I love how this game subtly teaches the idea that you cannot build your way out of traffic using only one mode of transportation. I wonder if they could combine this game and mini metro.

@marcobonera838

2 жыл бұрын

cities skylines

@binarycat1237

2 жыл бұрын

that seems like it would be a fitting third game.

@GeoThaDude

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with Marco. It already exists and is called Cities Skylines.

@ViridianAubergine

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcobonera838 I love cities skylines, but it doesn't have the crack-like simplistic addictiveness that mini motorways does

@shrike6259

2 жыл бұрын

LOL yea this thing teaches real live .. duh

-Confusing and congested roundabouts -Endless construction -Ripping up roads before anything is put down to replace them -Massive highways installed immediately over residences -Making people's commutes longer and less direct You can tell he's a real civil engineer. 🙂

@neoncobalt1779

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Ohio

@APsupportsTerrorism

Жыл бұрын

The entire country.

@dbclass4075

Жыл бұрын

Might blend well with Filipino civil engineers. Manila is just that.

@Boypogikami132

Жыл бұрын

EDSA is scary

@Boypogikami132

Жыл бұрын

@@neoncobalt1779 sounds like Manila, where there are 119,600 people per square mile

POV: You're trying to design an alternative to Manila's bad (nonexistent) urban planning.

@riykin

2 жыл бұрын

Manila Traffic Simulator

@burningice1762

2 жыл бұрын

Penoiz commentor detected

@moondust2365

2 жыл бұрын

The urban planning would've been good, considering who the Americans hired, but sadly WWII happened and now we have this mess.

@alezacrespublik6655

2 жыл бұрын

@@moondust2365 I mean, While WW2 did destroy a lot of Structures, Roads, which are the most important part of transportation, remained mostly intact. The actual problem is that the said American Planners didn't account for future growth and fast Urbanization of the Metropolitan Manila Area, and succeeding governments not caring about building more public transportation

@johnsmith-xe4qn

2 жыл бұрын

Funny how the game logic is accurate. Houses also appear anywhere in the philippines and the roads are always congested.

So I found out through steam that the devs have done a patch (24th August) to make traffic lights more effective. I don't know when this was recorded but maybe traffic lights could be good?

@FoxDren

2 жыл бұрын

Well I doubt they'd be able to make them less effective

@MrJoaconeitor

2 жыл бұрын

yeppp, i think now is kinda useful in something

@ZaHandle

2 жыл бұрын

waiting for traffic side option

@SloMoMonday

2 жыл бұрын

It's weird how difficult it is to find a use for them and it's simply a throwaway device in the late game. Maybe if they could be used to enforce one-way roads with double the throughput then it could help and be a strategic placement.

@coolflesh9899

2 жыл бұрын

Papa smurf

Diagonal roads, random motorways and cul-de-sacs. This game might be the best thing surely made by an architect.

@quackin12152

2 жыл бұрын

Wat... Architects?

@vellstillings9326

2 жыл бұрын

Don't insult the man. He's an engineer.

@quackin12152

2 жыл бұрын

@@vellstillings9326 who’s the man

@hirshja

2 жыл бұрын

@@quackin12152 it's RCEs way of saying idiot essentially

@quackin12152

2 жыл бұрын

@@hirshja ok

This was the level that taught me that there are more houses than you actually need. It's better to not connect some to limit the supply to supermarkets/imaxes to reduce congestion.

@samuelmatheson9655

2 жыл бұрын

But then they'll starve🙃

@mundaner-1163

2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelmatheson9655 that's basically what the new world order is doing

@samuelmatheson9655

2 жыл бұрын

@@mundaner-1163 Ack

@ddshocktrooper5604

2 жыл бұрын

@@mundaner-1163 "new" world order? There's nothing new about it

@mundaner-1163

2 жыл бұрын

@@ddshocktrooper5604 it may be not new but it's not a common knowledge either

"We want to keep all the colors separate" *British foreign policy*

@Henry-xu5jg

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure you mean American

@kegjnote

2 жыл бұрын

@@Henry-xu5jg pretty sure you mean most cultures in human history

@Henry-xu5jg

2 жыл бұрын

@@kegjnote sure thing mate

@skippityblippity8656

2 жыл бұрын

@@Henry-xu5jg Yes mate it happens naturally I do however despise enforcement of such a thing

@Henry-xu5jg

2 жыл бұрын

@@skippityblippity8656 I’m pretty sure everybody is

Traffic light are only useful in the late game. They make a very crowded crossroad a little bit faster because it makes first unblocks one side and then block it again and unblocks the oder side. So there is always a bit of a flow. In the early game it just makes everything slower because it blocks cars even if there are no other cars to pass by.

