City Human Resources: Ahhh, Mr. Biffa, I see you're here today for our open City Planner position. Tell me about your experience and qualifications. Biffa: Well, I don't mean to be bragadocious, but I have several years experience fixing viewers' cities on Cities Skylines. City Human Resources: Say no more, you're hired!
Today we observe the Biffa in his natural habitat. Here you see the Biffa tracking traffic, stalking junctions and in a perfect predatory pounce he messily devours the unsuspecting traffic snarl.
Yay, the most satisfying series on channel is back! I think you can fix roundabouts with network multitool now. You flooded buildings at the end by moving pomping water stations at the start of the episode.
35:26 "Add a junction" just adds the junction with zero rules/timings so it stays on red lights forever, unless/until you create some timings. I'm not sure if there's a quick setup for multi-junction timed traffic lights but that's why it didn't have any green phases on the extra junctions you added, only the first junction you had already set up.
I've been using Timed traffic lights on all T junctions on a main road and its a sinch to set up. Just auto set up the first junction, then add as many along the main road as you like, then just mirror the lights in each step as the auto set up in the first junction. It only takes a second to set up each junction once you get the hang of it. It's very satisfying to watch the traffic keep flowing on a busy road when the lights are sequenced correctly.
At 20 minutes or so, we have the perfect illustration of the chief flaw of the cloverleaf interchange... the way it feeds traffic coming down an onramp straight into the path of traffic trying to take the offramp shortly after. It's simple and easy to build, but it does break down hard when things get busy...
This is why in the American South the clover leafs merge onto a lane that is not part of the main carriageway. It is a separate merge lane. This greatly reduced traffic conflict and improves capacity and safety.
@@unconventionalideas5683 Yes, often called “collector/ distributor lane(s).” They certainly help, but cloverleafs still have their inherent flaws of weaving traffic.
i'm using black woods for my newest city and i replaced the one cloverleaf with a pinavia, i need something to put in the middle of it since it's so gargantuan
It might be really cool to see you do a traffic fix where you take a city like this, and then only improve bikeability, pedestrian access, and public transit without touching the roads/car traffic at all, just to see how much doing that would improve things without even doing road fixes.
When the major traffic congestions are at highways entering city, public transit / pedestrian / bikeability etc. doesn't seem to be in any way useful no matter how much they improve
Biffa, your editing skillz have vastly improved in the past few videos. I really like the ending overlay showing the fixes and the builds. Good job....
That was great. I would have looked at that gridded mess & been like, "Nope, it's beyond help without destroying everything." Glad to see another City Fix video, we love them!
Great to see a traffic fix again. Although I must admit the video editing has also improved a lot. I loved the end with the different overlays. Excellent work Biffa!
I really hope in city skylines 2, they create a modular road system that lets you toggle select features like sidewalks, bike lanes, bus lanes, metro/monorail, decorations, lights, power and water delivery, set back and zone grids. I include setbacks because I'd love to be able to designate main roads with wider setbacks in anticipation of eventually widening the road. As it is, I often toggle elevated sections to prevent zoning on roadways.
A quick trick/exploit to prevent or stop flooding when building/terraforming is to click the "Reset Water Level" button if you see a wave forming that's likely to flood something. Try it!
If you ever wanted to get a video sponsored by Yorkshire Tea then this is the one to show them. So many glorious trucks keeping the ciTeazens stocked up.
17:18 I usually make the third lane for u-turns in those cases where 6-lanes turns into a highway and it seems to also work just fine. People for some reason use it a lot in many areas where the only way to go back to the city is to circle back around the highway.
This was exactly my first encounter with traffic in Cities: Skylines, on this map! At the time I did an ugly huge bridge bypass on each side. Listening to all the tips from this channel, I would do something so much more elegant now. Thanks for the great content, as always!
Biffa the Traffic Master is back! And he is as good at breaking up the jam as ever before! Spread some of that jam over some English muffins, and drink the tea while you're at it! 😆
man biffa Im impressed with the editing at the end, the kind of comparison between how it was vs how it is now, compared to your first video where the camera wasnt quite in sync so it stuttered back and forth... lol, this is really cool man!
