You could change the name of "The Line" to "The Shaft", because after all you've improved the initial design by leaps and bounds.

@hellgast0

Жыл бұрын

You mean the strongest shape?

@shockwave1539

Жыл бұрын

Oh the jokes that will come from a city called “The Shaft”

@christianhernandez9785

Жыл бұрын

I realized why he put the chanal at the end of the damn after he set the balls

@ExpendableOne23

Жыл бұрын

Improved by lumps and balls

@Fyreflier

Жыл бұрын

Oh absolutely! A far more efficient and strong design than the original. Proof that it takes an engineer to make these things happen, not architects

I cried when i heard it was designed by world-leading architects.

@canadianeh4792

Жыл бұрын

"World leading architects" Architects leading the world? That explains a lot.

@MrBillclintin

Жыл бұрын

But now rce has proven it is possible, something you need an engineer for. But the rce city has huge error, the tip should not be submerged or filled with pooh water. It's called a golden spring, not a brown spring

@AviatorLawsome

Жыл бұрын

I cried when RCE decided to love it.

@geriscent

Жыл бұрын

Ikr 😂😂😂😂😂🤫

@mithmoonwalker

Жыл бұрын

the final bosses of RCE

What’s crazy is the only natural sunlight you ever get inside the line is the direct kind, making sunrise and sunset like 45 minutes apart😂

@dom1abc1mbc

Жыл бұрын

no there are windows u know lol

@dom1abc1mbc

Жыл бұрын

and rooftops

@wawaweewa9159

Жыл бұрын

We live ina world where qe are inside most the time anyway with lighting on till late at night

@finlanderxx

Жыл бұрын

And I live beyond the artic circle where the next sunrise is over 30 days away

@SnowyBlizzard

Жыл бұрын

@@dom1abc1mbc for some, but in this particular version it’s just a solid wall lol, and also rooftops don’t matter, what I’m saying is everything is in between two walls, if you’re on a rooftop you’re outside but still between two walls unable to see the sun when it’s not in the gap showing the sky

Fun fact: you can just ban cars in this game without using any mods, simply just zone the city region, or make it city wide and you too can make a more realistic line!

Never understood the "landscaping and disasters" menu but the more videos Matt makes, the more it makes sense

@CaptBighead

Жыл бұрын

This is top comment

@sawyerbarnes7439

Жыл бұрын

First name basis... you guys going out later too

@culverit

Жыл бұрын

Matt's landscaping is a disaster ETA: I'm not an engineer, but I'm not an architect either

@wow-roblox8370

Жыл бұрын

Just going to put it here so it is clearly visible: I got the advertisement for the line on this video, however this was just a 5 second one, which shows they are running out of budget!

@truthinjesus2659

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah smart so basically a jail where you can’t leave because if you tried you would die 😂and a.I robots all around you being able to misfunction and kill you or a.I cops that take you to jail for no reason … and I’m guessing you have to take the mark of the beast to be able to get in there subscribe to rawnn channel He expose this garbage

That glass structure would probably make more glass out of the sand around it

@ww6372

Жыл бұрын

Oh it 100% will if they're not smart about what tints and angles to put on it. Just like the building that would melt cars around it lol

@mcjavabelike8320

Жыл бұрын

they may need to get the glass from somewhere else due to desert sand having too much silica

@ww6372

Жыл бұрын

@@mcjavabelike8320 yup. And there's already an international sand shortage.

@burakbalcioglu

Жыл бұрын

@@mcjavabelike8320 isn't silica what glass is made of?

@mcjavabelike8320

Жыл бұрын

@@burakbalcioglu mostly, but desert sand is to pure

A 170km long glass wall in the desert. So I guess architects don't know what a sandblaster is or does huh? Cause that's literally what this building would be sitting inside. A giant permanent sandblaster, constantly bombarding the exterior with that fine desert sand.

@effervescentrelief

Жыл бұрын

With it being so long and so tall it literally will change the local environment, wind patterns, etc. So who knows what it would cause?

@fafski1199

Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing there will be two large 170km long banks of sand, that will gather at the bottom of both those mirrored walls. Those banks of sand, will also likely be topped with a covering of thousands of well cooked dead birds and insects, that have inadvertently flow to their deaths, into those half a kilometre high mirrored walls.

@CriticoolHit

Жыл бұрын

@@effervescentrelief Everyone with even half an education knows what would happen... So i guess not many people actually.

@antoineh.7093

Жыл бұрын

@@fafski1199 Thank you, I am not the only one who thought about birds, insects or other animals crashing into this stupid mirrors. I don't know if the base of it will be cleared of any constructions but what about the natural dispersal of seeds. Seems to me it's going to be a huge flop

@alimanski7941

Жыл бұрын

Very generous of you to assume it will actually be built

They should've first tried to build the whole thing in Minecraft creative mode and they would've seen that even given the ability to instantly place 1x1 meter squared portions of it and with the power of flight it'd still take them a very very long time to do, will look cool abandoned

@kingghidorah5213

Жыл бұрын

You know that it would take just a couple of weeks to build in minecraft because that thing is being built by tens of thousands of workers with giant machinery.

