How to Start a City in Cities Skylines, Part 1: From 0 to 10k Population |No mods, no DLC, Vanilla|
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- How to Start a City in Cities Skylines, Part 1: From 0 to 10k Population |No mods, no DLC, Vanilla|
Did you just pick up the game during the Epic giveaway, buy the game on Steam during the recent sale, download it from Xbox Game Pass, or purchase it on another Console? Struggling to build a successful city? I'm here to help! Today, I'll provide a beginners guide on how to build a successful city, in Cities Skylines building from a lonely patch of land all the way to a bustling city of 10,000+ residents. This guide is 100% vanilla without any DLC.
Topics covered in this episode include: initial freeway interchange, layout out a basic grid, zoning, providing adequate services, using districts, policies, and light detailing.
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Hi everyone! I have started a new series similar to this one called Tutoria! It has been organized to show how to build a city and incorporate each of the DLCs. Check it out here - czcams.com/video/Iu8YwpngbzE/video.html !
Links to the rest of Starterville:
Part 1: czcams.com/video/SWW8Nm4NbxI/video.html
Part 2: czcams.com/video/tV8OBBIMRoA/video.html
Part 3: czcams.com/video/zSdw3YDhejA/video.html
Part 4a: czcams.com/video/Qax-peOym2w/video.html
Part 4b: czcams.com/video/PKsPZcoq_Og/video.html
Part 5: czcams.com/video/963yH-_urSU/video.html
This is exactly the video I've been looking for. Thank you so much!
What DLC would you recommend a new player to get with the base game?
I luv cities skylines
Making a video.
@@CityPlannerPlays After watching the Starterville series I went back and watched Verde Beach and Bluff City. You got better at doing videos pretty quickly. It was also interesting how playing on video seemed to improve your playing quite quickly as well, based on your statement that you'd already played a few thousand hours before doing it for CZcams.
Me: "I don't have time to watch a ninety-minute video!"
Also me: *wastes eight hours creating an unmanageable mess*
same
I play at a 1.75 speed playback. Has changed my life!
@@jackyeal I do at x2 :)
@@jackyeal try .25...now thats life changing
@@jackyeal this video still took me an hour to finish at 1.75 😂 but thanks tho! You saved me some time
"The speeds on dirt roads are going to be lower" *laughs in southern*
Can definitely Southern-confirm. Enjoy your 100th like. Also, @City Planner Plays, this is a really good tutorial, thank you.
TMPE: laughs in speed limit changer
And Canadian
@@dracosummoner Got to git to yur cousins house real qucik like.
@@AcolyteOfLucifer Cries in clicking every fucking road
I would love to see you contnue "Tutorial City" all the way to the last milestone
y
Absolutely
@@moloprevoloerevele9131 z
That would be amazing
Please that would be greay
12 minutes in and already I want to restart my city and make it like yours. It just looks so clean and tidy and organized. I wish I just knew how to make a good city like you.
Same
Follow the topography. Especially for larger roads. Use the larger roads as the guide for your smaller roads
lol did the same HAHAHA
it is good advice for the very beginner but there are way better designs. I prefere to not build at all against the main roads for example.
Bro I did this and still ended up fucking my whole grid up
That 1 hour 28 minutes and 56 seconds was worth it. Now I know how to make a decent city.
How?
@@DBT1007 DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO MY GUY
That i was about to say! Much things to learn
You're like the Bob Ross of Cities: Skylines
"Just a happy little accident."
Great videos, friend!
An hour and a half video? Oh, best believe I'm about to sit through this whole thing. Thank you for all the effort and hard work you put in! ^_^
The thing is its very dense on info and well structured, not like some other videos where youtuber talks what he had on launch and how well his dog feel today.
Fn d
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Lel i am watching the whole video too without leaving a sec
His voice is so calm and he is so full of life when he plays this i could watch this forever.
I've put over a thousand hours into this game... still can't make a good-looking grid layout. I need this-
Same lol
Try having some districts done on a grid at an angle - think the northwestern bit, just inland from the piers, of San Francisco
Damn boi
im hoping "a thousand" was just an amount used figuratively...
@@vasiapatov4544 this game is quite easy to get hours in
You're like the Bob Ross of City Skylines and im here for it
Bob Ross? You mean Picasso i hope?
To me they look more like squares than landscapes.
I might be blind, but all i see is coloured squares.
No happy little tree-shape streetplan, or perhaps a nice big mountain-shape streetplan or something like that.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Thanks for the videos.
"Happy little accidents"
I literally came here to say that
Came to say this, found it said
Me a week ago: I don't know if I will get into Verde Beach, I'm too invested in Bluffside Crossing.