Awesome video as always, I particularly love the overlap comparison at the end, and this time you used ghost overlap comparison, excellent. Bravo Biffa on another Brilliant job/video. 👏👏👌
I like the ghost overlay showing the change between before and after fixing. That conveys the difference well, and doesn't force the viewer to look at any one spot while the cinematic runs.
Good job! Your split screen showing Before/After reminded me of the time effect in the Star Trek Voyager episode The Year Of Hell When the time ship would make a change and the universe would change.
I'm curious Biffa; you use traffic manager to set all your cities to Holy City, but could you design a road system efficient enough to keep traffic flowing even when the AI is given as much ability as possible to break the rules? Would be an interesting challenge to see done.
Love the traffic fixes! I end up applying a lot of your fixes to my larger cities! One thing you can use in the utility tool that I don't think I've seen you used before is the Parallel Tool - the little double slalom looking button! As the name implies it just creates a totally parallel road to what you've selected with the ability to adjust the space in between. Ultimately nothing earth shattering but could have saved you a whopping two or three mouse clicks when making those first highways!
The highway-roundabout you were working on at 31:00 has a big flaw. It's still connected with that old bridge across the river. It is unnecessary. Since the citizen have the new highway bridge you put above the old bridge. Instead it is causing a problem, because less citizen use the new highway brigde. By doing that they only burden the roundabout, what they wouldn't do if they just continued on the highway.
He could have converted the arterial bridge into a highway bridge and copied it for the other direction. But what really bothered me was his routing the freeway over the arterial road beyond the bridge! When he peeked underneath to fix the arterial's traffic the freeway was floating in mid air with no visible means of support!
Thanks Biffa...just spent time doing my 100k pop city yesterday that was at 30%. Found a lot of idiosyncracies with certain combinations of dedicated traffic lights vs certain styles of roads causing more traffic. Just so you know, your frustrations are not yours alone.
Yay, more fix your cities... Now maybe Biffa can tackle mine that I submitted a few months ago. Amazing job on this one. Lots of choke-points made it pretty slow to do but that was a nice fix !
Aye thank you so much Biffa! I am quite new to City Skylines so I thought I'd send my city in to get some advice. I appreciate the fix and hopefully I can expand upon this in the future. Thanks again.
A tip about Network Multitool: it understands directionality so if you start with the "from" point and end with "to" it'll draw one way roads in the correct direction. 25:35 I'm pretty sure you can easily fit a road under those highway bridges but the way you put it down it goes through the middle of two pillars.
Yay Traffic-fixes are back! :) The start was rough with those two Highways. That was brute forced and kinda unnecessary^^ People went through the City cause of the lack of better connection into the City from that side not cause they wanted to go through the City and leave. So imho, if you did put another possibility to leave the Highway, like you do later, all would've been fine =P i have to say, the editing, especially at the end, is top notch! Wooow!
Other's may have mentioned it, but the bus network was running kind of weird. It was crossing itself many times among other things. The metro might have been disabled when you deleted the underground road, which is why everyone used busses and not metro. I might be wrong though. Love this series. Made me subscribe. Have been here since Teaport began. Oh so many good cities! Have you tried the game Transport Fever 2?
BTW, if you're going to add a mod that you can change vehicle passenger counts you should use it. I normally change my bus from 30 to 50 and metro to 200. Less vehicles and less queuing for people.
isnt the waste processing plant so close to the water going to polute that and isnt that then going to float down the river ? or dont they do that ? never checked cause i never put one close to water lol
I have one tip for people regarding fixing your traffic, make sure a mod you install works just fine, and well enough together with other mods aswell. I had found and installed a nice looking cable car tram car that went on your train tracks, that is the railway track. And since it was modded, it came with a slow moving gesture, and so it stalled every other intercity train, and braked the entire thing down on my railroads, ASWELL as an road overpass that most of my cims were using for an unknown reason. This caused miles long traffic jams cause of the cable car. So to solve this, I went back on steam, manage to find an updated version of this cable car, which was good, as I could keep the best of both worlds at my plate. I uninstalled the previous mod and I installed the new one, that allowed for the Cable car model to drive around on the actual tram tracks instead of the railway, and reset my game to have it all fall into place. It solved my slow moving intercity trains, but the blockage still appeared for my cars. So I turned the button for allowing for intercity trains to enter off, and this slowly took away the continuous hot traffic from the track and releases some of my stuck cars too. I also tweaked the road so the cars had a timed crossover red light, green light, and just not stop for anyone when they wanted to come through. This problem can often be a huge problem for those players that build in specific ways, as they want to use as many mods and ideas that they can come up with in their city, and when they bump into a traffic jam in a nice looking area, you dont want to destroy the area by putting something else in it, like a roundabout, this could be the fix for just that area.
