Start a City WITHOUT Running Out of Money in Cities Skylines!

Start a City WITHOUT Running Out of Money in Cities Skylines! | More Money Less Traffic

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Start a new city WITHOUT MODS, including on PS4 or Xbox, and have a PROFITABLE city instantly in this new MORE MONEY LESS TRAFFIC series!
Would you like to play Cities: Skylines without running out of money? Are you frustrated because your cities get choked with traffic?
In Part 2 I'll show how to start our new city on the "Seven Lakes" map following the plan we introduced in Part 1. How much should you build to start out? What's a good build order? Should you go with a Water Pump Station or a Water Tower to start? Are Wind Turbines the best power to start off, or is a Coal Power Plant a better way to go? We'll find the answers, and we'll learn many other money-saving tips to get any new city off to a great start with a heavy wallet!
In this tutorial series, you'll learn how to get started with a solid bank account and grow your city large enough that you'll never have to worry about money again. As the city expands, we'll show you how to use good urban design strategies to avoid crippling traffic problems. We'll only use the vanilla game and DLCs so console players can follow along too!
00:00 Financial Basics
02:57 Roads: Let's Go There
06:32 Water: Pump vs. Tower
08:40 Electricity: Wind vs. Coal
10:44 Zoning Can Save You Money!
12:23 Our First Cims Move In
15:13 Key Takeaways & What's Next
Find the STARTER MAP on the Steam Workshop:
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Looking for more MORE MONEY LESS TRAFFIC Series 2?
- Part 1: City Layout: • This Realistic ROAD LA...
- Part 2: How to Start a City (this video)
- Part 3: Expand Without Going Broke: • How to NEVER EVER Run ...
- Part 4: Education, Land Value & Building Levels: • Why You Still Have Not...
- Part 5: Parks & Education: • Parks Are USELESS With...
- Part 6: Where Cims Want To Go: • What BREAKS Any ROAD L...
- Part 7: Redevelopment: • Why the BULLDOZER Is Y...
- Part 8: Advantages of a Grid - COMING SOON
- Part 9: Terrain & Trains - COMING SOON
Looking for the original MORE MONEY LESS TRAFFIC series? Click below:
• Cities: Skylines - Mor...
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@sebastianjoseph2828 3 жыл бұрын

I've been watching your old series and just want to reiterate what everyone's said: I like how you explain why you're doing everything, without assumptions for new players. I also feel that a lot of players rely on highways or perfect interchanges (that take up tons of space) to achieve low traffic. But you're showing that fundamental knowledge of the game mechanics and real life design can help me make cities that look real and are built smart. Keep it up!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😊 That’s my message for sure! You’ll hear me say it more and more, but high traffic flow percentages are mostly just for bragging rights. If traffic is moving and not backing up, then you’re doing just fine 😉

@sebastianjoseph2828 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto Yup, and as someone who lives in an area where traffic is to be expected, there's something more satisfying about seeing a lot of bustle knowing it's just barely working and balanced.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Sebastian Joseph hahaha yes! I always like to say that big cities have traffic...so what if it’s only 68% flow, are you having fun? Great!

@camcab147 3 жыл бұрын

Great comment, I agree with you! Well done, Lee. Many thanks for your help 😎

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@camcab147 thanks! happy to!

@Vespuchian 3 жыл бұрын

I've never had much of a problem with cash playing Skylines but I've _never_ seen such frugal starting techniques demonstrated so clearly and logically. Let me express my thanks for producing quality unmodded content, something I've found surprisingly rare.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I’m happy to provide! Glad you enjoyed it!

@andrewboardman2654 3 жыл бұрын

Try it on hard mode!

@warriorsmustang1784 3 жыл бұрын

I already love this series. I used to watch Sam Bur but got tired of his know-it-all attitude towards the game. He never explained why he does something and just shows off his flowing traffic. You actually explained each step in your thinking and it makes so much more sense. I've played this game for 4 years now and had countless failed cities and you taught me more about the game in this one video than I learned just playing the game. Please keep this series going because this will help many people including me.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

WarriorsMustang17 oh I most certainly intend to! Thanks so much! Sam has had some good stuff on his channel, I catch some of it from time to time. I find that there’s a dearth of American KZfaqrs, so I thought it would be nice to show a totally different spin on the game that didn’t include a zillion roundabouts or highways everywhere, since hardly anyone plays that way. I’m really excited to get up to a larger city when the traffic and public transportation gets more complicated! I think it will shed a lot of insight on how effective certain types of urban design can be when implemented well. The conventional wisdom on grids is that they don’t work, and it seems like using traffic lights instead of roundabouts is considered a sin 😂. I don’t play that way AT ALL, and every time I’ve gotten away from it I have had it bite me in the bottom! So I try to find the principles that really matter, that underpin everything instead of just one particular philosophy, and share them as simply and as fun as possible. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@daveyfunk 3 жыл бұрын

Sam has a huge knowledge and I like how he does things but he doesn't play the game as intended. I like to see what I can do without mods first and that's how you get to know the game and the AI behaviour. Mods might make it more 'realistic' but not when you're removing traffic lights all over the place, artificially forcing traffic where to go etc. The AI is poor in this game but there are ways of doing things. I'm really interested to see how this guy continues this series as the level of detail in the first 2 episodes is promising :)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@daveyfunk I hope Sam knows his stuff, since he actually works in urban planning! He does make things look nice. I really do play with a lot of mods, but I think that the simulator actually works really well for as much as they've simplified the economy so it wouldn't destroy everyone's computers. Even the traffic AI is actually pretty reasonable. I think what really messes most people up is just not understanding the root causes of certain traffic problems. The only time I really get to missing mods in managing traffic is when I want to use TMPE--it makes such a massive difference!

