I'm curious to see if Fire helicopter can create a lake. You create a hole, put some trees and lit it on fire and see if it fills up.

You can increase the number of helicopters per station by raising the budget slider. Same for any other public service.

I'm not sure that Tiny Weenie Street really counts as an "entire city", since it doesn't have to handle its own utilities or emergency services (though it DOES imply that it would work). I'd honestly love a mini-series where you tried to make the smallest, most compact city possible, *including* stuff like power generation, water treatment, and waste disposal, without any mods that would allow you to futz around with demand.

the broken terrain tool is from the terrain tool expanded mod (not sure what the actual name is anymore) but that one had been confirmed to be broken and cause that problem, not sure if they fixed it already in the meantime though

If water in this game works like light, build the unilluminable room with a single source of water!

That transition from the game to your screen was superb.

The myth at 12:25 Skyscrapers CAN block asteroids. But not asteroids you spawned in yourself. Natural asteroids will collide with the first thing that touches it while player spawn ones will go through everything to land on its target. I think this one needs a redo.

“That’s quite a hole” “We’ve eaten a chunk of that mountain out” RCE getting kinky with terraforming

Oh, man, your editor's reaction to you counting the rocks you built was absolutely hilarious 😂

Just letting you know that in the states you usually pay for gas AKA petrol at the pump with your card. normally they still have a building there for the employees that doubles as a shop, but sometimes they don't even have that. just a little building or two(depending on the size of the petrol station) that can barely fit a chair for the person keeping an eye on the place is a viable design for places that only allow card(such as Costco's gas stations where the main building it often way across the big parking lot if you wanna look up pictures of an example)

Did you know you could maximise the amount of helicopters or other service vehicles by going to the economy tab and rising the budget for the service?

20:50 It's a swarm of mosquitoes! No, it's a swarm of birds! No, it's actually a swarm of helicopters...

17:30 no matter how big the dog is, they always want to be on your lap

I dont play this game, but this is interesting to watch to see how deep and detailed the developers went when designing features.

Bridge reviews are a staple to every RCE video, I'd love to see life advice from RCE in most episodes now too 🤣

It would be interesting to see how much the cleaning up after the meteor strikes/sinkholes costs vs. just leveling the terrain directly. I don't think patience is the limiting factor in level terrain with meteor strikes. It leaves a choppy mess that has to be smoothed. Sure, you could flatten the taller bits with more meteors but then you have troughs that need filled. So, it'd be interesting to see an actual side-by-side comparison between costs. If you're speed-running Cities: Skylines it might be worth it, but normally I think the actual cost to the "free" terrain shaping would be not worth the major hassle.

Today we learned that lighting rods doesn't word for meteors as effectively as they do on lightnings

You have a talent for asking the big questions that I didn't know I needed the answers for.

Another reason Atlantis may be flooding is because the poop water is constantly flowing in but their may not be enough pumps in the lake to suck up the water, meaning their is more input than outflow causing the water to over-top the dam.

There’s a mod I think that allows you to alter the severity to make it 0-500. Can’t remember what it’s called though

Next myth: can a tsunami stop another tsunami ?

2:17 You can use prop anarchy to make them bigger using '' (they are to the left from the bottom right '\') *and you need to do this in 'move it'

Hey, if you raise fire department budget it will allow more helicopters per building !

there is a mod out there that lets you increase the severity of natural disasters past 10, might help with landscaping (also makes the disasters more fun)

The gas station looks like it's based off of an American gas station. Here in America, most gas stations have you pay for fuel at the pump, and the building part is just where you go to get snacks and stuff. Keep in mind, this isn't true for all stations. In some states, most notabley Oregon, you can't legally pump your own gas, so you pay at the building and they come out and pump the gas for you. Theoretically you don't need to have a building in most states, just the station, but I haven't seen one like that yet.

An interesting water physics test in City skylines would be to try and create a Penrose Unilluminable Room. Stephen Mold has a good explanation of how it works on his channel.

Paddy came at the tsunami myth to say one myth he knows so you bust it, but then he decided to tell RCE later

Love this. Hey. Next time can you do chapter / bookmarks for each of your myths? I'm having to watch this in small bits and it would be helpful

Paddy is the best most goodest engineer ever!

I love the dedication of the fire helicopters. The entire ocean has welled up into a wave which is the size of a mountain, barrelling toward them across the entire seaward rim of the horizon, about to dump unfathomable amounts of water across everything which they have ever seen, drowning their friends and family, and yet they nonetheless insist on splashing little buckets of water onto the very-obviously temporary problem of the forest fires. Caps off to them.