Me today: Why yes, I do want to see how this 3rd city evolves.
You are the Bob Ross of Cities Skylines. Other creators overwhelm us with all this info on complex junctions and interchanges and whatnot right from the outset, and here you are keeping it super simple and being super chill, starting off with the very basics and very gradually iterating on that. This has become my favorite C:S channel!
I came across this channel randomly the other day and your series has inspired me to play, I started last night and was having some trouble getting off the ground. What great timing this video has come this morning! I am eager to watch this long video fully and see if I can improve my skills
Edit: Finished it now, some pretty great tips! I had no idea how to do that industry specialized zoning like forestry. If you are considering more tutorial video ideas, I'd like to suggest maybe make one for the big DLC each? Like for instance you mentioned making a park district if you had the park life DLC in this video, I have that and I'm not 100% certain how to use it very effectively yet.
Who would have thought a film-length Cities tutorial could be engaging from start to finish? Great video, very useful - thanks.
You nailed it...I just bought CS a couple of days ago via one of those sales you mentioned. This will be the first YT video I've ever watched while taking notes.
Thanks for this, EXACTLY what I was looking for. Just picked up the base game to see if I would enjoy it before going nuts with all the DLC. This series is precisely what I needed to get started.
Great video! Very refreshing to see a simple good build, no nonsense, no crazy interchanges, no roundabouts everywhere, just good planing and managing!
Just gotta say you've nailed the balance here between real-time and time-lapse. Nice work! Been watching a few of your vids while working and they're super chill.
Thank you!!
Also: even if you overbuild the incinerators to take care of landfills, you can shut the incinerators off after the landfills are empty to save the budget be clicking on it and pushing the bottom on the top right of its panel
You can also pull one over on the game mechanics if you are in a pinch... but it requires some pre-planning. When placing a landfill, put it out of the way on it's own side street and leave enough room for six grid spaces on at least one side. Once it gets filled, demolish the road that heads out to the rest of the city and surround the landfill on all sides with a one-way road in a closed loop. Then build one incinerator somewhere on that one-way road loop. Set the landfill to empty and the trucks will go around the loop taking their garbage right to the incinerator without clogging up traffic on other city streets.
This will take awhile to empty, as the incinerator will quickly reach capacity itself, but you won't impact the rest of the city at all beyond some budget funds. Granted, it's a bit of an exploit and not "realistic".. but with the unmodded traffic AI being as goofy and unrealistic as it is... sometimes it makes sense to leverage a slight exploit to maintain your overall sanity.
I just got back into playing Cities Skylines, and am making a city following along with this series! Great way to learn, and it's nice reaching milestones with ease when I struggled before haha.
Love your builds! Very relaxing and easy to follow.
Friend, the way you just Bob Rossed your way through this tutorial makes me all the happier that I just bought this game. I am officially and happily about to travel down this rabbit hole. Thank you.
No mistakes just happy accidents 😂
I literally needed to see this. I used this map a couple of weeks ago and felt like I made every mistake with cash management in the beginning. Please keep this series going
I've always felt super bad for building grid cities, and watching you praise them and build a wonderful city using only grids makes my heart happy, thanks! I've been playing City builders since SimCity 2000 where grids were the norm, so I formed a habit in every building game after that, and I always felt "guilty" for not using the free-form roads as freely as some others.
Really like your videos! Consider me a new follower :)
I absolutely needed this! :) Thank you! I have attempted 3 or 4 cities and they ultimately end up sucking, mainly coz I needed to know alot of the information you gave. SUPER HELPFUL. Oh, and btw, and hour and a half? Yessir I watched the whole thing, you make the city building, super relaxing and satisfying :)
It only gets more complex even after you learn the basics 😩😩 its SUPER ADDICTIVE THO!!
I'm pretty sure when you first start, if you put down a road anywhere, then demolish it, it unlocks a few of the options including double lane one way
Definitely show the growth from here to 50K! this point on is an interesting struggle, especially with public transport - going from these established roads to getting people off the roads.
Thanks for your content!
I'd love to see some public transport videos, especially planning rail stations. It's my favourite bit of the game but I'm terrible at it.
the only way I've managed it effectively is by building a couple toll booths into my industrial areas and building up the metro as soon as it's available. Even then it's a struggle. I'm still new though, I don't actually know what I'm doing.
Yes! And then more 😂
OK you TOTAL need to continue this. as a plain jane free copy guy, I want to see where this goes. (my first city is now almost 80,000 thanks to your other videos!!)
