I ended civilization with the MEGANADO in Cities Skylines!

We're back in Cities Skylines (City Skyline) engineering a way to bust or accept various city building myths in Cities Skylines. But we created a meganado in Cities Skylines! Merging F5 tornados was a bad idea in Cities Skylines!
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[@shizumeru_]

You should retest the turbine in a condition that is not a 10 windspeed. I'm thinking that 10 is an absolute maximum and would not increase regardless of the conditions. If a turbine jumped from 1 to 10, then I'd say confirmed

[@RT-qd8yl]

He did architect "science"

[@spongecraft0062]

Myth Idea: Will cars driving up vertical roads be washed away by a waterfall?

[@Personofvideo]

Hmmmmmmmmmm…

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

I think water only affects vehicles if it's flooding so I'm thinking no

[@matteocavedon4684]

I mean if they’re driving up vertical roads the. They should have a solution for rainfall/ water if they can figure out how to make cars go up

[@semmonmimo]

Yes

[@karashuun1083]

A waterfall in a vertical road is just a river. As long as you drive on the road you'll be safe.

[@alinecruz3079]

1:47 - NOOOO THE ROUNDABOUT!!!! Like some youtuber’s son called Biffa would maybe say, as Matt’s comment said, roundabouts a sacred

[@1mattwilson83]

Heres a myth for you. if you place a road next to a bridge of equal length, going to the same place, will the drivers ignore the bridge?

[@matteocavedon4684]

Absolutely unless the road is full by how many people go onto the road instead of the bridge

[@TheRicardfranca89]

how is that. posible? maybe im an idiot

[@anthonyluc5981]

is that a myth, or just a random question you came up with and are curious about? myths are generally more factual statments with less question marks in them.

[@1mattwilson83]

@@anthonyluc5981 kinda both. i heard that because a bridge rises, it's slightly longer, thus cars will take the straight ground road, but i've never seen it tested, so I was wondering.

[@shanesimms3665]

The fire myth "confirmed" experiment suffers from an error. You need to try the experiment again with clicking the house fires first. Even though the game is paused, it is likely queueing disasters in the order they are engaged and leads to the fire helicopters prioritizing whichever fire you activated first. Since you did the forest fire before doing the house fire, this is likely why we see helis going for trees first.

[@princelyvince]

I wonder if the fire patrol went to the trees first because the fire technically started there first? It kinda looks like it attacks the oldest fire

[@chantalgiesen1801]

Isnt it just because fire helicopters dont flush houses? They flush trees because that makes the most sense, but houses on fire are taken down by the fire departement in busses? 🚒

[@SaigesArstgo1031]

@@chantalgiesen1801 no you could see them putting out houses

[@Transitional]

For the tornado turbine thing, the wind was already high. Perhaps in a place where there isn't already wind there would be a different result?

[@Nederfoxy]

Myth: Mat can go an episode without drawing a knob

[@D0C54rky]

thats def gonna be busted

[@carljohnson3348]

For the fire prioritize forest over buildings I think it goes for the fire that was started first since you clicked the forest then buildings, and when you started the 3rd fire at the other end it did that last because of the order you set the fires

[@williamblack3326]

i was getting worried we didn't had any strong shape, fortunately matt created one by accident, all good now!

[@Irish_Chirpo]

hello, I have a request, can you add more onto Engitopia such as an airport where planes have to fly through high rise buildings to land and take off. fun fact, there was an airport in Hong Kong that had this property, this aiport has hsut down due to saftey concerns and this airport is what inspired this idea. also, HAPPY NEW YEAR

[@jeffreyblack666]

For the fire preference, clearly the next thing to test is to set up that again, but this time light the house on fire first. It could be that they just go to whatever is on fire first.

[@77jethrotime]

Idea for a myth: You can stop the tsunami by digging a deep hole ‘till the depth of the map and then putting the mega drainage systems in.

