Engineering the PERFECT CITY in Cities Skylines 2!

[@NFvidoJagg2]

You should build a hexagon based neighbourhood. Not just because hexagons are the bestagons, but also because of traffic efficiencies

[@Rabbit635]

noice

[@michaelplowman8674]

I just thought about a hexagonal neighborhood with a roundabout in the very center and then the blocks being otherwise the 2nd strongest shape of equilateral triangles. Only thing that could make it better is bridges!

[@jessekeeler4899]

Bestagons

[@LeroxYT]

Average american depressing roads...why dont you make them like in Europe? Draw funny lines with every possible different road 🙂 it looks great (also some of our roads (Most)) are older than the USA 😂

[@mctuble]

Is there anyone else who says "hexagons are the bestagons" other than Matt Parker?

[@justinfrerich8132]

Personally I appreciate the more realistic approach to cities. Keep doing the engineering classes plz

[@attepatte8485]

And some experiment shenanigans

[@HighExplosiveOP]

If anyone requests the old boring childish knob shaped inneficient roads I swear…

[@LeroxYT]

@@HighExplosiveOP better funny old roads than depressing american 😂

[@ordnaela1210]

Maybe a separate series for engineering and shenanigans! love them both!

[@trueb8474]

this wise british man is the only reason the traffic flow in my magnum opus city is at 87%

[@spaceworkgaming656]

I hope this series continues to be both fun, AND educational. I love learning about these real world engineer methods.

[@DonaldWWitt]

And then we can design the real life POOCANO POWERPLANT!

[@patai16]

@@DonaldWWitt Just like OG engitopia

[@SurreyProGamer]

Same

[@reiszdan]

As someone who can't wait to get a hold on the game when it launches, I actually quite appreciate the realistic playstyle and engineering basics teaching

[@ROGUESTL88]

When does it release

[@senatorarmstrong4168]

@@ROGUESTL88 october of last year (on steam)

[@Eggmeppa]

2nd

[@ooogabooogaa]

2nd if which month?​@@Eggmeppa

[@zolliesuniverse3327]

Just build a city that's what we care about.

[@dr.michaelmarx3085]

Kind of neat to actually hear about Matt's engineering experience. It was very interesting.

[@Sir_knomes]

YES I'm a huge fan of free civil engineering classes so please teach as much as you want!

[@dragonblade8460]

Please!!

[@sheepco]

Agreed!

[@ramadhanfuadyrakha.s890]

its just all we neeed

[@NicolasdeFontenay]

shamelessly placing my beg herre too

[@NovaRift]

100% agree, these types of videos (educational via video game) have been my new favourite thing! I have even started looking to see if towns I drive in are engineered well or poorly!

[@Google__account]

Sometimes I wonder if he’s truly still an engineer after these years. But seeing him draw a bunch of knobs I realize he’s more, he’s a genius!

[@tarrantwolf]

Yeah, very architectural to design for looks rather than thinking of nothing but efficiency.

[@marcushvelplund9535]

@@tarrantwolf A knob is the most efficient shape

[@tarrantwolf]

@@marcushvelplund9535 only for a wizards staff.

[@DominicThomas369]

The strongest shape

[@KeyzKieran]

I wonder if there are any dick designs out there in the UK currently and we dont know about it

[@Leeon_King]

I prefer the more educational approach. It's a good balance to your humor! While it's funny, the constant "strongest shape" sometimes was too much so this is a good balance. For example, Visibility Splay is HORRIBLE where I live but never knew the term! I'm thankful to have learned that but still get a good chuckle in.

[@GuestUser18]

Thank you! I agree so much, sometimes the efficient engineering can be funny but sometimes it gets really annoying. I love his realistic approaches to city building and I hope he does more of it

[@leodavis4242]

18:35 on a more humorous note, I like that it implies that the dogs called for the hearse 😂

[@thedeergod435]

Or the guy knew he was about to die, so called the hearse before popping his clogs

[@roberttucker1527]

Good to see you actually being an engineer. Silly stuff is good at times but you should leverage your actual engineering experience more. It's enjoyable

[@tehstarwars1361]

This is actually what we want. You teaching us and actually playing the game every now and again LOVE IT

[@takitachibana4757]

I’m a huge fan of the mini lessons throughout the video, I hope he continues

[@IplayRobloxeveryday-e5r]

Me too😊

[@RGrum-je6zn]

I love that he is doing a realistic play through and using his engineer knowledge

[@Lordofcookiejars]

This aged poorly

[@spudlingtv8187]

more poorly now@@Lordofcookiejars

[@Casonplayz]

@@spudlingtv8187Even more poorly now

[@piercemccauley7079]

@@Casonplayz why poorly?

