NEVER give a highway engineer unlimited budget in Cities Skylines 2!

hello fellow engineers and welcome back to Utopia the engine is Paradise that is growing and growing and all that's even lagging it's quite growing quite a lot now last time we built this giant pit and all I have to show you for it is not a lot of money left yeah the idea was to build an in well an architect hell basically but unfortunately it completely rinsed all of my money absolutely all of it so I've been trying to get back into the positive yeah and the way I did that initially was I I set up loads of geothermal plants and then I just connected all of their electricity to the outside of the map where I'm selling it for decent profit I've even got a nuclear power plant on the goat oh but actually are these not working cuz they've got garbage piling up yeah is that why I'm not making that much money yeah we're working at 50% efficiency because garbage is piling up o and mail handling so if I just shove like a mailbox outside is that going to solve some issues I I didn't realize for some reason I didn't realize geothermal plants and nuclear plants required male service but they do right for some reason for doing all that we gained a new signature building from The Humble toaster to the self-organizing sock draw I've got one of those at home literally just put socks like however they go in the cupboard and when I come back they're all like sorted and like paired up and stuff it's amazing it's been like that all my life actually I just assume that's just how they worked anyway I'm just going to go around and give everyone the gift of M yeah I think when I plac these before I I did them all in like a little area thinking it didn't matter where they go turns out it does matter where they go yeah so I think the male handling should go back up we do have the garbage issue though now at the moment I think all the garbage from a city comes over to here this is architect Island where the Architects live you can see they're surrounded by a poop moat but if you zoom in their actual their actual natural habitat is just landfill ah that will be why we've completely filled up architect Island yeah both of them there's no no more room for stored garbage so we need to do something to try and should try and sort that otherwise that is going to be a problem for everyone for some reason it's only like the big buildings struggling like the International Airport the nuclear plant and stuff but I imagine it will be a problem for everyone at some point fairly soon now being a huge City I got a load I got a load progression points so let's go have a look in the garbage which sounds like I'm going to go through the garbage by just mean look at the upgrade so we've got incineration plants ooh that could get me more energy and energy I can sell alternatively we could recycle but I'd be surprised if that made me money oh selling the recycled materials creates additional income for the city and then if I were to get those so I could unlock at the end Industrial Waste processing that doesn't say anything about money so I definitely I just want to pick one of these two so I guess I'll do what Engineers do when they need to make a decision between two things eeny meeny miny mo catch an architect by its to if it bites Let It Go eeny meeny miny M okay incineration plants it is and annoyingly I can't afford one of those yet they cost a million Quid how much am I making 24 Grand an hour why am I making so little oh yeah I'm making so little cuz these aren't making the energy that they should do I just need to I just need to get on this ASAP all right I tell you what I'm taking I'm taking a loan I'm borrowing more money cheeky million quid loan get the incineration plant unlocked and then I'm going to shove this I'm just going to shove it down here for now all right we can upgrade yeah let's get more more garbage trucks on the goat so that's upgraded right nice and you can see all the trucks leaving now something else I might do in my services should I invest more money into the garbage management I can make it like way more efficient if I if I do a 150% budget then that should yeah increase processing speed and the number of garbage trucks okay I think we're good so hopefully these will get their garbage sorted soon I mean they're still waiting on the mail that hasn't worked too well but as soon as these are back up to normal production we should be good I tell you what what I may need to do is continue investing in these wind farms cuz these will never complain about garbage they're very very good wind farms but yeah one other thing I need to do before we do anything is try and get the power from this incineration plant and try and get that like out of this hole somehow um oh by the way look at all these trucks they're like they're queued up trying to leave they're so many look at them all going up the wall there's so many of them but yeah I'm going to grab a power line connect it to that probably say elevation negative so it's under the ground then if I come over here can I then get this out yes we're up to the we're up to the surface okay so we can go connect this over to we probably just over to this one I don't think my Dam's producing that much power now this power line does just go to the edge of the map by the way it is just being sold but yeah our Dam's only oh Dam's making 280 megaw that's decent and unexpected yeah that is something else I need to try and fix though we are we're severely leaking poo into the river so I definitely need some sort of overflow from this right well winter has now hit and unfortunately Utopia is looking cold and Bleak we're into the negative money I'm losing 30 grand an hour Oh no just five now some of these plants that didn't have garbage piling up now do so it may have to increase taxes for everyone industrial tax commercial tax I got to tax everyone a little bit I'm sorry right there you go back in the