Can a MEGA CITY stop a MEGA TSUNAMI in Cities Skylines?

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We're back in Cities Skylines (City Skyline) engineering a way to stop a huge tsunami from wiping out my city by using entire cities and skyscrapers! We'll be testing which buildings are best at stopping 1000ft waves!
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[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Shut up Daisy!! 🐄 Get 10% off my entire merch store with code "tsunami": www.realcivilengineer.store

[@Rudiduck_XCT]

Who is daisy? Rce

[@nathanc6443]

can you make my design of a valve an entire maze for water to get thru it is probably not a valve but a way to tired the tsunami because it takes so long going left right wave reflected back into its self slowing it down when it hits a dead ends

[@loriwinters3585]

@@Rudiduck_XCT it's his dog ... I think

[@nekto4658]

@@loriwinters3585 is it a joke?

[@steelengine4265]

I used to have a cow named daisy.

[@Nareimooncatt]

Home buyer: Is this house located on a flood plane? Realtor: This house is part of the primary defense against floods.

[@OriginalPiMan]

Might struggle to afford the insurance on that.

[@KinDiedYesterday]

@@OriginalPiMan "who need insurance when everyone is dead?"

[@OriginalPiMan]

@@KinDiedYesterday The people in the first building that _doesn't_ come down.

[@Goldblasterblaze]

Take my money😀

[@Amelia-xt2kx]

14:10 the reason the buildings started disappearing is because the zoning didn't get copied

[@orangeunderscore]

@Evi1 M4chine The elevation of the original copied buildings was virtually flat, he pasted it onto a sloped ground which caused the existing topography to be overwritten by the buildings. When the buildings disappear, the land goes back to its original topography.

[@edopronk1303]

This indeed!

[@GayreeTheAzzman]

1:28 Yes but the Shaft of Hope survived! It stood erect against a mighty force, a rigid rod of resilience from the wall of wetness that enveloped it.

[@brad2400]

The strongest shape strikes again

[@kaylahall1219]

🤦🏻‍♀️

[@theroadstopshere]

I love that the total lack of good water simulation in city builder games has driven us to further and further heights of madness in Cities: Skylines and Timberborners as Matt attempts to find some kind of good explanation for how the water works and how to deal with it

[@NoahGooder]

a game that has "decent" water simulation is crazy machines 2 and its liquid addon

[@neirenoir]

@Evi1 M4chine most real time fluid simulations are basically "metaballs" (spheres that merge partially if they are close enough to kiss) connected to its neighbours with springs. I wonder if there is any game with better fluid physics for Matt to go bonkers with.

[@ea8455]

@Evi1 M4chine most games use the preex water physics e.g from Unity or unreal engine with slight chances in shading,looks and performance. Actually designing real water physics is not possible w todays PCs in realtime since there are a lot more factors involved additionally to the base physical laws you have for non liquids/gas

[@robertharris6092]

@@neirenoir true realtime water physics rendering would be like raytracing.

[@Mezinov]

Well I mean that solves both problems doesn't it? Folks complained the tsunami defense was blocking the ocean view - well if the ocean view property is the tsunami defense then there you go. From the top down view it also looks like you only need about 10 rows of the PS5 buildings to eat the wave and only 7.5 need to be rebuilt every wave - so it is economical too.

[@kunstderfugue]

For the low price of a couple hundred PS5s you too can block out the next tsunami!

[@robertharris6092]

@@kunstderfugue id rather just built a sea wall.

[@Acidlib]

@@robertharris6092 go away Netherlands shill

[@robertharris6092]

@@Acidlib im a texan.

[@Acidlib]

@@robertharris6092 suuure, that’s what they all say🤨

[@v.sandrone4268]

I must have slept through the lesson on "Sacrificial Cities" in design classes.

[@anonymouscoward7559]

Clearly.

[@NoahGooder]

down here in south lousiana we call that the 9th ward its where all the minorities live.

