I recreated a REAL CITY to prove Cities Skylines 2 isn't broken!

We're checking out Cities Skylines 2 (City Skyline 2) today, and what better way to do it than to recreate a real city?
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[@SnowGaming...]

use the tree brush to remove the trees

[@devileh]

Sssssh, don't tell him!

[@user-yx5su6lf3v]

Yeah

[@marcrubin9359]

He should use mods. There are many that would help with engineering. There's even a full water management mod

[@MonkeyBurrito]

he's such a noob lol

[@TheOneCity1]

He hearted he knows now

[@jcbcran55]

Living quite close to bath i can say matt did a good job at replicating it. Hard city to do with so many alleyways

[@JinThong]

a Roman city after all

[@Fasty8Gaming]

could tell it was bath by looking at just the thumbnail! it was the river shape that was the clue

[@sindhuahuja5230]

Closest cities to Bath: Bristol, Keynsham, and Nailsea

[@kegal]

@@sindhuahuja5230 that's pretty generous calling Keynsham a city

[@Sof1a510]

​@@kegaland Nailsea..

[@wintermath3173]

7:40 I remember hearing about an interview with the creator of Sim City where he said that they initially aimed for a realistic amount of parking, until they realized that cities with so much parking look terrible!

[@SubjectiveObserver]

When I hear about that stuff, I wonder how many of their decisions were influenced by a strong bias for modern american cities. Like what do they consider a "realistic" amount of parking? Would realistic parking still be ugly if they allowed you to build a more walkable city? Every time I played SimCity, it felt like they hard-coded specific outcomes instead of letting a neutral simulation play out. It was so hard to maintain farmland because they wanted every city to become Manhattan.

[@LycanFerret]

​@@SubjectiveObserver I swear some people just want their cities to be nonfunctional decorations. You either build parking lots - not garages, garages are for walkable cities - or you make a walkable city. You can't have neither, neither makes everyone's lives awful. It's how I feel about people trying to make unwalkable cities not car friendly. Basically forcing everyone to walk 2 hours just to get somewhere. I wouldn't mind parking in a garage, if I didn't have to walk 30 blocks to get to something. And have more winter options, because walking in -10°F iced roads is not good either. But people just don't think about this. People live and work in the cities, you're just making the city not friendly to people. No people city is what they are.

[@James27Simko]

only USA style parking though where its just painted on the ground in huge square. multistory carparking buildings like everywhere else would work fine because thats what is used IRL

[@Nicholas-ze5vv]

@@SubjectiveObserver Bath is a good example of what they were talking about. It's not American either.

[@Bikerbarrie]

Great video

[@Streaky100001]

Actually Matt, trains can go around roads. There was an incident in Canada many years ago where a small, fairly isolated town lost power after a storm. They drove a locomotive, or maybe 2, I forget, off the train tracks and down the road to get it to a position where they could connect the generator into the towns power grid and use it as effectively a big emergency generator. A diesel electric locomotive is effectively just a diesel generator on wheels. Now, I don't advise running a train on the road..... it dug groves into the tarmac, and the wheel sets on the locomotive needed an overhaul before it could go back on the rails, but it CAN be done.

[@jirid.4058]

in Russia is everything possible. They made a train with road wheels. Just seach "MAZ-547/M62"

[@kelleroid]

Now that's metal 🤘🤘🚆

[@welcomeblack]

Trains don't have steering wheels, how did they keep it on the road?

[@kelleroid]

@@welcomeblack clearly you haven't seen that one The Polar Express scene

[@Streaky100001]

To be honest, I don't actually know. My guess is it was probably a straight line run from where it was lifted off the tracks to where it came to rest and was connected. Provided they were very careful about placing it on the road pointing in the right direction, the flanged wheels digging into the road would've helped keep it running pretty straight. If they did need to make any major course changes, such as turning onto another street, well they had a crane they initially used to lift it off the tracks and place it on the road, I'd guess they would've just lifted it with the crane again, carefully turned it while suspended, and then placed it back down again and continued in the new direction. *Edit as I missed an interesting point: That engine only travelled about 1,000ft to get to where it was to be used. They weren't actually connecting them direct to the towns power grid as I originally suggested, they were connecting them to some of the town municipal buildings so they could at least have power to help them organize emergency response. They were planning to take a second locomotive much further, to get power into a school that was being used as an emergency shelter, but that would've meant driving the locomotive over an overpass, and there was a lot of concern that the overpass would collapse under the weight of the locomotive, so in the end they didn't do that, and instead, kept the second nearby as a backup for the first.