positive few so yeah enopia in the winter is a oh I was going to I was about to describe it but the game decided no that's enough winter few it's it's melting time now anyway I am considering getting like another incineration plant up over here just cuz like we need the cash we need the cash bad should I borrow another million quid I'm going to borrow another million quid this may be stupid get rid of the rubbish from the nuclear plant what are you doing they have got rid of it from the geothermal oh yes the nuclear plant's up and running and yes money is now up and running there we go 60 Grand an hour oh that feels better I was worried I'd cocked all this up if I'm honest okay we're back we are back the traffic coming into Utopia from here is obscene now in the real world I was I was an engineer a civil engineer on the highways for over a decade of my life so I know a thing or two about trying to fix traffic and in this situation where there's not really any space to like I could try and make this wider I could try and put like a dedicated turning lane for off that I could try and remove the traffic lights from the middle of the motor all sensible ideas all sound good anyway a Technique we sort of learned when we're constrained by other factors like we can't really make a wider road cuz we don't want to impact the pylons we definitely can't make this road longer because well that's the edge of the map but what you can do it sounds bizarre but if you make the road longer you can actually ensure there's less traffic on the road and I discovered something very very cool the other day and I think I'm going to try it here I'm going to do like a TW bird one stone solution so what we're going to do we're going to grab the Landscaping tool and then we're going to go with the shift terrain tool we're going to go up quite a bit yeah we're talking at least that sort of level we're we're competing with the dam in some in terms of height here so let's grab level terrain tool basically if I just do a large circle like this so we have a large a large load of land like that if we grab a two lane One Way Road there we go and if we start building up here but we make it higher we do page up so if we just go up all the way we can then start up here and then do a little bit of a circular road then as we come back we can go down 20 M and then do the same thing again then down another 20 M so we're just 10 m above the ground right and then if we were to then lower the elevation from 10 m down to zero we'd have our road on the ground now we don't want that we've always got to be like in a bridge in a pillet but what we can do from this point is we can we can lower this so if we select like 50 m like that right click and then up here we just lower the land down you'll see the pillars have been extended which means they're they're higher than the 50 m that the game originally gave us as the max then we can keep on going lower and lower and then after all that you end up with something that looks a little bit like this so this is my nice little extended twister highway now what I want to do down here I want to do a little bit of softening of the terrain so just like that to make this look all natural again right perfect now no one would ever know what I've been up to here all I have to do was take this up and over there and then connect it to the in Road and then the Upper Road which comes all the way back down I just go from here and then connect back down there like that so basically everyone has to take a detour up the helter skeleton now I've just realized oh I've done this all in like really slow roads not highways so I think I need to select highways two lane oneway Highway that's what I was meant to use and then I just got to go around and replace it all yeah cuz otherwise everyone's going to be driving way too slowly oh there's so much road to replace cuz look I can only replace tiny little bits at one time so yeah I've just remembered actually the other thing we learned not only taking cars like a longer route can reduce traffic surprisingly also making them go slower can also reduce traffic now that's why you often see on like on like motorways where they have like gantries with like variable speed limits they try and slow you down early because see up here there was still loads of traffic if we can slow down the vehicles getting to it then there's more chance of that traffic like that traffic just like clearing up by the time all of this traffic gets there whereas if we just send all this traffic in 70 m an hour then the traffic jam will like last longer cuz more cars are get to it if you know what I mean so my subconscious brain has actually been very clever in terms of fixing traffic there cuz look down here there's hardly any cars on this road at all it's it's been fixed it definitely it's definitely because of this reason definitely so nice while that's been going on I've actually been making some fat stons so I'm going to start paying off my loan again we pay back 1.4 mil so our interest rate is 16 .9% rather than 20 except that technically means we're making even more a month a nice the first vehicles have made it around the traffic calming tornado I think I'll call This And by the way this is on three times speed normal speed car cars move that slow yeah the speed limits pretty brutal up here but that's cool though there's technically no height limit to like highways now you just got to use that technique which did take me quite a long time I I will admit that but tornado I'd say worth it right I should probably go see like what actually needs fixing oh people are complaining about being dead yeah there's quite a few people complaining that they're dead thing is I don't think I'm quite making enough money where I can I can hop back down my hole with a with a cemetery back down here and architect hell I don't know if it's worth putting one in yet well actually we don't even we don't have