[@someguy9388]

I was a wildland firefighter for a few weeks, so lemme tell you: even Alaska needs help with their fires pretty often And if I remember right there were politicians pushing for wildland firefighters to prioritize trees over homes. I believe it was specifically old growth trees but it's been a while

[@rsquirrelofdoom]

Myth: the developers will add RCE and Paddy into the game

[@keithzillner1805]

I think the firewatch tower wall works because it creates a fire break. You could test it again with just a fire break and see if the game registers it or if it's just because of the towers.

[@essaerae_g]

So a completely buried turbine won't catch wide, but what about one in a thin ravine?

[@random_stuffd2fixed]

No, burried windmills never work

[@bsnook981]

14:00 I have a feeling that the fire helicopters prioritize the forest due to the fact that fire helicopters aren't used on houses normally. If you did the same test with a normal fire station, I think that they would prioritize the homes.

[@_thresh_]

Myth: you can flip a boat upside down and it will still be completely fine

[@BornDepressed]

I still wonder how small of a zone you can make for a city to spring up. 1x1? 2x2?

[@dankcoyote]

Disasters would be a lot cooler if you could build things like tornado sirens or flood warnings, or some sort of broadcast station for radio and tv and that would be an upgrade. Basically a preventative measure that would cost money up front but make citizens happier and lower rebuilding costs.

[@zeraneyavalkari3175]

Revisit the meganado myth with smaller tornados please, 10 would have been the max and not have room to combine?

[@juances]

One disasters I dont see you using often is thunderstorms/lightning. Using the Pit/donut from engitopia... can lightning strike inside the hole or will the lightning travel the shortest distance to the ground and hit the elevated borders instead?

[@2KEMusic]

RCE always finds a way to annihilate something

[@WilliamBond]

Nice lines at 9:13... I wonder if you could create a full artwork using tornadoes and other natural disasters?

[@quantum2330]

honestly, it makes sense that the fire heli's go for trees, fire trucks can reach houses and are cheaper, and house fires don't tend to spread as quick as bush fires, if you put out the trees you may sacrifice a few houses but you would probably prevent further chaos

[@makkusaiko]

Matt: An architect must have built this bridge Also Matt: Built the bridge

[@thejester3162]

I just had an idea for a sustainable water/power supply for a city. Have a dam to store sewage and provide power. Have a second basin after that dam and put floating trash collectors through it. Have a second dam for more power and a pump in a basin after this. In a stair-style setup for all this. Reasonably sized of course.

[@ChrisLovesThisGame]

Almost 3/4's of a wind turbines mass is in it's foundation which are concrete. The typical wind turbine has between 600 and 1000 tons of concrete in its base. The formula is supposed to be 243 - 400 tons per MW installed with a typical wind turbine being around 2 - 2.5 MW. In Ohio the installation of 152 2-MW turbines required 30,000 tons of concrete.

[@brycehasyoutube5163]

Myth idea: using the speed limit variation on a road - different vehicles will slow down at different speeds

[@AliceErishech]

This is just a guess on my part but I think the reason the helicopters seemed to change priorities when you created a new fire has to do with when each fire was started. They initially prioritized the trees because you set that fire first and then after it was taken care of, they prioritized the houses over the trees due to that fire having been set before the new one.

[@FirefuryAmahira]

I mean... on the fire helicopters one, realistically a water drop on a building would generally just deal more damage to the building. You drop a large mass of heavy anything, liquids (or powders) included, it's going to smash stuff up. CAL FIRE has got a drop safety video on KZbin that shows a car getting absolutely destroyed by a low altitude phos-chek drop. :P

[@TedsNerdWorld]

To myself I always sing "Welcome back to Ci-ty Sky Lines!" to the tune of your Timberborners song!

[@officialchbicken2858]

You should put a whole mini neighborhood in the small place you buried the wind turbine! Also, you should try a myth about seeing if you allow all vehicles on a road, then set no vehicles allowed, would the previously driving cars stay or be deleted?

