Cities Skylines, but the sea level is constantly rising!

We're taking on classic Cities Skylines (City Skyline) challenges whilst we wait for Cities Skylines 2 (CS1). This time we're trying to build a city whilst flood water is constantly pouring in, raising the sea level!
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[@nerfmono9345]

"You cannot engineer the sea" Dutchies: "Hold our Heineken"

[@nathaliestarlight6372]

We dutchies litterally won entire regions from the sea. So, RCE is not entirely correct. With constant increasing levels though... i dont think we would be so lucky.

[@michahogelo]

@@nathaliestarlight6372 we'd manage. hopefully...

[@Glitch85780]

RCE make a video about every 10 minutes a a fire will occur🔥🔥 1:09!!!!!!!

[@hwgusn]

@@nathaliestarlight6372 You’ll get the chance to find out.

[@Soken50]

@@nathaliestarlight6372 Don't you have plans to extend even further in the Doggerlands ? I think I remember seeing a video about the Netherlands wanting to build a series of artificial islands connected by locks to future proof the country against sea level rise.

[@Waeva777]

Can you please try this challenge again sometime? I was actually really invested in this lol

[@NullSchmid]

Iirc a KZbinr named spike viper did a very similar series with an island in an ever increasing sea called atlantis

[@amythistxue1]

yeah can see him approaching it better (more canals/flood walls) to buy time now that he knows where the problem areas are

[@ImmortalAbsol]

+1

[@ImmortalAbsol]

​@@NullSchmid is that the powder toy guy?

[@sparklefluff]

​@@ImmortalAbsol Yes

[@Spacccee]

When the undertown flooded, you stopped making money from it, but you were still paying upkeep, which is why you lost in the end

[@sjhall2009]

I thought the same thing. Should have bulldozed Undertown when it submerged.

[@Nareimooncatt]

Bingo.

[@erinkarp]

@@sjhall2009 yeah

[@IngiR08]

He also could’ve moved svo many expensive buildings up to the “it” like the waste management center and the train stations

[@captaindelta43]

As a junior city planner engineer myself, also specializing in drainage , my heart rate was also rising like the sea water level in this video 😅😂📈

[@burntbiscuitthatlikethecowboys]

Ba dum tss

[@speedwalker781]

Ima reply to this because this might blow up so I can get likes

[@justinolsen488]

@@speedwalker781well rn it’s the 2nd top comment on the video

[@greenpeaman1085]

I’ll give you a like

[@zackrvn8321]

The fact that matt was racing the tide but played the whole thing on fast forward made me laugh and infurated me at the same time. Man likes a challenge I guess

[@darioschottlender]

Aaaaaargh just made me nervous lol

[@kingcos19]

No he just stinks at gameplay

[@ImmortalAbsol]

I don't think the map was made with the pausing limitation in mind. I would like to see more of this please. -Strategic water pump placement? Flood disaster response trucks? Dams? Quays?

[@benclimo461]

It definitely doesn't help that he had fast forward on for a long time and showing us stuff too 😂

[@SomeIdiotsPlayGames]

"What's up with electricity, oh- We have no electricity." -Motorway Matt, 2023

[@Genesis8934]

9:30 Architect move detected. The water won't hit the canal until it over tops the sea wall... Probably better to canal *then* sea wall, give the water some place to go first then the sea wall becomes taller by extension.

[@bananasforaday614]

"if people live longer they pay tax longer" -sentence of the year

[@cyberfutur5000]

Some one should make this concept into a whole game! But maybe in reverse, so that the water goes away periodically and increasingly serviere. And maybe put in some sort of water dwelling rodent in it, just for the loughs. Jeez I would watch the hell out of that, if Matt would play such a game.

[@rachelcookie321]

A game where the water is constantly rising would be interesting though. The game could take place on like an infinitely tall mountain and you have to keep trying to advance your city while at the same time constantly moving it upwards. And possibly there could be new challenges the further up you go like with oxygen and stuff. Could take place on an alien planet so you can be more free with what is realistic.

