Why You Should DELETE Your Starting Highway (Cities Skylines Beginners Guide)
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- When you start a new city in Cities Skylines, you're almost always given a starting highway to build your city around, this encourages players to create their starting layout around the highway, which can lead to the city being cut in half by the starting highway, this makes creating a well-connected walkable city difficult. Today we will be deleting our starting highway and replacing it with a boulevard with bike lanes, which will open up a bunch of new land for residential and commercial development and create new opportunities for improving traffic flow by bringing in connectivity and re-routing outside traffic to a bypass around the city.
In this easy-to-follow beginners guide, I'll show you the BEST way to start a brand new city 100% vanilla. If you're an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER, we will go over the basics of the game, from the starting road layout to zoning, services and how to make money in Cities Skylines. We will go over the next few milestones and what to do when you unlock each one.
This tutorial applies to both PC and console players, but I am playing on a PC so some things may be different if you're on PS4, Xbox, Switch, etc. I have a few visual mods installed to make the game look more visually appealing, but the gameplay itself is 100% vanilla base game.
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Just one more lane bro...trust me bro just one more lane..
I swear onto my mom, only one more lane bro, it will 100% fix the problem, only one more lane
@@entonduck Okay fine. I'll lend you money once for this lane, but promise me you'll stop after
@@padnomnidprenon9672 Yes sure this 1 lane will fix the problem 100%
There's so many things I could say about the building itself but.. the fact that you gave the same amount of care and attention to every minute of this 50 minute long video without ever lifting the foot off the gas speaks volumes about the dedication and effort you put in. Mad respect my friend.
Thank you so much for the kind words ❤️ I tried my best to deliver quality
clearly having fun
First discovered you through TikTok, and I'm constantly seeing your lane man videos; but it's so nice seeing you develop a whole city and putting so much care into it. As disappointed as lane man might be in you, I think everyone else should be enthused by your dedication and attention to detail.
Haha I'm so glad you're here for more than just the LANES 🥰 CZcams is where I do the real work 😎
This sure as hell looked like fun to redevelop entire chunks of the city. I often feel like it would be great to play around with someone's creation and improve connectivity, remove ugly roads and unrealistic bendy trainlines, plus add a ton of landscaping and detailing. Wish there was an easy way of doing it and a platform to share cities for others to fix.
I love doing that with Planet Coaster! They make it easy to load into other’s parks
Time share coop mode!
I've actually thought that, for CS2, it would be nice to have maps which don't have highways on to start with, just the single carriageway national roads. That way it's more realistic, as those national roads serve as high streets through the town, as it grows around it, and then highways can come later when the population warrants them, and be built around the geography of the town, rather than the town being built around a highway. This wouldn't be possible in CS1 as you can't add new outside connections, but in CS2 you can, so when highways are needed you can add them in and create their new connections to the outside
It’s nice that people is starting to understand that lanes doesn’t entirely solve traffic congestions.
The Cities Skylines II hype got me on a youtube binge and I'm so glad I found your videos. I'm so afraid of deleting stuff and never deleted my highway, and after this video I can't believe I never did it. Expecting the II to have less wonkiness and be more forgiving when we upgrade/downgrade roads 😀
I think CS2 is gonna be awesome! Very happy to have you here 😊
@@CitiesByDiana their is less traffic CS2 because of smarter systems
that robert moses meme at the beginning is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time
you could drasticly improve connectibility in some places by connecting cul-de-sacs to main roads with paths, and making crossings in some long stretches of roads as well
Ohhh yes that's a great idea! I forgot to do that.
Fascinating to see you integrate a major highway development project into an existing city, and funnily enough I think your labours with the vanilla original game only serve to highlight just how amazing CS2 is going to be, with all the improvements we've seen in the developers diaries. I didn't properly understand the fuss over things like the roundabout tool until I watched your struggle to build a very simple one in vanilla CS1...
Yeah vanilla roundabouts are....something 🤣
Diana: .."to fit everything in correctly".
My brain: .."Incorrectly? Incorrectly?"
😂😂😂🎉 nice build luv
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Transformative! Great way to show how much better your planning brain is compared to a vanilla highway!
Love doing/watching these kinds of projects upgrading and rerouting roads & rail, especially how you left relics of the old alignment. 😊 (P.S I genuinely assumed the 25 tiles that became available in the console remastered version also came to the PC version. Tells you how ubiquitous my use of 81 tiles is. 😆)
Amazing what you did with that expressway through the city! I would have made broader curves on the new bypass, but hey that's just me. Whatever works! 🙂
As a beginner, I was worried about deleting houses and some structures. Now knowing that I have such liberty, I need to make a lot of changes on my city's structure.. Excited lol
You, my friend, impress me with dedication to your editing.