@daveyfunk 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto yeah, I know he's an urban planner, and this gives him a real aspect of hor things are done, but knowledge of the game is lost when someone doesn't get to know that first. I feel T4rget has a great sense of how the game works as he plays without mods and knows how the AI works. You seem to be finding a good middle ground in your new series :)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@daveyfunk I haven't watched a lot of T4rget, but I agree he knows the game mechanics. I notice that a lot of KZfaqrs just demonstrate...they don't really explain things much. I feel like the fundamental mechanics of the game are important to understand before we can really have a useful conversation about strategy. Even then, it's important to understand _why_ a strategy works...and that often takes some explaining. I'm definitely trying to find that middleground...since explaining without entertaining will tune a bunch of people out. The next video has a lot of that kind of stuff in it...I'm hoping it will land ok. Finance seems to be the most popular thing to mod in this game--by just straight up turning it off :-o

@Chenyu_Huang 3 жыл бұрын

I love your approach to the game. A lot of players rely on a billion custom assets and mods, and manually add props everywhere, while their creations are pretty to look at, to me it kind of defeat the purpose of the game. After all, it’s a game of simulation. Understanding the mechanics of the game and real world cities give a much more interesting and unique way to play the game. Your explanation of the game is wonderful and easy to follow, and the pacing is perfect. I really enjoy it. Keep it up!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you’re enjoying it! Don’t get me wrong-when I play the way I like, I’ve got about 40-50 mods and about 1200-1500 custom assets installed (like in the city in the main title). But I think the base game is great all by itself too, especially with the DLCs. I think the modded experience is much better when you understand the base mechanics...because maybe you don’t mod so much, and you work within the parameters of the simulation rather than avoiding dealing with them. I want my art to be _functional_, not just pretty! Thanks so much for your kind words!

@christopherboland1216 3 жыл бұрын

Smiles in Industrial Engineer.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Engineers are great 😁

@daniellxnder 3 жыл бұрын

Just in Time reigns supreme 👍👍🔥🔥🔥

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@daniellxnder I would have agreed with you a lot more until this pandemic happened--when none of the masks or PPE we needed were adequately stockpiled beforehand, and then Just In Time turned into Nowhere Near In Time. I think JIT has its place in certain types of manufacturing for sure, but we could probably use more manufacturing and warehouse capacity for certain things--like medical supplies--in our economy. It also doesn't help how much consolidation has occurred in pretty much every industry. I'd rather have a hundred small meat packing plants than have a dozen really huge ones. BTW...I don't put that on engineers though...I put this on bean counters, who basically run the world economy now. They're all so detached from everything but P+L that the community never gets considered anymore. Engineers are parts of the community--the financial system is so big now, they don't have to care about communities anymore.

@daniellxnder 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto yea because lean production isn't agile and they tend to rely on constant and predictable behavior so in case of something unexpected like this, it'll grind to a halt I also prefer dispersed industry tho rather than concentrated ones ((a reference to a certain grand strategy game))

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@daniellxnder lol yes...dispersed industry is a good idea! I think I know what game you're talking about hahaha!

@Nander___ 3 жыл бұрын

I really like how structured and to the point your videos are, as opposed to the Let's Play type videos most other Cities: Skylines KZfaqrs make. The information you present would probably be very hard to follow if it was strewn throughout 30 minutes of mostly uncut gameplay footage.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much! Have you seen my first More Money Less Traffic Series? It was informative (or so I’m told) but very much thrown together. (I thought maybe like twelve people would watch it...but it now has a LOT more views than that!) This series will be much more succinct and use a lot more cinematic technique. These also take a TON longer to script and put together lol...so hopefully everyone is ok waiting for a few weeks in between 🤭

@travholt 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto The time you've spent on these really shows! A joy to watch.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@travholt thank you so much! I am really enjoying it too :-)

@indrabar 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto I agree with others - the production quality really shows and the concise format is useful to people who don't have an hour or two to sit through uncut footage because, you know... life. This is much more informative and fun!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

indrabar that’s what I was thinking too...I love a good video, but I don’t always have 30-60+ mins to commit to it myself-and of I do, I’ll just watch multiple videos from the same creator. So I’m trying to make these into nice 10-20 minute chunks that are very concise and purposeful.

@Israelyguy14 3 жыл бұрын

YES! I've been aching for this, literally aching! Your videos completely changed the way I play cities skylines, and I binged your entire content.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! That's great, I'm so glad my videos have helped! Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow at the premiere!

@B0bsUrUncle 3 жыл бұрын

The music was a great touch. Timed perfectly.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

😊 I’m glad you noticed! 😊 Classical music is so perfect for that kind of thing

@zanderb2623 3 жыл бұрын

Just loved the timing great job

@warrcoww6717 3 жыл бұрын

It made me want to play Elite Dangerous

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Warrcoww I don’t know that one...!

@meaz1981 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto great choice of music. Could you please tell us the name of the piece of music played on min 14:00? And by the way, the map is perfect. Thanks for your efforts

@nuroo1 3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy most city skylines content from youtubers. They all have different things they like to focus on. I like your flavor as well. The economic aspect is often over looked and neglected because of unlimited money mods. Your traffic solving techniques are also different from other youtubers but just as valid maybe even better. "Alternate direct routes......." Thank you. Looking forward to the next 1

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

nuroo yes...you will hear “alternate direct routes diffuse traffic” in as many videos as I can find a reason to say 😁 thanks for commenting!

@Sweet05cts 3 жыл бұрын

i'd generally agree. Lee is the first i've seen who says "less highway" and proves that theory to be true

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sweet05cts 😁

@craigslaunwhite579 8 ай бұрын

I have literally built a city that went bankrupt because of power issues. Taking the bale out money saved me but turned off trophies. This is great info.

