A PROFESSIONAL CIVIL ENGINEER designs a city in Cities Skylines!

right hello fellow engineers so i'm

giving city skylines ago

this week and to be honest it's a game

i've been trying to

pluck up the courage to play if you like

i don't know i feel it's very similar to

my day job

but that could be a good thing so yeah

i've been wanting to play city skylines

for quite a while now

what i'm gonna do i'm gonna it's gonna

be start of a little

a little series anyway i'm gonna build a

city and each

week or whatever each episode will

slowly be adding more to it

and yeah as we sort of work through i'm

gonna be

talking about like i guess how it

compares to like real life

so to start with then let's have a look

we're just gonna pick

a sort of one of these simple starter

levels

oh you can make it left-handed traffic

well i can make it british

i'll leave it american don't worry

americans right so i'm going to be

starting this one on the two rivers map

and the city name oh it's my first ever

city what can i call it

ng-topia right so this is engiotopia

where engineering dreams come true all

right so let's get into this

so this is our level so what do we have

we've got

oh we got a fat ass room look how wide

that is there's a little dock over here

oh it's a bit destroyed so we've got a

highway that comes in here

nice little slip off slip on

all right so first things first then we

got to build a road so

no noticing we've got three lanes coming

in i don't think at the start of the

game

yeah you can't do anything like that

we're literally just on

normal roads right so i'm gonna take a

road

i'm gonna use this two-lane one-way road

we're just gonna do like a loop and end

up back there all right so we'll go from

there

and i want to keep these roads like

perpendicular you don't just want to

come out

like at an angle because then you're

just gonna have like a kink in your road

which is not realistic in the slightest

so i'm going to sort of

click there for the middle and then

curve again over to here

and then we'll just loop that back up

there and then we've got a one-way

loop the whole way around i'm going to

take a straight road

i think somewhere in the middle we'll

just go

so that's one way i might actually make

that one two-way so if i use this

upgrade road tool yeah so if i

do that it means

people coming out of here they all have

to go left but people can

come in so got two ways across the

middle i might add a few more so i might

do another one

there another one there

all right so it's going to be a sort of

residential area

so if i just paint all that with these

so now hopefully people start moving in

there

i'm gonna start putting shots sort of at

the end

so these are low density commercial

zones

i'll do them either end so people have a

bit of a choice where they can shop

i will join these up as well so if i go

back to the road

actually i don't think i want a

crossroad i feel like crossroads are a

bit dodgy

so we'll keep it with t junctions which

means i'll just stagger this a bit

i'll do one there maybe one there

okay so the next thing all these people

are gonna want electricity

oh and water let's have a look at water

first

so we got water pumping station which

gives people drinking water and we got

this sewage

which unfortunately we got to pump back

out to the river so if we take that we

can see what way our water is flowing

so these arrows were flowing that way so

this is where we get our drinking water

from

so obviously we're going to want this

upstream

and our sewage one downstream because

obviously you don't want your sewage

coming out

and then going into your drinking water

so they're both done i should be able to

link these together

and then take our drinking water up to

here so i'm gonna go

it's gonna go straight through for now

so in real life with

pipes and stuff you kind of you want to

keep them under roads

because obviously if there's a problem

say there's a blockage or a leak or

something

you've got to dig up that pipe you don't

want to be going through people's houses

we're going to try and keep that

realistic and that all of our drainage

lines

will go under the carriageways all right

and i'm pretty sure in this game the

pipelines that i've just laid they do

both

like drinking water and the sewage

so i think we're all good now we just

need some electricity

you can use a wind turbine so on this

wind turbine actually the

sort of strong wind is on this ridge

which is

quite good so they'll both be powering

it themselves now

but i do need to get electricity up

there i might just burn

a third one in the middle

so now they're all combined so i can use

the old pylons

if i take these up along this edge

i kind of want to keep this out the way

right so we got water

sewage and we've got three wind turbines

powering

then our pylons are going to take our

electricity up to here

where if we just do some zoning so

hopefully once these start being built

it should all link up in terms of

electricity

so now we can press play

all right so we can see we're actually

building now

so these are our first residents our

first houses

i'm gonna do i'm gonna i'm gonna like

name some of these

areas now i'm gonna use my patreon names

for that i thought it might be

a nice little bonus well patreons and

youtube members

so any of you guys you'll get your own

sort of

district once i get around to it i

probably won't do it straight away

i don't know if i can i can rename roads

as well okay that's cool that's cool

we'll probably do that in a later

episode but for now i just sort of want

to

start growing this and we'll see what

happens so in terms like the real life

design of highways

like this is completely different like

i wish it was this easy i really would i

mean firstly you never just get

a massive flat area that you want to

build a new road through and sort of

main concern

when designing a road kind of is um

like balancing the cut and the fill so

say we're putting this road through a

hill

so there's a big hill here obviously to

get that road in that level

without it going up the hill and then

back down again you're gonna have to

like

cut some of the material out of the land

i don't know if there's

is there an area where i can show you

that not really these are all quite

smooth hills so it follows the ground

