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

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

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[@Crappy_videos786]

Yet no one singed up😢

[@QueenMonny]

@@Crappy_videos786 I have already SIGNED up. And I've read the 2 that we have so far.

[@Aliaux]

i signed up ages ago ​@@Crappy_videos786

[@Gellic]

sad

[@chief_exe]

You're building a british city and your citizens are happy, this is a perfect example of why City Skylines 2 isnt realistic.

[@SummitGibson-jq8rw]

Real

[@RT-qd8yl]

Based

[@jamesfraser536]

To be fair, Bath is one of the nicer cities in the UK

[@bronacho5085]

ive just woke up in a fucking steamy mood yea cause i live in a shithole

[@Y3al1a]

As a Brit, I agree

[@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

[@rampaginwalrus]

"Avon" is celtic for "river". When the romans came in and started drawing maps, they'd point to a river and ask the locals, "What's it called?" and of course they answered, "That's a river." And thus, there are at least 10 rivers in the UK named "River Avon"

[@W4iteFlame]

I see that happened a lot between different cultures

[@YataTheFifteenth]

Happens very often. Take a guess what "Sahara" translates to.

[@arbiter11171]

Torpenhow Hill got all three of its names that way

[@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.

[@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

[@Poitato_]

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..

[@SnowGaming...]

use the tree brush to remove the trees

[@devileh]

Sssssh, don't tell him!

[@MarcelPerkowski]

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

[@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.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

While there is no actual mixed zoning, the closest thing is commercial at the main arteries and residential in the area behind it. With footpaths leading into the residential area. That way every house has at least some commercial in walking distance and goods for the commercial areas don't have to drive through residential. Industrial is a bit further away, but a good public transport network means people don't need to drive and can just take the bus. (Or the tram that goes on dedicated lanes along the arteries)

[@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

[@cryptic5322]

i dont know what you all believe in but i believe in Jesus Christ, you may believe in Him as well, if you do, i hope you are where you need to be with Him, if you arent i hope you will accept him into your life, you may know the the story already, but He willingly died for everybody, and that includes you, if you are wondering if something is sinful look up Scripture about it online (i recommend the King James Version), i hope you read The Bible, and find a good church, ill leave you with some Scripture, Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

[@ayesack]

yeah same!

[@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

[@ДьяконФрост-ч7т]

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

[@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...

[@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.

[@tomsam1314]

@@markbuhler4733 I've been playing on it since release, and have racked up 100's of hours on CS1... the game isn't broken. You've just been sucked into all the hate.

[@markbuhler4733]

@@tomsam1314 Ah pardon me. I am sorry. I need to love the game again. Thanks for reminding me :D

[@cryptic5322]

i dont know what you all believe in but i believe in Jesus Christ, you may believe in Him as well, if you do, i hope you are where you need to be with Him, if you arent i hope you will accept him into your life, you may know the the story already, but He willingly died for everybody, and that includes you, if you are wondering if something is sinful look up Scripture about it online (i recommend the King James Version), i hope you read The Bible, and find a good church, ill leave you with some Scripture, Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

[@RoanRat]

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

[@RoanRat]

@@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.

[@xGOKOPx]

Footpaths don't generate zoneable areas, so they wouldn't have buildings around them. This is directly in confict with the goal of replicating a city that has pedestrian-only streets between buildings

[@AbcVids]

I also think footpaths would have been better

[@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.

[@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

[@yeetjones927]

@@MrYotosun how is it a city if its only got 2000 people?

[@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.

[@TheTIGSY]

Was a very weird feeling having youtube randomly pick a video whilst I was away and coming back to my PC to see somebody zooming into a satellite image of my house XD

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@benjorgensen93]

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

[@Brother_Oni]

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

[@FrankieBoiledEgg]

@@Brother_Oni 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!

[@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 😂

[@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.

[@derrickmiles5240]

I mean that's the ideal. Grids are the most efficient road layout. Europe only has squiggly roads because they were designed before road efficiency was important. Meaning, naturally, European roads are generally inefficient.

[@eldritch3465]

​@derrickmiles5240 it is if you are focusing on cars on flat terrain. As a Bath local, bath is so hilly that a typical grid doesn't work. Set aside all the historical buildings you'd have to demolish, grids make walking and other forms of transport miserable when you have to cross a road every 100meters.