[@MM-yj7yt]

That's a cool idea, honestly! Also I'd like to see some water drainage/irigation management, with canals and reservoirs. There would be some potential for environmental storytelling about the positive impact on nature and revitilising wastelands. Matt, please make a Timberborn roleplay in Cities: Skylines, like playing a game as if it was another game.

[@isaacsoh5176]

Timberborners?

[@amonx8307]

Welcome back to Timberborneeers season 6 episode 1.

[@jhguitarfreak2172]

There's a few maps like this in From Dust.

[@Seegtease]

You could totally do this challenge. Once the lower city was flooded, you needed to destroy all the roads and services that were causing you to hemorrhage money. Sure your city has shrunk, but you'd have a lot of time to grow it back on the high land. Just live within your means!

[@veridico84]

That moment when he asked, "who built this map?" It looks like a very strong cliff.

[@christophergallagher3721]

Water in Cities Skylines acts really weird when you change game speeds. The first burst was probably from shifting between slow and fast game speeds.

[@devileh]

Imagine your block being 80 houses long. Sucks if you need to get to the other side. 😂

[@jacobshanning4052]

That "Ahhhh" at 2:49 got me good. Maybe add an extra portion to the editors' two meals a week?

[@Snakeeyem]

NOW THIS IS CONTENT

[@coolcrazyguyer]

We need a part 2 NOW This is amazing

[@mtbrocket]

Interesting. What you really need is a long, skinny map with a series of steps. Start at the bottom and over time the map just fills up so each step is then flooded. See if you can build faster than the rising water.

[@heyhellyco]

Ahhh the good ‘ol Netherlands simulator! Funny enough in ye oldie times the dutchies would actually build on hills and flood the lower areas to keep away any attacking forces. Anyway absolutely enjoyed the video, these type of challenges are always a blast to watch!

[@keegany4r176]

There was another map with the same concept a few years ago. It had some actual terrain for you to work with, which I think would be far more interesting. It also didn't have a flooding problem like here.

[@KlaximumSkroeft]

POV: You're a Dutch city planner.

[@LumityShipper-ff3ec]

i think the reason you lost is A: the upkeep, and B: you had it on 3x speed for the final parts

[@nathanielboertien]

If you put water pumps in the canal and then turn them off they will continue to suck water so you can try and put many to stop the water from rising.

[@niceneasyraps]

Play more of the island game like this! Can’t wait to watch

[@jackfishthe6th373]

I have always loved the challenge of defending against water in this game. Defending against Tsunami's is also fun.

[@thomask4978]

"We gave windmills a chance" is Matt foreshadowing what German politicians will say I the future?

[@YesNoYT]

Matt had a whole ass dystopian time line going. Moral lesson and all (you need a working class to survive).

[@daniel1998729]

If you build an airport on the high land, people can get in and out and you may keep running the city forever!

[@LexusLFA554]

If people can smell their disappearing garbage it is still bothering everyone. I wonder what would come out if you actually built a perfect city, according to all building codes and such. Would be awesome to see your design.

[@LaaWodyyy]

Thanks for another cities skylines vid These my favorite

[@AllThingsRuckus]

I really like your content. Keeps me smiling. Especially Timberborners.

[@The_Box_King]

Day 64 of asking Matt to play No Mans Sky. 5 days left...

[@MaximTheRussianGuy]

Do not give up man!

[@Marshmellow_Cat]

Dont you dare

[@cocoalpes]

Can't wait till Thursday

[@sametihsanarslan7332]

Just writing this so you can go up in comments

[@kr1v]

Also writing this coz comments

[@tylerpentecost9669]

"I should probably just stop talking and start building." The most realistic engineering statement I have heard today.

[@darioschottlender]

Anyone else feels anxiety about when he has all those issues he still keeps the speed on times 3?

[@ariamh823]

The atmosphere,the darnger and the incompetence made this a bager. Feel like a movie should be built with this idea

[@jakeplayz4148]

I wake up and I’m excited to watch your videos you start my day off so good your different to the other city skyline KZbinrs you the best man keep it up! 😊

[@TatyanaSZabanova]

Id really love to watch Matt to build it to 90k population, normal map, no mods. Imagine the sick spaghetti he would build to solve the traffic issues?

