It’s an amazing game with a great balance between challenging systems and sandbox gameplay. However, after spending a day experimenting with lots of set-ups, I figured out how it actually works as opposed to how I expected it to work, and it doesn’t appear to be bug-ridden after all this Guide summarises my findings.Just getting started with Cities: Skylines? You’re going to love it. Introduction Quite a few people have asserted that the Industries DLC is ‘buggy’, and for quite a while I was inclined to agree.
Even with those mods disabled, the freezing still happens at the same intervals.The game is very accessible, but some systems are pretty deep and the way they interact isn’t always immediately apparent. Tested with nearly all mods disabled, except for 81 tiles, all areas purchaseable, and Network Extensions 2, because the city just fails to load without those three mods. The game consistently freezes every few seconds in very regular intervals. In downtown a few blocks south in the clutch of new office Service.
You should aim for steady, even growth every time you build a new development. To avoid the death wave, aim for steady, even residential growthMake sure you don’t grow residential areas too fast, lest you trigger a death wave. Just keep steadily adding to your population and you’ll soon find residential taxes outpace your growing expenses. In the very early stages, balancing your budget is a bit tricky, but by the mid-game you’ll usually be sitting on millions in the bank without breaking a sweat. Beyond the early game, you’ll have piles of itDon’t worry much about money. If you are buying expansions and DLC and want to support the site (thank you so much!) there are some Humble Bundle links on the About page.
Design your neighbourhoods in a way that helps vehicles step up and step down at either end of their journey, and you’ll avoid a lot of traffic jams. Small roads feed medium roads, medium roads feed large roads, and large roads feed highways, and vice versa. Small roads feed bigger onesThe best road networks are a hierarchy. Design your road network in a hierarchy. Just make sure you build great road networks around the stations – those things get busy! See more about that here.
That way, they’ll spread out. To encourage multiple lane use, try to arrange your main roads so you’ve got equally important roads on both sides. That’s because vehicles get into the correct lane early on. To make them use all lanes, put junctions both left and rightCars and trucks don’t automatically spread out into available lanes, which means widening your roads won’t necessarily solve congestion.
For big interchanges, think fewer, bigger, and more efficient.9. Instead of 4-way junctions, try alternating 3-ways instead. That’s where the circular ‘hook points’ show when joining roads together.
Just be careful you don’t block access to city services, or let them get stranded the wrong side of the one-way system. You can create efficient layouts that bring traffic in from the highway, to its destination, and on its way again, without backing up. Design comprehensive one-way systems to get cargo in and out efficientlyOne-way streets are excellent for areas with lots of cargo traffic. Plan ahead by laying big roundabout so there’s space to develop them later.
Instead of working, sketch out your next master planOnce you fall for the game, keep a notepad and pen with you all the time. Keep a notepad and pen handy. Use the Routes overlay to analyse problem areas.12. Don’t be afraid to make car travel really awkward to make people shift onto public transport. Design specific routes for types: people, cargo, tourists etc.
Public transport is a hierarchy. You’d be surprised how far that’ll take you.14. Your first port of call should be to reduce demand on your roads – find out how here. Before you add more road capacity, try reducing the traffic on the roads in the first placeBuilding new roads isn’t the only way of dealing with heavy congestion. Drawing it out is the best way to figure out how it fits together.
The metro is so good, it’s overpoweredThe metro is overpowered. Plenty can get by without any internal train lines at all. Not every city needs all tiers. For long journeys big cities, they’ll catch a train. People walk from home to the bus or tram stop, which takes them to the metro or monorail.
One depot can spawn a basically unlimited number of buses, so you only need one. Buses are cheap and plentiful, use them for local loops everywhereBuses are cheap, simple to set up, and the easiest type of transport to make profitable. But if you’re going for efficiency – or 300k population city, metro will do your heavy lifting. For me, it lacks a bit of flavour, which is why I’ll often design a city around the monorail, ferries, trams or train lines. Super-efficient, manageable noise levels, high-capacity and throughput, reasonable upkeep costs… it’s just great.
The main problem for the first two is the low capacity and throughput. I love all of them and would build cities around them if I could – but they’re pretty niche. It’s best to use ferries, blimps and cable cars for small, niche routesFerries, blimps and cable cars are amazing.
But it’s still my favouriteI love the monorail. The monorail is less efficient than the metro. And I had a great time doing it.18. Which isn’t to say I haven’t tried.
It hurts to say it… but it’s true. But in terms of flat out efficiency, the metro is usually the better option. I’ll build entire cities around it if I can.
To save money in the early game, you can avoid building new services until people start asking for them via bubbles above their buildings. At the start, wait until people start asking for services before you add themYou don’t need to build services as soon as they unlock: far from it. So, run a metro line one way, with buses running perpendicular (taking them up and down the hierarchy), for instance. Instead, think about crisscrossing lines. It’s unnecessary, because your Cims will head to the faster route. Don’t duplicate public transport routes – instead put one type perpendicular with anotherWhen designing your public transport, try to avoid duplicating your routes.
When you’re building dams, canals, terraforming new rivers, building a dock, trying to make a lake or a waterfall … you will almost definitely flood the city by mistake. You’re probably about to flood your citySave the game before you do anything with water. Before you do something with water, save the game.
If you click into the individual line’s info panel, you can see how many people are waiting at each stop. You can control how many vehicles run on individual transit lines, to respond to changing demandWhen you lay a public transport line, the game will automatically assign a number of vehicles based on how long it is. Or build the pumping station from Natural Disasters.22.
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