Change commercial to EU commercial for fewer gas stations. You could also put a station next to the depot and use the depot's pass through tracks to get to the pedestrian city

Everyone knew that Matt would use the well known most efficient layout, not one of these stupid architect grids.

Train facts: Engineers try to keep the slope under 1%, but anything under 2.2% slope is generally accepted. Anything more than that and it's no longer economically viable for the train line. Greater slopes have been made, upwards of 25%, but those are designed to use the train momentum to continue up and over the hill (collecting momentum down one side of the hill and keep going up the other). Trains can climb, it just costs a lot in fuel and efficiency.

There is actually "Anarchy" built in. 1. In Steam, right click on Cities Skylines 2 > General > Launch Options > put there "-developerMode" (without the " ") 2. Start game and load your city 3. Press TAB (Big menu with lots of options will show up) 4. Go to Simulation (for me it is 3rd row) > Check "Bypass validation results" (5th from top) 5. Now you can place any object anywhere (It will still show "under water, slope to steep,..." but you can now place it) 6. If you want to turn it off, uncheck the box 7. Enjoy (This doesn't affect any saves so you can turn it off and your saves will be fine) Hope this helps and great video :)

As someone who works on the railroad, this pains me

the first city skylines was originally going to make the city planning more true to life, but decided against it because real cities are filled with cars, and playing games with cars is a lot more fun when you don’t have to worry about parking. they didn’t want every city to look like houston. half that place is straods and parking lots.

We should ban architects from even being close to Engitopia 2 by raiding nearby towns and sending their architects to architect island 2.

As a farmer, I thank RCE for giving me my land back without me giving it away for cash :D

Matt : *builds a nice fancy realistic road connecting a bridge * Also Matt : *builds an absolutely crazy curve at the end of the bridge *

Might need to change your zone rules to reflect the car ban

- Matt sees retaining wall *Happy engineer noises*

That bit about slope steepness is interesting. I'm in British Columbia, Canada, and about four years ago my specific municipality put in sidewalks on one side of a street that's on my walk to work. The sidewalk installation resulted in the front yards of most of the houses on the block having a very steep slope (looks like almost 1:1, or 45 degrees) in the metre or so closest to the sidewalk, and the affected homeowners were understandably unhappy.

Not just bikes would be moderately proud of you.

Top tip, I believe you can use right mouse with the tree brush selected to remove trees easier

I tried building a town on an island only accessible by ship. There were ships coming and dropping off thousands of travelers, but the town wouldn't grow.

marry bridgemas will be my new way to greet people at x-mas

6:30 reminds me of how they have their big bridges built around cities in Poland. The raised land also has the benefit that it works as a preventative measure against flooding if the river/canal water-level goes up significantly. Of course it is expanded along the river/canal. My grandparents lived next to a bridge like that with huge dikes next to the river. The bridge must have been more than 30 meters above the regular water-level. When I visited for summer holiday in 1996 even dikes that high couldn't handle the water during the flooding disaster. To prevent the thousands of years old city center from being destroyed the council blew up a part of the dikes. Communication networks were very poor in Poland in those days so nobody around knew they had done that. My grandfather had to sprint home being chased by the water. All they managed to get up to the 5 story-building's attic was their television and photo-albums. The widespread destruction from that disaster was immense.

The bug with not enough customers in my opinion is the commercial demand being basically perma-high despite there being no customers, it's almost like the demand for commercial is coming from a different metric than the volume of available customers. Part of it as well is this whole "demand by proximity" thing, in a city with less than 10,000 people theres a very high chance you can get from your home to any other place in the city in less than 10 minutes by car, and in a city that small most people drive, so demand by proximity simultaneously makes no sense and makes sense. Anyways, yes, customer availability is where that whole "not enough customers" issue comes from, exacerbated by the fact that business will open anywhere you paint blue regardless of how much sense it makes.

Aren't you going to need a cargo line so that the shops actually have something to sell when you eventually convince people to move in?

In the US: "[Train track] Grades are generally 1 percent or less, and grades steeper than about 2.2 percent are rare. The steepest grade on a major railroad's main track was historically said to be on the Pennsylvania Railroad north of Madison, Indiana, rising 413 feet over a distance of 7012 feet - a 5.89-percent grade."