@fireknight2888

Жыл бұрын

Here me out airsoft in the abandoned line

@francoquispe656

Жыл бұрын

Give this man a PhD in urban planning

@thatcarguy6190

Жыл бұрын

​@@fireknight2888 No a bit more than air soft you could potentially have teams go in and hunger games it out in the city give them weapons.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@DialecticRed

Жыл бұрын

World edit could speed it up tho still would take awhile

I remain convinced that this city in Saudi Arabia is inspired by RTGame's one road city.

@amirg7225

Жыл бұрын

100%

@bumbobaggins

Жыл бұрын

Which video, i donr remeber watching that vid

@jackcochran1462

Жыл бұрын

You are a genius

@RobinSylveoff

Жыл бұрын

it did solve traffic so...

@Menaceblue3

Жыл бұрын

Country road Take me home To the place where I belong

The single line design has a major flaw: if there is a failure anywhere along the line, the entire city is split in half. Also the reason why cities aren't a straight line is geometry- with a traditional city, you are closer to everything but with a line, everything's much further apart.

@JACKHARRINGTON

Жыл бұрын

I suppose the idea is that everyone stays in their little neighbourhood and never leaves. touch grass

@bluebag7187

Жыл бұрын

There’s a train that’s take you from first of the city to the end of it in 20 minutes I guess

@williamhuang8309

Жыл бұрын

@@bluebag7187 But that's a single point failure. The transportation fails? The entire city is cut in half.

@dawntreader1247

Жыл бұрын

The most optimal shape is a circle

@ninjafruitchilled

Жыл бұрын

@@dawntreader1247 Sphere city. More dimensions equals more volume within a fixed radius, equals more efficiency $$. Though also relatively less surface area through which to transport people, goods, water, heat, poop, etc.

What I heard from one guy working for a company involved in planning that abomination, they know full well that the whole concept is ridiculously impractical, don't ever expect anything to be built and just deliver shiny brochures to part a certain fool from his money.

@pixpusha

3 ай бұрын

🤣😂😅

@mjm3091

Ай бұрын

Tbh, it wasn't that impractical - it's the width of regular city, so it's just a line of small cities connected in straight line. That's just Northeast Megalopolis built from scratch. And it directly makes sense that they now are only building the coast part of it, making it just a regular city.

I could see the real line having a massive sewage dam too

@moizesbrando

Жыл бұрын

underrated

@great-27

Жыл бұрын

We are in the bad city, and NEOM was built in order to give up competition in a global way. A city in a far place, and the West, especially America, will love me. We must draw the attention of America

The city's concept and design looks so dystopian. Levels with people living up above near the sun, trees, and possibly where the water and food will go through first (which will definitely not encourage some greed) and people squabbling in the tight, dark, cramped, and industrialized lower levels wondering why there's less water than yesterday. It's in a desert too so water will be a very tough issue, possibly being rationed out (probably in the most profitable way possible aka the richest gets the mostest).

@blackoak4978

Жыл бұрын

More likely you won't be allowed to live there unless you're a millionaire, and the staff necessary to keep it running will live in shanty towns outside the walls

@rickswordfire4774

Жыл бұрын

The Line? More like, _Spec Ops: The Line_

@Red-Tower

Жыл бұрын

@@blackoak4978 yeah these sorts of ideas/projects rarely stop to consider that our society is currently built on a backbone of service workers that require the same standards of living and human rights as anyone else. This one at least made mention of "high automation" but that still requires maintenance personnel, supervisors and operators, and any other areas that are difficult or unsafe to automatize.

@espneindanke9172

Жыл бұрын

@@blackoak4978 Lol^^ "Outside the walls" They could escape, so they would have to live underground.

@heavenoverhell

Жыл бұрын

The richest get... the moistest?

Architect : "I've got a great idea, why don't we build a city out of glass in the desert that's the shape of a line" Engineer : "Ah shit, here we go again"

@amadeosendiulo2137

Жыл бұрын

Real Civil Engineer: I can do it but for it to work it have to resemble a penis.

@jens_le_benz

Жыл бұрын

Again?

@amadeosendiulo2137

Жыл бұрын

@@jens_le_benz A dumb idea again.

@rev_dude

Жыл бұрын

No self respecting architect wants anything to do with this line. Its a PR stunt

@joefer5360

Жыл бұрын

@@flyveto457 Big Buck Investor: Let's do it. What was it again?

The mirrored walls , if they were solar panels, could be used to generate drinkable water from the ocean as well as producing power for the whole city.

@ronaldlee2139

Жыл бұрын

Creating fresh water from ocean water usually use both heat and electricity by concentrated solar instead of solar panel. To create drinking water by electricity alone, you usually use reverse osmosis on pee, which is what Singapore and California is doing.

@alexrhinehart9604

Жыл бұрын

@@ronaldlee2139 Cool to know!

