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  • čas přidán 9. 07. 2022
  • Cities: Skylines is the ultimate city-builder, but it has an overwhelming amount of content. I decided to put several urban planning ideas to the test in a 100-year experiment.
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    Cities: Skylines OST
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  • @ambiguousamphibian
    @ambiguousamphibian  Před rokem +1291

    Correction @1:23 I said "Weast" - not "East"

  • @OrgusDin
    @OrgusDin Před rokem +6729

    That 6 way intersection kills me. It probably would kill everyone, honestly.

    • @fuzzygoldfish
      @fuzzygoldfish Před rokem +426

      I mean, it would reduce traffic if everyone was too afraid to drive.

    • @toomanymarys7355
      @toomanymarys7355 Před rokem +295

      You're so narrow-minded, assuming that traffic planning must conform to your limited vision of people surviving....

    • @juppppy
      @juppppy Před rokem +124

      Just put in a roundabout

    • @mirjanbouma
      @mirjanbouma Před rokem +45

      I haven't played this game but there are roundabouts, why didn't he put in roundabouts there?

    • @eddiethompson2165
      @eddiethompson2165 Před rokem +86

      @@mirjanbouma because he wanted triangles, probably

  • @superchroma
    @superchroma Před rokem +10287

    The last city you build is the one you make when you remember that public transport is a thing and that there's just no elegant way to retrofit it into your other cities.

    • @thecryingsoul
      @thecryingsoul Před rokem +1623

      This is coincidentally a pretty accurate description of the public transport issue of most American cities as well lol

    • @danielarmstrong3963
      @danielarmstrong3963 Před rokem +285

      @@thecryingsoul As American cities are so new it's probably easier than elsewhere because there's a lot of square stuff going on.

    • @superchroma
      @superchroma Před rokem +931

      @@danielarmstrong3963 American cities are trapped between powerful private and commercial interests, which render all serious attempts at reform ineffectual or eye-wateringly expensive. Or both!

    • @danielarmstrong3963
      @danielarmstrong3963 Před rokem +49

      @@superchroma Fair enough though that's probably the case for cities the world over.

    • @SnazBrigade
      @SnazBrigade Před rokem +105

      Trams and metro combo is pretty good, paired with ample walking paths

  • @domesticcat1725
    @domesticcat1725 Před rokem +3123

    "you have to cross a 6 lane highway every time you leave your house"
    Ah, good old Houston

    • @pinkgirl192
      @pinkgirl192 Před rokem

      🥲

    • @lemon93
      @lemon93 Před rokem +25

      Miami, FIU Campus is good times

    • @enfynet
      @enfynet Před rokem +12

      I learned that rule when my ex lived in Missouri city 😂

    • @christopherfrancis1798
      @christopherfrancis1798 Před rokem +50

      Ahhh Houston. Never change. 3 hours of traffic to leave your driveway, 9 hour commute to work. Good times

    • @mrmaddocs68752
      @mrmaddocs68752 Před rokem +7

      Did you mean North Richland Hills, TX

  • @willabyuberton818
    @willabyuberton818 Před rokem +10685

    I'm impressed how you made exactly the same errors that US urban planners have for centuries.

  • @writofassistance
    @writofassistance Před rokem +4746

    "It was almost perfect...save for some traffic problems"
    - Every Cities Skyline player ever

    • @HonkousBonkous
      @HonkousBonkous Před rokem +84

      Not if you design cities properly. Based around people and public transport, none of this car based design stuff.

    • @1dingerr
      @1dingerr Před rokem +37

      @@HonkousBonkous you can have a lot of a cars as long as you manage your street hierarchy correctly i.e. feeding small streets into large streets with minimal intersections.

    • @HonkousBonkous
      @HonkousBonkous Před rokem +130

      @@1dingerr the idea is to actually not have to rely on cars at all. There is no reason why people should drive in an urban area.
      In an ideal city the only vehicles that should be on the road is public transport, emergency vehicles, bikes (if they even count as vehicles) and business traffic (delivery vehicles and trucks).

    • @1dingerr
      @1dingerr Před rokem +33

      Right, I'm just saying you can reduce your issues with traffic a lot by arranging your streets properly. Grid systems like this fail because they have tons of intersections and small roads are feeding into small roads which leads to congestion.

    • @HonkousBonkous
      @HonkousBonkous Před rokem +28

      @@1dingerr That does make sense but it is treating the symptom not the problem. Without so many people using cars there wouldn't be the congestion to sort out.

  • @Therecreep
    @Therecreep Před rokem +1269

    8:10 The reason roundabouts cause significantly less traffic is because they do not require a traffic light and thus permit the free flow of traffic whilst allowing drivers to change their direction of travel.
    This effect is pronounced in video games because game AI can drive "perfectly" and has no regard for itself or others.