My favorite "starter" roads are two-lane one-way roads coming off of the interstate connection with a 2 cell spacing. I live in central Virginia and a lot of our state roads have that median in the middle almost like a junior highway. Makes for a great option to upgrade it to full highway in the future since you already have the space used. Keep up the awesome videos, always great to hear your professional experience applied to Cities:Skylines!
-Swede
Came back to say this video helped my first city a lot. The advice involving priority roads and managing the lights was life saving. Also amazing music choice throughout the video!
This is fascinating. I get the insight of a city planner whilst watching you build a city in a game. I love the quirks you have and watching the influence they have on the city. I'll watch the rest of the series! Well done
Tip: you start with a 4 lane road at the beginning of the game by placing any length segment of 2 lane road.
6 unlocks as well. At least when I did it just now.
Yes, that one sacrificial $40 road is annoying. Build it, bulldoze it, have access to a nice selection of roads.
I did 4 attempts of trying to make a city that wouldnt go bankrupt and then i found this. Thanks a lot dude!
ONE OF THE MOST PERFECT BUILD (WITHOUT DLC/MOD), GREAT DESIGN PLANNING, PERFECT TRAFIC FLOW !!!!!!! PLEASE CONTINUE THIS CITY BUILD ....EPISODE 2 PLEASE..
Awesome! I would love this to continue and see where you go from here! The other videos are awesome to watch but are kind of intimidating for a total beginner. This might have been the one to get me to try the game for myself.
THANK YOU!!! I kind of got into Cities by watching CZcamsrs but everytime I'd try to play the game would frustrate me to no end because I'm basically playing vanilla and nothing seems as easy as it does on CZcams. Much appreciated.
I played this game for two years with no DLC and never managed to tackle the two rivers map 😂
Glad you were able to make a great city on it
I highly recommend the DLC, they are great
@@thehandleisuseless paradox makes games to sell DLC
@@emreseyit1277 but are you aware of EA?
This is the best guide, really. I've seen other youtubers worrying about placing perfect grids since they start their cities, but you went for a real beginner approach making the game more enjoyable, without mods and all that. Thank you!
The best Cities CZcamsr for no-mod builds.
Well also Imperatur
But I think I like this channel more. :)
You have such a nice natural planning style. I keep imagining living on a certain street corner, going for an ice cream cone near the river, walk through the park.
Thank you for this! Got this game at the Christmas sale and after watching this video am not so lost anymore. Again great video!
Thank you so much for this video! I've been thinking about getting this game for about two weeks now, and I think you explained everything well enough for me to feel good about starting some kind of first try! :) Love this
Very nice tutorial! It is interesting to see the American influence in this game. The typical grid approach is so unusual in most EU cities. We typically have an old city centre around which the city builds outwards, eventually changing into a grid type of structure.
This tutorial is fantastic. I got the game on a recent sale, and after a few hours of experience I am in just the right place to learn a lot from this video. Also your city design is exquisite!
I'm not a gamer...just watch video uploads. I enjoy your content and appreciate the exposure to this game. It is an interesting perspective when the game directly corresponds to your actual occupation. Keep up the great work!
I get SO annoyed when my grid doesn't line up from 1 area to another or when my road ends up in 89 degrees instead of 90 degrees.. just doesn't feel right to me.
By a startling coincidence, I started playing Cities: Skylines (for the very first time) on this very same map a few days ago. Now it looks like I get to do it all over again, but better 😎
Even though I've played city skylines for a couple years now I really like seeing the way other people build out their cities and I love the explanations given. Thanks for the great videos!
Loved this! I've been struggling getting started and this guide helped tree-mendously. Thanks for your labor of love!
I started this video to watch about 10-15 minutes worth to get an idea, stayed for all an hour and a half. I got mesmerized by the quality commentary! Little life lesson too, regarding the happy accidents ;)
I've been playing Cities Skylines for years and learnt new ideas from this, thank you :-)
This vid was great. I was trying to find out how to get into the game until I found your channel. Now I'm loving the game. It's crazy how I look at my own city's makeup and seeing if I can mimic the good stuff my city did into the game. Thanks for the vid!
Tip: "B" is the demolish hot key. "V" is the demolish underground key. These two hot keys I use all the time, with my 1053hours played time :D A bit of cc, your music is too loud, its competting with your vocal audio.
anyway Keep up the good work :)
This is so relaxing an educational. I've been watch CS videos for years (can't play) and didn't know a BUNCH of this newbie stuff! So helpful!
Glad to hear it!
I learned a lot from this video!!! Definitely going to continue checking out this series. I don't play cities skylines because I need to upgrade my computer.