[@AyoSosanya]

Once you started building up it would have been a good idea to protect your services by moving them to the new area or just turning them all off so you dont have to pay the upkeep.

[@Angry_Cinnamion_toast]

Never fails to make an amazing video, keep rocking!

[@pauldavison3426]

Love the fact you quoted Gillian Mckeith in this episode "oh no the poo. The poo is not good."

[@ashtondoublet8334]

5:24 "Good thing i didn't buy any tiles that way and kept going that direction." Me focusing on the flow of water at the top left of the screen.

[@MrGreat2489]

This is a great video.Also Matt,anarchy allows to build networks on water

[@benlunaris]

Matt, a former Engineer: It's just a small bit of water, I'll build a canal and floodwall later Meanwhile in Bikini Bottom...

[@toughsun2704]

No-pause Cities:Skylines stresses me out lol

[@rachelcookie321]

I always pause while I’m building. I don’t want something to happen while I’m not paying attention. And especially in this challenge, time is of the essence so you don’t want to waste your time by doing stuff while it’s unpaused.

[@TechBaffle]

Cities Skylines: *cannot build on water* Me: builds on dry land then moves it using the Move It mod 😂

[@asokanung2567]

Hey Matt, the highest u can have the tax is on 12% without them complaining about it👍🏻

[@Kjamilex]

"Let's raise these a couple of percent, noone will notice, right?" How ridiculous, our real world rulers would never do such a devious thing!

[@CamoSquid]

Would actually enjoy this challenge again, perhaps a different map, and additional challenges within

[@liujip0]

Maybe adding water pumps to the canals would have helped

[@tacocat1714]

Your city skylines content is my favourite!

[@zaoda1357]

onto the outer border wall and use aiports from as soon as possible was the strategy I was thinking of

[@jesiachord3179]

This is very interesting to watch being someone from south Louisiana. Might be useful…

[@petercreps7215]

Your map for the challenge is the outline of the state of oregon!

[@dotdedo]

“this house is currently getting burglarized… so let’s just replace their house with a police department” This man might be British but he has the mind of a Detroit City Planner (yes I actually live there not just for the meme)

[@Panjab_47_84]

Matt is here yet again, with another certified banger of a video

[@nerdypenguin9164]

Challenges like this are so fun. More please!

[@AdriaOliSal]

I would love to see you try again this map with the knowledge you now have!

[@beastgamers9324]

I love how he said i won't pause, then paused 4 minutes later, got me dying 😂

[@TwistyBons]

LETS GO ANOTHER CITIES SKYLINES BANGER RCE FTW

[@jacobeddy2958]

He was on fast forward the whole time wondering why things were going wrong so fast

[@BabyEnglandArchive]

The Netherlands if they never had landscaping tools:

[@sombat2788]

2:48 LOL - what is that sound from?! My guess is Wario or Waluigi.

[@Blue__244]

someone said its dave chapelle

[@BOB_BR_MP_12]

This is the best chalenge you have done!

[@swagginburger]

RCE! I have some news to tell you! Idk if you know this already, but office buildings In the city could have the name “Master Architects”!!! This means there could very well be architecture in engitopia!!

[@JoshBatemanWeise-pd1tb]

You were so close! Please do a follow up episode where you rightfully make it!

[@N1troki11er]

Id happily watch you try and take this on again

[@forgegamer3118]

Please do this challenge again! I really liked it lol

[@gam1ng_pr0d1gy7]

I literally got the notification for this video while reading an article about the flooding in Ukraine just now.

[@Marshmellow_Cat]

Wow, (meme thingi) Coincidence?? *I THINK NOT!!*

[@grahammayne587]

Matt please for the love of bridges please please please make a city that actually functions Right a list of thing you need in the city’s so you don’t for get about cemeteries lol

[@burgerboss8903]

Who else remembers when this dude had 5k subs only 2 years ago. Big love. Watching your channel grow as fast as it did was amazing

[@scert2832]

As an American I can confirm that RCE has successfully detailed our country in his city

[@ltgaming8510]

POV: You're watching all of this guy's city skyline videos

[@Snowwie88]

This was a nice one, but you forgot you also have water pumping services, and you could had put water pumps on the canal and drain it away. And as soon the main city started to flood, destroy everything that costs money, every service, and dezone the whole place, even remove roads that are not needed anymore, except the higher elevation. But I think your city went bankrupt also because you never paid anymore attention to the highway going out. You could have just used the national 4 way highway for going in and out. Great video, love the video edits. As a fellow CS content creator, may I ask where you get those sound effects? They are really nice and give 'situation awareness'. 🙂

[@kalzakath57]

Do another one with allowing you to use terrain tools, but locked at 3 speed, eh?

