Cities Skylines Beginners Guide - Easy Ways to Make More Money

Hello everybody welcome back to another episode of the city skylines beginner's guide today we are going to be working on a large import oil industry as well as a waterfront tourism district and the reason we're going to be looking at these is because we are trying to figure out some easy ways to make more money for your city and so this is one of the hardest things in this game especially for a lot of new people you may be kind of confused on how to start making more money and one of the easiest ways to actually do that is to just make sure that you're budgeting your balances and so if we go down to this economy tab it pulls up this window that actually has a bunch of great information so you have loans budgets taxes but then you also have all these tabs down here as well and so if you come in here you can see that the bulk of our income right now is coming from residential taxes and so you definitely want to make sure that your taxes are set at about 12 or 13. I normally said I'm about 12 and then you want to watch out for your overall expenses over here so like medical tends to be really high schooling tends to be really high if you don't watch out your transportation can be come really high and these are all weekly expenses and so you always want your green to be positive over this otherwise you will start to lose money and so the reason we're looking at an import oil industry is today is because through my experience I have found that the industry's DLC is the easiest way to gain sustained income over a long period of time and you can really boost up your income quite a bit to where it gets up to like 40 or 50 000 or a hundred thousand plus a week that you're generating an income and so now there are a couple ways that you can cheese income espec if you have the park Life DLC you can force people to go through just a rows of gates uh paying the 20 fee every time they go through and and there are some really fun ways to do that I tend to not um use cheese methods because you can also use like say if we did a bridge right here we could charge people to use that bridge same with tolls we can make our road coming into the city atoll and then this road at toll as well and it just helps you to generate a little bit more money the tolls are a little more realistic of of an approach charging to go across a bridge a pedestrian bridge I don't think is something that um is very realistic and so I tend not to do it but they are things that you can do if you want to just generate some money really quickly and so before we jump in I did want to jump I didn't want to go over what we did in the last episode so we built out this awesome kind of radial grid pattern neighborhood over here and we had even expanded out this interchange we've worked on this interchange a little bit and then we built out this diverging diamond which a lot of people in the comments didn't like him and the reason I built this was because in vanilla these are very challenging to make but I did want to show that it is possible um it's just not super efficient and it really comes down to these choke points so with mods I would be able to put Lane restrictions on these I'd be able to open these up so that these were much larger like they would be in real life and I'd be able to do timed traffic lights so that the correct lanes were all going at the same time so that you didn't have this weird kind of crossover here but it is intentional for these to be on the opposite side of the road this is how diverging diamonds work and so a couple of the comments that I'd gotten had mentioned providing access and I honestly don't know why I didn't think about it so what we're going to do first is actually jump into roads and we're gonna go into our small two unit four-lane road that we got for free with the plazas and promenads up update and we are going to come all the way over here and we're going to go out like right here and then we're gonna go up let's go ahead and bring it down to that smallest step though so we're gonna go up three and then we're going to come across and then now we're going to do is we're gonna go down right there and then let's go ahead and connect it up right there and then I do want to provide access down here as well so what I'm going to do is go ahead and curve this down just a smidge go like this and then curve this down and line it up and the reason we're doing that is because we want people over here to start using this road and this is really going to help to divide that traffic that's just crossing over like you can see all these cars are just trying to get over this and with our two choke points it's just kind of difficult this should really help to divide up this traffic quite a bit so now if we go into the info views and go down to our traffic routes we should be able to click on this and yeah look at that that is just crazy so these are all cars that would have otherwise needed to cross at this point and so we are still getting quite a bit of traffic here but we really want to prioritize that traffic going on and off the highway a rather than people just crossing over and so this should really help out this area quite a bit it just goes to show how small fixes like that can really go a long ways because already if you look at this like we still got some traffic coming through but it's not as much like this is pretty free flow and we're not really having a lot of issues down here anymore and so let's go ahead and jump into our build now that we did that so what we're going to be doing is focusing on this area today and also this area and so I did add in two new DLCs and I added them in because we are going to be transitioning towards our downtown here soon and so I added in the after dark DLC which is a great DLC it adds in a ton of Tourism buildings if you go down to the districts and areas Tab and you go into the commercial specializations you now have the tourism specialization and the Leisure specialization and so you definitely want to be careful with these um through my experience I've found that these buildings tend to require a little more Goods than traditional commercial buildings do and so when I first started playing the game I would just do Mass Zone with these and do like entire areas that were all tourism specialization and it would cause a ton of problems and have a just a ton of traffic they would all have Goods problems and eventually some of them would start to go abandoned and so you definitely want to be careful with that we're going to be going over how I normally use them now I just do smaller kind of zoning a couple little hotels I don't really get too crazy with it and so the next DLC that I added is one that we already had because of the map but one that we haven't been using it it is the plazas and promenades DLC and the reason we're adding this is because I was just kind of itching to use it it's our new DLC I really enjoy it and it's really going to help us to to add a