The city that NOBODY CAN LEAVE in Cities Skylines 2!

We're checking out Cities Skylines 2 (City Skyline 2) today, and what better way to do it than to build a city that no one can leave!
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[@DarvakSondrath]

If he wanted no one to leave, but still have a functional city, he should have just made the highway connection a one way road. All the roads inside the city could have been two ways.

[@hudsonchidlow4773]

I was literally thinking the same thing.

[@infinitedragonsunlocked]

Good idea

[@Ticklestein]

Same idea

[@SilverAlex92]

I think at some point this became more of "one way spiral city" more so than "no one can leave city" even if the venn diagram of both intersect where this video falls.

[@Dagvi]

He thought of it as an architect would

[@DysnomiaATX]

Huh... In this city, every single dad who left for a pack of smokes and never came back was due to infrastructure...

[@yannisbaeyens]

Milk*

[@Andre-and-stuff]

@@yannisbaeyensum actually they say pack of smokes too while they use the milk as well 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@io.07]

16:05 Matt being surprised at how many people live in his city, while pointing out the fact that they are literally forced to live there

[@DuratisDex]

Suprised at how many captives he has. Like every evil overlord starting out.

[@combogalis]

how did they GET there in the first place?

[@kirabad-artist6532]

@@combogalisThe more appropriate question is why

[@sh4dr0th]

It'd be fun to have each loop of the spiral feed back into the one-way tunnel entrance to the city - that way people can still not leave the city, and can only go in one direction, but they can "reset" to the beginning.

[@gaggegorm]

Why doesn't this have much more likes!? This is a much better and more fun idea than to just have the entrance road as a one-way road and to have everything else as a two-way road!

[@infinitetoast9200]

I love how every time he opts to make a poo canal instead of an underground pipe to the river

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

I've been watching too much Willy Wonka!

[@michaelmurray2595]

Matt: Can the game construct an underground city? You like bridges, but why no go underground: under the college?

[@samanyupalthi]

cuz he dumb

[@psgistheworstclubineurope]

No.

[@The2Kah]

To make it function better while still not allowing people to leave, you could've made one way roads that would go back to the center. That would make the shops available while still preserving the dungeon-esque theme

[@Kuffen90]

Mat, as a highway engineer, you talk about the expence with bridges and stuff. And since bridges dosent give room for zoning, the bridge over the highway is useless and could be put closer to the houses on the ground :) Hence the bridge over the highway is archetecture :D

[@chidianuforo3670]

This channel has made me addicted to City Skylines. I'd start playing and FIVE HOURS LATER, I'm trying to force myself to stop. I haven't played in 2 weeks because once I get a taste, I'll get hooked again.

[@wildwyatxbox]

Yeah. Cities Skylines is like meth.

[@mueffe1357]

Junji Ito will definitely approve this town planning design. 😂

[@browaffle1268]

Exactly where my brain went.

[@adamwoodcock2178]

@Real_Civil_Engineer I got some good idea, how about you built a unique city made of bridge with three different city levels. You can use the landscape modifying to make a mountain for building towns and connect them with lots of bridges. That should be a challenge for you. X)

[@splatter_proto]

Junji Ito would be proud

[@RealAndySkibba]

Matt's CS2 videos are spiraling out of control.

[@kabeerahmed4588]

Just realized cities skylines 2 has the same initials as counter strike 2

[@torgranael]

@@kabeerahmed4588 Cities Skylines: Global Offensive, the all new mode where two cities share a map, each trying to dick over the other one as much as possible. It stars such classics as: placing infrastructure upwind of residential, terraforming a poop chute into the enemy's heart, random spires appearing in inconvenient locations, and more. 🤣

[@pegit_purple]

@@torgranael okay i need that as a mode now

[@nicholasclermont7390]

@@torgranael basically Engineer Vs Architect mode ?

[@gaussmanv2]

It might be interesting to make a version of this that does work. 2 crossing highways and the one way spiral. On and off ramps each time the highway meets the road. Keeps traffic flowing well on the spiral but allows for services and people to get where they need to go. Hell, maybe a subway that is offset from the highway. Edit: that would be an infuriating place to live. imagine getting off at the wrong exit at an outer edge?

