The traffic is just iunreal ...

[Booya]

Hi,

am i the only one who is feeling that the traffic is just unrealistic? In a 15k city, there shouldnt be any traffic problems with even a medium well traffic design. There are just waaaaaay too many cars imo even blocking the highway with several entrys and exits.
I cant be the only one ...

I cant say my street managment is perfect, but its pretty ok and should be sufficient for smaller cities under 50k cims.,

What do you guys think?

Is something planned in the upcoming big patch?

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Booya:

am i the only one who is feeling that the traffic is just unrealistic? In a 15k city, there shouldnt be any traffic problems with even a medium well traffic design. There are just waaaaaay too many cars imo even blocking the highway with several entrys and exits.
I cant be the only one ...
I cant say my street managment is perfect, but its pretty ok and should be sufficient for smaller cities under 50k cims.,
What do you guys think?
Is something planned in the upcoming big patch?

I don't suffer from problems with traffic in cities of 1k to 400k.
You're right, there shouldn't be any highway blockages in a city of 15k. Why do you think that is?
Is your street management sufficient? It doesn't sound like it.
What do I think? I think the traffic simulation, while not perfect, is still a damn good model. The concept of having every vehicle set itself a route from the outset from A to B is brilliant and when you fully grasp that, it is relatively easy to control. You have to stop thinking of the traffic as individual units. Consider the traffic as lines and the roads as conduits for those lines.
Afaik there isn't anything planned for the next patch as there is nothing to fix.
Try to read the guides for a better understanding of the mechanics and how to manipulate them. It is a learning curve and you will master it in time I'm sure.

[Sol]

How To Traffic.

Read that guide.

/thread.

[Redbull102]

Think you have made some mistakes. I use no traffic mods and up to 85k people I had no traffic problems. Now at +120k people 4 of my roads reach the limit.

Woudl like to see a few pics of your highways with the entrys adn exits. Think you made here a mistake.

Use SMALL ONE WAY roads near you highways because there will be NO traffic lights at the crossings.

[Burlokk]

In my +400k i have 0 traffic issues....some hotspots and thats it.
Again, i WANT some traffic jams time to time, that is just realistic, to have a completely fluid and flawless traffic is not realistic at all.
However that being said, i did have ALOT of traffic issues time to time, little every where, but rather blame it on the game and claim it have a bug, i started to heavily overhaul my traffic system and design.


And i soon realizied, there is no such thing as "Traffic problems" only user end problems.


only , and i mean ONLY "traffic" issues that i encountered and cant really solve is Industry areas, and Train tracks.



Also, leave the Real world logic and game logic seperate..

[Booya]

Where do i find such a guide? The guides on Youtube are pretty .... chaotic ...

[Burlokk]

Originally posted by Booya:

Where do i find such a guide? The guides on Youtube are pretty .... chaotic ...

i agree, best guide is your own brain...learn by doing an experimenting :)

[Derp]

I agree with you, the promised a traffic AI that would mimic the dynamics of real traffic, but in reality you get unlogical merging and confusion at every intersection after a certain population number. I still prefer the AI over the simcity AI, but it was literal ♥♥♥♥, so it does not take much work to make something better than it.

[ilovebeerbeerbeer]

Originally posted by Booya:

Hi,

am i the only one who is feeling that the traffic is just unrealistic? In a 15k city, there shouldnt be any traffic problems with even a medium well traffic design. There are just waaaaaay too many cars imo even blocking the highway with several entrys and exits.
I cant be the only one ...

I cant say my street managment is perfect, but its pretty ok and should be sufficient for smaller cities under 50k cims.,

What do you guys think?

Is something planned in the upcoming big patch?

You will find sooo many Die hard fans who cant see past the fact that traffic IS A major problem in the game. They claim to have x amount of cims and no issues with traffic.For them they probably put in 99% of thier game play into road designing & building... That for me isnt enjoyment!!! Its a pain in the Behind!!! But Each to thier own...the game is a city builder NOT A Traffic Simulator !!!

The reason many die hard fans will say you are doing something wrong is for One simple thing. SimCity 2013 !!! SC 2013 was such a let down with EA Messing the whole thing up that anything is going to be better that that, & god forbid for any to admit that this over hyped game (But Brilliant Game) does anything wrong. Traffic! What traffic problems??? I have a city of 200k & Everything is ok!!! You must be placing your roads wrong or Anything but , its a shame as This is what you will constantly hear... At the moment CO Is a god amoung city builder folks. For me City Skylines is far superior in everyway over any city builder out there... But, I can admit that the traffic is ridiculas...