@Imperial-Blox

Жыл бұрын

@@ronaldlee2139 i am never going to singapore or california

@Preaplanes

Жыл бұрын

Aheh heh heh... oh wait, you were serious. Let me laugh even harder. AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

@ronaldlee2139

Жыл бұрын

@@Imperial-Blox These deionised water is much cleaner than rain water, so most of them is used in semiconductors manufacturing instead.

imagine you got a job at the head of the city and the only apartment you can afford is at end

@BaldHeadedManc

Жыл бұрын

With the transportation they claim to be building, it would take 20 mins to get there so..

@kevinwilson3773

Жыл бұрын

@@BaldHeadedManc only if it worked

2:52 Curved shape gives it the strength to withstand a tsunami. Brilliant engineering decision.

@a_phoenix4632

Жыл бұрын

@Hankus Fredward In the documentary movie 2012, tsunami hit Mt.Everest. So we may never know. /s

@rickswordfire4774

Жыл бұрын

@Hankus Fredward There has never been a tsunami in the desert. They're clearly overdue for one. Expect the unexpected.

@TPixelAdventures

Жыл бұрын

it's obviously the perfect shape to weather through sandstorms. very aerodynamic!

@leobuana7430

Жыл бұрын

And provide heat to surounding area, enough to melt plastic if you are lucky enough !

@themightyeagle21

Жыл бұрын

@@TPixelAdventures exactly, it definitely won’t get filled with sand after a few years, the glass will also stay perfectly clean and won’t get shattered.

It's really funny how if there happens any problem in the middle of the line, you lose half the city

@airplanes_aren.t_real

Жыл бұрын

Love your pfp

@themightyeagle21

Жыл бұрын

No ones gonna want to live in the middle anyway. I give it a population of 10,000 at most. Like, who’s the population supposed to be made of?

@_SHIN1999

Жыл бұрын

@@themightyeagle21 !ATTENTION CITIZEN! You have been randomly selected to permanently live in the LINE. For your safety, do NOT resist.

@dylanzrim3635

Жыл бұрын

@@themightyeagle21 it won’t be by choice.........

@Ixarus6713

Жыл бұрын

Also, any issues with any part of the train line and it'd be at a complete standstill long range travel-wise. Seriously, 2 trains, one each way, so if there's an error with either, you get massive roadblocks which would completely freeze the economy and industry at least in that area.

Level the terrain, draw two roads at the distance apart that you want, then raise the terrain outside the two parallel roads to the level you want. You now have two parallel raised elevations forming the outside of the linear city.

@Atticellar

Жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same. He could even have shaped the whole outline of the two walls with street, raise in between and then he'd have aesthetic and symmetrical walls.

Matt: *adds bridges* Also Matt, 5 seconds after: “I’m starting to come round to this idea”

I cannot even begin to fathom the effect on the weather having a 500 metre tall and 170 kilometre long wall of glass will have. How long would it take to clean the entire wall? Who has the unfortunate job of clearing away the probably hundreds of tons of sand that will collect against the side of the wall, probably every day?

@nialljones3227

Жыл бұрын

Wouldnt the glass break as well

@justanotheryoutubechannel

Жыл бұрын

Oh my god I hadn’t even considered that, this terrible idea is never gonna work is it?

@asterinycht5438

Жыл бұрын

Dont wory poeple from india and pakistan will be kidn4ped by arabian oil sultan to clean all those mess, like they do with world cup.

@mathijs8537

Жыл бұрын

@@justanotheryoutubechannel you can't clean it, it will melt you because it reflects light

@NoahGooder

Жыл бұрын

probably that job will be given to the undesirables

Glad I wasn't the only one that was like "why in glass in the desert?!" I was thinking to stop sandstorms or something to do with heat.

@marcalcantara1174

Жыл бұрын

Maybe heat reflectors? Dunno

@snintendog

Жыл бұрын

Glass doesn't help with either..... its made by architects for sure all for looks and buzz words

@vader1a

Жыл бұрын

Cuz everyone wants to live in a desert

@jeka1030

Жыл бұрын

More reflective = Less heat

@Schione.

Жыл бұрын

@@jeka1030 I can't tell if you're joking or not

At least you will have a high point to jump off of when u realize ur trapped in the line when it's on fire...

@tzboy2603

Жыл бұрын

😂

fun thing is unless they're stopping at every stop, you're going to have to try and pass on the Line's train system which means putting passing sidings in as well

That's always been my dream. To live in a soulless dystopia that is also a line

@TPixelAdventures

Жыл бұрын

Matt's made it more of a shaft though...so there's a bright side to it!

@MrNote-lz7lh

Жыл бұрын

Then you would be glad to hear that in the future the majority of people will be living in similar structures. Called o'neill cylinders.

@mandowarrior123

Жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to live in an abstract mathematical concept.

@liathedigger

Жыл бұрын

Yoo look concrete hell but it's a "futuristic" line

@HeIsAnAli

Жыл бұрын

@@MrNote-lz7lh Which can be dropped onto the Earth by salty separatists who have the foresight to gas the inhabitants.

