Me waiting for someone to mention the city name in the comments... 😅
@datacticalsoldier11 ай бұрын
Me:
@datacticalsoldier11 ай бұрын
More grids than a fifa celebration for who won the World Cup??
@PanzersnCricket11 ай бұрын
More grids than a Fifa celebr...
@mr_gutsy515111 ай бұрын
Day 46 of asking Matt to play no man’s sky
@mr_gutsy515111 ай бұрын
I’m sorry day 47
@arcticanimator11 ай бұрын
CHALLENGE FOR RCE: step one: puase the game. Step two: design an entire city in sandbox and see if it will survive when you press play. Step three:profit
@Roboninja332711 ай бұрын
the death waves
@TheLongestPar11 ай бұрын
I'd give it about 2 minutes
@HDTomo11 ай бұрын
I 2nd this
@seablake411611 ай бұрын
Yes!
@alli_mode11 ай бұрын
Wait, to get to "profit" step 2 must be: "???"
@diegomartin993211 ай бұрын
How does Matt create a new city pretty much every week and always forget basic services? Fascinating honestly
@Kmichaelcook873 ай бұрын
See my other comment on this video. I think maybe he’s been struck violently in the head, and he experiences the world like the protagonist from Memento. That said, it does lend a certain childlike wonder and joy to his content. But it is remarkable. I don’t think it’s put on, I’ll say that much.
@xVMouseVx11 ай бұрын
grids are just square roundabouts
@waldowaggins13305 ай бұрын
You have to slow down so much, and stop more
@Just_anotherfan11 күн бұрын
@@waldowaggins1330square roundabout 🤷♀️
@silentbrad-mmm11 ай бұрын
FYI, I found out recently that there’s a parallel roads tool. Two below the replace tool. It also automatically alternates one-ways.
@Beach_Boomer11 ай бұрын
⚠️ A 4x4 grid containing only 4 squares = Architect mathematics ⚠️
@Good_at_night11 ай бұрын
comment
@PanzersnCricket11 ай бұрын
Be gone from this world demon!!!!!!!!!!
@Good_at_night11 ай бұрын
@@PanzersnCricket hello
@oOPIIcesOo11 ай бұрын
I was searching for this 😁
@asilbekabdurashidov51958 ай бұрын
Meee toooo
@beatrixkaelin512011 ай бұрын
You know, Grids are fine building for cities, if you treat them as Roundabouts. Every street is a One Way Street, One street going on one direction, and the next moving in the opposite direction. So you'll only have left/right hand turns or straight, You never never need a traffic light. One feeder road that's two way, and the rest Oneway gridding is fine.
@ktvindicare11 ай бұрын
Yea this is my usual strategy for controlling traffic on smaller roads in Cities Skylines one. At the start of the game I can't make 4-6 lane roads, but as my population goes up the traffic gets terrible on the starter 2 lane roads, so making them one way does a lot to alleviate traffic issues.
@Keiidryn11 ай бұрын
While this makes sense in theory, I do want to point one issue out. If every road is one way and alternates direction, then every intersection will alternate from only straight/right to only straight/left turns. There would still be a need for traffic lights because traffic would enter from one direction at one intersection then from the opposite side at the next, so every type of turn is still encountered, just not all at the same time. Edit: Actually, with dedicated turn lanes that merge off each time, I suppose it could’ve avoided entirely since there’s never oncoming traffic, only entering traffic. Oversight on my own mental picturing of it.
@unitrader4037 ай бұрын
i think a Hex Grid with one way streets only would be great. for each block the traffic direction around it alternates between clockwise, counter-clockwise and alternating. This would also remove essentially all intersection conflict points, since that is spread out over the Streets via lane changes. You could also view this idea as a gigantic grid of magic roundabouts :D
@AkariEnderwolf7 ай бұрын
it can be annoying to get around, but that is how Detroit is actually set up in some places, some roads are 1 way, while being connected with a couple 2 way larger streets
@iiMoha11 ай бұрын
Matt: I can’t believe someone wants to live here! People living in Manhattan: *look nervously*
@brandonsilva190311 ай бұрын
Avenues are about as wide, streets are not, streets are one lane in most if not all of nyc, the grid is also rectangles. Austin on the other hand...
