn it into a cash cow to fuel a more intricate design district :)

[@videomaker5167]

Nice, I usually have the habit of adding a roundabout at the entrance to the map, but it gets jammed later in the game. Thanks for the ideas for a town on the main road man. Ich merke, dass ich doch nicht so gut bin, als ich dachte (und ich dachte, dass ich schon sehr schlecht war)

[@Nelvooo]

A Roundabout in C:S Is not good always :D! Especially not at the beginning, later this is a huge traffic jam :D! No problem and thank you for your comment :)!

[@videomaker5167]

Nelvo people say that roundabouts in C:S are useless without highway road but if you use tmpe correctly it works Würde auch gerne eine mehr detaillierte Version von dieser Tutorial sehen

[@asmylia9880]

Nelvo I actually never had issues with roundabouts in CS

[@israelrael7084]

video maker

[@Hoggster26]

I do the same. But I gotta look at new ideas now

[@battlestar79]

Wide or tight diamonds with 2 signalled intersections and 4 ramps are the simplest space saving interchanges for urban areas. Modifications of it include the single point interchange that has 4 ramps but one single signal over/under the freeway, or the 4-point wide diamond which has 4 ramps and 4 signalized intersections, usually located at a pair of intersecting one-way roads or a divided road that speads out wider at the interchange. Another modification has round abouts instead of signals at the ramp intersections. But at start of game play, I do not spend money building any interchanges. The point is to develop your city in step with demand. Budgets are tighter at the beginning of the game, which is also true of any real life community or project, and there are occasional recessions in the game where there is little or no demand for development growth, meaning you still have expenses to pay for, but little ability to gain new revenue. You want to minimize any throw away costs when building your roads or infrastructure too. Building then destroying over and over to get something right wastes money and time. My advice to the perfectionists at start of game play is to get things to a reasonable functional standard first while your budget is limited, and later when revenues are higher, then go back and look at making things perfect or upgrading. But obviously, try to build it right the first time without having to demolish or replace is the best strategy. Its how things get done in the real world. A big TO DO is pick your ultimate road width first. DO NOT start with a small 2 lane wide road and develop all along it, then decide later to widen the road to 4 or 6 lanes wide. All your developed buildings will be lost and your civic infrastructure buildings will have to be relocated. Note that things like grave yards and land fills are very difficult to deal with after they are filling up.

[@ianpatrick4397]

This helps me everytime I get started. I am horrible at starting a map out and just needed a guide to stay in the green till i build up

[@muhammadridhowaradana9847]

Finally ! As a beginner, I like these type of video.

[@Nelvooo]

Thanks for your comment :D

[@ChrisTian-co4oc]

Building that road cross at beginning looks like pro. The exact opposite than i'm doing.

[@TheHengeProphet]

This is a solid starting design but could lead to traffic issues down the road (har har). If you rotate the blocks so that they intersect with the main road every 20 units instead of every 10, you will have the same effect, but with fewer traffic issues later as your arterial road will be less clogged.

[@slatchsworld4114]

Hi Nelvo, it is a verry good T-Vid. for the beginners they want to start this game, and here can they learn step by step. A good idea, to catch new Abos. ;o) sorry for my bad english... dann lieber auf deutsch... Schön, daß Du auch die Neuanfänger von diesem (meiner Meinung nach) mit Abstand wirklich besten Städteaufbauspiel unterstützen möchtest/tust. Dieses Spiel bietet so viel mehr, als "nur" eine Städteaufbau-Simulation zu sein. Hat man erstmal seine creative Ader endeckt, und den Workshop an der Oberfläche angekratzt, wird es auch für "jetzt noch" Neueinsteiger kein Halten mehr geben. An dieser Stelle möchte ich ein tausendfachen Dank an die vielen vielen Modder aussprechen, die uns so viele schöne, und nützliche Mods, Assets, etc. beschert haben. Also lieben Dank Nelvo, daß Du der Community hilfst weiter wachsen zu können. mfG Slatch

[@Nelvooo]

