Engineering the perfect TRIANGULAR CITY in Cities Skylines 2!

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[@Kaplle]

You should create hexagonal city cause hexagons are bestagons. And as comment below said , could you make a hexagonal fractal Another city idea with shapes , you could make a city in with every layer has more angles . You start with circle , than around it triangle , than square , Pentagon's hexagons ...

[@Danbotology]

Hexagons and triangles are highly compatible!

[@davidellis1355]

I was going to make the same comment

[@Minorskillissue]

Make a knob city

[@yyhewzies1415]

I was also going to make the same comment but urs blew up. Small suggestion, can you say to make them hexagons inside hexagons. Like a catan board. Most people have done boring old hexagons. Not hexagon seption.

[@Henday024]

clicked on the video specifically to comment this lol(also going to watch the video regardless, it's just that the idea of a hexagonally-oriented city is what made me click the video. i've seen videos recently about how hexagons were in the running to become the standardized way roads were built until the grid was somehow settled on(i forget that part of the vid). Would be really cool to see how it plays out.

[@AnthonyMackONE]

I wouldn’t be opposed to watching an ongoing series on Triangle City.

[@literalnightowl5181]

I second this

[@Hellsing_Montana]

I would love to watch an ongoing series of this city

[@christopherdamons6575]

I third it

[@giogilmore4618]

I forth this

[@jacksonstarky8288]

I love that the forbidden curved tunnel comes out on Elm Street... because that curved tunnel really is a nightmare.

[@Misterchalm]

There's a curved tunnel in Montreal. It's extremely disorienting to drive through it.

[@WinterAurora-m3p]

Truly a nightmare on elm street

[@yyhewzies1415]

Build a hexagon city that is made up of hexagons. Basically a catan board.

[@ThePapaja1996]

hexagons is the bestagons

[@mr_bob_brick]

@@ThePapaja1996 hexagons is the bestagons

[@SandBoxPioneer]

I've got one going now and it's a really fun design to work with, and the next hexagon perfectly fits into the last making many hexagons, on my 2nd large hex now excited to see how it turns out

[@FullmetalAngyl]

I'd love to see a city that looks like honeycomb.

[@ashokawho6327]

And have little farming areas, mining areas and stuff with cities on the vertices and roads on the sides

[@R0ckBu1lder]

We all know that triangles are better than architect grids. I bet there are some architects watching this video screaming their heads off in agony seeing the ULTIMATE ENEMY TO ARCHITECTURE - THE TRIANGLE.

[@SmokeandSpirit]

Or we could go straight to the strongest shape if we really wanted to watch them squirm. Yet it's so based many claim it's obscene.

[@Herobrinegrn1]

I plan on going into architecture myself, and I must say. Fuck it, triangular city

[@dr._.baldwyn]

I prefer the hexagonal grid, hexagons are the bestagons

[@Likasense]

I think squiggly is the best

[@DZag6149]

Finally a new top comment

[@stevewithaq]

If you allowed for rotation, you could make a city out of just equilateral triangles which would alternate between being triangular and being hexagonal; best of both worlds! Also, no relation to any events in this video, and guessing this would go pretty badly, but what if you tried to make a city with just Residential and Commercial districts?

[@gandalf_thegrey]

Thats a pretty fancy suggestion you got there. Almost... too fancy. Almost... architectural. Do you have anything to admit to us?

[@rings22]

Lol

[@The_Box_King]

Day 1 of waiting for Matt to upload Mindustry Part 2. You're probably wondering, why waiting and not asking? Because i don't want to push Matt anymore, and i want him to take his time, considering he just played it, now we just wait, and while we wait for a part 2, and any other parts, enjoy the FFOTD (Fun Fact Of The Day) below. FFOTD: There are a total of 18 maps available in the custom game mode, while you can add more by installing or making them yourself!

[@Edvit40]

i was about to post a comment saying "and now the day 1 madness will continue because it worked for you" and then i see your literal comment

[@Topic_Yo]

Day 33 of me asking Matt to continue playing Minecraft.