[@gruntopolouski5919]

I used to go to Niagara Falls quite often, and it’s been interesting how increased high-rise development on the Canadian side has radically changed the local patterns of wind Now the winds which used to drop spray in the gorge are sucked to the Canadian side.

[@g.k.xn_]

Pls tell me i was not the only one who read "niqqa falls"😂😭😭

[@Saikocide]

@@g.k.xn_ unfortunately you're the only one bro 😐

[@g.k.xn_]

@@Saikocide call me a damn racist, i deserve that

[@sparking023]

@Evi1 M4chine yep, the "green" energy push is being done mostly from a PR angle, and that can't end well. Wind turbines aren't even that good of a energy source when you compare to other alternatives

[@mandowarrior123]

@@sparking023 wind turbines responsible for more deaths than nuclear power per mw including all the bad ones.

[@ridixelis7164]

matt is turning into a bigger and bigger madman with every vid in cities skylines Edit: how the fu did i get 666 likes and only then noticed that my comment is booming lol

[@JELLYBEANFAN-bg8rr]

True

[@grimnekropolis8500]

Not Let’s Game It Out levels…. Yet

[@RJFVLAK]

@@grimnekropolis8500 True, but the amount of uploads though from RCE....

[@bzipoli]

this is the mad engineer's origin story

[@NoahGooder]

hes almost reaching the levels of lets game it out and or kevin

[@SylviaRustyFae]

The high density buildings are better for blockin waves, but they didnt bugger off as fast as the low density folks did and the hills they replaced their homes with were much better than any of the low or high density buildings at blockin water

[@Dispariabooks]

You could do this exact same test, but separate each section of district/buildings with a long, thin line of terrain running in the same direction as the wave. That way you could see the speed and spread of the wave in each section in isolation without the waves dispersing into surrounding areas. Think your Tesla thing, but with buildings instead of swoopy bits. Edit: I forgot to mention you need to add a section of only bouncy castles. Because nothing screams "Matt is a well balanced individual" like stopping a tsunami with a bunch of bouncy castles.

[@ninjahunterx7497]

I like how the deflection PS5 buildings worked better than the massive mount deflectors RCE built in a previous video.

[@Pan_Schaboszczak]

5:08 "Can you actually imagine city built entirely like that?" Soviet-style prefab blocks: "Am I joke to you?"

[@DaedalusYoung]

In Soviet Russia, you are joke to buildings.

[@evatheepihipparch]

they actually had quite a lot of sunlight and parks and nature and stuff, the commie block is the only good thing about the ussr i can think of

[@Pan_Schaboszczak]

@@evatheepihipparch Yeah, but commie blocks are good as neighborhood (good transport, everything in walking distance), but their quality in really bad - for example walls are thin and people hear eachother. Commie blocks are also pretty ugly- it's begging to change, but still they are far from being sightseeing attraction. But yes, they aren't as bad as most of people describe them

[@evatheepihipparch]

@@Pan_Schaboszczak germany and stuff are making better ones

[@Pan_Schaboszczak]

@@evatheepihipparch Poland too, just slower. We still have a lot of ordinary grey blocks here

[@michelerusconi]

"Now I know how Paddy feels" Was really unexpected, it got me very well. Sorry Paddy. Great video as always by the way!!!

[@woodpigeon7776]

I love this…He’s secretly making us learn to be Civil Engineers and honestly I don’t mind

[@SkynetGenesis]

i would prefered Architecture or how to design a nice looking building that isnt like the strongest shape. But who knows?

[@james14294]

I think a good test with the special buildings would be to do the alternating pattern like you did with the one that succeeded. Also, I would love to see if the pattern made the difference, or just the buildings.

[@SCOP_]

“Now I know how paddy the dog feels” lmfao I laughed so hard

[@Fleonwyn]

Everytime the RCE uploads one of the tsunami videos I image what the "people" tell their friends when the move there. "Yeah, we move to this new aspiring city. Beautiful neighborhood, good schools and universities around, a giant tsunami wave bigger than every skyscraper brutally comming our way. Such a nice place."