    • @grinningtiki220
      @grinningtiki220 Před rokem +255

      "has no regard for itself or others." Just like everyone that uses a roundabout in IRL then.

    • @joostiscool100
      @joostiscool100 Před rokem +22

      Unless the roundabout causes a gridlock lmao

    • @fenrisvermundr2516
      @fenrisvermundr2516 Před rokem +19

      Honestly installing a mod that removes traffic lights removes alot of your traffic problems. In my city of over 200k I have almost no problems save for highway off-ramps. Everything else flows buttery smooth.

    • @MihikChaudhari
      @MihikChaudhari Před rokem +11

      Pedestrians? Isn't it unsafe to cross without traffic lights?

    • @ArousedRat1
      @ArousedRat1 Před rokem

      @@MihikChaudhari eh fuck em, too weak to own a car

  • @RealCivilEngineerGaming
    @RealCivilEngineerGaming Před rokem +3070

    Roundabouts ftw!!

    • @erik-martin
      @erik-martin Před rokem +75

      Ah yes, my other favourite voice of CZcams

    • @Shenaldrac
      @Shenaldrac Před rokem +27

      No, screw that. One-way roads in a criss-cross pattern or bust. Save merry-go-rounds for the children's carnivals!

    • @diffdimgamerseven9986
      @diffdimgamerseven9986 Před rokem +4

      *jojo references ftw*

    • @zenith3865
      @zenith3865 Před rokem +5

      oh, hi RCE! fancy seeing you here lol

    • @Emlif
      @Emlif Před rokem +7

      Proper grid gang rise up!

  • @crispydiesel93
    @crispydiesel93 Před rokem +516

    "6 way intersection" is one of those phrases that fills me with anxiety. Kind of like "air-cooled nuclear reactor" or "this substance is hypergolic with asbestos"

    • @DeadlinePhil
      @DeadlinePhil Před rokem +19

      Our a british "magic roundabout"

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 Před rokem +6

      Or an American "continuous flow intersection" (not a roundabout)

    • @ryang2573
      @ryang2573 Před rokem +3

      The former could be perfectly safe, depending on your definition of 'reactor'. The latter though... I think the best way of dealing with such a substance is a good pair of running shoes and as much distance as you can put between it and, especially, the resulting combustion products.

    • @goahead4310
      @goahead4310 Před rokem

      @@ryang2573 kooi and a one

    • @LeonCoretz
      @LeonCoretz Před rokem

      Chlorine Triflouride?

  • @thefallcor1
    @thefallcor1 Před rokem +4037

    your canter is so mesmerizing. I could listen to you talk all day.

  • @beliasphyre3497
    @beliasphyre3497 Před rokem +1145

    Fractals are the right idea. Each unit of the fractal needs to contain a mini city, connecting to other mini cities predictably, until it is a massive repeating monotonose wasteland.

    • @Supremax67
      @Supremax67 Před rokem +10

      I would still play this game if it didn't have broken logistics. 😔

    • @Enderplays12
      @Enderplays12 Před rokem +15

      @@Supremax67 There are mods for that lol

    • @Supremax67
      @Supremax67 Před rokem +59

      @@Enderplays12 -- And there you fail to understand the problem. Mods are not supported by the developers so whenever there is a patch, there's a chance the mod cease to work.
      Mod is not the answer to everything. In fact, it is the coward way of a developer not fixing the problems.

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 Před rokem +10

      *monotonous

    • @mediocrecontent2449
      @mediocrecontent2449 Před rokem +18

      @@Supremax67 Yeah, that's why mods exist. So the audience can still get what they want even if the developers don't fix small problems. It's not that big of a deal.

  • @RobertCoberly9999
    @RobertCoberly9999 Před rokem +187

    I love how you fully expected the third tsunami but then basically ensured that it would carry feces with it if it made it past the great earthen sea wall.

  • @BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines
    @BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Před rokem +827

    "Roundabouts, the perfect solution to traffic"... yep, could have seen that coming :-) Great video!

  • @nerfherder4284
    @nerfherder4284 Před rokem +807

    A roundabout would have solved Triangle Town's traffic problems. You've taught me a powerful lesson: Live in the countryside. It was like War Games with cities. ✌🏻

    • @omppusolttu5799
      @omppusolttu5799 Před rokem +58

      Cities skylines is not a good representation of actual urban planning... Atleast if you don't live in the US that is.

    • @Lankpants
      @Lankpants Před rokem +19

      Honestly, so would removing all the centre roads and just using hexagons, which actually have a lot of advantages over square grids. Every intersection being three way is kind of awesome.

    • @vbprogrammer95
      @vbprogrammer95 Před rokem +8

      I will definitely try building a triangular town with roundabouts. It might actually work... up to a point I guess

    • @andrewmtgx
      @andrewmtgx Před rokem

      Roundabout City 👀

    • @AnAmericanMusician
      @AnAmericanMusician Před rokem

      @@omppusolttu5799 ewww. Gross US.