[@torgranael]

Does the game even allow for service only roads? If services can get from A to B faster, civilians will almost certainly congest that route. I haven't played this one, but if it's anything like other city builders I've played, you'll end up with most of the city abandoned while one road is packed because is shorter, and therefore "faster".

[@gaussmanv2]

@@torgranael there could be a parallel service road, but I think if you balanced it correctly, it might work. there are two quick ways to the center and out, but to get to homes, work, and shops, you'd have to get off the highway. Maybe throw a few ring roads in. My thinking is that with only a one way road, it'll remove the need for traffic lights and roundabouts speeding up traffic overall.

[@Vanilla_Skylines]

i was thinking that, a one way road that goes through the circles would allow people to move freely within the city but not leave, would be cool if it functioned

[@heyhellyco]

Can’t believe the guy actually made the town from Junji Ito’s Uzumaki 😂. Love the video mate, looking forward to the next!

[@EternalAnkh]

Hey man, my condolences on your loss in the big marble race. I was pulling for you.

[@habilain]

Not sure about Skylines 2, but in the first Skylines people could teleport if a journey would take too long. This is probably how the building challenge videos end up with semi-functional cities.

[@neroblood1]

Maybe a second part for this city is where you add underground roads that reconnect to the start at a single point. It could also fix the issue of having to put all the utilities in the middle

[@TRPLD]

If only there was something like an underground bridge, where you could go below a building instead of above it. Truly a huge missed opportunity by the devs not to include such a thing...

[@Snowball_avation]

Well kids this is rce trying to say “I’m an architect 😅”or “This is how to trap my editors “😂😂

[@JallenMeodia]

Ah the Dreamcast city, it's thinking...thinking like an engineer.

[@Drew7321]

Back when I used to play Rollercoaster Tycoon, I used a similar idea. I put a "Do not enter" sign at the exit of the park so everyone could enter, but they couldn't leave. Made the guest count goals easy.

[@fruitfulconnoisseur]

You could have had the entry road changed into a one-way that connect to a two-way street creating a T intersection so that the rest of your roads can be 2 way

[@AllNetTony]

@Real Civil Engineer If you use the landscaping tree tool, you can delete a lot of trees at once instead of deleting them one at a time with the bulldoze tool.

[@The_Box_King]

Day 20 of waiting for Matt to upload Mindustry Part 3. FFOTD: The storage block that stores power units is the Battery and Large Battery (theres no Medium Battery), the normal Battery has 40 hp, is 1 by 1 blocks, needs 5 copper, and 20 lead to build, it has 4000 power capacity. The Large Battery has 360 hp, is 3 by 3, needs 50 lead, 20 titanium, and 30 silicon to build, it has 50000 power capacity. You can place them next to each other so they link between them.

[@Shatterverse]

You don't need to do a one-way all the way; just the straight feeder road. Otherwise you need alternating one-way spoke roads to let people move between spiral layers, or else you're just doing a one-road city.

[@TimbavatiLion]

To be honest, if you add four wheelspokes into the spiral that lead back to the start, it is a valid road network. And people still cannot leave 😁

[@jullianhuisken7779]

When you connect the end to the begin. It is still impossible to leave only to start the circle all over

[@vegmonster]

Amazing video keep up the good work, I’m really enjoying your city skylines videos!

[@derekwaffles]

They can leave. They just have to walk. I noticed a lot of people walking backwards against the one-way street. Which means they drive in, abandon their car, and walk back home. Presumably to buy another one before having to go to work the next day.

[@barrybend7189]

Build the Hellraiser maze in Cities Skyline 2.

[@user-jl3wn9dm5y]

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

[@arandombard1197]

Matt could just have the sewage outlet pour directly into the river but instead chooses to make a poop canal every single time without fail.

[@crowdsurfpp2192]

This is the architect version of Hotel California City….. the roads can all connect, two way traffic and all…. as long as no one can leave.

[@user-cc5sl4qd9j]

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

[@user-my1lw2yj5i]

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

[@elanimate5716]

Another incredible video. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas 🎄

[@GnosticDemiurge]

In which RCE recreates Junji Ito's Uzumaki. "Spirals get into everything in this town."

[@fearedbeard1313]

Merry Xmas yall, hope everyone's 2024 is amazing!