at around 30 minutes (fixing the t junctions) is it possible to remove the light from the far lane so it always moves? i havent played c:s in a long time so i dont remember if thats possible
Do you have some sort of additional mod that goes with TMPE? because when I ctrl+shift+click a round-a-bout it does not auto set-up for me like it does for you. it just selects the road itself.
Hi Biffa! Huge thanks for all the amazing content! There's so much and it's all fantastic! I hope you get some sleep as well. For next time you're traffic-fixing, have you tried my "breakdown" mod? It'll show you exactly how many routes are cutting right through the city (and how many are going between other districts) - saves trying to count all the little arrows :-) Thanks again!
Heck of a fix, Biffa! Nice to see this series back on the channel!!
Np
Ahh, you here
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City Human Resources: Ahhh, Mr. Biffa, I see you're here today for our open City Planner position. Tell me about your experience and qualifications.
Biffa: Well, I don't mean to be bragadocious, but I have several years experience fixing viewers' cities on Cities Skylines.
City Human Resources: Say no more, you're hired!
I'm amazed the city grew by like 10k people despite him polluting the water supply, and he didn't even notice!
27:00 lol the drinking water pump is downstream of Sweage outlet. No wonder people were still sick by the end of the video 😂
The best way to protect the environment.
@@Hedning1390 😆😅🤣😂😁
Biffa is so good at fixing traffic that he increased it by a percent just by loading it.
The traffic knows who to show respect to
Today we observe the Biffa in his natural habitat. Here you see the Biffa tracking traffic, stalking junctions and in a perfect predatory pounce he messily devours the unsuspecting traffic snarl.
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@@jefffinkbonner9551 @Biffa Plays Indie Games
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Well, fix da water now!
Yay, the most satisfying series on channel is back! I think you can fix roundabouts with network multitool now. You flooded buildings at the end by moving pomping water stations at the start of the episode.
Pomping?
yeah, they are stations that go "pomf pomf pomf" 🤣
Removing water pomp is usually the circumstance preceding flooding
wa'a pomp
it's been so long since this series on air again, thanks biffa for this episode 🕶
Enjoyed the main series but I miss and love this series too. Thanks, Biffa.
This should be the main series! Love it.
35:26 "Add a junction" just adds the junction with zero rules/timings so it stays on red lights forever, unless/until you create some timings. I'm not sure if there's a quick setup for multi-junction timed traffic lights but that's why it didn't have any green phases on the extra junctions you added, only the first junction you had already set up.
ah i tried that once too and had the same and then i thought screw it and rebuild the area with a roundabout XD
Better not to have so many connections on that arterial anyway :p
I've been using Timed traffic lights on all T junctions on a main road and its a sinch to set up. Just auto set up the first junction, then add as many along the main road as you like, then just mirror the lights in each step as the auto set up in the first junction. It only takes a second to set up each junction once you get the hang of it. It's very satisfying to watch the traffic keep flowing on a busy road when the lights are sequenced correctly.
@@stigoftdump I'm gonna try this, but expect me to ask for directions when it goes off the rails! :D
@@NutDriverLefty No problem, ask away!
At 20 minutes or so, we have the perfect illustration of the chief flaw of the cloverleaf interchange... the way it feeds traffic coming down an onramp straight into the path of traffic trying to take the offramp shortly after. It's simple and easy to build, but it does break down hard when things get busy...
This is why in the American South the clover leafs merge onto a lane that is not part of the main carriageway. It is a separate merge lane. This greatly reduced traffic conflict and improves capacity and safety.
@@unconventionalideas5683 Yes, often called “collector/ distributor lane(s).”
They certainly help, but cloverleafs still have their inherent flaws of weaving traffic.
i'm using black woods for my newest city and i replaced the one cloverleaf with a pinavia, i need something to put in the middle of it since it's so gargantuan
That’s America for you.