[@wobbecraft]

day 1 of reading this comment :)

[@The_Box_King]

​@@Edvit40Im never gonna stop. :)

[@Edvit40]

oh shit-@@The_Box_King

[@AH-64EApacheGuardianHelicopter]

*It's beggining to look a lot like Bridge-mas*

[@2hundidforbigsucci]

Everywhere you go

[@TheGreatProphecy]

Oh What fun, @@2hundidforbigsucci

[@Belle_834]

Take a look at the five and ten, it's bridge time once again

[@Spider-py4mx]

Love to see the second strongest shape at work

[@localtavernsluteplayer2182]

Is there a joke I'm missing? Isn't triangle the strongest shape?

[@hgscorpion]

yeah there is a joke your missing. if u watch more of his video`s you gone now what the strongest shape in the world is. a little hint. it is somting a man have and a women wont have. @@localtavernsluteplayer2182

[@lennart-oimel9933]

I want to be informed, as well

[@g.k.xn_]

@@localtavernsluteplayer2182 Strongest shape: 🍆

[@ShineHatfield]

​@localtavernsluteplayer2182 in a different video, he said that the triangle was the second strongest shape, as a joke lol

[@diablogoku1]

I love when my youtubers use the wastewater treatment plants, as an operator of one its really nice to be recognized in games and videos sometimes

[@kyleroderick2334]

It took me a while to notice, but livestock doesn't actually need fertile ground. It produces livestock anywhere you put it. Only the crops require fertile ground. The devs really should change the view for livestock to reflect this.

[@Blacksheepis500]

You should make a video about making an efficiently shaped island, and call it “Pen Island”

[@alienck3901]

He did that in past video, city with no cars..

[@tillepprecht]

"Why have they built the ground so high up in the air" is a beautiful sentence i never thought i'd hear

[@soullessred5785]

Not gonna lie, i was expecting a grid of equilateral triangles a la Triforce

[@jamoecw]

like a truss.

[@Crimson_Dragon01]

A Trussforce.

[@IonizedAndy]

Hey man love the videoes ! just wanted to tip in that Livestock and stone both dont require a natural resource present, only Farming, and spec. mining like coal or metal etc. so you can do the live stock where ever you want same with stones :) ..

[@Red-Tower]

Thank you, was looking for this comment, seen a lot of people still making this mistake. To be fair, the game doesn't make it immediately obvious, you switch to that screen and it starts by showing you the ore/fertile ground.

[@SlyFoxl]

love how constant youre about commercial being commercial and also industrial. Edit: i made the comment before it was pointed out in the video lmao. also RCE, live stock and rock/stone quarry doesnt require fertile land / ore deposit

[@christurner6330]

I actuall thought about this a day or so prior to seeing this, but now I wanna see it even more so! What would a fractal city look like? As in one road splitting in two before the those roads split into two, et cetera. The city would only have one entrance basically, but maybe it's possible (with high precision) to create four fractals at each corner and connect them even.

[@br0wning]

fantastic idea. definitely so many possibilities for a fractal city

[@Agrarvideos_Unteremmenta-wg2fw]

17:53 WTF Matt your always seeing BIG things... Love ya keep going

[@Alpha5niner]

I have a suggestion. How about designing a city around the "flux capacitor" from the Back to the Future movies? Have the whole city the same shape as the flux capacitor, and have it somewhat make sense. Cheers.

[@Alpha5niner]

Nice suggestion that. I wholeheartedly agree.

[@RuFFlesGaming]

The game describing people's financial position as "wretched" really got me

[@michielvankessel4972]

@TheBoxKingReal will never stop telling Matt to play Mindustry

[@RyanMcMorrow]

You'd better be careful coming up with these city designs, Saudi Arabia might start getting ideas.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Him always forgetting hospitals, fire departments, and police stations makes me suspect he might be an architect in disguise.