[@anantmahtolia1528]

Hey RCE, just a thought I think it might differ if you keep the trees and the buildings separate and start with lighting the buildings on fire first for the helicopters prioritising trees myth....

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

The fire helicopter theory should be retested with no regular fire departments active. The way this game's matchmaking works is that the houses are likely to be assigned trucks, even if they're far away, due to the larger number of "buyers". Basically, three fire helicopters are competing with dozens of trucks for the buildings, while nothing competes with helicopters for the trees. That said, I didn't actually see any regular fire trucks in the footage.

[@wurdleturtle1]

Happy New year mat! 😄

[@iamstupid5188]

Happy new year to you 😂

[@Foxlover781]

2:39 ‘And then fast forward three time- oh its happening happy new year’ is funny

[@zoidman9432]

The fire helicopters run off of an ordered priority list of fires. The order of priorities is as follows. Proximity. Age of fire (which was set first) Spread of fire So the closest, oldest, biggest. When the last house was on fire, it was part of the original blaze, whereas the second fire in the trees was newer and was considered less of a priority.

[@unfortunatelyevil1767]

For the buried wind turbine: what if you punch a horizontal tunnel all the way through. Would the wind find its way in?

[@transientvoltage]

After learning about the lowest level you can in cityskylines I got to wondering did you put the bottom of your poocanos all the way to the bottom?

[@jcb5782]

Myth idea: Will snowfall turn burned ground immediately white?

[@Genesis8934]

14:07 Unless they just prioritize which one burned longer. You did click forest fire first :P

[@Amigo21189]

He did, but that was the point of stopping in-game time first. However, it's pretty likely that the fire heli depot dispatches vehicles to incidents of the same severity in the order they're added to the script's stack (meaning the order in which they spawn). If you pay close attention, you can see that the station "knows" there's going to be a fire before the fire becomes visible to the player.

[@maxniemi4584]

You should repeat the test with fire helicopter priority on a larger scale. I don't think it actually prioritises anything but a bigger fire or more helicopters might give more accurate results

[@Stanty16]

I wonder if the fire priority is that they aim for the spot of fire that's been burning the longest, and work down the order of burn time

[@ex-muslimraj8652]

Myth: The efficient shape can stop forest fires/Tornadoes/Tsunamis

[@GeneralPurposeVehicl]

"forest fires won't spread in snowy map" made me lauugh "That's BS" the instant I heard the myth. I had so many fires run though trees in Snowflat Rivers I had to add additional fire protections. If you want to spread fire thoughout a city in the game, fill it with trees. Ask me how I know. The max windspeed is 10 ya goof. It looks like the fire crews go to the firt thing that lights on fire.

[@Crow_Smith]

Also - even irl fires spread pretty fast in the winter because despite the snow, there's still a bunch of dead and dry things and the air is dry which allows it to travel more. That's why hot + Dry conditions = high fire risk. Because DRY = Risk.

[@Helios-ce2rd]

I love love love this channel and your cities skylines videos. I don't miss 1. I've even gone back n watched the old ones. Keep up the amazing work. You're awesome

[@bunksoup8137]

Myth idea: If a forest fire gradually spreads outside city limits, fire helicopters will let it burn.

[@yty1941]

2:05 Myth: If you place a wall of fire watch towers and then remove all of the towers, would the forest fire still be stopped? (I mean it kinda does just removes a straight line of trees so...)

[@DDoubleOZ]

12:04 The best MYTH yet!

[@Cristopher.C]

wtf that guy casually BIKING ON HIS SKATE?? 14:09

[@Heptad]

Yes. Yes he is lol

[@onlinegub7609]

a myth: Can a row of Skyscrapers stop a Forest Fire?

[@frit-fm5ud]

Please more city skilines

[@PWLfr]

People prioritize work over safety when called in the emergency shelters. Emergency buses will ignore traffic rules A shelter will resist a meteor

[@Toxik_Tobi]

What if you dig as low as possible. Then raise the gound level just a tiny bit and then sinkhole it. Will the sinkhole be only that tiny bit deep untill it hits the ground of the map or will it create a true hole?