[@JacquelineStilwell]

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

[@davidedwards1705]

I had a thought. What if you made the entrance road 1 way and then had all the other roads 2 ways this way people can drive into the city but never leave?

[@xxSeanVxx]

Yessss, perfect for this lazy day of mine ♥️

[@gongsu]

What about the worst 15-minute city ever challenge. Loving the videos lately !

[@user-vu6cd6xq7o]

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

[@Copyright_Infringement]

Huh, made a city like this in CS1, and it was a load of fun. I managed to make it self-sustaining somehow

[@Power5]

Definitely would have liked to see the spiral connect to the entrance tunnel and each time you got bigger, you would remove the old tunnel entrance and move it out another ring or 2 at the end of the spiral.

[@hudsonchidlow4773]

Hey Matt, Hudson here. I really wish you made your realistic City Skylines play through free in your patron for brokies like me. I’d love to be a civil engineer when i grow up and make road designs, and for Christmas I’d actually like to learn something from your videos instead of 3 headed cows. But in all seriousness, please make it free. I’m 13 and my mom or dad won’t get me an RCE membership :(

[@aaronspriensma]

Totally agree, would love it if u could do that RCE

[@aaronspriensma]

Underground city: the engineering marvel of tomorrow, all yours to copy if you want

[@Dragongaga]

The police driving over the grass and the sidewalk onto the middle of the road instead of its own dedicated lane on the right is pretty much on point in my experience

[@Morfik45]

The city where dad going out to shop to get some milk and not coming back is on daily basis

[@breaknfaces]

Merry Christmas buddy, Build the Line 2.0 for real and I will watch. May 2024 be your best year yet mate!

[@FarmerEnvoyXtreme]

Another Challenge for you RCE. Have A City that only involves around farming. This includes commercial and normal industry so only relevant stuff like convient food and more can spawn. This will involve a lot of whack-a-mole with buildings and fudging the taxes.

[@OfficialMichaelL]

"These don't have an effect on happiness" it's a high school so that makes sense

[@user-qc9fm1hw8w]

Merry bridgemas RCE! Hope you have an enjoyable time with family and friends

[@jackryan444]

You could do a spiral into another spiral a mile over, so it’s a series of spirals with no way out. If you are born in the middle of the initial spiral you could end up in the 7 spiral by death.

[@rankoldbeast3479]

Have a great Christmas, RCE and Paddy

[@GerritCoulter]

You should come back to this one and continue it!

[@Viertis]

So you could have intersecting 2 lane roads, it would still have prevented people from leaving the town but it would have made it more functional still.

[@SouthendLad600]

Hey RCE. Thanks for all the vids this year. If you ask me, you were robbed in spiffing's Marble run. Far too many bridges designed just to distract you. Have a great Christmas.

[@JPJW001]

2:27 Halo moment

[@Vaishino]

Police Cruiser: *vanishes* Matt: interesting

[@user-ue7mt6oz6o]

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

[@lonergothonline]

I'd suggest footpaths inbetween the sprials, and a single bus lane one way going counter-spiral-wards, so that the public can walk home or pay a bus to take them home. if they absolutely have to travel to the end of the spiral, they can use their own car, but if they want to go backwards/home-wards, they'd have to pay or walk.

[@user-if8kt5iy2h]

Matt: improving service buildings effect to a larger area. 👋👋👋 Building a brand new building. 👍👍👍

[@user-sq7ml8si2j]

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

[@Raven_Nightwind]

Merry Christmas and Happy Two Million!

[@Strav24]

Dont sleep on the continuous road tool, its like multiple curves, but you don't have to click twice each

[@clearwax]

I was thinking, change the entrance tunnel into a one way off ramp. And the final outer spiral reconnecting to that one way entrance… and a ton of parking lots (with high parking prices and taxed heavily… for trapped parking income). …so traffic can ONLY park or got back through the city… giving access to all the zones and zones 😂😂😂 As your city “touches” any outside connecting freeway… only attach the incoming freeway side to the city one way… deleting as many outgoing side of freeway nodes as possible. 😂 so “you can always check out, but you can never leave” -Eagles The city name should be “Hotellious Californication Junction “

[@Bizub4]

More Cities Skylines 1 content please, the water physics is more fun 😂

[@muhammadfitri3163]

Happy Christmas Matt and paddy and Matt family !