i guess over here is a little bit so the

opposite of that say there's like a dip

in the ground

and your road wants to go a bit above it

can you see like down here the road's

been built up

so this is what we call an earthwork

like this slope and obviously you've got

to get the ground from somewhere

and ideally you don't want to spend

money like trucking in

like earth and material from other

places so what you're trying to do when

you design a road

is you try and balance out the amount of

this is called

fill it's amount of fill you have and

the amount of cut you have

so cut would be the opposite of that so

it's where the existing ground would be

higher than the road

and obviously you've cut the road out if

that makes sense that's sort of like the

first

thing you look at when you're designing

like your route and we'll get into all

the other stuff

in later episodes i don't want to bore

you too much

straight off but yes this game is sort

of it should be my bread and butter

really

like especially the road designs like

that's what i've been doing

for the last eight years pretty much

i've done

all sorts like little junctions

roundabouts motorways

so we should be able to make this sort

of fairly realistic so

right so let's see how we're getting on

it's down here we've got a little

milestones so we can see

we're aiming for a population of 420

is that intentional we're getting there

and we unlock some we can tax people we

can take

loans out oh we can do that garbage all

that sort of stuff

right so we're getting high demand for

industry and offices and i know

i don't really want to mix this so what

i'm gonna

do i think i'm gonna sort of

come off this road and start a new so i

want to keep all of this residential i

don't want to mix too much

it's going to build a new junction

i don't really know the best way of

doing this if i'm honest but

so we want the one way still i do want

the one way i think we want two-way

actually

to do a little junction yeah what i

thought would be would sort of

away from this sort of residential area

we'll start doing a

industrial sort of area actually i might

do this a bit more curvy

so i'm gonna keep the like sort of

straight road there but i wanna

let's do a curved road and what we'll do

we'll go

say from there yeah i reckon we do that

sort of thing

yes i think that's quite cool

a little bit of a different sort of

shape going on all right so this is our

little industrial estate

so we're gonna mark up

the industrial zone so

we'll paint all these up and guys have

you got any like tips for me

like please let me know in the comments

because

as you can probably tell i am super new

to this

so not entirely sure if i'm doing any of

this the best way

possible or anything yes they're growing

i think they're gonna want

electricity and water so for the water

again we'll stick under the highway i

don't have enough

money let's just have a look at our

money situation so

we are making money so i'll just speed

up the time oh no we're losing money

that means we're gonna have to tax

people so can i tax people

i need a population 420 before i can tax

people all right so just brought the

budget down for the

electricity and water because we're not

using all of it yet so if you go in here

you see electricity available

is huge water available is huge

and probably filled with them a bit more

actually i'll go down even more

all right so electricity is pretty bang

on or it might be going a bit too low

now

yay and we made a little hamlet ah look

at the fireworks

ah sweet so we're getting there

i'm just gonna quickly patch these up

so i'm just going to do a pylon all

right so just doing some pylons between

once

we build between those two i can get rid

of the pylons

so i'm going to take our water just

under the road

right so we've got our industrial area

over here

we got some big old factories going in

i'm gonna put some

sort of shops in just along here

just trying to link stuff up all right

so annoyingly it's raining

which isn't very nice it's a bit

miserable in it let's just have a look

at our

water stuff so you can see river clearly

flowing this way

water coming in allowing all of our

citizens to drink

and over here the old sewage coming out

not nice but unfortunately that's how it

works so in the uk there's a lot of

combined sewers still left over we don't

build them anymore

but like back in the day that was like

pretty standard and it combined swirl

would just

have all your rainfall so all this rain

coming down would land on the road

go into a gully into your drainage

system

then also all your sewage from your

houses and buildings and stuff that

would go into the same system

then essentially if it rained too hard

like that water

so the rain water and sewage combined

would um

have like overflows and those overflows

out fall into your river so that's

looking pretty

dirty already in it that's not nice all

right so anyway let's just have a little

look at our houses oh they're asking for

some sort of trash so what i'm gonna do

i've now got a trash

garbage so yeah if i put this over here

somewhere

so now you can see all these people on

green all the green roads

that's all accessible via our trash area

and it's sort of the middle of the map

so i'm hoping that should be able to

get most people sorted blimey it's like

full already

that didn't take long

yep they're heading out see you guys

oh and then look at this we got a big

old lorry carrying logs

oh that was quite good uh

quite a good turning circle that for a

big old hdv

all right so we've got our sort of

shitty shops down here what have we got

here

go nuts donuts and some furniture in

there nice

got pennies i'm guessing that's sort of

a

restaurant e-type place all right

everyone's kicking off about garbage

but i thought i tell you what actually

because this is one way

people are well the garbage trucks have

to go all the way around to get to there

so i might do i might put a junction in

two-way road from here

let's do a curvy one i'm gonna i'm gonna

destroy someone's house

so sorry about that but we'll just put

that in there again you can see there's

a garbage truck going down there

already now so he's sorry for destroying

your houses

but uh it's the greater good in it all

right it's going to put a few more

how on a few more houses along here

