Starting Road Network | No Mods (PC) | Cities: Skylines Tutorial

hey guys and welcome back to another cities skylines tutorial and today we're gonna be talking about how you can start a city in 2019 so this is with every expansion pack walk to campus now you don't need the expansion packs this still will work with the absolute base vanilla game but with the expansion packs you can add in different methods of public transport and also industry as well and so it's up to you at the end of this video we'll be jumping into the real live city that shows this working in your life and how functional it can be but for right now we're gonna go ahead and jump off and so at the start of your city you will have these two rows the interchange may be different and they make off in different directions you may have different terrain but either way you'll have two words that come out like this this is the map Edom valley from the green cities dlc i think what it's called Eden Valley anyway it's the one that we are let's play is taking place on and the one where we do all our tutorials so we don't think enough I'm putting it right hand drive here but you can just mirror this for left hand drive sees you gonna grab your one-way Road now when you start in your city you will need to draw a place or boat like this in order for this to work so you can unlock the bomb ways but you will eventually upgrade this into the fully fledged highway but for right now we're just gonna be using this route so you want to come out by ten by another ten and then another ten so thirty markers all together and again you know when you get to ten blocks because this second while appears here and then when it appears just there you know you're at five so that's a good way of counting it and then down here again we're just gonna mirror that on this side so super easy super straight and then this first node here where we disconnect our boat is where we're going to be connecting from so we're going to drag this out now you want to make sure that if you look where we've connected the road you want not to be at a 45 degree angle and then you're gonna come out to what would be the twenty marker so you don't make sure that this bit here when you stretch it out that's at 45 degrees so if we do the same up again here you can see you're just stretching them out so you should have something that looks like that and then just remember to change the direction you saw everything flows properly super simple and we're gonna drag this guy up to meet up with this marker here so again that's really easy and then we're gonna do the same but this time we're gonna switch to the four-lane road on this side and they're gonna drag that up so it matches perfectly so everything's snap into the grid you've got really simple guidelines to follow and you should have something that's looking like that at the moment now back on this road here we're going to stick with our four-lane roads and then we're gonna go ahead and move out here and we're just gonna move up to the edge of the Arizona bull squares here so this will come out like that and then you're gonna have this as a main road so this area is gonna serve as your first industrial state now if you are using the industry's expansion you can obviously use any of these you just want to make sure you have the necessary resource for that industry type for it to work obviously and then you can go in pretty much any pattern you want from here and for industry it's nice just to keep it relatively square and missing out you don't want to really connect them all up to the main road because you're gonna have a lot of traffic you can maybe miss one out of here and and then one here for example and then come off in a different direction over here so you can really take this shape and any way you want you just want to make sure it's squared and I'll not quite blocky so it's as efficient as possible when you're starting your city and if you are using the traffic manager mod then you can actually go ahead and do some lane management here but also a little trick that you can do if you open up the info reviews and then come down to traffic routes you have this option here at the top in the middle called junctions then you could actually hit the traffic light at junctions and then that will get rid of the traffic lights and then that just gives priority to this main mode because this is where the majority of your traffic is gonna be flowing through so that's a nice little hint for you guys but you know just keep that as weird as you like but one thing to know what I did in my city was we'll explain why later but you're going to want to build this section of the highway its own ramp back onto the highway and we'll explain why that is in a minute so coming back here where we came in off the highway they're gonna come out by five blocks and they're you gonna switch your elevation step down to the middle one and then we're gonna come out by five again and then up to the fifth marker so right now you should have something that looks like that and then we're gonna come across here straight into the middle and now a good way to make sure this is symmetrical if you just click this point again and drag back to the point where you finished we can see that the construction cost was 1110 so we're gonna want to do that again there's 1110 so you got perfect signature right now everything is looking nice and I'm just gonna drag this road up a little bit so we have something to snap on to and then we can just double check the length here again so that was 790 let's come down there we go and then stead of 90 again and back onto that side so you've got a nice perfectly symmetrical bridge there that's flowing over your highway and it's giving access from these guys here to get onto the side of town and back onto the highway now what we want to do is we're going to keep this four-lane road but now we're going to switch to our roundabouts and we're gonna grab a small roundabout and then we're gonna pop back just up here and get it as straight as you can and then we're just gonna grade this into another four-lane road so now you have something that looks like this on this side now this part is going to serve as our commercial and residential so from this point here where we enter back onto the highway I'm going to go ahead and come out by 10 and then by another 10 that's going to come up here and make a real simple square