[@brettmaddux9243]

Hmmm... If the size of the paths was more important, footpaths might have been the way to handle some or even all of the pedestrian streets? Depends on what you wanted from them I suppose.

[@altimatum]

Yeah after he put in the foot paths my thought was "why not use these instead of the pedestrian walkways?" but I guess it does create some conflict with the zoning in the game.

[@T3mp0_tv]

think the only disadvantage of the footpaths is that you cant do any zoning on them, whereas the pedestrian streets you can

[@brettmaddux9243]

@@T3mp0_tv Yeah. Not sure if the city would have had better building spread using the smaller footpaths off the main roads than using the larger pedestrian streets. At a few points it looked like he was ending up with more roads than space for buildings, but it did look pretty good in the end.

[@swoshy29]

Omg I’ve lived in bath my whole life I can’t believe he’s managed this because there’s so many little lanes and paths everywhere

[@camerona_]

Beautiful city, unfortunately it aged me 10 years driving through the city center during rush hour on my second day visiting the UK lmao

[@drekfletch]

Visited from the US in summer '99. I was astonished by all the side streets. Just down from the Cathedral we found a tiny courtyard with a big tree in the center. It was just so magical.

[@shinodamasaru7945]

So, Bath is real city? Idk until I Google it

[@theroadstopshere]

Using a British town layout as the template to test whether City Skylines 2 is functional? That's just adding an additional difficulty handicap, innit?

[@curtislevey7639]

My thought was it wouldn't matter if the traffic is terrible because that's what Britain's known for 🤣

[@agilemind6241]

@@curtislevey7639 lol, British traffic is miles better than North America because they have viable alternatives to sitting on the motorway for 2+ hours in stop-and-go traffic.

[@griffinbastion]

@@agilemind6241 "viable alternatives" I sure loved my daily commute consisting of waiting 1-2 hours on a bus stuck in traffic, or paying a day of food's worth in train tickets and having to walk half an hour to the station because all the buses going to it arrived AFTER the train left, but also on the way back arrived before the train came back, after moving more into the city and with new price increases now I forgone paying the "Minor" amount of 3 quid per tram ride, deciding that walking 1 hour somewhere is better than taking the tram for 20 minutes

[@user-wr7kx1ye4r]

Being to London as a Moscow guy I can confirm that traffic management in there is just horrible. I was genuinely terrified by it. It has some similar problems with historical center of Moscow but even there all roads were widened as far as it was possible to keep up with traffic increase.

[@Brinton_Callahan]

@@agilemind6241the majority of the US doesn’t have to deal with traffic jams. It is more common in bigger cities

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

The secret is mixed zoning. If you have a bit of everything everywhere, people don't need to go as far to do/get stuff, so you effectively take them off the road. And for necessary commute you can add targeted public transit as an option, cutting that down by a large part as well. And keeping the road capacity limited will encourage the population to actually make use of those alternatives as well.

[@LegoDork]

r/FuckCars

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

@@LegoDork It's really more about poor urban planning than the cars themselves. If you over-regulate what can go where and force people to constantly shuffle from sector to sector, you end up generating tons of unnecessary traffic.

[@realdragon]

Yep, it takes me 7 minutes on foot to get to the shop where I buy grocery. There's another shop closer but it's more expensive