[@neverson42]

Fun fact: The mythbusters trademark was abandoned by discovery in 2020 and purchased by KZbinr Allen Pan in 2022 as a revenge tactic after The Discovery Channel used his channel footage without permission.

[@quoniam426]

The fire must prioritize what will cause the fire to spread the fastest. I guess that trees have less HP than houses and thus spread fires faster as a result, hence the prioritzing of the trees. Or perhaps it prioritze the FIRST fire that was lit, here it was the trees.

[@ex-muslimraj8652]

Myth: Buildings burn faster than vegetation.

[@robotjesus555666]

In your irl area, are engineer hats actually orange? They are white here in canada :p

[@jonhg92]

Yellow or white in norway. Not sure if its regulated too much

[@spencerwilkie4218]

Hmm? What kind of engineer? Most people just wear what ever they're company supplies, from what I've seen in Canada. But that's speaking as a none engineer, so happy to be wrong cause I like to learn lol

[@karashuun1083]

It's usually White in my country but it depends. Yellow is for more construction worker or the sub-contractor while white is for the engineer and the executives. There's also red for safety officer, blue for electrical worker, green for environmental work and orange for guest.

[@Crow_Smith]

He has explained a few times that the color depends on what they're doing a few times - but for a lot of places it literally just matters what is offered by the company unless the country requires a specific one.

[@robotjesus555666]

Cool thanks guys :p

[@_Stormfather]

"We found that they're completely inflammable" Counter-intuitive as it might be, "inflammable" actually means the same thing as "flammable," not the opposite. What you actually meant was "non-flammable" or simply "fireproof"

[@eixonm]

For the fire myth. Try paused but houses then forest. It might just be based on order of starting on fire? [You did forest then houses]

[@baystated]

Confirmed: Discovery Channel lawyers thinks the word Mythbusters belongs to them after they bought it from someone else who just found the word sitting unsupervised in the English language.

[@reud_6476]

I once heard that you could stop a normal (5.5) tsunami with a sikhole of severity 10.0

[@MyAramil]

Amanda was all like " you know what RCE, Ima bounce"

[@captainsnekk]

Myth: the top of a tornado will be wider, the further down the tornado goes into an hole

[@NutelGameMe]

4:40 It's the Backrooms ! Nooooooo !

[@HAOSMIKE]

Have you considered playing stormworks? you can help architects that a stranded on the ocean on defect ship, pick them up, and throgh them into a forrest fire?

[@peachulemon]

tree fire will spread faster and I think the game assume fire trucks will arrive fire and until they don't, homes will move up priority list. helicopters seems to focus of forest fires first when there fire trucks around.

[@serenahiggins1849]

Myth idea: You cannot create a city that Biffa can’t fix.

[@noobonthetube]

Day 53 of asking RCE to play scrap mechanic

[@crazymcnugget4049]

Yessssssssss

[@capybara9594]

yes

[@fangshunpike4003]

Of course

[@untitled_loser427]

Stay strong brother.

1:12 you can actually confirm this by trying to edit the fire watch tower inside the content editor.

[@AhanaMahapatra]

When I first saw the thumbnail, I panicked thinking in which is state did a tornado broke out after the snow storm alert 😅😅 The news headline thumbnail creativity is getting out of hand phew.

[@20Rewind]

Here’s a myth for you: mat will never play infra space again even though it’s the better game

[@clairemcaneny7150]

as an Irish person I can confirm that this is P O T A T O SERTAFID video

[@FourDISGuy]

About myth with tornadonado: What if they didnt combine because they were maximum size (severity 10). So maybe they will combine if they have lower severity level...

[@AryaPDipa]

I actually expected the wind turbine to shut off during tornado because IRL there's cut-off speed or the limit speed to save the turbines components

[@washinthewind]

In case you were curious, KZbinr @AllenPan owns the merchandising rights for Mythbusters. Maybe you two could collab on a shirt.

