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@profwaldone

2 жыл бұрын

The new intros are realy nice.

@dangaming1563

2 жыл бұрын

Biffa you need to do a csl view :)

@deathskillz7

2 жыл бұрын

Hey biffa i have a challenge for you that you never done it and it is a game changer, the challenge is to build everything in hardmode/no despawning. And the roads when you create it the first time you cannot fix it later, once you create a road when there is buildings around it then it is fixed and you will lose the challenge when the hardmode traffic goes down to below 80 percent. You can make it suitable for your own style but the idea is that you need to plan ahead before anything else. I don’t know about the money should it be infinite or vanilla. Its depends on the situation wether you like it or not

@dangaming1563

2 жыл бұрын

@@deathskillz7 do you know how confusing that sounds

@deathskillz7

2 жыл бұрын

@Dan gaming it’s not confusing at all. The only thing is you need to plan ahead for your traffic, the intersections and roads because once you built the it will remain the way it is. That was the idea. I want to make it more realistic because when you want to make traffic better in a city in real life you can’t just go and replace the whole building with a roundabout.

Hey Biffa! at 10:43 you forced the guys into 2 lanes, so the trucks from the industry area can't use their left turn lane :) Great ep BTW.

@IcecalGamer

2 жыл бұрын

This needs more thumbs up 👍

As you do the stop lines at intersections, I felt I have to point out that in America, our stop lines are wide and solid all the way across all lanes of traffic that are stopping. The dashed ones are not "American style"

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

👍

@ethancempe8335

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment this lol In America they are big slabs of white paint. They are so large that if you stop on them when it's raining your front wheel drive vehicle will spin the wheels on it for a second before moving 🤣

@Nova-if1dq

2 жыл бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines also the leftmost dashed line that curves along the left turn lanes through intersections are usually either not there at all or yellow instead of white

@thedoctor4637

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nova-if1dq I’ve always seen a white dashed (seldom solid) line either to the left of each turning lane or just between each turning lane through the intersection.

@notnek879

2 жыл бұрын

Tbf our stop lines are also solid white, he's put a give way (yield) line at those intersections

at 8:55 your hugo there is not setup right and later on you force them to not be able to switch lanes so they will never pick the left lane now.

New Biffa content right in time for lunch, the best thing to brighten a Tuesday!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy! Don't forget your cuppa too :-)

@jdsiv3

2 жыл бұрын

I am also taking my lunch!

@artistfkaW

2 жыл бұрын

When is the UK collab coming

@Jackamo6200

2 жыл бұрын

Hey FewC! Wasn’t expecting you to see you here :)

@fewcandy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jackamo6200 Hey Jack! I'm every where 😂

Biffa: Building more uban highways and interchanges is a "fantastic idea" of how to solve traffic. Urban planners: ...f hell, bro...

@reggie69.

2 жыл бұрын

1980s American urban planners

@Someone-lr6gu

2 жыл бұрын

@@reggie69. Not even 1980s. Some modern cities experience this same issue, and not just in USA.

@edwardmiessner6502

2 жыл бұрын

TX DOT: 👍👍

@ptterz1277

2 жыл бұрын

@@Someone-lr6gu The whole North America seems to be stuck on the idea. 😅

@Someone-lr6gu

2 жыл бұрын

@@ptterz1277 Russia as well actually. Moscow's been routinely building shitton of interchanges around it for the past years. Looks like a maze now. As you expect, only made the issue with traffic worse.

8:50 your vehicles exiting the toll can not turn left into your city. your TMPE lane management only selects 2 lanes, and then later 10:45 forces all the cars to stay in lane on the next node, meaning cars can enter from anywhere but when leaving they can only use the highway. have not seen the rest of the video yet to see if you notice that... now back to the enjoyment of the next 27 minutes of video.

@GermanNightmare1976

2 жыл бұрын

Good eye, saw the same thing!

@Gnare

2 жыл бұрын

This is also why the main interchange was congested (noticed at 15:20 ) coming from that direction (from the Oil Industry) -- there's nothing else that direction, yet the offramp into the city was almost entirely private vehicles .. I'm guessing it was all people returning home from work ;)

I wish you’d add mail delivery as part of your services. I love that element of realism in this game.