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

​@realdragon Walking distances from my house (approximately): Small groceries: 3 minutes Large supermarket: 3 minutes Public library: 3 - 4 minutes Community centre: 2 - 3 minutes Primary school: 4 - 5 minutes Secondary school: 8 - 10 minutes Church: 7 - 8 minutes Post office: 10 minutes Hair salon: 3 - 4 minutes Domino's Pizza: 2 minutes Grass/recreation areas: 10 - 20 seconds Bus stop: 30 seconds to 1 minute Beach: 30 minutes Mountain: 20 minutes McDonald's: 17 - 18 minutes Town, with large variety of shops, services, and restaurants: 18 - 20 minutes Electrical store: 10 minutes DIY/hardware/garden supplies: 10 - 12 minutes Graveyard: 11 minutes Pharmacy: 2 - 3 minutes Vet: 18 minutes Doctor/GP: 20 minutes Mental health clinic: 2 minutes, or another at 15 minutes Dentist: 25 minutes Optician: 20 minutes Travel agent: 20 minutes Government/Council offices: 18 minutes Estate agents: 18 - 20 minutes Theatre: 19 - 20 minutes Fire station: 3 minutes Police station: 25 - 30 minutes Honestly, the only thing I can think of that's not in walking distance, is a hospital. But ambulances are free anyway, and it's an 8 or 9 minute drive by car.

[@markbuhler4733]

I don't understand why Cities doesn't include the "snap to road" buildings. Many other city builders have it, so that everything next to the road gets built without those gigantic holes in between at an angle.

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

Add that and maybe make the European theme actually look European and you'd actually have a good game. It would also help a lot to have all road types in different sizes because it's pretty weird that a pedestrian street is always the same size and you can't make it smaller. Or maybe just have different road sizes and you specify if it's one way or pedestrian or even a bycicle road yourself after building it, just as if you put up some signs. There are so many ways this game could be improved and it's honestly really sad that it's never going to happen.

[@markbuhler4733]

@@schrodingerskatze4308 Yes. Cities 1 was GREAT. Cities 2 should have just polished it up a bit. Instead. It broke.

[@mute_ed984]

Matt - for that project a little free Software like "Nomacs Image Lounge" could come in handy. It basically can be used as an additional semitransparent layer over the running program. E.g. Screenshot of Bath the right scale you want to use. And you can work underneath in Cities Skylines. I used it to design my car liveries in Forza Horizon but I'm quite confident it works here too.

[@SubjectiveObserver]

I was just thinking they could mod the game to add reference images. I could probably use that software for my own projects, thanks

[@flamingoLake]

even easier is the image overlay mod for cities skylines

[@arashai]

I was going to suggest tracing paper and scotch tape 🤣

[@SubjectiveObserver]

@@arashai Paper? Does anybody own paper anymore? lol

[@HenryLoenwind]

@@SubjectiveObserver The first game had multiple image overlay mods. Sadly none of them got maintained for more than a couple of months. This really needs to be a functionality of the base game...

[@tdyerwestfield]

One thing not mentioned often about Bath is that it is insanely hilly. Get this, Bath is one of the biggest rugby teams in the UK, they can't build a stadium the size of the club's stature because there isn't a large enough flat space near the city. No flat space big enough just for a rugby pitch and some stands.

[@vacuumdiagram]

And yet, cracking cycle path running to it, and through it! Bristol and Bath, and the 2 tunnels paths are some of the best urban cycling in the country, lovely rides.

[@abbcc5996]

hilly by british standards is flat for most of the world

[@tdyerwestfield]

@@abbcc5996 It can be steep without being tall. But in general, Britain, particularly England, is very flat. Although, parts of Bath are over 100 metres above sea level despite being near the coast.

[@antonycharnock2993]

@@abbcc5996 Mountainous yes. Steep and hilly no. From someone who lives near Sheffield where all the industry was built on the flat valley floor of the River Don(no problems with flooding at all) and all the big posh victorian villas were built in the steep hilly west of the city because of the prevailing wind blowing all the smog and grime Eastwards.

[@Ylyrra]

@@abbcc5996 Don't confuse hilly with high. Bath is hilly. There's seven hills within 15 minutes walk of each other that the city is built across, and the valleys between them. It's very compressed. Sure it isn't built on the side of a mountain, but when having "to walk uphill both ways" isn't a joke on every single journey you make, your legs feel it.

[@DeviousDumplin]

The second I saw your thumbnail I knew exactly what city you were building. I lived in Bath for around 6 months, and it's remarkable how recognizable the city is on a map. The Avon river's giant belly is so distinct. It was honor having my former flat rendered in city skylines by yours truly.