don't connect that up there you don't want people to be you don't want to create more traffic junctions here because this is gonna be really busy junction you're gonna have all your industrial traffic coming through here now as this city grows a new industrial park grows and the commercial in this area grows and this road will become very busy and will start to back up which is not what we want so when you unlock the next tile and you have enough money to do it you really want to connect your industrial park here you want to give this place its own a highway connection so it doesn't have to bother coming through your commercial and residential districts it's on the roundabout here now we're just going to come ahead and match this up to this place and then you can just see here we're going to if you want to break up the grid patterns you can do maybe sticking a little lane there you don't have to stick perfectly square or you can if you like it's really up to you just depends how you want your city to look and then what I did on my city was I came out again by another ten and then switch this to a four-lane road and all the way up here and then you can plan another high street up that way if you wanted to so what you want to go and do here now is to fill all this in with residential you can maybe add in a block along here and then some some big blocks along here and here and here and then you're gonna want to keep this bit down here as your commercial just like that and then this place eventually I just city grows you can expand your commercial along these higher density streets if you do find that your traffic is struggling and you can upgrade this into the four-lane road sorry not the six lane you can upgrade that into the four lane road so you have something that looks like that then you have all this zoning and you see it will just grow on them from there and you can really just kind of take your city in whichever direction you please but it's kind of a base start to a city and this method works really well and it's something that I've I use pretty much in every single city that I've played and but you just want to remember key points is is to make your industrial sector here you want this to have its own highway entrance and exit here I'll show you how I did that in my let's play in a moment and then just to keep your commercial zone in on kind of your big chunky roads here okay you're gonna have a lot of commercial traffic both people visiting and deliveries and and then another thing you can do as well and is you can actually drag this route up and over here and then connect it to this side just bear in mind that you will when you do actually expand your highway or this direction and is that you are gonna have to bring these guys either as a bridge over your highway over this road sorry and or a bio a tunnel or you can make this road a bridge it really is up to you how you pon how you want to plan that out and I'll just show you again here will will connect this up grid that into the either one way just make sure that you're always making sure your rails are facing the right direction again sound off in one way and then just come down as well guess what I'll grade that that so you can have something that looks like that so yeah that's pretty much it guys really easy really super simple efficient start to your city and we'll jump into friend wood now the lats plane you can see this in action now it's expanded to a city of nearly 80,000 and you can see how even with the late game cities when you have you know tens of thousands of population this structure still works traffic still flows smoothly through it so we'll jump back in and take a look at that right now yeah guys so welcome back to frame 1 this is our vanilla let's play series it's um base in most of these tutorials off and you can see the basic shape that I took out here with what we just did you have the roundabout here you have the secondary high street and the rails connecting the little residential blocks a little bit of commercial around here and then i'm industrial state which is expanded significantly now so yeah and it was a bit a couple lot of footpaths along here as well and there's power line so needs to go but yeah so you can see how it's doing how the highway flows over this section i also added in a couple more exits and entrances onto the highway here just off this main road that flows through we have a little bit of traffic build up here but it's nothing too major this is because I have trams flowing through my industrial sector see all this is level 3 now you can see it is constantly moving on it never backs up and this is in a city of 72,000 now it has been 274 we are fluctuating in population at the moment yeah you can see how this looks on top my you are off again and then we developed the secondary High Street off of this main road here which again flows into all different parts of the city up here we have a tram network that flows through and I round about now so we upgraded this into the high-speed roads when we eventually unlock them I just keeps traffic flowing a lot easier and our trams make use of a little caught through the middle yeah so you can still see how this works really nicely people have entrances back onto here which takes into a larger highway interchange so no really efficient easy to use start to your city and you guys find it useful if you do like this kind of video as I like on the videos very much appreciated and again if you don't like these kind of tutorials also feel free to leave a dislike as well because it helps me gauge what kind of content you guys do and don't enjoy and yeah if you have any questions please let me know in the comments so you can also reach me on Twitter and there's also links in the description to a mixer channel where we do stream some detail in this city and you can catch the episodes on the YouTube channel and there'll be a link below to a playlist that you can catch up on the city if you want to thanks watching guys what you enjoyed it and as always enjoy rest every day

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Keywords: Cities skylines, tutorial, how to, start a city, design, inspiration, english, commentary, dlc, expansion, highway, roundabouts, public transport, help, xbox, ps4, pc

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Length: 12min 40sec (760 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 06 2019