Cities: Skylines, No Roads.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- Cities: Skylines, the No (or at least minimum) Roads challenge, with or without the DLC - you get to decide.
0:00 Intro
0:27 City #1
2:58 City #2
4:49 City #3
6:11 City #4
9:40 Outro
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"to discourage people from being poor, we raised taxes on the poor" seems legit
Ikr, I had to stop and think "Is this how economics actually works?" 🤔
Ah yes, the Victoria 2 strategy.
Raising taxes on poor people to encourage people to be rich so you can generate more revenue from rich people taxes is exactly the kind of “tax the rich” scheme we would pass in America
And that kids is the story of why Liz Truss is Britain's shortest serving prime minister
Not only taxes but also corporeal punishment must be passed - the only way for poor people to improve their material situation.
"Mom, I can't sleep. The garbage smell is too strong"
"No, honey. Don't say that out loud. Don't let them find out about the garbage or they're gonna destroy our house"
Too funny
For real dystopian novel
Thanks for the good laugh :)
Lmfaooo
"Mom there's a weird man wearing a black mask outside our house. Should we call the police?:
"No, honey. The police will bulldoze our house if we do that."
"To discourage people from being poor, we raised taxes on the poor..." 💀
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us government has been doing that for years except the poorer even became poorer
Reganonics baby! !
Sounds like communism!
Needs mixed used zoning where one building serves as both housing and commercial at the same time. It will solve the issue of houses being so damn expensive to maintain.
That's good to have but you don't NEED it for walkable cities. If you would have a shop with a level of residential on top, just put a two story shop with a two story residential next to it. You can easily hit walkable densities with that approach - in reality anyway. Hell you can do it with single story if you have well planned PT.
Cities:Skylines lacks complex and mixed use zone support. It only allows basic Euclidean and building by building methods.
The successful city is like something out of a light pulp sci-fi novel or manga. A shadowy megacorp starts a company town where every resident, whether they know it or not, is participating in the world's largest front for illegal bank shenanigans and kept in line by elite copter pilots and tech cops.
The two neighbourhood cops everyone knows suddenly hear helicopters overhead like “uh oh, Corporate HQ must’ve sent in the big guns” and suddenly everything is 80s neon vibes
So basically Robocop, then
anyone who complains gets bulldozed
I sip my coffee: Its 2:00 AM
I stare at the balance sheet in the "city Hall", though the name barely applies: Its a husk of an office building that is floor upon floor of nothing but computer servers for mining cryptocurrency. I look over the states investments and get reminded of my job in the morning gloom.
I'm a financial fixer who's responsible for making sure the "city of the future" stays in the green, at least on paper. The truth is, its never been in the green, and crypto is one of the two pillars that keep the whole thing running, the other being the vast deathcare service that makes up the cities largest business. It more or less entirely supports the government in its use of helicopter police to silence any criticism from the innumerable small business that act as fronts for further investment.
The cities whole market is a lie, all the money is fake, and everyone is just riding this out until things finally crash.
My thoughts are scattered as I've kept them to myself my whole life: I saw enough friends lose their house or get disappeared to know not to speak out. You either move away or you play the system.
I hate this job, but you can't say no to the kind of money it offers.
@@richter2842 very nice
I'm baffled by the idea that paths for people to walk on are more expensive to maintain than paths for giant heavy machinery
Me too
Yeah this isn't accurate. In real life, pedestrian areas are a lot less expensive for the city to maintain because you get a lot more (taxable) business activity per unit area in them compared to roads, parking lots, etc.
It's absurd. The problem should be flipped: it's maintaining road infrastructure that should be bankrupting cities, just like real life.
they aren't - they cost the same, both in terms of build cost and upkeep. i think the only actual added cost to pedestrian areas are the service points
and, well, strictly speaking, they _are_ still maintained to support giant heavy machinery. the pedestrian roads see a lot less automobile use than normal ones, for sure, but they still have to handle vehicles like ambulances and fire engines
@@hi-i-am-atan this is not true at all. ambulances and vans don't damage roads. road wear is exponentially proportional to vehicle size/weight, to the point where in any traffic engineering calculations you literally only consider trucks. and you're not allowed to cram giant articulated trucks onto any pedestrianized streets
I wish this game allowed more ways to experiment with public transportation. It’s so car centric. I love my trains.
Theres metros and buses, I guess trains normally are intra-city so its on too big of a scale for the game which is based on one city
@@cherryslat5702 the game devs are ridiculously brainwashed/payed shills for cars, for example many of the costs for cars on cities which includes parking lots/gas/roads taking up huge swaths of land/road maintenance that is literally bankrupting cities etc... are not even considered while they retarded costs to pedestrian/public transport infrastructure.