[@4stokesuck]

Petition for RCE to make this a Series with citys of his viewers ↓

[@EmeryKatz]

OMG that’s such a good idea! Everyone try to make this the top comment so RCE sees it

[@QueenMonny]

Patrons, maybe. Viewers? There's far too many.

[@FrankieBoiledEgg]

I actually live just outside of where you built here so I love that you've shown the little city that could some love! Fun fact, the circus and royal crescent were designed by a father and then later his son. The father designed the circus and in heavily inspired by druidic lore and masonic symbology, the circle of the circus actually forms a key with Queen's square just to the south of it. Also, the circus and royal crescent are said to represent the sun and a crescent moon.

[@MrYotosun]

"little" city? 😐

[@spinecho609]

@@MrYotosun yeah Bath is tiny, lives in the shadow of Bristol

[@georges1991]

@@spinecho609 but when the trains are packed to standing it's because everyone's going to and getting off at bath. it suddenly empties out if you're staying on to bristol

[@MrYotosun]

@@spinecho609 my town has a population of 2000 always surprises me when cities like this are considered small lol

[@sigh_bold8192]

The reason he choose Bath over any other city is that strong connection between Royal Cresent and the Circus.😂 12:22

[@TheRealSkippyTheMagnificent]

Very efficient

[@draconightfury9946]

“Whilst the theme is European, we are actually going to be in Britain..” uhhh idk how to tell you this Matt, but Great Britain is a European country 😂

[@paradoxalpl5666]

Naaah bro, havent you heard? UK has left the Europe. Disclaimer: UK has left EU, not the Europe as continent nor as culture group. The comment is a joke, but Im sure that without disclaimer some people would take it seriously

[@mithulsaju1824]

Brexitttt

[@Ben_B_Artist]

@@paradoxalpl5666 what you don't know is that there are currently teams of men on the bottom of the channel with excavation equipment chipping us away from the continent as we speak

[@Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist]

No, no. Hear him out.

[@Banana_Fusion]

@@Ben_B_Artist Baha wouldn't be surprised; patriotic 'independence' is powerful (in a bad way)

[@punma5]

13:52: I love how the big forest fire wasn't acknowledged

[@r0bz0rly]

classic rce lmfao

[@IllicitWallace]

Dang, replicating local bridges in Polybridge, and now my hometown! Nice work RCE.

[@VitalEwe]

did rce build your road?

[@IllicitWallace]

Not quite, 😢The oval roundabout leads off to where I used to live.

[@jaredg9898]

I built my home town of Marietta, Oh some years ago in the first game and placed individual buildings to be as accurate as possible. Had over 11,000 assets downloaded😂 took me several weeks to complete

[@EmeryKatz]

Jeez that’s impressive 😂

[@Calz20Videos]

Marietta Georgia?

[@h.f6364]

@@Calz20Videos marietta ohio

[@michaelanderson2166]

I love cities that are older than cars and have had to attempt to adapt to allow them. That is how you get the odd one way to two way transitions.

[@antonycharnock2993]

One way systems were a thing in European cities way before the car. Best example was probably ancient Rome.

[@Ylyrra]

Nah, in the case of Bath it's more a result of a very long running number of attempts to solve the chronic congestion in the city centre and try to convince people to just not drive through the city if at all possible. I lived there for 5 years and they changed the one way system almost as many times, along with pedestrianising and unpedestrianising roads and bus lanes.

[@rempanda]

You were almost right on the lack of coal power plants in the UK. There's one left in Nottinghamshire and that's it, but it's due for closure later this year. Currently a measly 5% of our energy comes from wind, solar and hydro (most of that being wind) with the bulk coming from gas (40%) and oil (36%). There's a goal set for all energy to come from "clean" sources by 2035, I'm fairly skeptical of that time frame, one of the major roadblocks currently is that we have nowhere near enough energy storage in the UK (either through batteries or other storage methods like thermal storage or liquid air) and the UK hasn't exactly been known for investing in infrastructure for a long time now but these investments are necessary if we want to actually achieve the 2035 deadline.

[@KingJohnMichael]

Same problem on the continent At least they are investing in atomic energy too...... Unless you are stupid like Germany....

