Cities Skylines, straight line challenge!

We're taking on classic Cities Skylines (City Skyline) challenges whilst we wait for Cities Skylines 2 (CS2). This time we're engineering a city that spans an entire country in a completely straight line!
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[@factz124]

I knew it, He is a Saudi Engineer IRL.

[@DanPlayz-fu2kk]

No one will know why this reply got 4 likes Edit: guys pls like I don't want number 69 likes for the rest of my life😭😭😭

[@cosmo8412]

real

[@PorterStats]

@@DanPlayz-fu2kkyou’r-…Nevermind, what am I doing with my life

[@Donkey114]

How the hell are Saudi engineers not real?

[@aristology6912]

@@DanPlayz-fu2kkyou’re

[@colbyandbrennen3543]

Nothing like a real civil engineer playing the most real-world accurate game Cities Skylines

[@Drnken229]

"most real-world accurate" 💀

[@aceram26]

This game’s water physics is far from accurate.

[@ewanb0100]

​@@aceram26how do you not get the joke

[@nannasofie]

@@Drnken229 that's.... that's the joke

[@arnoygayen1984]

Or a city planner would be accurate

[@ThreadbareInc]

British man: Can you believe that a road can be that straight and that long?! Midwestern man: Yes. Yes I can.

[@brittherself]

Canadian: we only got one highway but it's not very strait

[@joschuamccurley5647]

So true

[@deathcab4booty]

this is just cursed i80

[@DrKaii]

I am a british man who knows this from microsoft flight simulator, i was like wt heck

[@thatoneperson134]

Straight and long 🤨

[@rickswordfire4774]

RCE is literally the bad guy from Western movies. You know, the rich guy who wants to take over some family's ranch and use that land to build a railroad.

[@ojonypimenta]

I think you should make a whole city of roundabouts

[@dr.reshmahasabe5076]

Blud he just uploaded that video

[@thattpsplayer]

@@dr.reshmahasabe5076he posted the comment 5 months before you and you said just uploaded so that means that he posted the comment before the video was posted

[@HF-tj8db]

Was your 10 years as a drainage engineer in Thames Water by the way? Watching your videos, the whole situation irl is beginning to make a lot more sense…

[@NukaCole7]

254 likes and a year and no replies? Lemme fix that (I’m very lonely)

[@stevenjlovelace]

@@NukaCole7 255

[@ombrepourpre7562]

275 👍

[@thomasmaxwell5818]

296

[@colbyandbrennen3543]

Matt's version of the Suaz (Sewers) canal was truly a beautiful sight

[@anusflotze6646]

brilliant challenge name!

[@kaiberuss]

Pooez canal

[@katebrentley7319]

Egypt forgive commenters.

[@57thorns]

There are inland sewage treatment plants available, but they cost a bit more but et lest keep the pollution local.

[@Domi_Plays]

This kind of reminded me of a Polish town called SuŁosowa. The entire town is one long street and it has a population of 5800.

[@jacksonstarky8288]

That is interesting... I looked it up on Google Maps.

[@theanomynusguy]

whoa...

[@Domi_Plays]

@@jacksonstarky8288 right? It's sooo cool, and has a really beautiful castle nearby.

[@CarolineLurks]

That's quite a village in numbers! I also looked it up on Google maps, it's so weird! How many kilometers does it stretch? I kind of estimated about 10 km, maybe even more?

[@Domi_Plays]

@@CarolineLurks about that yes, it's really cool!

[@FallenCreed]

Companies after june ends:

[@Typhis19]

Props to the editor as always! "are you sure about that?!?" lmao

[@katebrentley7319]

Now that’s engineering! The ultimate road! (Except for the part where you let poo slide down the mountain when inland water treatment plants exist).