Many city centers here in The Netherlands are car-free. You might see a bus or taxi. Cars can't pass though because of obstacles. There are tons of funny videos of drivers not paying attention and crashing into those obstacles only busses can pass 😆

Just when I thought Matt had enough of the strongest shape, I was mistaken yet again

The only Civil Engineer giving us great amazing content

The train station is enormous compared to most here in The Netherlands!

The “houses round the outside” slim shady edit had me in shook 😂 props to your editor

anyone else notice the shaft of the pedestrian area is named Wood Rd?

I love the actual engineer facts Matt shares! Like the information on the farmers and their 1/8 slope! That's actually really cool! 7:53

this is truly one of the engineering moments of history

XD 15:43 that is the best tram stations I’d walk the extra mile just to go to those stations

Did you know that you can replace a zone to a different zone just by clicking over them with the zone that you would like to replace them with?

I had to check, height gradients of 2.2% is very rare in railways. With the steepest being 5.89 on the Pennsylvania Railroad north of Madison, Indiana. So there you go.

that was an artfully smoothed slope, done with all the skill and profession of a true architect, your true calling is showing

IM HERE FOR PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY CONTENT !! WE NEED IT 😩😩😩

CS1 stopped running for me a couple of weeks ago. I have no plans to get CS2 until CS1 is working for me again, so it's good to see these videos. I'll remember that trick for smooth slopes; I wish I had known that one eight years ago when I first started playing CS1.

You could also just connect your pedestrian area to the rest of Engitopia with your trams.

You can already use the same feature like the anarchy mod with the developer tools and the setting "bypass validation results" under the simulation tab

I cannot stop laughing every time I watch a new strongest shape city being built. If only the real world built a strongest shape city 😂👍

If I'm not mistaken, civilian used trains typically go no steeper than 2% grade, although industrial can go up 10% (very scuffed)

Rce! Hooray!

Matt: I’ve still got a million left. Crumhorn: Pathetic. (Danger Mouse reference)

"One on the shaft... one on each nut..." Dying LOL

Should have left the rails as dual way on both sides so trains can return to its original side. Love these engineering facts and i look forward to them

This city reminds me of Kansas City, Kansas! Exactly you have made KC, Kansas this pleases me.

I can't quite place my finger on it, but there's something really familiar about that canal system. I think I saw something similar before, but I can't remember where. Bangkok, maybe?

When I changed some of the highways around my town of 180.000 a few minutes later there were cars crashing all over the place lol

I’m imagining someone giving directions in Engitopia 2 😂 “So you cross the Triple Threat and head towards British Ville…” 😆

UK: We try to give the land back to the original owner. (Cheaper) (less intrusive) US: So anyway we've demolished this family home to put in a highway. (Expensive) (there was already 34 alternative routes)

You should add metro system to the whole of Engitopia. And make trains to Architect Island run like once per hour

Reminds me a little bit of Discovery Bay in Hong Kong. I believe they don't allow personal cars and only golf carts for personal use in the area. They have buses though. I must say it did make the neighbourhood very serene and nice

Love this series

Omg i just LOVE Engitopia. I would like to live in it because a mighty engineer engineered it. You are a great engineer. You also took my on the wonderful way of engineering not of bloody arhitecture way... I learnt a lot of things from you. As a question, can you make an fly or dye video?

Matt making tram lines left hand driven is the most British thing I've seen

in my country we got farmers to use 1/2 (for grassland mainly, but also for farming) since most of the country is made of mountains, there is no other possibility 😅

I really like the way tram lines can be added to the roads. In the earlier CS1 videos on this channel, it looked like Matt could change road types, specifically between one-way and two-way, just by building the new road over the existing road... but I was never able to do this in CS1 when it was running for me. Is this a mod, or am I missing something else? Not that there's any real urgency to this question right now, since I can't run the game even though nothing has changed except the last CS1 update.