I don't think, that this game is good for it. Map is too small for creating somewhat elaborate intercity train system, that would make sense.
@@2298839082508923859 You're American aren't you? A bunch of cities use suburban trains. I can walk 10 minutes between my two local train stops - and no it's not a metro.
@@shraka A metro is a train...
4:38 me and my partner are sat in bed dying of laughter at the idea of a thief, midway through a burglar, being surprised as 50 people with sledgehammers burst through every wall at once, and proceed to kill the thief in the process.
hes like lets game it out, but instead of making everything a living hell, he makes everything a confusing hell.
Let’s game it out but better
Let's Kafka it out
@@deathweaselx86 both are good
@@deathweaselx86 i love both for different reasons. AA challenges himself, while lets game it out challenges the game 😂
He's* let's*
When he said his patrons haven't committed any crimes I had a pang of guilt, but then I remember I'm not a patron so am legally allowed to commit as many crimes as I like.
It's not a crime if you're legally allowed to do it
Found the loophole!
@@crazyboutferrets It's not a crime if the state never finds out!
you can commit crimes, but then prison workers will commit crimes on you >:)
I love the premise of Ultimate Pedestrianton's cash flows, particularly due to the thought of it turning straight to Mad Max the second the Everything Bubble popped lmao
Next video: Cities: Skylines, No Cities
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@@ambiguousamphibian What are you gonna do? Bulldoze their house?
Dude just made E.P.C.O.T in Cities Skylines. Underground roads, circles, pedestrian and mass transit only on the surface... yep.
Don't tell people about my plans to recreate Florida yet
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@@ambiguousamphibian The entirety of Florida? You'll need to cross it over with Planet Zoo, there are so many gators you can't just ignore them
Recreating the Venus Project might have actually been more sustainable...
please never stop making these
as long as ambiguous avoids the eye of TH-cam, it will be fine.
TH-cam could find X rated content in a video of dancing fruit for babies.
@@evilgibson
Its okay, so long ambiguous praises the rich and our glorious free market ecogronomics, he will be forgiven by the TH-cam big brother.
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That’s funny that some of the financial district buildings simply existed as a façade while all of its employees worked remotely.
You.. basically built Epcot in that third city. Not the theme park, the actual city Walt Disney planned. Well done.
I like how his videos are super in depth and interesting but also easy to watch and very enjoyable
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yeah his vids feel like a treat lol
One of the first cities I made in cities skylines was a car free city using the traffic manager mod to ban cars, but not trucks, taxis or emergency services, from every street. The only ways into the city were air, train, or boats and it worked really well. It forced me to design some pretty robust subway and tram networks but once I got good at that the whole thing worked like any normal city.
That sounds like a city I wouldn't mind living in
@@Joe-xq3zu ya I thought it was going to be a dystopian hell scape, kind of like the cities in the video, but I wasn’t upset that it worked lol
That’s more realistic honestly, these “you must build houses on Lifestyle Centre paving” rule is bizarre, no wonder it cost so much in the video.
When banning private cars actually improves traffic and better public transport makes up the difference better. Turns out when you ban cars you kind of have to provide an alternative form of transport for people to get far without walking alot.
Congratulations you've created denmark.
Kind of dumb that the pedestrian roads are more expensive to maintain seeing as in real life it's the literal complete opposite. How very American of the developers.
5:27 This is world class commentary.
I remember playing the original SimCity and figuring out you could replace all the roads with rail and completely avoid traffic caused pollution. It was a sad day when I got SimCity 2000 and that particular trick no longer worked
it works in sim city 3000, i got a million people on rail and subway lines once
Also putting electrical wire above every rail and reducing the maintenance fund to zero percent. The wire saved the rail from destruction 😎
that is how my mom use to play SimCity
Why do pedestrian areas cost more to maintain than roads? You would've thought human feet would do less cumulative damage than vehicles.
It's all the ppl who wear Crocs
Because the Cities Skylines devs seem to think of pedestrian paths as vanity structures (hence the categorization) so it is more expensive despite the clear unrealistic nature.
Because Colossal Order don't realize that "Pedestrian Area" doesn't mean "no cars, ever" and that emergency and maintenance vehicles are definitely still allowed there. You can imagine that in this imaginary world, maintenance and emergency services would be much more expensive.
For an example of such an area in real life, you can just look at one of the best examples of a car-free pedestrian are in America in real life: Disney. Where groundskeepers, ambulances, and security all still have access to vehicles and aren't forced to walk everywhere.