[@EVERYTHING333-3]

U need to build up! -Every Capitalist ever 😂

[@Lyrazel]

This was highly stressful, but in an entertaining way! Give it another go!

[@adrianmarinboyero1094]

Loved this video!

[@jsublett8871]

RCE Good video bro this one was fun. Still waiting on the beaver plush update. My girlfriend cannot wait to get that little guy

[@zk-nna2298]

Nice one Matt!

[@toddabbott781]

Can you stack a sea wall on a sea wall? Also never use graveyards and garbage dumps... always upgrade them to recycle centers and crematoriums as soon as you can. Also once stuff stated flooding you should have demolished it all as it still costs you money when flooded. That is what drove you into bankruptcy. You should have done all high density up top and had all the utilities up there. Then demolish everything below if you could not build up the sea walls higher.

[@samuelhulme8347]

Stacking sea walls is a no in vanilla but it could be in move it and anarchy mods

[@grenko92]

Haha, very funny. To look at this while people in my country are dying from flooding after the Kakhovka dam tragedy. Perfect timing.

[@japes7]

Man i wanna try this. Gotta move the services up high ground when you still have money, and I guess dezone the bottom. Because abandonment kills the demand. I have to try this

[@cosmicgoat2038]

So happy he uploaded :)

[@silymon]

14:21 you can actually pause the game by clicking on the play symbol next to the time/date display

[@ashhplayz9489]

a part of his challenge was not to pause the game

[@samuelhulme8347]

And he clicked this button to unpause the game

[@Cory_Springer]

@17:10 "dams don't flood over the top, do they?" No. When the water flows over the top it's a weir, not a dam.

[@Snowwie88]

The map itself appears to be made in 2015, and it's name is just "Flood", so if you enter that in Workshop then it's the first hit you get. 🙂

[@japes7]

Thanks. I thought it would be in the description. But it wasn't

[@japes7]

I found a scenario called Flood, however I can't play it. I want to get it working, but don't know if I'm missing something.

[@vanguard6498]

It mustve been removed, I can no longer find it

[@robertgatehouse2824]

These chalenges are so entertaining!

[@silverwolfzs7601]

5:08 Anyone else seeing what I’m seeing? When he mentions there’s a leak 💀

[@NitroxVsGaming]

I'd really love to see Matt do this challenge again.

[@Dave0439]

this city would have been a sucess if the game would have let RCE build the city on top of multiple high bridges or one high bridge with a looooot of lanes

[@maura462]

These beavers have evolved

[@danielmunteanu2585]

YOU FAILED US, WE WOULDN'T ACCEPT THIS FAIL, we are waiting for you to retry this and actually achieve getting up there

[@shinethomas54]

You could put a tons of water pumps on the canal !!!😂

[@AllPileup]

17:13 Wisdom of Dams by RCE

[@mejillonius]

welcome back to skylines borners♫ we built a new town ♫ it gets wet really really fast ♫

[@kellysueballard7654]

And I could hear Matt singing it

[@5reasonstoedge]

Day 231:Dear Matt, I have a very good video idea Gather all your editors and make them all have 3 chances to make the cheapest,best and most efficient bridge, or the best score on any motorway game(e.g AQR, that one train game, ect...), or who make the longest and most efficient shapes.And see who is the best editor and is worthy of the rank of a classified engineering. From me.

[@gaysarahk]

He keeps finding new ways to put Creeper World in Cities Skylines

[@clubvillain]

Can't wait for you to try this idea in Cities: Skylines 2 in October :D

[@mintypandas8999]

Yoo this is amazing

[@the_daily_dose111]

did u know that those buildings like police station, have unlimited range the roads getting green only means that people are gonna be happy about this!