Cities: Skylines

I'm loving this so far, but around the time I get to about 12k+ citizens, the abandoned building whack-a-mole starts getting pretty real. I'm not sure if I over-educated my citizens and they all moved to the offices I built, but my industrial district became a ghost town almost instantly at some point. Other than that, I can't quite see what I'm doing with my bus routes. I keep seeing dead end icons but no matter how hard I try to make it loop, it just seems to add more or overlap in a different way.

I had a similar problem and eventually zoned some housing areas without a school nearby. I guess the over-educated issue happens if you focus too much on citizens education without giving the industry zones the proper means of upgrading. Although I don't really know yet what causes industry upgrades.

I feel like I'm becoming dumber as the day goes on and I try to figure this out; but I can't find a decent way of hooking up the initial highway connection to the city. I usually place down a roundabout and connect both highway lanes to it, then one road goes to the north (residential) and one south (industry).

Naturally, this will cause traffic jams after a while because the people who want to go to either north or south have to take the roundabout and block the people who want to enter/leave the city.

Screenshots kinda crappy but this is my experiment with trying to force the inner lanes of a roundabout to be used. This city is only up to 9k but all traffic goes in and out of this roundabout and the biggest thing that helped was having no traffic lights and one way only routes.

Those are mostly for looks if you dont have a road to a park police cant patrol it and it crime shoots up they seem to get used if you put them near mass transit though

Man, I LOVE this game, and theres a shitload of good free user-created content already. Seems like the most effort is being pout towards traffic control, theres a ton of awesome custome interchanges on the Steam Workshop

Heres a custom turbine interchange, probably the best one overall for massive amounts of traffic, I have yet to be able to choke it to a standstill

Heres a custom diverging diamond

Heres a custom elevated double-roundabout

Cool stuff, can't believe there is so much user content and the game hasn't even been out a week yet. There's custom maps (GTA5 Los Santos, Manhattan island, several other cities, etc), tons of buildings, parks, etc.)

Haven't messed with these games in a long time. Any starter suggestions besides what is already listed (don't put your shit pipe up stream which is always wise)

Seems this game really likes one way roads.

Kedwyn_sl said:

Seems this game really likes one way roads.

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I think I went overboard with the one ways, they're good for heavy traffic areas but they can cause service coverage problems. I've removed a lot of one ways in lower traffic density areas.

This game... my entire day is gone...

Thanks for fixing my one way highway problem guys.

My hastily built densly poulated area has the same population as my lovingly crafted low population area in a third of the size, do I rezone all of my low as dense? Do I need to keep some of it?

Araxen_sl said:

Virtually Carless city:Cities Skylines: Car Free City - Album on Imgur

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shit like that makes it really hard for me not to pull the trigger on this game. That's goddamn amazing you can do things like that.

Seananigans_sl said:

Yeah, I have no fucking clue how to manage the initial Highway>City road connections.

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The thing I talked about doing earlier is actually working out pretty well. I have my initial connection doing a one way round right through my industrial zone with a single off shoot into my industrial zone (so my industrial basically has a highway rubbing down its middile with multiple one way bridges over it to connect the to sides) most of my incoming traffic diverts right into my industrial zone and once it gets heavy enough I'll make another offshoot from the main highway to the other side of the industrial zone which usually splits the traffic in half. By the time it is a problem again I'll be converted to mostly offices and then I'll just upgrade to 6 lane one ways. The main highway extends past the industrial zone and branches like a tree to residential on the east and west sides and commercial on the north side.

From the BACK of the residebtial zones I have highways going to the SIDES of the commercial and industrial zones. So basically for every zone traffic comes in one way and goes out the other. I use one way roads on the parameter of each zone so that the traffic flows away from the incoming traffic and towards the outgoing. Inner roads are dual lane. I'll try and get a picture when I get home