Motorways are just fancy bridges... Mini Motorways!

IT'S THE RETURN OF THE HAM PEOPLE IN MINI MOTORWAYS! From the makers of Mini Metro comes Mini Motorways! A highway engineering puzzle game and in this video I, a highway designer of 10 years, see if my real life engineering skills help me become better at the Mini Motorways puzzle game by segregating different colors to the extreme to fix bad traffic!
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MINI MOTORWAYS:
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About Mini Motorways:
Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could do something to fix it?
In Mini Motorways, the city’s traffic problems are in your hands.
From the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city. Build a road network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades to meet the changing demands. How long can you keep the cities of the world moving?
Key Features
- Draw roads in dynamic cities that grow and change - every game is unique!
- Explore stunning maps inspired by cities all around the world.
- Choose from a variety of upgrades to meet the demands of your ever-expanding road network: highways, roundabouts, and more!
- Select different colour palettes on every map including colourblind and night modes.
- Relax to a responsive soundtrack from Disasterpeace that grows along with your city.
- Unlock new maps and achievements as you achieve mastery
- Export GIFs of your city layouts to share with your friends.
- Compete against other players in Daily and Weekly Challenges.
#realcivilengineer #minimotorways #engineering

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

So the moldy ham returned today only to find it had an arch nemesis, the fresh ham... But which ham is best? (Go vote in my community post!)

[@GamerZyt]

Hey man when do you stream, really wanna watch you live because the stream clips in the videos seem like alot of fun 😁

[@AwesomePartyChicken]

moldy ham on top

[@Shadow_3.1415]

Team moldy ham! Lets gooo :)

[@Shadow_3.1415]

Briges also use road tiles now!

[@zombiemathieu1113]

@@Shadow_3.1415 I thought they always did

[@Jrakula10]

RCE: "Im going to wait for an emergency to use the motorway" Emergency is in progress: "too late my friend"

[@Daniel-yy3ty]

more like oh, look an emergency! or is it? let's wait a bi- OH GOD IT'S A MESS QUICK welp, too late ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@tenochmorales9009]

@@Daniel-yy3ty Me looking at the end of every video: Well, that looked hella preventable

[@K-o-R]

"There's so much ham in this level!" which is ironic given it's Dubai...

[@danielaltmann8493]

So much ham and no willies???🤔😂

[@isaacfraser9143]

haram?

[@deadalpeca8099]

@@isaacfraser9143 pork is not halal

[@nonamechannl]

@@isaacfraser9143 HARAM 😭😭😭😭😭😓😓😓😓😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 DESTROY HARAM 💥💥💥💥🙏🙏🙏🕋🕋🕋🕋🕋🕋

[@captainfish3579]

I like how he still explains it so new viewers understand everything

[@jabatheshort660]

When your getting like 10k subs a day it’s reasonable to assume a lot of people are new. Massive growth recently I love it. Been here since 200k

[@guty_18]

That’s a nice KZbinr.

[@UselessMiwaaaa]

He let us know what his true motives are

[@adrianchristian5639]

Wrong i don't know inglish so i dont understand ;-; but i still like the video bcouse the game and edit.(i wish tht was correct)

[@captainfish3579]

@@adrianchristian5639 we a same because i not from ingland

[@icel7224]

im literally just screaming "MATTTTT that one yellow house!!"

[@icel7224]

he has finally moved the yellow house everyone

[@tintorius9728]

Same

[@whitsy0230]

Thankyou for this aha

[@rodepet]

Same!

[@ololo518]

YES!

[@hithere4014]

7:32 A bridge 20 seconds later...... ''We haven't been given a bridge in ages.''

[@jestbone89]

From patch notes: "Three-way intersections now count properly as intersections and cars will slow down accordingly when passing through them. The fact that they did not before was a bug rather than an intentional design choice."

[@jmurray1110]

It’s not like the intersecting traffic must give may to the main traffic in real life or anything

[@javascriptsv]

Fun Fact: The times when traffic lights are useful are on junctions, (previously it was just on crossroads) When a car goes up to a junction it will automatically slow down. with a traffic light there, if it's green it won't slow down and just go straight through. The reason you haven't noticed is because you very rarely use crossroads which (as i have already mentioned) until now were the only times that traffic lights were useful.