@jamesbreda8213 3 жыл бұрын

This is my vision for a city. I can’t wait to see how it gets built out. Love the series so far. Keep it up.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I am too! I’ve been playing with this for a while and there are a lot of cool possibilities.

@amandaking3229 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You Lee. I have only been playing for a month or so and yours is the forst tutorial I have found that really explains why things are done. Looking forward to the next episode.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Thanks! And that’s my whole mission...to explain why, so people can make more informed and better decisions on building their city. The learning curve (especially for truck traffic) gets steep very quickly! And roundabouts DO NOT solve the problems 😂

@oliverjbyrne 3 жыл бұрын

I've been watching your previous episodes, and have found them very helpful. You have inspired me to jump back in the game and build better cities.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I'm super glad to hear that!

@jerrylewis860 3 жыл бұрын

yay ive been waiting for your next video. I used your other building guide to make my first big 40k pop city. The comments are spot on.. Youre actually teaching new players the mechanics vs all the other youtubers just make us watch them build their cities without any context.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and awesome! I’m so glad to have helped you be successful! I’m glad you also appreciate what I’m trying to do too 😊

@indrabar 3 жыл бұрын

Just want to say this was super helpful - I'm realizing I always overbuild in the beginning and that's why I struggle so much! Thanks so much, I'm loving these!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@robbasgaming7044 3 жыл бұрын

This is so well edited. Very much appreciated. Could watch this for hours 😇

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate your comment!

@laminar_flow 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! I know how much work goes into the production side of the video, and you have done A LOT!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

laminar flow 😁 thanks! I decided it was time to amp up my game. It’s been a lot of fun so far, but a lot of work too!!

@direkfrancis 3 жыл бұрын

This might be... the best let's play/tutorial CS I've seen! I'm being entertained but at the same time, learning!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

YAY! I KNEW we could make learning fun! YAY!!!! ;-) thanks!

@noahsmith4148 3 жыл бұрын

This is rad! I'm going to build this city along with you as I keep running into a variety of traffic issues using my "best thinking". Thank you for the great videos!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Noah Smith great! I’m happy to help!

@cliffgroce1492 3 жыл бұрын

The little things make your videos fun! Like timing the climax of the music to the link up of electricity…actually built suspense in a video game video man!!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

😂 I loved doing that! I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed it as much as I did!

@docmartin9489 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome start of the series! Looking forward to the next one.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Doc Martin 😁

@codehawkfalcon 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Learned something new and I have a lot of hours in this game. I’m excited to see how you avoid highways in the city! Nice series so far.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Glad to help!

@michamegged5963 3 жыл бұрын

Great work! I've been playing cities for many years, and stopped playing vanilla a long time ago, but you inspired me to go back and play the basics game again. Thanks!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Just so you know-I usually play with several mods. I really enjoy doing a lot of detail work on my cities now 😃. But there are sooo many console players out there and so little unmodded YT tutorial series out there that I wanted to help everyone new to the game master the basics and learn how to think about urban design and traffic more clearly. I feel like there’s a lot of hunger for that sort of thing, since consoles can’t use mods/assets. I do find that the base game is still a ton of fun though! It runs sooo smoothly on my PC without the mods. So it is a bit liberating! I’m glad you enjoyed this, and thanks for commenting!

@samclark2442 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I love these videos these are so well edited and clearly have a lot of time and effort in them! Truly witnessing a passion and I would even use the word majestic. I love that everything is worked out and prepared!! Love it!! Look forward to more episodes :D

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, thanks so much! 😊 I’m having fun, excited to get the next one out there 😃

@Killerthekidjoe 3 жыл бұрын

Another Great Video Lee, thank you + the choice of music was perfect :) I'm looking forward to the next one thanks again for some cool content.

@LordofSyn 3 жыл бұрын

One can never go wrong with Wagner

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Wagner is awesome! I have to find a way to mix it up maybe since it’s been 2 vids in a row...but that piece works SO well with this game! Why isn’t it in The Classics???!? Glad you guys enjoyed!!

@docmartin9489 3 жыл бұрын

Well hurry up already lol. Looking forward to it!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you're excited! I am too!

@SeventhEthereal 3 жыл бұрын

Loving this series! So informative thank you! Keep it up!! ^_^

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’ll do my best 😊

@alanramiresbr 3 жыл бұрын

This is just what i was after, basic tutorial from the start and on the clean and right way to do it :D

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to help! Thanks!

@stephengoodwin1375 3 жыл бұрын

Just started watching your videos after seeing you on 5b1c, and discussing things with yourself on OE's discord. I love the thought process that you apply into laying out your city rather than just shotgunning roads everywhere like we have all done at some point. Very informative video, pleasant to watch with the music in the background so it didnt take long for me to hit the subscribe button :D

@Kevin62x 3 жыл бұрын

I hope on each day hoping to see if you've uploaded Ep.3. This is an amazing run through. Cant wait to see how this develops. Ive downloaded the starter map and am just banking in money so i can get to use once the next ep comes out. Keep up the great content

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for your support! I’m working on Part 3 sooner than expected...I’m hoping it’ll be ready by the weekend... _hoping_

@ianmatsui7585 3 жыл бұрын

This is some of the highest quality content I've ever seen. Great work!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@christophergoldemberg7303 3 жыл бұрын

Man, your explanations are awesome. Easy, simple, directly to the point. As an civil engineer where every cost is took on count and a player from the game's first day and I've seen a lots of tutorials from all the aspects... your's is one of the best by far. The geometrical part in the first episode was amazing. Don't stop, keep doing it:)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm always so happy to impress an engineer! I'm definitely not afraid to talk math around here...there are so many ways to make it interesting! :-D

@jefflokanata 3 жыл бұрын

Presentation, information, music cue at electricity, and the voice you spoke... all is very nice. Insta subs

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

@stormxlr2377 3 жыл бұрын

First video was amazing, the detailed explanation with the geometry was nice. Will follow along for the series

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed! Thank you!

