Frequently Asked Questions: - What Mods do I use? Find my latest mods list on my Discord: discord.gg/joinbiffa - What are my PC Specs? Full specs here: kzread.infoabout - How do I get all those roads? Network Extensions 2 mod :-)

@SydBat

4 жыл бұрын

Has upgrading your ram to 64gb helped with your Cities: Skylines tea consumption?

@termin8953

4 жыл бұрын

At 11:53 , the off ramp is so steep, you can see a car almost lose control :)

@BlueNEXUSGaming

4 жыл бұрын

That hard enforcement of "no lane switching" they spammed all over the city is hard to watch. Probably why they had a 6 lane Roundabout too. They were Building in a panic.

@danielwood6168

4 жыл бұрын

A "Getting Started" video would be dope for this game. Including downloading, where to find, and anything for someone interested in getting started into Cities: Skylines

@BlueNEXUSGaming

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielwood6168 Steam, and Steam. That's the one that Biffa uses at least.

This was a weird fix. The city seemed to have Highways almost every where, but didn't connect their city to them.

@juanjodpr

4 жыл бұрын

And the buses dude...64 buses for 9 citizens...they must be advertising a lot of tea there lol

@JustaGuy_Gaming

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanjodpr To be fair public transportation in this game without mods is pretty insane. Almost no public transit system other than metro and maybe Trains is worth anything. Each bus only holds 30 people and it takes them something like 3 seconds to load and unload. Yet hundreds if not thousands of people will que up to take the bus in a high density residential area. The numbers also go up and down as people decide which route is better, so one moment you have 30 buses that can't keep up, next you have 5 people riding the bus. The mod that scales that up and down automatically is a god send. Other wise your best off having nothing but metro around your city.

@juanjodpr

4 жыл бұрын

@@JustaGuy_Gaming I really wonder why the taxi is not present in this game, it could seriously help the traffic but maybe only mods make that posible, I ignore if that vehicle even exist in the game already as a 'normal' car or not.

@JustaGuy_Gaming

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanjodpr I only have access to four of the DLC and no mods in the game I am playing and I have taxis. I think it might of been the mass transit DLC but it's what ever came with the bundle pack. It is however a fairly poor method to use. I mean it's still a car and usually one person gets in it, it does nothing to help prevent traffic and if you don't use it the citizens just pull a car out of their pocket.

@thedeadcannotdie

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanjodpr taxis do exist in the game but I wouldn't recommend using them. They only clog up roads more and some modded roads even cause ppl to wait for taxi in the middle of the road

6:25 "Check my discord for which nodes i'm using, urghh what nodes i'm using, my WORMS today aren't working properly" - Biffa 2020 - the man of few worms and many mistakes! Love the content and keep up the great videos bud!

@Tacko14

4 жыл бұрын

Worms Battlegrounds, still a favourite game here! I do love worms

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

😁👍

I built my first PC this weekend. This is the first game I bought to play. So much more than on Xbox. Can't wait to start my first city.

every time biffa says 'dedicated turning lane' an angel gets its wings

A rare city that's making money when you get it.

Thanks for helping to make a difficult day less stressful. Your fix city videos are my favorite destresser. Don't even play city skylines (can't get as far as setting up a bus line), though I used to play simcity.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome 👍😁

I will say, before I had made the decision to subscribe a few days ago, my home page was /flooded/ with your videos. I mean, I've certainly been enjoying them, but at the very least the recommendation algorithm has your back.

3:23 A typical "Biffa isn't paying enough attention again" moment. :D

@ChadBarnier

4 жыл бұрын

Ron Rossbach and the roundabout at 12:30

@Ganhiwa

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChadBarnier I mean, those lane connectors are stopping any cars from actually using the sliplanes he just put in. Screamed at my screen for that. Noo, don't leave them on there!

I click PLAY and immediately I ask my monitor "what the monkeyshines is this mess?", my OCD goes off the charts, I get queasy and feel a lil ill. Once Biffa gets started fixing (by replacing the roadway with real highway) I started feeling better. Thank you Biffa!