[@aela3533]

This game needs more one way roads and flyover ramps so I can create more efficient junctions like in Cities: Skylines

[@prgnify]

Yes! Game is already pretty good overall, having multi-lane roads would still make a big difference. Then maybe exclusive lanes, fine grain control of traffic lights... hmmm

[@wjonahw2268]

@@prgnify That's cool, but you don't want to overcomplicate a game that is great in it's simplicity. If you were to add more features/upgrades I would refrain from adding that many. Also if they add more upgrades to the game I think they should make the options for upgrades three choices instead of 2.

[@torinnbalasar6774]

I've spent many hours in cities: skylines in pain over the lack of vanilla options (achievement hunting) with what dlc I currently have. The most frustrating truth I've learned is that roundabouts only work for heavy traffic when entering traffic yields properly, which doesn't happen unmodded.

[@Svelix]

My Advice: When in an emergency, don't delete any roads, first connect the extra road/motorway to the existing roads and when the situation calmed down a bit, clean up afterwards.

[@benjaminmorris4962]

I like how he still calls the pin points "upside down grocery bags"

[@fullmoonshadow6967]

I find it funny that this entire time, he's still called destination markers "shopping bags."

[@TheDoRoBouNeko]

Upside down shopping bags~

[@wolfy704]

I’m kinda surprised that “Helloo fellow engineers!” Isn’t on the Unesco world heritage... yet

[@oskito7]

True

[@d33p345]

well, itll become unesco world heritage after jacksepticeye's "top of the morning ladies"

[@spooder3306]

7:59 matt': we haven't got a bridge in ages also matt: avoiding bridges and going in other option

[@AlwaysLoisLane]

I PROMISE I got a ham advertisement before this video and I think Motorway Matt just beat the algorithm

[@pushimka]

I knew they called him Motorway Matt!

[@AlwaysLoisLane]

And Beaverlord Matt. Everyone calls him that. Everyone.

[@Exemus]

Normal person: Berries and Cream RCE: Fresh pink ham and months-old moldy ham

[@ianemalabanan7120]

I know it's been a year but it still frustrates me how he didn't notice the other 2 fresh ham beside the yellow houses

[@undefined06855]

If engineers used bridges it would be called mini bridges. Doesnt roll off the tongue as well

[@billybo2220]

Would probably be called big bridges instead

[@TheGreatDrake]

I thought they would be called Poly Bridge.

[@europeanmappin]

@@TheGreatDrake bruv

[@ToddTevlin]

"Intermingled Ham" needs to be someones new band name.

[@MAIcrosoft]

I like you the most of all Mini Motorways players, it's really nice and highly entertaining seeing someone have fun with the game instead of only going for ultra high-scores and hard-core strategies. Keep it up man! :)

[@ingomancer]

In sweden, you yield to people coming from your right, including in t-junctions, but not if they're leaving a private driveway, so these junction rules make perfect sense!

[@Noel201199]

Same in Switzerland and probably most of continental Europe

[@user-iu8mt6ps5p]

UHHH but this is america DUH 🤷 SMH MY HEAD MY HEAD

[@sparkypikachu7776]

Mm. In America you have to hope that the driver cares enough about road rules to stop

[@IKINGFISH1213I]

Perfect timing RCE! A nice relaxing lunch video to get away from all of the annoying architects I deal with on a daily basis. Bless this man!

[@manniot]

This series is like a commercial for IMAX cinemas.

[@adrianbueno6823]

and ham

[@daanverhulst2656]

Love your video's! One tip: if a house is 'flashing' it means it's not connected to a shop of it's color. If you watch this closely you won't nearly miss as many of them.

[@PJOZeus]

RetroFlux has some good videos on this, both the patch itself and ideal uses - not plugging, it's educational to watch and improve Side note, the new t section patch rules completely ignore drives and specifically shop entrances

[@minecraftslover]

Watching you play this has improved me to the point I can actually get past a thousand on each map

[@setnect7524]

“Upside down shopping bags” LOL YES

[@Apocrypher00]

I was surprised today when I realized that I wasn't already subscribed! I was introduced to your channel with this series and I've been binge watching your content ever since. Great stuff!

[@kadenbonnot8853]

We're not going to use bridges, immediately uses 2 bridges

[@Taffy064]

This programme is brought to you by the Real Civil Engineer in conjunction with the Ham Appreciation Society of Great Britain.

[@ThoughtsofAnt]

Love these! Appreciate you for explaining the mechanics for new viewers

[@connortheandroidsentbycybe3755]

6:26 the boing sound is just Perfect

[@aidens-gaming9]

RCE I love your videos! I’ve been binge watching all of them since I found your channel a week ago and all of your videos are amazing, keep making these beautiful pieces of art!