@caxapom 3 жыл бұрын

Just wow! That is masterpiece of explanations. Thanks for your videos, mr.Hawkins! We are wait for a new one ;)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :-) Hang on tight! It'll hopefully be here in a few days!

@Kensam85 3 жыл бұрын

Good delivery of information! Keep it up!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'll do my bestest!

@Codopolis413 3 жыл бұрын

Love this series so far. Can't wait for the next episode!!!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Glad to have you here for the ride!

@amitkrupal1234 3 жыл бұрын

Everything is awesome in this video, the sound, music, way you edited and most of all its short.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Amit Krupal Thank you! It’s my new format for this series 😁 I want smaller chunks so busy people can feel good about watching. And they’re more fun for me to make too! But a LOT more work...!

@amitkrupal1234 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto yes it has lot of work to do, I can see you take weeks to upload, we are fine with that, with such a great content we are ready to wait.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@amitkrupal1234 thank you so much for your patience and kind words of support! I really appreciate it!

@ah_dan6572 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I've just started playing the game. Yesterday I didn't know how to power water, today I got a city to 4.8k people and recovered from flooding half my town (now it's a feature)! I've watched a few different guides, but I had to say the attention to detail you put into your videos has made me a subscriber. Keep doing you, thanks for the content!

@ngbowenng 3 жыл бұрын

i play C:S extremely modded with PO and everything but your videos are so well made and informative, good job man

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

bowen. Thank you! I really need to get on Procedural Objects...I haven’t dove in on that just yet. I play with several mods too, but I wanted to get into the base game + DLCs for this tutorial series before I got into more modded setups. There are a lot of console players dreaming of what they could do on a PC, and hardly anyone teaching the great stuff in the base game...so I’m trying to fill that hole. I’m glad you enjoyed! I hope you’ll stick around for more 😁

@Yuikarie 3 жыл бұрын

If you didn't start this series I wouldn't have found you. This is going to help me a lot when I build my cities! I'll probably apply mods as well but I'll follow the basic tips you have. Definitely going to leave the highway outside of my cities for now.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Great! I'm glad you found me and found this stuff useful! You'll have an easier time growing your city keeping the highway outside more, and building several interchanges. Make sure you keep industry in long thin sections along rail and highway, so it doesn't have to go through your city center, and you should have a lot more success than most.

@konradcabral 3 жыл бұрын

Nice content! Advanced tips and concepts even in basic things.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found some good stuff in here!

@KRUDTEN02 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really enjoying this series!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm so happy to hear that! I can't wait to get Part 4 out there!

@r0xjo0 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. Others have tried the same, but you really nailed it.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

r0xjo0 thank you!

@LordofSyn 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate a man who keeps his word. Will be watching after work to see if there are new pointers this ol' dog can use in his PS4 cities.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Syn's Arcade super cool! Enjoy!

@Sweet05cts 3 жыл бұрын

i play on xbox, and just got into Lee's vids. I've already learned a few new things I want to try out!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sweet05cts awesome!

@simonches_5820 3 жыл бұрын

New subscriber here. I really enjoyed your video and I commend how relaxing your commentary is. Can't wait for the next episode.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Simon Ches thank you! Me either! It should pop up in the next day or so!

@aleksi5835 3 жыл бұрын

awesome series keep doing them i'll be watching with my popcorn ready :D

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Oooh, good plan! 😃 Thank you!

@CarlosOrtiz-ht6rn 3 жыл бұрын

I don't even play this game, but I love watching your videos and your in-depth commentary of all the mechanisms involved.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Carlos Ortiz why thank you! It’s a fun game too 😁 maybe you’ll try it sometime...or you can just watch my videos, I’m cool with that 😃😎

@dfunited1 3 жыл бұрын

I really like your content so far. Keep it up man

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do my best 😊

@Elric19772 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lee, great 2nd video.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Elric 1977 glad you enjoyed!!

@thomasharvey2960 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your videos man! Thanks!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Happy to help!

@georgemaragos2378 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Lee, that was really good, i enjoyed your past videos - the original more money less traffic and the intersection "rules" Today's video , the speech , choice of words and explanation of the maths and example is amazing. Earlier this year i watched the 30 min challenge and practiced it myself, it was then i realized the $$$ benefit of initial cheap roads and only the future larger roads to start as 4 laners - i saved a lot up money up front and was able to spend the money on the next milestones for infrastructure Regards George

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I’m glad to hear someone who liked my early stuff likes the format of the new videos! I thought I needed to amp up my quality to get more people watching, and to slim down the length of the videos so people would be more likely to watch-and not have to find their place in an hour-long tutorial. Seems to be working so far! Those cheap roads really do help early on! It saves so much on maintenance!! I’m amazed at how few people use this strategy, but I guess that Unlimited Money is pretty popular. Thanks for commenting, George!

@captaincrazypants10 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely .... Brilliant .... The music is Excellent also. Thanks

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I love timing things to the classical music! :-D lol

@shanehiggins4983 3 жыл бұрын

I just started watching your channel, i found it thru 5B1C S2. I absolutely love the way you structure your series here. Also this episode is a masterpiece with the music and you built suspence with electricity. New viewer here for sure. Thank you for the entertainment!!!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you enjoyed this! Thank you so much! And I have a ton of fun with the music 😂 lol

@shanehiggins4983 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto I was honestly kinda speechless that I was actually in suspense about electricity 🤣 Gonna check out your interchange video today, im currently building a city on my only game system I got (it is an Xbox series x, so good for a console, but no PC 🥺) and my interchanges end up truly awful so I'm really stoked to watch your explanation because I seem to understand your style. So again, THANK YOU!!!