[@MohamedAli-eo2iz]

​@@piercemccauley7079why

[@TheBlobik]

3:50 what I love about this clip is that it was filmed near where I lived in my childhood. You can even see a sign pointing to the city of my birth . Apparently the car was going (flying?) towards there as well.

[@PorterStats3]

I really love this realistic gameplay, use this save to play realistically and make other saves for messing around.

[@lil_lyrix]

The Real Civil Engineer actually engineering a city? Insanity.

[@Boots_293]

It was shocking to watch haha

[@meowritz]

Yeah the amount of these "city ____ plays C:S" channels is astounding whereas almost none of them apply many infrastructure tricks of their own, i was surprised to see someone try to explain how certain roads are designed and why

[@jordanbradford7729]

His earliest Cities Skylines videos were similar to this one, in which he taught real civil engineering concepts. At some point he discovered the joy of screwing around in the game, and that’s how he eventually had a poo volcano providing infinite power to a city.

[@flamingoLake]

@@meowritzI have genuinely only seen like two of them including this guy and city planner plays. But city planner plays is an actual city planner who uses the principles of city design

[@patai16]

@@jordanbradford7729 U a real one

[@Actiaeon]

I enjoy the educational engeneering content. Honestly I would just watch you make a realistic city with actual practices.

[@mozzstickdestroyer]

you might really like city planner plays

[@Actiaeon]

@@mozzstickdestroyer You son of a b**** you have consumed my life. Also, Chuckles was right!

[@JudeBaker-yw4jh]

Engitopia 2 is going to be the most anti-architect city ever!!!

[@Nikolamilanovic577]

Hi

[@LunaDL]

Only Engineers

[@malksy1014]

yeah😜

[@Sumirevins]

I recently found out I'm INTJ-T architect personality type. Idk how I feel about architects anymore....😂

[@YourDadsBoyfriend]

Yet the first thing he does is add an architects wet dream - the roundabout

[@cbutler91510]

I LOVE the bits of education you throw into your videos. Since watching your PolyBridge videos I call out bridge types to my wife, and have found a love and passion for beautiful bridges. I LOVED this video for all the breakdowns you were doing while you also played. I love listening to experts in their field that I know nothing about. It's always amazing. I vote to keep.

[@saprumk4]

3:58 "Anyway, since this is Engineering, the home of Engitopia..."

[@captainsnekk]

Petition for matt to make a turbo-roundabout.

[@Major_Minecraft_Gaming]

agreed

[@HardNameGuy]

Signed by me

[@ManjotSingh-sf2ri]

signed by me

[@malksy1014]

yep

[@SamanthaLaurier]

If that's just a roundabout but everyone is driving super fast, sign me up

[@HG0973]

Gotta say, if RCE made a playlist playing this game seriously, I would love it!

[@MrMetalMichael]

Love that Danny arrons and caravans are just a thing now 😂😂

[@Pop_308]

never expected to hear danny aarons name in an rce video

[@pinkybandit3581]

@@Pop_308neither 🤣 made my day

[@goerge-q6x]

@@Pop_308 fr

[@Insomnia32611]

How is this comment a day old but the vid is 22 hrs old?

[@Pop_308]

​@@Insomnia32611 time travel

[@emorainbow8999]

2:00 there was a road in a neighboring town where an 80 mph highway became the main street... where an elementary school was placed. Fun little law in my area, cars cannot go more than 25 mph in proximity to a school. Meaning you had to slow down by 55 mph immediately. There were no warning signs, however there WAS a mountain between you and the town, so you got ZERO warning of this decrease. You round a huge bend and boom. You're going 55 miles over the speed limit in a school zone. It made the cops quite happy, cause they got to ticket farm there.

[@mapletreegames9053]

1:20 I've just realised a trend with all the KZbinrs I'm subscribed to, part educational and part juvenile humour 😂😂 So yes to both!

[@GeeseAndGlory]

I actually originally subscribed to you because of the engineering knowledge you'd share when first building Engitopia. Please do more of that kind of thing!

[@DaBaSoftware]

I appreciate you doing the extra supplemental info and education moments. You're scratching a curious itch I have. I live in Florida in the US and travel frequently among the fort Myers shores, Lehigh, and estero areas where the interstates highways and intersections are horrible bottlenecks. This is cathartic to hear your insights and seeing you apply them to this game.