Just another example of "Car-brain" in the wild.
@@nathanb011 I mean unless you live in an overpacked city they ARE vanity structures.
Sidewalks tend to be more expensive than roads.
Might be your most realistic city yet - "made possible by horrible state-run shadow banking and market manipulation [despite] this city sustaining massive negative cashflow"
"You have, two minutes, to design a city that takes one minute to walk through." Dom, Inception
Reminds me of a city I tried designing in highschool. Concentric rings, gradient zoning, but instead of roads, a venice like waterway system. Had a knock on effect of reducing heat island effect as well.
Heat island effect is a good thing. Fuck ice.
4:09
Garbage dump 9 3/4?
love it when your city building game is car centric.
Weird it's almost like real life. Have you stepped outside your house in a while?
@@goodguyguan3412yes. I want to walk places but all these roads make it dangerous to do so.
cities skylines can be very pedestrian centered actually. roads are essential for services, but using pathways, they will actually walk pretty far to get places, and will readily use public transport even while given the option to drive
"You need the police? A team of men are on their way with SLEDGEHAMMERS to knock down your house" HAHAHAA 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
on the bright side, the criminal you're complaining about will more than likely be trapped within the rubble and asphyxiated to death
You can't steal if there's nothing left to steal 😂
just like real life!
sounds like something that could actually happen in the US lol.
I too have been playing with this idea. One of my favorite things to do is take out most of the roads and make them utilize Cable cars. Either that or the whole city is made of roundabouts going different directions. Some neat designs can be made, and if you put crossroads in the middle you can utilize them very well. additionally, it makes it pretty easy to add tollbooths every 5 feet. Lol
I understand they want to make the DLC content an interesting spin/challenge, but making the pedestrian paths cost so much is frustratingly backwards. It’s visible why in the style, they’re built like parks or shopping centres. But that’s not how real walkable communities are built!
I love that you dont go from fun pc games to boring mobile games. it's always so enjoyable to watch your content
9:17 “Most of the Bold, exciting city of Pedestrianton is made possible by state-run shadow banking and market manipulation, and this city sustains massive negative cash flows every week.”
So… just like London?
the way you ran that town in almost a legitimate financial way makes you seem quite competent and attractive
How the hell did Paradox arrive to the conclusion that pedestrian zones are more expensive than anything else. I don't understand how this happened.
Paradox Mathematics is a special kind
The road is being cleaned and maintained by hand, because no machine is allowed to break the sanctity of it's concrete.
So many man hours are required that it is more expensive than a highway.
Pro-car propaganda brought to you by big car.
2:11 Very cool city where every house gets it's own basketball court.
*tries to build a non car centric city
*does hard zoning and shit density
truly amazing urban planning right there
TBF the first is built into the game, the second… yeah
@@kaitlyn__L While yeah there's no mixed-use lots, you can actually get pretty good results by alternating commercial, residential, and office, without any separation. You just have to be careful not to put too much commercial beside high-density residential or the noise pollution is bad. But offices can work to buffer that. I've been able to have pretty mixed-use cities in the game - it's a lot of work but it actually looks pretty cool.
@@DevynCairns fair enough. I’ve done that myself, but growing up in a place where so many people live in flats above shops, your solution is still far too “hard” zoning for my liking ;)
I saw a little of that in some of these cities in this video though, but not as densely alternating as it could’ve.
@@kaitlyn__L You're lucky - where I live there were several decades where they pretty much avoided doing anything mixed-use at all outside of some very core areas, and it's only started coming back in the last 20 years. There are still entire neighborhoods where you can't have a shop or cafe at all except on one particular street.
I wish Cities: Skylines had mixed-use lots and a little more gameplay mechanics at the actual building level, but as it is you can still make pretty nice cities compared to some places ;)
Hard zoning was painful to watch
Sorry about that $11.99, chief. But it was well worth it considering the results.
Many congratulatories to you! The many walking feets slapping the ground are an applause to all who look down from above!
you know it's a banger video when ur only critique is you want it to be longer
I love the Cities series on this channel because it always starts out as a quirky fun little idea to just build a whacky city and it always ends up being glaring lesson in modern socioeconomics.
Not in this case sadly. He shouldn't be this far in the red as pedistian paths don't swallow money irl. Road maintenance does.
He's also kind of making them badly, no offense to him. He's not a city planner.
Ehh, problem is the game is very American and car-centric - it's not a realistic economic sim. The fact pedestrian paths are more expensive than roads says it all
@@bongosmcdongos4190 You know what else swallows money? Welfare parasites.