@shaunobrien534 3 жыл бұрын

So detailed! Good stuff

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 😊

@PapaMalps 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, great energy

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@xlyoutube 3 жыл бұрын

You manage the expenditures like my Chinese grandmother and I love it!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

LOL I guess that sounds good :-)

@shutupnyel 3 жыл бұрын

I'm nearing my 30s now and now I'm like a kid excited to play because I learned something different. Are you any chance a real city planner or something?

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Only in my mind, and in this game! I do love the art though...I spend a lot of time reading about it and playing with different concepts in the game. I’m glad you’re excited to play again!

@donnie1581 3 жыл бұрын

I turned 39 last month and love playing skylines!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@donnie1581 lol Xennials FTW! I'm 43...and...uhm...have played this a LOT

@miguelhiguita7095 3 жыл бұрын

I learned a lot from this video even im not a bigenner i played cities skylines since 2019 but i didnt know this much thankyou so much 👍👍

@LievenSerge 3 жыл бұрын

This series is easily the most sophisticated tutorial on vanilla CS ever made!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm just getting started :-D hope you caught Part 3...I'm hoping for Part 4 and 5 in the coming month.

@shutupnyel 3 жыл бұрын

I need to watch your old vids. Thanks man!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help! Enjoy!

@cantalope6980 3 жыл бұрын

can’t wait for next episode 👍

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Can't Alope me either 😁

@alexanderholzman3256 Жыл бұрын

Love the ride of the Valkyries

@pluxauag7555 3 жыл бұрын

Nice music, Docking Granted, please proceed to landing pad 12 at Jameson Memorial (Elite Dangerous). Warning, retract your hardpoints... Great vid, dirt roads are the great start people forget and having gaps using 4x4 squares for zoning is most efficient for free connections. Space out your people and fill the gaps later, use the zones as cost reducers. Great vid and a great basis to start from superb! Raised motorways later on (6 height) becomes the most efficient with cycle/monorail/rail tucked in between. 500,000 with no traffic issues deeper into the game becomes straight-forward and should remove the need for a costly tube system.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Plux AuAg glad you’ve had success! I’ve had a few cities where the metro actually made me money (like in Part 5 of my first More Money Less Traffic series)...and I’ve had buses work really well that way too. There are so many ways to build a healthy vibrant city in this game! Colossal Order really did a fantastic job of modeling real life without requiring a Cray!

@Justakid819 Жыл бұрын

I needed this so bad🎉🎉🎉

@shagger69 3 жыл бұрын

how you don't have more subs is beyond me! Thank you for these vids!!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks! I appreciate your support!

@shagger69 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto ; )

@Sweet05cts 3 жыл бұрын

real simple - he doesn't put out enough content for YT to be satisfied, therefore they push his vids towards the bottom or search results, and often won't get recommended. GOOD NEWS though - you (the viewer) can help change that by liking, commenting, subscribing and sharing. I know EVERY YT asks for it, and that's why. All those things help move the video up higher in the algorithm. Generally speaking, once presenters see there's a bigger spike in interest, they may be more inclined to put more videos out, and so on and so on ;)

@Sweet05cts 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Lee, pretty new subscriber here - I have finished your older set, and I'm looking forward to this series. I've been playing since March 2020, I have just shy of 700 hours into the game as of August, and I watch WAAAAY too much YT content about cities, LOL. The beauty of this game is that there's (essentially) no *wrong* way to play, and I enjoy how you take things on a little differently than other content creators - it's just a fresh view into the "put another RAB in" type thing, LOL. Do you have a schedule for video uploads, or do you just do them as you want?

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@Casino thanks! I'm glad to be different :-D and I agree for the most part--lots of different philosophies work well in this game, and none are right or wrong. I do think there are certain problems you can create for yourself (especially when it comes to traffic) but there are always ways out. And don't get me started on roundabouts!!! Anyway...no, I really don't have a schedule on uploads. It takes me quite a lot of time to put together a new video, and then there are real life things I have to take care of that limit my time in production. Lately I'm just focusing on creating quality videos that are informative, fun, and succinct enough that people can't help but watch. My wife doesn't even play the game, and yet she even finds my latest videos entertaining. When even family thinks the game they don't play is interesting, then I figure you're on the right track lol!

@brometheusjables2644 3 жыл бұрын

The sheer quality of these videos is kind of surreal. Top content, my man. Also, you look SUPER baked in your profile picture. I respect that.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

LOL I HATE that picture! It's really old and I need to replace it. Because I'm not baked at all...just that picture is lol!

@brometheusjables2644 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto And my comment actually prompted a picture change. I feel kind of guilty now... hahah

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@brometheusjables2644 DON'T! I have just been putting off changing that forever! It was about time...I want to get something that doesn't look so formal, and where I actually have my mustache lol, but I'm always behind the camera and rarely in front of it :-/

@brometheusjables2644 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto Well your style of presentation is pitch-perfect for the medium. I think the sexual magnetism of a moustache in front of the camera might be too distracting for the female members of your audience though... I also just read your bio in the 'about' section as well, You sound like a renaissance man. I'll have to check out your travel blog and what not :)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Brometheus Jables 😂🤣 well, I doubt too many girls are going crazy because this channel so far has only about a 2.5% female audience. And I hope you enjoy the blog! I wish I was more caught up on it, but there’s some good stuff from our travels there 😁 a few funny stories here in there...especially when things went wrong 😂