Ty🥰
This video actually taught me something I have a 100k pop vanilla city with terrible traffic flow
The dirt road tip at 31:03 is a game changer!!! Thanks Diana.
It makes everything so much easier, road benign on highways is a Nightmare
only just found your channel and you're now one of my favorite cities skylines creators. keep up the good work!
Oh thank you so much 🥰🥰
this is so chaotic but satisfying to watch haha.
Your videos are so nice to listen to ! You’ve got a soothing voice and good musical choice!
I use this inicial highway and create 2 one-way huge 6 lane avenues for the trucks and put monorails passing between them, then I put free public transportation. SInce they are avenues, they'll have sidewalks and crosswalks for people to walk across and take the monorails. That's the spine of the city, and I create neighborhoods around and let it organically grow. all of these neighborhoods' streets are made with bicycle lanes so people don't need to use their cars inside them, plus they're connected to each with more bicycle lane roads so people don't need to take the large avenue to go to another zone. There are 60k people and the traffic is flowing 80%. In the aftermath, most of the traffic in the avenue is for the trucks bringing stuff between industrial and commercial zones...
i love that you say and explain the tips and tricks and knowledge you know about how to make the roads look good
How have I never seen CZcams channel before??? LOVE IT
I really like the presentation style of this video. You aren't afraid to change your mind as the future impact of your choices becomes clear. All too often creators come in with the plan as if they're experts and teaching the community. You seem much more relatable because the rest of us think similar to you.
Great use of music and memes as well!
I will add one last thing which is that the ai voice you chose is grating given how overused it is throughout the internet.
All in all though, great video!
I'll be honest, the AI voice was was less used when I started using it it happened to go super viral shortly after 😭😭
@@CitiesByDiana I don't think it detracts too much. In fact, it feels like the perfect choice in your Lanes video :)
Also, that bit near the end where you terraformed that basin -- I don't know how easy it is to do in vanilla, but I'd have been tempted to turn that into a lake. I literally grew up in a community with an artificial lake in a basin like that!
It definitely CAN be done in vanilla but it's a bit of work haha
Ive been hiding my freeways under industry so trucks can sneak on and off while locals can use surface streets without getting backed up
Knowing how bad the npcs manage freeway merges...
Understanding what the npcs patterns are helps a lot!
Great work and change for your city Diana for sure, I do still think it would be a good addition to add a connection to the highway on the left, across the river, depending on your plans somewhere near that at least.
I think I will once I expand across the river, but I don't wanna encourage outside traffic through the center of town so it'll probably be a couple of connections instead.
@@CitiesByDiana that is also a great idea. I really like the amount of vegetation you put in and will look forward to follow your city’s growth.
Awesome video. What I like to do with my interchanges is disable traffic lights, stops and everything that would cause traffic to have to slow down.
It's easier with TM"PE, but works well enough on vanilla.
You say this is part of a series? might give it a look in the future. First time on your channel, nice music too ! Have a nice day !
Lane man lmao.
Also this is why I just enhance a map's set highways and just throw arterials for the road layout. I spam heavy traffic ban on non-industrial areas (works best if you also zone industries them in the city corners and is directly very close to highway) anyway. Then let transit network handle the rest.
in one of my cities i just deleted the outside connections and really just put my ports and airports to use, and it kind of worked but when i put the outside highway back into the mix i got like double tourists but thats about the only thing it was good for in my opinion. I also just made i gigantic underground highway system with various convenient exits and entrances throughout downtown, neighborhoods, etc. for transport just in my city and it works wonders
Nice job Diana! The "Old Geezer" approves! To bad you can't adjust the one new connection the the new highway that's so steep. 😎👍
I know it's such a massive incline! Might have to fix that next time 🙂
i just discovered your channel and am loving your contnet
These videos are always so calming for me
So glad you're enjoying them
I guess noone will give a flying f but gotta say - really nice skill and ideas for the game itself and also amazing voice, sounds like a radio speaker from old times - could listen to it for hours.
Bless you. :)
As always, this is the best series.
That entrance cum cloverleaf needed an upgrade, but pausing the game was not, I think, the way! This kind of infrastructure projects cause "interesting" effects on city traffic, that I lived though once and love to see on the game! OK, maybe that's a bit sadistic of me, but keeping the cash coming is not a bad idea.
Roundabouts are always a place for decorations. They look nicer, and are said to stop people from speeding on the roundabout.
What you did with the dog-bone was beautiful. Epic, even! The re-routing and interchanges were not as inspired, but in the end you made something nice. I think the interchange even "covers up" the fact that the motorway makes a weird turn away from the city. Maybe a second interchange at the other end of the map can be good for freight?
