Watch a RUINED City Grow & Flourish! Cities: Skylines Fix Your City

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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

[@CyFr]

should really just turn off the bus depots... I think that disables all the bus lines without deleting them.

[@justalfi5418]

Another season CS please😍

[@mitjakoren1213]

traffic and services need fixing and try to get into greeen numbers ;P (130k+ residents) steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1721986269

[@BandidoDescalzo]

I lifted a comment on one of your other videos but this one has slightly fewer replays so I'm putting this here too. I have a city that has a huge problem with healthcare and I have tried everything I can think of to fix it. It's one I have been working on for a long time and would really like to get working fully again. I haven't uploaded it to the workshop yet but if you would like to try fixing it I will.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks for sending in your city, I will take a look :-)

[@patodanos]

It's 1 am, I have to work tomorrow, and I don't even play Cities Skylines. WTF am i doing here

[@jakecastillo6731]

dude me too. its 2:14 am and I wake up at 9. never heard of this game in my life but god damn is he entertaining

[@TheDowntimesfl]

100%, I don;t play this game but watch Biffa play it all the time. Its memorizing.

[@neilonaniet]

@@TheDowntimesfl Memorizing ...

[@SavageKingsvge]

It's 2 am for me

[@kumar1400]

It's pure entertainment to watch. That's all about

[@ersyadiaz]

"your traffic is absolutely brilliant. probably because there's no people here" dang bruh, you're just too savage lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:P

[@Silxerrs7]

God one

[@thewalnutbucket]

@The smore emperor building level increases money received from taxes. Land value will affect people moving in and whether they upgrade the buildings or not

[@donaldduckrobox5228]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines wow

[@tittartone]

Pretty much sum up to real life city called Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar. Google it lol

[@mrgreenbone]

"The cat stays, everybody, the cat stays"

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@ThatCarGuy1983]

... But did it look happier after?

[@jamesbarbour7430]

Cat lives matter.

[@unserkatzenland8884]

Meow:)

[@tyrannatom9802]

U good?

[@riannaHermione]

That was a miraculous save, dude! **** As for others trying to unlock certain buildings that wreck your city: SAVE BEFORE you start to go down that path. Once you get it unlocked, load your save. The building will stay unlocked!****

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 😀

[@Dozer4200]

"This is a beeaaauuutiful city ....apart from the death and destruction"

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:P

[@daviddima6067]

-biffa 2019

[@solngv8]

I had my drink shoot through my nose when Biffa said that.

[@jayextarys8616]

@@solngv8 Same! I laughed a little too much on that one.

[@isaklovland]

Reminded me of Wheatley from Portal 2

[@MuradBeybalaev]

It's the insane taxes season. Time to move out of town for a bit.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Except you can't move out of town because you're in a fixed several year mortgage, your kids are in the middle of the school year, you have no job offers in other cities (or the time to go to job interviews in other cities), you don't have the money to move and no one would buy your house if you sold anyway because demand for houses is so low

[@ar_ytb]

@@SurprisinglyDeep wow man you really don't get jokes

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

@@ar_ytb No I get jokes. I was replying to his joke with a joke of my own. Granted if he was making a joke about the game mechanics of Cities Skylines rather than a joke about real life politics, my joke is not a good humorous reply

[@kys3264]

@@SurprisinglyDeep nah man it was a brilliant joke that dude just didnt get it

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

@@edb_4472 Upvoted (for some reason it didn't show)

[@chetanaik]

This city was truly beautiful, a bustling downtown core and lovely hamlets nestled in the hills. Great job on recovering it from the brink of collapse (although it still maintained an eerie beauty post-abandonment)!

[@denvera1g1]

I use a mod, i cant recall the name, where the roads carry power. which isnt unheard of in the real world for the power distribution to be underneath or along side and part of the road infrastructure

[@512TheWolf512]

That should also increase their cost for realism sake, or have separate powered and non-powered roads

[@dvorgur]

Thats a really great mod, in real big cities power and water goes under the road. they should at least implement underground powerlines!