[@derrickmiles5240]

@@eldritch3465 Randomly laid out roads will not take you to your destination faster than a grid, on average. That would imply that walking a zig zag is more efficient than walking a straight line. You can still lay out a pseudo grid system in hilly terrain. My town is in Missouri, which is 100 percent hills. We have grids where it makes sense. It's perfectly walkable. You can walk to any place of import in 30 minutes from the town border. What you're identifying is big city style grids that are generally much larger than small city grids. A small grid city is the apex design. Having a highway offramp onto the main strip where every business is located, keeps all the truck traffic out of residential areas, and keeps walking distances down. This is the only kind of city that should exist IMO. Every other design is wasting energy and endangering pedestrians. You can easily preserve historical sites. A grid doesn't have to be perfect. It can be designed to account for historical sites. My suggestion would be to make a strip for the businesses of your town to move to, that is connected directly to the highway, located at the edge of town. Then, on the other side of it, away from the existing town, will be where all future residential areas will be laid out in as best a grid as possible. Obviously if the city is too big then this won't be as reasonable a solution. Optimal size is under 50k residents IMO. If your town is too big, the answer is to simply make another town nearby, and lay it out with a strip. People will naturally migrate to towns that are more convenient to live in. Now that remote work is becoming a thing people desire small, efficient cities. And we should facilitate that transition as best we can.

[@punma5]

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

[@r0bz0rly]

classic rce lmfao

[@Sigh_Bold]

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

[@TheRealSkippyTM]

Very efficient

[@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! 🙌

[@jamiebrind1642]

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

[@OtherwiseUknownMonkey]

6:48 an American highway engineer possesed you

[@Cherokee9898]

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

[@Emery_K14]

Jeez that’s impressive 😂

[@Calz20Videos]

Marietta Georgia?

[@h.f6364]

@@Calz20Videos marietta ohio

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I can only imagine the loading times and your doubts if 64 GB RAM will do.

[@torey4322]

That’s so cool. I live an hour away from Marietta, Ohio lol

[@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

[@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 :)

[@Kmichaelcook87]

With SimCity and Cities:Skylines videos, the less I’d want to do the task myself (i.e. replicating Great Britain’s fourteenth-most-interesting city, beat for beat), the more soothing it is to watch. This is VERY soothing.

[@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

[@eldritch3465]

They still have a regular bouncy castle there

[@Jack93885]

@@eldritch3465 Yeah, I ended up looking at it on googe earth. It's nice they still have a bouncy castle and carousel. I think it's a shame they've moved it to the center of the green space, people used to sit there and have picnics. Not sure why they felt the need to create a new fenced off space in the middle of where people like to sit when they already had a perfectly usable location at the edge of the park

[@n.oliver3947]

Crazy seeing a place I have lived in for 10 years and drive through regularly being built from scratch. Bath is a difficult city/town to replicate because of the amount of winding roads, plethora of alleyways and the fact that Bath centre is pretty much a basin from a landscape and elevation perspective!

[@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.

[@hydrocharis1]

Why would you drive THROUGH Bath's gorgeous city center?

[@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 )

[@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.

[@ccityplanner1217]

I think I had a Paradox account from when I used to play Cities in Motion 2 a very long time ago. Now I am considering getting Cities Skylines when I get my next computer. One of the hurdles would be having to navigate Paradox only for them to say "this email address is already in use".

[@zeljkothegreekserb]

CS2 isn't broken, but it is an empty shell designed to milk people with thousands of DLC's in the next 10, 15 years, they didn't even bother to add bicycles for fs, while modding would also be thrown out if the reaction of people wasn't as loud, because why would they allow thousands of frеe community made assets when they can sell you 3 palms in each dlc. This game deserves to be boycotted until it becomes an actual game with content and not something barely more than an empty game engine.

[@Draconightfury]

“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)

[@Matthews_Benjamin]

Well done for not bothering with Twerton Matt

[@datoneweirdo2524]

we hate twerton ‼️‼️

[@TheIppoippo]

Another person here who recognised this as Bath via the video thumbnail! I lived and worked in Bath for quite a few years, and when I wasn't there, I was in Cardiff, Bristol or Chippenham and visiting Bath for various reasons. Sure, the car traffic is awful, but I really love the place. I've been in Japan now for half my working life, but if I'm ever sent back to the UK, Bath is where I want to live.

[@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

[@roaling2]

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

[@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.

[@WillVenturesGaming]

21:05 'there's like no traffic' As a former student in the city this was the most hilarious thing to hear

[@TheIconsofsin]

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

[@Rossh2k]

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

[@antonycharnock2993]

@@Rossh2k 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)

[@donnydangergaming]

fantastic video and simulation, i can't believe how clear the roads were! well done!