It shouldnt feel like a Traffic Simulator & it does on sooo many levels. Yes traffic is a major part of city building but Seriously, to spend all your time on the road system... For some reason after your population gets more than 5,000 traffic seems to multiply, its like they are Gremlins!!! Lets hope they dont do A rain DLC pack!!!

PS. I Do love this game!!!! Just feels like a traffic sim.....

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Booya:

Where do i find such a guide? The guides on Youtube are pretty .... chaotic ...

Above, right, where it says "Guides".
Then look in the Gameplay Basics Category

[Cpt Piamo]

This game is far from a traffic simulator - it is no different than SC2013 or SC 4 (and I have played both for hundreds of hours). Building a city is at its heart a function of traffic management. The orderly flow of people, resources and services is what makes or breaks a city - its like that in real life - its no different in a simulation. If you grid heavy industry in one contained area with no highway outlets or no means for traffic to get too and from commercial, residential and out the region - you are going to have massive congestion.

People in these types of games build up and out too fast and thus create real congestion & services issues. You simply can't play the game that way - take your time, build slowly, adjust, create, destroy, rebuild - build up your treasury and you will be fine. If you think you can just throw roads down, plop a city and expect things will be great - you are kidding yourself. That is not how city planning is done - you have to plan what you are going to do - that's the fun of city building - and traffic is just one of many components you have to plan for. I am on my 2nd city growing to 100,000 people and 90% of my city is traffic free but it takes planning and time. It's not perfect and there are industrial areas that I am right now tearing apart and rebuilding (cause my design was crap) but it helps in the overall city design.

Yes there are AI issues with fire trucks, police, hearses, garbage trucks, cars queing in a single lane - does anyone really belive that the game was going to be perfect at launch? Of course not, but to suggest that fan boyism is the reason behind people saying you are doing traffic wrong is nonsense.

Search the reddit - someone made a great guide on traffic and there are alots of example on how to use arteries, highways and one way roads to affect the orderly flow of traffic. Is traffic broken - heck no. Are there somethings that need improving - hell yes. The game came out a month and a half ago - improvements happen over time but you can build large cities and do traffic right and many have done so already.

[Cpt Piamo]

Do a search in the guides for this: Traffic - Understanding and fixing early problems in your city
By Maestro - he has a great article on traffic and how to manage it properly in city building games.

[MaGicBush]

Originally posted by Booya:

Hi,

am i the only one who is feeling that the traffic is just unrealistic? In a 15k city, there shouldnt be any traffic problems with even a medium well traffic design. There are just waaaaaay too many cars imo even blocking the highway with several entrys and exits.
I cant be the only one ...

I cant say my street managment is perfect, but its pretty ok and should be sufficient for smaller cities under 50k cims.,

What do you guys think?

Is something planned in the upcoming big patch?

Nope that is honestly why I stopped playing Cities is because of this issue. Also the fact the game is so picky about intersections(I was trying to recreate a intersection used in my city, and it was impossible in the game as it threw errors of it being to steep, etc). Unless the game changes its focus from traffic management I wont have much interest in it :(.

[Driveldriver]

The traffic is all part of the fun. There is more to the game than just putting up buildings and making it look pretty. What city is perfect? So you have to become civil engineers and try and solve the traffic problems through planning - flyovers, bridges, elevated roads and the like. It's part of the game's progression. Your city has to change to meet the needs of the ever growing population and not just expand.


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[Costarring]

This is another thing related to not having "time" in the game.
It's rush hour 24/7 in cities skylines.

Even with 5k people, the highways can get congested. This has nothing to do with planning. But with unrealistic (appearing) amounts of traffic in general.

Like I said, it feels like 24/7 rush hours.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Costarring:

This is another thing related to not having "time" in the game.
It's rush hour 24/7 in cities skylines

And just as well too.
Imagine if the speed of the vehicles matched the actual game time cycle. You'd only see them when they stopped and the rest of the time it would all be streaking blurs of colour.
Hmm... imagine thousands of the Flash streaking through your city lol.... there's an image for ya ;)