It might be really cool to see you do a traffic fix where you take a city like this, and then only improve bikeability, pedestrian access, and public transit without touching the roads/car traffic at all, just to see how much doing that would improve things without even doing road fixes.
When the major traffic congestions are at highways entering city, public transit / pedestrian / bikeability etc. doesn't seem to be in any way useful no matter how much they improve
@@billyswong Lots and lots of bike couriers delivering goods? Curious how many couriers weighed down could replace an 18-wheeler, haha.
@@billyswong Well, you can access the city also by train.
Biffa, your editing skillz have vastly improved in the past few videos. I really like the ending overlay showing the fixes and the builds. Good job....
Thanks, I'll let my editor know 😁👍
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines yea, the before/after overlay is such a nice finish!
Yes! So cool seeing how the city grew as well as all the fixes like that.
Traffic fixes back?! Couldn't be happier! The series that made me subscribe
That was great. I would have looked at that gridded mess & been like, "Nope, it's beyond help without destroying everything." Glad to see another City Fix video, we love them!
Looking forwards to the hour-long part 2 where you fix those bus routes 🤪
Great to see a traffic fix again.
Although I must admit the video editing has also improved a lot. I loved the end with the different overlays.
Excellent work Biffa!
I really hope in city skylines 2, they create a modular road system that lets you toggle select features like sidewalks, bike lanes, bus lanes, metro/monorail, decorations, lights, power and water delivery, set back and zone grids. I include setbacks because I'd love to be able to designate main roads with wider setbacks in anticipation of eventually widening the road. As it is, I often toggle elevated sections to prevent zoning on roadways.
you knew about cs 2 a year ago?!
@@ndererseje1077we also know Biffa was hiding that he played a CS2 beta years ago hahaha
@@blazikem wow i didn’t know.
Unfortunately it will probably be a "optimization and graphics" game because they cant bother implementing cool stuff. Hope im wrong
@@sigmamale4147 have you not watched any trailers or dev diaries??
A quick trick/exploit to prevent or stop flooding when building/terraforming is to click the "Reset Water Level" button if you see a wave forming that's likely to flood something. Try it!
Wow, the city upgraded almost entirely after the update, it's visible the difference when showing the before and after in the end... MASSIVE fix!
YES! Biffa brings Fix Your City back. Love it. Great way to relax on a saturday afternoon.
If you ever wanted to get a video sponsored by Yorkshire Tea then this is the one to show them. So many glorious trucks keeping the ciTeazens stocked up.
17:18 I usually make the third lane for u-turns in those cases where 6-lanes turns into a highway and it seems to also work just fine. People for some reason use it a lot in many areas where the only way to go back to the city is to circle back around the highway.
This was exactly my first encounter with traffic in Cities: Skylines, on this map! At the time I did an ugly huge bridge bypass on each side. Listening to all the tips from this channel, I would do something so much more elegant now. Thanks for the great content, as always!
Your traffic fixes help so much...especially when your city gets to about 20,000 population...thats when the main fixes need to be done.
Biffa the Traffic Master is back! And he is as good at breaking up the jam as ever before! Spread some of that jam over some English muffins, and drink the tea while you're at it! 😆
I love the Fix Your City series! The editing at the end with the top/bottom split showing the changes is fantastic!
I love watching these fix it videos & I love the before/after video at the end & the “before” ghosting is fantastic.
man biffa Im impressed with the editing at the end, the kind of comparison between how it was vs how it is now, compared to your first video where the camera wasnt quite in sync so it stuttered back and forth... lol, this is really cool man!
Awesome video as always, I particularly love the overlap comparison at the end, and this time you used ghost overlap comparison, excellent. Bravo Biffa on another Brilliant job/video. 👏👏👌
I like the ghost overlay showing the change between before and after fixing. That conveys the difference well, and doesn't force the viewer to look at any one spot while the cinematic runs.
Love the editing. So glad the series came back in such a fashionable manner.
Nice to see this series back. And this was a nice long episode, covered lots of things. Excellent!!!