100k city,no rounabouts and traffic doesn't go below 82% only thanks to Biffa and Hugo there.Great fix as usual and my fix too;-)

I wish I could scream "Lane mathmatics" at the civil engineers in my city 😄

@WellCookedPotatoes

4 жыл бұрын

They went a little overboard on that in my city where they made a 6 lane highway expand into a 12 lane half way through

@immigrantgaming420epic

3 жыл бұрын

@@WellCookedPotatoes wtf

8:27 The ambulance jumping the median into head on traffic got me lolol

"What the monkeys are you doing here!?!?" Love it! Now I need to use it and confuse the heck out of my GF... Keep up the great work Biffa!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

:-)

"...get Hugo out of his box..." - classic Biffa :) This week I'm clearing out the garage as we are having a bit of work done on the house starting next week and the only access to the work area is through the garage. Busy weekend ahead...

Thanks for not keeping me in suspense! I was worried about where Hugo went but thanks to you Biffa I know "Hugo THERE" Another great fix!

biffa on every city he's asked to fix: "this is one of the wooooorst cities I've ever seen, red as far as the eye can see, the traffic is absolutely horrrrrendous"

Had some troubles with my own highway connections then I thought what would Biffa do. Then I fixed it with putting some T interchanges in ( the vanilla ones ) And it went up from 56% to 89% :D.

Ahhh my weekly dose of roundabouts, hugos and sips of tea ;)

Watching these videos makes me feel pretty good about my cities. I have had some trouble spots, but nothing as bad as some of these cities.

17:35 That was clearly a road for the rubbish trucks to make U-turns on.

Just discovered your videos yesterday and been binging on them. You are the most helpful Cities Skylines youtuber I've seen. Thanks for doing your stuff!

My first glance at this one and I thought "isn't that the bad traffic scenario map?" But then, no, it isn't.

@davidkania9824

4 жыл бұрын

It'd be funny if someone sent that in and made Biffa do it for them

I was at a "strong beer festival" in Munich on Saturday. Lots of fun (though I've also had a bad hangover on Sunday 😅). Thank you for asking! 😉

@BlueNEXUSGaming

4 жыл бұрын

The secret is to rehydrate. Drink water.

Thanks once again Biffa. Nice and efficient fixes. I do feel sorry for the 6-lane roundabouts that didn't get the 3-lane fix. Its so quick to do. A sip of tea and a few clicks. No excuses next time. I will be watching! ;)

Not so much relaxing, but in at the deep end and turned off despawning on my 75.000 city....it went from 82% to 55%....but I had also just put in the Space Elevator right in the middle of a tourist area *eek*! So that was blocking everything up! Dealt with that, did a round of dedicated turning lanes, and wound back up at 80% and 100.000+ citizens. So yay for giving people options, spreading industries out, a sliplane here and there + dedicated turning lanes :) Thanks for all your instructions!

Kept trying to find out why my traffic manager mod wasn't the same as yours and realized you have not updated that in your mods list on steam. No biggie. Love your content!

Hey Biffa! Nice episode as usual ;) In my cities, I have seen that reducing bus lanes from 'active day and night' to 'day only' or 'night only' makes sure that the buses clear the way every once in a while. Hope it can be used!

For your question, there was nothing special going on the weekend. Now we have home office for weeks due to the current situation, so I'll plenty of time to manage my city :)

1:30 Classical mistake of accidentally creating a usefull connection between highways, right through your city. That is usually the main issues with designs that do not make a properly spaced highway cricle.

@christopherg2347

4 жыл бұрын

5:00 You dislike teh Cloverlaef? But it is one of the best- if not the best - interchange designs: - you can turn left and right equally easy - you can turn around on the Highway. No need to look for a roundabout down the line - if in real life you missed your lane off to the right, you have a 2nd way to the right: Just take the 2nd one off towards the left. Then the next one off to the bottom. Then the next one off to the left - and all that with a low, symterical footprint

@christopherg2347

4 жыл бұрын

15:55 Why not give the Cargo Train Terminal a dedicated on/off lane? Just upgrade teh road to a 2/3 one, with the extra lance facing the terminal. That should prevent traffic going for the terminal to block up the road ahead.