little more life to our cities and so it really adds in a lot if you come down to your districts and areas temp you now have this paint pedestrian area or the a race pedestrian area but then if you go into your specializations you now have this commercial wall-to-wall office wall-to-wall and you have residential wall-to-wall and those are fantastic buildings that were added in with the DLC that kind of morphed together a lot of time times there are a bunch of different samples for the assets and so they don't always match up perfectly but they are great assets to use and so a few other things that we did get if we go into the parks and plazas tab we now have this pedestrian areas tab that will unlock once we start placing down a pedestrian area and then we have this pedestrian area plazas which are all the plazas that you've gain you do unlock these as you get as you upgrade the levels a little bit I don't know if we're gonna be touching on that too much today but I think on the next episode we will as we start building into our downtown we did also get some dedicated bus only Lanes which is fantastic we can start doing some expressways or bus rapid transit systems and so there's really a lot of fun stuff that we can do and I'm really excited about this so we're going to do a small tourism area and then start wrapping this around and building into this area so let's go ahead and jump into our industry area first since our industry demand is just crazy right now so if we come to our medium-sized roads let's go ahead I want to create a road that's going to provide some good access through here so what I'm going to do is I want two comes straight so we will go straight and then let's go ahead and go into that free form tool and I want to curve this down and then come down here and connect it up and I don't know if I really want that to be that close to that but you know let's go ahead and look at that so it's actually not bad I do I do think we want to move this over just a smidge though so if we go like that and then redraw this in yeah I think that's going to work out a lot better so the reason we're doing this is because we want to kind of divide up the traffic whenever you're dealing with industrial areas traffic is a really big concern as we can kind of see with our already Troublesome interchange over here and so we want to try to be pragmatic about this we want to think ahead and so now let's go ahead and we're going to grab that two unit four-lane Road and we are going to connect it up to this other road so we're going to come down here and I'm going to go ahead and leave it a little further out so that I can curve it into that road I'm going to curve this in go like that I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing here curve it in and then I want to extend this out now so if we go straight let's go ahead and see so it looks like maybe just a little bit over yeah if we go like that perfect and so now we have created through access with this road which is closest to our Highway interchange and so this is going to be some great access we are creating right here I do want to then bring this up and then we're going to go like that we're going to do the same thing here bring this up go like this and then let's go ahead and curve those ones in as well so we'll curve this in and let's go ahead and curve this one in and so this is already looking pretty good let's go ahead and jump into our districts and areas now we're going to go to our district painting tool let's go ahead and paint over a regular District because I want to do some some industrial specialization in here as well we're going to be kind of mixing up some buildings making it look fun so then now let's go into our paint industry area and we are going to paint this all the way around now that we have that what we can do is go into our garbage and industries hem and go all the way over to oil and so one of the cool things with this um with this DLC that a lot of people don't often know especially if you're new you can let's go ahead and place this down first you can import oil and so we unlocked level one we got the small oil pump the oil sludge pyrolysis plant and the small crude oil tank which is what we're going to be using to import so if you find yourself if we go into info views and go down to Natural Resources if you find yourself in an area where you really don't have a lot of the desired resource like say so oil we have oil down here near our amusement park and we have oil up here because this is so close to this residential area it would be fair to assume that these residents would petition against any sort of oil drilling or anything like that you probably have environmentalists over here as well since you have a large natural lake right here and so the alternative is that you can import and so you definitely want to be careful with it we're going to go over a couple strategies on how to best optimize it so now that we have our main building let's go ahead and go in here we know we don't need any oil pumps since we don't have any oil but we definitely need some of these pyrolysis plants so let's come in here and I want to do we're going to grab one right there and we're going to skip about four each time we're gonna go like that then we're gonna go ahead and copy it on the other side I'm gonna go like this and I'm gonna go ahead and do the same thing right here skipping four each time we're going to go all the way down and you know we could even go one more so if we go like this go like that go like this go like that and the reason we're leaving four in there is because I want to be able to put in the workers Barracks is because I think that they just blend in really well in between those buildings they kind of make it look more industrious and so now let's come down here we're going to go ahead and fill all the water pipes real quick okay and so water pipes in let's make sure that we got some power to we do so we got a power line right here and so now what we need to do is go ahead and start importing so if we use this small crude oil tank farm we want this to be in an area that's going to be easily accessible so we're going to go ahead and put this right there and then we're going to go ahead and Skip let's let's go right here and then let's go ahead and do the same thing on the other side looks like we're just a little too short so let's um go ahead and widen this up just a bit and then we can come back and fix that in a little bit so we'll go like this I think four is probably good for right now and then let's um jump in here and you have this storage mode so I'm gonna go ahead and put it on film what this is going to do is tell the game that we want to fill these up any means possible so if we don't have if we're not actually drilling for oil it will send out calls to have it shipped in and so that's really what we want to do here so we're going to go ahead and connect this up now let's make sure that they have water as well they don't so let's go ahead and