6:40 you don't have to use floodwalls for this, any road built on flat terrain will keep it's height, allowing you to make straight dirt cliffs at much lower cost and space efficiency

@shudongyin4136

Жыл бұрын

yes

Very nice video. Usually, I am not looking at English videos because my English isn't so good, but you speak very well, and I did understand most of the things you have said. I wish you all the best and do in the future more videos like this, I really enjoy them.

When I saw that ad, I legitimately thought it was some dystopian game or movie

They really went for the whole "Last Bastion of Humanity" theme that you'd find in sci-fic YA novel, even the name of the project, The Line, sounds like it came out of the Maze Runner or Hunger Games series.

@rickswordfire4774

Жыл бұрын

Ever played _Spec Ops: The Line_ ?

@homunculi0408

Жыл бұрын

Yes?

@rickswordfire4774

Жыл бұрын

@@homunculi0408 I can imagine The Line ending up like Dubai in SOTL. Covered in sand, low on water, cut off from the rest of the world.

@Fuchsia_tude

Жыл бұрын

@@rickswordfire4774 Also walls of glass breaking everywhere letting in literal tons of sand

Oh, it's actually even better - consider that 510 kph is only the AVERAGE speed - even if the transit is nonstop from one end to the other, it has to accelerate to a much higher speed, and then slow down for a similar amount of time at the end. So if we assume constant acceleration until the midpoint, then constant deceleration until the end, that transit will have to reach 1020 kph to make that transit time...

@nadrewod999

Жыл бұрын

And then one day, someone accidentally drops something on the track around the midpoint, causing massive damage (if not a partial/total derailment) at top speed...

@nick.3455

Жыл бұрын

that's almost supersonic 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

@BallistikKitty

Жыл бұрын

Also have to remember it'll probably have stops at points in between too :) (Adam Something did a video roasting the line if you want to watch it)

@joefer5360

Жыл бұрын

Bro. I hit 140 to 160 kph (90 to 100 mph) in my RAV4 and I feel like my fucking car is going to fall apart, I'll die if I hit even a small bump, and my steering wheel is going to fucking fly off if I let go of it.

@justamanofculture12

Жыл бұрын

@@joefer5360 that's pretty slow though. I usually drive bike at that speed. And it feels like flying. For a car, that speed isn't an issue.

13:56 thats really clever to put all the pollution & fumes low down.. cos as we know... fumes like to stay low, im sure people crossing the bridges wont go unconscious or fall into comas or anything

Trust me even architects hate this project 😂, it's so berserk

@Rileynjudkins

Жыл бұрын

This seems like what happens when you give a king/ruler an essentially unlimited amount of money but the dude is cognitively like a teenager and is like "wouldn't it be cool....make it happen"

@kuwa333

Жыл бұрын

I'm actually disappointed that he thinks that architects do stupid stuff like this.

@waltissussybakka

Жыл бұрын

@@kuwa333 some architects want the guacamole, all green 💸.... unfortunately mostly others will be either broke or getting very little pay

@waltissussybakka

Жыл бұрын

@@Rileynjudkins if they finish this project, it will be the funniest shit ever 🤣

@kuwa333

Жыл бұрын

@@waltissussybakka my dad's an architect, and I'm an architectural student. It is usually the client's decision on how the project would look like and the architect follows, and the engineers follow the architect's plans. That's how the project works. If you see structures that look ridiculous or look funny, it is what the client wanted and what they approved, because it's their money, and not the architect.

Love these videos. Everytime I see an inefficient building I think “damn architects” and remember the best real civil engineer I know.

@dylanzrim3635

Жыл бұрын

Every time I need to remove an engine to replace one small wear item I blame engineers

@gsquared8730

Жыл бұрын

@@dylanzrim3635 TRAITOR!!!!!!!!

@rev_dude

Жыл бұрын

No self respecting architect wants anything to do with this line. Its a PR stunt

The tiered living style seems so dystopian to me, kind of like the sand hills you were talking about at the beginning for the rich people to feel important. The planet Coruscant is entirely a tiered system, with the top layers being beautiful and wealthy while the lower levels are dark and full of crime.

@Snoop_Dugg

Жыл бұрын

What if they make it the opposite. Poor people are at the top, but rich people get their huge mansions down the bottom.

@autinjones7194

Жыл бұрын

@@Snoop_Dugg there was a vault in fallout 4 far harbor that was like that.

@nicwatkins1737

Жыл бұрын

Dystopia? Dude this is modern reality

@egel7736

Жыл бұрын

​@@nicwatkins1737 No, it is not. Have you ever been in a city which has multiple layers on top of each other, structured inside an extremely narrow space? If you're trying to hint at the existence of class systems in our societies, then yes, you are right, but I would still call that dystopian, lol.

@aceambling7685

Жыл бұрын

Tiered living is based, traditional, and extremely aesthetic. 40k hive cities are peak aesthetics.

As a glazer this would be horrible build the scale and the glass is for reflection purposes to keep heat out but good luck to people installing are gonna fry with anything near it

People who think the engineers are the ones who “make it work” have no idea what architects really do.