[@jw8160]

😂😂😂

[@sombreza]

I'm loving this "Messing with water physics" season of RCE

[@DriftKingNL]

The headquaters of engineering seems like a architectural masterpiece.

[@scarlettefoxx5585]

Df just recently said; "If you want precision engineering, you're in the wrong place" Now i want a collab between real civil engineer and dangerously funny :0

[@Pirotechnik_]

Ah yes, a Josh reference. Matt has reached a level of chaos many ore scared of

[@genehenson8851]

I don’t know why but this tsunami stuff really has me hooked. I definitely feel more prepare for any tsunamis that I may be a part of in the future. Thank you for this service.

[@melekharn7943]

Fun fact about the Sydney Harbour Bridge that I learned while I was there for work... The pillars are purely cosmetic/used for viewing the scenery. The way the bridge was built, it doesn't need them - the 4 pillars were added because the general population didn't believe the engineers that created it.

[@RealGoogOogGaming]

now I understand why the town hall is in the middle of most towns, it's so that the tsunamis and forest fires get slowed down enough and can't take out the town hall, therefore preventing them from three staring your base

[@MrSerbianOrthodox]

What about a maze? Of course done in a strongest shape ever!

[@kameshwara89]

Ever time RCE posts a city skyline video the Dev’s have to question the physics they put in the game and how they can improve the physics for the next game . RCE should become consultant for the dev team.

[@ericbambach3222]

Thank you for asking the important questions with another fun tsunami video!

[@zsmarine0831]

Hes not just the engineer the world wants, hes the engineer the world needs!

[@lifeboatboy2280]

4:16 I've cycled along the side of that picture you used- good video as usual!

[@V10C3]

0:35 1:15 I didnt know that the Seattle Space Needle was such an amazing feat of engineering.

[@DatGuy_83]

I am loving seeing the Arch in these videos so much

[@andrewb3915]

We would all love to see you play Crazy Lemmings!! You’d love it! Love your videos Matt!

[@devinosland359]

Matt, you can get proper cities with high density residential and commercial if you up the land value, you need all the services and parks and stuff and they'll upgrade the building, I'm sure there's a mod for it too where you can just max the land value

[@sk_6721]

5:08 Yup. This was Le Corbusier's plan for Paris, in the 50s and 60s. Yes, he wanted to destroy Paris and place a bunch of horendus highrise buildings (like there are in the parisian subburb's). Fortunatly, the parisian gouvernment told him to fuck off and asked him to design the subburb highrises. And guess what ! He was an architect !

[@seb2721]

Would love to see the skyscrapers completely stopping the tsunami in the next vid!

[@Dolthra]

It's funny that you used the business park and space needle, because those two have been the unique buildings that have always irked me. Mostly because the business park is modeled after the St. Louis Gateway Arch, standing at a whopping 630 ft tall... 25 feet taller than the 605 ft. tall Seattle Space Needle.

[@NameRedacted0]

For the future, the electric roads mod makes it so you can have water pipes also carry power, making it super easy to connect up cities and you don't need to worry about connecting power!

[@NoahGooder]

I just want to think you for this because that part always fustrated me since I would regularly make an windmill feild that was in the distance in order to not cause polution or the like and then trail a huge line of powerlines back to the city

[@AzraelAlpha]

The most recent 81 Tiles mod includes this functionality now.

[@itk_cyprus6207]

RCE I recently found you about a month ago and your videos are great keep it up!

[@woodpigeon7776]

Construction Workers on top of the buildings : “ Man , the sea looks really high today “

[@horizonstuntsunlimited6573]

I love these videos, any video you have played Cities Skylines are always my favorite

[@Jetski_Journals]

I'm sure you're running out of ideas for this (series?) but I really enjoy these. Every time I see one of these types of vids I'm like yes it's not over lol. Keep it up!

[@SkynetGenesis]

at the end of this video, RCE said tsunami aren't a danger against big city, thats not actually the case, the water pressure caused by the wave on the buildings would make them collapse. not talking about the other debris the wave take with them. Welp that is what it will happen to buildings made like in new york. But coastal city like tokyo are usually made stronger.