[@djwillcaine]

Literally earlier today i was approaching a roundabout and wondered why there was such a sharp bend before it. Now I know! I actually really enjoyed the legit engineering insights.

[@dogisaurus8430]

I am sure the dogs got adopted by a nice family of engineers, they will have thest built doggy houses ever.

[@zvelki]

11:35 - It's a good thing I'm *not* a *real engineer* anymore - Real Civil Engineer

[@ajlunce]

absolutely love the actual traffic engineering lesson! I really hope you get a series going, maybe with people voting on new developments

[@wulfywulfynrir1296]

Less than a minute in and im already disappointed we didnt go with "EngiTWOpia" 😂

[@Dismal187]

I really like that he’s not making the most chaotic city ever but actually making it realistic

[@mancabbage1]

[@skrtnation4323]

I love the mini tangents of engineering knowledge! I am an industrial engineer, not civil, but learning just a little bit about the random things in my city/environment is great. Keep that coming please!

[@TheDarklingWolf]

Missed opportunity to call it Engitwopia, looking forward to seeing how it develops in this game.

[@Anky_A]

My question about the 25 Foggy Street situation is, who called for the hearse if there are only the two dogs in the place? Great CS2 episode! I'm liking the "irl road/city tutorial" aspect.

[@furdiburd]

Possibly karen down the street

[@SullySadface]

Probably the dogs.

[@kozibones]

This series is gonna be great

[@-off-]

Do more of these "nerdy" episodes, it was really interesting, I will definitely take more notice of how the roads are shaped!

[@joelnormal4876]

This guy got paid to put 3000 water drains in a desert

[@SKumar-fn3vt]

18:50 i for real cried lol

[@iacobuseurus509]

Cities Skylines videos like this one are the only reason I passed my first Civil Engineering midterm

[@santeripit7740]

you can enable the contour lines while building roads with the avocado looking thing (last on the right of the snapping options)

[@scrub8674]

hes actually engineering! this is good content right here, im learning so much. im a fan of your fun content too, but not everyone can do this kind of content so i like this too.

[@AlexRodriguez-lk1jy]

I just found out about this game and as a roadway design engineer, I cant stress how excited I am to play this game. Its currently downloading but seeing you layout those roads and roundabouts is just awesome

[@carlsiouxfalls]

Interesting to see some "real" CS2 gameplay on the channel, and I look forward to more. Of course the shenanigans will be welcome too.

[@FulgrimDragon]

I love all the civil engineering insights you give in your videos, its cool to understand why every day things are the way they are.

[@Bruhkake]

I do love your videos but I would genuinely love to see you build a completely serious realistic city with all your expert skills 😅

[@dailyhydration-]

8:18 Wow! I didn't know they actually designed roads with "how fun/boring they are" in mind!

[@Red-Tower]

It's a somewhat more recent consideration, especially when thinking about long-distance travel like truckers. Driving for hours on end on long straight roads gets incredibly boring and either people start to get distracted/mind wandering to other things or they get tired and start drifting off to sleep. Obviously either of those things happening while hauling these big freight trucks is very bad and has caused a lot of accidents, so road planners have started making a greater effort to find ways they can help prevent that from happening.

[@VeromcaHorace]

Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.

[@caesarsalad77]

I can absolutely corroborate the anecdote on roundabouts and straight roads. In the city where I live there is a central square with a roundabout in it and a fountain in the middle of it. Despite stop lights prior to the roundabout, despite flashing warning lights and high visibility signs, multiple people have slammed right into that fountain.

[@m00ng00u]

3:50 poland reference POLSKA GUROM!!!

[@georgekefalas538]

I love the real-life civil engineering aspects of your videos. As an intern working in highway design, it's always fascinating to learn more about the subject.

[@kendallfleet]

You know he’s gonna play city skylines 2 for a while, I’m so hyped to watch em all!!!!!!😆😆😆😆😆

[@dannypipewrench533]

19:29 The master planned development I live in in the middle of nowhere in Arizona has transmission lines cut right through it. The biggest park has the towers right by the parking lot. Kind of an architect move, but they were smart and left natural desert around the power line corridor for most of the way.

[@Hebdomad7]

18:12 - Bro, how dare you block the view of such magnificent and historic infrastructure! This is what people lived and died for in this city!