That stutter at 5:30 killed me with a ploop 🤣🤣🤣. Always good to see you fix traffic. Keep up the good work🤙🤙
Good job! Your split screen showing Before/After reminded me of the time effect in the Star Trek Voyager episode The Year Of Hell When the time ship would make a change and the universe would change.
I'm curious Biffa; you use traffic manager to set all your cities to Holy City, but could you design a road system efficient enough to keep traffic flowing even when the AI is given as much ability as possible to break the rules? Would be an interesting challenge to see done.
Oh I am LOVING the new effects in the video, especially the ending time lapse showing the traffic differences with opacity and all that!
Love the traffic fixes! I end up applying a lot of your fixes to my larger cities! One thing you can use in the utility tool that I don't think I've seen you used before is the Parallel Tool - the little double slalom looking button! As the name implies it just creates a totally parallel road to what you've selected with the ability to adjust the space in between. Ultimately nothing earth shattering but could have saved you a whopping two or three mouse clicks when making those first highways!
The highway-roundabout you were working on at 31:00 has a big flaw. It's still connected with that old bridge across the river. It is unnecessary. Since the citizen have the new highway bridge you put above the old bridge. Instead it is causing a problem, because less citizen use the new highway brigde. By doing that they only burden the roundabout, what they wouldn't do if they just continued on the highway.
He could have converted the arterial bridge into a highway bridge and copied it for the other direction.
But what really bothered me was his routing the freeway over the arterial road beyond the bridge! When he peeked underneath to fix the arterial's traffic the freeway was floating in mid air with no visible means of support!
Great video mate! Always keen to see how you fix these
Just love seeing how many buildings have upgraded in the final run through
Obviously a traffic mess would occur in a city where Sponge Bob is taking his driving lessons - another well rescued city, Sir 😎👏🏼
Love that tea drinking swipe animation. So clean and nice!
Been missing this series. Nice to see it back
Love the traffic fixes! Thanks Biffa!
Thanks Biffa...just spent time doing my 100k pop city yesterday that was at 30%. Found a lot of idiosyncracies with certain combinations of dedicated traffic lights vs certain styles of roads causing more traffic. Just so you know, your frustrations are not yours alone.
Love your video series. Learned some new tricks with the Networking tool and has helped me out on my own cities
I missed these city fixing videos ❤️
I love this series! Great work Biffa
These videos of yours are cathartic.
That edit with the faded traffic is really nice. Well done!
I missed the city fixes! Love your videos ❤
Its been a long time since you posted a traffic fix!! I am so happy :D :D
Love the city fix, hope you can do more, keep up with the good work 😊
Man. I thought my cities were a mess when they were down to the 80 percentile range due to a few hot spots. This makes me feel ok about my builds lol
Seeing a traffic fix, just sit down and enjoy it.
Good to see a new episode
same here thx for this episode including some extra TMPE special info´s
Enjoyed this video, thank you Biffa. 😀
I totally love the video montage between old and new in the end... amazing!
Glad you liked it! Thanks :-)
Yay, more fix your cities... Now maybe Biffa can tackle mine that I submitted a few months ago.
Amazing job on this one. Lots of choke-points made it pretty slow to do but that was a nice fix !
i really like the way you transitioned between the old and new traffic, it looked quite cool
Very happy to see you fixing traffic again. It has been a while.
Aye thank you so much Biffa! I am quite new to City Skylines so I thought I'd send my city in to get some advice. I appreciate the fix and hopefully I can expand upon this in the future. Thanks again.
Thank you for sending it in and glad your enjoyed the fix. I had great fun in your city too. Well done 👍
Biffa!~ your traffic fixes are back!~ i missed them so much.
and also Hugo There and your giddy aunt
I missed these videos so much!
Loving the new before and after visuals you’ve done in recent videos
End of this video is awesome, so much skill in your edits
A tip about Network Multitool: it understands directionality so if you start with the "from" point and end with "to" it'll draw one way roads in the correct direction.
25:35 I'm pretty sure you can easily fit a road under those highway bridges but the way you put it down it goes through the middle of two pillars.
I like the overlay of the before/after you've started using recently on your videos
Yay Traffic-fixes are back! :)
The start was rough with those two Highways. That was brute forced and kinda unnecessary^^ People went through the City cause of the lack of better connection into the City from that side not cause they wanted to go through the City and leave. So imho, if you did put another possibility to leave the Highway, like you do later, all would've been fine =P
i have to say, the editing, especially at the end, is top notch! Wooow!