@gyroscope915

2 жыл бұрын

I usually find it to be the opposite where they become pointless in the late game

@ThreeBeeHDb

2 жыл бұрын

@@gyroscope915 Pretty sure it would've helped at around 18:28 for the Real Civil Engineer.

@exquisitecodm189

11 ай бұрын

wow thanks for the knowledge einstein i wouldve never thought of that

@remnant24

10 ай бұрын

It's simpler than that. Roundabouts take up more tiles than traffic lights, making traffic lights useful on crossroads that don't leave enough room for a roundabout.

@hawkeye7527

10 ай бұрын

​@@exquisitecodm189You didn't need to be an ass, yet you chose to be.

Love this seris. Try segregation by neighborhood? Different colours on same road, but minimize total distance travel

@Haydunk

2 жыл бұрын

seris

@NodrogInIthaca

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, minimizing travel time is better than minimizing mixing. Also, that would mean actually using more intersections, which can help with spawning stuff.

@CarolineLurks

2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to try this out right away

@CarolineLurks

2 жыл бұрын

It was chaos, but maybe I didn't understand it right what you meant

@jucalebre7540

2 жыл бұрын

@@CarolineLurks loved how you actually came back to say how you did lol

As someone who stayed in Manila and is Filipino, this is actually a really realistic representation. The unplanned chaotic mess in the city planning, the pasta like spread of motorways/skyways, and oh how can I forget the traffic.

@popojelly1895

Жыл бұрын

We just make things up as we go

@Boypogikami132

Жыл бұрын

Excuse me but WHY ARE YOU FBI AND FILIPINO

@dragonforce815

5 күн бұрын

There's no FBI in Philippines btw😊

Imagine if this game had public transit lmao, definitely make everything able to be larger without breaking down

@GandalfTheTsaagan

2 жыл бұрын

It would be like playing mini motorways and mini metro at the same time

@josephzugel1360

2 жыл бұрын

Id love to see this game have other modes of transportation, Bus, Train, Boat, Plane, oh god the potential of this game, even if these devs don't do it, I think someone would eventually make a similar game with all of them

@ChrisSucks

2 жыл бұрын

Mini Transport when

@Boypogikami132

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisSucks should be free

@xenos_n.

Жыл бұрын

That's very anti-American of you to suggest public transportation.

Tip for Tagalog: The letter 'i' is often pronounced as 'eee' 18:58 Bonus points for accuracy!

@skippityblippity8656

2 жыл бұрын

All the yellows tumbling over each other

They really should just call this game "segregation simulator"... I guess what wouldn't get the sales they want tho

@watertane3044

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmmmm

@wikansaktianto9215

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting...now do Apartheid

@adamborowy8798

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmmmm

@dangejlchristoffersen7135

2 жыл бұрын

Mmmmmmmmm

@destroyourmom3125

2 жыл бұрын

“Simpletons”😅😂😂

Use traffic lights when a house other than the color of the road spawns and connot be disconnected. This will prevent cars from slowing down because of an unusable house, and the light always stays green so no cons ;D

There’s a point in the game where it can go on infinitely except, at a certain point, the game just breaks, but finding the perfect point where you don’t have to do anything is really hard. Usually around 9 motor was. Also, if you make even the slightest change, it can completely devastate the run at that level

I haven't seen anyone use it, but traffic lights are great for T-Intersections. Only ones where cars never turn left onto the main road. This is because cars can still turn right when their light is red. As long as no car needs to turn left, the light will never change and all cars, from every direction, will move full speed through it.