  • @Pihutihutihutijay
    @Pihutihutihutijay Před rokem +756

    seems like hybridization of two approaches would be best, like taking the triangle town and turning the six way intersections into roundabouts.

    • @relishcakes4525
      @relishcakes4525 Před rokem +35

      Grids with traffic circles/round abouts are if memory serves, the most efficient way to city.

    • @Arkiasis
      @Arkiasis Před rokem +40

      Roundabouts is the way to go for Cities Skylines. Slap some subways under it and bam.

    • @Tanjaaraus
      @Tanjaaraus Před rokem +24

      Roundabouts are great, traffic circles belong in hell :) Similar concept but way different in result. I am only mentioning it because it seems a lot of people in the US think they are the same, and as a result are mor against them when it's only traffic circles that are god-awful and dangerous

    • @mateuszbugaj799
      @mateuszbugaj799 Před rokem +6

      @@Tanjaaraus what is the difference?

    • @relishcakes4525
      @relishcakes4525 Před rokem +5

      @@Tanjaaraus in the US the terms are used interchangeably. If there is a difference I couldn’t tell you.

  • @tytyguy1able
    @tytyguy1able Před rokem +90

    "You have to cross a 6 lane highway every time you leave your house"
    Maaaaaan that hits home. "Am I clear? Am I clear? Am I clear? YES"
    *Burns though a set of tires*

  • @BierBart12
    @BierBart12 Před rokem +214

    This city seems like something the UAE or Dubai's rulers would build just to look pretty on a map. Nobody even lives there, it's just boutiques for tourists and mostly empty buildings(which probably don't have water or electricity, since you need more than untrained slaves for that kinda infrastructure. But at least Dubai has about 3 million of those slaves!)

    • @HonkousBonkous
      @HonkousBonkous Před rokem +26

      Fellow Adam Something viewer?

    • @zets8238
      @zets8238 Před rokem +15

      Been in Dubai for all of about 3 hours and I hate it. Smoggy shithole, so smoggy that I couldnt see the Burj Khalifa either time I was there lmao.

    • @raembes
      @raembes Před rokem +7

      @@zets8238 When were you there? I was there for 3 weeks in February (3 years ago) and also had a good view of the city from my hotel, no smog at all. Still, if you don't stay in a luxurious hotel with many activities and instead want to walk around in the city the majority of time, I don't recommend going to Dubai. Very expensive and if you want to drink alcohol... better bring a lot of money.

    • @zets8238
      @zets8238 Před rokem +8

      @@raembes a month ago, two stopovers just feels like a dystopian shithole for the tastless fake rich who fly first class lol

    • @unrealgalaxy9669
      @unrealgalaxy9669 Před rokem

      as someone who grew up in dubai for 13 years of my life, i beg to differ

  • @7ylerD
    @7ylerD Před rokem +86

    Nothing could have worked out better for this video than that car futilely performing an infinite-point turn and ultimately going nowhere. It feels like a metaphor, but one I am to short-sighted to understand.

    • @HonkousBonkous
      @HonkousBonkous Před rokem +13

      How car dependency leads to stagnation and is an ineffective way to design cities?

    • @isaacsanford6340
      @isaacsanford6340 Před rokem +17

      The car struggles to integrate itself into the greater design only due to its inability to commit to a singular direction. The driver knows it will run out of gas, but also that there are so many great directions. They are drowning in information and stimulus, and thus paralyzed to neglect any particular possibility.
      The infinite-point turn is choice-paralysis. The infinite-point turn is life.

  • @_Egitor
    @_Egitor Před rokem +349

    Cities Skylines is a wonderful combination of nostalgic with modern UI. A glorious sandbox indeed. Stay sexy all and look both ways before you cross the road.

    • @superchroma
      @superchroma Před rokem +7

      Kind of loses its vision with the DLC allowing you to create state owned industry instead of using zoning, but I guess they figured that was more fun.

    • @azekia
      @azekia Před rokem +23

      You mean took all 6 ways before you cross the road

    • @johannhowitzer
      @johannhowitzer Před rokem +3

      Look left, then right, then in nine other directions.

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 Před rokem +1

      for some reason I still prefer sc4

    • @cnarvarlk6632
      @cnarvarlk6632 Před rokem

      What way am I supposed to look at when there are 6?

  • @smugshrug
    @smugshrug Před rokem +79

    the jelly-like consistency of the water in this game always amuses me.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 Před rokem +6

      It's like jello in small ponds but in larger quantities and especially tsunamis it's like The Blob 😬

  • @EmperorDank
    @EmperorDank Před rokem +53

    Filling the ocean with doo-doo was such a beautiful act of revenge. I cant imagine the horror if a new tsunami breaks through with all the junk floating about though

  • @pontiac_montana
    @pontiac_montana Před rokem +92

    I can't get over the lil' confused SUV, it reminds me of a startled bug.

