As ususal the full guide was published here: Cities Skylines – Beginner tips and tricks guide [www.gameplayinside.com]. This Steam version is meant as an shortened in-game reference.

The order of this guide is the order in which you will encounter these services in-game!

Recommendation:

• The Coal Power plant is too expensive at the start of the game (19.000 vs 6.000) so really the Wind Turbine is your only option!
  
• Try to position Wind Turbines in de the dark blue zones
  
• Plan ahead: Wind Turbines generate Noise pollution and relocating a Wind Turbine costs 1200
  
• At 6+ MW a Wind Turbine it is more cost efficient than a coal power plant, so use them when you can!

Power lines can be a bit confusing.

Always create multiple links between important zones. Constructing roads can automatically demolish power lines. If you forget the connection to your water pumps your entire city could be left without water.

When you construct your first Water pipe you will notice it has two lanes. Like in any city builder water pipes are used to supply fresh water to your citizens. This means you must connect them to a Water Tower or Water Pumping station.

The other lane is used to transport sewage. Although you might not like it you will have to dump your waste into the nearest river!

Keep in mind that using a Water Drain Pipe or Water Treatment Plant pollutes the river water.
Rivers always move into one direction (downstream). Therefore you must make sure your water pumps are located upstream relative to the sewer system. If you fail to do that your citizens will become ill.

Skip the water tower and only use pumping stations. Also make sure you plan your sewage drain pipes properly. Meaning you should fresh water for at least 5-6 pumping stations

Garbage trucks pass each individual building to collect garbage. The brighter blue the building the lower the amount of accumulated garbage.After a few buildings they are full and will return to their landfill or incinerator. Due to this mechanic Garbage disposal is a strain on road network and trucks can be delayed by traffic.
Recommendation: Do not force all your garbage trucks over a single (oneway) road layout. Be aware of the impact on your roads!

This building will send out up to 15 trucks to gather garbage. This will only be sufficient for very small cities so expect to construct multiple landfills so you have enough trucks to drive across town.

Recommendation: Reserve space for at least 3 landfills and realize they can only be moved when empty.

This building has a few advantages of over the traditional landfill

• It actually burns garbage instead of storing it
  
• It can spawn up to27 garbage trucks instead of just 15
  
• It can provide 12MW of power (almost 2x a windmill)
  
• You can empty landfills into incinerators

Recommendation: Switch to Incinerators when you can afford to. They use less space and provide more trucks.

To receive health care they must be picked up by an ambulance and brought the nearest facility.

For $10.000 with $ 400 upkeep it can send out 8 ambulances and “store” up to 100 patients. Meaning it will cost you €50 per ambulance or €4 per bed. The range is about a single tile (2km x 2km). A single medical clinic should be enough up to 11.000 citizens.

For 65.000 with 2400 upkeep this bad boy can send out 25 ambulances and handle up to 500 patients. Therefore it will cost you €96 per ambulance or €4.8 per bed. The range is about twice that of the medical clinic (about 1.5-2 tiles). Although it looks cool a combination of 4 local medical clinics is usually far more efficient in terms of costs, range and response time.

Just like ambulances drive across town in an attempt to save people the Hearse will collect the dead and bring the citizen to their final resting place. It will take 2 days to “load” a dead citizen.

For €3000 and €160 upkeep this building can store 3000 ‘patients’ and send out 10 hearses. Keep in mind that it can only be relocated once completely empty.

For €25.000 and €720 upkeep your citizens can be cremated. This building can store up to 105 deceased but will also process them. It can send out only 7 hearses.

Recommendation: So far it looks like not everyone likes to be cremated so you will always need a cemetery. Spread your crematoriums across the city to avoid traffic congestion caused by hearses. Do not forget that people can also die while working or shopping. So also cover commercial and industrial zones!

Roads are also extremely expensive. Demolishing a road when the game is paused will only result in a partial refund of 75%. Therefore I recommend you save yourself time and start using the Asset Editor.

To launch he Cities Sklyines Asset editor go to Tools>Asset Editer>Temperate>New . Once inside the Asset editor can construct roads like you would in-game. When you are finished designing your “crazy” intersection you should go to the asset editor options and take a snapshot. After that press escape and save the asset!
Do not forget to enter a filename, Asset name and description or you will see error warnings when you load your next game.

Again I would like to remind you that this is a compact version of the game meant to be used using shift-tab whilst ingame. If you are intersted in learning more then visit the full guide on Cities Skylines – Beginner tips and tricks guide [www.gameplayinside.com]

10/3/2015

• 0.1: Quick release because steam already released the game 45 minutes before official launch!
  
• 0.2: Added Garbage, Healthcare, Deathcare
  
• 1.0: Finished converting all chapters of the guide to steam.

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