Danke, danke, danke Slatch! Ja, es ist zu 100% das beste Städteaufbauspiel, vorallem mit allen DLCs bietet es einen unglaubliche Vielfalt in alle Bereichen der Stadtplanung :)! 1 Danke an die Modder wird ganricht reichen, aber ohne Sie, könnten wir das Spiel nicht effizienter und vorallem oft realistischer Machen!! :) Danke wieder für deinen Kommentar! Habe dich bereits als mit aktivsten Abonnent wahrgenommen und gespeichert, und der der die längsten Kommentare schreibt! :) Natürlich gibt es auch paar wenige andere, aber ich freue mich über jeden Kommentar :)! Und falls ich bei den ganzen Kommentaren, die reinkommen, dich mal übersehe, dann nicht weil ich dir nicht antworten wollte, sondern weil ich es einfach überseh! :)

[@dlwatib]

The diamond interchange is too close to the T-bone interchange. Give your cims at least two nodes of straight road for lane changing between interchanges. Also, you don't have to build the diamond interchange first thing. Just save space for it for when you've got more money. Build a 4-way intersection at first, which will last you at least a couple of milestones. Heck, you don't even need paved roads to start with. Gravel works fine for a hamlet.

[@МихайлоСоловйов-и7н]

Thanks for this video! Your tutorial helped me to start my city!

[@nexxsam]

Thank you so much as I just bought Cities Skylines.

[@Nelvooo]

No problem, have fun with playing :)

[@bloodbrothers1779]

Just an advice for anyone reading me, not for mod player 😄 & if u wanna take thing naturally: Zone slowly & little by little either for Resi,Comm or factories. I zoned for 5 houses(low+high), 1 comm, 3 factories+1 or 2 offices by every month in-game time. So my population growth is balanced. This method especially works very well for residential, greatly decrease the effect of DEATH WAVE. In the same time u'll see great amount of your population, because the houses are developing very well. When death wave can be controlled, ur hearses can reach those houses right in time, death wave will not be a problem anymore. If everyone is dying inthe same time, hearses will not reach them fast added with traffic & that will slow down population growth. It might take very slow & longer time but eventually u can happily manage ur cities.

[@Random-Drop]

I know I can start a channel if this is up here. Thanks for the motivation!

[@ferrenberg]

Nice layout for beginners and a perfect choice of map!

[@Nelvooo]

Thank you very much for a comment again from you :)!!

[@isabelgomes4921]

thank you! I really have a problem with roads, that helped me a lot

[@tamaskolossa2115]

Awesome! Thank You!

[@dieutuenguyen4826]

The best way to build a city without traffic is roundabout and more road choice. If you have a map that have 2 high way, don't connect it you should make a road for them because they will use your high way for shortcut, make traffic stuck.

[@dieutuenguyen4826]

Build industrian near the exit home after that.

[@artifaxxor907]

Great video, i really enjoyed watching it!

[@minithebest1912]

This is great content! Keep it up and I will subscribe!

[@waszka6132]

I wouldn't make 3 intersections on the right side of the city, because later on they will be traffic there.

[@Nelvooo]

At the beginning of your city, you dont can build the perfect traffic flow roads :)

[@waszka6132]

Yeah that true, but it's better to have it ready for later. Greetings from Poland!

[@phongnguyexn4540]

Great layout to start!

[@sanjuuuu_e]

You should do a video showing us the mods that you use and the mods that you recommend. Love your video

[@killianb8115]

Very nice, thanks !!

[@venotube2123]

This was super helpful !

[@wach9191]

I don't recommend you to start city with this junction, it looks nice but will cause traffic very soon. Use ones where cars don't need to cross lines and there are no traffic lights.

[@nickfinizio4308]

Kristiano Bertucci so would you use a highway instead of large roads?

[@wach9191]

I use roundabouts and bridges. I build cities with up to 120 000 pop that has almost no traffic. I can't go more due to lag.

[@laylamarie2951]

Kristiano Bertucci I see what you mean but, if you expand you land you have more natural spawned highway which you can make into your city entrance so to stop the traffic just make about 5 city entrances (Mind: Sorry that was bad😂!).

[@magnuscord]

not nice for me -_-

[@MartinSparkes-BadDragon]

The one thing is his interchange has plenty of space to upgrade it.