  • @andromidius
    @andromidius Před rokem +242

    Damn, I've been binge playing this for the last week or so - and now this video has graced us. Incredible.
    Also, you're 100% correct about having to build two cities. My current city is getting to the point where its dying a slow death due to how awkwardly designed it is - but I'm stockpiling money now, so when the time comes I'm bulldozing half of it and building the city properly. Or I'll build on another tile a reasonable distance away and let the original city be my shanty town for a while and then bulldoze the entire thing and rebuild it properly and join it up.
    Or I'll restart again and vainly try to build the perfect city the first time - and fail again because I don't have the money or buildings unlocked yet and can't properly flatten terrain because it costs so goddamn much and I can never get rid of all the excess soil...

    • @kingofsauce1319
      @kingofsauce1319 Před rokem +6

      As someone who has over 2k hours in cities. You'll learn how to lay out your initial build in such a way that later improvements are easy to make. Still usually some road upgrading and slight adjustments but my general skeletons that I start out with tend to stick around. Unless it's a really weird mod map that requires me to do wack stuff early.

    • @incognitoburrito6020
      @incognitoburrito6020 Před rokem +6

      Be careful with demolishing the old one and try to do it in parts.. Once had a tornado tear through my commercial district and used that as an excuse to demolish it and build a new city center. Took like 10 in-game years for the city to start making money and growing in population again because I didn't have enough remaining infrastructure or demand afterwards.

  • @paulzayn1189
    @paulzayn1189 Před rokem +5

    6:10 and the reason for that is that Hexagon is Bestagon! For we are just the humble bumbles in awe of the incredulity that is, The Hexagon.

    • @brodygames2502
      @brodygames2502 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well! Now go! Spread the word of the bestagon, that is, the hexagon.

  • @jdmaine51084
    @jdmaine51084 Před rokem +162

    The problem I have with Cities... and really any city builder... is that when it finally comes to the point where I realize "Hmm... probably should've saved this space for a highway or something" well past the point of too late, and I feel guilty leveling whole city blocks just to build a road.

    • @Arkiasis
      @Arkiasis Před rokem +135

      Just do what Robert Moses would do. Make sure you're levelling minority neighborhoods for that new 8 lane highway that gives health problems for future generations!

    • @suborbitalprocess
      @suborbitalprocess Před rokem +30

      Two words: Eminent Domain.

    • @bennymuller3379
      @bennymuller3379 Před rokem +21

      Just throw an Meteor or Earthquake on the location and you can rebuild without feeling bad. It's just nature

    • @isaacsanford6340
      @isaacsanford6340 Před rokem

      You feel guilty for booting the plebs? How pedestrian. Just imagine they're all criminals. If they aren't, they will be after you crush their homes anyway. Can't have criminals in your city.

    • @dylanbailey8464
      @dylanbailey8464 Před rokem +14

      That's also a real world concern for civic planners.

  • @Moewenfels
    @Moewenfels Před rokem +39

    This is like watching an architecture lesson about people like Corbusier who had the WHACKIEST ideas of how to design a city.

  • @Wolfoso
    @Wolfoso Před rokem +28

    The roundabout city was actually beautiful. Damn, that's creativity right there.

  • @sordcooper2
    @sordcooper2 Před rokem +42

    Honestly you could salvage triangle towns traffic problems by making any intersection bigger than 4 points into a roundabout, combining the strength of a circle city with the power of a hexagon city

    • @skeetsmcgrew3282
      @skeetsmcgrew3282 Před rokem +2

      Hexagons are bestagons

    • @azuarc
      @azuarc Před rokem +3

      Hexagons are very doable, but they have to be handled a little differently. Rather than making equilateral triangles, make hexes that are not subdivided, and you end up with at most 3-way intersections.
      That said, my best attempts at a hex grid were a little more nuanced than that, but I doubt anyone in the comments section wants to read a novel on how that went down.

    • @MsHojat
      @MsHojat Před rokem

      When dealing with triangular grids, hexagonal grids, (or in fact ANY grid, so also square, square+octagon, or triangle+hexagon) you can really quite easily spam one-way roads everywhere which fixes a lot of traffic problems. You can potentially result in some indirect travel paths though- namely if you try to so something like "gear"/"roundabout" tesselation for a triangle grid (alternating clockwise and counterclockwise, something that cannot be done for hexagon, but can for triangle or hybrid hex+triangle)

  • @hebl47
    @hebl47 Před rokem +19

    Watching this I just realized that Sierpiński triangle has this interesting property that no intersection has more than 4 roads. So you can create a triangular city (with lots of empty spaces... for increasingly larger parks, I guess?) that isn't littered with 6 road intersections.