The bridges are another good looking thing, even if it wobbles my mind that Americans would do two three lane bridges, when a six-lane one surely must be cheaper! (we don't have many motorways down here)
(also, your snap-tools-fu is masterful)
The "texas u-turn" (former interchange) seems like a nice place for industry, with the side collectors, and access to the motorway. Are you hiding the pollution? Why did the devs made pollution a nice but inappropriate lavender?
And connectivity begins to reign supreme. Cable cars for the win!
Another interchange! Diana makes the topography respect HER! (again, Americans flatten their terrain too much. Make the motorway dip down, maybe have an at grade crossing, have "fun"!) And it is, no doubt, a pretty parclo, beautiful. the access is steep, but honestly, the only unrealistic thing to me, is that there are no houses in the arterial nor in the motorway. Americans, so neat! the big rock at the base can make for more parkland, even neater!
That boulevard rocks! The "dog-bone" park too.
Gosh, that map is so smooth... You don't even know it! Also, collector couplets are a lifesaver.
Great episode!
What if your interchange at 33:36 had the service road as an underpass rather than overpass? That way you don't have to climb as high up the hill and then over the highway.
That's an interesting idea, I didn't think of that! Very cool 😎 might give it a shot and see how it works
You should install traffic manager and use it to disable de-spawning. If you got a save from before this video was made it'd be interesting to see a comparison of the traffic before and after, in both cases with de-spawning turned off
I might give it a try sometime, but this is meant to be a 99% vanilla build haha
Awesome work making this city look live-able with only vanilla stuff. I might need to try the same to change things up while waiting for Skylines 2
I have totally forgotten how smooth this game can actually run. I'm using 87 mods and have about 3,000 assests.... With a Ryzen 5900X 12 core processor, a RTX 3070 and 32 GB ram I still get 5~15 FPS on this what, 10 year old game. lol
Lane Man disapproves! Need more lanes! :P
i often wish that some cities maps started without highways but a lot of small country roads, and instead of compleate untouched wilderness have some fields and farmland with country roads winding around, as it could give a more natural look to a small atarting city. maybe even small towns or villages dotted aropund that you could eventualy swallow up as your city expands.
That would be cool, I'd love that haha
lovee this series! just finished watching it all
There's gonna be more of this series coming in the next few weeks 😎
At last, we know the true identity of the dreaded Lane Man... who would it have been if not Robert Moses?? 😂
Thanks for the video!
Hi, do you know what happened to those shorts of the lane man? I was just wondering cause they are one of the funniest things I have seen 😂
They're all on IG and TikTok sadly they're mostly too long to post on YT shorts but too short to be standalone CZcams videos so I think there's only one on my yt channel right now but they're up on the other sites 🥰
Thank you!
You videos are so great ! Thank you for making them !!!
Ty 😊
Thanks for the video, Diana! I'm gonna buy this game soon! I'll likely run the highway under the city in a tunnel so it doesn't split neighborhoods apart. Or maybe re-route it around the perimeter of the city. And I'm gonna design my city like Amsterdam with separate bicycle infrastructure as described by _Not Just Bikes._ I like his channel and agree with a lot of what he says about separating bicycle infrastructure and car infrastructure, but I'm not a C0mmun1st, so I'm not gonna discourage people from owning cars if they want. I own a car and I love the convenience it gives me. I like to do all my grocery shopping once a month and bring it home in my car right to my door, rather than in dribs and drabs each day. So I'm not gonna force my homeowners to walk for blocks from their homes to get to where their cars are parked. C0mm1es may not mind doing that, but I don't want to walk for blocks in the pouring rain or blistering summer sun to get to my car. I'm also a train buff, so I'm gonna have lots of subways going everywhere. I'm also gonna tale a lot what I learned from _Road Guy Rob_ about roads vs stroads and have my highway branch out into roads where they filter out into streets.
So glad you liked the video 🥰
If you want bikes be sure to get the After Dark DLC too. It's weird it's locked behind a dlc but better to know now then when you get the base game with no bikes 🚳
@@CitiesByDiana Okay, thanks!
@@CitiesByDiana I just pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition on Steam. I don't see any DLC available, so does it come with the After Dark DLC, or will I be able to buy After Dark when the game unlocks on Oct 24?
@@fredashay Cities Skylines 2 is a different game this is the first version. CS2 does not have bikes or any DLCs
Hope it will be better to make sunked highways in CK2
I too hope Crusader Kings 2 releases a sunken highway DLC
😆@@CitiesByDiana
nuclear warfare against highways
Nice vid, subbed
Love your work... longer videos are just awesome... cause I can watch them and have my meals lol. Can you please tell me the name of the song at 5:09 . Thank you In advance.
Let's be honest--there are lots of real places where the terrain was never the planners' friend and they just made do :-) Take a look at US6 & 202 aka Bear Mountain Bridge Road, as gets through Bear Mountain State Park. They call it the Goat Path. If you're not careful you will literally drive off a cliff.