@@117gerardle and than forgot that pedestrians can walk over said bridge :D
Life saver thanks Biffa.
Other's may have mentioned it, but the bus network was running kind of weird. It was crossing itself many times among other things. The metro might have been disabled when you deleted the underground road, which is why everyone used busses and not metro. I might be wrong though.
Love this series. Made me subscribe. Have been here since Teaport began. Oh so many good cities! Have you tried the game Transport Fever 2?
just watching biffa playing cities while playing cities myself while drinking tea. I guess i got inspired by someone
A traffic fix 😍😍😍😍 waited desperately for another round of fixing 😁😍
I love your traffic fixes
Loving the new before & after graphics overlay.
It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who builds cities just to make traffic nightmares that I can fix.
BTW, if you're going to add a mod that you can change vehicle passenger counts you should use it. I normally change my bus from 30 to 50 and metro to 200. Less vehicles and less queuing for people.
isnt the waste processing plant so close to the water going to polute that and isnt that then going to float down the river ? or dont they do that ? never checked cause i never put one close to water lol
Sooooooooooo happy to see traffic fixing again!
Yay fix your city returns, cheers Biffa
Second viewer! By the way, I’m so exited for this new Fix-It video! It has been so long!!!
I have one tip for people regarding fixing your traffic, make sure a mod you install works just fine, and well enough together with other mods aswell. I had found and installed a nice looking cable car tram car that went on your train tracks, that is the railway track. And since it was modded, it came with a slow moving gesture, and so it stalled every other intercity train, and braked the entire thing down on my railroads, ASWELL as an road overpass that most of my cims were using for an unknown reason. This caused miles long traffic jams cause of the cable car.
So to solve this, I went back on steam, manage to find an updated version of this cable car, which was good, as I could keep the best of both worlds at my plate. I uninstalled the previous mod and I installed the new one, that allowed for the Cable car model to drive around on the actual tram tracks instead of the railway, and reset my game to have it all fall into place. It solved my slow moving intercity trains, but the blockage still appeared for my cars. So I turned the button for allowing for intercity trains to enter off, and this slowly took away the continuous hot traffic from the track and releases some of my stuck cars too.
I also tweaked the road so the cars had a timed crossover red light, green light, and just not stop for anyone when they wanted to come through.
This problem can often be a huge problem for those players that build in specific ways, as they want to use as many mods and ideas that they can come up with in their city, and when they bump into a traffic jam in a nice looking area, you dont want to destroy the area by putting something else in it, like a roundabout, this could be the fix for just that area.
About time! This is what I subscribed for.
at around 30 minutes (fixing the t junctions) is it possible to remove the light from the far lane so it always moves? i havent played c:s in a long time so i dont remember if thats possible
You really want to use the slope terrain tool to most roads like CityPlannerPlays as it would make cars and trucks move faster 😁
Hey what is the latest Network Extension mod are you using? Just seeing if it is the one I tried using my game dose not seem to recognize it...Thx
I've missed city fixing 😁😁😁😁 love it
Haven't played CS in a while. Kinda want to get back into it
A traffic fix episode? What is this 2020 ! Welcome back fix your city!
Boy that was a slick timelapse at the end Biffa
Just found the channel. I don't even play the game and got me hooked. Lol
the final edit is amazing
Happy to see traffic fixes are back.
Nice to see a city fox, so satisfying to get all that traffic moving again!
My favorite series on the channel is back. Yay.
absolutely fantastic. i’ve never wanted to live in a lego house more. haha
Do you have some sort of additional mod that goes with TMPE? because when I ctrl+shift+click a round-a-bout it does not auto set-up for me like it does for you. it just selects the road itself.
Hi Biffa! Huge thanks for all the amazing content! There's so much and it's all fantastic! I hope you get some sleep as well.
For next time you're traffic-fixing, have you tried my "breakdown" mod? It'll show you exactly how many routes are cutting right through the city (and how many are going between other districts) - saves trying to count all the little arrows :-)
Thanks again!
So satisfying to watch 😌
Yes, welcome back biffa...