  • @MrNobody-bv4ec
    @MrNobody-bv4ec Před rokem +21

    This sums up exactly how to play this game. My city for some strange reason attracts meteors and has been struck over 8 times now....each time rising from the ashes to refine and rebuild bigger, better, greater than before.

  • @koquarian
    @koquarian Před rokem +10

    Imagine hitting a 4 way light intersection every 100 feet of road in the square city. To call your daily commute "nightmarish" would be an understatement.

  • @poopsiexpants
    @poopsiexpants Před rokem +18

    I wanna see a grid city done with herringbone style roads where the roads going out lead to the businesses followed by roads behind them all leading back and then have roundabouts at all the major intersections!

  • @BerserkGriffon
    @BerserkGriffon Před rokem +36

    I started cities with the humble bundle days ago, I'm having so much fun. Also, I really want to know what you think about "Oxygen not included" Another game that I'm having a blast with it.

  • @localtavernsluteplayer2182

    it's actually incredibly refreshing to see a content creator play cities skylines to make a functional city not a wasteland and then (purposely*) destroy it with disasters

  • @commandantcarpenter
    @commandantcarpenter Před 8 měsíci +2

    the best part about Sierpinski-Gasketville is that there's always just a little more space

  • @gareth0412
    @gareth0412 Před rokem +19

    "Smoothed brained civil engineers" I don't laugh out loud often from youtube but he always gets a cackle out of me, I bet he's really funny in person.

  • @Y1trus
    @Y1trus Před rokem +12

    I just am watching this because I was in the middle of watching his torsolo series. It’s my favorite

    • @solomonchild3398
      @solomonchild3398 Před rokem +1

      So good. I cried laughing at the intro to torsquad tho

  • @calebsmith1548
    @calebsmith1548 Před rokem +8

    2:41 That is actually the optimal density grid square size in City Skylines, and you managed to just select it randomly

  • @randomguyonsaturn
    @randomguyonsaturn Před rokem +3

    8:00 The perfect recreation of Milton Keynes!

  • @ZombieUranium
    @ZombieUranium Před rokem +3

    7:13 "to stay afloat" lmao

  • @amssabith98
    @amssabith98 Před rokem +8

    Subscribed just for the tangent joke 😂 7:48

  • @harrisonflanders7615
    @harrisonflanders7615 Před rokem +3

    Please,I beg you, do long format uploads again. All your content is fantastic and I miss the old days of grabbing my tea and watching a long video of yours.

  • @GlobstersMessenger
    @GlobstersMessenger Před rokem +8

    Grids makes a lot of sense - though you gotta remember that *road hierarchy*. That and mass transport intergration and mixed residential/commercial (so people don't have to walk far) and also making sure your industry isn't *too* far from houses.

    • @arandombard1197
      @arandombard1197 Před rokem

      Grid's only work for small-brained Americans. It's what lead to their nightmarish traffic problems and suburban nightmare zones stretching for miles with zero commercial buildings within walking distance of any home.

  • @VazDraeStudios
    @VazDraeStudios Před rokem +13

    This is amazingly amusing. I have like some 2k hours on Cities Skylines on Steam, love the game, but yeah traffic AI is always a stupid idiot no matter how good you design your city, or how good your transit is lol

    • @Nyitemare
      @Nyitemare Před rokem +1

      You have been posting videos on YT since '08. I just wanted to say fair fucking play man

  • @quigglebert
    @quigglebert Před rokem +8

    It's been long overdue, I've worked my way through the bulk of your back catalogue waiting for more philosophical content.
    Can't lie though, it was definitely PZ that hooked me.
    That and you led me to private lime too

  • @faroangames
    @faroangames Před rokem +4

    I find this riddle-speaking unlabeled frog quite amusing

  • @TheJamie109
    @TheJamie109 Před rokem +9

    Gymnopedie.
    Lol. I think anyone who plays cities skylines has seen Angory Toms series all those years ago. So good.
    Thanks for warming my mind and heart with another video indistinguishablelizard.

  • @jonathanorozco3244
    @jonathanorozco3244 Před rokem +2

    As someone who plays this game and has an interest in urban planning studies...from the moment you placed your first road this caused actual pain in my chest. Fantastic work.

  • @austinphinney8711
    @austinphinney8711 Před rokem +5

    The roundabout city looks fantastic, I always start with a big roundabout with two roads coming off it one for industry and one for residential and commercial. It works great early game but by late game the single massive roundabout cannot prevent traffic jams, so I wonder if a roundabout at every intersection will prevent it lmao

    • @dennisk.7574
      @dennisk.7574 Před rokem

      John 9:7 And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 Před rokem

      @@dennisk.7574 huh?