follow this down all right so now that we got that what I want to do is connect up a train line so because we have our cargo terminal over here what we want is to make sure that they have access what we're going to do is create a train line that's going to Branch off here come down here and then meet up with a station down here so let's go ahead and grab our road we will have this go up let's go ahead and turn on snapping go up and then let's go ahead and bring it all the way down to this four-way right here just because you you really want to have some extra spacious in case this starts to become a really busy interchange or a really busy cargo terminal so let's come into the cargo train terminal let's go ahead and place it all the way on the left because remember we want to go right to left and then let's actually upgrade that road to a one-way I got a little ahead of myself right there so if we go ahead and upgrade this all the way down make sure we get right to left now what we can do is go ahead and connect this up so let's grab our train lines I'm going to bring this up and I'm literally just going to curb it have it come up here and then do a small little train interchange right here all right so what I did was created our train interchange right here with access to that other terminal because one of the things that happens with these is if say a commercial building over here puts in a call for something in these in this Industrial Park what will happen is this truck will be dispatched and actually go to the train cargo terminal the train will be pushed out go all the way down to this train terminal now and send out a truck and deliver those goods to the commercial building without having to send the truck all the way through your city and so this is a really easy way to help manage traffic so you do need to be careful with train traffic in your cities especially when you're intermingling passenger traffic and cargo traffic and so this may be something that we address later on because we have these dotted lines for our perimeter right now um we really can't do the best here what I would have done is wrapped this a little bit longer and then put it in right there just to provide a little bit more space that's really the key key here you want to try to provide as much space as you can in between these Junctions because what will happen is trains will stop and then they start to block these uh these intersections just becomes a nightmare really fast so you can already see that we had a train coming from the other side which is fantastic so this is already going to start helping out our our traffic quite a bit so let's go ahead and click on these so this one's already 37 full this one's 77 82 72 so these are already filling up pretty quick so now let's come down here let's choose one of our buildings and see how close we are to our next unlocks we're actually really close 300 out of 500. so let's jump into policies and let's click improve the logistics and advanced automation so improved Logistics is increase the storage capacity and process of extractors and processors by 20 and increases the upkeep cost by 10 I definitely think that that is worth it this one is a little bit less so increased production output by 10 increased building upkeep by 10 even though that that is even I still think it's worth it because you get that extra 10 which can really go a long ways so it does look like we're having a little bit of a crime symbol here let's go and check out our services over here so we have some big hospitals we have a big police department and a big fire department but we don't have anything over here so I think this would actually be smart for us to get on this road so let's go ahead you know let's play some in here no you know what I don't want them to be in our Industrial Area let's play some more right here so we're gonna do our clinic police station and fire department all right there and this is really going to help you can already see all the upgrading the happy icons people are very excited but that should really help out this area quite a bit and so now all we need to do is just wait for this to upgrade real fast it should be pretty quick all right so that was pretty quick we now have the petrochemical plant the small oil drilling rig the household plastic factory the oil industry workers Barracks which is what we're going to do to place in between these then we have the crude oil storage Cavern and so now let's go ahead and start placing down some stuff so let's come in here we now have these crude oil storage Caverns I want to be able to put them in here and it looks like I'm just one off of course I am because I wanted to be able to place those right in the middle so if I had movement mod I would definitely shift these over so I think one of I'm going to do is put those right there and then I'll shift this one just over by one because I think that's all it required yeah so now if we on of course it's too big now so now we can grab this bring it back and then let's see so if we yeah of course it's just too big that's all right we can always put something else in here to kind of fill up the space that's really the key with industry areas is you really want to find some stuff to just fill in the space make it look a little bit better so I think what we can do while we're over here let's go ahead and grab our road and we will extend this out we'll come out like right here let's go ahead and turn on snapping go right there and let's go ahead and connect it up with the row just to kind of wrap that around a little bit we can go ahead and do the same thing on this side looks like we're just a little too close right there that's all right though we can come off of this road okay and there we go so we have provided a little bit more access let's go ahead and keep that game on pause so we can keep those oil oil industry going and so now let's come in here let's go ahead and place these down and so I want them to go like right here let's go ahead and go like that and there we go I have just this I think this makes it look so much better and what we can actually do is flip these around put them on the opposite side so that they're both on the same side I think that that would be good because then we can go into our districts and areas tab go over to Industrial specialization this comes with the base game so these are like your base industrial areas make sure that you use these whenever they're over the resource they turn into extractors whenever they're not they turn into processors and so these do generate commercial Zone goods for your areas and they're really good to have and so let's come down here and I want to now fill these in with small little industrial areas because it's going to help us get some filler buildings in there like some tanks and small little businesses and stuff make it look really cool so we can actually kind of look at our first building see what we get yeah see look at that so it like really Blends in with what we already