@Cappabara10 ай бұрын
nah salt lake city we live in one already
@KingHeavyMetal11 ай бұрын
Challenge! Most cities have the tall office buildings in the center and the industry on the outside try and make a functional city, but in reverse with all the industry in the center of the city and the office blocks spread around it with the urban area in between
@dennisdexter560211 ай бұрын
Industries are never in the center. Offices are.
@KingHeavyMetal11 ай бұрын
@@dennisdexter5602 that is the point of the challenge. dummy
@jotoqi872811 ай бұрын
That’s what he said
@KingHeavyMetal11 ай бұрын
@@jotoqi8728 so is he agreeing with because his comment makes it sound like he does not understand that the point of the challenge is to build a city with the industrial area in its center rather than at the edge.
@UmamaahoeАй бұрын
All that would do is make horrible traffic lmao
@joshthompson847811 ай бұрын
Me: grids aren't bad, you always know where you're going. Rce: so we are making 4x4 grids Me: 😬 ok that sounds like hell. Rce: makes a 2x2 grid Me: he might be an architect with those quick maths
@unitrader4037 ай бұрын
well, technically it is a 4 by 4 cell grid. the road is two cells wide, and the open/buildable space also is two cells wide, which gives the grid pattern an edge length of 4 cells.
@thisisnotthechannelyourelo4076 ай бұрын
@@unitrader403 nobody likes a pedant
@WhatsOnTheOtherEnd11 ай бұрын
The fact that those services covered such a large area seems to indicate that there’s an exploit here. Maybe the calculation “ignores” intersections as distance?
@Hr07hgar8711 ай бұрын
Its based on pop density i think
@chnet96811 ай бұрын
@@Hr07hgar87 Yup. I think the 2x2 grids do limit the building types that can be spawned, so even for high density building the area won't hold as much people as other cities.
@theshadowking319811 ай бұрын
Get spiffing Brit here NOW
@mgmgeorge311 ай бұрын
You just made my hometown. People adore the road layout because, " you can't get lost", but it also takes 30 minutes to drive across a city of 200k people because you are sitting at traffic lights for 20 minutes.
@subjekt5577Ай бұрын
... Portland? Not 200k anymore though
@unusualcat535Ай бұрын
Just take the tram or bus at that point or cycle
@tvdinner198611 ай бұрын
“The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships, motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day I got in...” - RCE, probably
@hemalpatil21525 ай бұрын
Biodigital jazz, man
@dangingerich255911 ай бұрын
Grids work wonderfully under two conditions: long streets in one direction to reduce the number of interruptions and encompassed in a square of access roads that then connect to the major roads with a few short access side roads. Those have been the best neighborhoods I have lived in. If the major roads then have their own major grid, with highways in another level of super-grid encompassing the city, it makes traffic pretty tolerable.
@ewoot851111 ай бұрын
Wonder when he will find out about the parallel route building feature.
@jimmymcgoochie536311 ай бұрын
This is exactly what American urban planning looks like, only with buses and wind turbines and affordable public healthcare…
@java679111 ай бұрын
America Europe style
@HDTomo11 ай бұрын
nah grids aren't bad, America would be a long line of parallel stroads nearly connected by 4 lane roads but cut off to create thousands of cul de sacs
@vedants.vispute7711 ай бұрын
amm, I mean you need a sunken highways and interstate isnt it?
@rennoc647811 ай бұрын
@@HDTomothey ain’t but you can still do better
@TheKrausenKid11 ай бұрын
This is just a mega grid thankfully. If it was an American city sim then there would be a lot more abandoned low rent housing lol.
@AbsoIutelyJack11 ай бұрын
[12:15] If you don't know what he mean, the building layout spells "HELP". Took me a while to see it.