Ultra dense three dimensional city development? Sounds weird, but familiar... oh well. I wonder what would happen if you put a few lines close to each other and running parallels, and while you're at it, throw a few lines on top of the other lines till you have a cube that makes Kowloon Walled City look like a hamster house.

@lalinowl

Жыл бұрын

Add in the "high automation" drones and you'll ended up in Shadowrun

@jamesbyrd3740

Жыл бұрын

the borg

It'll be like the Dubai... lots of giant grand constructs , and totally surrounded by the squalor of the slave labour.

@airplanes_aren.t_real

Жыл бұрын

Who do you think is gonna build the line?

@eviniusmuffin5202

Жыл бұрын

Yes except this time the Saudi-Arabic civilians are goining to suffer because all the money os going to be put into it

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

@@airplanes_aren.t_real All the slaves they can abduct , er , recruit... yeah that's it ... recruit. And about 1/3 to 1/2 way through they'll see what a joke it really is and abandon it to the desert ''I am Ozymandias ,King of Kings. Look upon my works ye mighty , and Despair''.

@salre2229

Жыл бұрын

@@airplanes_aren.t_real millennials on their laptops working from home

@rustythecrown9317

Жыл бұрын

@@eviniusmuffin5202 How will this time be any different than the building of dubai... I believe some the slaves are still stuck there... II could be wrong.

14:25 - should have put those windmills up by the "dancing trees" (i.e,. crazy wind that high up!)

21:06 is the moment replacing "please click the like button"

Mat. Please make it easy on your self and download the "Extra landscaping tools" Anyway keep up the good work

@omeka8842

Жыл бұрын

sound like an architect tool Shame on you!

I like how I got the ad for The Line project. Truly makes this video all the better. Great vid! One of the issues I see with the idea is the inevitable claustrophobia people will experience. Like the dystopian cities you see in Sci-fi movies. Peasants crammed in the lower levels and the wealthy in the higher levels.

@ntfoperative9432

Жыл бұрын

Plus in the desert, just imagine the sand piles, place is gonna start looking like spec ops the line

@Poldovico

Жыл бұрын

Claustrophobia would be the least of their problems. Slavery, hunger, disease, a totalitarian government, total exploitation and a complete lack of human rights up to and including the right to life would be the larger issue. Then again, that's already Saudi Arabia even if they don't cram everyone into a line. I'm sure the line will come with more novel and inventive human rights violations all its own.

@spaniel5657

Жыл бұрын

@@Poldovico imagine a war occurred and the line was carpet bombed single file

@spaniel5657

Жыл бұрын

@@Vercur yeah no matter how I look at this it’s doomed, shoulda just did a giant collosuem/hanging gardens

I have to admit, as a fairly new viewer to your channel, I've really enjoyed your content! I didn't think watching someone build a city in Cities: Skylines would be that interesting, in all honestly, but you definitely make it very entertaining! I'm very happy to have been proven wrong! I'm definitely a subscriber now!

This is actually more like how I imagined the city in the book "Thin Air". You should try for that too.

If you ever do something like this again or try to make a car free city, you can use pedestrian boardwalks and paths from Next2 (or even better, a Next2 Replacement road set that won’t cause issues like the mod does.) and just ban everything but emergency vehicles on them with TMPE. They’re zoneable and look good as they’re thinner than roads and people can walk in the middles of them.

@darkglasses87

Жыл бұрын

Better yet, the upcoming dlc 'Plazas and Promenades' would be perfect for this experiment

@matheushenrique5963

Жыл бұрын

@@darkglasses87 Even the new assets kinda of reminds The Line

@danielmorton9956

Жыл бұрын

You can also exploit magic metros as they don't do height the same way. Removing cars would probably fix a lot of the fire problem.

510km/hr or 317mi/hr if you never stop. If they ever stop to let people on or off they need to be going twice as fast to meet their 20 minute goal.

@airplanes_aren.t_real

Жыл бұрын

Maybe put a net contraption at the ends of every stop so that people are caught by the web and the train don't need to stop

@Red-Tower

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was going to say! Like non-stop end-to-end, something like a bullet train / maglev could theoretically do it, but in practice that would never happen. Of course, this whole "project" in practice will probably never happen.

@justanotheryoutubechannel

Жыл бұрын

I think the line is horrible terrible idea but the trains were somewhat believable, it was gonna be 2 tunnels, one for a high speed maglev bullet train which would zoom down the tunnels in 20 minutes with just a couple of stops down the length, then in the second tunnel it would be like the London Underground with stops less often. But I do still think it’s a terrible idea, 20 minutes is just too tight of a target and it would be horrifically inefficient.

@zafranorbian757

Жыл бұрын

Do not forget acceleration and decelleration times. They can not be too shurt if you want a train without forced seating and seatbelts.

@ntfoperative9432

Жыл бұрын

@@zafranorbian757 unless you want human jelly instead of human beings

I like to play with some line-based design in my CS cities. It works really well on a small scale where people can actually live within 5 minutes of everything, but once the city starts getting big enough (or before!), you have to consider what it's going to take for the guy who lives on one end and picked up a job all the way on the other end. I want to make a couple of videos myself; one would discuss a vanilla waste treatment plant (I think I actually found an unexpected bug in this research) and another would address some commercial-industrial-residential ratios I worked out.