3:45 Yes Matt, you are the only one who noticed the strongest shape up to that point LOL

@dbclass4075

Жыл бұрын

Speaking of shapes, check out the Negros Island.

I love how he goes 'Mini Motorwees'. It's so funny! Also, 'old moldy ham at the back of the fridge' is such an epic phrase...Love it!

Extreme segregation is the best way. Try to build separate roads for each store pretty much. Less connecting. I’ve read that cars don’t take the closet shopping bag, they take the first available shopping bag so if you’ve got a long road connected, Karen from across the map will take the journey rather than the driver next door who just got home

@KevinKadow

2 жыл бұрын

IIRC, devs have added some prioritization. When a car returns from a trip, it first looks for high priority trips (destinations with a timer), and if none are showing, will take the trip which has the shortest number of tiles to get there.

When you get a double colour shop spawn make a bypass road, the cars drive soooooo slowly through the parking lot if they're just passing through

I would love to see a run where part of the way through you clear everything and plan it out after you have a ton of buildings. Is that possible in this game?

@dicko7662

2 жыл бұрын

Since it takes time to destroy things and you can’t use those parts till they are fully destroyed, it wouldn’t be possible unfortunately.

@TheAdvisor6440

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's what I was thinking

@Abo39FooR

2 жыл бұрын

First time watching this game. The whole video i was fantasizing about a big city with roads. A dumbed down sim city. Seems relaxing.

Everytime he says motorway, the video just radiates wholesome child-like happiness

I've noticed, at least in Matt's KZread uploads. He always seems to get to Week 11 before it all goes tits up. But in this episode he goes all the way to Week 19. That's progress folks. But will he go back to Mini Metro at all?

@promienodrzutowysamuel790

Жыл бұрын

Yo who the fuck calls it "going tits up"??

@Boypogikami132

Жыл бұрын

It’s honestly weird seeing that Manila is by far the hardest city in this game and in IRL

The most recent patch made Traffic Lights viable. Cars move through Traffic Lights a tad faster. They're really good for areas that can't fit a roundabout. Also I think cars move through 3-way intersections ever so slightly slower.

I used to play Mini Metro (from the same developers), and it’s funny to me how such a simple game can get so complex 😂 Absolutely love it!

18:53 thats a very densely populated Manila alright.

@mr.silent1391

2 жыл бұрын

As an philipino that IS normal

@swiftur

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, but the traffic is moving unrealistically fast :P

@Hyquadra

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.silent1391 As another filipino I agree

After watching a couple of your videos, I have really improved my game. I just did Tokyo and improved from 200 to 1286! Thank you

You should use a short diagonal road in places where a shop would be terrible. This prevents them from spawning and ruining your roadways. The fewer shops in the end the higher the score you can get.

Im a filipino, you pronounced pasig amazingly, ilog though, you pronounced “ay-log” although it’s supposed to be “i-log” the i is pronounced like how we say the letter e so technically, “ee-log” Loving the videos man so much great content

@getnaenaed8063

2 жыл бұрын

He's british, he's got an accent yeah?

@12stem7a-santosjaysoncolli6

2 жыл бұрын

@@getnaenaed8063 Yep. Even an American will say it the same way, that’s because of the English accent british or american, that’s why I just clarified it and I’m not really insulting him IF you think I am but if not, have a great day

@dbclass4075

Жыл бұрын

@@getnaenaed8063 Accent isn't the issue here. It's just knowing how to sound it. In English language, vowels have two sounds. Long sounds, where the vowels are pronounced as if it is a standalone letter (ey, ee, eye, oow, yu), and short sounds (ah, eh, i, oh, ugh). In Filipino language, vowels only have short sounds. With that in mind, Americans and English can pronounce Filipino words easily.

I think they should add one way streets. That way you can keep the flow going better.

i was really looking forward to this map ever since you reached more than 2 thousand points in your last episode's map (zurich)!! i enjoyed it thoroughly and i love this series :> much love from the philippines

Please never tire of this game and never stop making these videos. I love hearing your commentary!

Dont worry, we're not bored of this game either!

