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

@Rabbit635

7 ай бұрын

noice

@michaelplowman8674

7 ай бұрын

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

7 ай бұрын

Bestagons

@LeroxYT

6 ай бұрын

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

6 ай бұрын

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

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

@attepatte8485

7 ай бұрын

And some experiment shenanigans

@HighExplosiveOP

7 ай бұрын

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

@LeroxYT

6 ай бұрын

@@HighExplosiveOP better funny old roads than depressing american 😂

@ordnaela1210

6 ай бұрын

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

@trueb8474

6 ай бұрын

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

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

@Lordofcookiejars

6 ай бұрын

This aged poorly

@spudlingtv8187

5 ай бұрын

more poorly now@@Lordofcookiejars

@Casonplayz

2 ай бұрын

@@spudlingtv8187Even more poorly now

@piercemccauley7079

26 күн бұрын

@@Casonplayz why poorly?

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

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

@DonaldWWitt

7 ай бұрын

And then we can design the real life POOCANO POWERPLANT!

@patai16

6 ай бұрын

@@DonaldWWitt Just like OG engitopia

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

@dragonblade8460

7 ай бұрын

Please!!

@sheepco

7 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@ramadhanfuadyrakha.s890

7 ай бұрын

its just all we neeed

@NicolasdeFontenay

7 ай бұрын

shamelessly placing my beg herre too

@NovaRift

6 ай бұрын

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!

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.

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.

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

7 ай бұрын

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

@marcushvelplund9535

7 ай бұрын

@@tarrantwolf A knob is the most efficient shape

@tarrantwolf

7 ай бұрын

@@marcushvelplund9535 only for a wizards staff.

@DominicThomas369

6 ай бұрын

The strongest shape

@KeyzKieran

6 ай бұрын

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

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

@chitty8868

3 ай бұрын

When does it release

@senatorarmstrong4168

Ай бұрын

@@chitty8868 october of last year (on steam)

@Netherlands_maping69

Ай бұрын

2nd

@ooogabooogaa

25 күн бұрын

2nd if which month?​@@Netherlands_maping69

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

The Real Civil Engineer actually engineering a city? Insanity.

@jessice293

7 ай бұрын

It was shocking to watch haha

@meowritz

7 ай бұрын

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

6 ай бұрын

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

6 ай бұрын

@@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

6 ай бұрын

@@jordanbradford7729 U a real one

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

@Chiiajdjdkdj

7 ай бұрын

Hi

@LunaDL

7 ай бұрын

Only Engineers

@malksy1014

7 ай бұрын

yeah😜

@Sumirevins

7 ай бұрын

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

@YourDadsBoyfriend

7 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

@sunshine_tidings6983

6 ай бұрын

you might really like city planner plays

@Actiaeon

6 ай бұрын

@@sunshine_tidings6983 You son of a b**** you have consumed my life. Also, Chuckles was right!

Petition for matt to make a turbo-roundabout.

@Major_Minecraft_Gaming

7 ай бұрын

agreed

@HardNameGuy

7 ай бұрын

Signed by me

@ManjotSingh-sf2ri

7 ай бұрын

signed by me

@malksy1014

7 ай бұрын

yep

@SamanthaLaurier

7 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

@user-gy2ui5lv6z

6 ай бұрын

Me too😊

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

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

6 ай бұрын

why is danny catching strays from random youtubers lmaooo

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

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

@Pop_308

6 ай бұрын

never expected to hear danny aarons name in an rce video

@pinkybandit3581

6 ай бұрын

@@Pop_308neither 🤣 made my day

@Jonathan-fk2bg

6 ай бұрын

@@Pop_308 fr

@Insomnia32611

6 ай бұрын

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

@Pop_308

6 ай бұрын

​@@Insomnia32611 time travel

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

7 ай бұрын

Possibly karen down the street

@SullySadface

7 ай бұрын

Probably the dogs.

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

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

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

@mancabbage1

6 ай бұрын

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

I recently find your channel and banter about architects and architecture makes me cracks up so hard as an engineer. As a city builder lover your videos are fun and informative. Great work.