@Soutar3DG

4 жыл бұрын

@@christopherg2347 Cloverleaf junctions aren't great for the sole reason of joining traffic before a slip road, those coming onto the motorway have to contend with those trying to leave the motorway. Ideally the slip road for those leaving the motorway would be before the road coming on, yes it means turning around on the motorway isn't possible and a roundabout needs found but it solves the issue of the junction.

@christopherg2347

4 жыл бұрын

@@Soutar3DG We just swap places. Those that want to get on the leave lane make room for those comming in. And when in doubt we just do a 270° to get where we want to. I could see it being problematic in the game due to AI limits.

@jarynn8156

4 жыл бұрын

@@christopherg2347 Cloverleafs are okay, but a stacked interchange is ideal if you have the space and money IRL.

Sounds like a rough weekend for you Biffa. I discovered your videos this weekend (and subscribed), watched pretty obsessively, and now am working on not making all these mistakes in my own city. Hahahaha

Always love watching these videos of yours, not only are the incredibly informative, but you also have a super pleasing voice. It's hard not to be happy listening to your chat away about lane mathmatics.....

i'm glad to hear your youngest is feeling better! had food poisoning before and its the worst, bless him :(

In Romania the Gouvernemnt has closed all of the schools in the country because of the spread of Coronavirus so I can enjoy more Biffa vids!

@Slay-vx4lu

4 жыл бұрын

Here in the Czech Republic too!

@sameerimamali875

4 жыл бұрын

But i have practical exam on Friday 😫😫😣☹️ U r really lucky bro

@nohax8232

4 жыл бұрын

@@sameerimamali875 Wish u luck

They can't enter the highway because of the lane restrictions! @12:27

@rschawrtz

4 жыл бұрын

Needs to be higher. Don't limit lanes on your roundabouts, people!

@matthewmartinez6943

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I noticed that and I was wondering if I was the only one that saw it

Love how biffa took a smooth flowing city and made it come to halt. :P (highlight video were swapped) Also biffa needed a comment and like. So doing both. Hope he can upload more now that corona lockdown is happening in many places. 24hour biffa marathon could happen.

Hope you're little kid gets well soon. I have cold too, I am recovering.

My weekend was fine, thanks for asking. I had an exam in my "Machine Components" course on the saturday and spent the Sunday helping my friends study for their exam in Multiple variable calculus. But the best part was that I am free this entire week so my weekend hasn't really ended yet!

23:04 you gotta love that snicker :D

I wish I could have you fix my city, but sadly I just don't have issues.... it's growing (180k+ pop still) and traffic is generally around 82-84% Very happy with its development. Maybe more city reviews would be neat too.

Biffa, you had a city fix with 4% traffic, you got this. Piece of cake.

Thanks Biffa, your videos and consistent approach has made all of my cities so much better. repetition for emphasis... keep 'em coming!

Super impressed, that was a mess. Well done really enjoy the game and the videos! 🙌🏻

Biffa my love, you are the best! You need merch with the word "jiggery-pokery"!

Ayyy more of the sweet sweet Biffa content! Keep up the good work!

6:00 As a quick fix, to generate a node, if you don’t have all of Electrix’ mods, you can use a regular (zoned) road to make an intersection with the highway.

whaat was i up too this weekend. apart from looking for a new job, i was watching Biffa fix city's all week :)

Love the Sipatea merch. Is there any plans for any Hugo merch? Also Horky Borky!! 🤣👍🏻

I love the new timelapse thing. It's cool watching your work.

Absolutely love your videos! Keep it up!👍

You need the "hugo there" lol tshirt lol.

My weekend? My wife had a baby! So now I have your videos to look forward to for our late night feedings. Thanks for my sleep deprived entertainment, biffa

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations 👍😁👍

Hah! Finally have something to say in response to your 'what did you this weekend' question. I replaced my 10 year old Lenovo 2 core/8GB X230 laptop with a home-build 6 core/12 thread AMD 3600 with 32GB and a fast M.2 boot drive. And a GTX 1660 Super SC Ultra. Not the top end but it's amazing! Nice fixes with the highway through the city and the roundabout highway interchanges. I've been messing with the basic 'Fix the traffic' scenario and those will help in several places. Still trying to get to 82% to beat it.