got going on I really like these uh so they're they are like oil rigs even though we're not over oil for some reason they still put those so they are extractor or they are processing buildings so let's go ahead and see if we got anything else we don't at the moment but let's go ahead and check out our unique factories and then we do need to place down some uh some warehouses so we got the household plastics factory but then we also got the clothing Factory but we need to start making plastic did we get the plastic plant we did so the petrochemical plant so let's come down here let's go ahead and Skip four and then let's skip four again well it looks like we'll just have to do three which is okay so let's go ahead and come over here and we're just gonna fill in this space and then let's go ahead and do one across the street as well we don't want it off that main road now remember you want to place down quite a bit of these because you're you're importing oil and so you definitely want to make sure that you are processing all that oil because otherwise what will happen is they'll literally just resell the oil that you just imported and that is something that you don't want to do that is not a great use of your money and so let's go ahead and fill these in now put in our little little Barracks is each one of these barrackses increases your efficiency by five percent so other than looking really good this really helps out your oil area as well so let's go ahead and make sure that we're still what are these at so 64 2 41 so we want them to basically be pulling from these as quickly as we are importing so let's actually check out our industry area so we want this middle section to be pretty much zero so it's at three barrels so what that means is we are pretty much turning all of the oil that we're importing into Goods which is fantastic we're getting 115 barrels of petroleum and we're going to start pumping up that plastic here soon which is great so now let's come in here let's go ahead and fill this space in we forgot to do a couple more of these let's um turn this into a small little Industrial Area let's go do the same thing there let's go ahead and fill this in as well we don't really want anything off this main road but now let's go in here and place down that household plastics factory so I want this to be in an area that's going to make sense so maybe we will go ahead and get rid of this and then let's grab our road and come back and then turn this way uh you know what I kind of want it to be level with that so let's go ahead and bring this out just a little bit and we can actually use the industrial roads as well since they are a little less expensive oh look at that we already hit our next one so large oil pump Toy Factory and the oil industry storage we're really hitting those Milestones quick so let's come up here we're gonna go shorts that we can bring this out and line it up with that so if we go like right there and of course it doesn't really want to line up with that that looks pretty good and so now we can come in here and build out our other plant so if we grab this let's go ahead and turn it let's curve it like right here and connect it up we've created a little space for us to put in this household plastics factory that's just going to make it look a little bit better so if we go like that and let's jump into our warehouses now let's go ahead and do a small Warehouse right here let's go ahead and do this other Warehouse right there as well so now what we need is petroleum and Plastics and we don't have any of these already so let's go ahead and do petroleum and then let's go ahead and do plastics and so we still want to get a couple more storage facilities we wouldn't want to just rely on these ones it does look like I need to do water over here real quick though all right and so this is already looking pretty good so we can come in here now and let's fill up this little backspace with something so if we go ahead and turn on snapping come across let's go ahead and just have it go straight and then let's see about putting in some more buildings if we can we should have gotten so the waste oil refining plant we get at level four we could go ahead and do some of these the problem is because they're so far in the back it's going to end up generating a bunch of unnecessary traffic so let's go ahead and place down a couple of these we'll go like this and then what we can do is come in here and fill these in let's go ahead and leave that empty off the back side let's see how this is looking yeah this is looking pretty good we have this little space right here that we could do something with we could probably do another storage facility in there maybe we'll do one of these it just helps to fill in the space makes it look a little bit better because I still think we have the maintenance building that we need to put down to yeah we give a level four let's see how close we are to hitting level four so if we come in here you can see we need to hit 4500 and we're really gaining we're producing a ton of stuff and so this should actually be pretty quick and we've already hit our workers requirement which is only 550 and so you can kind of see we're already having a little bit of traffic issues over here so what I want to do is actually upgrade this to a six lane road because this is really going to help guide traffic through this area a little bit better and then let's get out of our road tools go into the info pane down to traffic routes and make sure that we don't have any weird unnecessary lights in here we don't and so that should already help out quite a bit after these storage facilities start to fill up a little bit more the traffic definitely subsides a bit our biggest issue is all this traffic going left in all my test builds this is really where all the traffic starts to generate but we'll go ahead and let this run for a minute go ahead and hit a level four and then I'll be right back with you guys all right so we have it level four what when we have gotten the waste oil refining plant large oil drilling rig oil industry Maintenance building large crude oil tank farm and the petroleum Refinery really gotten a lot of awesome buildings on this one so let's go ahead and jump in there I want to get this Maintenance building in somewhere and it actually looks like where we put that is going to be our best spot so I I think we're gonna move that I think we're gonna get rid of that wasted a ton of money on that but if we go ahead and place that right there let's go ahead and check that out yeah you know what I think this is just a much better much better better building right there so let's go ahead and check out our other buildings now so I know we got this waste oil refinery so we definitely want to get some of these down so if we go ahead and place one of these right there and let's go ahead and go over four let's go ahead and place one right here as well I think that that may be a little too tight right there but let's go ahead and place