[@timeworm.gecko.8]

I believe they prioritize forest fires over structure fires because forest fires spread faster and can cover larger distances which could spread to other districts in the city....could be wrong tho

[@Ripper346.]

Mith: you can build an aqueduct made of rocks without flooding underneath

[@eidodk]

The fire helicopters prioritize forest fires because house fires are normally covered by fire departments with fire engines.

[@retr0robbin]

The pillars on the Sydney Harbour Bridge are purely decorative, the bridge can stand without them

[@MrShwaggins]

Just want to let you know that trailer parks will attract tornadoes. They are connected by a power we have not even begun to understand.

[@sword_god8438]

myth: spamming 15, level 10 severity tornadoes in engitopia all over the place is cool

[@Ramotttholl]

Fire helis care about the forest. So if a house next to the forest might focus the house to prevent it spreading to more forest

[@nekto4658]

11:17 She probably didn't since people in Cities skylines can get out their cars and 'put them into their pocket'

[@gatorguy5419]

When two or more tornadoes combine it just makes a very large tornado. An F5 tornado ripped through Oklahoma City and it had three vortexes within it .

[@Crow_Smith]

Legitimately - when I lived in Wisconsin, there was a double water spout on Lake Michigan right off the coast right where I could see it from my dorm [sadly I hadn't looked outside and actually ignored the tornado sirens since people were still walking along the campus [not running for shelter] and it didn't look windy or anything, and despite being later told the RA came running through the halls, pounding on doors, I never heard any of that NOR commotion in the halls]] and it was kind of scary and beautiful in the pictures. I was so scared at myself for being so dumb [though our shelter was the basement of the building which had been known to flood and the first thing spouts do is drop water when they hit land so admittedly, the dorm closest to the water was probably not a safe basement to hide in]. BUT I do remember that that storm also spawned the tornado that ripped through Illinois that year and it blew my mind because I saw footage of that thing and it was HUGE. It was like, short and VERY Wide and now I wonder if that's why. I don't think it was an F5 - but it might've been. But in the video it's just VERY VERY WIDE and I had only ever seen the tall thin ones [yeah I know technically even those are actually quite wide but still]. It was ... amazing and scary.

[@gatorguy5419]

@@Crow_Smith Several F5s that ripped through Oklahoma were a mile wide at the base. So it could've been.

[@MegaGuitarMonkey]

Slightly inspired, you should see if a tunnel will allow enough wind to let the wind turbine turn while buried

[@tomward5456]

G'Day Mate the Sydney harbor bridge pylons were made by architects their there for looks only

[@JustinDerEchte]

Wait until he finds out that trees slow down wind for Windturbines

[@t.b.6130]

You should try the game World of Goo. It’s about building structures to get goo to pipes and it’s got some engineering concepts like poly bridge. Plus it has a cool storyline

[@brandonfrancey5592]

Technically at 13:10 you created a forest fire first.Logically the fire fighters would target that fire first before moving tot he houses. Basically it's a matter of first come, first serve and not of valuing trees over houses or visa versa.

[@vipcesh]

Maybe the house was prioritized before you set the trees on fire, so the helicopter was already on route

[@Dave0439]

the fire helicopters always have a coin, head is help the trees and the other side is help the people. there are 9.9 sides with a head on it and 0.1 sides dont have a head on it. pretty normal coin to flip, right?

[@beaupeng]

Myth: you can subscribe to RCE Add this is the next Cities Skylines video it a perfect way to subscribe

[@cockodemon7443]

As much as we hate architects here the song "Architects of Doom" by Blind Guardian actually slaps so hard

[@nekto4658]

With the bridges that Sydney bridge counts as a building, not a road

[@danielmiller8156]

now to do the reverse of the wind turbine test. if you elevate it really high, will output maximize?

[@AliceDTRH_]

I don't think the Discovery channel still owns the trademark on Mythbusters. Allen Pan does :)

[@rayannogamer4957]

This channel is incredible