➤Starting a city can be challenging. Connecting roads can be complex and traffic buildup is an immediate concern. This video is meant to simplify the process by showcasing road layouts and concepts that will help beginner and intermediate players succeed at building in Cities: Skylines!
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0:00 Cities Skylines is Beautiful
0:43 The “Jedi Mind Trick”
7:26 Reduced Highway Start
12:48 The “Virginia Beach” Start
17:32 Dank Overview
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Great advice! The Virginia Beach method is pretty similar to what happens with I-40 heading to Carolina Beach here in NC except that it ends up going parallel to the coast rather than perpendicular
Am I able to also do this with train station only?
Have the traffic lights changed recently. I use to be able to control the settings depending on what roads I used. I don't see that option on PS4 version anymore. Could you please help with this issue. Thank you!
Always enjoy your videos yumbl
thx for the vid.I am missing my icon for the unlimited Oil and Ore ( like you have ) Mod is enabled.
It’s awesome to see my hometown featured in a video!!!! Virginia Beach for the win!!!
How do you start with so much money?
begin building a city… dang thats some great advice I never thought of that….
I dont definitely do that once a week, because I learn something new I want to base a city off….
Going to try the first option when the new update drops with the Cape Apple map, think its perfect for it!
Woo! Shoutout to ImperialJedi!
The Virginia beach method seems nice, but I'd take it one step further, splitting the highway entry and exit and have them go separate directions.
My idea would be to create a ring-way, not sure if that's a Dutch thing? It's like an artery going around a city with several big roads branching of it. As it's a circle around the city it might function like a huge roundabout!
Would that work nicely?
Santa Cruz, California also just dumps the highway into town. It's really jarring after 40 minutes in the mountains.
Nice grid, however I would have saved some of that forest area for my 1st industry.
It's shaped like a Diamond. But does it shine bright like a diamond?
Traffic getting to Virginia Beach was always way less than any of the others in the area. Another thing with it is even though like you said it is expensive, it’s not hard to convert the previous two starts to a VB. Start with a reduction, until there is too much trafffic, and then split that arterial into two veins that service the neighborhood that has already developed there. Just looking at the buildings in Virginia Beach I get the impression that the freeway didn’t always go directly to the strand. It seems like they probably took a couple of older major streets and converted them into the reduction that it is now.
There is no other YouTuber I’ll watch absolute start to absolute finish. Even on a starter video. Entrancing.
I'm not sure in whose video I saw this, but you can remove the zoning around arteries, right? That might make it easier to plan your zones.
Always good to get back to basics. I can't shake bad habits from playing SimCity 2000 where you just gridded the whole map. I'd really like an "undoing the grid" kind of fix your city. We're all pretty good at traffic by this point, it's time to branch out. 😀
I would like a more varied map style for cities. How many cities just get randomly built on a highway that went to nowhere XD
11:08 I prefer to have the industrial area on the right side just so I can connect it with a quick ramp to the highway (exiting the city) to reduce traffic on the roundabout and for smooth exporting in the near future.
I realise this was aimed at beginners but my preference is to load the map into the editor and downgrade all the highways to national roads all the way to the edge of the map with a tiny tail of highway at the edge to make the connections. Then I reduce all the intersections to something more suitable to national roads. Maybe a basic parclo. Finally I tend to boost the railroad to double the capacity and tidy up the unrealistically tight intersections. Then I start the game normally.
Checking in here from Virginia Beach.
If you'd like to continue with the Virginia Beach approach, remember to not implement public transit at all and then to have multiple highways that circle back on each other.
Love the shout out!
The Virginia Beach method is also used here in Florida frequently…Melbourne comes to mind. Really nice overview to help begin a city. It's such an awesome game, but that starting point decision still intimidates me a little when starting a new city!
Good ideas to access the fun potential. cheers 🙂
Can we preface this video with what I believe is most of those roads being locked, if you're playing with achievements/unlocks? I don't think 4-lane roads exist on a brand new city, do they?
Hi Yumbl. Im always love ur video to inspire me and watch a lot of ur video. But i just want to ask u. Is realistic population fun to build dream city?
That's an awfully fat diamond, which kind of loses one of its advantages of having a narrow profile so's you can develop closer to the primary road. I suppose if you're planning to convert it to a partial cloverleaf or something else with loop ramps down the line, reserving space could make sense…
Yumbl you have a great 'radio' voice.
Funnily enough, as you were making the first example, I was thinking that you could just continue the highway from the overpass down to the railway tracks and slowly fizzle it out, like with your Virginia Beach example at the end.
All great ways to enter a city.
I quite frequently use the reduced highway start, primarily because I don't like having a highway in the middle of city and having to plan for it. It also pins the city in a way, as I expand off the branches, and try not to expand towards the highway.
I’ve done your Virginia Beach method a couple times but didn’t put this much forethought into it. I see it all along the Atlantic side. I wanna say Melbourne or Cocoa Beach Florida does something similar. Since a divided highway is essentially a couplet, it ends with a block-sized, square-about.
My husband and I are from Virginia Beach and we just FREAKED OUT that you highlight our city!! Big fans, keep up the good work!!