Ive always kinda found your series kinda daunting to get into, just bc theres dozens of videos each 30-40 minutes long. This and Blightea on the Wald are the first ones I've caught from the beginning and am loving every minute of it, can't wait to see what comes next.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear, thankyou 👍😁

@l3v1ckUK

2 жыл бұрын

You should try his New Tealand series. I think that's the best one so far.

For me the best solution are ringroad, traffic avoid city center and the city have different points of entrance, Milano, Roma for example part of they ringroads have tunnel going under the city, so they can expand outside

@zamboughnuts

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of US cities do have ring roads like that. There will be a highway right through downtown, but then there will be a bypass around the outside.

@CJLloyd

2 жыл бұрын

Biffa may be predisposed against that, as the most famous ringroad in the UK is the M25, which rings London, and is notorious for never flowing smoothly and being the road everyone avoids if they have any other option. ;)

@zamboughnuts

2 жыл бұрын

@@CJLloyd I've driven the 285 in Atlanta and the 495 in Boston... Can't get much worse than those ;)

@CJLloyd

2 жыл бұрын

@@zamboughnuts I don't know those roads, but just going off numbers, Atlanta and Boston both have populations around half a million. London has nearly 9 million. If you use metropolitan population, Atlanta has 6 million, Boston 4 million, and London 14 million. The only US city with a population comparable to London's is New York. Now I'll grant that US traffic is a different order of magnitude to UK traffic for many reasons, but, still, I have to imagine that sheer weight of numbers has to account for something. I saw the same thing in parts of Asia, people there drove a lot more than folks back home, and cities of much smaller sizes had much worse traffic problems than I expected. Nonetheless, a city of 600 thousand simply doesn't need the same infrastructure as a city of 9 million, even accounting for that, and neither Atlanta or Boston is big enough to even be a contender, I would have thought. I may of course be wholly wrong - I'm just hypothesing here. 🤔

@kaltaron1284

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSometimeAfter Have you read/watched Good Omens?

If you're selling a Biffa mud, it really needs the logo you use for having a sip of tea with autosave. Just that entire logo. One big red mug. It would look glorious.

The style of this video intro is super different. I love it.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! Been trying something new :-)

Gotta love the tiny segment of road between the intersection and the toll booth you just decided to leave highway, with two separate roads... gives the city character.

12:36 Weird. Trucks look like they're coming in, but then disappear at the end of the bridge. Is there a node issue causing problems? You can see the brown lines just stop dead for no reason.

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

It’s the networks, they’re not the best.

I find it funny that you put a picture of Atlanta, a city known for atrocious traffic, in the thumbnail of a video solving traffic lol

Yay new Biffa vid makes my night! Over the last few months I've binged through all your vids for the last few years and it's so weird now having to wait. I really like how you build and it really teaches me so much! I enjoy watching other builders too but yours are the best, so much because I feel like everyone else practices and does it all off camera first so they know this road needs to go out 8 etc but you mostly do it on camera so I can see the process behind it, it's really taught me so much and I'm actually making a nice city now and am not just stopping because I can't fix an issue or can't figure out how to expand.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou 👍😁👍

So happy this comes out in the morning for me. Breakfast, coffee and inspiration for my city build.

Its always awesome to see you build in a new area. I wish it was this easy for me

I think you've got the planned tunnel location spot on.

Biffa cracks on, dense content, time flies, more fun and as always entertaining. cheers. :)

I think a nice curved road would be a good idea so you can connect that road at 20:21 with the new residential. Or a simple diagonal connecting those 2 interections for that road to connect to.

If you rotate the map 90 deg and then zoom out to the overhead view, you should then be able to see if the square you want goes far enough out.

I'd love to see you do a big American cloverleaf interchange for some of these highway connections. Nothing more American than big, spanning overpasses!

8:55 The merch message made you forget to add the connection to the left lane of the 3 lanes on the bottom.