[@S0CKMANN]

I got a mini motorway ad on this video 🤣🤣🤣 how perfect is that

[@gurucharansendhil6432]

I just realised that mini motor ways is his most viewed series in his channel!

[@JimmySaulGoodmanMcGill1960]

8:01 "We're getting some.. ham people moving in down here" - Hmm, yes, the floor here is made out of floor

[@shaunnolder7211]

Love your mini motorways series. I like these kind of strategy games, as well as the factory games like factorium and shapeio

[@almightyhydra]

Take a look at the houses to see if you have enough assigned to a particular point. If there are idle cars, you have enough and can reallocate some houses to another supermarket / imax.

[@albula642]

Traffic lights are useful for places where the traffic crosses. The traffic lights are quite smart and give a lot of green. Traffic doesn't get stuck like in roundabouts.

[@brandonyoung-kemkes1128]

Feel for ya. Did well in my books thanks for sharing.

[@carrottopevans]

Also excited for more freeways! The free handed drawings make it so funny!

[@ShiroTenshiTN]

you can see if a supermarket needs more houses by looking to see if the houses currently connected to it have cars parked there. If they do, you don't need to connect more and can save those houses for other destinations, or just disconnect them to reduce junctions/traffic

[@wouldntyouliketoknowdeli7640]

Always good to see another Motorway Matt episode.

[@jaunusender6166]

Matt, just hamming it up all episode. Perfect

[@fury_overscore]

The shadow of the blue/turquoise building is his favorite shape

[@lapispyrite6645]

I’ve been binge watching your polybridge episodes for the past 3 hours, I didn’t even realise you’d uploaded something new 2 hours ago! Also, you keep saying that nobody calls you motorway Matt, however that is my go to when thinking about your name watching your videos!

[@tassie7325]

You are absolutely right about the fact that cars wont slow down when they pass through another house's driveway (that free bit of road attached to every house). To take full advantage of this, when connecting houses, try to have the road pass through that tile attached to the house. Just one tile away and they will slow down. A little diversion to take advantage of this game mechanic will actually speed up a journey significantly. The same game mechanics also apply to the entrance/exit of the mall carparks. So when you have several roads converging on a car park, make sure that they all converge on the entrance/exit tab.

[@theinformationhub7598]

Love the videos, keep up the great content.

[@rpgaholic8202]

I have loved watching you do this so much I had to go and buy the game. Would have loved to see you attack the daily challenge that was only one of each upgrade and each week gave you just 20 road tiles.

[@RhombonianKnight]

Motorway Matt at it again, showing us how the professionals would play this game.

[@preeatt7909]

I have been making your channel a daily watch. Thanks for the fun content! Keep it up ❤️

[@Boaz_963]

I love your vids man! Keep up with the good work!

[@onlyalexm]

I found your channel through "Recommended" about 2 weeks ago and I have been binge watching all of your stuff since. Keep it up!

[@Wirmish]

Always add bits of roads around the buildings. Not on the first row of blocks, but on the 2nd. That way you can always build roads between buildings.

[@indomieismybae]

I bought this game because of you! Thank you, I am enjoying this content so much.

[@MichaelMoore99]

2:23 "Unfortunately, there's no way to get the houses down here up there without a lot of road." *looks at 32 road tiles*

[@captainsnekk]

Yay keep up this series

[@Matthew_Murray]

You can tell when you get a lot of houses and bunch them together on a single road it causes a lot of congestion even with the colors being segregated. It probably would be better to make use of traffic lights and create more intersections.

[@chettymarks]

I just started watching these videos of yours a couple of days ago, and also your videos of 'mini metro' I am trying to decide which one to purchase. You mentioned in this video that you have not had a good place for traffic lights, and that is because you do not create intersections when you keep colors separate. If your roads never cross each other, there would not be much use for the lights.The videos are great. You make them both seem fun, that does not help me decide...lol

[@hummingdeer7]

im so glad when i heard "peace, love, bridges" i thought i wants a shirt of that. then i saw the merch YAY!

[@randomname1635]

Really enjoying this series, enjoyed mini metro too please do more videos of them too👍

[@themilkyfx]

Been waiting all week for this lol

[@OMGHIDE]

I’d like to see an AI play this game.