My boyfriend watches your channel all the time and I was won over to check you out myself! I found myself really enjoying your content and wishing he would watch you more so I could mooch off his screen until I remembered that I can watch you myself lol

Keep this series up! I love watching your problem solving process and your frustration at the RNG of the game

@Boypogikami132

Жыл бұрын

This RNG is accurate idk why

Thanks for all the great ideas. It's so simple but I never thought to pause and look around at what I could do better,.

this game brings me stress and is rarely satisfying yet i can’t stop playing

@skippityblippity8656

2 жыл бұрын

You might have an abusive relationship with a traffic simulator

The intro is the best considering I just applied for an engineering course in collage. You make me feel like I'm already an engineer.

Oh ho ho as someone who's an adhd gremlin, an engineer student, and who adores problem solving, THIS GAME AND CHANNEL ARE AMAZING

lost track of everything after 3 mins. Still watched til the end. This is gold.

it's actually pronounced like "ill log pasig" which means pasig river haha

@jobancheta19

2 жыл бұрын

He got Pasig right

@popojelly1895

Жыл бұрын

@@jobancheta19 how can you mispronounce pasig

@dragonforce815

5 күн бұрын

​@@popojelly1895maybe something like pa-sigh-g

You nailed the pronunciation on Pasig, ilog on the other hand, it could use some work

red & yellow: neat, organized rows of houses green: ... blue: _favelas_

Civil engineer plays engineering jobs, gets high scores, blows minds.. You'd think our education system wasn't such a waste but here we are!

3:10 - 'You want to keep all the colors separate, practice EXTREME segregation" This needs to be said in an American accent.

Imagine if this game allowed tunnels and bridges wherever you wanted, and not just over water or under mountains. I’d also love to see something added to a sequel like trains/stations

@Boypogikami132

Жыл бұрын

Have you heard of Mini Metro

3:47 was not a phrase I ever expected to hear on youtube, but it made my day to hear it.

I really appreciated this tutorial. Here's what I've learned: (1) Just because a house appears doesn't mean I absolutely have to incorporate it into the overall system (2) Motorways are OP. Always get them. (3) Segregation at all costs. An organized, neat, and tidy system is not worth it and does not ensure success.

Played this on a mates pc for the first time yesterday. I did sooo well thanks to these vids and to COLOUR SEGREGATION

Just wanted to put this out there; I'm in the middle of a bioengineering degree, last term I went through a fairly major depressive episode, and as a result I'm going to have to repeat it. Not exactly feeling the greatest about that. But as silly as it is, the "Hello fellow engineers" at the beginning of each of your videos makes me feel a little bit better. Thanks RCE.

@Nortarachanges

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck ^_^

@AHappyCub

2 жыл бұрын

Man, I feel you, my mental health has been down since the start of the year, so I had to restart some of my studies while seeing my peers graduating, especially from highschool

@featherofajay4667

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I really hope you‘ll both feel better soon.

I am so addicted to this serie, and I love it

This video alone has improved my game. Segregating, get all the motorways, ignore the traffic lights, its all working well so far. Until I get a red house in the middle of a bunch of yellow ones 😁. Thanks for the tips 👍

We will never be bored with your epic videos :D

Wanted to try this game so baaad! I also never get tired of you playing this. And also your pronounciation of the name of the river is not bad. Pasig is very well pronounced but ilog is pronounced e-log if this makes sense lol but overall not bad on pronouncing it! 😄

@Annikalovetokeepmesafe

Жыл бұрын

it's not available on PC T-T

Thanks for teaching me how to play the game. I was just making straight roads, use as less tiles and connect everything. 🙃

I'm just tuning in & I love your Lorax cut scene!!

I didn't know the place I live is in this game lol and actually the word "ilog" is pronounced e-log

@nextdoordreamer

2 жыл бұрын

No, that's not an accurate comparison of pronunciations because the "log" with short o, is different from the -log in "ilog". their short o is different from our o.

@moondust2365

2 жыл бұрын

@@nextdoordreamer I mean, yeah, but pronouncing it in an American accent (or even in a British one), "e-log" sounds right. It's not the "proper" pronunciation, but eh, good enough.

@nextdoordreamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@moondust2365 not good enough if you can hear and are aware of the obvious difference in vowel pronunciation. :) Respect other languages by not propagating the wrong pronunciation of non-English languages. :)

@moondust2365

2 жыл бұрын

@@nextdoordreamer I can definitely hear and are aware of the differences in pronunciation. I'm just not a fan of forcing the native pronunciation of a word from one language when the word is loaned onto a different language. The pronunciation in the other language should approximate the original, but it doesn't have to be exactly the same. Especially for languages where the original pronunciation would have slightly differed from place to place anyway. Also, I myself am a Filipino. And personally, I feel like inserting a word with a Tagalog pronunciation in an English sentence shouldn't be forced. Similarly, many English words are pronounced slightly differently when used in a Tagalog sentence than when used in an English sentence, and that's fine. That's just how languages work.

@nextdoordreamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@moondust2365 I appreciate varieties and differences in culture and the same goes for accents. By no means am I saying that people should always pronounce foreign words correctly, in fact, I was never a fan of accent shaming (where people make fun of non-native English speakers speaking English with foreign accents). I abhor it. What I was pointing out is the person misrepresented "ilog" as "e-log". There's a difference between 'accepting the pronunciation of a word with a foreign accent' vs 'TEACHING the WRONG pronunciation of a word'. In this case, OG misrepresented the correct pronunciation. Perhaps if he/she mentioned it being "kind of like" or "close to" the pronunciation they mentioned, there need not be the clarification that they are, in fact, not teaching the precise and accurate way to pronounce it, but is only presenting it as "similar to" the mentioned word. English language teachers give importance to ESL learners being able to pronounce English words accurately, why not attempt to at least teach and represent our language adequately if not accurately?

The funny part is, when it displays a plays like Manila, at the start, it’s completely different to the actual city

@dbclass4075

Жыл бұрын

It's Manila Bay, westernmost of the city, which isn't visible at the start due to being zoomed all the way in.

I really love your content, man. Keep up the great work!

Bob: Hey, Where do you live? Jeff: Its quite a messy neighbourhood Bob: how messy? Jeff: *Yes*

Wow Matt gets a pretty good score *looks in recommended* aliensrock video of 30,000+ points Wow makes Matt look like an architect.

I think it matters to have the two businesses that spawn with the same parking lot to get their cars from the correct entrance. Like with your yellow and dark blues at the top. It would be better if the yellows came around the left and the blue went in the right entrance.

@jarjab2games

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure. I've watched cars park on the wrong side of the lot, or even go across it to park. Idk what the ai does in those lots.

@716979827169

2 жыл бұрын

@@jarjab2games I agree, it does not matter at all

@ZaHandle

2 жыл бұрын

@@716979827169 just separate the entrance road that thing is a congestion bait

@716979827169

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZaHandle yes I agee, what I meant is that you can have one entry for each color, but the side where you plug them does not matter because the parking lot is shared

@jarjab2games

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZaHandle tbh if you're forced too, with the new buff to lights and the nerf to 3 way intersections, just a light, or a roundabout can handle 2 colors using one entrance most of the time. Maybe not if they're both big shops, but certainly if they're both small.

I found it, these were the first videos that got me into you channel but I couldn’t remember the name of the game. You play it so well I could never plan it that perfect.

every skill taught in school can be used in video games. mans came from building highways...to building the highway to my heart

Great to see we get the same results, your map looks like mine most of the time. It's always the squares that make me lose too.

At 3:47 if you had not mentioned it I would not have noticed it

As a Filipino, I would like to say, your pronunciation of Manila and Ilog made me very happy!

Yes! Idk about others, but I'm certainly not bored! I wish I could play, unfortunately, I can't at the moment, but it's a joy watching you play!

Maybe when the level reaches max size do a complete remap and delete the old infrastructure

Why doesn't the game allow for land-bridges? Like maybe a 3-length limit or something that enables short overpasses so you no longer have your roads go all the way out of the way, they can be more direct, like most city roads.