[@marksamolov9613]

Qn

[@CityPlannerPlaysChair]

He also could have just connected the canal closer

[@Snowwie88]

Maybe he knows, but for the viewers sake it's much more fun to let the poop just flow everywhere. 😂

[@feha92]

What I don't understand (haven't played the game) is why he couldn't just divert the canal into the highly flowing river, and dispose of it that way

[@MrBmnmtfk]

​@@feha92cuz that would pollute the river 😂

[@dmitriwillguard]

Matt: [builds directly over a river] Also Matt: [expands sewage canal rather than move his sewage outlets to the waterway]

[@monad_tcp]

the only way to avoid contamination, keep digging ditches to store poo

[@evanliu7142]

RCE: Builds a canal for the sewage to flow through. Inland water treatment plants: Am I a joke to you?

[@MBGHD04]

Yes, yes they are

[@R38_productions]

łira

[@endgel]

Funny how I’d never play those types of games yet I can’t stop watching you play them.

[@atomike7031]

Maybe an extreme city where you have every possible cell occupied and as close to each other as possible on the entire map (or 4 land squares)... Make people forget what grass is lol

[@eclipseeffigy]

😂 Matt's former bosses react to his cities skylines abominations, now that would be a laugh and a half haha

[@57thorns]

The would be a wonderful reaction video.

[@iwsyt]

love the cities skylines vids

[@EraChanZ]

Hey RCE - I know you're mostly doing like.. comedic approach videos these days, with wacky challenge and stuff; but I am curious, can we expect a serious 'letsplay' style playthrough when Cities Skylines 2 comes out? Where you actually try your best to make a cool and functional city? Just curious!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Who knows!?

[@raznaak]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming You...

[@EraChanZ]

@@raznaak sometimes you gotto wonder if maybe he's slowly turning into an architect.. :P

[@Churi_Venatriss]

If I recall correctly, he did a one tile city challenge that was normal.

[@Mimi.1001]

From what I've seen Cities Skylines 2 seems more complex and generally harder than Cities Skylines 1. I'm sure you can still do wacky stuff with mods and all, but actual City planning and I guess engineering seems to matter more (with the new traffic / cim AI, preferable roads for Zoning etc.) . Would be nice to see someone tackle that!

[@Ghozer]

I feel that any place you cross the high-way, you could connect it to your road, providing many ways in and out! :)

[@pschlik]

Technically, "straight" line is redundant as all lines are, by definition, straight. If it wasn't straight, it would be a curve.

[@kimfirth]

The loud and bad quality “balls” really got me dying on the floor. Love all your videos RCE

[@cringeycronk6710]

I love how he rushes to the next highway instead of remembering the highway he went under beforehand. It’s always out of sight out of mind with good old Matt

[@raphaelsilva6071]

thats a beautiful project, mr Real Civil Architect

[@inimmz]

thats one bumpy surprisingly straight line

[@afrahbabli9438]

Saudi Arabia be like : YOU ARE HIRED AS THE CEO !

[@Mylogamer1228]

the dancing aliens was probably the best part of this video

[@DLLBeat]

That poo canal was exactly what portuguese + dutch people did in my city here in brazil, but they actually led the flow to our biggest river in town. Now we have our own poo river 😅

[@BananaViral_Pooper_Viral]

Where u from by the way? This poop canal seems to be something interesting

[@toddabbott781]

There are waste water treatment plants right from the start of the game. You should also put some subways in and pedestrian bridges. Another trick is to get the city profitable early... around the time you get police, hospitals, schools... You should be making around $1500. Just let the game sit for an hour building up a few million.

[@YannaTarassi]

*Perfectly good river to carry away the sewage* Matt: "Let's build more temporary canals!" :D

[@unitrader403]

"Lets buy some time" - and i wondered the buying time for what till i realized buying time is the permanent solution :D

[@illegalisntlegal]

the city RCE built is WAY better than whatever the proposal for a city sandwiched between 2 walls of glass built in the middle of the desert

[@johnsamuel4905]

I almost thought this was going to be an infinite money city build when i saw RCE bought all the plots and went mental with the roads initially. But fair play matt you succesfully completed the straight city(well minus the obvious multiple human right violations,health hazards and questionable sewer mangement system. But hey all is well when the end is well. And the end featured a strongest shape)not gonna lie i wasn't expecting you to complete that

[@Cristopher.C]

damn this is like that DVD screensaver thing that always ALMOST hit the corner perfectly but just misses it

[@SebbyCrook]

Hey Matt, could you try a city full of circles? Kinda like a bullseye

[@Artess-od8wb]

Looks lovely. I'd probably drop a tram line along this whole road, or maybe a monorail even.