[@duncanchin]

The start of Engitopia is so wholesome. I wonder how the city is gonna end up being

[@Archimedes_]

With you and CPP combined, we will become the ultimate engi-planners of all time

[@g-force8653]

matt i wanted to tell you that in the netherlands we do have roundabouts that work with 2 lanes. and also start with 2 lanes big fan of your fids keep it up mate

[@dannypipewrench533]

3:58 Since this is Engineering, the Home of Engitopia. _Yes._

[@javienvazquez528]

Hearing him really explain it kinda feels like a teacher telling you something really cool it’s like we enjoy it so much just because this guy Makes building cities actually enjoyable and now he’s teaching how to make it efficient in real life great video even greater guy

[@williambilodeau4688]

The thing is about American grid systems is that they aren’t common on the east coast where UK colonized. As a east coster the roads all over the east coast have many turns and are very obscure like the roads in the game. Hope I cleared some things up.

[@williamtoccijr9579]

Unless it’s a planned out city like NYC and DC…

[@thalanoth]

Grids are boring :p though I do like the left turns in Phoenix AZ

[@CASA-dy4vs]

@@thalanothgrids are plain and old. Hexagons are always the bestagons

[@captaindelta43]

Matt playing cities skylines 2.0 aka Engitopia 2.0 as a proper RCE is the most anti architect thing 😅😂 ever , love the lessons 16:03 That Danny aarons dissertation was mad . Personally i wouldn't have that 😅😂 .

[@ezesjack5219]

why is danny catching strays from random youtubers lmaooo

[@mateorendon3387]

I want to go into civil engineering next year. I think you should make a video where you follow proper methods for designing all these in cities skylines so people can see what civil eng is like irl

[@Makro3d]

Just to add some knowledge for you Matt.... Bends also act in a traffic calming manner. People tend to find having to use the steering wheel difficult and will thus automatically, subconsciously, drive slower. Also that first traffic light intersection should have been a roundabout. Love that you deleted the trees btw. We are stuck having to build around them OR having to compensate every tree by at least 2 new trees.

[@red_is_sus5]

“We don’t want junctions too close to each other” and 20 seconds later “Let’s split the junction into two”

[@AndreiChawicz]

“Hello fellow engineers “ hits different after graduation

[@realAPOS]

Love the more educational side of it.

[@robertsaltzman2481]

I love the engineering aspect worked in the video

[@petewharton8449]

10:00 Matt: Doesnt like crossroads Also Matt: Immediately builds crossroads

[@youcarrott9]

That Danny Aarons joke was actually pretty good

[@ctwiddle8113]

Love to see engitopia using engineering

[@mursallazuardy]

1 and half minute in vid, i love the engineering knowledge 🔥

[@jacklenngren6590]

I can't wait for the game to be released on October the 24th! I saw a tip for the quay-build in another video, where they recommended to flatten the terrain like in two different levels before adding the road on top of it. This way you are eligable to construct a perfectly leveled quay along the riverside. Terraining is free of charge, so that could be worth checking out!

[@jeremy_logan]

How do you feel now? The game is unplayable for me. Terrible graphics

[@jacklenngren6590]

@@jeremy_logan I feel great! The game runs smoothly and there's no lag what so ever! Perhaps you should check your settings?

[@jeremy_logan]

@jacklenngren6590 yeah I've spent hours tweaking settings. Fps is fine but the graphics are terrible. I have rtx 3050ti so I think that's the issue. It looks like a game from the 90s

[@jacklenngren6590]

@@jeremy_logan Sometimes even the gamers with good specs needs to trim down on the graphic settings... Try these settings: Display Mode: Fullscreen Windowed Depth of field mode: Disabled Dynamic Graphics Quality: Disabled Anti-aliasing Quality: High SMAA Clouds Quality Settings: Low Fog Quality Settings: Enabled Global Illumination Quality: Low Reflections Quality: High Depth of Field Quality: High Motion Blur: Disabled Shadow Quality: High Terrain Quality Settings: High Water Quality Settings: High Level of Detail: High Animation Quality: High Texture Quality Settings: High Let the Advanced settings be as they are.

[@jeremy_logan]

@jacklenngren6590 yeah I've done all that. The graphics just suck. Idk why. Thanks though

[@joshwhite6738]

Danny Aaron’s watching this video💀 15:53

[@Catindrip]

😂

[@SprinkelzRainbow]

I really like this format!! I didn't ultimately graduate a civil engineer (I wanted to design animal bridge crossings), but I still find city design fascinating. Little mini-lessons on road efficiency (drainage would be SICK, urban flooding is such a big issue) is really awesome!! I am sure we wouldn't mind a poop-cano or two thrown in ;).