I must say I'm surprised that the game doesn't have the strongest shape as a default for roads (makes more sense than roundabouts...) as well as a brush for groundwork. I'm convinced that the way to engineer the ultimate city in this game, the strongest shape needs to be used in every situation possible. I guess it's being humble that keeps you from using it for everything, because using it all over the place would probably make a lot of people feel stupid for not using it as much (or maybe at all). In reality, they should just go "Ah!" to themselves, start using it and accept the hint and pretend that they always knew. 👀

Every video he does to do the best shape in there lol

I like that he has this as a separate town on the same map. I was going to suggest doing a realistic city whereby each town pops up on different areas on the map and eventually connect to make a single city filled with different neighborhoods/burrows (Burroughs).

I love all your videos!

You should consider the Create mod for Minecraft. Might not sound interesting at first, but I promise there's more engineering in it than you'd expect.

The terrain ramp thing just blew my mind...I didnt play the first game that much, so you imagine how frustrating it was when I made mistakes making terrian changes and not knowing about right click 😅

You're so close to 2 million subs. Good job.

You should try to do a fully self sufficient city in skylines

Thanks Matt for showing us how to build the PERFECT and TOTALLY ideal city!

12:08 Did he really missed a shaving his balls joke? I cannot believe that

I love how you spent all that time building an Earthwork on one side of the bridge and then you have a literal nightmare on the other side. Very fitting.

There's a tree brush tool under landscapes, to delete large amounts of trees.

sir you got me hooked into city skylines 2

Awesome video man!

This man has some strange interests..... and I love it!

Dude the music in your videos is slamming 9:47 also never understood where to connect the railyard either

Nice vid i love these city skilines chanlenges👷🏻‍♂️👷🏻‍♂️

14:23 GUESS WHO'S BACK? BACK AGAIN... I saw what you did there, Matt. Nod to you from someone who grew up with that 😂.

Just... place a train staion next to the rail depot... its already connected to the city.

Matt, on the railroad a 1% grade is considered steep. Many railways go steeper, but it’s difficult for trains to make it up the slope.

I will support RCE all my lifetime Your videos are one of the best

Seeing the shot at 12:24, I can't help thinking of GrayStillPlays. "Now KZfaq, this isn't a phallus; this is, a crown. The rounded shapes are the part that go on your head like a hat, and this tall center part is where the family crest goes." 😏

You can make a tree brush in CS2 and if I'm not mistaken you should be able to right click to remove the trees. A lot faster then deleting them by hand. Also, that is a lot of gas stations next to each other!

Game: makes shortest bridge in the world for no reason. Same game: adds beautiful realistic retaining wall

Love you RCE

This looks like something the UAE or Saudi Arabia would build and I love it xD

As a pedestrian..... It's going to take so long to get around in a pedestrian town.

The Sheffield Supertram has a section with a 10% gradient...... 2 other areas in England have inclines of between 5 & 6%, and there's another with a 7.1%.....

LESSSSSSSSS GOOOOO. As a Social Demokrat my self... DIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE!!!

No cars? Finally a roundabout that won’t be jam packed with unmoving traffic

Built a big grid pedestrian only. Worked well except couldn’t completely get private cars from entering the streets.

Love your vids

So wait, if Matt isn't a Civil Engineer now, then did he just admit that he joined the enemy forces and turn into an architect?

At 10:35 I cried cuz of that stone thing. It was so good.

Spending 5 minutes on a realistic Earth-works slop on one side of the bridge and then just plopping in a floating 90 degree slide for the otherside LOL

The only man, who makes me happy. Thank you Real Civil Engineer! You’re the best of the bests! Love you from Russia!)

12:11 would have been a perfect Segway for manscaped.. !

"You can build in the middle of nowhere. This isn't going to be connected to Engitopia." *immediately connects a bridge to Engitopia*

Doubt that 1/8 is the maximum you can do for farming. Vineyards can be way steeper

You can use the tree brush in landscaping and deselect the rectangular shape, so you can remove all the tree at once.

I love that the street is called Wood St. 😂

I feel like there ought to be a foot bridge from the main city to the footpath-only city, just to guarantee people can get there and to keep an easy flow of people back and forth.

You can use the tree brush tool and right click to delete the trees en mass.

you can run the trian form the rail yard. you can also set a district on the ped area, and say no motor vehicles i think that might help the petrol stations.

Gotta love learning civil engineering with RCE. Someone make him my teacher

8:49 There's an r missing in "Froggy street". And I must say, is _very_ froggy.