@andrewboardman2654 3 жыл бұрын

OMG, thats what priority road does! been changing junctions all manually! ahhh!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

😂 yeah...it's true! lol

@sriyudh 3 жыл бұрын

Great effort. Please do videos regularly

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And I plan on it! :-D

@ckimsey77 3 жыл бұрын

Finally someone else that doesnt run highways everywhere as soon as they open. Really, when have you ever saw a "city" of 10-12k pop cut up by 3-4 lane interstates?? (though building complicated interchanges is super fun...but i do that aside from my actual builds). One 4 lane, 4 red lights, and 7 freeways with a bypass loop around the town (I wont start on the overuse of transit also out of place, monorails and subways with 15k ppl....howd the town afford that?). U play with realism in mind i love that as i do as well...and lastly the thing that makes me cringe and stop watching most ppl: Have a problem=round about, like everywhere....dozens in some cases. I play on ps4 so zero fancy traffic managing mods, i get 85% ish traffic in 50k+ pop city with no friggin road doughnuts cluttering up my city. Intersections work just fine if uve a good layout; and i especially hate seeing one way 6-lane roads enter a 2 lane doughnut or a regular 2 lane road go to a 3 lane tiny roundabout...cant ppl do basic addition? 2 cant feed 6, 6 cant fit into 2, and single lane rds w 3 lane cheater wheels dont get all the lanes used anyway. Its painful to watch. Your vids are great man, got urself one more subscriber

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for your review! This pretty much sums up what drives me crazy too. I have built cities with their share of excessive freeways, but I decided a while back to build some cities with zero freeways-and it’s been fantastic! It’s actually really addictive lol! Thanks for the sub! More good stuff coming up soon too!

@witherow80 2 жыл бұрын

I shall now always play Cities Skylines with Strauss playing in the background.

@daveyfunk 3 жыл бұрын

Pleeeeeaaaase keep this un-modded as much as possible. The level of detail in these first 2 videos really is promising as to how you'll look to continue. The first video was mind blowing concerning your application of real life grids and how you've looked to apply maths (even though I hate maths!!! :p). I'd love to see how you continue to move this forward and what methods you use with the base game before adding any mods. Would be good to see you look to design a more European inspired design but that's just taste to where I live :)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Worry not! I will definitely avoid mods for the majority of this series. I want to create a nice primer for vanilla and console players, while covering aspects of urban design and traffic design in general, because it really applies to everyone, modded or not. As for building a more European-style city, I might go there eventually. I may try a few things out with this city when it's big enough to show some different traffic design ideas, and compare how well each works. There are SOOO many European KZfaqrs though, and I know of extremely few North American KZfaqrs who actually build cities the way they are in old urban centers in America. I think it's instructive, and I think it will make for a good contrast when I try to do something that's more like the Old World. Maybe in Series 3 or 4, you'll get your wish!

@tknoff87 3 жыл бұрын

builds American style pre interstate grid cities: check! Looks at maps and real world cities to measure distances and develop street layouts: check! Customizes street names: instant subscribe! as someone who spends a lot of time developing interesting street names because they instantly give the street and district a real personality (even systems like 12,3,4 & a,b,c) this just excites me to no end

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! ☺️😂 I can’t believe everyone doesn’t do this! In fact, JUST before they added street naming to the game, I screen grabbed some aerial shots of one of my cities, pieced them together in Photoshop, and then traced and labeled the streets in Illustrator so I could remember the names of them! I was so very happy when they added street naming and then made it so CSL MapView exports them all to a gorgeous map with transit lines even if we want.....ugh...it was heaven! It’s great to find someone else who feels the same way 😃 Thanks for your support!

@richardb4665 3 жыл бұрын

I think some of your approach is excessively frugal... on the other hand, I've seen enough starting people just get swamped trying to fill in the whole square, that maybe this is needed. But... what I really like is you name your streets and landmarks... because I do too. It kills me that this level of detail/flavour gets over looked by so many people who play the game, because I find it so charming. Looking fotward to your future episodes.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Lol yes, perhaps! I prepared super hard for this too, because I wanted it to be pretty extreme. I wanted to demonstrate how much money could be saved this way though...because it does pay off. And for console players, since they don’t have any mods, I don’t even know that they can go to unlimited money. So this will make it a lot easier for them to get started. And thanks for the kind words! I really think the default street names are sooo lame 80-90% of the time, so I can’t just leave them. Plus, when I number streets, it’s really fun to see how high I can get them to go. 😁 And honestly, it makes it easier for other players to follow if you can just call out names of what you’re talking about. I was super surprised at how many followed what I did in my last series in their own game...so I thought I’d just keep them in mind so they can do it super easily on this series. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@richardb4665 3 жыл бұрын

So, I've got two questions about your style, since it's similar to mine: do you revisit neighbourhoods when the "higher order" zones become available, or build once and leave it? I really enjoy rezoning building by building, as demand says "we need more industrial" or "more commercial" and start rearranging uses. It looks like you already know where everything will go... but your city is starting small, so does it change? As for naming streets... I built a Spanish-Caribbean themed city on Honu Island... got up to 24 before the terrain made a grid impossible. Definitely a brilliant little touch!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

