Tip number 7 - Don't accidentally sabotage your own carefully planned out roundabout to enter your newly built industrial district by placing an iconic building like the Statue of Liberty smack, bang in the center of it as an "ornament", only to see said roundabout get absolutely clogged up with tourists. (yes, I am guilty of this....)

Tips on how to start a city would be great, I always struggle with stating a city from scratch and rarely am happy, so never really go long on maps before starting again.

In the US (in my area at least) NO ONE knows how to use a roundabout, for example, I was going on a roundabout how you are suppose to, this lady pulls in front of me and just stops, while on the roundabout.....

I live in a UK town called Milton Keynes. First thing anyone says is, oh roundabouts. We're on a 15x15 road grid and almost every junction has a roundabout. It moves way faster than traffic lights!

Traffic tip from a console player... Multiple roads to the Same Destination...Had 1 main road from 1 highway to the other just killed traffic....

You should name your next town “Burgburg”

Maybe you could show us how to make artifical rivers or lakes

Tip 1 is basically don't recreate Melbourne's Eastern Freeway/Hoddle Street situation.

I am a grid builder myself, so I get traffic jams a lot...This helps but makes me even more confused to what to do.

You should give this presentation to some IRL city planners. These aren't just in-game mistakes. I love your videos and I'm not even a gamer. I guess it's that "watching a pro at work" thing. 😁

I generally turn all traffic lights off in a city. The only time when I use them is when there is no other way :)

I just started watching your videos, I applaud you taking the time to make these. Very interesting from your point of view and a natural game for your talents. Thanks man, I’ve been looking and hoping someone would do videos like these. Thanks man.

a traffic light/intersection customizer would be the greatest dlc gift possible

Those town names 😂😂😂

Great video dude. Love the way this city looks. I’m actually very jealous because I’m not nearly that creative when it comes to this game haha Also, great tips. Traffic is usually my biggest problem, especially as my city grows.

I have made every mistake in this video and still make a few of them.

Please do more videos like this! I have been playing cities skylines for a long time but there is still stuff to learn. What I always have trouble with is what road types to put where, and placement of the different "types" like commercial, industries and residential. And by the way, I dont know if you ever play the game without infinite money, but would love to see a video of tips when playing the game that way. How to plan ahead, best placements etc. Love you channel! :D

Even a seasoned player can learn from your beginner tutorials: plan your industrial areas in the early part of the highway's destination (outskirt of town) and yep, roundabouts. Adore roundabouts, always increases my traffic flow percentages in the game versus standard intersections. Thank you, Sam.

Great tips. Only recently started playing and love your suggestion. I'm in Oz too.

I would make the six lane road running in the middle of my city and only have commercial and offices there, then housing would be the smaller roads behind those boulevard and the two were connected with only a few in and out so for example, the first intersection is to the left, then 2 blocks from there to the right, and 2 blocks from there to the right again and so on and on so there's little to no traffic light. Also I always upgrade the six lane road into tram and make it run across the map in a loop, it helped with traffic congestion and since this road will always split the urban centers right at the middle, people will use it to commute inbetween district and towns (because I prefer sprawled cities with wooded areas in between).

Your videos are very very informative. Just subscribed

Can you maybe talk about the three main Services (Fire, hospitals, Medizin) and how to plan or place them throughout your City? Maybe also focus on different needs for residential/commercial/Industrial? I love your videos, keep up the good work!

First of all, thanks for your great videos, Im a lets say a new subscriber so I didnt even catched enough time to watch all of your videos, saying it because I plan to lol cause you really have some great tips in every one of your videos that I watched. And second, answer to your question at the end of the video: sure, you should deffinitely add more videos like this "mistakes to avoid" in every other aspect of the game. Keep up the good work!

I have learned from this video about my own city planning thanks!

Roundabouts don't work well without mods. If you do have traffic manager, then you can use them for great effect.

Some mods that I see are useful even for beginners: 1. Traffic Manager Presidents Edition (acronym TMPE), allows you to control which lanes goes where, yield/stop/main road signs etc. 2. Roundabout Builder - converts intersections to roundabouts with just a few clicks. It has some quirks, but is generally good. 3. Automatic Bulldoze v2 The mods above are usually not causing any strange problems. Just be aware - when you have started modding it's like a drug.

I never have traffic on my cities, I usually build them very compact so the car is less necessary and people see walking and public transport much better.

I wouldn't call myself a beginner but this video still helped me. Thanks!

I like these although I Think I already know much of the basics, would like to see more of these!

I don't even play the game and never had, I just enjoy your videos.

I'd say this could definitely be followed up by a beginners mistakes to avoid with zoning.

Great video Sam!!

Thanks man. Anyway, nice little towns you got there!

Great job on this video!

I'm not a beginner at CS. Not even close. I've had the game for years now, ever since the constant crashes in Sim City 4 got too much to bear and after finding SC5 wasn't quite what I was looking for. But I still make almost all of these mistakes (the roundabouts is the only one I really follow, and even then probably not enough) and I get terribly frustrated and spend hours of my life just trying to fix traffic issues. Maybe one day I'll learn!

Hey Sam, could do an episode on designated lanes? I am having trouble with mine

Not sure about Tip 6. Sims will always choose the shortest distance between two points. So what's the point of giving them more options?