  • @Servidor_Publico_do_Ancapistao

    Wish your videos were longer, your voice is really nice to hear on these videos, and the jokes are really funny too!

  • @The_mrbob
    @The_mrbob Před rokem +2

    You should voiceover a documentary and just upload that randomly, your voice has always been so soothing XD

  • @tanork47
    @tanork47 Před rokem

    I discovered you by a random recommendation from the Urbs video. A childhood favorite of mine I watched. What transpired over the next week was a pure binge of all your videos, A cornucopia of vast storytelling and fun entertainment enveloped my existence, entranced by the brilliance. As I watched Some of my favorites were of RimWorld and Kenshi. The tales told within were astounding. The trails of Orange, Ezikiel, Tynan, Undugu, Sonny, Max, and Lee in RimWorld will be Enshrined in all their glory. Yeest I also watched the suffering of dear Torsolo in Kenshi, from one small stump to a master of the blades. The fall of Torlusium brought a tear to my eye. Even the humble bonedogs life was witnessed, for it too was entertaining. That one Urb video had brought with a great content creator with a silver tongue. I bought RimWorld and now am lost in its sandbox glory. Thanks so many thanks and keep creating stories anew! :)

  • @Cheesy_33
    @Cheesy_33 Před rokem +3

    Never realized that the experience for newcomers would be the same across all Paradox Interactive games, as proven by the intro of this video.

  • @zardoz_the_great
    @zardoz_the_great Před rokem +37

    Seeing that six way intersection without a roundabout made me audibly gasp in European. I was so relieved when you finally used them, another wayward American has been shown the light.

    • @linkolek
      @linkolek Před rokem +14

      All hail roudabouts, The pinnacle of intersections!

    • @isaacsanford6340
      @isaacsanford6340 Před rokem +6

      The only thing better than roundabouts are double, even triple roundabouts. Arching over highways.
      Yes, indeed. Nothing confusing or otherwise ridiculous about swerving left and right constantly as you figure out which exit is yours in a pair of linked figure-8's.

    • @chevrolet-poitiers9507
      @chevrolet-poitiers9507 Před rokem +1

      Roundabouts to big for my cities, what now?

    • @tecwynjenkyn-jones831
      @tecwynjenkyn-jones831 Před rokem +1

      @@isaacsanford6340 can't tell if you're joking or not, it's not that difficult to read a sign or follow a gps to find your exit, you people will complain just to not have a roundabout

  • @thefive8th741
    @thefive8th741 Před rokem +2

    The roundabout section reminds me of Canberra, because there's always a roundabout waiting on the road, no matter where you go!
    Love listening to your voice, man! Have you ever seriously considered releasing an audiobook or something?

  • @dougdougir
    @dougdougir Před rokem +2

    Great experiment. I liked the grid/rotary way of building you did. Looking forward to more Cities Skylines videos in the future.

  • @starrymomo
    @starrymomo Před rokem +3

    Ah, Wetfield, how much do I love that city. And at least the tsunamis put down the fires in the city.

  • @bastscho
    @bastscho Před rokem +8

    Cities Skylines is just a reminder that city planning is a hard problem and more lanes don't fix traffic.

  • @hotdogman4208
    @hotdogman4208 Před rokem +1

    ambiguousamphibian is truly a cherished amphibian. Every upload is not only a mimetic piece of art, but a genuinely entertaining video that you can relax to. Every video is looked forward to, and each one is enjoyed for every possible second that it has to offer.

  • @9manny99
    @9manny99 Před rokem +2

    I literally returned to your videos after taking a break and binged everything I loved. Now I wake up from Night Shift and see this glorious work of art. Thank You

  • @morgannull4685
    @morgannull4685 Před rokem +9

    The best city is a walkable city where only commercial and transportation vehicles use the roads, while you can easily walk to anything you may need to buy. And if what’s nearby doesn’t have what you want, then you get it delivered! :)

    • @orppranator5230
      @orppranator5230 Před rokem +1

      What if I wanna go for a drive

    • @morgannull4685
      @morgannull4685 Před rokem +1

      @@orppranator5230 Depends on the distance. Rentals cars would obviously be available - but just driving around for leisure? Seems like a waste of energy, money, and time

  • @Number_055
    @Number_055 Před rokem +3

    0:47 Cityoleons, obviously.

  • @SmolStuff
    @SmolStuff Před rokem +2

    the humor and storytelling is outstanding, as always. never got tired of AA.

  • @SlumpGod1997
    @SlumpGod1997 Před rokem

    the noise you made for the 6 way intersection part touched my soul, i love it.