You should see if you can test the myth that you can manage the entire sewage of a city by strategically setting forest industries on fire and having helicopters use up the sewage.

"that's quite a hole that is" best line!

You sir, have gotten yourself another subscriber. Bravo, your videos are a joy to watch

If you gave the Fire department (and helicopters) the maximum budget you would have 150% more helicopters. You could reload this map, remove the river, let it run, let the fist tsunami pass by, then generate a new one. Then put a lot MORE fire helicopter buildings, but keep them as far from the ocean, and the trees as close to it, reducing flight time.

love these titles and thumbnails, and yes I'd buy one of those rock towers at the beginning with some mature trees on it for 100 quid for sure!

Myth to try: Can you do an upside down road in Cities Skylines?? And having cars looping around? And for course.. can be in the strongest shape ever :)

It is common practice for me on my playthroughs, to spend way too many hours building a river\waterfall apids ature reserve ational park\thing somewhere on the map, going to somewhere else on the map; and, then using "hidden" city drains and water towers to make water flow down it (figured I'd be cheating by adding an actual water source). Also, the tornado blunder was the funniest thing I've seen today.

Me @ 14:32 : suspicions of Real Civil Engineer recreating a futuristic simulation of Kung Fu Hustle begins to *intensify.*

I want more life advice from Rce

RCE could bust my myth any day of the week 🤤

Here's the question: since rocks are hard for the water and they aren't affected by gravity, can you build a bridge-canal made of rocks redirecting the water on it? Like the bridge of water with bridges but this time with rocks. I would say that it should be possible

Okay, I'm intriged! Instead of myths, I need an "RCE makes a fully functional city in the smallest footprint" challege video immediately! lol!! Do it like The Wedge and The Line (tiered upwards? with quay walls?) Mini-wedge? Mini-line? Teeny-weenie-topia? Micro-peenie-topia?

The little spikes that there are on the little wall that you've made it's because you use the flatten tool and not the elevate tool

Matt the Engineer. I have a suggestion fo you. I want to see you play No Man's Sky. You can Engineer your ship and colony. A lot of bridge rewievs. And you can kill the stupid robotic architects. You can Engineer your freighter and your way to the white black hole. See you next Time Engineer!

RCE is about to find out that a Labradors self image will be that of how big they were as a puppy that fitted in a lap just fine regardless of how old and big they are.

@8:41 - "We have eaten a chunk of that mountain out." - Or as it's known around my house - Saturday night.

Yeah that terrain thing is an issue that I have too and I have no mods to mess my game up.

You could do the helicopter tsunami myth again, but instead of filling the water ponds with earth, anarchy some super pumps in them.

you can get a whole lot more helis by increasing your fire dept budget

The 1x1 city reminds me of our place in Vancouver

A fire department can’t catch on fire.

"I don't think power plants are meant to be submerged" fukushima moment

I can't believe I needed an engineer to demonstrate to me that you can't stop a tsunami by having helicopters lift out all the water.

Running awa from a meteor? x) That's like running away from a nuke. (which is surprisingly viable when you start far enough away from the actual explosion)

13:29 architecture at it's finest

• Change fish type by manipulating water and terrain. • Thunderstorms increases wind turbine production. Lightning looks cool at night. • Emergency shelters survive direct hit from natural disasters (earthquake, meteor, sinkhole, etc.)

I watched this last night and I guess I was too tired. I saw the rock dam. So, rewatching this morning

I love your channel. These videos are so weirdly interesting to me.

Try the pumping trucks to remove the tsunami

1:21 This part represents the eventual inevitable trend toward chaos and destruction.

Love the series

Awesome video!

Myth: citizens get killed if shelter is destroyed by disaster. Shelter should protect citizens, but what happens to them if it gets by chance wiped out by disaster?

19:18 nice choice of keyboard, i got the same one lol

It's incredible that also the fires weren't estinguished by the helicopters.