But I've already hit the like button and subscribe.. 😌 ..the bell is next on my list 👀

Actually, a traffic management tutorial is a good idea. The roundabout acts as a replacement for the intersection, but it also has limits that need to be replaced with an intersection. A very comprehensive guide can be made about the roads themselves and what forms of nodes for each zones should be used, how to ensure smooth traffic in industrial and/or commercial zones, and how to effectively manage public transport to redirection of tourists and many trucks on roads. Oh and mods - how to use them. Especially TPME because it is a wonderful tool that allows you to solve half of the problems. Many people do it already but many people don't watch them and often many tutorials need to be improved because they outdated like Simcity.

Great work.... Would love to see more tips on topics: 1. How to expand the city more estheticly that it looks real. 2. New move it mod features. 3. How to do a real Map from google.... like i want to do New Delhi build by brits called lutyn's Delhi(India) & few other real towns in india.

Hi! Cool video! But, what map are you playing? It's gorgeous!

It's a great game.....excellent videos!

I would like to see some short brief tutorial how to choose appropriate size of roundabouts. Or point me to video if you already covered that. I generally use 12 diameter for 3 and 4 no. of exits and 20 diameter if 5+.Thank you

Hi and I love your city it's so beautiful

I wish you make such a small video about the way you create car parkings. What workshop for parkings do you use and how do you build it? I tried to sub to your workshop list ,, got some parkings options but it looks like a stamp on the ground,, without access or any use of cars in the game. Btw i saw most of your videos trying to findout how do you do it, but i believe there is something i missed. Thanks alot for the great vids.

Tip: Don't put roundabout near semafor

I think this video will be a recommend video on the official FB / their blog XD

also as a tip I like to save my game before redoing my roads so I can go back just in case :)

Sam, how many hours do you got on Cities Skylines?

hi sam, thanks a lot for your tips! would it be possible for you to do one about how commercial works in the game? im always struggeling with the demand and the not enough workers problem. and how is the demand to be fullfilled? by size / zoned area? and when using rico, how can i define how much demand a certain building will fullfill? you see, its kinda mysterie to me...

Australia and NEW ZEALAND where I am Roundabouts are your friends especially at road/motorway interchanges

You know I'm gonna keep making this mistakes even knowing this right?

How do you handle the education and healthcare stuff? Like in small outlying towns? do you just plop down Elem/High schools and clinics and call it a day? Or are you using some other method?

Maybe you could do a video on how to layout buses and similar so that they make money

How much ram do you need to download the samivostok collection?

I'm still bad at planning ahead for highways, just played city builders for a few 15 years....

Tip 6 doesn't work if your city is only one road

For me: -dont mix res, com, industry in the same district.. separate those 3 specially the industry area.. and separate them with highway road -if u have industry dlc, make sure commercial is close to industry, because industry alwats send their product to commercial (but separated or different district) So make sure industry (beside) commercial (beside) residential -always make a branch of highway road -always make 1 way road that connect to high way road -dont make distance between junction so short -when rich, dont use any power plant except dam.. dam can create 1600 Kw for just 3200$ maintain. Rule for dam, the different high of water define how much power u generate ( higher dam mean higher power). The water need to be full or reach top of the dam to create power, otherwise it ll be 0 power.

BTW, can you talk about how to make a scalable and upgradeable city? Sometimes I don't want to enable unlimited money and want the city to grow organically. But ends up very messy. I can't decide the highway and main road connection.

Are going to make an Unmodded series? tutorials kind of

I noticed the industrial zones doesnt have any poluttions, is there a mod or and tips that i dont know yet? thanks

I wish I had cities skyline on my pc... I have a potato computer though... :(

Nice video

Landscaping for noobs would be a great Tutorial to make 😉

Here's a big LIKE & Subscribed

There is an option that u can create stop signs but I don't know the key for it you can use that to give priority to your road that goes trough your city Some one pls tell me the key

Want to avoid traffic? Don't build any roads!

I wanna know if it's possible/acceptable to make some sort of intersection to connect two highways and high density road at almost he same point and keep the flow 😂 I know it sounds ridiculous but I've been struggling with this

Sam, how do you decide the number of lanes in a roundabout? I find it rather confusing because more lanes sometimes cause more traffic.

Can someone please help me, I return to city skylines and then my mods are just gone, whenever I try getting a mod from steam it won’t show the mods in the game. Can someone please help me? :(

next, A E S T E T H I C aspect.

I'm going to be buying this on Nintendo Switch.

Sam, could you do a vanilla let’s play?

Hey Sam can You send me the mod for different landscapes

Were they just driving over the median at 3:36? Why are they so stupid? Genuinely confused!

Lol these city names. My brain: "you have dirtbag, you have douchebag...."

TMPE should be built into the game. I mean, who ISN'T using it??

I'm digging the map....which is it? and still lmao at #EthanLow for watching on his phone will his city loads... #thestruggleisreal

teach me sempai

I think rule number1 is to have a high end pc

No Duck burg?

Left hand traffic is killing me, just seeing it makes me extremely confused with how weird traffic with it you play out

6:50 it's not SimCity!

I play this game so much, that I'm constantly trying to zoom in on the city in the video.

Why not zoidberg?

Wait If you're russian *where's the hardbass*

Did you remove polution??

Why am i awake

BurghBerg

What kind of industry is this? I see no polution whatsoever!

but sam they're not on a hill

Cities skylines should add left and right traffic lights 🚦 that would be awesome. And 2-one way lanes that you can zone on (not those highway ones)!! I could definitely execute traffic that way! And I don’t wanna hear that u can do this with a mod 😑

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Who’s the Berk that disliked it hahaha

6:50 you actually called them sims lol! looks like you forgot this isn't a maxis game.

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