[@matheussiqueira8929]

The name of the mod is Eletric Roads, and yes, it is great. You can choose which roads are powered, so you can make it not so cheat

[@UltraGamma25]

@@dvorgur Most developed areas without powerlines already do that

[@TheShadowblast123]

@@UltraGamma25 I think he meant in the game, not in the real world

[@clepperM]

My tip like your tax tip is to leave services at average percentages during the day, but have them cranked up at night. You'll start losing money toward the end of the night, but buildings will upgrade and people will move in like crazy during the evening so you'll make more money the next day. Cheers.

[@EvilDaveCanada]

Have you tried that yourself? I forget about day & night cycles as I never have the sun go down.

[@DragonNutz420]

I just save the city in all its glory, then let it die out to get the plaza. Reload the last save and the plaza is available without having to recover the dead city lol. Am I the only one?

[@SianaGearz]

I think that's actually the intended path.

[@lewsee5562]

Or... do it the modded way and enable the "No Abandonment" mod. It's cheating, but I got the plaza yoh

[@offgridgecko]

My understanding from the wiki is that unlocked is unlocked. You can start a different map and just run without healthcare for a bit... Going to unlock some plazas right quick, brb

[@arvindhmani06]

I think I managed to get the plaza in one of my earliest cities by inadvertently pumping sewage water to my citizens

[@notrod5341]

@@arvindhmani06 You and me both. I saw that industry requires more water and decided to place a water tower right next to all my industry buildings. But at least I got the plaza!

[@johannesdolch]

Can we talk a second about the fact that the previous mayor, or lets call him megalomaniac psychopath, tanked a whole city because he wanted a prestige project, lol. Is he still alive or did the people string him up on a light pole?

[@BananaFondler]

They’re too far below him after all his prestigious achievements to catch him.

[@raultoichoa1574]

"Oh this highschool has students, leave that one on." Austerity done properly.

[@tom23rd]

As a new player who routinely ends up with cities like this one, this video is invaluable to me.

[@cajulopes1035]

This city is GORGEOUS. Also loved the map, anyone knows what map is this?

[@jespersvensson3670]

Its called Flotopia, you can find it in Steam Workshop

[@TheWinjin]

@@jespersvensson3670I could actually give it a try as well, it really looks quite gorgeous, I'm afraid I would be scared to build onto it, really, it's all so real and natural, mine would be all straight lines, none of those pretty natural curves. A true Magnum Opus. However, did you check, is it there at the same state Biffa receives it, or is it squeaky clean and up and running?

[@jespersvensson3670]

@@TheWinjin You can actually find both versions there. The original one, and the fixed one. Tried both of them but was stuck on loading screen. I guess I'm missing some mods or add-ons, but couldn't figure out which ones. If you get it to work, please let me know, I'd love to continue on this map aswell!

[@nickconline]

Kerrisdale Bay by Sidai is the base map

[@Jablicek]

I was on the fence about Cities: Skylines, but you convinced me with your lovely roundabouts and general traffic fixes. What really clinched it was discovering that it's possible to set the game to right-hand drive. Now, to lose my weekend...

[@kittipatjittboon8253]

Is this what they call "Government Shut Down"?

[@mikelewis495]

No it's called legal plunder.

[@justamoose220]

Saving a dead city after the Thanos snap.

[@TwoCraZyEyes0]

Bro that would be an awesome addition to the disasters

[@titanicseaturtle3808]

@@TwoCraZyEyes0 yes!

[@grundergesellscahftmkii6196]

Biffa, please became mayor of Detroit! Edit: thank you for the correction

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

Mayor

[@ye7170]

Major

[@razaelll]

I was gonna say that lol

[@hiveminded741]

Forced donations from all citizens and businesses will do that

[@e1123581321345589144]

@@hiveminded741 "forced donations" that's basically taxes.