After a few you go there, I can't stop hearing Hugo there, Hugo there... also Hugo there.

imo the purple metro (in the new area) either needs to be redone to remove the strange crossover or split into a second line and use a workshop station to have it exchange with the other line

Is there any chance you could indicate the city on the thumbnails? Like blue border for Blightea, red for Mississippitea or something? 😇

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Right above every single title are the #'s which tell you everything you need to know #citiesskylines #biffaplays #USA

@haleyp898

2 жыл бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I think this might be an issue where you've got info on screen that we don't because there aren't any numbers above the titles, at least on the mobile app. It's always a surprise, clicking on the video like "wonder where we are today"

@dezignateddriva

2 жыл бұрын

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines yes, its always a surprise for me too

@Yay295

2 жыл бұрын

@@haleyp898 I can see them on desktop.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

I can see them on the mobile app too, to the right of the view count, below the title. Also, I usually have the City name right as the very first word of the description (just not the last couple because of the launch of my merch store going there)👍

10:29 in Australia you dont often see the dashed line when a lane goes from one to two. Interesting to see how it is done elsewhere

Is there a reason to put minimum time up on timed traffic lights? If there is no traffic, you stop other directions from moving. If there is enough traffic max time will get used anyway. So probably it should be fine to make it from 3-8 like 3-15

new biffa universe character just dropped: Moe Blindingly. i need to know more! what's his relationship to Hugo? do they know each other? are they sworn enemies? is he a lone coffee person in this world of tea?

1:59 With that overpass acting as a way for people to get over to the one area without going on the roundabout, one mind as well snip that one section of the triangle going off the roundabout and make the connection after the rise become a one way road for those wanting to leave the industry area. Also, the area along the river should be a mix of low and high density zones if any zoning is placed there. The area near the other high density place the new high density with the district having the high rise ban. That way there is a gradual rise in building height instead of just going from nature to immediate mass of skyscrapers.

watching this i cant help singing "Highway to the Biffa zone " every time Biffa says Highway ..... :P

32:45 in the US, a stop line is a solid thick white line.

So cool to see my city featured in one of your thumbnails!

Hey Biffa you could restrict acces for trucks on the main acces to the city so the go through the new oil highway. That would be a lot relief for that one roundabout! Especiallyif you make that second acces through the mountains, so the truck can split up and choose!

33:37 you should force the people in the left lane going toward the roundabout to use the overpass.

When I've built my city on this map, I was able to keep the original intersection leading to the industrial harbour. But I did need to creat multiple entrances to the area which is your main part of the city. There was a lot of TM:PE used. If I remember, I'll send some pictures in the discord

Great job Biffa as always 😊

About time I caught up with Biffa

I think the best city I’ve ever build in Cities Skylines, was my 125,000 population one. I started out with low density pockets of suburbs in a grid formation with arterial roads running between them. When traffic started becoming an issue at the 4 way six lane road intersections, I used a design I see all the time on interstates and freeways. I used a two way highway road for a bridge over the arterial road, then connected them using single lane ramps (for faster speeds) in a diamond shape. Forming a kind of roundabout but diamond shaped interchange. So when traffic needed to turn left onto the arterial road while heading north, they would take the east ramp, turn left, and drive under the two way highway bridge. To make sure they didn’t just go across the bridge and turn left (which would have clogged traffic coming from the north heading south) I turned the section of six lane road under the bridge into a two way highway as well so they had a faster way to turn left instead of crossing the bridge. Long comment I know lol, but that design kept working flawlessly in all my intersections right up until I hit 140,000 people. I was very proud of myself, specially because I don’t play on PC, I play on PS4

I reckon the new part of crest square could definitely use a train station at the far end. There's gotta be about 7k people living there after all!

loving your videos for years :) architect and city planner from berlin... past time biffa follower :)

8:24 I was a little bit shocked how the good old Ctrl-S is failing you - which you manually correct 8:30 ... but then it happens again during your merch announcement 9:04 - and I think you did not correct this one. So 12:00 left turns from the oil industry to the new bridge cannot happen - 12:16 The utilization of the new bridge seems a little bit asymmetric. 15:22 Some people are leaving the highway, use the roundabout to get back onto the highway in the opposite direction ... but why? Is it just the previously mentioned lane connector thing or are there other connections missing?