  • @Kelvoraax
    @Kelvoraax Před rokem +19

    “You can’t possibly make a shape with only two sides.”
    Nobody tell him about semicircles

    • @illbeV
      @illbeV Před 10 měsíci

      Those would be arcs, not sides

  • @JizzleWright1
    @JizzleWright1 Před rokem +3

    8:05 basically just Milton Keynes

  • @jwconglomerate332
    @jwconglomerate332 Před rokem +1

    Doing the scenarios is also a decent way of getting design and layout ideas from the pre-built developer cities. And also the scenarios can add a nice challenge and change of pace from just building endlessly which is what I normally do.

  • @C.K.MillerPoet_Extraordinaire

    Your lexicon and vernacular fill my insatiable literary desires, whilst also supplanting my conscious mind with the supremely addictive internet content I so most crave.

  • @TuckerLive12
    @TuckerLive12 Před rokem +8

    Did anyone catch the moment when he said “east to south” when it was clearly west to south…

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte Před rokem +3

    "Grids make the most sense"
    If you don't overuse them and cause all roads in your city to consist solely of 4 way crossroads permanently stuck in traffic. Unless you have tunnels or overpasses available for traffic to run in parallel, you'd better design a parallel (duh) road that can be entered only at its ends so that only the traffic going into residential grid would get stuck on crossroads and passing one can, well, pass.
    Weird thing is that out of all games, Tropico was the one that explained it to me. By killing my economy. With traffic. Because first bus drivers got stuck in traffic on the way to work and then free cars completely locked the traffic down for all transport vehicles, be it passengers, cargo or services.

  • @KingcoleIIV
    @KingcoleIIV Před 11 měsíci

    @8:40 best line ever. "Dumping Doo Doo in the ocean" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    There's not a chance that this ever comes back to haunt u lol

  • @deilusi
    @deilusi Před rokem

    best design I found Is squares, but encased in tree structure.
    make roads 60u in length for residential, 3 roads wide, join at the end with 4 lanes, connect to 6 lane or highway. At the connected ends, you add services, you can add bus going around, and metro. Connect to neighbouring ones only with bike/walking paths.
    Most successful designs are dense, but with sparse ROAD connections, iF you manage to make them walk everywhere, roads will never clog.

  • @vovoczczcz8103
    @vovoczczcz8103 Před rokem +3

    0:35 Yearo!

  • @nomellamopan3983
    @nomellamopan3983 Před rokem +12

    The red car at 0:09

  • @nitinpriyadarshi269
    @nitinpriyadarshi269 Před rokem +1

    The juicer was right afterall. Roundabouts are the way to perfection.

  • @jwswart
    @jwswart Před rokem

    5:27 Nice Ragnarok Online level up soundbit, i love you for this blast of nostalgia ^^/

  • @carbon1255
    @carbon1255 Před rokem +8

    Don't forget branch shaped. Also you missed semicircle adjacent to your highway. Also, you can make your grid more efficient by making them rectangles instead. You need traffic manager for roundabouts to work properly and building on them isn't a good idea. Grids work if you can spread the traffic out across it and you unwittingly did that by having the entrance on one corner and the industry on the opposite, but it does have flaws, such as industry importing a lot of goods.
    Also, that split is good on sim city, but in cities skylines it is better to disperse your commercial through your residential so they can go to the shops easier and your industrial deliveries are spread through the city. The true intermediate you can use are offices later but only if you really want high density. you can also place all of your utilities in this no go zone. Commercial profit is actually affected quite a bit by land value which is degraded by traffic and pollution but highest near residential.
    The next factor is public transport, and grids aren't very good for it.
    The other thing you missed trying is spiderwebs which is quite efficient- not cartoon ones but real ones. They often use two strong branches, a connecting medium at the wide point, rectangles, roundabout in the middle, and reduce the number of connections as they get closer to the centre to make the rectangles roughly equal. it also gives 3 contact points with the highway and you can use the most efficient junctions (J/trumpet)
    The other thing is you are building on basically flat ground, with terrain it is a whole new story, where you should follow the contours, which is far more realistic.

  • @the_seeker.entity9206
    @the_seeker.entity9206 Před rokem +6

    1:25 east to the south hmmmm

  • @Newt2799
    @Newt2799 Před rokem

    I want more of this. This would be a great continuing series

  • @jaunusender6166
    @jaunusender6166 Před rokem

    Thank you for this; now that I have a few ideas of already been tested out, I'm going to try the combination of the Spiral with a bit of a twist and the roundabout setup.

  • @peterkragger4824
    @peterkragger4824 Před rokem +3

    9:27 Chicago be like

  • @chadkangaroo8546
    @chadkangaroo8546 Před rokem +5

    It must feel like a dystopia living in the center of those square neighborhoods

    • @illbeV
      @illbeV Před 10 měsíci

      Do you mean like most US cities?

  • @LeafseasonMagbag
    @LeafseasonMagbag Před rokem +1

    I used to live in a city with an eight-lane intersection with one traffic light just kinda randomly there.
    And also occasionally a train went through, because why not.
    Your six-lane intersection merely makes me only slightly terrified.