[@funnyguy9711]

My IRL city needs fixing. Can you do that too?

[@elkappa8462]

Detroit?

[@ryancooper9930]

No its gotta be Denver

[@RandomPantsFoto]

It's always so interesting to see how someone else plays a map that I also have. Our cities are so, soooo different. I will say, that is, by far, my favorite map in this game!

[@kdmq]

I was having something like this happening in Sim City 4 where people just up and started moving out and couldn't for the life of me find what need was not being meant then I looked way down the list and found that the city was full of dead people I didn't know you needed crematoriums/cemeteries. Put a couple of those down and the city started booming again.

[@lunaryork2615]

No industry challenge and only imports from cargo trains/planes/boats

[@ziri9613]

Basically a third world country.

[@MeDicen_Rocha]

Sounds interesting and it will work. I have done it once or twice but with land conections. So it will be interesting to see.

[@decrobyron]

@@ziri9613 Or city state like Singapore or Vatican city. They might have very few but majority comes from other country.

[@siloPIRATE]

I'm basically playing this. I hadn't built almost no industry until I reached 50k population (I had some at the beginning, but then to start, then destroyed it and refused to build more until much later at which time I built a little and now I've built farms) . Virtually everything was imported until then and I made money from tax. Now the city exports agriculture and imports everything else.

[@ziri9613]

@@siloPIRATE at least you can self-sustain now

[@nealjroberts4050]

That looked hard. Shows how much easier it is to wreck than save a city. Keep these coming!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@justinokraski3796]

You don't need the bailout as long as you balance your budget and have the patience to rebuild. I had a city recover from a $2 million debt and renamed it "Phoenix City"

[@TheWinjin]

How does the gameover occur, then? Can you bust the city so bad you're, like, impeached or arrested?

[@SianaGearz]

@@TheWinjin To my knowledge there is no game-over screen at all. You might however run into a situation in which you can no longer recover your city from the state of decay (unless you put it on unlimited money) - and obviously you can't build anything if you have no money.

[@timenchanter1983]

Yeah, this game has one of the best 'Game Over' mechanics in that it just lets you keep going until you give up and admit defeat. As long as you know you will eventually return to green just keep declining the bailouts.

[@stevespain6445]

A second beautiful city - again so refreshing. Thanks to the creator. Biffa, when you next do a series of building your own city - can there be a focus on making it the most beautiful city possible. So every district follows the contours of the land, land values are high, etc?

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

one thing i know you really want to do when repopulating like this is to disable tons of buildings you dont need at the moment, like power and water as they will only serve to bleed money.

[@lockingfine]

this reminds me of my old SimCity game on my old SNES - trying to get to a 500,000 population on ANY map was such a ball buster and I managed to do it a few time but you need a map with a lot of landmass and not much water to have a chance at that milestone.I think I would love to try this game out if I ever have the time to go find it that is.Keep the great city vids coming!

[@kukri1877]

13:50 "Yea, I know you're unhappy; it's tough" - Biffa, 2019

[@colinaylward9582]

I still watch these videos as if they came out yesterday haha. This is one hell of a talent to have reviving cities like this!

[@HLWilliams]

lol, it really bothered me the whole time that he didnt realize this was literally the map he had done a let's play for, I was screaming at the screen like "THIS IS YOUR MAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" so glad he was able to get it fixed, that was awesome

[@monsterofvalhalla3397]

Great vid biffa... literally brought It back from the dead... a nice change I bet from fixing that traffic all the time.

[@tegguna]

Loved the video and how invested you got :-D I was confused why you didn't turn off the train stations after deleting the line.

[@unknow11712]

i think he wanted to be able to recuperate it at moment notice, without spending more money to rebuild it .

[@hkr667]

@@unknow11712 He said 'turn off', not delete.

[@unknow11712]

@@hkr667 i'm confuse myself, but i think its edit power .

[@clepperM]

Because he was flying by the seat of his pants for "entertainment's" sake. Seems it worked on you.