[@davidbrendle9121]

These videos are the highlight of my day

[@brysonmiller9170]

The city definitely is knob shaped if it’s the perfect city 0:03

[@indrevei8769]

I actually really love these real life road engineering 'lessons', makes me see road map of my city from different perspective

[@reidsbooks]

Choses NA... proceeds to drive on the left, use metric, use roundabouts all over, and avoid crossroads. Perfect. Feels like home. I love the game assumes utilities automatically run under all roads too. Completely different industries. Granting a road right of way doesn't automatically grant utilities. They can run under roads, but the vast majority don't. At least not over here. It's why you see signs (and laws in some states) telling you to call before digging because there might be a utility running across your yard.

[@jazzcort5869]

love learning the REAL engineering behind the city planning

[@darthurza]

3:56 ah, clasic Polish roundabout space launcher.

[@salim8006]

Nobody Talking about that he placed 30 000 gullyies IN QATAR💀7:35 (Sorry if i writed wrong)

[@spin4team4096]

I am

[@IgnaceR152]

Matt definitely was the man for the job to put up 30 000 rain water gullies in the desert!

[@SebasTian58323]

Challenge idea: create a city with a near perfect relationship with nature. Use only renewable energy, use the least polluting options for everything, avoid cutting down any trees or the like, keep the water supply free of sewage and anything else that's in the spirit of this run

[@antoniooliver7708]

Any video where Matt gets to legitimately talk about engineering and design are always my favorite videos. Would love to see more like it!

[@OnTheNerdySide]

rce: builds a grid with the grid tool also rce: hates four-way intersections

[@sfsbuilder2]

Sad :< 19:07

[@DoginSuit]

1:35 I’m bored build a poocano

[@saklas428]

I like the realistic aspect of building the city as well as the funny things you put on your channel.

[@lcbyri]

im ngl i much prefer the educational funny content over the random for random's sake funny content. id love a series where you legit just teach us city planning/engineering things through video games.

[@helgabjarnadottir8843]

Why do you hate architects so much

[@slabon6091]

Hey, I’m an engineer! We all hate architects. They design buildings like they do not know what physics is and make the engineers and builders lives hell. They have a shit ton of karma coming for them

[@cadesmith840]

@@slabon6091lmfao

[@zamasoom.]

@@slabon6091so they don’t study (or obey) physics?

[@matttheman3923]

@@slabon6091trust me, a lot of people do. I work in commercial construction inspections…I’m often dumbfounded by how they expected certain things to work…

[@dcliddell96]

Have a you met one?

[@zadchad8292]

Why did he not continue this city? I can't find any more vids on this one.

[@Kasserole1]

There is a playlist. Search for “Real Civil Engineer City Skylines 2”

[@adeflimzvideos658]

Day 1 of asking mat to play minedustry

[@Brazil-loves-you]

PLAY MINEDUSTRY AAAaaaAAAAaa AaaAAaaaAas

[@adeflimzvideos658]

I know right

[@yaroslavpanych2067]

Counter has been reset? I saw day 120ish asking it recently

[@NotCreativeNickname]

Day 14 of supporting this idea (i come from other mindustry comment)

[@adeflimzvideos658]

@@yaroslavpanych2067 nah that's someone else it was on day 125 i think when I saw it though dammmmm I need to support dis campaign

[@WyBob]

I actually really enjoy hearing what the strategy is. It's definitely still entertaining, and I'm learning more about things that I interact with daily. Thoroughly my jam. Hopefully enough people agree to keep it up! And if not, I understand, just wanted to express how much I enjoyed the approach!

[@isolated.8976]

Having a serie of Matt making the perfect city and then keeping the wild stuff as a different one will be really fun. Always wanted to see how an engineer will make a better city than an architect.

[@Flezcko2.0]

Were the hell is bridge review

[@nevaansbooks2078]

4:00 Okay... Engineering, the home of Engitopia. Very interesting...

[@kenzadams]

Really enjoyed the actual engineering commentary! Super interesting :)

[@HaiTaiBai]

What I’ve learned from all cities skylines 1 and 2 videos ever is that roundabouts solve all problems

[@chisokugaming]

I paint highways. I love this. I love how you explain how everything works. This is fantastic. Thank you!