I like that "Busted" is in the style of the strongest shape

17:54 yeah, no kidding, as long as their backup generators aren't on the basement, everything's gonna be fine

Doubtful you'll see this, but you may be excited to know they recently added hard hats to the hats in Super Auto Pets 😀

6:20 fun fact: this happend irl once

At 7:35 I got an ad right after you said "so that was a severity rating of...". And the ad started with a big T for teen rating symbol and I had a good chuckle. 7:33 for the start of what he said

we have some gas stations here in wisconsin that dont have a shop attached. you just pay with a card at the pump before you start fueling

id say probably wait for the tsunami on the tsunami map to finish its thing save it at a calm point so the map can be built up before you send a tsunami at it we already know all that is required to start it again is to raise the terrain on the tsunami side i feel that how the map is currently set is a bit of a disaster in itself because you have already set a limit to what you can availably do before it hits i think the larger scale myths could benefit from an initially calm tsunami map removing the water sources currently pressent should also help

You need control group. And i would assume You can optimaze a lot on strategy.

There are raise/lower elevation, pick elevation, ramp and.. SMOOTH.. The spikes happen if you don't smooth huge elevation chance, which in turn means you needs a few "pixels" of width for narrow stuff. Easiest way to get minimum width is to first make a wide damn, put the flood walls on top, then flatten everything around the flood walls back to the ground level. The flood walls will keep their height and they are the minimum width that the game engine can do. Then pick the SMOOTH terrain tool and apply on top of the flood walls. Even a bit of smoothing will get rid of all artifacts. Then remove the flood walls. You also get straightest lines and smoothest curves this way. The best part is that you can now also put a road on top of it, since the flood walls are exactly the minimum size feature that the terrain can really support. The spikes are an artifact that is caused by extrapolation, if you look closely you can see the mathematical curve shoot up, overshoot and come back down. We need more points for that curve so that it does not overshoot but starts to behave more like an interpolated curve. Smoothing does just that, it lower the amplitude of the changes and for that, it has to do the right calculation that also fixes the spikes.. The problem usually is that to get a good effect, the brush touches the peaks, and we want to reserve just enough peak data to retain the terrain shape we wanted. Flood walls locks those values. Of course, this might remove some fun as the shapes after those steps does look at least somewhat realistic...

I'm very impressed that computer didn't crash by the end of this video

There’s a mod called “Customize It” it allows people to manage things like how many vehicles a building dispatches. (It does other things too, but that’s just one example)

I wanna hear rce play the timberborners opening song on that drum set of his

6:40 a natural formation, as Cortana would say

The skyscraper shield thing reminds me of Night City from cyberpunk

Myth: flinging an asteroid at architects-island will feel awesome

you know how the train tracks are always set one way i wonder if water flows over the train track if the train tracks have hills on both side

13:53 you just built the crazy closed city from Stray. lol

8:19 country roads is playing inside my head

You can use the building collapse disaster to delete full landfills and things instead of waiting to empty them

I was so confused when I saw this

In malaysia, there are literal condo towers stacked exactly like that at 13:50 and that’s literally the view from the bottom.. it’s insane how the government allows developers to build dystopian towns and neighbourhoods all over the country..

Here's hoping to make it in for the second round, attempting to stop a tsunami through repeated meteor strikes that raise the walls of the craters to a sufficient height!

Now I have to ask will putting a line of nuclear power plants against a tsunami will they all have a meltdown or block the water?

No kidding, the wow at 6:40 genuinely jumpscared the shit out of me for no reason

Can a bunch of rocks stop that tsunami? With all the "how to get more helicopters in the air" advice, and perhaps more careful removal of the side river water, can you retry the fire copter idea?

for leveling certain ground areas use the airport zoning then delete it

Myth: you can annoy people by 100000 fire helicopters flying low on the city. I haven't even played city skylines before. So I don't know if it works...😅

Bail the tsunami with helibuckets - that's the scale of engineering genius! itdidn'twork, but i like your thinking.

The nuclear power plant would probably be fine being submerged actually, its the force of the water that would destroy it but for all intensive purposes a nuclear power plant is just a giant steam engine where the nuclear material acts as an eternal flame.

22 x100 is 2200. Genious Matt lol

Ohh bit of a real life myth from here: We once had an underpass/tunnel flood in the neighbouring town, and someone did indeed drive down there. Their engine's crankshaft blew a hole through the engine block as the cylinders got hydrolocked. So if you see a flooded tunnel, maybe don't risk it 😄

I get the same terrain issue with the Windows Store version.

potential myth: you cannot steal one's doggo, like we had seen the matt and paddy getting into some police case, i bet dogs cannot change owners

I’m not convinced that you confirmed that helicopters use water. There were problems with that test.

9:40 You might want to check what's under that lake. Look in the top left of what's under water. Try and uncover what that is.