[@azera55555]

The Detroit of cities skylines! So cool to see you bring it back along with Detroit in real life

[@driesvanwijck]

Before this one I had only watched the traffic fixing videos but this is cool man. Lovely to see how it's almost exciting to see if the city will make it or not hahaha. Good job!

[@breshkotashmal7362]

2:26 "This is a beautiful city...apart from all the death and destruction". Too funny!

[@Simion1206]

nice video, as always. One suggestion to: I would have liked to see the Simulation run further, maybe right at the end?

[@samiraperi467]

0:33 A bidirectional roundabout? HERESY!

[@matsui90]

Look up "the magic roundabout" in the UK.

[@razielryuki8703]

Should rename the city to Lazarus, nice job! And some useful tips/tricks for the tool box.

[@jakobfalthammar8357]

I just stumbled upon your channel and found it very interesting to watch. I've heard of Cities: Skyline but haven't played it before and I'm amazed by how detailed it is with the amount of options and information. Must be tremendously hard to start playing this and learn what to do with it all... Anyhow, this is really fascinating so you just found yourself a new viewer. :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Jakob Fälthammar :-)

[@giganticwing878]

Thanks Biffa for all these video's they have really helped me save my city from complete disaster. I have been playing Cityskylines only a month. My citizens were getting sick all the time and I think it was a pollution problem. Then public transport never worked neither did the police and medical clinic they never sent out cops or ambulance's. So thanks again this was a very helpfull video

[@mikaelgaiason688]

Lol I unlocked the Lazaret in my very first city. Built it up and then ignored it and let it run overnight just to see what would happen. It collapsed, but the next city got a plaza.

[@grumpymedik]

The ability to trouble shoot is always a bonus. It is easy to forget the most simple and obvious things when there is so much going on. The huge adjustments you make in order to gain a building can most certainly take a huge decline in your city. It is a huge risk you take. Great job Biffa at saving this city. As you said, it is a beautiful city and very well planned and mapped out. Well done to the gamer who's game it is.

[@pRo9aMeR]

Very good tip about temporarily taxing them! not just for speedrunning! Great City Save Biffa!

[@jennybachmann9047]

Good job for saving this beautiful city, Biffa! And good job, Gottkönig Adonis for building it in the first place :)

[@aaronmicalowe]

Lol, I used to use the same tax trick in the original Sim City in 1985 :o)

[@stevengalloway8052]

Your ultimate fix so far, Biffa! I'm sure you had quite the ball in deleting things (as is your method at times). 😆 Though on the part of the city builder, I wonder why they'd have TWO airports. 🤔 One international airport is enough.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😀👍

[@SickSkilz]

I think it would be really cool to see a fix of the same city but with all of the adjustments made immediately and see how much faster population rebounds

[@Duckman1616]

16:56 He's so focused on the income he completely misses the massive fire burning in the background. xD

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Not much I can do about it 😋

[@Azurath100]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines what would you do with a city strictly made of toll booths? e.g. the spiffing brit's monstrosity

[@Anvilshock]

"This is fine."

[@teuast]

So when I unlocked the Lazaret Plaza, I did it by first building a big city that was making a lot of money, then turning off all of my healthcare and deathcare, waiting the requisite amount of time, and then turning everything back on again. And yeah, it sunk me millions into the red, but here's the thing: once the city started growing again, it grew steadily. Yeah, I didn't have any money to build anything new, but it wasn't a fail state, it was just a waiting game. So I just waited, and clicked the "reject" button every time the bailout option was presented, and eventually, the positive feedback loops kicked in and I was able to just leave it running until it ticked back over into the green. Didn't make for interesting viewing, but it worked.

[@ardentlines814]

For some reason I’ve always wanted to see someone do this

[@ragerancher]

"We literally cannot tax our people enough" You never told us you were a politician.