@@richardb4665 I feel like those two questions merge well into one answer--and that answer is: Oh FOR SURE! :-) You'll see some serious changes coming up, especially as high density becomes available. This starts out small and slow, but mainly because I'm explaining a bunch and because I'm maximizing my cashflow. Right now I'm champing at the bit to get that polluting industrial and power plant off of Broadway! I don't know if you saw my original MMLT series, but I move things around a bit in there. When I play on my own, I move things around in my cities with impunity! That's especially true with low density and industrial zones. I do a lot of rework to add parks and landmarks too. I think I've honestly tried super hard to add a lot of numbered streets one time, and I think I got up to the low 50s before I ran into a river. I haven't worked on that city much...but it is the first city I built that proved what I (and most people) did wrong with zoning industrial, as well as the true power of freight rail. I have been spending time on the city you see in the opening title (New Springfield) for the last year or so, and much of that has been highly detailed...there's a lot area I want to fill in, but it really looks nice with all the rework of hand placing buildings. I would really like to dust off Rogersfield and show how well that city works. It has an embarrassingly overbuilt innerbelt highway though lol...but I think it's worth sharing because the street layout is very different from a lot of cities. I built it quick, so it has a lot of grid, but the metro system works fantastically and it has a set of like 15 or 20 traffic signals that are all coordinated to move traffic through the city center! It's so awesome to go into first-person view and hit EVERY single light green! :-D

@namelessfellow 3 жыл бұрын

5:00 Being careful about angles and using right angles to force it is a great trick. I'll note, however, that while it'll go to 45° if you trigger road bending, you can actually go slightly less than that without anarchy if you're particularly careful about it -- from experimentation it looks like the hard limit is about 42°. (Not that the difference there is almost ever worth caring about.) Speculation: it's easier in code to calculate the *cosine* of the angle between two things, so the threshold might be acos(.75), which is ≈41.4°.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Nameless Fellow thanks! I thought too that I’d seen a few angles sneak in under 45 degrees, but I haven’t created any recently to know for sure. What you say here sounds like a possibility.🤔

@namelessfellow 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto Maybe I'll have to write that guide -- I successfully got vanilla city skylines to show "41°" on a road it was willing to build 😎 (Thank you, continued fractions.)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Nameless Fellow well capture some footage and pop it up here so we can check it out 🙂

@skinniestfatman5641 3 жыл бұрын

this is awesome, downloaded the map and made a start following pretty much everything completely forgetting that i have the "No need for power lines" mod lol. already have around 150,000 in the bank. When is the next episode out

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Lee Woodford whoops! Since this is a side gig for now, I’m hoping at least by early-mid October, but sooner if I can find time before. I have fun making these, but it’s a lot of work and I’m not that quick at it just yet. 🤪

@EvanC881 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE the street naming sequence 🤣

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

😎

@joncarlosfunes3470 Жыл бұрын

I love the lean method

@auroradarg 3 жыл бұрын

This series is greatly scripted. Subbed! Edit: omg you synced the music with the milestones and stuff happening in-game. Now that's dedication!

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! Yes. Yes, I did! 😁 Some I got lucky on, and some I was very deliberate. Thanks for your comment 😊

@amandaapps6755 3 жыл бұрын

This has made me realise I don't ever look at MW when it comes to wind turbines and I tend to use them to connect my water to power then run a power line into my city while having a coal plant in my industrial.. I make more roads then I need, I build to quickly 😳

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Well this is a perfect vid for you then! Glad you found it! 👍🏻😁 hope you’ll check out Part 3 and beyond too! You’ll never have money problems again afterwards!

@ITBEurgava 3 жыл бұрын

Was half expecting you to lay down the bonework of the entire roads, but then I remembered you work on limited cash. It's all cool, though. Hah, this shows I'm quite a cheater. Not exactly unlimited money, but I use real money generator asset/mod. I take it the cities at the intro/outro came from the final product of this city?

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you would be correct! I've been playing with this city for months, it takes time to make the videos though... And while I have planned a lot of this city out, it's not as if everything is set in stone with highways built through. I see a lot of people build out full large downtown areas and they really can't be sure how the traffic will work out. I'll build out a huge street grid, but I'm not going to build giant amounts of highway to handle traffic in it without any idea of what zoning or traffic patterns will be. There's a definite conversation coming up about zoning and traffic...Part 5 will definitely get into this!

@pedgo94 2 жыл бұрын

I am really enjoying your videos and your approach. Besides that though, I would like to comment that is has been kinda hard to pay attention and to enjoy completely what you are trying to pass because of the chosen background music.. it just stands out too much and disrupts the main objective here! Thanks a lot :)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’d happily go back and change that up but sadly YT is really dumb about letting me do fixes like that 😞 so…sorry. A lot of people have commented about this. My editing gets better in subsequent episodes 😁

@jpdominator Ай бұрын

I’ve watched about 7 hours of your videos today. 😉

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Ай бұрын

😱😃 I hope you liked them!

@ariqzachry 3 жыл бұрын

i love how you put F1 music there

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Ariq Zax 👍🏻😁

@micha68v 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Learned new stuff. One questeion: What are the graphic settings at 15:40? Is it vanilla witout mods? I play in 1920x1080, but never saw this quality.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help! 😊 I usually have the game set at 4K (3840 x 2160), so it downscales very nicely to HD (1920 x 1080). I can’t remember if I used the Cinematic Camera mod for the B-roll shots or not. Anything you see that’s moving smoothly is shot using that mod...but these are from a still camera, so I probably didn’t use the mod.

@mrslagowhoreusrex6300 3 жыл бұрын

Really like your voice as random as that is

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

😊 aww shucks! Thanks!

@Sweet05cts 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think that's a random comment at all. I mean, I don't have any stats to prove theory, BUT I am a firm believer in voice/speech/language have a HUGE impact on whether or not someone watches a video. I know I'm one of those people

@Rachitoi 3 жыл бұрын

U and Biffa my favourites Skylines streamers

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Awww thanks!! I sure appreciate your support!