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 They are not more expensive, that's the thing, I keep seeing people say that but u can check it yourself on the wiki. Somewhat realistically what is costly about it is the fact that now the government needs to have employers and facilities to distribute and collect stuff. You could let businesses and so do their own delivery but that would be ripe for abuse and w that raising the maintenance indirectly for damage of car overuse on pedestrian roads. That's also shown by the fact that the price of them goes up with the zoning, as u would need more and more people hired to do the work that would usually be handled privately.
Have a nice day!
Commenting before watching... how? Highways only? 100 off ramps into a single building each?
Edit: Incredible, iconic. Truly a city worth future planners could learn from.
Congratulations on accidently becoming an Urbanism TH-camr!
He'll join the ranks of Not Just Bikes and Adam Something one day.
@@evinbraley oh god i hope not
7:34 The save names bruh "why is everyone dead"
Your channel has quickly become my favorite, I keep rewatching videos I have already seen dozens of times just because there is basically no channel that compares to the content you put out. Keep doing what youre doin
I too do that to both AA and SsethTzeentach. They're comedy geniuses
I needed your soothing sultry monologue to ease me through his migraine, the universe provides
9:15
"It's not a bubble..."
"Ok, it's totally a bubble. But let me tell you why that's a _good_ thing..."
"Ok, it's actually pretty bad. But we won't have to deal with the consequences in _our_ lifetime..."
"Ok, so the only thing keeping this ship afloat is that everyone profiting from it have agreed not to rock the boat. But they'd never jump ship and leave us all to drown..."
"Right?"
ambulance spotted @9:07 challenge failed
Your work is always a treat
is it just me or does he sound just a little more crazy every video
4:26 there's no home invasion when there's no home
On one hand, the city is a paradise of foot and bike traffic, with no gasoline bill, or car payments, or motor vehicle insurance.
On the other, the mayor keeps shilling bitcoin at us, and always looks like the only thing sustaining him is cocaine and coffee. And city employees always look afraid, like their jobs are constantly dangling by a thread...
tip! use roads with trees on the sides to prevent street parking!
after 12 long days..rejoice! the amphigious ambibian has blessed us with a gold tier narrative!
I would like to propose that the method of having people build houses, only to demolish them when they become too dirty, be dubbed the Hokusai method after the famed Japanese painter. Hokusai, most known for his iconic work "the great wave of Kanagawa" was well known for absolutely refusing to clean his houses. He would live somewhere for a while, and then, when it got dirty, he would move. He moved over a hundred times in his life, once even twice in a single day, because he dropped a pot of ink during moving, ruining the floor in his new house
The first 3 minutes isn't actually gameplay from Skylines. It's Klaus Schwab's wet dream digitised.
If you listen carefully at 2:35 you can hear him climaxing, uttering the words "oooh yah, destroy ze private property. Tell Greta ve got anuzer polluter"
You absolutely exploded last year. I'm glad the philosophical amphibian is so popular. You deserve it.
Last episode was the Libertarian dream, now you've begun the AnPrim journey: no cars, no roads, no money. Just like Ted K. would've wanted
"Rely minimally upon streets" love it. Love you amphibian, you give me the will power to play this taxing and stressful game every time.
"Hello police, yes I'd like to report a crime please"
"Ok sir, please stay where you are, we will send a bulldozer round soon."
Best Friday
Heck yea
Who tf let our world impose 45-60% tax rates when people in this complain about 15%
Yo dude you are my favorite "plays games and edits them into videos" kinda TH-camr, &nd I'd extend that to; You're my favorite "I'ma put this on while I am chillin and tryna relax the brain before I start hibernating".
An utopian city completely reliant on unstable financial instruments and economic exploitation of the wider wold would actually be a sick premise for something in the vein of Bioshock.
"To discourage people from being poor, we raise taxes on the poor and small business, that way they become rich"
OMG why is world hunger even a thing
i wouldve tried mixed use zoning. if workplaces., schools and stores were scattered about with everything within walking distance of your house, you minimize travel and thus minimize the need for large roads connecting the different districts
I don't know what's scarier. Helicopters constantly policing crime, or calling 911 only to have a group of bulldozers plow down your house or store.
city 4 looks like something from a Kafka book lol... just endless, pointless bureaucracy, a city which has positive cash flow despite losing tens of thousands of Simoleans a week. A police state of helicopters and the majority of the city being a financial district that no-one ever enters or leaves, because no-one actually works there. Is that a giant insect that I see?
Haha! Your creativity seems to never run out
Wow, your video presentation is getting very incredible!
I cant imaging how much time it took you to edit this.