  • @renzesparza6281
    @renzesparza6281 Před rokem +1

    In the best way, everything you say sounds immensely sarcastic and i enjoy it

  • @jokmenen_
    @jokmenen_ Před rokem +4

    9:03 The Sierpinski would look very cool if the middle was just one huge park.

  • @thefallcor1
    @thefallcor1 Před rokem +6

    9:43 that poor car gives me anxiety

    • @eightyeight3694
      @eightyeight3694 Před rokem +1

      out of the whole video that's what made me laugh and I can't get over it x3

  • @Anne5440_
    @Anne5440_ Před rokem

    Thanks, I had so much fun smiling and laughing through this video. I definitely will be watching it again to learn along with the humor.

  • @silveroflegends7635
    @silveroflegends7635 Před 6 měsíci

    i just watched this vid with no volume at all, i cannot tell if you’re a creative builder or an evil genius - nice vid!

  • @MannyDorito
    @MannyDorito Před rokem +7

    I remember when my small town got its first round about, it relieved traffic greatly and generally made the area much better but everyone here hates it and thinks its "eurocentric socialism" in action. they're probably going to get rid of it

    • @Spero_Hawk
      @Spero_Hawk Před rokem +5

      They scare and confuse. Why no light tell when go? Road make think? No!

    • @skeetsmcgrew3282
      @skeetsmcgrew3282 Před rokem +1

      I have to treat my nearby round about like old dynamite, approach slowly and trust nothing. People apparently were taught that you can just... keep driving, round about means nobody ever has to stop or even slow down!

  • @ArkayeCh
    @ArkayeCh Před rokem +1

    "I'm just gonna ignore the guides, guess a bunch of cities, abandon them until I find a good one."
    Glad to see Detroit inspiring online art.

  • @Kingsly9802
    @Kingsly9802 Před rokem +1

    A recommendation if you play more in the future, try out one way roads. I've found great success with running massive arteries to feed the flow of the city, which then break down into psuedo-roundabout city blocks.

  • @rkkiitkkii
    @rkkiitkkii Před rokem +1

    Every time AA uploads, my day gets better

  • @210Artemka
    @210Artemka Před rokem +1

    I usually build separate grid squares connected by highways. To eliminate traffic jams on exit of the grid I connect them right in the middle through underground roundabout.

  • @MsHojat
    @MsHojat Před rokem +1

    hexagonal (or octagonal, optimally, which is the maximum) are actually super efficient because the game can't simulate them properly. The vehicles _mostly_ just tend to drive through each other. At least that's what it was around launch. I don't know if they changed that or not. I know they added a lot of content to the game, but I think it's exactly that, content. While I'm sure they fixed bugs, I doubt they changed/fixed this.
    Right around when the game launched I made an entire city that was just 8 roads connected together only by two 8-way intersections. It was hence a "small" city (less than one plot of land), but it could still hold quite a lot of stuff. And traffic was surprisingly decent
    edit: OH. The thing AA probably missed and which I neglected to mention is that I think *the intersection needs to be made up of all 1-way roads.* THAT is what makes a super-efficient intersection.

  • @alessiobenvenuto5159
    @alessiobenvenuto5159 Před rokem +1

    CS is actually pretty easy to get into, you just need to download the 20 absolutely necessary practicality base game features mods.
    Then, you are free to install other 80 mods of your liking!
    And only then, you are finally ready, to install another 100 mods that you don't really need...
    But in the end, ultimately, finally at last, you can open the game, and set up the setting for all those mods.
    But enough about mods, now, after all this trouble, you are finally ready to watch 100h of advanced tutorials!
    Then you are ready to go to sleep and call it a day

  • @dustinrobbins7313
    @dustinrobbins7313 Před rokem

    I think I've binged like every single video you've made in the last two weeks

  • @TheLastODST1
    @TheLastODST1 Před rokem

    Dude, I just bought this game last week and been having a blast trying ( and occasionally failing 😅 ) to make a healthy and functional city.
    Basically, everyone in my first city is happy and healthy, with some kind of degree from one of my 3 universities. HOWEVER, even with busses, trains, underground metrolines, wider roads, and some strategically placed roundabouts, I can't fix traffic to save my life.
    Still thanks for the video. You're awesome.

  • @Croxy115
    @Croxy115 Před rokem +1

    This is the type of youtuber that I've been looking for so long

  • @Augustus_Imperator
    @Augustus_Imperator Před rokem +1

    circles are beautiful to watch on a bird's eye, they're awful in real life, living there.
    "what a beautiful curved road I'm walking on, look all the messed up parks, lanes, parking lots and buildings are perfect on it" said no one ever.

  • @LeoRoboto
    @LeoRoboto Před rokem

    Im so glad i was there for zig zag town! Thank you for creating it!