@seriyooow310 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who finished engineering and studied a bit of urban planning, I always wanted to play this game with the principle of lean construction, but often fails to do so maybe due to the pacing of the game, if that makes sense. What I mean is that I try to think through every decision I make for my city (location, budget, economic impact, environmental impact, etc.) but I felt like that was all irrelevant since you can just move the infrastructures easily which solve half the problems; money rolls in quick which negates the need to choose the economic option, etc. So now, since there's really not much need to stop and think for your economy (except for that first few minutes until you get the first loan), the other factor for the decisions is the aesthetics. Now, I'm not the creative type of person, and this game is leaning towards that type of gameplay, so I naturally get frustrated especially when I don't like the look of the city, even when the economy and traffic is good. Then it's a cycle of restarting a new game. I think what would help a it is if there was a system like in Tropico, where buildings are not instantly built. There could be some type of management on the construction of the infrastructures, even if it were as simple as building time and demolish time. This would at least penalize hasty decisions.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s true that the economy doesn’t matter much after the early game. I think a lot of the reason things don’t get done as lavishly in real life, though, is that democracies always have pressure to keep taxes low, and dictatorships are usually kleptocrats instead of benevolent. In this game though, we can set our tax rates with very little penalty, and we can keep huge piles of cash around with no penalty at all-and build or not build anything we want, and we usually do it to make things run and look nice instead of embezzling the money or using it to further some self-aggrandizing scheme lol. Anyway, I enjoy the sandbox. I try not to overbuild things, and if I realize I have, I usually scale back. I love making things look real...and believe me, it’s a very painful process to get into that. It does pay off though! The city in the beginning title was one of my first, and it looks a thousand times better with the buildings placed by hand. I’m still not done doing everything I want to do with it either! But I didn’t start doing that overnight...it took forever to find all the assets and figure out how to style neighborhoods to create a sense of place. I do think the economy could be made more interesting. And maybe some of the politics too...like cims getting upset about taxes and a huge yearly city income and bank account. Or maybe cims getting unemployed and the city has to pay to support them until they find work. Maybe someone will develop a mod. I definitely think I’d be interested in that...I really love playing with the Realistic Population & Consumption mod, which makes the economy of space and population a lot more sensible. There are other mods that change up how the economy works too, but I haven’t dug into them yet.

@SSZaris Жыл бұрын

Growing up in a country where you can instantly name any street in your city because they are all unique always turned me off the idea of the grid system. You've single-handedly converted me. Well, for Cities Skylines anyway ;)

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it 😁

@graywolf688 3 жыл бұрын

I just started watching this series of videos and am trying to get your beginning of the road layout. Being on console ( and not able to download your layout ) is making it difficult to get started putting down roads then deleting them because they aren't in the right place. Do you have any suggestions on where to start building the roads so not to dip into to much money? Thanks.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Gray Wolf68 look at the description-there are instructions for console players on Steam.

@graywolf688 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto Thank you. I'll look that up.

@Pystro 3 жыл бұрын

4:35 Wow, I didn't know that. You learn something new every day. Wait! I have highway connections where an on-ramp meets a highway at a 45° angle and the merging traffic is clearly slower than the traffic going straight. Did you try to say that the speed restriction of going through a 45° curve is faster than the speed of normal roads so that those aren't affected?

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Pystro keep in mind that single-lane ramps and other highway roads have different speed limits in the game-ramps are 80kph and regular 2+ lane highways are 100kph. So a ramp entering at a 45 degree angle will still have traffic entering slower than traffic on the mainline, and that’s because of the speed limit difference, not the intersection. If you build two highway sections with 100kph speeds to merge together at 45 degrees then traffic will merge at the same speed. If you merge them at more than 45 degrees then traffic has to slow down for the *turn*. This will happen on any bit of network-not just highways.

@Q269 2 жыл бұрын

I like 39 unit blocks, but I like to split everything into thirds and you get 6 miles per tile.

@adamrich443 Жыл бұрын

I tried this layout on concole it’s working great but the roads don’t quite line up the same way with distances

@Cane306 3 жыл бұрын

Great videos! Can you please use some graphic mods, just to make it look more real?

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! But if use mods, though, then I’ll be using mods! I promised the console players! 😉 Don’t worry...I’ll use the graphics mods for the cinematics of the city once we get it grown more! But I’m just going to keep things to DLCs for now.

@TylerOParker 3 жыл бұрын

“Wind turban”

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

It’s the first pronunciation in Merriam Webster...so 🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe it’s my Northern Ohio showing lol

@Danso_3000 3 жыл бұрын

Lol so I wasn't the only one who noticed and was confused by this

@dlwatib 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. Just one question: What's a network segment? @ 03:49 You said: "12 units works out really well because it’s the maximum length of a network segment in Cities: Skylines."

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Networks include roads, railroads, pipes, power lines, etc. They are laid out in segments and connected by nodes. The maximum length (in vanilla-there are mods that can change this) is 12 units (or squares/cells/whatever you want to call them).

@johncipolla8335 Жыл бұрын

IS there an advantage to zoning 4x4 squares of residential ie more population for that space than other zoning blocks like 3x3 ?

@biggiesmalljaws 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Lee would you mind sharing your PC specs for those of us looking to get into the PC world of city builders.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, my PC is 5 years old, but it was beefy in its time! Intel Core i7 6700k CPU Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard AMD Radeon 390 (I think) display adapter Samsung 500GB M.2 SSD 32GB RAM Asus 4k monitor From what I'm seeing, though, AMD Ryzen is the way to go for CPU...so I'll probably go with that when I upgrade, and get the way faster SSD too.

@hafidzizdihar3483 3 жыл бұрын

I play Theotown....and I watch this....atleast I gain something from this thanks😂👍🏻

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Cities: Skylines does a great job of modeling the real world, despite some necessary simplifications, so if TheoTown does the same, the principles should apply. Thanks for sharing!