down a couple of these smaller uh industrial buildings and see what it looks like so these produce plastic or petroleum at a higher rate than these ones do once these get their deliveries they they are producing it fifteen thousand so that's crazy that would even be best better for us to just come through here and delete some of these as well so we're going to delete those and then place a couple of these in there just because these are at a much higher rate even though they look almost identical so oil sludge pyrolysis waste or refining they're literally the same building just like flipped though this one's got a couple more tanks in the front and then this one's got this small little building I love the details with this DLC though so let's go ahead and look at what what else we got so we still got our little fence we need to do some decorating we got this large oil crude Farm which is great and I think it looks a lot better than the other one too so let's actually place it down just so that we can kind of look at it so that one's got a ton of little pipes in it you know it's actually I mean it looks very similar to the other one so I think we're actually going to get rid of that and then let's see about our factories so we can still do the clothing Factory because we have the animal farm but we actually can't do the petroleum Refinery because we need petroleum Plastics and metal so let's go ahead and see about this clothing Factory because I know this one's actually pretty big so let's see if we can go ahead and put it right here on this corner let's um go down to our small two unit four-lane Road and we are going to go like right here and then let's see if it fits in here so it actually doesn't we need to go out just a little bit more like maybe four units so if we can come out like right there and then let's see about how this looks looks pretty good so let's um grab our road now and we're going to have this go in and go like this and then let's see if it fits on there yeah it does perfect so this road just gives it a little bit of a more professional appearance so actually we don't need to use that four lane for this one so we're gonna go ahead and go like this yeah you know what I think that looks good I like that a lot that looks great and so now what we need to do is go ahead and do a couple warehouses off the side so let's see about let's see if they can fit in here let's look at the size first so if we go in here so it's actually a perfect fit I kind of wish we had a little bit more space off there so let's um actually get rid of this road and what we're going to do is bring this out just a little bit we'll pause for a second and let's um grab our four-lane road I still do want this to be out here but what I wanted to do is kind of curve and provide a little more space so we'll go like this and then we will bring it up right here and then that way what we can do is just have a little bit more space right there not a lot more but than just a a little bit we may still need to do a little bit more than that I just would really prefer this to stay connection right there so if we go yeah you know that actually worked out perfectly so if we grab this room come out like right here and then come this way and then let's go ahead and curve it in I think we can fit two warehouses in here but it looks like it's going to be really tight so we need to be just one more in so if we go like that I just move this out just one what we can do is now place these in here yeah this is going to be perfect you just need two and then we need to do our crops as well because I believe it was crops you got crops so we need to go in here go into our agriculture we need to put a couple barns in here so we will put a barn right there let's go ahead and we'll just do one we don't need two but then that way what we can do is grab this have it go this way and connect up and then let's go ahead and get rid of that and then we can go back to our four unit Road connect it up right there look at that I actually really like the look of that too having it Bend like that makes it look really good and I like that it kinda to mix leaves room for those storage facilities so let's go ahead and choose what we need for these so we have animal products crops and Plastics so we got crops right there we need to do animal products and then we need to do plastics so we'll go ahead and go like that perfect and so we have a little bit of space in here to be able to do something we could even leave that open if we wanted to because I think we're pretty much at the end of our so we still have this one which I believe is another plastics factory I think it's a bigger one though let's see how close we are to hitting that next unlock so we're at about halfway which isn't bad we are um we are making a good amount of money that's 62 000 40 000. so we're now bouncing around 40 to 50 000 a week which is great so maybe we'll let this run and we'll work on some other things and we'll be able to come back to this so let's um fix this real quick since our our water is now all over the place so we'll grab this have it come down connect up right there and then let's go ahead and have this come across and then let's go ahead and bring water up here as well and so now we do need to work on this little interchange so what I'm going to do is actually demolish all this and we had to pause for a second but we do want to keep it on pause for that oil industry so let's go like that and then what we're going to do is demolish the road going across because we want to have our Bridge become go up a little bit sooner so if we turn on snapping come off from right here and go up and then go ahead and cross the freeway now come up right here and then go down now what we can do is go ahead and just extend out our access here a little bit so we're going to go into our highways tab we're going to go to ramps and what I want to do is extend it out a little bit further so that we can increase the Gap in the middle so that if we have cars kind of lining up we really don't have any sort of issues with it so we will bring this out let's go ahead and go down one and then we will curve this go down another one and then have it dump in right there perfect and so for this side we're gonna have to do the same thing but we're gonna need to kind of curve it around a little bit so we'll go like this and then we will begin to curve it this way have it go down one more and then have it follow the highway and then connect up and then I'm going to go ahead and throw on this other side real quick basically doing the same thing I'm gonna go off from like right right here okay and so now we can jump into that upgrade tool go ahead and flip these the correct direction and then what we'll do is go into our two-lane Highway piece like we did before basically upgrade all four of them with leaving the last little piece for a single Lane so they can merge at this point and so now what we need to do is go ahead and create some access so our biggest