[@KingJohnMichael]

Same problem on the continent

[@MarkWebster404]

Wind accounts for around 30% of the UK's power. The national grid publishes the figures every month. 24% gas. They don't list oil.

[@mancunioner]

yeah no chance. This is a country that's not built a reservoir since about 1992. Population has increased by about 10m in that time and then the government have the bollocks to tell us there's droughts. How about building some new infrastructure

[@rempanda]

@@MarkWebster404 Wind accounts for just under 30% of energy generated in the UK - it doesn't include energy imported. You can find more comprehensive breakdowns in reports produced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

[@owlhatch3812]

Maybe they're trying to make the cities too Americanised? It would be interesting to see a comparison between bath and another American city.

[@LegoDork]

Bath Maine?

[@henryglennon3864]

@@LegoDork Bath, Maine is pretty atypical for an American city. It's built in a steep... fjord... carved by the Kennebec river, and is dominated by the route 1 highway bridge which passes over everything.

[@benjorgensen93]

I live in Bath and RCE replicated it well but just need to add a few major traffic jams around the centre lol

[@brotheroni6233]

Especially the car park that is rush hour London Road...

[@FrankieBoiledEgg]

@@brotheroni6233 don't forget Queen's square, especially now with the roadworks making all the traffic come from two directions.

[@BillinhoBamford]

Just add a tourist coach or two (& their associated hordes of pedestrians) and I'm sure normal Bath traffic will be resumed!

[@VestleKS]

Is this paid content, because there is no point buying CS2 when CS1 has everything CS1 has that is actually important and more with the years of Mods instead of the fresh new mods you got to wait for CS2. Also love watching the cs2 videos though! 🙌

[@MFBloosh]

Bath is the most French looking British city I've ever seen in my life.

[@scottdebrestian9875]

Well, it was founded by the Romans, the OG French. 🤣

[@KingJohnMichael]

​@@scottdebrestian9875uuuuh what

[@brokeandtired]

@@scottdebrestian9875 Romans were OG Italian.

[@Dynasty954]

France looks like Bath not the other way round.

[@j.myhre_16]

@@brokeandtired ,French, Spanish and Romanians at least on a language prospective

[@datoneweirdo2524]

yooo i live in bath ‼️‼️‼️

[@OtherwiseUknownMonkey]

6:48 an American highway engineer possesed you

[@Jack93885]

12:30 It's a shame Matt didn't put in any of the features of Royal Victroria Park. There's a skatepark there and even, in years long past now, a carousel and a bouncy castle. Not sure if there's anything like that still there but I know the old one isn't there anymore. My family used to manage the park before they were outbid on the tender for it. My grandad has the sign and an old horse from it.

[@Jack93885]

Just been on google maps, you can see a circle on the ground where the old carousel stood, the kiosk is gone too. Makes me kinda sad

[@512TheWolf512]

a real engineer would actually measure everything before building anything, especially the river

[@PoPoRybnik]

We all know Matt's secretly an architect

[@manny4707]

It hurt my heart when he made the river, places the train station, and thennnnn thought about scale

[@TheIconsofsin]

i love Bath, I'm only a couple miles away in Bristol

[@LordMonkeyBoy2K]

Still annoyed he chose Bath over Bristol, did pan over my house in Google earth though so not all bad 😂

[@antonycharnock2993]

@@LordMonkeyBoy2K Time and scale might have something to do with it. I once tried to create an approximation of Sheffield in Sim City. Imagine just zoning the east of a city heavy industry yellow. It did recreate some very accurate pollution problems. In real life the main coal power station was actually at the eastern edge of the city(now a renewable energy plant)

[@littlebill1991]

Bath has the worst traffic ever!! It can take 30 minutes just to drive through the centre 😂 great video btw!!

[@antonycharnock2993]

Everything from the North has to go around that square just outside the city centre and I was just passing through trying to get to Glastonbury Festival. It never got a proper ring road like most places. Even York & Chester have ring roads.

[@strangegaybeing]

Yay! I recommended this to him some time ago and I'm so happy he actually did it because I'm so interested in how this turns out

[@alpetterson9452]

As understand it the developers just admitted that they themselves believe the game was released in a shoddy state. That being the case, it would seem a wiser/fairer course of action not to entice others to buy the game. But you can do as you please. I suppose.