Brilliant loving the Mini Motorways series.

Not a civil engineer but I love this game and I’m excited to try these techniques ❤

I love how mini motorways actually call it *"Ilog Pasig"* instead of Pasig River 🥺

@dbclass4075

Жыл бұрын

It names all the bodies of water in the native language the city is in.

Within One Minute Gang!

@Chubnubs4ever

21 күн бұрын

2 years 💀

Saw the score on stream and wondered how youve done it... Very nice

I think the real purpose of a civil engineer is to take a project doomed to not actually alleviate the problem and also make it cost as much as possible while taking twice the estimated time, at least that seems to be the working theory in every city I've ever been to.

2:08. You nailed the Pasig. But Ilog (river) is pronounced as /ee-log/, /i/ as in pin, /o/ like row.

@transformerboy8898

2 жыл бұрын

You filipino too?

@ShiroCh_ID

2 жыл бұрын

so its pronounce like how indonesian pronounce that words

@stupidfanboyph

2 жыл бұрын

@@transformerboy8898 im a Filipino, yeah. 🙂

@dbclass4075

Жыл бұрын

@@ShiroCh_ID Vowels in Filipino language are short in sound (ah, eh, ee, oh, u).

I love how he naively considers 15 hours a lot for a game

@ClebyHerris

2 жыл бұрын

I played 30 hours last weekend of borderlands 3 and the same a few months ago with rdr2

I doubled my score by using ALL avalible road i have on blocking areas where i dont want stuff to spawn, then it was so much easier to avoid colors crossing each other

Please keep playing this game. Love your content!

DAMN that was a good run, crushed my highest score

Extreme segregation seems like a counter-intuitive solution to me. The optimal arrangement is plausibly one where each road is used evenly and maximally. Restricting any given road to a single color feels like it works against this goal (more likely to end up with roads under/over used), and two cars of different colors don't seem to behave any differently to two cars of the same color (?)

And this, ladies and gentlemen was how we inspired the great minds of the people who designed and birthed into existence the M25 London orbital motorway. This game seems like a lot of fun but also shows me I couldn't be an engineer. Working with established infrastructure seems like a real ball ache. I like the idea of working with a blank canvas but I love how the game forces you to work around previous work. Cool content dude, keep it up 😊

this was the best one out of your plays of this game so far ! 9 MOTORWAYS

This episode looks like a bunch of bone bloodlines and muscle tendons with some cells and stuff flowing throughout them

@CarolineLurks

2 жыл бұрын

And the Imax theatre is the powerhouse of the cel then? lol

Could I, per chance, intrest you in the modest proposition of playing a game called dark souls? For the singular reason of spiteing the architects of course. Also, the content is amazing and is one of the most enjoyable channels ive ever found.

@mistajongilbert

2 жыл бұрын

I second this request

Matt, I'm really glad I found your channel.

I've started using diamond shaped intersections instead of roundabouts to keep traffic flowing. They essentially work like a multi-directional rotary

@mina-kfpunemployedemployee6708

2 жыл бұрын

YO WHAT THAT IS SO COOL

@KevinKadow

2 жыл бұрын

The devs caught on to this loophole last week; with the latest update, even 3-way intersections induce a delay. Traffic lights plus dedicated right-turn-only bypasses could still work.

You're leaning hard on this idea that "extreme segregation" is always worth the cost. Have you tested this? I could imagine scenarios where direct routes, with roundabouts and byways, are more efficient, no?

not everything in philipines is pronouncing the letter i a and o

They have updated the game and now the traffic lights work better, very nice videos btw :D

Finally! Great score man!

I love this dude’s videos

Thank you ! Very useful 😊👍🏻

Traffic lights can be used for when two colours meet, also if there’s not enough room for a roundabout.

I’ve noticed if you take the driveways and have them going into the road on an angle it’s more effective then straight into it

BRO IV BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR 7 DAYS

13:55 General Kenobi you are a bold one!

Just searched what an RCE actually does... You should be amazing at this game!! HA HA!! 😂 Loving the strategy though thanks!! Please do more of these videos!!

I love the little meme clips, I love it so much