employees down here lack of high school labor what this is otopia oh no we're lacking High skill why is everyone company cannot find enough employees with higher educ ation levels well why not we are educating people are we not oh oh so it looks like whilst I've been growing my university college and high school like they're all pretty sorted I failed to add elementary schools we have 4,800 elegible students that are all going to turn into Architects I need to get onto schools fast now they cost 100 Grand so every 2 hours I can build one but I'm impatient so I'm taking a 500 Grand loan so schools where do we want them I think this area up here I think I might lose some shops actually so let's shove that around the edge like that so that's one school all of those happy we got people up this way that are miles away from a school so let's try and shove one in little school on that edge yeah that's good that's made some people happy yeah the bars mooving the right direction now I just need like a couple more I reckon what I might do just shove one on the coast there well not a coast on the on the river bank right by the bridge to architect Hill so people can literally learn they're like if you don't go to school look out the window that's where you will end up living on architect Island so that's good we can still use a few more schools though now everywhere's sort of happy with schools apart from pedestrian only place but don't really care about that place yeah there's definitely a lack of schools like in the middle over here so let's try and shove one in maybe there it will destroy quite a few houses right that's in and our capacity is now 6,000 so we should be able to get the PO educated and educated back up and then well educated and highly educated that will just follow cool and then just going to cheer people up by adding a few Parks about the place so we'll shove as many down as we can all right three on the end of Oak Street that is that is beautiful but I think that's pretty much cheered everyone up they're still complaining about unreliable mail service hang on do I have oh do I not have a post office built so I built I built all the mailboxes I didn't build a post office all right so I'll wiang that down over there I think I'll upgrade this just to do everything more post Vans always a good shout okay so post vehicles I got two post offices in so there's loads of vehicles going about now that should cheer everyone up and I'm pretty sure that actually should give us a bit of extra cash in terms of more power produced right so yeah efficiency we got the mail handling minus 10% that should be removed which means more power produced which means we can sell that and get more cash as well decent now in the meantime I feel like this side of the city is actually it's looking pretty good it's pretty dense I will not lie but over on the other side it's completely bare it's just it's just a forest so what I may do I may start developing this area which means I'm going to need another bridge going across as well I've got to make sure I don't connect it up to this place because this is our pedestrian only area we don't want we don't want people to be able to drive to this place it's strictly rail access only actually maybe maybe I could keep like the prominade like the sea front as pedestrian only so if we go from here how smooth can I get this as a curve we that's pretty good oh yeah that's good oh no it's not good though cuz that bit isn't prominent like why does it do that it puts a non stupid Edge on the edge take two I got to pay closer attention so that looks like yes that is all a sea wallt or a key spelled with a Q so that is exactly what I want around here if we go to that point and then wrap up there I think that's pretty pretty good oh yes then up to that point and I think that's probably a good place to end this key yeah I think I then need to do a little bit of leveling then a bit of softening right then I need to decide where my bridge is going to go now I don't really want to knock down any any big buildings perhaps though it can sort of come off that corner and head over that way so let's say it comes in over there try and leave a bit of a gap and then I'm just going to grid this place up but matte style which means C gri then of course add a school add all the other Essentials then along the front I want medium density with shops underneath oh perhaps some new signature buildings so that's all of those behind them we've only really got demand for low density so I guess that's what we'll do and at least it means all these houses they do have places to shop which is very nice for them anyway all those are in I've just realized I've just built houses on where my bridge is going to go but I need to get to the next level before I can afford the ultimate Bridge bridge that being the grand bridge but uh perhaps for now I can put like a little placeholder bridge in so I'm expecting four lane road it's going to be a little bit of demand I reckon but we come off this way head up and go right so we end up like that then straight bridge to there then a curve back down to ground level quickly weang a roundout at that end probably that end as well and yeah that's a nice little that's a nice little place holder bridge I reckon now with building more homes and stuff we are finally getting more population come which in the long term means more money which of course means more vanity projects lovely but priority should probably be finishing this one and then also also sorting out this poo cuz this is well this is quite an environmental disaster now so we will have to try and prioritize that next time but I think for today we definitely achieved because as you enter enopia you now witness this beauty this behemoth of a traffic calming measurement so for now I guess we'll say peace love and traffic noos bye guys

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Published: Fri Feb 16 2024