[@shadowblade5656]

That went way better than it had any right to, honestly. GG that one building in particular! But you know this means you have to make a wall of that building and see how it does, see how few layers you can get away with and still have adequate tsunami protection, right? I mean, we have to follow this to the logical conclusion, right?

[@hashtagPoundsign]

In the next tsunami defense video: Skyscrapers in the Tesla Valve.

[@Yoshijosh31]

I’m beginning to think that Matt’s “most efficient shape” antics are verging on architecture… just a thought 👀

[@faisalammar97]

I really love your series on Tsunamis

[@dannypipewrench533]

5:08 Can you actually imagine a city built like that? It would be horrendous. Eastern Europe/Former Soviet Union: *...*

[@mattallurgical]

I think this needs to be redone with a more game-realistic tsunami (i.e., not a massive 500 meter high wall of water, but one ones that are more likely to spawn in game that are about the height of medium density buildings). You might be more surprised by the results, since buildings _clearly_ have an effect on water.

[@russelljacob7955]

Your comment in earlier with buildings in flood and protection testing? It is actually a major field of study, particularly in US. The famous US plantation style homes? Designed for flooding. Very little on first floor and water can pass through, with second floor being where you live. Even smaller homes with this design. Other countries also have own designs. Funny thing, buildings are designed to allow water flow in these flood designs to reduce stress on the structure. Having buildings keep standing so people who cannot get to high ground can stay safe.

[@deoncollins8624]

fun fact, The pylons of the sydney harbour bridge were not part of the original design, and were only added to allay public concern about the structural integrity of the bridge. They were originally added to the bridge solely for their aesthetic value

[@AreUmygrandson]

Woot new episode. My boys are gonna be excited

[@muralip2052]

You have got to do the ultimate tsunami defence with just skyscrapers next!!! 🤣🤣 Awesome!

[@JVT-]

"now i know how paddy the dog feels" this made me spit out my drink🤣

[@letterborneVods]

I love that you mentioned Josh. Verbal favourite youtubers crossover! 😂

[@ethantreece8245]

Love how STL is getting some love (un-intentionally), the arch is never talked about!

[@reomemewagon]

the best outcome from this series is an engine overhaul that improves CSL water physics

[@wilbry93]

As an engineer myself, these new forms of energy dissipators are very innovating, I'm thinking on incorporating into my designs! Thanks RCE! Now I gotta add these new details to autocad lol you have my rubber stamp of approval sir!

[@zxuiji]

Still want you to try a split river against a tsunami, build a cliff face in the way of the tsunami 1st, then create 2 openings at either end, create a hill from the middle to those ends with the height as low as possible (needed to catch end tsunami pieces later), behind the split river build another cliff face with an opening in the middle, build hills going down to the 1st 2 from the ends behind the 1st 2 openings, if all goes as expected then the tsunami will be 80% caught in the 1st 2 rivers & the other 20% caught in the 2nd 2 rivers, to give it a bit more danger build the city directly behind the 2nd cliff face so that if it fails it definitely damages/destroys the city

[@nialltaylor8273]

Let's be honest we all want to put the strongest shape to the ultimate test. Can the strongest shape defend against tsunamis???

[@beardedbarnstormer9577]

bro im so in love with this channel! your content, commentary and jokes, its all just so great !

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Cheers mate!

[@gareth14111984]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Same here, only found you in the last month... But you do know why the buildings disappeared right? You forgot to copy the zoning, so they were de-zoned and vanished...

[@Grizzlox]

One of the glitches had your road pattern look like a slightly raised grid, and the water was trapped in between them almost like a fish hatchery. That gives me some ideas for a future video

[@ffkanz523]

I was about to say u were like josh, but you mentioned him, u guys are my favorite youtubers

[@destroyerquang]

THOSE ARCHES ARE PURE ARCHITECTURE

[@lorraineshuck3478]

These videos are AWESOME

[@Rob636100]

Time to surround a city with those skyscrapers to see if that will protect it

[@alexanderrobson9408]

I did the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb a few years back and our guide explained that, in actuality, the pylons on either side provide no structural support at all. They were commissioned solely to give the labourers 3 weeks extra work during the Great Depression.

