How to Turn a BORING Grid into an AMAZING Layout | Cities: Skylines – Design and Manage S3E15

Road layout building tips.

'Design and Manage' is a Cities: Skylines let's play series that focuses on what are for me two core aspects of the game: Design (eye candy, aesthetically pleasing layouts, road systems and districts) and Management (earning a positive income while providing all necessary services to maintain a functional city and a healthy traffic flow).

Main DLCs installed: After Dark, Snowfall, Natural Disasters, Mass Transit, Green Cities, Parklife, Industries, Campus, Sunset Harbor.

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[flesby]

To answer your question: Design-Tutorials with the vanilla game are highly appreciated. I personally do not like those overmoded games, which might look nice, but use 90 mods which "enrich" the game by 350 menus which take me a ton of hours to familiarzie with and in th end a new patch makes half of them unusable so you start from the beginning.

[GrimFelArt]

Me, who knows nothing about city planning and just started playing C:S yesterday: 2:27 "oh that looks cool!" 4:00 *nodding* "yes, yes. Awful. Burn it all to the ground"

[awwwram]

As someone who plays this game on Playstation, I’m interested only in vanilla projects.
You are the best when it comes to making most out of the game. By far!
Your commitment to details, neatness, geometry and lifelike cities are reasons why I follow any step you make on YT.
With that in mind, I hope you understand how highly appreciated is every video when you explain your chain of thoughts when planning a new city or roads layout.
Thank you for being such inspiration and make these kind of videos as much as you can…

[Skeptycx]

I bought cities skylines years ago, but I never could quite get into it. I was never happy with any of my cities. Watching various cities skylines youtubers have changed my experience with this game. So thank you for the work you put into these.

[stanthechanman]

The oval-bout would be a good spot for a train station.

[ShakilAhmed-kfnd]

13:09 Random fact- going through a residential road as a shortcut to avoid the main road is called "rat running" in the UK

[skyfrostthunderrock]

obviously, i'm a big fan.. but today's episode was especially nice!
really appreciate how you broke down different ways to build a road layout that fits well with it's location, and is also efficient with zoning space.

the city is looking great from the bird's eye view!

looking forward to the next one! cheers!

[saulocodes]

Usually you start with a cool layout from the gound up because it's all in your mind even before start it and have good eye for it. But I loved how we can start with a shitty layout (like every single layout I create) and finish of with an okey-ish one or even a beautiful one.
Sometimes I create the contour following the natural features, but I fill it with some gridy layout and that's it, I can't even think on how to improve it, because I'm locked to it.
Thanks for sharing the entire mind process of building it and the key guidelines, very useful, even moving on and coming back to previous layout was an excellent exercise. Great great video! Thanks! Looking forward to the next one!

[dlwatib]

I like this format... showing several alternative designs for the same area and discussing the pros and cons of each.

[blueghost]

After the last city tour video, the wait for a new D&M video felt like an eternity :)
I love this series, it even got me back into C:S! Keep up the great work

[ugurbugur]

Honestly, none can top you when it comes to vanilla technicalities and design. You're simply the best!!!!

[denniskaluzhni]

I really hope you will maximize every tile in this map, your designs are so impressive. Hitting that ep. 15 mark - hope you won't stop anytime soon!

[stavrosba]

I would love videos like this on anything! Examples: road design and road terraforming (how to make sloped roads look smooth) How you make pretty pavement networks to how you choose zoning density (I mean it doesn't just affect traffic but looks too) How you keep things properly proportional (some people make their "clusters" of grid too small or too big to be good looking and effectively serviced by roads n such) Maybe also how you set up your keyboard shortcuts if u use any and also about tree placement and variations, like how to decorate around roads and such. Even if there is something others have made videos about I think many of us are interested in your perspective specifically.

[gneryze]

i love this kind of tutorial.
from start to end it always give tips and opinion from many perfective so we have lots of choice instead of going fully by the channel owner own idealism.

More over, he is using vanilla! really appreciate it!!!!

[bingus]

his worst grid is better than my best grid

[tif_eymer]

I would love additional tutorials, your videos helped me a lot to create prettier and more functional cities

[Marcik]

You r the only Cities player I know that designs the roads so nice without mods.

[nakamuragames]

13:55 I like how you said parallel, but quickly realize it was not

[ThatOneDudeWhoPostsStuff]

I'm so glad you made this. Many city planner channels just do boring grid layouts.

[blackwiddow]

My map! Excellent choice ☺ Also great tutorial! Looks amazing. Love the way you build around the existing infrastructure.