@officialnucky11 ай бұрын
Me: **sees 2x2 grid** RCE: The smallest patch we can get is this 4x4 grid Is this the mad descent into Architestism we're seeing?
@CorruptedRipper11 ай бұрын
This really inspires me to want to live.. off the grid
@hardhatlunchpal11 ай бұрын
I love these Cities Skylines 2 challenges. It shows me what the extremes of design in this game do. Keep up the good work!
@Zergonn11 ай бұрын
I wonder if you could use the grid tool to place an initial grid, then again 2 squares appart until filled? If it works, gridding would take only about a fourth of the time.
@azne529811 ай бұрын
Try building a city similar to the grid in center city philadelphia, which is all one-way roads on a tight grid with only a few 2 ways dispersed amongst them. If a block is blocked off for road work (a daily occurrence) you have to play what I call “south Philly pac man” and it takes an extra 15 min to go 2 blocks
@monetary_episode4948 ай бұрын
How European view American cities:
@abcdefgcdefg517811 ай бұрын
Welcome to the new year fellow engineers! Another year of the war on architecture!
@Fried_Rice3211 ай бұрын
I think a cool feature with the cemetery is if you build it, it should be empty and as your civs die it fills up instead if it being prefilled with tombstones
@Bluhbear11 ай бұрын
unless you build it on top of an old burial ground :P
@jnawk836 ай бұрын
Missed an opportunity to put it right in the middle of the map, call it the dead centre
@Secretsofsociety11 ай бұрын
I wish the auto gird tool allowed you to pick size because there are gameplay and density reasons that you want 2 or 3 square depth zones to prevent rents being too high and make it look more like a real city. Easy enough to add more alleys after using the grid tool or by using the grid tool again to make a box within the box but it would be nice if there was just an option.
@Miss_Trillium11 ай бұрын
Matt: *makes a grid city* Also matt: "I'll just spam stuff randomly, rather than make use of the grid"
@Rody_le_Cid11 ай бұрын
could you have done grids with alternating one way streets? not sure if it calculates traffic but that might help alleviate cars with alternating one ways
@darknessblades11 ай бұрын
Longer grids works better than individual grids Using alleys allows for more compressed roads, meaning more houses, meaning more peeps moving in
@Darke_Exelbirth11 ай бұрын
wouldn't that effectively be a city of roundabouts, but square?
@Nick-hi9gx11 ай бұрын
@@Darke_Exelbirth Yes; this is how lots and lots of cities in the US that were built between ~1840 and 1920 are built. They had larger roads than the older ones back east, for carriages and wagons, but not wide enough for two-way roads once we switched to cars. You will find entire sections of places like Denver, Albuquerque, cities in Illinois and Iowa and Kansas and the Dakotas, down through West Texas and Arizona that have series of one-way grids. Mostly they have been replaced where they aren't in residential or low-traffic areas, they cause a lot of accidents, but if you look carefully in a lot of those places you can also see how the original grids were built, and had to be expanded through tearing down adjacent buildings. But basically any city built after the steam engine caught on, but before the internal combustion auto was mass-produced, you'll find those grids in the US. Canada to a lesser degree. The problem is corners, and people forgetting which direction the next street is going. Houses and businesses have things that block view, people park too close to the corners, and wrecks happen all the time. When people were only going 10mph drawn by horses, that wasn't an issue. Even when people were only going 15-25 in early cars, not much of an issue.
@AlexBeveridge-t8i11 ай бұрын
It’s a good new year when RCE uploads
@Sirchilla11 ай бұрын
laughed so hard when you made the comment about the dotted line thing and then at 17:36 when you see is it cannot be unseen :D:D:D:D
@Justhatguy111 ай бұрын
Strongest shape bus route! Impressive.. 💪
@manuelurquiza754610 ай бұрын
Tbf, i was born and raised in a gridlocked city, 100mx100m blocks 1-way 10m wide roads. I live in Ireland for 4 years and my god this is pure hell. Back home you could ask where is something, aw yeah, just go 3 blocks down turn left and 5 blocks until youre there. Here is purely google maps, cant even understand directions if they put me houses, roads or cattle as point of reference😅
@stephenp823211 ай бұрын
Flat open land can have insane wind... ive had to drive alot and there are some areas where its so flat the wind can push your car around.