Good! Now get out there and fix the timing of the traffic lights on Sandwich St.
Some of my favorite restaurants have been in industrial districts. One was a small, family owned Mexican restaurant and the other was another small, family owned seafood, crab shack kind of place. It's definitely not weird to have a bit of commercial stuff near the industrial.
A bit off topic, but speaking of mods: a short while ago, you linked a video from another channel of somebody building a cargo port. It was very nicely built, very detailed and realistic.
However, I found it a lot less interesting to watch precisely because just about everything on the map was hand-placed from custom assets. I don't mind the use of mods, quite the opposite, but what I really enjoy about building stuff and seeing stuff get built is watching game mechanics in action.
That might shine through in some of the ideas I've shared, but to me it's particularly interesting to see what happens when, for example, you introduce a new transit line, or zone an area in a certain way, and the game world reacts to it.
Mods, including custom assets, can absolutely enhance this experience, but when a game - any game - is modded to the point where the original mechanics are no longer recognisable, it isn't really fun for me anymore.
So, keep on building!
Makes sense. For me, I enjoy the same kinds of videos you do (hence my play style), but can also appreciate a good detailer every now and then - mostly because at that point it is like looking at a detailed painting to me. I agree that it is unrecognizable at that point and basically a different game.
I agree, there's a point where some players are just building models, so to speak, that's fine for people who want to do that, awesome in fact, but a different thing. I like having to succeed with the mechanics. Part of city builders for me has always been that you have to make it work as a 'real' city to some extent. What I love about this channel and Phil's main series, is that you get real insight into what would be possible or not in real planning, and why. You don't have to follow the principles exactly, but working within them has improved my game, and led me to rediscover my enjoyment of it. Plus, across 2020, and still now, we need positive, smart stuff more than ever.
@@AndyBestHP Yes! I don't mean that doing a detailed modded build is wrong, of course, it's just not my preference.
Back when I played Fallout 4, I got _really_ into settlement building (you can see some of it among my uploads, if you're interested), and I liked building "functional" settlements where the settlers could live and work and be safe.
However, I also enjoy watching people build plastic model kits in great detail. It fills another creative niche, I guess.
If I could like this twice it would be the first video I ever liked twice. Love your commentary on why you are doing the planning and building organically just like a real life city. I’m gonna reinstall this tonight!
Oooo a fresh upload, dont mind if I do. I just came back to the game and thought I was doing well, hit 3k population and my sewage backed up river. Gonna start over following this tonight after work.
I bought this game years ago but never played it until yesterday where I spent more time than I anticipated. Watching you play though is like watching Bob Ross with his happy accidents. Its just so cathartic and I cant stop watching!
Just keep making whatever videos you feel like, at this point, I have watched 50 episodes of BC, and this is just as good.. You are a naturally talented entertainer, with a fountain of knowledge, again thank you for your content!!
Thanks for this. I was considering getting the vanilla game with no DLCs but wondered if it was worth it. I don't want to fall down the SIMS rabbit hole again with this game. :)
it is so easy to fall down the rabbit hole... ha!
Absolutely love this. Quite figuratively the map I've used to make and remake cities as I've learned to play the game.
A week later update my city using your tips is growing well, $3.5 million in the bank at capitol level. Only issue is traffic at major junctions.
I love how your having fun playing this game man, people ask me whats so fun about this game they just don't get it.
Every time I try to start a city I instantly go into debt
Gotta say love the random chuckles when you genuinely crack yourself up. Awesome vid
*Vaporizes entire neighborhood*
"And just like that, the traffic is gone!"
Classic politician tactics
the way you explain stuff and not stick to the simple for too long keeps your videos flowing beautifully
this was so good and what i've been missing! Thank you. Really helped me make sense of the fundamental concepts in the game/life
been playing for 3 yrs and learned so much from even just the first quarter of this, thank you so much
Even as a Civil 3D Instructor, this is really cool. I love this game and definitely implement the things I teach.
Just bought this off Steam, and realised there is no tutorial in-game.
I'm only bought the base game first to see if I'm interested in city building game but many tutorials in CZcams are either few years back then or done with all the DLCs.
Thank you so much for your tutorial for vanilla version of the game!
This is a fantastic tutorial that i keep coming back to as i am rather new the game but i do all the DLC and a few QoL mods so my playthrough differs slightly but the basics and the overall ideas you have i use in my build such as the layout and the tips it really is fantastic thank you for that :D now i need to find a tutorial on the industry DLC since its far more advance then your forestry and farming since it has unique buildings :D
Really helpful! Took me a few evenings of following your steps to build a similar city while playing the game, but all around a super useful video. Moving on to part 2 now!