all right so it looks like we're

actually filling up quite nicely

most of our plots are sort of taken now

we've got some nice little houses

oh no don't we got a donut truck whoa

right say i think traffic's looking all

right as well

i was a bit worried about this junction

i thought people might always turn in

here

there's a lot of parked cars going on it

looks all right to me

and we are about to become a worthy

village

which is very exciting let me get oh

yeah quite a lot in here we got police

stations

different industries fire department

police department cool

all right so i can see down here there's

a medium demand for

industry and offices so oh and our

electricity is going where's our

electricity

supplying that up a bit so i'm going to

start building

up here just sort of extend

what i was doing before i think we'll

keep the old curves going on

i quite like that oh and we are finally

a worthy village

excellent so we got a load of stuff to

unlock now

so i think taxes you might up these just

a little bit

say 11 for everyone i mean in the uk i

think it's like

it's like 20 17 and a half 20

which is a lot of money i'm not that

greedy

by any means but um well up it a couple

of percent

just so i've got some money because i'm

building a lot for these guys i'm

looking after him i think

right so people are going to be after

houses soon

but for now it's industry so i'm gonna

bung some more areas for the industrial

zone

all right so my main concern now is this

industrial zone there's only one way

in or out so what i might do

i might sort of add in a junction like a

i don't know where i want to go actually

i could go down

yeah i might start building in some of

this area as industrial as well

so thing actually while i'm here i can

demolish these

towers so those pylons weren't needed

because everything's connected now i'm

gonna build that road

down to here and then i'm gonna add in

another junction just so it gives

another route through

i might also come off here and sort of

do another

all right so i'm trying to just keep

this a bit

interesting i don't just want to do

straight grids it's not really how we do

it in the uk either

so i will just make some of these

all right so i need to make sure we've

got got water

and electricity down here and up here

because i forgot about this area

all right so electricity is everywhere

it's a bit low

so i might up the old

budget again all right so water i'm just

gonna

bung it under this road right so they

really want some houses so i'm gonna put

in some new roads over here i'm going to

sort of

rather than doing that pattern i'm going

to sort of do this curve because i quite

like that

it's a little bit different i'm just

going to go like to the backs of these

so i'm going to do like this as a little

segment type thing so i'm going to take

that

all right so i think i've filled that in

fairly nicely we're gonna

need to put the old drainage in so so

we'll keep it under the road obviously

i don't know if there's a benefit to

connecting these back up you get this

kind of

nice noise that sounds like you've done

something good

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so who knows i'll connect those up as

well

right so everyone's short of workers and

that's because i haven't got enough

people so i need to quickly

paint so paint these residential bits in

i don't know if there's a quick way

it doesn't seem to be but this will do

for now i guess

just doing it by hand these are really

in demand so these are going to go up

quick

i reckon all right so while they're

filling in i got a look at the people's

needs so it looks like there's a lot of

burglars

i assume that's what those symbols are

so i'm gonna get a police station

i need to place it somewhere that

everyone will be

looked after i think to be honest i

could do with it being

sort of there it's gonna destroy those

houses

sorry but look how happy everyone else

is so crime rate is still

quite low capacity for the jail is fine

obviously

okay so i've just been told a building

burnt down so i definitely need

fire station i think i might just put

that next to the police

station so that sort of does the

residential area i'm gonna put another

one up here

although they are bloody expensive

they're still really high risk up here

so yeah i am going to put one

and put it in there all right so no

electricity up here

which means i'm gonna have to add in

a few more turbines i think why aren't

you moving

there we go there we go all right i

think as well for

traffic it might be worth just losing

one of these homes and putting a road

through there

so sorry guys but but you're gonna have

to go so

they're not gonna be happy because they

know a road next to their house look you

got a nice corner plot now

look at this guy that's a huge garden

and that's all yours now basically right

so it looks like we got everything back

under control

everything's in low demand

electricity's good water's good

garbage is good and we are a tiny town

excellent right so i'm going to leave

that there and i hope you've enjoyed

that so next time we're going to carry

on i'm going to try and go into a bit

more like

detail in sort of the areas because

we're only at the very start of the game

so i've just been sort of flying through

trying to get trying to unlock some more

stuff

so we have a little look at what we

managed to get done

so we've got a sort of got a one-way

system the whole way around

your huge residential area now

it's all quite nice and green lots of

trees about and then

over here we've got all of our sort of

commercial stuff

on the main road oh they like their

burgers

good advertising

and over here we've got the industrial

area which

uh seems to be burning down oops and

yeah all the sort of

the nasty side of living over here

still after workers which i think is

because we don't have education

so we'll have to sort that out next time

yeah really enjoyed that guys

let me know what you think of course i'm

going to go into lots more detail about

how i do all this stuff in real life but

for now i just thought it would be a

nice little

introduction to the game and the start

of engiotopia

all right peace love and bridges oh i

have to build a bridge

i'm excited about that catch you next

time guys bye

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