problem is people turning left off of this so what I want to do is go ahead and grab this and I want to Branch off like right about here and then what we're going to do is go straight but we're going to go down and the reason we're doing this is because we're going to curve it around and actually have it dump into that intersection over there so if we go like this and then have this go like right here well we should be able to do is demolish this poor little commercial building right there but then have this just dump right in here so if we go like that how does that look so it looks kind of steep on this end let's go ahead and make sure that this side doesn't look bad so that actually does doesn't look bad but now what that's going to do is just provide these people with a way to kind of turn right they're not going to have to cross over traffic it should really help out quite a bit so I'll jump out of our roads go into the info panel go into traffic routes make sure that we didn't get any weird stop lights in here yeah we did so let's go ahead and remove those and let's let this run for a second okay so after letting it run for a little while we have most of the traffic jam solved though you can still see there are some issues a lot of this is just unavoidable with um industry areas because we have this connection so close it's creating kind of a backup over here what we could do is make this a one-way going the opposite direction so if we come in here go ahead and upgrade this to a one-way going this way what that's going to do is just force these people to go on to that next Road I did end up upgrading this to a two to a four lane and what that does is it just gives a dedicated turn lane which I think is smart one way is a really easy ways to fix traffic in your cities and it's kind of funny this keeps going down but then it just keeps going back up it's kind of frustrating a little bit like our traffic keeps kind of fluctuating between 87 and 89. all right so I let it run for a little while and I did add in another little tunnel over here I deleted a building so that people could have same side access here for people turning right but then I turned these into one ways this whole Road into a one-way these two into runways all going in so that anybody coming out is funneled to this back section it just prevented people from having to cross over these roads I also upgraded these to six Lanes going all the way down and now our traffic in this area is fantastic so we are still fluctuating around the 88 to 89 we still do have a little bit of backups on these roads um it has to do with all those calls calls for importing oil but I think this looks really good you know we definitely um we had a little bit of a traffic jam happening there for a while but um it looks good and now we have also hit level four for our oil industry so we have unlocked the NAFTA cracker plant oh and this is actually kind of big so this is a plastic plant but see where we can fit some of these in so if we come back here let's go ahead and choose our Industrial Road since that's what we use for this so we will go ahead and go to freeform have this follow the row just a little bit and then let's go ahead and have it go up so if we go like that now you know that actually doesn't look that good so if we go ahead and delete that go back here and then let's um have this go straight if we go like right here and then connect this up I should leave enough room for us to be able to put a couple of these in here these are pretty hefty though so if we go ahead and bring a road in let's uh turn on snapping and bring this back connect this up go like this and then let's go ahead and put one of these in there and then let's look at this oh yeah look at that that is a beast of a building that thing is huge it does look like so we need to put down some more warehouses apparently because we are definitely getting some issues where there's not enough uh customers and so normally what that means is you're producing too many products for your Warehouse capacity and so let's go ahead and place a couple of these down and let's do petroleum and Plastics yeah we'll go like this and then let's go ahead and leave these ones on empty so these will be like our overflow ones yeah you know I think this is good because I think these are pretty full too I think we have some back here as well yeah petroleum Plastics yeah those are full I do wish that this was a little bit it's kind of taking up that whole Space maybe we can do a small Road in here to kind of clean it up make it look a little bit better all right so I just went ahead and made a connection in there just to kind of break it up a little bit I think that looks pretty good um we're not going to really get a ton of access through there so it's more aesthetic than anything else and then we still do have a little bit of space right here for us to maybe do some more industrial I think that could be good so if we go ahead and place down just a few of these I don't want to get on that road remember and then let's go ahead and place a couple of these let's go like right there let's Place one right there I don't want to go back here I think we're gonna leave these this space empty so I still want to use some empty spaces to kind of clean it all up but now I think that looks good so we are making a ton of money from this let's go down to our economy Tab and let's go over to Industries yeah we are look get that so 45 000 a week from unique factories now we're making about eleven thousand look at that almost sixty thousand ten thousand a week from oil and so this just goes to show that you don't need oil for the natural resource in order to run a successful oil industry and so this is definitely something that you want to kind of think about a lot um I've used this quite a few times in my cities and they really help to kind of boost your boost your income quite a bit so now let's go ahead and move on we will end up coming back through here and doing some more detailing after we are done I do want to start working on this area so let's go ahead and jump into our districts and areas tab let's go to our District's planning tool and I want to do a couple things here so we're going to paint this all in as its own district and this will be like the Waterfront District or something fun like that so we'll go like this go all the way down yeah perfect nice and then we did get a new Metro station as well so I think we're going to add one of those in let's actually remove this so I want to do a regular park on the beach but we're going to do a pedestrianized area up here so I think we're going to envelop The Pedestrian area across this whole area we're going to go down here connect this up we're not going to get crazy with The Pedestrian roads but I definitely want to get a couple in there especially in some of our commercial areas so if we go like this let's make sure we didn't get our entrance we didn't so now that is pretty good and then let's go ahead and jump