At 17:35 you deleted a road next to a landfill site. Now there's a good reason for keeping it! I found when emptying a landfill, if the bin lorries don't have an area to turn around, they end up doing a big loop just and can clog up a network. If you put in a small section of road either side of a disposal site (a landfill and incineration plant) it will isolate the emptying process! :)

@mikecarey5432

4 жыл бұрын

-by giving the bin lorries a place to turn around :)

Really Digging the before and After of these Videos! and I am Starting to get batter at this game, Heck its taken 2 years lol I better be Improving! any how Your Videos Have helped me immensely! can recommend you enough!

Thanks for the vid! I think the link in the description is the one for the previous city fix, would you mind sharing the one for this one? Also, you probably already knew, but in the policies options of TMPE you can enable 'Enable highway specific lane merging/splitting rules', which causes cars not to cross over all the lanes when merging in, and also to only change one lane at a time, instead of 2 or 3 what you sometimes see.

My recommended videos now consists almost entirely of Would I lie to you, Fred Dibnah, and Biffa fixing cities :D

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

😁

You really make this look so easy! Thanks for the great content and tips.

Biffa I have a challenge for you, can you build a mega city with 750k citizens 90%Traffic or better while still making the city look like a city with every asset in the city used in the end. Can you do it?

biffification, n.: mathematical operation applied to road lanes

For KZread Algorithms. Liked & Subbed.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

:-)

Nice work, Hugo!

Hey Biffa, Thanks for checking out the city. Yeah I'm totally new playing this. :) I am a bit confused though. I mean when you played my map you had like 7% traffic to start, yet when I open the exact same map that I shared to you I have roughly 64-65% traffic. I can't help but wonder if something didn't get transferred over? My issue I was having was that the city magically started losing money and people. For the most part my city had been pretty profitable until now. Also in my defense I don't have any of the mod/dlc mass transit etc so I couldn't build many of those roads you put in. My game has very limited highway types...etc. So that's pretty much why I used 6 lanes for the roundabout (not many choices in the roundabout mod I have) which also puzzles me since I had understood the roundabout mod was supposed to setup the lane rules automatically with traffic manager. As I am new I am now also wondering how I can access the map you changed? I do not see anything updated on the share for example. Cheers!

I liked right away this time so I wouldn't forget. Great vid as usual!

@11:10 */bonks Biffa for bonkin' the noobs* I just binged watched the "old pre-traffic fixing" Biffa who used to use 6 lane roundabouts :P We all have done it at some point LOL

16:00 Forcing trucks to back up into an adjacent roundabout (which is also connected to the main local viaduct)? Oh Biffa, what have you done?!

At 15:40 - the cargo terminal should have connections to the main rail track that are at least one train length long to avoid unnecessary disruption of traffic on the main track. A detail that makes a difference when the traffic volume increases. Then have the "Ground Bypass Station" from BadPeanut on the main track. Just check out all the items/assets from BadPeanut - they are great.

I like watching your videos and I have picked up some brilliant tips keep it up :)

That cargo terminal has turned into a black hole, or maybe a Hotel Calfornia! A steady stream of trucks enter, but none leave.

Hey biffa, have you ever considered taking a look at real life cities with major traffic problems, and thought to try to apply your cities skylines traffic solving skills to them.?

@rainedai7539

4 жыл бұрын

He did fix San Francisco a few months ago! kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z2mNsJWPZsKxgqw.html

Always love a good fix-it episode! Biffa, what shortcuts/hotkeys do you use for the TM:PE for node selection (so you don't need to keep clicking the buttons)?

Stellar job as always 👌 At the bottom of the description, did you mean to say work? Or were you just excited?

Actually, I think the builder did a great job creating different areas across their map and working out their own roundabout fixes. They look better than my fixes do any day of the week. (not interested in using mods right now) I sunk a few hours into this game this past weekend, and my road building skills are horrible. They're better than they were when I first started playing though, thanks to Biffa and a few other people. I think my biggest aggravation is when I try to build roads that meet up, but they rarely meet up at one node. I don't know if the ground's not level or what, but it is so annoying not having perfect corners! I run out of most of my money trying to fix that issue. I hope they make an undo command for this game, just so I can automatically undo that kind of stuff without losing money.