[@smilykeks7284]

Nice idea with the big street and the smaller once to the city/industry

[@grobsser]

Nice street Idea 😊

[@larsverschoor]

You need less commercial zone than residential (If that sentence isn't correct, I am Just a dutch boy who's very bad in english...) (No hate)

[@larsverschoor]

Ik hate IT that you can't download mods on PS4 (All consoles can't)

[@Neobahamutfr36]

Nice little town :) I'm fairly new on this game, so there are some things i don't master yet, but your video give me some good ideas ^^

[@AdrianTorres-kl6tx]

You are incredible!! Thanks for tutorial

[@kQuantumK]

Thanks for the tutorial. I always struggle of figuring out how to start a new game/map

[@Nelvooo]

No problem, for this i made that tutorial :D

[@baderalyahagamer]

Wooooooow great

[@louisbloom4088]

I wonder what the thought process was when deciding part of the video would be in normal speed and the other part would be so fast its impossible to follow along without difficulty

I wonder what common sense would do in that situation? It's pretty easy to figure out, man. Also, if you're not patient enough to watch a video a few times to confirm, then don't bother playing the game, cause it's all about that patience. XD

[@Sole_The_Wolf_1978]

Louis Bloom you can slow down the video by clicking on the 3 dots and then clicking on playback speed

[@louisbloom4088]

Why did people assume I wasn't smart enough to figure a way around it? Just because it can be worked around doesn't mean it wasnt a mistake made by the video creator

[@louisbloom4088]

@ I know this comment is 9 months old but I have to point out how dumb you are to assume so much in your comment

[@KorayBartowski]

Çok güzel sakin bir kasaba oldu. 🤩👍

[@dnyaneshwaraware417]

Very nice presentation.

[@SimonJones265]

nice start

[@emuwuno]

Thanks this helped me so much!

[@chadrada7647]

The only thing I differ of is that I would had put horizontal blocks to avoid having many close intersections to avoid traffic

[@dembonez19]

tbh, I never know what the heck to do about connecting the existing highway to my city, so...this is a good suggestion. lol

[@kylechan86]

This helped me very much.

[@MrEpic-qe2tt]

Tip: Build a water tower instead of a water pump, you can save money that way. Once you have more money and your newer citizens don't have enough water, then get a pump.

[@starsstorms9918]

You 'll still need a sewage tho

[@MrEpic-qe2tt]

A Cat With A Bongo It'll still cost less.

[@zacharywidener]

Nice video. I just subscribed.

[@andrade.gabrielll]

Thank you!

[@SteelyGlow]

It's not very good idea to face growable buildings and facilities to big roads - it will generate extra traffic in future. Place buildings mostly on short dead end streets and leave some room around supposedly busy intersections - you might need to upgrade them to roundabouts later. Place industry and cargo stations on one way slip roads far enough from intersections to prevent traffic jams. Make some room between buildings, i.e. 4 units zoned, 2-3 units empty, and so on.

[@arnefehm4926]

should have named the video "how to pass out because you drank to liters of horsepiss yesterday"

[@Gamingshorts83-f6n]

Nelvo gutes video

[@hyljix]

That road pack looks amazing but i can't find it..

[@Sentoki83]

Hy auch wenns ein paar tage alt, ist das Filmchen schön gemacht. Doch du wirst ein kleines traffic problem bekommen und das schin zu Beginn die eine Brücke isz das problem.. Aber ansonsten hab ich das ganze mal nachgebaut und muss sagen es läuft. Umbauen kann man ja immer wenn das nötige geld dann da ist. So und nun weiterschauen und aktuelle Filmchen suchen.

[@kacek]

I love your videos

[@Nelvooo]

Thaaank you :D

[@Rhovanion85]

I always wondered if it's important how the water pipes are connected. Because you hear a 'bling' when you connect some...

[@azurekau]

My city is the the worst city ever made in City Skylines, but... the traffic flows brilliantly and It's very easily accessible.

[@Ant-fe7ku]

I love the traffic jams,i love solving them.

[@mayupic3403]

cool!!!

[@rashidjalaljalaluddin]

Nice designs

[@Axel-ki1nr]

What’s the road mod there ? Looks amazing

[@j4wo055]

Cool tutorial

[@jessy079]

Nice video but can we have the continuation ? Because i think it could be a problem if you have only one road to connect industrial with commercial and habitation zones :/

[@vizrajr3668]

Good advise, thank you!

[@lukeattractions4221]

Hi Ist ein cooles Video echt gut gemacht 👍 Kannst du mir nur sagen wie das texture Pack heißt weil die Straßen usw sehen echt viel geiler aus als normal LG Lukas

[@TheDigitalThreat]

Starting out first thing a rookie should be doing is placing electricity and water pump/sewage. Cant count how many fresh start layouts I ruined because I forgot to save some cash to build those, and ended up with beautiful empty roads and no people populating the city for what seemed like years of debt to make up for that initial oopsie~

[@badetmartirez2154]

Short video but its very usefull

[@otsukamiki548]

Top Top Top!