into our Parks tool let's paint this up we'll go like right there and let's come down and cover this whole Beach area yeah this is going to be great we're really segmenting this off pretty good so now let's go into while we're in here I want to do tourism specialization so we will click that as tourism but then I also want to do wall-to-wall office I don't think we're going to do any residential in here but I definitely want to get some office in there so let's um pause the game for a minute we're going to delete our metro line since we got a new Metro station with the plazas and promenades DLC let's come in here grab our room and I want to go probably about like right here so we'll go off of the main road we'll come off like right there and then let's just go right here I feel like this would be good so if we actually just go like this and then connect that up how does that look and you know that doesn't look bad I was going for it to be straight here I kind of wish it was curved but I just don't think it's going to match up so our new Metro station if we go into the Metros tab we got a couple of these so we got the parallel underground Metro station which I think is really cool you get the two but then you get the large underground Metro station these also have two but they're going their different directions but then you get this above ground one which I think is just great I really like this asset a lot it has a little shops underneath it has some really cool details and so let's come in here and wrap our road around now so if we come up here have it go like right there and connect that up nice so we do need to level this out just a bit so if we come over here let's go ahead and right click on that let's come all the way over here level out like this whole section because I want to build out an office Park area I want to do some parks I really want to make this into like a nice shopping center so now let's go ahead and connect up our metro line now we'll go back into transport grab our metro line have this ghost straight just a smidge will go like right there and then let's have it curve up and connect up yeah there we go and then we're gonna need to kind of finagle this one a little bit didn't really like this turn right here anyways I felt like it was just a little too sharp so if we grab that and just go this way and then curve it back and line it up with our station and then we should be able to just go straight yeah you know that looks a little bit better and so now we can unpause and wait for the lines to kind of figure themselves out once they go in the middle then we'll be able to put in a new stop it should be here pretty soon so they just went and so now we can grab our lines create our two stops and this is really going to help provide access over here because we only have a metro stop way over there we didn't have one for over on this section so it's definitely kind of an oversight on my part but now that we've added that in it's really going to help out quite a bit so I do want to use some pedestrian roads for this area so if we go into our roads and go to this little walking guy pedestrian area I want to use some of these and it looks like maybe we need a service center first yeah so if we go in here let's place down our service center so I want to probably put it like right here yeah I feel like this would be good so if we place that right there and then let's go through and delete all these houses and a couple little offices we have right there because I think as we expand we'll probably uh turn this whole thing into a service center it fits pretty well it's got the police station the fire station right across the street from it and so now we should be able to start using our roads we can't nice and so I want to use these small Sandstone pedestrian street with trees so let's go ahead and use this all the way around we'll go like that and while we're in here let's go ahead and upgrade a couple roads so I know I want to do this one so we're going to go all the way down and then I want to do one over here as well so I think we're actually going to do this one it does kind of hurt our access just a little bit but it really increases the land value in the area quite a bit it just makes it more walkable especially this is more of like a residential area with some offices off of it would just be really nice to be off of that pedestrian Side pedestrianized Road and over here I actually think it fits in really well it's got some offices over here and you know we could actually do let's um come in here and we're gonna get a little crazy with this so if we go like this let's um go in here we're going to do wall-to-wall commercial and we're gonna do wall-to-wall offices it's a lot so this actually might change quite a bit of our look let's kind of see you know it's got we got a lot of offices over here too that are going to be affected let's see what it does you know it's kind of the the fun with playing with new DLCs just figuring out what we like so now I want this road to kind of follow the monorail a little bit so if we have this guide around and then come in here yeah there we go and then I think we're gonna do another one on the inside so if we grab this and then dump in it's going to allow us to create a nice little office space in here which is really what I'm going for and so like I had said before with industrial or with uh tourism and Leisure you definitely want to be careful with over zoning them and so what I normally recommend is to do just a little bit I think we're actually going to do a Plaza in this section because I think if we do a small food truck does that fit so it does let's see how that looks yeah you know that actually looks pretty good so it's a little area where food trucks can come maybe like once a week or twice a week and uh do like a little food truck festival I actually like that kind of wish that this was a little more level but that should have hooked up our power to you I did perfect and so now we have power over here and we can kind of see people are already using this stop oh yeah quite a few people actually that is great so let's come over here and check out our new buildings now and see if they're coming in oh yeah look at that these are looking pretty cool I like the details on these buildings this is definitely in terms of DLC assets these are some of my my favorite ones so let's come back over here so I want to do some Offices here in the middle but I want to be kind of mindful of it so I want to do a couple little strings but then we're going to skip some we'll probably leave that whole back side empty yeah you know maybe we'll go the whole front side and leave the back side empty because I was thinking I want to do some walkways so maybe we'll do like two so that we can do some walkways and then we're gonna do a couple bigger tourism buildings so we're gonna grab that we're gonna grab that let's come over here and do the same thing we'll go like that and then let's come down here we're gonna do one