Thank you, sir! As enjoyable as always…

At the end when you got rid of the crossings and timed the traffic light pedestrians had moved to crossing at the VOP nodeless junction, it may serve to but another pedestrian bridge in at that junction

10:06 Love the 80's style music

10:43 coming from the right, the pink "you go there" doesn't allow for left turns. Just in case the traffic behaves strangely, that might be a reason.

Still hoping to one day see you setting up some blimp routes. Wouldn't mind seeing what sort of custom looks you can dig up for how they look. Not expecting many, just maybe some tourist routes.

Enjoyed your video today. You could have made the road section between the new junction and toll booth to be a 4 lane industry road to match the road on the other side of the toll booth.

Oh boy, better plan for that death wave. That sure was a lot of residential all at once ahahah.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Not anymore ;-)

To be honest, I'd love to see you rip out the existing interchanges and redesign your own entrances into the city. I remember this style of interchange always being a problem in New Tealand. The pre-existing interchanges take up way too much room and don't flow well into the roads that you need them to. American interchanges are much more compact that close to a city, so it plays into your USA design.

They must have has so much fun designing their Colossal order building back before the game came out when they had about 10 employees :)

19:37 to 19:43 City Planner Plays would get indigestion at the lack of interconnectivity which is going to generate unnecessary traffic. Please connect the two neighborhoods! 20:55 Okay that should work

A bit late to the party, but Mr. Biffa, I do really believe that at 30:29 you put such big accent on that road being and I quote "Absolutely No Problem At All" it should be named like so " NoProblemAtAll Avenue" as I know that they use "avenue" pretty often. Cheers ♥️

Hey Biffa! I was thinking about the zones and themes you're using. If you create a theme for your low and high density commercial and offices I think you should be able to add them as well as the residential themes to a zone. This way you don't have to remove zones on certain areas to get commercial buildings to grow.

One traffic thing I want on console is lane management and the ability to allow cars to just yield when turning right on a red light

Your video's go by so quickly! I think, oh cool, we can see the new road connect and then the video is over! I get lost in watching the building and it goes by too quick! Looking lovely!

@3:57 - the one thing I noticed here is because the highway goes only one direction (the other end is a dead end for now) the popularity of you new connection will mostly be decided by people trying to get out of town. So if the route to go through this new link to the highway and off to their out of town destination is longer that the existing roads, you won't get that many takers. So you will get some users, but the trucks and stuff especially will look at it as just being longer and they will take the other route. it's doubly so because the interchange itself is fiddly. It's just quicker to take the existing route.

I know you are a humble guy so just letting you know. You plug of shop was fine, very tasteful. I even thought about time. Everyone does it, so should you.

great videos as usual!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@kaydenwhitehead8266

2 жыл бұрын

Omg wait what did not expect this 😂😂

Oooh new music? Love it! 😍 Love a good city fix, and it seems most of the build vids lately have some form of fix included, and it seems to be a winning formula... At least in my eyes 😊

Biffa, don’t rule out putting traffic lights on roundabouts. It’s a fairly common thing in the UK (as you probably know) but works especially well in CS due to the silly traffic dynamics

Biffa when the city tour for NewTealand?

hey Biffa :) not the most crucial ones, but it would be nice to not forget the road and park maintenance buildings.

Btw, I don't know if you have noticed, but when applying timed traffic into a T-junction one phase is getting them "wrong". In this case it is the one when those coming from the original roundabout's direction get green to turn into that new connection. The automatically generated lights leave going straight also green -> pedestrian crossing on the other side of the junction never automatically gets green light -> that ped crossing stays green all the time and in worst case slows down traffic.

11:00 the dashed lines in intersections generally only have the inside line. They wouldn't put the outside line.