[@theeutecticpoint]

Royal Crescent in Bath predates the Royal Crescent in London, the one in Bath predates the regency, while the one in London was built when Victoria was still a brand new Queen.

[@jamiebrind1642]

Matt recreating my house is something I’d never thought I’d see but here we are

[@aaronbrown4390]

RCE the pond's in the industrial area we're formerly Bath's gas works and the ponds were the gas tanks holding the supply of gas for Bath

[@Aycion]

Were they just...open???

[@aaronbrown4390]

@@Aycion no they used to have a giant steel cage around the outside holding a silo style inside which used to move up or down depending on how full it was

[@Pootgaming]

I thought they designed to look like lilli pads lol or pacman cause of shape

[@Aycion]

@@aaronbrown4390 neat 📸

[@aaronbrown4390]

@@Pootgaming well thats what happens when they are removed and architect's get hold of it 🤣

[@roaling2]

Please do more of these, the final city actually looks insane

[@sdawg6005]

0:18 Brought back some childhood memories

[@AndronFIRE]

They should add thinner alleyways and curved buildings

[@Man-qt7jg]

I studied civil engineering at Bath a couple years ago, this video brings back so many memories.. thank you for the amazing content :)

[@VatticTV]

Grew up in Bath. The traffic is a lot worse in real life xD. The "industrial area" is the site of the old gasworks.

[@SSZaris]

How much they pay you to do this PR for them? Guess the CEO was right and we're all just toxic because we don't want to spend $10 on DLC for a broken game.

[@PokeNobody]

One of the best episodes of this series! Loved this.

[@dangerface300]

Oh, I visited Bath last November when I was attending my brother's wedding. Very nice little place. We stayed at the YMCA and it was the cheapest rooms we booked for the whole trip.

[@duncanchin]

I’ve tried to do this a couple of times. I’m going to follow your steps

[@Jockles]

I used to live in Bath, and I vbriefly dated an architectural Historian, and I hate to be the one to say it, but the interesting bits of bath were desgigned by a guy obsessed with the Free Masons and Mysicism... so the Circus is the exact size of Stonehenge, and is on the same ley line (apparrently??) And then there's all sorts of magical numbers and sacred geometry nonsense going on all over the place. Best avoided. Sounds like Architecture. Also, I can see my house from here! (you built the road that I used to live on :D )

[@samuelgrant8732]

That's mad, I live in Bath and you've got it on point the traffic is usually okay too besides near Churchill bridge and The Forum which can be a nightmare especially for buses. Love seeing Bath represented

[@zachbrady8013]

This video was really interesting to watch. Would love a series like this

[@Alan.Taylor.8334]

I've been waiting for more city skylines

[@loganbarnhouse3214]

the circus had uhm 6 trees in it. the real one had 5. this place is falling apart

[@chnet968]

Interesting. There was someone else told me it's easy to remember the shape of Bath City Centre because the river and part of A367 made it shaped like a human heart. Also, I think you should also add the Oldfield Park station because it's within the scope of the map.

[@datoneweirdo2524]

i love oldfield park ‼️‼️ my favourite train station

[@josephharrison5639]

10:49 watching college students be oblivious to those around them taking up half the sideway with two walking side way side, that’s why

[@Dhim27]

Yay! Finally a city skylines

[@robinwidi6328]

Yo RCE, I love your videos

[@Jockles]

you also mananged to put the Gas Power Plant on the old Gas storage site, so nice work :D

[@benlees3213]

As a person who lives in bath I see this as an absolute win. Good job Matt

[@gaysarahk]

Day 64 of notifying people that the Discord server's Suggestions forum is a better place to suggest new games to Matt. (Just don't ping him!)

[@spacedinvader9773]

everyone now pings him :D

[@siepkotack2864]

Day 6 of asking RCE to play Planet Crafter again

[@AndysAdventures89]

Great job, i also cant believe how amazing google maps is. All that 3D stuff awesome

[@oskarbarahona7605]

-Mom can we have Bath, UK? -No, we have Bath, UK at home. *Bath, UK at home:

[@BuildinWings]

Can you use the water physics of this game to reverse the flow of a river, like Chicago did?