Need to redo this with the new pedestrian zone DLC

It's genuinely incredible how RCE does something that there's a specific tool for, and he just goes and does it the strangest/toughest way possible.

I'm an architect, but not "world-leading" - and this flashed alarms in my head when I saw this first. I don't think it is sustainable like it was advertised. It will damage existing desert eco-systems where it crosses. It looks claustrophobic to me, and I wouldn't want to live in it.

@Poldovico

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think it will manage to hurt humans even more.

@MrNote-lz7lh

Жыл бұрын

What do you think of O'Neill cylinders and other giant self-contained habitats?

@dylanzrim3635

Жыл бұрын

@@MrNote-lz7lh how about you build one, with all of the dystopia associated with forced living conditions and a tyrannical government who publically executes people for wanting to be people.. then tell us the answer yourself.

@mandowarrior123

Жыл бұрын

Architect not like socialist dystopia? You'll get your badge revoked!

@Poldovico

Жыл бұрын

@@mandowarrior123 Ah, yes. The Saudi Arabian monarchy. That famously socialist institution.

I am really interested to see how this project goes. Would be an amazing feat of engineering and architecture combined.

I’d be very interested in seeing this revisited using the Plazas & Promenades dlc. Pedestrian areas can only be accessed by police, fire, ambulance, and hearses.

I just saw that they want hot air and cool air to come in through the top slit. Of course this could work but it is sure gonna create turbolenzes that cool the hot air and heat up the fresh cold air, it's also meaking the fresh air not so fresh air. The further down you live the less actual fresh air you'll get if you don't actively force air to go a certain way. even in PC building you can prove that having just one opening for both hot and cold air exchange is a terrible idea for pc performance and seeing as humans don't operate well under hot co2 rich and oxigen poor air makes me think that this mega project will end as a dystopian hell where all the poor hard workers will live in the bottom parts and the rich elite will have their apartments near the top

@TerribleResults

Жыл бұрын

Also: the desert, where the cool air is.

@sirmrmcjack2167

Жыл бұрын

@@TerribleResults at night yes, during the day, weeelllllll, let's call it cool-er than what's inside the line

@animationenusw

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like normal capitalism to me

@NoahGooder

Жыл бұрын

its like snow piercer but in the desert and as a city

@themightyeagle21

Жыл бұрын

I bet it’ll only get somewhere between 10k and 100k people, because the rich won’t want to live there, and the poor probably won’t be able to afford it. Then there’s the problem of sand storms and the glass exterior. In the end, people will only live on the end, and urban explorers will be the only ones who enjoy going to the interior.

Three engineers were arguing. The mechanical engineer said "Clearly God is a mechanical engineer, look at the human body" The electrical engineer said "Clearly God is an electrical engineer, just look at the nervous system" The civil engineer said "No, no, no. Clearly God is a civil engineer. Who else would put a waste pipeline through such a great recreational area?!?" Can't believe I've never thought to post this joke on an RCE video before... ;)

@nothing2see315

Жыл бұрын

Civil Engineers are gay?

@directorwinter5419

Жыл бұрын

i dont get the waste pipeline thing, can someone explain?

@samuelkdu

Жыл бұрын

@@directorwinter5419 A (nal)

@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii2458

Жыл бұрын

@@samuelkdu What does it have to do with being a civil engineer?

@MrAlex-ej8ov

Жыл бұрын

@@samuelkdu No it's a reference to the 'strongest shape'.

I had to look it up again but it really is amazing how the land speed record for a conventional rail train was set by a TGV under testing conditions at 574 km/h. That is an insanely fast train.

If you’ve ever been in a room with a one way mirror, I can tell you it’s freezing. So the heat of the desert and the cool inside will draw in moisture. So this physics are spot on for an idealistic city. 😊

@andrewleah1983

Жыл бұрын

The glass will be destroyed in a few years due to the sand…

0:38 I was really intrigued to see your reaction on this line when the trailer came out 😂😂😂

This seems like a practice for building the death star trenches. Will it have one weak point that is not nearly protected enough?

@ArcNine9Angel

Жыл бұрын

Even better! It will have several!

Love it. Hope to see more of this. Maybe upgrading it and making it better.

I'm loving the constant feud between architect plans and engineering practical.

I know you dont want to hear it but please use "extra landscaping tools" it helps a lot with terraforming in general

The intro is the most true thing I have heard... willing to bet the project will never finish or if it does it will be less than a tenth of what was promissed

So I’ve actually started making long, straight streets for my residential zones. The first 12 squares are commercial, ten square buffer for sound reasons. Then just long straight residential streets. Also in that gap I put schools and pedestrian zone walkways to allow pedestrians to walk from one finger to the next. Makes it super easy to set up bus lines and the like.