[@Kanyeforpresident-hd5ms]

0:52 I’m already confused at how u did that (I’m on PS4 btw)

[@tardsauce8954]

If your talking about the change direction thing hes using one way roads and changing the direction by holding triangle and pressing change direction in the road menu

[@ericaabbott7458]

zackscottgames

[@thatflemishdude4034]

It always says Distance To Short. I cant build roads. Plz help me.

[@les69op]

It's nice and easy to start, problems will come later… ;)

[@Ant-fe7ku]

good layout i like it,i just use infinite money and go on my favourite map and use different layouts to see which works the best.

[@itskrylix579]

If this is full with people and building what do I do after and btw how does this benefit in any way plz answer fast

[@arakwar]

I always thought we needed population to unlock roads. Damn.

[@DeceasedDuck]

the battery is also good edit: watch conflictnerd’s video on it

[@0x4e696b]

Did not work for me somehow. No Buildings were built in the industrial zone whysoever.

[@DeceasedDuck]

Nik Zingg was there demand for industrial

[@MrGhoosty]

Nice move, go continued :D

[@konmonglo8348]

*Warning 1* *Warning 2* Includes Mods. Waste's alot of money If you want a non moded way to start your city. just do it your self! Deutsche Übersetzung *Warnung 1* *Warnung 2* Enthält Mods. Waste ist viel Geld Wenn Sie einen unmodernen Weg haben möchten, Ihre Stadt zu gründen. Mach es einfach selbst!

[@CheqqaN]

Unmodernen Weg 😂😂😂

[@brandtleyzoch4863]

The key to road is the can't be on top of each other and back to back to back to back intersections don't help lol

[@TairnKA]

Your "Industry" didn't have yellow ground around it, maybe it will later? ;-) I've just started playing and I'm in a testing process on how things work, what mods, assets, etc... to download ($$?). Is it possible to create a "Default" page with all the toolbar features (fire, police, garbage, etc...), assets and mods (I've picked) active? Does everyone (inc. experienced players) need to start from scratch on every city they create or do they have something like I suggested above?

[@stevengalloway8052]

How in the world do you work that Curb Mod? Your curbs really stand out!

[@blama6672]

why didn't he connect the pumps to the electricity?

[@thegameraddict7189]

you got a new sub! i re-started playing this after 2 years and mostly forgot all commands and tricks LOL, anyhow, could you pls post your mods list so i can get up to date? THX

[@jekmasterhackboys6780]

good job

[@arminlejeckson4256]

So schön gemacht aber warum auf einmal so schnell dass man garnix sehen kann? So ein geiles Idee und map aber leider alles sinnlos weil man nach 3 Minuten nix mehr sehen kann Schade

[@jeronimosuarezr.9515]

Hi, I have a question, the traffic light that appears on the top left is a mod? and if it is a mod please leave the link of the mod Thank you

[@Nelvooo]

Its "Traffic Manager: Presdient Edition" :)

[@delugesofgrandeur]

As with every other video like this, be prepared to bulldoze, rip out streets and move a ton of shit around. There's really no wrong way to start a city if you're going to do it like this since all you're really doing is unlocking things by hitting milestones and saving money. The best way way to start your city is to plan for it! Plan for widening roads, keep your industrial and commercial away from your residential zones and have at least a semblance of a plan for how you want your roads to be laid out.

[@HungryGuyStories]

I have the same problem in Tropico 6. Sometimes, it just won't let me connect one road intersecting another to make an intersection.

[@klarastimelapses]

Noice

[@Nelvooo]

Thanks :D

[@4allstuffgames209]

Everything traffic based in cities should be approved by biffa if its not well your city will eventually fail

[@elijaha773]

Last time I checked the game you don't get 1-way roads until the 1st milestone so... kinda unhelpful?

[@charliekidd2867]

Thank you I am asking Santa for city skilines

[@odin5255]

what is that road mod called? (If possible, can you link?)

[@特命鬼謀]

great！

[@Nelvooo]

Thx!

[@Angellopez-pl7nj]

How did you make up money in the the end I'm stuck at -6k and cant do anything

[@denver3739]

Not sure if you ever figured it out, but when you are going negative you do have the option to wait and you will be offered a bailout. HOWEVER it does remove achievements for the rest of that game. But it's a nice little 50k (Which comes at -10k i think).