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.

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

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!

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

16:01 bro gave a reference to danny arrons, the one and only sidemen among us big brain

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.

This series is gonna be great

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

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.

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

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

I used to really really REALLY hate roundabouts, and then I was forced to use them for a couple of months, and then when I came back to street lights, and I realized I had no reason to wait. I am now roundabout-pilled, knowing how the Brits are I'm surprised you didn't turn every singly street corner into a roundabout

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!

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

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

@Red-Tower

6 ай бұрын

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.

Oh Matt thank God I am absolutely loving this! Learning about actually proper engineering and design principles and having you use the building of the city as little micro lessons as so cool and amazing!!! Please keep it up!

Going from 70 to 35 mph makes so much sense in the US. So many small towns in the US do that to collect speeding tickets to fund their government. It goes from 55 to 45 to 35 where I live going into town and there isn't enough time to slow down in between.

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

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.

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.

What you mentioned at 9:33 is exactly why you should build a hexagon-based city! Only three intersections at any point. Also, they’re the second strongest shape! (Obviously cities skylines doesn’t love non-orthogonal layouts so there’s be a lot of wasted space but the roads would look cool so that’d be worth it!)

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.

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

loving the civil engineering principles as part of the episode. love picking up extra knowledge while enjoying some Engitopia!

the fact that he went immediately from "Hey always put a sharp corners before round-abouts to not kill people" to doing exactly what he said not to do.

“Hello fellow engineers “ hits different after graduation

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

I Love learning stuff while you build. It’s what got me into this channel and as somone who has always been interested in engineering it’s nice to come back to this sort of stuff, thanks 😊

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

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

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

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

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.

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

6 ай бұрын

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

@thalanoth

6 ай бұрын

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

@CASA-dy4vs

6 ай бұрын

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

I love the inclusion of technical information man, please do more of that. I love that stuff!

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

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.

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.

3:50 poland reference POLSKA GUROM!!!

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

love learning the REAL engineering behind the city planning

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

I love the engineering aspect worked in the video

My home town in the US has this juction that we call malfuction juction because two roads apart of the juction led to two different towns so semis and tourist's would drive through our town or just come there for the mountains air

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!

Love the more educational side of it.

I like the explanations a lot. As a fellow engineer (of the non-civil type, but nearly civil), all this is extremely interesting to me. Keep them coming please!

Beautiful riverside land. Let's make it industrial! Classic engineer.

Loving the knowledge drops. Makes the video more relaxing in a good way. Just cozy in a blanket, watching the funny engineer guy talk engineer stuff is nice.

Cannot wait for the huge architect prison on top of a poo-cano in engitopia2

Love to see engitopia using engineering

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

Matt actually playing the game and using his engineering knowledge would be so interesting (imo)

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

Make sure you landscape prior to placing roads and buildings. It will make everything look nicer

@Trooper_1198

6 ай бұрын

Gotta add hills for the local hill Billy’s

I love learning about real engineering! Yes more learning please! 😍 I was actually getting sad you never tried to teach them anymore in your vids🥺

did not expect to hear a danny aaron’s reference in city skylines 2 im impressed

These videos are the highlight of my day

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

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

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

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

6 ай бұрын

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

@jacklenngren6590

6 ай бұрын

@@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

6 ай бұрын

@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

6 ай бұрын

@@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

6 ай бұрын

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

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

Yes! Pumped to see more serious city building content from you! Loved the commentary as well, keep it up!

I love it when you teach us how civil engineering works! Obviously a hatred for architects, upside down faces, and stuff have to be included as that is in the curriculum.

I subscribed your channel for nearly two years now, because of the mixed content between real life engineering, and gaming. I really enjoy the full fun vedios, but I miss the mixed ones too. 😊

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

I do like the Architecture jabs sprinkled in. It goes quite will with my cup of coffee.

Great real life examples of how to build and why. Joy and learn at the same time. Kudos mate!