Anybody who thought the line is 1. not a scam 2. a good idea deserve to live there

@khalilsubahi1310

Жыл бұрын

humans evolve with time..we think that the future is dump at first but all of a sudden we get used to it real quick

@KingJohnMichael

Жыл бұрын

@@khalilsubahi1310 and as many times someone said this is the future it usually and often enough wasn't.

@Hoch134

Жыл бұрын

Oh, it's not a realistic idea but if it was completed one day (something I could imagine for Saudi Arabia) it would surely be a good idea. There might be some flaws like firefighters, police and transport reliability but I don't feel like those are unsolvable problems.

@guillermoelnino

Жыл бұрын

@@Hoch134 looks like we have our first prisoner/customer

@MrVenturadog

Жыл бұрын

@@Hoch134 look at all the empty islands they made in Dubai. If it's not practical at some point they stop.

I wonder what the line will do about desert winds pushing against it?

@flynntaggart7216

Жыл бұрын

@Ban Me yeah concrete is so fragile that can be blown by wind big brain logic

Incredible! I tried doing this a month ago without having seen that vid! good job bro

5:00 Why doesn't he just use the tree brush mod (distinct from random tree brush)

My foreshadowing: The Construction starts, they are half way through, they let it rot cuz it won't work for some Reasons.

@Poldovico

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, some reasons such as it was an inane prospect from the start.

"its a treefall! its a feature!" thats an architect move, matt.

i would love to see more of this, and how it developes and all!

17:34 I can just see the impending poonami waiting to roll down the Line, engulfing everyone in sight

It's a great design because you can just make a unit with everything you need and copy-paste it sideways. It saves design time and keystrokes like no other design. Everything else about it might be terrible but hey, it saves hours on the PC making the design. Seriously its like a design made by people who GREW UP with sim city, the same way The Simpsons turrned terrible when it was being made by people who grew up watching The Simpsons.

@Fuchsia_tude

Жыл бұрын

Also the fate of comic books that got old enough to be created by people who grew up reading them. I think comics are old enough at this point that this has happened for multiple generations now

@bobbodaskank

Жыл бұрын

Can't tell you how miserable I've been ever since meals started getting cooked by people who grew up eating meals.

Started watching your videos yesterday. As an aspiring engineer I will make your designs become a reality.

You would think that a smaller scale test would be the first stage, then expand out frome that once we know it works...

As an architect myself, I hate that thing and genuinely thought is was a joke

I really thought this thing had been quietly dropped years ago until recently. It used to be touted years ago then they went silent. Though building an arcology is an interesting idea thats barely possible with current tech. But a line is not the best design better off something like that one from japan or the floating city concept “though current tech would have issues with both particularly in lifespan”.

@Red-Tower

Жыл бұрын

Honestly if you're making a line you might as well make it into a loop instead. Just seems more practical for logistics, transport, and usage of space. Inside the loop can be utilities, green space, etc. Not much better, but it's something.

@Alex_Fahey

Жыл бұрын

You remember correctly, but it was less stupid before. The previous version was essentially a city planning idea with industries, housing, services and more segregated to individual parallel streets which you could continue building indefinitely into the distance to accommodate population growth (e.g. all housing is on 5th through 10th street, restaurants and grocery stores on 4th, medical services on 3rd, et cetera). Essentially making it so everyone is a short distance from a given type of business regardless of where they might live and you have a city built as a small line continuing into the distance.

@mittfh

Жыл бұрын

Far better to build a circular design - and given Saudi is an authoritarian State, have the authorities located at the centre, so they can easily check out everyone. Think of a giant panopticon...

@demoniack81

Жыл бұрын

Making an archology is an excellent idea as long as you do it PROPERLY. This is about as far away from proper as you can get. Nuclear power (as many reactors as it takes) which can power indoor farming (especially vegetables, but also fish and livestock). The heat from the reactors can be used to trigenerate electricity, heat of all kinds (including keeping the farms at the perfect temperature and industrial process heat), AND refrigeration. Then you put in all the industry, commercial and residential needed, trying to keep it as dense as possible while also providing for lots of parks and recreation. The perfect design would basically be a cube (though for efficiency, above ground we can't really build taller than 100-200m because otherwise your building becomes more structure than habitable space). The industry would probably be relegated to the lower levels (close to the nuclear reactors and below the farms) and any fumes can get treated before being vented away outside of the complex. None of this is science fiction, it's all doable with current technology. The only real problem is that we still haven't really figured out a way to efficiently transport people along the Z axis, elevators are TERRIBLE at moving large amounts of people.

@mittfh

Жыл бұрын

@@demoniack81 For the Z axis, perhaps have a hybrid between a conventional lift design and a paternoster lift, so you have separate 'up' and 'down' lifts that stop at floors (rather than being continually moving) - plus, with a lift cubicle at each floor, while it may be slower than conventional lifts, you wouldn't have to wait around. For tall buildings, maybe combine a 'slow' lift that stops at every floor with a 'fast' lift that only stops every x floors; so if you wanted to go to floor 47, take the fast 'up' lift to 50, then the slow 'down' lift to 47.