[@WARREN_G_III_Official]

Now I'm not sure if someone else already commented this, however, what if the next City Skylines challenge is to build a city along the entire frame of the map. He can only buy the frame plots, no plots from the middle of the map. Kind of like a giant puzzle but only the frame. I think it'd be an interesting challenge to try after this one.

[@MassiveSquirrel42]

Good video I haven’t watched it yet

[@trotsky084]

Imagine the NPC’s had consciousness during Matt’s challenges! 😂🤣

[@valecasini]

4:19 EDITOR? is it all right? 😂💀 13:43 Italian flag! 😄 21:00 yeah that's pretty much how the highways in the Po valley here in Italy... it's so impressive (I've saw it in person) !🤯

[@matttheyoutuber]

2:40 YES, we have weaponised POOP against a highway!

[@Squ33k5]

If you have the Sunset Harbor DLC there's inland sewer treatment plants so you don't HAVE to make the Sewers'canal lol, but I do enjoy watching you come up with unique solutions

[@Heymynameisbrody]

Hey, Mat, just letting you know, incineration plants not only deal with garbage disposal, but they also produce electricity!

[@fruitfulconnoisseur]

The one square city challenge was impressive and quite possibly the only normal one but what about an entire map challenge with no mods such a large city I think would be quite difficult to create since you have to consider every single plot how they connect how they interact making sure they have all facilities and utilities necessary keeping them happy without messing up the connections quite a puzzle to create such a masterpiece

[@iPhone-15-6.1inch]

19:39 That green van has mad clutch control for that.

[@xxSeanVxx]

The master is back with yet again the greatest content on KZbin

[@Nohlan_S]

I honestly think the first video by you about city skylines 2 (when it releses) will be somthing like: I made the longest highway and then cut off traffic in city skylines 2

[@ZergaeDelacroix]

I live in a town that's pretty much just a straight line. About 5 miles long, anything off the main road is pretty much just housing. All the stores and such are on the main road.

[@konrad1428]

Sewers Canal... I laughed more than I should.

[@xZIlM]

“I need to save up for a police station” *buys road*

[@revenfoxfox6717]

i love these videos keep making them

[@AHolyGamer]

I love this guys videos so much

[@fasdfdsdfs]

Going too fast on that road = YEET

[@Alexandragon1]

Thx for the video! RingWorld builders approve of such straight line city challenge!

[@terrywhitestormchaser]

keep up the great work

[@pjludda4323]

Indeed, that is a STRONG way for people to...COME...Into the Line City...

[@jerodorcullo2901]

Literally just finished watching a yesterday's video, perfect timing

[@f1_clips_uwu]

imaging sledding in that city in the winter.

[@chrisncars317]

I’ve been deprived from CS content! Please keep uploading more CS content

[@LongplayFPS]

I love these challenges

[@Keef_DGAF]

Kickass custom. Built bridge and Matt doesn't do a bridge review? Is matt feeling okay? Lol

[@Garrettmcarpenter]

If raw materials is an issue, I believe you can change the default industrial to whatever the resources are. Farming is always viable and lumber and farming are both have relatively less pollution too.

[@lewissuckling]

4:31 the suez canal 😂

[@I_AmTheWizard64]

the incineration architect joke caught me off guard 😂

[@richardramondo8929]

Oh cool I always love your videos

[@secondghoul9986]

RCE citat "Just a load of rocks". No body cares about the rocks, deatroy the rocks.