@breayonasaurus723611 ай бұрын
I concur. I used to live in Iowa, USA , which is really flat. The wind was awful in central Iowa. My car would shake on the highway from the wind.
@ChaosCodex1998 күн бұрын
Eastern VA here, can also confirm, especially along the oceanfront. There's a reason the state wants to build a massive wind farm about 15 miles off the coast.
@Kalyandra11 ай бұрын
"That's the one good thing about the grid. These services, they seem to just affect everyone, like everyone is happy." ;)
@BrucelLloyd11 ай бұрын
could have doubled the density by using the roads without sidewalks
@hanzzel608611 ай бұрын
Alleys.
@jc_art_11 ай бұрын
@@hanzzel6086the problem is its not two way, resulting in horrible, no good, bad bad, terrible traffic
@Astraeus..11 ай бұрын
@@jc_art_ Well realistically speaking, on a grid this tight together you'd probably be better off having a lot of one way streets. Say north to south all 2 way, but east to west all 1 way, alternating from all 1 way east then the next all 1 way west, etc.... In that kind of grid you could probably make the 1-ways be continuous, no stops, and have stops only on the 2 way streets that intersect. Would make getting far across the city much quicker.
@jc_art_11 ай бұрын
@@Astraeus.. but what if youre in the middle and need to go the other way, you gotta go all the way to the end to make a turn
@aulvinduergard995211 ай бұрын
Just thought of one good thing about the mega grid: No one has to worry about property lines.
@AubreyMK11 ай бұрын
Minecraft creative plots be like:
@Lorissarusrex11 ай бұрын
Matt "i hope the sewage doesnt pollute the water" proceeds to build the entire industrial sector directly next to the water pump. Lolol
@unitrader4037 ай бұрын
welll to be fair industry causes more ground and air pollution, not so much water pollution which he was worried about.
@AryaPDipa11 ай бұрын
"The map is too flat for wind" Actually that's ideal for wind farm. Just like with any other fluid, obstruction like mountain slows down the speed of air.
@screech385911 ай бұрын
The engineer: The smallest I can get is 4x4 Me: that is clearly 2x2. Engineer math must be hard. Lol!
@moonphase42011 ай бұрын
Within the two minutes Matt has already called a 2x2 grid a 4x4 grid
@thedmango23511 ай бұрын
this is awesome we need to see more of this !!!!!!!
@mrgamingpanda1611 ай бұрын
Hey im the guy who asked about the back of the net a couple days ago and alan partridge is now one of my favorite shows. Thanks man
@flamandbenoit724711 ай бұрын
Challenge for rce : no pollution city ! i really think he can't handle this one ^ ^
@jdotoz11 ай бұрын
I don't think that's possible in the early game.
@darioschottlender11 ай бұрын
I'd say road maintenance isn't expensive because roads are barely being used, and each time you make the city bigger you just add more roads so it's never clogged and cars barely touch them. I'd assume that's how it works in the game at least
@SovaKlr11 ай бұрын
next challenge... a grid but every road is a 1 way, alternating directions. That won't be tedious at all.
@SamanthaLaurier11 ай бұрын
"I'm going to see if grids are good!" *lays out a huge grid with uselessly tiny squares, making exponentially more work* "Why is this such a pain?"
@Roach57011 ай бұрын
Keep this one going!
@jamesletford426611 ай бұрын
I think it would be cool to recreate real cities or towns in this and see how they perform. Could do series making various settlements on the same world eventually building towards a country
@aehoward9111 ай бұрын
This is really cool RCE! Your next city should be the strongest shape!
@LinkAlmeida9 ай бұрын
The game no longer uses FPS, it now uses FPR - Frames Per Road. You spend frames to build roads
@Xion-RottiАй бұрын
Bro literally made San Francisco.