[@markotafa]

New series: BUILDING REAL CITYS IN CITY SKYLINES

[@Potatoincanada201]

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 😂😂😂

[@SineN0mine3]

I think that's a great idea for an episode or series. If you don't want to make the video you should have a go at making a map now that we've got the editor. If you upload a good map of the area to the mod shop i bet somebody will have a go. We're supposed to be getting our regional assets soon so hopefully that might inspire people to make something other than North American and European cities.

[@loganbarnhouse3214]

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

[@PokeNobody]

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

[@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

[@Mattyprokton]

11:00 in the landscape menu you can have smaller pedestrian ways smaller then alleys, please use this!

[@Anthony-um5vv]

Funny enough I'm watching this from Bath........ In America though, a town called Bath 😂

[@yeetjones927]

@@Anthony-um5vv Well most american places are named after British places. Same with the rest of our former colonies

[@caithemburrow5569]

I’m watching from bath, uk!

[@AndysAdventures89]

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

[@sdawg6005]

0:18 Brought back some childhood memories

[@xXProtozoaXx]

Per The Guardian - "Now a combination of gas, wind, nuclear and biomass provide the bulk of Great Britain's energy, with smaller sources such as solar and hydroelectric power also used.Feb 7, 2023"

[@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

[@gayahithwen]

I haven't played Skylines 2 yet, but in the first one, there were like... a million to-scale maps of real world locations available. Seems like he made it much harder for himself by trying to haphazardly recreate features, rather than just loading an accurate height map and starting from that.

[@Jockles]

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

[@AhriCRose]

Ayy you created my city :O

[@thatguyjosh28]

Impossible challenge: Recreate Birmingham but make the people happy

[@Alan.Taylor.8334]

I've been waiting for more city skylines

[@Morfik45]

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

[@Why24244]

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???

[@Why24244]

@@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]

@@Why24244 neat 📸

[@Why24244]

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

[@oskarbarahona7605]

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

[@duncanchin]

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

[@ianphil397]

Of course everyone is happy. You have no London Road traffic, no Warminster Road traffic, no Bristol Road traffic and no A367 traffic.

[@gingy0074]

20:44 proper UK moment

[@zachbrady8013]

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

[@robinwidi6328]

Yo RCE, I love your videos

[@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.

[@Dhim27]

Yay! Finally a city skylines

[@dontdissdave]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@elshenelo2001]

Yeah, it is broken

[@ScottauchterlonieMusic]

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

[@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.

[@real-American-man]

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

[@SinnerD2010]

RCE goes to Bath: Bridge review Bridge review Bridge review Bridge review Bridge review Bridge review Bridge review Bridge review... 🤣

[@Fangler219]

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

[@siepkotack2864]

Day 6 of asking RCE to play Planet Crafter again

[@Stanley88845]

Skye Storme used to rebuild whole cities in the original game. He replicates New York and London, even down to the exact terrain, train lines, anything you can think of he did it. It was incredible.

[@Simoxs7]

Wow the European theme seems to be theme based on how an American who’s never been to Europe thinks a European city looks like.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Not wrong haha

[@fjuvo]

Paradox is actually based in Sweden, so they should know how European architecture looks like

[@Simoxs7]

@@fjuvo TBH European is also a bit to large of a group, we have quite distinctive architecture, just here in Germany I could probably immediately tell if I was in southern or northern Germany based on the architecture. The whole Mediterranean again has its own style of architecture and sweden for example has their distinctive red paint. But with the approach of paradox it feels like they just removed the Highrisers and Advertisements and called it a day… I mean if they wanted true European city building they’d probably also have to use a completely different zoning system if I remember correctly the current zoning is heavily inspired by the American zoning.

[@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!

[@datoneweirdo2524]

yooo i live in bath ‼️‼️‼️

[@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

[@walkie90]

UK is in Europe.

[@bruhstar9144]

You should recreate the Spaghetti Bowl Interchange in Salt Lake City Utah

[@Jowskas]

I live in bath when i tell you i freaked out😭😭

[@LowkeyBuns]

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

[@convexrelic7647]

Day 96 of asking matt to play minecraft

[@bigmanted9864]

he’s already played it

[@glowupfortheboys]

Think about the automatic farms and the bridges

[@Topic_Yo]

Hi

[@frayziedaisy]

Day 96 of being stupid*

[@flyingp0lecat09]

What about minecraft create?

[@V0r4xiz]

Tries to prove that the game isn't broken. Accidentally proves it's deeply broken and deserves its overwhelmingly negative rating.

[@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.

[@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!

[@EpicMoments21]

He should play Minecraft Create

[@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!