As someone who plays an almost stock console version of this game, i think i know why people use a lot of the 6-lane roads for heavy roundabouts; its all they have. They probably dont have all the DLCs so options for 1-way roads are 1-lane highway ramp, 2-lane, 4-lane highway, and 6-lane. Suddenly the 6-lane roundabouts make more sense.

61 busses for 9 passangers? as a busdriver.. i think thats pretty spot on accurate

Yay! This will make the last hour of work a bit more bearable!

The junction at 12:12 has a problem. People can't get on to it because of the lane arrows.

23:03 first the worms and then that laugh Biffas brain can't handle the traffic anymore! He had enough spaghetti, mama mia!

Biffa I'd like to thank you for your lane management, it helps alot on the xbox version. Take a sip of tea for your greatness😁👍☕

Sip of a team = like :) Nice video to watch :) Thanks Biffa !

The link for the city in the description leads to a different city by a different user. I'd love to have a play with this city. If you could fix the link in the video description, that would be fantastic! As always, great video! Thanks for making traffic issues entertaining and educational :)

How was my weekend? It was good, thank you for asking :D Been going through my old cities and fixing (trying lol) things. Im a big fan of grids because it just looks pleasing to me, but the tight together grids are a nightmare for traffic. Still, 65% traffic movement isnt bad considering :D especially since everybody is still sick from my borking up the water supply so there are ambulances and hearses everywhere lol My newer cities are doing much better :D

16:35 there is a friggin 6-lane one-way road coming from the north!

Take a shot everytime he says "Lane mathematics"

@washellwash1802

4 жыл бұрын

I would, but I don't wanna die of alcohol poisoning. ;)

Rode the motorcycle this weekend due to the weather being nice. Beautiful in Kansas City Kansas, USA. Thanks for posting. Love the videos man. Are you bored yet of city skylines? You’ve been doing the same videos for a while now. What do you play in your personal time?

Why does this disaster look like something I would build 😂😂😂

Thank you! Can't wait for more :-)

When Biffa's kids are sick: Biffa: Let me tell you a story... Kid: (Oh no) Biffa: Once upon a time there was this city, and it was a lovely city, but the traffic was just unbelievable, it was down to 7%! 20 min later Kid: zzz Biffa: And then Hugo finally fixed the traffic and the city was running smoothly again. The end!

Hey Biffa, how about connecting the areas of the city via tunnels so it looks better/greener on top? Hiding the connections would improve the looks. Same suggestion goes for #Teaville. Congrats from Australia & Thanks for the videos! You get sips of tea from me on all of them!

Perfect watch before sleeping.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

Enjoy :-)

the one way road on the right bottem on 2:26 you forgot to connect to the rest of the city.

Nice video as always, lol. How you manage to do these fixes boggles my head. But as I do not play this game, on account of I love watching you building instead. I know I am a total freak roflmbo that prefers to watch than play. But, it is cuzz I am a mom, and watched my kids and husband play games, and I get a bit obsessed with some games, so it is for my sanity that I do not play hahahah

4:07 Me: Gah! It's wonky! Biffa cuts. Me: *sigh* he used move it to straighten the road. All is well.

I love how Hugo is actually a thing now

Woo new Biffa Video! Though these are the only ones I watch.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

4 жыл бұрын

:-)

Seems like Biffa's getting better at making some of the roundabouts (especially late in the video) appear less like traffic circles and more like real-life roundabouts with the greater usage of slip-lane-like roads for entering and exiting the roundabout. Still need to work on dealing with the sideswipe-attracting scourge that is weaving (of which clover leaves are a prime offender) to further smoothen out traffic flow. Speaking of roundabouts and clover leaves, Biffa, care to do a video where you pit roundabouts (and/or roundabout interchanges) vs clover leaves?

Just like me - come back after the weekend, I can't remember shift either.

Dear biffa, I think you should do some more vanilla cities.

That is the Highway intersection that I always do but underground, the highway as well as the roundabout. Works pretty well 😊

I was on a trip last week, and I did see some real lanes mathematics at work... I can send you a picture if you want me too...