Ah yes, the oldest lesson in history..
You CAN create a heavenly utopia for society.. You just have to do horrifyingly shady and unethical things do so.
It's insane it's so expensive considering in real life pedestrianized areas are extremely cheap in comparison to car dependant ones.
Yeah, i dont get it because car roads require more maintenance and stuff
Congrats! I am proud of you and your accomplishment made in this video!
The names of your save files never fail to ruin me
AA unconsciously channeling Walt Disney's desire to create a Utopia
AA: makes a pedestrian only city because roads are too expensive
City Skylines: makes walking paths even more expensive than roads
AA: "time to i n v e s t "
The soothing sounds of a lizard man blabbering on the internet is all i need to endure the endless task that is life.
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Amphibian, not lizard
idk why but you referring to the comment section as the “congratulatory section” makes me laugh so damn hard 😂
Once again, ambiguousamphibian has philosophized his way into a brilliant explanation of alien crop circles.
It would make total sense that an advanced society, after striving for infinite productivity to uphold a flawed value system, would shift to a society that emphasizes joy, including walkable civilizations.
And now they visit us, to display this holiest blue onto the canvas that is our industrial farming complex, so that we too may learn that infinite productivity is not the answer.
So… Pre-industrial industrial, with a feudal tax.
I wonder if they'll ever make a cities game that's less focused on US cities and more on how European cities work
Imagine waking up at 6:00 am in the morning just to walk 2 hours to your factory job, develop arthritis from constantly staying on your feet, and finally walk 2 hours back home at 6:00 pm just to have 2 hours all to yourself, truly a perfect city
Big fan of da Vods, been watching your pz and kenshi playlists. Love your content on them so I hope it isn’t burnt out as a video idea yet
How is infrastructure designed to accomidate people more of a money sink in comparison to infrastructure for vehicles?
well if they allowed emergency vehicles to use roads and also had public transport then i think it would be alot cheaper and alot better for the people too.
also it seems like this game also makes pedestrian street cost more to maintain than they actually would in real live. in real live pedestrian streets are usually lower maintenance cus cars weight alot and that causes damage to the road. with humans just walking there is less weight so less damage to road.
@@nebulous962 Nah the maintenance costs are the same if not less in game, rather the cost is from the zoning, specifically because the collection and distribution of goods and other needs are controlled by the government. The extra cost is the employers and facilities needed to match their needs, as letting businesses do it themselves is ripe for abuse, which would raise the cost of maintenance indirectly anyway. People often don't consider this stuff and in real life, it's usually mitigated by the fact that pedestrian areas often still have relatively close to car roads that can help w the supply and collection.
Have a nice day!
@@TheJustifiedDevil makes sense. hope you have a nice day too. 🙂
Truly speaks worlds about how American the devs are that the pedestrian paths are as wide as a 4 lane highway and cost several times more to upkeep.
but the devs are european
But really, think about how terrifying it is that you're already getting robbed then a bunch of construction workers with sledgehammers suddenly bust down your door and start wrecking shit?
Streets where people walk on being more expensive to maintain than streets supporting huge trucks. Sounds legit
This video indirectly does a great job of showing the shortcomings of city builders that are car dependent. If I remember correctly SimCity was based on an urban planning thesis which became the model for the suburban sprawl hells cape we see today
redditor intro, very cringe, upvotes and gold for you kind stranger
It's hilarious that AA spends so much time playing city builders, and _actually set out to make a pedestrian only city,_ but is still oblivious to mixed zoning.
I didn't know this game had pedestrian paths in DLC... But holy crap, $12 for a single DLC pack for pedestrian towns?! Damn! lol
"Design a town that's completely walkable"
Isn't Italy basically that?
Probably lile 95% of European towns under 60k population (they get physically too big to casually walk the entire city after that)
You could have named the city Mil-walk-ee!
loving your editing skills amphibian
Pedestrianton is feelin a bit like ba sing se. There is no trash in pedestrianton says the people coming with sledgehammers to knock you house down and relocate you.
The Libertarian Dream... Roads are gone
Say that's not a bad idea
Remove road. Return to monke.
@@ambiguousamphibian who needs them anyway, just drive over grass and gardens, true freedom
Lmao
@@millennialchicken Please keep off the grass. Scopes are calibrated to the range of this sign.
Gotta love how they make roads cheaper than pedestrian areas, despite the fact that they're absolutely cheaper
This guy makes Cities Skylines soo Interesting with his enthusiasm and comical voice🤣
Love this guy
"you're just in time for the event"
"what event"
"Weiner compression day"
"what the fuck"
Governments need to take note of AAs important research