It's all kinds of fun to drive at night in the winter time...
I Always elevate the beginnig highways to connect the downtown grid
You should do a vanilla alternatives showcasethe vanilla alternatives are alternatives vehicles and styles for those vehicles they use the vehicles in game and turn it into a police vehicle but not for the ambulance and fire truck I think you would love this mod or idk what you call it because I still don't have a computer, and if your wondering how I know this I just go to the steam website on my phone
Yup I think that's the Advanced Vehicle Options mod 😁
@@CitiesByDiana search vanilla alternatives on the workshop you'll see it it would fit into cities that you want to keep their vanilla style
It's also vehicles and not a mod at all
You probably would like it
It's made by Chomers
I’ve been following along with the start of the series and building my own first city a long with yours, I’m on the 2nd video and got to about 8,500 population and all my commercial and industrial says there’s not enough educated workers and not enough workers even though there’s more demand for commercial and industrial and plenty of all types of schools. What do u do to fix it?
I’m only commenting on this one because it’s new and more people should see it
How did you have your industrial zone with no ground pollution? Did have a specialty or something? Or did i miss where you mentioned a mod?
The pollution is there. I'm using visual mods to remove the ugly colors it creates. But I didn't remove the actual pollution.
The visual mods don't effect gameplay mechanics at all they just make for a nicer looking video ,😊
I was thinking the same to replace the highway but i could not do it because their sea side to my city
one more lane bro, i was doing that shit last night, i love 20 lane highways
You could've done the partial cloverleaf goind below the highway, so you didn't need to go so higher up, maybe?
You're right, in hindsight, I could have hahha
@@CitiesByDiana just a suggestion, tho. It's not like I play better than you hahaha
@@AndyEst1 I like the suggestion 😁
But how am I supposed to sellout my road networks to one company as a short term means of making money for my city and a long term means for that company to extort motorists
29:27 with the highway being so much higher than the collector, why didn't you bring the collector under the highway rather than trying to raise it over the highway?
I just didn't think of it, might be a nice thing to fix next time 🙂
funnel every freeway through toll booths so they have to pay to travel anywhere since they can't go anywhere without paying the taxman
I always get rid of it, highways mess up my traffic 😂
Lane man will be furies !!! I know I am
Might need to add some public transit now just to mess with him even more....
not just bikes moment
Brb moving to the Netherlands
Oh wow this land is very terrable
Yes hahah these early base game maps are so messy 😆
Never delete your starting highway, its your life arteria....
You must not have watched the video, it's more like a relocation than fully deleting it
Did you just show a picture of Elon Musk when saying "crap?" Not cool. That suggests he is a bad person, but not dangerous. You want to at least say "shit" there. It denotes the serious threat he poses.
You're right though 😯
what's the name of tent/homeless asset? tried search homeless/tent can't found
The tents themselves are from the Parklife DLC, if you have it it's in the parks menu.
The shacks and stuff are mods, the pack is called Shanty Town I believe
@@CitiesByDiana Thanks found it, subbed !
wtf?! has anybody ever told you that you sound like that educational video narrator lady? like seriously, until you introduced yourself, I thought the intro was a clip from National Geographic or something
Hahah that's a new one I haven't heard before, I like it 🥰
Is that malaysia from a split seconds 0:02 ?
I'm actually not sure, it might be..it was stock footage from pexels
Ya no I can’t do that
i forgot about this premiere
Drop the music!!!
No
I love your insta
Haha ty 🥰
MMMM i know the effort... but unpractical, unefficient, and so on. Well, hope the critic reach to an improvement.-
thanks for the comment
Bike lane in the middle of the roundabout? Poor cyclists, this wouldn't work... 😢
Oops 😬
I disagree with removing highways. Makes no sense, even in European Cities we need and have Highways.
What a shame, destroying highways.
I guess it was moreso relocating the highway than removing it
@@CitiesByDiana I mainly (standard) use 2 lane highways (like we have in Europe). If I need more capacity I use a max of 4 lanes. Otherwise I add another highway.
Highways do cut through cities (very common), for example look at the highway A1 in Switzerland and look at the towns / cities of St. Gallen, Gossau, Wil.
For example the Highway in St.Gallen and Wil passes through the city. But is beside the town of Gossau.
Maybe take inspiration from Austria, I think the place is called St. Pölten or even Vienna.
Now for Cities Skylines I would recommend adding either more Highway entries and exits, or add exits and entries with no crossing paths like a highway interchange.
(Cities Skylines is a very good simulation, for example the town of Gossau has 15000 inhabitants, but the highway exit and entries to clog up from time to time, like they would in cities skylines for a town with 15000 people...)
😂beautiful produced, ugly city
i means isnt that every beginner's vanilla city tho?