[@Door__Handle]

Next time do a dodecagon raised into the sky with a rhombus carved out the middle and circular mounds around the dodecagon

[@SullySadface]

One day, Matt will wow us all by being able to properly differentiate between the colors blue and yellow

[@YourAverageProgrammer1]

It's not dangerous to make curved tunnels, it's dangerous to make a 90 degree curve, turning over less than 100 meters/metres

[@AZREDFERN]

I made a true Fractal triangle city with all one way streets that get smaller with every layer. The larger roads having right of way so there's constant flow. For the most part it worked. The only downside is I had all industrial, power, airport, and waste in another fractal on the other side of the highway, and that was my traffic bottleneck. I ended up installing an underground road loop connecting all the outer corners.

[@janejazz8779]

U can change around the plot layouts by putting down paths along the roads to force the reshuffle. Saw it done by What Darren Plays in his cities skyline 2 plays

[@Arripare]

People who live on the middle of each boundary side of the city and want to get out be like: "Thanks Jesus, now that I need to go all the way around to an vertex, after a 330-degree-hxll-of-a-turn in a four-direction-intersection without a car accident, then get to the exit from, geometry tells me, the furthest spot away from the center. That's 2 plus root 3 times the distance straightly between the center and where I start. Or I can move in a cursed zig-zag way which is unfortunately not much shorter as well. Couldn't be more happy!"

[@thefrenchguard6999]

I want to make a hexagon city with parallel roads once I get this game. Itll look real nice.

[@EscoNiko]

By the way, you can place stone and livestock anywhere it doesn’t need a resource to be effective.

[@Random_Rachel532]

"I literally ripped a hole in the space-time-continuum. My bad." -Matt 2023

[@mv_023_]

"I've literally ripped a hole in the space-time continuum, my bad" - Matt, November 2023

[@SamuTheFrog]

Damn bro my jaw legit dropped when you were finished with it. Looks incredible, so densely packed.

[@MusicalBubs]

if you were a rockstar, you could sing about another man stole your girl. but the other man is an architect and your girl is a bridge

[@vancouverstuff1]

Day ninety two of asking Matt to add the Second Narrows Bridge, Ironworkers Memorial to the Wheel of Bridgetune It is a cantilevered truss bridge, carrying 6 lanes of traffic from Vancouver to North Vancouver in B.C. across the second narrowing of the Burrard Inlet. It's name comes from the fact that it collapsed twice during construction, which unalived 23 people in total (Hence the name, ironworkers memorial).

[@craniusdominus8234]

Like the aliens said to the sphinx... "You know what this place needs? Giant f***ing triangles, that's what"

[@justinbremer2281]

It's hexagons, man. Hexagons are the best city layout. They break down into triangles, it's beauty.

[@EL1991_]

The bats die from air pressure changes near the wind turbine FYI

[@blackpiranaha525]

As someone from San Francisco, the sewage absolutely does go straight into the bay. The bridges' legs are covered in skid marks.

[@erwinblokland7624]

Hands up if you too were asking yourself "what IS the strongest shape in engineering?!?"

[@gandalf_thegrey]

Rookie mistake.

[@ellisonsimon]

00:01 That’s hot stuff

[@Code_S7]

Day one of asking Matt to make a hexagonal city in cities skylines 2.

[@gazvlogs7459]

Your enthusiasm on bridges makes me love bridges. Thank you.

[@tmanknoll9702]

"I forgot San Fransisco is so steep" 😂 this made me laugh so hard because it is nowhere NEAR as steep as the city really us. There is a reason they had to install the most winding road in the world, they are switchbacks between houses within the neighborhood.

[@monad_tcp]

21:59 no that's how you lose princesses

[@Im.obnoxious]

You should do The Great Rhombicosidodecahedron 0:30

[@Riditekh-Studios]

3:30 "Never do curved tunnels" **Blackwall Tunnel:** Dad was an architect I see

[@Kebab136]

8:50 my man, it's a freaking even-sided triangle, which means you don't have to spread it in all directions all at once... you can just... you know... make another three triangles below it as a base of the triangle which makes it bigger in one direction while still being an even sided triangle? Like, you have this: 🔺 and you can do this (ignore dots, they are just spacers, and imagine the triangles are touching): ......🔺 🔺🔻🔺 instead of doing this ....,/\ .,/🔺\ /______\ Like, instead of making the triangle you have "the core", make it "the tip".