Thanks for the entertainment :-)

At 8:50 One of the lanes you went from 2>3 lanes and only did “Hugo” to the middle. Then later 10:42 you kept them from changing lanes at the next node, so now no one will be able to turn left. Which will force them to take the highway to get into your city at the other main highway intersection. Negating the whole point of connecting to this highway intersection

@jonblair5470

5 ай бұрын

Sometimes you kill me biffa 🤔😬😂

Nice Video!

be careful making nodes in the roundabout very big/stretched. the cars coming in dont want to enter an occupied node so it makes it hard for them to get on. you can stretch the entrance to the node only.

that's my city skyline Atlanta 🤣 in the thumbnail

Hi guys! I am looking for the episode where Biffa optimizes one of the industry complexes with a mod where you can decide where the goods and raw material are coming from/getting exported or not. Something like "transfer controller"?

when you put in the off ramp @16:07 instead hav a on ranp from the 2way road and connect it to the highway that goes to the right

10:37 - jiggle jiggle :D

Heya Biffa (again). You should check the junction where the two overpasses closely meet (the one that turns left onto the main road and the one before that). I believe you are forcing everyone that comes from the first overpass to go onto the second overpass and thus turn left.

31:21 - A few water problems popping up.

The thumbnail is just 2 photos of Atlanta lmao

Learn alot from you

I would love to see building in the mountains in this city

9:43 I dunno Biffa. The last time I tried to use my brain my head started hurting

Could I just give a suggestion, The overpass from the starting industrial district to the main city isn't that busy and there isn't much demand for it. You could make a overpass passing over the roundabout and onto the exit onto the highway starting before the the little junction just before the roundabout so that all of the traffic leaving the city doesn't have to go through the traffic lights before the roundabout slowing the traffic down significantly. I am not an expert on trafficology and I am a big fan and I love the series. Keep up the good work 😃 ;-) I love the fact that you are showing your ideas and plans for the near future 🙂

At the intersection for the industry highway access, you used TMPE telling the left lanes to split but marked them as the right lanes splitting. Also, you could add a slip lane on the roundabout coming off the first highway connection by adding an extra lane on that part of the roundabout. Finally, there is no way (node) to change lanes in between the 2 Vanilla Overpasses to Crescent Square.

the intersection changes at the 33:00 mark (ish) has forced pedestrians to go up to the entry round about or cross illegally. could use some tea sipping.

cool beans!

Put a park in by the railroad station and a path over the tracks so people can walk over.

esp in US builds I add some apartment complexes on frontage roads along highways to juice the population numbers when I’m close to a target. A very common sight off an interstate highway. Takes some manipulation with parks to get land value high enough but worth the time

If you want your city to breath, better not to clog the arteries by allowing the maximum flow of traffic. This can be done by allowing straight on and right turn to share a lane. At 31:20 there are two lanes straight on, one lane right turn only, feeding into three lanes straight on, better to allow straight on traffic to use the right turn only lane, then 3 into 3! Lane mathematics works at junctions too

Biffa you might want to check the building theme for the new area. I don't think there are any commercial buildings in it.

Biffa you can go into the settings on traffic manager and turn dedicated turning lanes on and by doing that it will make everything you already have built dedicated and everything you will build will be it right away

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

True, but sometimes I don't want them 😁👍

You are real specialist in making a huge fish-network of roads, individual small regions or villages might look more natural. I'm any happy our city doesn't such a huge road network.

In the new expanded part of Crest Hills, you didn't add in the walking paths through the middle of the blocks like you had in the older part.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

👍

Yor video always give me ideas for my citys

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Nice :-)

23:30 Don't just add a metro! There is a train line right there, it would be cruel and unusual to not add a connection to it. You could even use a train station with inbuilt metro.

Ah yes its Tuesday morning 8am time for breakfast and Biffa ☕️

Some cars, as we can see at 13:40, are coming off the highway, traversing the roundabout and going back on the highway to continue south to the industry area. So you need to check the lane controls at the highway to make sure you're not forcing cars to take an exit that they don't want.

36:31 your industrial is screaming for water. You already had boosted the budget and were on the edge of yellow before you added all that high density, so you likely need to add another facility.

That initial highway interchange is begging for an upgrade, the spaghetti needs cleaned! Lol It works fine but the way it looks is just not very realistic I think.

KEEP MAKING VIDEOS!

All those mountains is why I voted for Teattle. There's no mountains anywhere near Mississippi. It's basically a giant flat flood plane. Ancient mud flats that have slowly built up to make land.

Biffa, your marking tool stop lines aren't something you'd usually see in America or Canada. Usually they'd be either nonexistent, or a white line about 4x as thick as a crosswalk line. Any other are very regional or just very rare.