[@jasonjazzz5]

i feel like rountabouts should be allowed on city builds like these, they'd only have the 2 exits still, but allowing people to be more efficient with driving around and saving you money since you'll need less essential services

[@houlej19]

You should make it one way, so going through the whole city is necessary

[@itsmyboyvzo5662]

RCE you have to do an continuation and do a diagonal in the other direction now!

[@DeveroonieWasTaken]

The view of the road goin on over reminds me of when your on the motorway at the top of a hill

[@dup9540]

i remember binging so many rce vids when i was ill and whenever i am ill of school :)

[@anthonynorman7545]

So, daily?

[@ml8443]

This is a good one 👍🏻

[@kaitofler6305]

Please do a completely perpendicular line intersecting at the middle and make this a series😁

[@AllStarsProdigy]

Some roundabouts here and there and it would probably work prety well

[@searchbar83]

I'd like to have seen him go the other way, like a giant X.

[@soundblockz]

I’m learning how to speak another language by watching your videos. Im learning British

[@VerestAO]

5:56 welcome back to tim-ber-borners!

[@jaredlash5002]

In this video we discover that RCE doesn't know about the inland water treatment plants. :D

[@arklestudios]

Wild idea for a future video. Come back to this map and do a line again for the other corners to create... AN X SHAPED CITY! *dramatic musical sting here*

[@arklestudios]

Oh, it just hit me, that second line wouldn't eventually have to go over the poo canals. Oh that just makes it even better.

[@Waterdust2000]

All I can hear is the words of the tallest from zim: "aww! but we're going straight!"

[@fishermastergr]

Doing every challenge you made at once.

[@Domi_Plays]

sooo, is this subconsciously a Saudi engineering video, Matt?

[@kayahayward]

“Look at the state of these roads” brother that is what every road in Pennsylvania wishes it looked like.

[@Ender-ti8wd]

You should’ve use roundabout in Me, so in the city is so then everyone can turn around and in all of the city Sarah city away while the roundabout down😂

[@ludovictrottier425]

Would love to see the whole map like this

[@christophbeeler2031]

Haha I forgot that I discovered your channel due to the GTA straight line video:)

[@24xuso]

Next up: “I built a city in cities skylines but i can only build on one mountain”

[@jjbarajas5341]

He's actually built The Line, the madlad

[@danthiel8623]

Yes

[@Valaki875]

You should have built roundabouts. that way you still going in a line, but cars could turn around

[@margaretann944]

All the cliffs and river crossings remind me of playing Oregon Trail II as a kid and trying to take a shortcut through the Rockies >_>

[@thatguyunknoe]

Something about the thought of driving along those steep highways causes a deeply disconcerting feeling in me.

[@paulrozier1325]

Matt’s like “Look at the state of these roads” and all my fellow Americans are like “What’s the problem?”

[@erebuspanda4653]

Some part of that road look like some highways in NJ and PA

[@danthiel8623]

My fellow Americans we all know where this is going so let's skip to the end

[@MrPieguyDaBoss]

Helicopters for police and Fire Node Controller for U-turns and crossings.

[@Freelancer221]

6:47 Fine, now I need a BILF-Merch-Shirt

[@colbyhowto8535]

Yay more cities skylines!

[@Helldriver101]

Wooo

[@Map71Vette]

Imagine the addresses here. "Where do you live?" "2568844224579843257 Main St "

[@ItsPikablu]

This is the road they drive down in Fast and Furious. About 10 minutes of straight road at 150mph with 18 gear changes.

[@ConQueror04]

you just built the line from IRL what a legend

[@joakim_g]

Highly entertaining! 😂I wanna know HOW LONG this one road city was in the end??

[@sato5879]

Going home drunk from one end to the other🗿

[@fiscalgoose7664]

You should do this but keep adding rows of roads one right next to the other and see if you can fill up the entire map

[@aubabygirl7240]

I've never seen a more accurate recreation of the Thames