right there one right there and we'll do one in the middle because I want to do some fences around and really turn it into a nice area and so for this front side I do want to have a couple more a little bit of zoning off of this as well I think I'm gonna go like that so I can get some zoning there and then what we'll do is go ahead and just go like this and we'll have to just wait and see what kind of buildings come in because I want some like bigger hotels something that's going to really blend in with the area so now I'm going to remove just this little section in here because I want to do some organic and local produce in here so if we grab this and go ahead and just hit that little Butler Square what we can do is come in here and just do a little bit of zoning in here and this is really going to create some fun little shopping areas in here for us I think maybe we'll do we'll wait and see what comes in and then we'll uh go back there and do some walkways and stuff make it kind of clean it up a little bit does look like we need to do water over here real fast all right so we got some buildings coming in and I really like this design and this is really where it can get kind of tricky with this game I tend to think how can I design something that's going to look good and it can sometimes become a little overwhelming and so one of the easiest things you can do is try to use real world inspiration from cities either on Google Earth or if you search up images and so one of the things I had looked at was office parks on Google Maps and so the reason I looked at that is because I want to do a couple little pauses in here to make them look really good kind of tie it all together I'm going to put some fences in and just really make this whole area look a lot better and so what I want to do now is go down to this Landscaping tab go down to our paths and I want to do a path that is going to run parallel with this metro line and the reason we're going to do that is because it's going to be visually pleasing but it's also going to provide a little bit of a park space for here so I want this to follow up and then connect up to that four-way inter intersection right there for three-way intersection and then we want to connect this one up as well if I can get it if we go like that and then we want to have it go across now so we'll go like this and then we'll go ahead and do one over here as well we'll connect it up just so that we can provide that much needed access and so I think we will end up doing a park right here as well I don't know if we're gonna get to it on this episode though because I really want to get this done and we've really done a lot on this episode this our industrial area is doing pretty good we are definitely having some traffic issues I did end up extending this out just a bit I was kind of playing around with it and then I changed a couple of the roads to one ways I changed this back to two ways so that we could kind of divert traffic down here instead of having it all funneled across that back road that's just one of the things like if you're dealing with traffic just start playing around with the roads like one way and stuff like that and a lot of times you can just fix the problems we actually got quite a few people walking around too this is uh kind of crazy for our first pedestrian area we definitely have a lot of movement a lot of people using our new station which is fantastic and so now what I want to do is start doing that detailing so we are going to grab this path and we're going to connect it up right there I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing on this side connect it up and now what I want to do is go into our fences and I want to kind of block this off a little bit just to create a little space in here and make it look really good so we'll grab that and then let's go ahead and go into the freeform tool we're going to have this kind of Follow The Pedestrian road all the way to that other path so we'll go like this and then now we will have this come down and then follow that same kind of pattern we'll go up here and then let's go ahead and have this follow the back side of these buildings all the way around so I have this go right there we'll have it come up here and connect up right there nice and so now just by doing that what we've done is created a separation here makes it look a little more realistic and so let's come and go ahead and do the same thing on this side okay and so now that we got it fenced off what we can do is jump into our trees I don't want to just do these Live Oaks I really want to make it look good so we're going to come in here and probably do a couple of these purple ones go like this let's go ahead and do a couple back here as well we'll go all the way down and then let's go into our vegetation now and fill in some of these little brown spaces and it already is looking a lot better we still do have a little bit of a weird kind of thing happening on these sides but there's really not a whole lot you can do until we get those buildings coming in it definitely looks a little bit better um one of the things you can do though to just kind of clean up these edges a little bit more just come in here I'm going to do some of these young Linens in between the spaces just to make it look a little more landscaped like it's intentional this looks pretty good I definitely wish that we did have a little bit more going on back here but I really don't think we have too much that we can do in those terms especially without mods what we can do is just kind of fill these in that's really what it what it comes down to a detailing is just um kind of playing around with it and you just you find yourself getting a little bit better the more that you do it I know when I first started detailing just seemed like this huge Challenge and it was something that I didn't really do as much because I felt like it was just going to be too much work for for what I got out of it and then once I started doing it I realized that there was a lot of enjoyment in it especially when you start building out really cool areas and so I'm just using these um Live Oaks to kind of cover up some of the spaces in here just to make it look a little bit better you can kind of see it I really wish it was all this green but we have this kind of brownish color in there and so now for these sections whatever like to do is something similar but I want to grab our fence have it come back here and then follow along and I actually want to create something a little bit better than just a little Garden area so I think we will go into our paths and we're going to extend this out and once we unlock the gazebos in our regular Park we'll really be able to do a little bit more here we haven't unlocked them yet though and so what I want to do is try to find some some stuff to detail this area up so I want to do a couple of these so we'll go ahead and do one of these on this side since we see

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