@zacharyking3374Ай бұрын
Hello. American here. This is the perfect city.
@darthgonk439811 ай бұрын
Does RCE not realise that you don't need road access for sewage outlets so he doesn't have to extend the grid over there. Architect behaviour
@justinbremer228111 ай бұрын
What if it clogs, though? Then you need to offroad to fix it
@darthgonk439811 ай бұрын
@@justinbremer2281 that doesn't happen in the game
@justinbremer228111 ай бұрын
@@darthgonk4398. . . yet......
@darthgonk439811 ай бұрын
@@justinbremer2281 in the game if something needs to be connected to a road it says "Road access required"
@Astraeus..11 ай бұрын
@@darthgonk4398 Funny thing about that requirement, because (unless it's different in CS2) you don't need a road connected to any actual other roads for "road access". You can literally just build a tiny stretch of road next to whatever the thing is that needs road access and it works.
@robjsmiles11 ай бұрын
It's like that movie where they get trapped in an endless sprawl of identical houses
@Chernobyl_lemon11 ай бұрын
Day 5 of asking Matt to play United Penguin Kingdom.
@waynebrezner373011 ай бұрын
Day 1 of asking Matt to play united penguin kingdom.
@frosbite8411 ай бұрын
The amount of stop and go would drive me nuts.
@Topic_Yo11 ай бұрын
Day 75 of me asking Matt to continue playing Minecraft.
@Chernobyl_lemon11 ай бұрын
Dude some day you are going to make it
@porcorosso433011 ай бұрын
11:16 My guess is the tiny grids can always provide a the shortest distance to a building which kind of increase the range of service...
@Makro3d11 ай бұрын
You need to make this, but instead of junctions, use small roundabouts.
@benfordslaw510511 ай бұрын
This is unironically your best layout yet. And I'm not even American.
@Ibrahim-d7l1h11 ай бұрын
Day 35 of asking Matt to play pvz
@Pug_3512gh18 ай бұрын
Dam you have done it’s over 60 times
@Ibrahim-d7l1h8 ай бұрын
Rip the streak i accidentally left my ipad at cousins house
@Pug_3512gh18 ай бұрын
@@Ibrahim-d7l1h oh at least you restated it
@NicolianBehn11 ай бұрын
Now all you need is a long traffic light at each crossroads that alternates on every adjacent intersection so no matter what, you need to stop every 20 feet
@elnabasic711511 ай бұрын
Can you make a part of Engitopia the “Engineering” way. (e.g. most traffic efficient, intersections, zoning etc.) ? Would be very interesting. Entertaining and learning in one 👍👍
@justinpontarelli43688 ай бұрын
To be fair, as an American... I hate the Mega Grid. You take a nice bit of land with lovely trees... (I love hiking in the woods) and turn it in to a hideous concrete jungle. I'd prefer any road layout, assuming low density housing with lots of room in between for unzoned natural land with lots of trees! Waiting behind a red light is annoying so I imagine roundabouts help a lot with traffic flow. Just give me a nice huge area to go hiking in on the outskirts of a town, and wham... I'd like it! Love your City Skylines videos!
@SineN0mine37 ай бұрын
He paved paradise
@Rory_Macdonald11 ай бұрын
If you Press alt f4 at the same time it’ll give you an option to select a certain amount of space and paste whatever is if you have the money😂
@diegorondelli937911 ай бұрын
Mat not realizing that parallel road would have saved him 50% of time :D
@TankNamedTom11 ай бұрын
Next challenge for this map: place trees on every road. 🌳
@Irohbro7 ай бұрын
1:11What you have to do is to let people build their houses and then build a pathway or One lane highway or the smallest road possible.
@The01True20Gamer1611 ай бұрын
The grid must grow! Continue tell it takes over the whole region. I think we'd all agree the bigger buildings are okay within the grid so long as the grid continues smoothlyish around it. 😂 the grid starves for more!!
@airbornejesus384511 ай бұрын
The reason road cost is so low is because there are so many roads to drive down they are getting worn down as quickly so they don't need as much repair.