[@cymrocam]

Code Bullet is probably already working on it

[@prestonrutherford3997]

@@cymrocam that would be fucking incredible

[@aditya-lr2in]

@@cymrocam and also swearing like shiiiiiit

[@FoxMaster]

@@cymrocam that’s a joke, right?

[@cymrocam]

@@FoxMaster why would it be?

[@adrianbueno6823]

This is the first time in my whole life that I've heard a brit saying "tourquoise" lol

[@Durhty]

ive also had the problem of cars not leaving after a rearrangement, as well as if i change their path while already on the roads, they just completely stop in the middle of traffic. I've also learned from another YTer that he groups houses in Col-de-Sacs. I like the arrangement of 3 houses connected together and a branch of to more col-de-sacs. Great videos, see ya!

[@ez90ify]

ever since the update i've had a few times where it did the same thing at the end, but also in my time playing you never wanna have the 2 of the same color destinations connected otherwise it get congested and panic sets in

[@davskieee5334]

Yesss!!! A mini motorway vid my favorite

[@jenleann01]

I love the IMAX cinema inside joke, it’s sooooo funny!!!!!

[@MortalSlayer24]

12:26 Perfect opportunity to build the strongest shape

[@baystated]

It is time to start employing shared driveway entrances. Make neighbors share an intersection and reduce their number, which raises the street speed limit.

[@pinnball706]

Driveways from houses and aprons don’t slow down traffic if connected directly to the road, truck now is to have a single snake though all houses so they connect straight to the road and no one slows down 👍

[@benjaminmorris4962]

I think lights were useful in-game because cars slow down at junctions. But they needed upgrading cuz the time it took to switch colors was too long(like NYC lights lmao)

[@3DPDK]

Quite some time ago I worked as a production artist for an electronics manufacture. My job was to design P.C. boards. This was a few years before there was computer software to do this. By avoiding crossroads this is pretty much the exact same process. I always found it to be an interesting challenge. The main difference was as a commercial P.C. board, jumper wires (motorways) were forbidden, but I could move the I-Max Theater (components) if I couldn't find a direct connection solution.

[@scorpiogt6]

It would be cool if you could use bridges as an overpass. Great job on this one RCE!

[@melbourneopera]

What interested me is that how do the colors perfectly gathered together instead of mixed.

[@Nuraar1]

I cannot stop watching your videos and playing this game!

[@JonatasAdoM]

Video was great but moldy Ham made it my favorite.

[@achievedworld]

Hey i just found your channel and i love it its amazing and cool and informational and i just like it^^

[@abeld94]

Thank Very helpfull I always just connect everything and got stuck on traffic The core idea is to build roads only for that specific store so yeah

[@chiepah2]

Welcome back Motorway Matt

[@Beateau]

I was not expect a Destiny reference in my RCE video.

[@Obelizk_da_yeeper]

The only thing in my mind after watching tons of your mini motor way vids: Hello fellow engineers!

[@hollablox]

U got me into freeways

[@theenigma6160]

Like this series, keep it up!!!

[@restarting_krnl]

I would call this game "Ministry of Transportation vs Ministry of Construction"

[@geysers777]

Ngl watching your videos is so much more fun than me actually playing it XD

[@benjaminhess5695]

You should look into playing satisfactory! It’s a bit involved but seems up your alley

[@ryanmoore2798]

Definitely would watch

[@wiktorszymczak4760]

Fun crossroad fact: in poland in Łódź we actually have eight way crossroad. Its from XIX century so its to old to get rid of it. And yes its absolute nightmare

[@kentsacendoncillo125]

I cant wait to be a real civil engineer and play this kinds of games like this guy

[@mandiduncan5437]

Houses directly connected to roads don't cause the intersection slowdown. It's only when you have at least one road between the house and the t-junction that the slowdown happens.

[@astridjane]

More more more! More Mini Motorways! 😄

[@NameWasNot]

I'm still waiting for a new Minecraft episode

[@henrymarks1632]

yeah

[@user-dp5hx6zf2k]

the trafic lights stop that slowing down on the crossroads

[@187Streak]

12:05 FINALLY! He noticed that yellow house.

[@ericschumann4253]

Hey:) try to connect houses, that are 3 in a row, direct in one intersection, helps a lot;) Greetings from Germany

[@Critto66]

Loving the content man!

[@dankcoyote]

Decent score in Robert DeNiro.

[@jordan--1209]

This man needs more subs

[@thechicken234]

The intro never gets old

[@brocollie8149]

You had me raging when you put so many blues to that shop when you only need the one next to it