[@mangokun3570]

I subscribed :) watching you has taut me how to build and fix my cities thank you and keep up the hard work you amazing person.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@PerfectPatrickHH]

After that beautiful City, I don't want to submit mine^^

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

Needs a 'ski resort' mod making every home log cabins and A-Frames, placing the Lift, the lodge, parking and camper sites... Major Metro is a drag...

[@16yaltar16]

yes biffa, this is a map you have played. its the kerrisdale bay map for your industries/parks/university series ;)

[@aaronnewman5549]

I would love to see more videos like this!!! Traffic fixing is cool and all, but I love how you mixed it up with this episode.

[@aminahkhan7794]

I'm really loving this series, but I do miss the city you were working on. It was so beautiful!!!

[@tanello2]

"This medical clinic will cover there ppl here" - shows an area that is totally deserted.

[@thescienceguy793]

You know, Biffa, I have to say; I have one of, if not the largest, single point of hate for British people, all they are and all they represent, to my core. But you are one of the very few British people I watch and genuinely enjoy listening to and watching so thank you for not being like the rest of them

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Like every other person in the world (no matter where they are from), everyone is an individual and not everyone feels, acts or thinks the same way as everyone else in the country they are from ;-)

[@512TheWolf512]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@arthurmorgan4720]

This game is scary addictive... feel like 12 year old me loading up sims. I'm 23 and this game has brought me back into my nerdy self hahah

[@DarinPirkey]

I like to bring taxes down to 3% to bring people in and then raise it back to 12% after you have a good number.

[@sebby324]

Lol

[@shingshongshamalama]

How you tell Biffa isn't a real mayor. He knows that a sports stadium is just a big fat money sink.

[@PranavaSwaroopa]

Okay, it's been a long time since this video is up. Somethings I had done to get all the monument requirement buildings. 1. When it's to make people suffer by not providing health or police protection or anything, do not delete the service buildings, just turn off. After achieving the target you can swiftly switch them on and voila you've all the services available and people will move as fast as they left. 2. Switch of Bus depots, Train Stations & Airports. Since there aren't enough people to use the services turning of them saves a huge amount of cash. 3. Switch of all costly unique buildings I achieved all the monument requirements in one save, so you can guess how many times I had to purge the city and pull them back from zero. I really wish you all to see the graph of population v/s time.

[@evilengine9]

Awesome! I love these “city repair” videos… MORE OF THESE!!!

[@FloridatedH2O]

What is the base map that this city is built on? I went to the Steam link in the description for the original map, and it didn't say...maybe its the map called "Aurora Borealis" that was in the list of needed items for the map but I have no clue.

[@Chris20697]

i think steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1649656525

[@JustinFrancisAnimator]

Newer viewer, but if you do more of these, I was highly entertained by this. Go save a city, hero!

[@360xxx_swagluvunohomosapie9]

City got its population Thanos snapped

[@susogu.s]

I know im late, but when i was unlocking the medical center, i just saved the game, destroyed everything health-related and poisoned the water, and after unlocking the plaza i just reloaded the game worked for me idk i think the unlocking carries over to the next games bc when i started a new city, all the buildings from 1 - 6 that i unlocked previously were there (i didnt use the unlock all option)

[@DannyWilliamH]

Nice little edit there around 12:00 LOL It's ok to admit that some situations cannot be fixed by conventional means

[@kiggi__]

You should give VaypahGaming and Soeverdream some tips on making recoveries like that!! :) good work dude!

[@ishandey6061]

I actually did something similar to this. I wanted the fusion power plant and for that I just needed an observatory, and to make an observatory, you need 1k abondoned buildings. So then, I cut an area with a population of 25k's water and electricity supply. My population dropped by 25k because of that, from around 110k to 85k. I did that about a week ago, and I still haven't recovered as, for some reason, there is no demand in my city.

[@Pakistani890]

I just love your skills of how u fixed the city!!!!