I was already losing hope when the video is almost over but luckily he added the engineer's touch at the starting point of the structure by adding the trademark "balls". I mean the water reservoirs. Yes. Very important.

@Poldovico

Жыл бұрын

So, the water is stored in the balls?

@kaldo_kaldo

Жыл бұрын

Well, the tip has poo water, but we all know pee is stored in the balls

@amadeosendiulo2137

Жыл бұрын

Well, look at the sewer thingy…

The best improvement Matt brought to the project was shaping it stronger and more efficient

didn't see that end coming this is pure gold

"The Line" as a concept is clearly a thing that can ONLY work in a video game!

@lordrork5884

Жыл бұрын

I see it as some sort of operation that's very special. A Spec Op, if you will.

@ntfoperative9432

Жыл бұрын

@@lordrork5884 "welcome to Dubai"

@darkwolf9204

Жыл бұрын

I see you're not familiar with the Kowloon Walled City. Same principle, different shape, same expected outcome.

@MrNote-lz7lh

Жыл бұрын

Meh. We're going to have to get used to building megastructures like that if we want to colonize space.

@pleasegoawaydude

Жыл бұрын

@@MrNote-lz7lh Yeah sure but we also need to not make them unsustainable, inefficient shit

The dam itself (21:12) is in the strongest shape format.

I was so confused when you said "I think it's missing something"...should've known 😂😂😂

5:47 I was actually thinking about that when you mentioned this future city will have no cars. That’s kind of hard to simulate in a conventional city simulator. Maybe a colony simulator?

Do you like the line they say its "environmentally friendly" with its "mirrors"

@LycanFerret

Жыл бұрын

I do love environmentally friendly desert cities. Where any non-native(anything but livestock) food has to be shipped by air or ship, all non-local(leather, hide, wool) fiber has to be shipped in, and fresh water has to be shipped in from the same distances as everything else. Every day. Because deserts don't provide any natural life giving sources of sustenance. Not including the needed materials to create a good internal climate. Extensive filtration, pipes pushing air running off power, etc. The original arabs who lived in the desert were much like the mongolians. Nomadic herding tribes who wandered with their camels using them and trading as a source of food, fiber, and milk. Then they struck oil and devolved. At least I believe it to be devolving.

10:40 Wow I didn't know you were alive in the Victorian Times Matt.

Absolutely loved this episode made my day!

good thing the Arabian plate is solid huh other wise one big earth quake and there goes the line :)

21:00 i was scared that you will forget about it

Being a subscriber to Matt for almost 2 years now, i knew at the very moment when Matt made that sewage system with the round shape at the tip of the line, that there would just be two more blobs that he'd put which will turn "THE LINE" into the strongest and most efficient city ever. Was literally waiting for it to happen, and though at the end i thought Matt wouldn't do it, aha, Matt is Matt, an engineer by profession, who can things not be the strongest in his video 🤣🤣 Loved the content though ❤️❤️ Loved the fact that you and imkibitz are doing videos of the same type, and would surely love to watch a nice collaboration between the two of you, but until then, LIKENADOOOOOO ❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻

It’s nice you put a picture of the Lynton and lynmouth cliff railway in

following your channel immediately!!! this is spectacular work and content.

So at my dad's company one of the directors had a daughter or something who needed four tries to get her architect's license. He let her build some sort of zen room or whatever in the building. Apparently it started off as a nice enough indoor garden sort of room but she neglected to include drainage in the design. The whole thing had to be condemned and her dad wrote a check to the company to get rid of it.

Imagine how much window cleaners they must need for this

@noobandfriends2420

Жыл бұрын

That will be half the population's job, forever, because they're in prison.

@gn6691

Жыл бұрын

@@noobandfriends2420 yep they will bring slaves from around the world.

Perfect. It even has a "reservoir tip" 😉

I will simply say this: When he was still alive, Walt Disney's idea for EPCOT still incorporated cars; they were just all driving on a subterranean levels so that the entire surface could be reserved for pedestrians, and everything _was_ able to be within a 5 minute walk from any residence because nothing was limited by the need for non-pedestrian traffic. It also wasn't built with tiers, so it didn't create the appearance of a hierarchy, but hey, what do I know about anything?

everyone knows what the strongest city layout is... especially rce lol

Me: "Sorry boss, there was a car accident in front of me...." Boss: "There are no cars here! And everything is within 5 minutes walking distance!" * *Sigh* *

@KajtekBeary

Жыл бұрын

There was a fire! XD

@dylanzrim3635

Жыл бұрын

“Sorry I’m late boss” Boss “where did you go? Your door is guarded 24/7 and you aren’t allowed to do anything but work” “also because you’re late, you’ve been reported, and you’re next in line for public execution”

@espneindanke9172

Жыл бұрын

@@dylanzrim3635 Public execution? That has to be a mistake! I'm sure I've got 12 social scoring points leftover.

I'll take the nomad desert tent dwelling option.

17:23 Bro... That's a Poovalanche waiting to happen 🥴

I wonder what would happen, would the lake be over flooded then spill in the shaft and then drown the lower city?