[@chandradvaipayana872]

When Matt said interesting after inspecting the police car, i get the same feeling when someone doing some experiment to prove the earth is flat and ultimately fail

[@thierryparte2506]

May I say it is pretty crazy how much sewage those three houses produced in the beginning

[@MrMikelspencr]

Thank you for using the suggestion in discord!! I know i won’t be recognized but I appreciate that i see it being used!

[@ayol1011]

My inner childhood questions is answered by Matt. Thank you Matt

[@farshnuke]

The challenges force RCE to have an outlet for his innate architect nature and so his engineer training can succeed without him undermining himself.

[@Anzeljaeg]

Let me share a good idea Imagine making a road tunnel and in one end you place the poop pipe and the other side the river ... The game phisics will flow the poop into the road tunnel ? That means we have a new set up for crazy huge underground open poop tunnels !!!

[@vampirekid14]

i would be super interested in seeing this layout split in eight pizza slices with the cross roads being 2 way roads. giving everyone a way to get back to the start of the town, but not out of town.

[@ambassador1449]

You just need 1 one way road. Place the tunnel/entrance from the highway and everything else could be regular city. Then no one can leave.

[@vampirekid14]

@@ambassador1449 that sounds like an architect idea my dude. Eight pizza slices would cut down traffic significantly and lower commutes by over 80% which would be huge

[@courtneykachur9487]

Zero recidivism. The koppers pick you up, head down the road, and when they reach the end, you and the kopper dematerialize.

[@scythesensei3197]

could always try a city where every road is a bridge if it's even possible, may have to make smaller roads for buildings but the rest could be bridges

[@masterofdoots5965]

If you wanted it to function more like a regular city, you could've just made the highway connection a 1 way road and then make the rest normal roads

[@GamingProsAdventure]

We need the walking only or no parking city where everything takes years to walk to

[@Nagria2112]

most people i guess dont want to live next to a shop. they want to own a Single Family home+car and drive to the next shop. suburban sprawl loves their driving over living next door.

[@user-ny8mi4es7o]

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

[@Jjjjk783]

Hey man. My kid is obsessed with your videos now. Bridges make him yell with excitement

[@eclipciadarkmoon4105]

A true little Engineer in the making then! x3 Glad your kid likes the content, stranger!

[@Jjjjk783]

@@eclipciadarkmoon4105 we play city skylines together now.

[@ethanbillig8511]

I feel the intro twinkle deep in my engineering soul :)

[@austrianafterhours]

Yes understandable have a great day

[@blakemayprice]

Merry Christmas Matt!

[@yuyaplays9311]

RCE I just wanted to let you know you can get helicopters for the police not just the fire department. You need to get a police headquarters and you can then upgrade it with a helipad on the roof.

[@yoimmablob]

This is the road that never ends Yes, it goes on and on, my friends

[@torgranael]

We started building it not knowing what it was And we'll keep building it forever just because

[@lopaka76]

A city designed to force walking and bike riding to get back home.

[@user-fl3ps2uq9y]

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

[@jacksonstarky8288]

This city could be continued even after it runs out of room for the spiral road when it meets the shoreline... if you just reverse the spiral direction when you reach the seaside. The shape of the map would allow a very large second spiral... but there's no way to make a third spiral without breaking the no-intersection rule... unless you can build a bridge across the entire spiral after reaching its centre. There is definitely potential to continue this city in a variety of ways.

[@philg5888]

I like it but you could have added a slip road connecting back to your tunnel entrance, as then they'd never be able to leave but still stay in the city

[@screech3859]

Matt: I was a drainage engineer, ya know? Me after seeing the hundredth poo canal: You don't say...

[@guptakritigya]

I'd love to see a video of how does that realistic city look

[@amandacourtney3519]

Actually challenging idea, no taxes what so ever on residential, only way to get money is from farms, rock/coal mining, parking, etc

[@vancouverstuff284]

Day 125 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).

[@avail6797]

City Skylines 2 Challenge: Build a city that uses roads like string and stitch together some concrete clothing.

[@travisbic]

You need a one way road from the outer spiral back into the middle of the city so traffic can flow around. Just still can't leave..

[@LegBruise]

It's a round-and-roundabout