Okay I think the gravel roads stayed around for a little too long.
As someone who had owned cities skylines for years and never touched it because it was too complex for my smooth brain, this helped me a lot. Thanks man!
Same
i got 500 hours on this game and still need a tutorial for a actally good city, i usally get to 10k and start having so much traffic problems i start a new gam
Cities: Skylines is such a beautiful game. You can really feel that for the developers, too, this isn't just a job, just a way to make money. They really love this project, too. And you can sense that. That's what makes all the difference when comparing it to the competition (yeah, looking at you, EA...).
Agreed
I just watched the whole 89 minute video.... You’ve defeated my A.D.D.
even better than adderall??? WOW !!
Lol, I have just bought the game. Needed your tutorial so much. I have been watching Bluffside Crossing for a while now, and you made it look so easy. I studied urban design at University myself and I don't want to screw up at the very start. Need to patiently learn the game. Thank you for your tutorial.
Happy little accidents you sound like Bob Ross.
I have seen hundreds of hours of Cities Skylines videos and have played the game for months .... your videos are the BEST, man!! Your thinking, your pace, the way you respond to the environment and city needs, your background music even are spot-on!
Thank you!!
Keep posting and I'll keep watching :)
Thank you so much for the kind words!!
Absolutely amazing stuff! I sat down and build the entire thing along with the video and it turned out to be so much fun. Thanks for all your efforts and content
Spoiling us with the 90 minute vid today. I love holding off my homework!
Hey! City Planner didn't add so many schools for you to not do your homework! Lol. Jkjk. But not really. Good luck in school!
Very usefull. I missed the give-aways and didn't have a computer at the time, so I'm still saving up to buy the game. So, when I do start to play, this will very much be one of my go-to videos. I like that you go into detail and started from nothing. Some players' videos have them speaking too fast or have mods installed and go from the idea that the viewer has played before and knows all the jargon and user words. You and Biffa have it spot on. Thanks. Really appreciated.
you truly are the Bob Ross of cities: skylines
was looking for that comment :-)
love you doing a vanilla run with no mods. as a console player I get envious at times.
You videos always make me happy, inspired and clm. thank you.
P.S. was wondering if you could do a video on your career and if others are interested in falling your career path.
I've been thinking about that.
Two Rivers map has one tiny problem: No Ship line. Thus, you can never make harbors.
I've been playing this game casually for a long time now and I learned SO much from this.
Just a heads up in regards to the comment you made about road availability at 21:20...after you lay your first road, the four-lane road, six-lane road and six-lane one-way road are all available to use at the start of the game.
On that note, pedestrian and bicycle paths are also available eventually. They hide out on the landscaping tab.
Im only 20 minutes in, but you saved my entire experience of this game with this video. You have no idea how frustrated i was trying to figure everything out by myself as a guy whos never played any of these games before. Now im having a BLAST. THANK YOU GOOD SIR!!
Man I couldn't figure out why everybody thought I was doing a bad job then I realized I put my sewage next to my water 😳
found this channel a month or so ago randomly and after alwaya feeling like i didnt give the game enough of my time I picked up all the missing DLCs on the steam summer sale and have jumped back into. Just wanted to say thanks for all the videos.
"If you're playing on the PC you can right-click these to change the directionality"
Me, with 150 hours: w h a t.
Sory but it is a bit stupid to not to notice this :D
I hadn't played C:S since 2017, and this was a great refresher. Length & content were perfect. It's also very therapeutic watching someone calm and knowledgeable playing a sim game like this. Subbed and ready to devour the back-catalogue.
Your voice and city planning / building is so relaxing. I was pretty stressed out at work today and just left this on for a bit - it was so soothing. Thanks for your videos!
I bought this game as I love sim city and other city building games. Now having played city building games since Pharaoh's and every other one in between, I thought this will be easy, man was I mistaken. First 2 cities were a mess. After watching your video few times, I think I am now a master city builder. Thanks for this video, it sure was HUGE help getting started with this game.
Thank you! I Completely forgot about the Option of Traffic Routing! The Way of drawing out the City from the Access Point is also very good, so you have space in the center!
Man, I was just looking for some tips to build up my city after not playing for a year..
I got completely mesmerized by your video! You're a wonderful builder and great at explaining.
Also you gave me some inspiration for my upcoming University studies, maybe I'll go civil engineering after all huh..
Thanks a lot! Appreciate your video, already an hour into it and forgot I wanted to play the game myself!