[@KingJohnMichael]

This game dosent really water physics

[@EpicMoments21]

He should play Minecraft Create

[@RobinDuckett]

Driven all around bath, never knew the road layouts were shaped like this. I’ve even been to that crescent and not even realised.

[@Morfik45]

Id like to see you trying to recreate more real cities , it was fun

[@Mlizuul]

Day 375 of asking Matt to play Minecraft

[@_eclipsis]

He did once

[@Johnny_boy_here]

@@_eclipsisWait what?

[@_eclipsis]

@@Johnny_boy_here just search it up

[@darriendove8380]

Only 30 comments 💀

[@convexrelic7647]

Day 96 of asking matt to play minecraft

[@bigmanted9864]

he’s already played it

[@glowupfortheboys]

Think about the automatic farms and the bridges

[@TopicYo]

Hi

[@frayziedaisy]

Day 96 of being stupid*

[@flyingp0lecat09]

What about minecraft create?

[@dontdissdave]

Cool video. I think you should build other British cities and have them all connected. Bath-Newcastle-Norwich-Cardiff-Edinburgh etc

[@MrBankthug]

There is a Move It mod in the store, there is also another mod that lets you overlay a picture over your game for assisting in re-creations such as this, it's called Image Overlay. There is also another mod that lets you design custom car parks!

[@user-rl2vd4zv4h]

Great job. I don’t think I would have the patience but I enjoyed the video. Thank you for spending the time.

[@Franimus]

I think there's a way to import the heightmap of the area as your map so you don't have to manually build the river

[@nymphangeloid1460]

Video Idea: i know it would be a lot of work to do but what about a series where you make some real world citys (either big or small ones or just a part of it) and we as the community have to guess which one it was or you make a youtube poll with some answer choices and you reveal it in the next video

[@QueenMonny]

That's not bad. But if he only made cities in the UK, a lot of us would have a hard time guessing. Maybe if he gave a general region in the description.

[@QALibrary]

15:00 The UK has 2 working coal power stations left - apart from a few that have been or changed over to gas or to burn bio-wates eg wood pellets they have all been closed the last ones were closed in 2022 to 2023 before the 2024 deadline (UK) and 2025 (EU deadline) - one is based in Northern Ireland while the other is privately owned and only supplies power to a company they have a contract for to supply them power - they sometimes supply power to the national grid as an extra free service (even though it does not exist because it owned and run by a private company). Scotland just in wind power has about 100 to 300% as a base load and that is still growing the UK can run up to 100% on zero emission power if you include Nuclear Power in the summer - just this week 80 to 90% of power was produced that way

[@motornaut]

As a uni student in Bath, it's pretty awesome that you chose it as the city for this

[@krisbradbury5087]

I’ve always wanted since sim city 2 the ability to import a top down texture of real cities to perfectly layout a replica. I think it would be a great mod.

[@Potatoincanada201Unknow-bv1yy]

Hey Matt, can you create this random town in Australia called Kyabram? I kind of want to see what you can do with this town, maybe do something with the traffic because the mayor forgot to add some traffic lights. The traffic is fine though, although the pedestrians are having kind of a problem without the traffic lights. Yeah. Lots of cows there 😂😂😂

[@aryonnrawol3594]

Please do more of these, they're great

[@gothblin]

I grew up near Bath and used to visit a lot. The city centre's changed quite a bit since. I was sad your recreation didn't make it out as far as the RUH where I was born, and where my dad worked, and confused about how you ended up with better traffic than the real think. But I still enjoyed this video.

[@jacklovell3170]

This was an emotional rollercoaster. BATH!! A black hole of traffic management on the surface our country. IM ONLY 50 SECONDS IN!!!

[@TheMusicJunkieChannel]

Great job!! Just forgot to put it all on a hill, bath is very steep in many places. I loved this one great work!!

[@LowkeyBuns]

I really really wish you continued the universim play through. Your first episode was so so so funny

[@duncanchin]

I feel like our dear Matt didn’t do such a great job in Dubai after all.