[@Exevium]

Hey Biffa, love your channel! You're always so humble but always up for a challenge. Keep 'em coming!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 👍

[@aidenlangley6439]

I subbed at 'Oh got an auto save goin' on, sippa tea!' lmao

[@olizandrey2]

Biffa, often when you do the tax raise trick, you loose a few thousand people. That's a few thousand people's taxes. More people = more money, so be very careful to loose a single person. :D

[@Kopp01]

U inspire me to play cs

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😀

[@razaelll]

I was like: What? Biffa doesnt play counter-strike.. Then it clicked

[@Anvilshock]

I wish someone would inspire you to not spell "you" like you're thirteen or something.

[@ptroinks]

"This is a beautiful looking city, apart from all the death and destruction." LMAO!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😋

[@emilmadmax]

Very exciting and interesting to watch Biffa!

[@lordpiranha382]

Alternate video title: Biffa Does CPR on Almost-Dead City Love your vids Biffa!

[@Marine5D]

I would like to see the final observation of the city when it comes back online and buildings were turned back on. I think scenario like this kinda needs that.

[@daviddima6067]

And your burning money, just like no tomorrow. -biffa 2019

[@Danarieel]

Nice work I noticed in the industries budget, there were expenses in the ore (10:38) industry but not income. That could be because one of the factories needed ore products but no industry found. Also, for the Forestry industry to not make money, the main reason usually is because the processing factories are too far (or without workers). When there is a drop of workers, it's better to turn off the factories and sell the raw product to increase the income. I think you didn't check the flow of the industry products. Having worker buildings and storage besides the industry is vital for the correct flow of income. Thanks for the amazing job, my cities improved a lot these days thanks to your tips.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Industries is hard to troubleshoot because they fluctuate so much and the income is...random!

[@TheScoutnation]

isnt that map just new york

[@Supreme_Lobster]

The first two seconds of this video are amazing. He perfectly syncs his speech with the beat damn

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😉

[@Terrahex1]

are you kidding me? there was hardly any flourishing, just a bit of growing. Most of the video was just getting back up into the green, not flourishing. Please make a follow up video where you continue the city until it's back into fully working order, everything turned on, and everything built up

[@sagaesjohansson]

Terrahex1 it’s not his city. His job was to bring it back from the brink of death. Now it’s the owners job to make it flourish

[@mastersKaaP]

After fixing a city like this you should let it run for a while and show a time lapse of how it recovers. that would be cool to see.

[@champagnefreddy2108]

17:04 *A DEAD PERSON IS WAITING FOR TRANSPORT!* 😂😂😂

[@peterwilhelmsson4168]

Yeah, I'm a nerd. At "We may have saved the city!" I applauded and went "Yay!"

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😎

[@AutoCannonSaysHi]

Revisit this city and get it to "raging" status. You really liked this place, it would be cool to see you get this place thumping.

[@ShamblerDK]

Biffa: Taxes are too high, they don't like that! Me: **Laughs in Danish**

[@sephirothbahamut245]

Tbh the fix of removing abandoned buildings took away the entire post-apocaliptic feeling

[@AxillaryPower2]

I'm getting "I am Legend" vibes with this beautiful city with no people in it.

[@ferds814]

hey, you actually took that guys city !!! amazing job

[@CharlesTheMan12]

Detroit be like: write this down! write this down!

[@seanblah12]

wouldn't dropping the taxes right down bring an influx of people? Then put it back up to get back into profit

[@MichaelPipes101]

That city worn you out and worn me out for watching.... Got me thinking twice about my city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hajjdawood]

As a correction absolutely nothing happens if you go bankrupt twice, nor is there a limit as to how bankrupt you can get (from what I can tell). I almost exclusively reject bailouts because then you cannot get achievements anymore. The worst town recovery I have done was -4ish millions helps to just pull out a laptop and just do other things once fix the budget and wait like 3 hours lol

[@kanetanaimatau7741]

So now I know why public transport temporarily shut down! Thanks Biffa :-)