[@Audenpeaorpepe]

I’ve literally just ripped a whole in the space time continuum. “My bad”

[@puncol]

It looks amazing. Like a Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer!

[@BAZTI12]

we need to see the strongest shape too!

[@raelsadd]

If RCE continues the triangle, I feel like the best way 3 more equally sized triangles and then stack then downward (away from the water) to make an extra large triangle

[@QuinnFTW]

People who are new: "Wait what does he mean a triangle isn't the strongest shape?" RCE: "Let me show you true engineering!"😏

[@thr3308]

the best way to manipulate weird zoning allotments is with walking paths. Zones won't cross walking paths, so if you e.g. ran paths from the corners of that middle triangle to its center, that should result in radially-symmetrical zoning allotments.

[@calebbrown6735]

Don't worry about making San Francisco look nice RCE. As a Native Californian. I can tell you with certainty that SF is one of the oddest cities in the world. I'm sure they would love your triangle city.

[@moipoi1]

waiting until he gets to bestagon with this series

[@Snowfox456]

Livestock farming and rock mining can go anywhere, they don't need the resources - found that out myself the other day.

[@Unknown50677]

no way; when I was still a teenager, i used to play city skylines and i remember making a city called "Trianglopolis" and today i find this video of you making a triangle city. epic coincidence 😂

[@therealtoddy7441]

The humble Pug 106 was a badass car, I would totally jump that bridge, it’s a shame you can’t have Fords (as in the water road crossing) as on my first night after passing my test I jumped a humpback bridge, then went through a Ford, which was pretty deep and the bow wave went over the sun roof…. That car was a legend, survived its first night with me and 7 year of no services. Wish I gave it a hero’s send off in rally cross or something.

[@xalthael]

9:32 - Hey! A Little Britain reference! Boosh Boosh!, two booshes for that one!

[@TheMegaOnyx]

"That windturbine goes really fast," My guy, you have the game set on fast forward...

[@tigrecito48]

how can you not know what wretched means? “The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.” - Walter Scott

[@thomaschumley3904]

I feel like the first question every potential resident should ask the RCE Realtor is “So, where does the Poo go?”

[@Andrewy27]

When you're done with these you should hand this off to Biffa and ask him to fix the traffic lol

[@MrC-iy7xx]

Just ordered my Jumper! Arriving just after my birthday, I'm very excited! Also big fan, love your work :)

[@tigeresskoora]

I would love to see you give Canberra's plan a go, circles and triangles.

[@kinxxu]

you shoud name it the tri-state area😂❤ 8:48

[@anthonyghazi774]

for people who are new to the channel, if you are wondering what the first strongest shape is, dont think logically, just dont Mat is a child still fused with a engineers brains

[@memorimusic420]

RCE has the best advertisement for clothing in the history of humans wearing clothes

[@Dispariabooks]

"Poorly Educated Senior" sounds like a mega band name now that I think about it...

[@Nick-hi9gx]

Turn his triangle into one part of a hexagon, 1/6th of Bestagontopia: an Enginetopia Neighborhood. Each part a different theme. One could be "How far down can the hexagons go?" Another could be "single-road city within this triangle",

[@november.foxtrot1]

You should make the Kowloon Walled City in Cities Skylines 2. I think it would be fun, like once you get high-density demand, you go Kowloon.

[@isaacgonzo]

Shoulda made the space between triangles 400 instead of 200. Also, i think doing something with lombard street, or other worlds curviest roads

[@nameless5413]

It is just simple engineering technique: you need no hospital if you build stellar deathcare facility (like a burial grounds or really big owen). Trinagle is alright but i would love to see hexagonia, ever since seeing that ToS epissode i wanted to see planet with that as basis for everything.