@letstalkstuff345711 ай бұрын
Grids are the roads of freedom! Murica! Them sweet 90 degree angles.
@scooterD311 ай бұрын
The funny thing about this, is this setup basically gives you a straight shot from any building to any building
@loucololosse11 ай бұрын
"You never really know what you gonna draw until your finished" 17:30 You silly sausage
@CMDRJakob10 ай бұрын
The phrase, "Pull up on your block" just got a whole lot more personal.
@suri-kun11 ай бұрын
Hey Matt. Could I please have all the "Bridge Reviews" from this year in one video?
@gavinlarson452011 ай бұрын
I always watch the cities skylines videos to fall asleep and then rewatch them sometime later when I’m awake
@nicholastabar921611 ай бұрын
Now you have to do both... create a grid of the smallest roundabout city you can make. Probably 3x3 or 4x4 to have room for the roundabouts?
@secondghoul998611 ай бұрын
The new American game, "Make It Grid"
@jackdesanta6911 ай бұрын
Would be nice to be able to copy (or even save) road layouts
@btabbyy2 ай бұрын
5:24 “people really want to live here”. Of course they do!! It’s America!!! Ain’t no better place to live baby!!!!
@nealm69449 ай бұрын
Loving the “strong engineering” bus stops!! That was proper hidden!! 🇬🇧
@Jackthetech11 ай бұрын
Summers in that city would be near lethal with all that blacktop. Winter would be nicer, good build tho.
@RB_truckin11 ай бұрын
This madness is awesome!!! It always improves the day
@vikzmedz11 ай бұрын
A new video on my birthday from my favorite youtuber..thats bang on perfect!
@LKLM13811 ай бұрын
I knew it. Immediately. This thing works better than most of the serious towns.
@LolaMariek11 ай бұрын
Tbh everyone in those homes would most likely be disgusted by the sound of cars might push em back to Matts roundabout world anyway. Job done.
@skyshredder_coutries11 ай бұрын
You can actually use pathways to block grids to be able to zone 1 tile buildings
@MrGrimm7310 ай бұрын
Every time I see how many road names there are, it makes me giggle a lil bit lol 😂
@JosefdeJoanelli11 ай бұрын
One thing I like about this grid is we can do away with house numbers in addresses
@zekeclark259411 ай бұрын
I haven't watched skylines videos for a while and didn't even no skylines 2 was released! I was like, it looks different I wonder if he's playing with a mod. How exciting!
@VelociraptorX11 ай бұрын
I'm starting to think you are right. Every challenge city works like a dream.
@mrboberson7424Ай бұрын
Hey, this is hell. Imagine how hot the city would be given all the pavement.
@logan2721111 ай бұрын
City skylines needs to sponsor you
@DeerLetsplayCrysiser11 ай бұрын
PolyBridge and Cities Skylines. That's what I've come for *sips tea*
@Dysonsfear77111 ай бұрын
You should do some belgian city, ribbon housing (lint bebouwing). Everyone just lives along a street and only shopping malls are in big cities without too much housing
@zdenekdolezal96468 ай бұрын
You know, you should combine grid city with roundabout city. If I am correct, if you'd go for 3x3grid instead of 2x2 and then change every single junction to smallest roundaboud, then all corner tiles will disapere to remaining 5tiles between roads in the shape +. And in it there will be either 2x one-tile house and 1x three tile house or 3x one-tile house and 1x dwo-tile house. I cannot try it, because of my old potatio PC that cannot run this game.
@SineN0mine37 ай бұрын
I think you'd need to go 4x4 because the smallest buildinge are 2x2 besides the row homes.
@erichurst789711 ай бұрын
"Everyone is happy, I don't understand how that works" Same, Matt, same.
@techvoyagers11 ай бұрын
It looks very American. Asphalt everywhere ! I like this 😅
@kur0nek0g4ming11 ай бұрын
No matter how awesome Cities Skylines 2 is, I think old Engintopia deserves a respectful ending!