[@chrism1503]

Not sure about that reason, but they’re definitely not holding up the bridge.

[@gamerplayz-6394]

RCE, you should build a massive wall of those wide sky scrapers in that pattern to protect another city!

[@omvirani5656]

I live this life only for your skyline tsunami videos😂

[@omvirani5656]

And also finding about how you will bring up strongest shape o|o each time ….

[@babch0]

:joy:

[@xxfangtimexx]

Please never stop teaching me engineering with this game

[@brettstewart3919]

GOD!!! Why are you videos so good

[@ayol1011]

Matt vs Tsunami in City Skylines is the equivalent of Einstein vs the theory of the universe. Its a never ending battle

[@xolotlnephthys]

Probably a good idea to try a control first, to see if the slight incline saves the building

[@JustSomeGuyLass]

Level the terrain going all the way back back so the wave doesn't lose size as it travels. That way you can get a better idea of how effective your builds are against the full strengh of the tsunami

[@starkindustries26]

Yay more tsunami videos

[@djshire1984]

6:09 Went from engineering to being Josh from Let's Game It Out.

[@sob7645]

Thinking back to when I found this s channel. First episode or two were good but kinda dry, and then the strongest shape reveal was the funniest thing ever.

[@sethreign8103]

I lost it when you said "PS5 buildings" 🤣

[@climatectrl3350]

Those are all very strongly shaped unique buildings you placed

[@macgyveriii2818]

Nice work. Though...this makes me want you to test how many complete rows of those High Interest skyscrapers would be needed to keep your city dry.

[@Snowwie88]

What you said at 4:50 I did once a time, I build a city IN a sea with BUILDINGS as a dam around it, I cant probably post the link here, but if you go to my channel then type "City behind a dam of buildings in the ocean part 1/2 in Cities Skylines", and for real, buildings can actually keep water at bay. 🙂

[@louisbrown786]

Day 8 of asking RCE to start a satisfactory series

[@ChokyoDK]

Let all the worlds architects build their dream city in the way of the tsunami. The wacky shapes would probably stop the tsunami.👍

[@legitgopnik8431]

I think the residential/business buildings were getting deconstructed because they weren't zoned like the original

[@bredsheeran2897]

Matt… you should collaborate with josh from let’s game it out and you should see who can build a more efficient city

[@chattycat0052]

I want to see an edit of a nascar race where it’s just Matt’s “whoa” at 3:13 for the car sounds

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

This screams: “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”

[@TechandTools1]

I love the design of the engineering HQ, it's a masterpiece, gotta protect those arches hahahahaha, that's not good lol

[@3plecheeseburger]

Schmichael, have a great weekend!

[@Aramis419]

"That's just a casual Friday night, innit?" Aye, brother!

[@ampgamer7941]

I love that the visual of the bridge score was actually slanted

[@rickwyckoff291]

Architecture for the win!!!

[@3089io]

I just realized how frequently I watch you play this game. I'm 40, I don't think I'll ever play this game. I am an engineer, mechanical/electrical/software, but yeah. This is stupid and frivilous and honestly, I love it.

[@Geschrotteten]

you should know that the 4 pillars of the sidney harbor bridge are indeed just decoration^^

[@WolfLover617]

I like this series.

[@magicpyroninja]

Build the entire city on raised pillars. So all the water could just go underneath everything without causing any damage

[@laugh8574]

The 2:45 pylons joke got me. Really wasn't expecting a sc2 joke which made it so much funnier. And if it wasn't intentional, it was still good

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

So the heart of engineering is some sort of architectural project

[@darthragnarok1489]

Crazy idea, build a city in the middle and have tidal waves from all 4 sides hit, if possible

[@RedPandaYosh]

Well at 12:23 you made a skyscraper wall, that's why it's dry behind it. But I think it would work further in, to deflect and reduce water flow, had there not been a blocking wall.