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Cities: Skylines (2015) is a city-building simulation game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. Use this tag for questions specifically related to Cities: Skylines, regardless of platform.

Cities: Skylines (2015) is a city-building simulation game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux.

In the same vein as Sim City, players are tasked with managing a city's budget, health, population, employment, happiness, etc. Cities: Skylines comes installed with two mods that allow for the player to play the game in sandbox mode, which unlock all milestones and provide infinite funding to the player.

Use this tag for questions specifically related to Cities: Skylines, regardless of platform.

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How do I connect the initial highway to my six-lane road?

I noticed that I got some initial traffic problems at the point where the initial highway is connected to my city. At the beginning I simply elongated both roads that came from that highway, but this doesn't seem to scale. What I wanted to do now is…
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How to stop the death waves in my city?

I have started getting these death waves ever since I started playing, my population keeps on going from 100K to 20K and back and fourth, I was able to tolerate this for the first few time but now it is on my nerves, because of this unrealistic…
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What does the message "Too few services" mean?

My industry buildings are warning me that there are too few services. What does this mean?
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What are the consequences of not caring about traffic jams?

I have some main roads in my city which appear glowing red in the traffic view. When zooming into them I also see large numbers of cars and trucks lining up. However, so far I did not notice any direct consequences of this. The citizens in the…
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My citizens are too smart

Specialized industries (forestry, mining, etc) require relatively uneducated workers. Unfortunately, I placed a strong emphasis on education in my city, and over half the population (including children) have university degrees. Not really suitable…
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How to fix the "Not enough goods to sell" problem

I've created a dozen cities in Skylines so far, but in my latest city, I've encountered a new problem. A lot of my Commercial buildings report the problem "Not enough goods to sell". From my understanding, it seems like the Goods in these…
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How can I fix pollution?

My city has developed a bit of a ground pollution and a water pollution problem. In other similar games, you can mitigate the effects of pollution by planting trees, among other things. What can I do in Cities: Skylines to reduce the impact and…
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How do I convert or upgrade roads?

I'm trying to optimize my road system a bit, mostly converting regular small roads into one-way roads. But the only way I can see to do that is to remove the old road entirely and build a new one. I can't seem to just build over the old one. I can…
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Do abandoned buildings sort themselves out eventually if you just leave them?

I seem to have a lot of abandoned buildings in Cities: Skylines. I'm working on why, but they still seem to be around. Do abandoned buildings sort themselves out eventually if you just leave them, or do I have to demolish them in order for new…
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Does it matter where my Bus Depot is?

The building description for a Bus Depot says that it "...automatically sends out buses for your bus lines". From what I've seen though, once a bus arrives at a newly-created line, it will stay on it forever. (Bus drivers in Cities: Skylines do not…
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Why is everyone dead?

I have been playing cities skylines for a while now and every now and again my city goes through the 'plague', where pretty much the entire city falls sick (see image below). My water pollution is 0% and have more than sufficient crematoriums to…
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How can I defend against a tsunami?

A number of maps have a large flat plain near a coastal area, which is often among the best places on the map in terms of land value or resources to build, with the drawback of being susceptible to a tsunami. While disaster shelters can help save…
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How great is the effect of trees on noise pollution?

I keep getting told that science tells us to use highway sound barriers and trees to reduce noise pollution. The effect that highway sound barriers has is quite immediately obvious but no matter how many trees I plant there never appears to be any…
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Are pedestrian walkways purely cosmetic, or do they help encourage walking instead of driving?

Does creating a network of pedestrian walkways increase the number of citizens who choose to walk or take public transportation instead of drive?
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Why isn't my connections to the highway valid in Cities: Skylines?

I have just bought my first neighboring area and want to hook into it. I first tried with a large roundabout and then with a three-way intersection, but none of them works. I keep getting the "broken" icon and the cars just disappears once they…
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