[@HighlandTimber]

Watching this makes me think you should try alternating triangles. where the point of the smaller triangle meets at the center of the larger triangle's line.

[@MonkeyBurrito]

The day Matt stops saying commercial instead of industrial is the day he'd be good at this game

[@Den_drummer]

Idk if you're aware, but intersections no longer have a limitation of 8 roads in CS2, where there was in CS1. My experimentation shows that as long as the angle between 2 roads on the intersection is >20, it fits. So largest intersection center that can be made should be with 17 roads, and while keeping the symmetry maintainable 16. (If only it was an angle of >=20 instead of >20, then max would be 18 roads) Any smaller angles and the roads start merging before the intersection. Also, as long as the road sections are all long enough, it's 100% roundabout compatible. Hope this gives you some ideas :)

[@itsdrplacebo4066]

That looks sooooo good, one might think it was designed by an architect.

[@monad_tcp]

its because of symmetry, that's allowed, architects go for stupid looks that are not symmetrical and aren't actually good looking

[@joshmarom]

Love this design. Do One with a hexagon made of six triangles

[@utter_cringe]

I'm going to ask again just in case but, can you build the magic roundabout from Swindon and see if it works.

[@sirspeedy9006]

Triangles may tile well, but you know what tiles better? hexagons

[@jakubjan8737]

Hexagon is the bestagon

[@jannikf2504]

The city is inside out. Low density needs to go on the outside in the suburbs with the commercial downtown in the center. In fact, if you put the highest buildings in the center and have them get lower outward, you have a 3D triangle, aka tetrahedron

[@LemurG]

That grey bridge in San Francisco is the bay bridge! My mom used to drive my sister and me an hour across it each way to get us to elementary school each day

[@maddykrantz]

DUDE I LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND IT WAS SO COOL TO SEE MY CITY IN THE VIDEO!

[@ИванСкворцов-п7о]

Geodesics and the geometry on the curved manifolds with Matt!

[@tetos54]

14:32 keep pushing 💩 Thx matt Thats what i need right now

[@TheHorzabora]

56mph in a 106? Architect! You can easily push 80 in it while inspired by the Ride of the Valkyries coming on Classic FM at 3am in the middle of an empty motorway through Telford. That’s when I noticed how fast I was going… … but your right, that’s a proper boy racer bridge!

[@timfagan816]

Sounds like he's got his 106 confused with a HGV. We was easy pushing 80-90+ back in the day. It took ages to wind up to that speed but 56. Must have had the handbrake on partially still. Or didn't know about 5th gear.

[@candbproductions5194]

Day 1 of RCE to build a hexagonal city

[@jasonjazzz5]

Matt is Illuminati confirmed

[@DarthCobay]

You could’ve kept building further in the direction of land, adding on to two sides would still make it an equilateral triangle. The only downside would be the center wouldn’t be centered.

[@Goatman31]

I’ve been watching both skylines series for quite some time and I had a lapse in judgment. So I googled “the sstrongest shape” then immediately realized what the true strongest shape is

[@Bunso106]

@2:12 Those intersections could only have been designed by an architect.

[@JDHutchings-g3t]

I'm confused on why he didn't go for the most strongest shape, yet he went for the 2nd

[@TK-11538]

17:20 “illegible” for college LOL

[@LOLHoneybadger]

I love that you just completely forgot about the ground water pollution seemingly when you got distracted by the other stuff 😀ADHD at it's finest, easily distracted, I can relate.

[@fanOfMinecraft-UAs_channel]

That's the best city I have ever seen in SC2!! That's really cool! And also quite impressive being from the same person who made poo volcano and makes knob jokes for living The only bad thing in it was the outside connection (you should have added another one), but good job!

[@azkarizwan268]

Another player, T4rget, actually built a triangular city (Triforce) in Cities Skylines. Splendid video, you should check it out!

[@Daniel-lj4fr]

Engineer < physics