[@TyinAlaska]

In 2022, the UK's power generation mix was approximately: - Natural gas: Around 40% - Renewables: Approximately 45% - Nuclear: Roughly 15% - Imports and other sources: The remaining fraction. These percentages can fluctuate slightly depending on various factors.

[@ScienceMouse]

The most broken thing about this game is the road designs. Some of them makes no sense and they are mostly way to big. All I could ask for is a normal 2 lane road with a normal walk-path on each side. I want a mod where I'm able to adjust the width of all types of lanes including walk-paths. And not to mention the zoning chaos. I hope to return to this game one day. Anyway, nice episode!

[@MTTT1234]

Soon the tourist agency of Bath will contact him, asking if they can use this video to promote their town.

[@datoneweirdo2524]

nooooo, the traffic will be even worse if more tourists come 😭

[@quoniam426]

14:33 Those used to be the gasometers. They seem to have been demolished. You should have added busses because the city has a bus station and about 15 bus lines.

[@robmartin525]

I had to drive through Bath once. It was when there were roadworks on one side of the free (no toll) bridge. On the T junction side. It was HORRENDOUS! We had about 5 seconds of green light our side and at least a minute of waiting on red! And to top it all off, we had some bloody do-gooder thinking it was some sort of charity letting everybody in the queue from the side road and I was stuck in the same place for about 20 minutes, no movement at all!!!

[@CJGriesmeyer]

I'm visiting Bath from NY for the first time next week and this video has me HYPED

[@ElementalWhispers]

Pay a visit to Sugarcane Studio cafe. A hidden treasure and the best cakes in Bath!

[@imperatoriacustodum4667]

In all my life I've honestly never seen the houses that CS2 calls low density housing. Even in my village, the newest housing on the outskirts still looks normal. One or two storey houses with a slanted roof as expected, detached or semi-detached with larger driveways compared to the older row housing from 100-150 years back. I even checked Germany, Czechia and Poland for any sign of these houses in or around cities and villages and couldn't find anything that didn't look like that.

[@user-zb2ce5ey8f]

I was waiting the entire episode for Bridge Review™ on Google Maps 😂

[@MikeD1101a]

Love this video. Would love to see you recreate some other cities, maybe some mid-sized American Cities (Boston is always a favorite because its kinda half-American/half-European in style).

[@Maverick_Gaming]

I'd love a series of making well known and even less well known cities in City Skyline, and keeping a leaderboard of which ones are the best!

[@vocaeien]

your passing comment about whether Britain uses coal power anymore sent me down a rabbit hole 🤔 here to share my findings: apparently the government pledged in 2016 to ban coal-fired power by 2025. only 1 coal plant is left and currently being decommissioned, scheduled to shut down by October 2024. it's the last of ~12 of the largest coal plants in the UK. i work in the renewables industry in Australia, where there is a huge emphasis on the "clean energy transition", so thank you for inspiring me to do some random research relevant to my field that i would not have otherwise known 😌💀

[@Piranhamatt]

Literally gave a lift to Bath yesterday. Sooooo much traffffic (only live 15 mins away) - I did a drop off on that section on the right, left of the straight bridge then follow the road south to loop back east around the bus station area

[@shukhratergashov9289]

Wow 🤩 Please make more of this kind of real cities 👏👏

[@Austrocylindropuntia]

Now that would be a helluva thing to create, a car park that you can treat like a tip or mine! Just put a gate somewhere then drag the line around whatever shape you want and bam! Strongest shaped car parks for days!

[@QALibrary]

14:36 They are what reminds of gas tank holders - would have stored town gas before changing over to natural gas - most gas tank holders have now been removed or changed into flats

[@henrydaniel6420]

@21:07 as someone who grew up in bath , the traffic is actually chaotic and the whole city is basically a giant one way system so this is not accurate unfortunately 😂

[@mundzine]

Pretty impressive getting the city layout by just alt tabbing, i would have no patience for all that lol

[@Matthews_Benjamin]

Well done for not bothering with Twerton Matt

[@datoneweirdo2524]

we hate twerton ‼️‼️

[@oppositelock4356]

Missing out on the Paradox mods. Would have been super helpful when building this project!