There are twi things that are guaranteed to happen: The sun rising every morning and RCE finding a way to create the strongest shape in the world in EVERY game he plays.

6:24 I think that circle (the most common one) is residential area, triangle is shopping area and rare squares are industrial zones. Crosses are major hospitals, diamonds jewelry stores as you told, pentagons might be government buildings and rhombus are major rail stations. Rare rugby balls are stadiums. I have no idea for other shapes tho Edit: official trailer shows that squares are actually offices

It is better to have trains in both directions on a circle line. If all trains run in the same direction and a unique shape passangers spawns after the specific sation this pasanger has to travel the whole loop and therefor blocks a space in a train for a whole tour

I'm pretty sure the insane top scores are the result of extreme micro managing. I've tried it myself a few times and it really improved my scores, but completely ruined the flow of the game, and made me feel that I was cheating. The idea is, that you always keep a spare locomotive in stock, run the game for 5 seconds, pause, place the spare loco so that it arrives at whatever station is the most crowded, wait for it to pick up pax and unload them, then remove the loco, pause, check the map and find the new top-crowded station, place loco there and repeat over and over. Of course, you also build lines the normal way, but the main key is that spare loco and constant pausing. After doing this for a few games, I decided that it completely removed the fun and created some personal high scores that I'd never be able to beat later, unless playing the same way, much like the unbeatable, still standing world records in athletics set in the 1980s and 1990s set with heavy use of doping, so I decided to stop playing that way.

Loop lines should probably have at least have 2 trains on them, both facing opposite ways. It'd be weird to only be able to go one way around a loop.

I love the level of detail in the game, where the lines are colored in the same order as they are irl in Barcelona.

Highlight of my day. RCE being happy he inadvertently made a knob

Never played this game but it would probably be smart to rethink the specialty districts. All of those unique districts put a strain on your system. Unidirectional lines mean that any passenger that enters after the district has to sit in the train for an entire round and having those districts only reachable through a single line puts strain on that line. Basically you'd either want to connect all the neighboring lines to those districts or create a shuttle line with the sole purpose of increasing connectivity between distant lines and those specialty districts.

You want those special stations to become the crosspoints of two lines, because if one line has special shapes, they wouldn’t have to transfer them to another line that way

6:40 yellow: strongest shape green: dog purple: mountain range red: a gun from splitgate

the osaka map is nice because of the bullet train. creates a different dynamic that other maps don't have

Heyyy advice for this game: It's okay to have 2 or 3 circles in a row. There is only one or very few squares, but lots of square passengers. That needs to be your interchange and all of your lines should be connected to it. Circles lines are not that good, so don't sacrifice tunnels just to make it a circle

Near the end, you didn't need to connect every station to the line like the circle and triangles. You can skip them since they already have a line through them.

Wow, after so long. I still remember that my first video that I watched on your channel was Mini Motorways, and have followed every night at 9:45 since then. Love the content, just keep it going❤️

The unique shapes require two strategies. First, they should become transit centers, fed by three or more lines. This way, passengers do not have to transfer, which means your stations do not trigger the timer as often. Second, create a small circle line without any duplication which includes as many unique stations as possible, and which crosses as many other lines. Passengers will transfer, but this short speedy circle will clear more passengers.

"I'm quite a fan of going all out on lines" Finally I know how this guy keeps motivation for videos

idk if this happens in every city with a metro system, but being from Barcelona i love the fact the color of the lines follow the same order of the lines in the real life metro in here :D

I think that it’s better to have trains going in opposite directions on a circle line because then, passengers can choose which route to take and can avoid going all the way around the line to go one stop backwards

Challenge for RCE: No circle lines, no straight lines ... only knob shaped lines (once you get to around 5-6 stations ie enough to create a knob line)

Challenge idea : No consecutives symbols. So no "Circle-Circle" or "Triangle-Triangle" back to back

What i like to do when i play mini metro is to make some lines radiating out from the square, it being the main hub of the system, and have outer ring lines providing connectivity so passengers don't have to go all the way into the city center (the square) to change trains

Barcelona *REALLY* needs a refreshement of its metro system!!

Not surprised the final level is Auckland... Having lived there, all the harbours and estuaries must make that city a right pain to rail in a game like this.

What I learned after living in Barcelona for 3 months now: they say Barna as a short form instead of Barça. Don't know why though (someone once told me that it might be because of the football club...?). That aside I really love the levels of cities that I actually know the metro lines of, it's kinda fun because it's always different. :D

Great video! It’s nice to see you playing mini metro again. As I was watching the video I thought of a few ideas that you could try. Keeping in mind that I’ve never actually played this game I came up with these ideas just from what I’ve learned about the game watching you play. 1) Maybe you could try making as many intersections as you can. That way the game can come up with the best route on its own? 2) What if you tried making a grid of sorts? Grids seem to work in city skylines so maybe it will work for mini metro? 3) Maybe you could prioritize making sure you have no repeating shapes, even if it forces you to take a longer route? 4) This one could also work with any other strategies, and I think I’ve occasionally seen you do this in other mini metro videos. But what if you periodically wipe the map so that you can basically remap the lines once it gets too hectic?

Very happy to see this series again!!!! Your mini metro and mini motorway series got me through covid!

I've been waiting for this! I've been getting back into mini motorways again lately, I'd love to see you try out the challenges again or something! Also not sure if you've ever played Wellington but that could be fun too

Good sir, afaik, you can also pick up any train at any time and put then in any line over any station in any direction, only thing is it needs to stop at a station before repositioning.

10:37 the entire left side is just circles. RCE, I think the circles are the architect firms, since they seem to always be a pain in the arse Also at 12:41 I heard "we sold to Craigslist" and for a moment I thought you had sold the passengers on Craigslist...

hit that thumbnail like the target it is

I’m glad there’s a new video on this game! :)

This is amazing, never seen anything like it!

The feeling of a two-carriage train pulling up to a station with a timer is so satisfying :-)

13:50 RCE: Stadium Me: Lemon Store!!

having just gotten back from barcelona, looks like camp nou is in on the blue line which may be related to the intense crowding on that line 🤔 and red and purple both go to big tourist areas. but this was super fun and makes me want to play this game again :)

Wouldn't be a RCE Vid without a knob

Probably they're industrial, commercial and residential. Although you'd be going to any random person's house and going to work wherever you like. The rest I assumed were tourist attractions but hospital and high end shopping works.

Interesting that you didn't draw any line that crosses both rivers (IRL the red line, L1 and the orange one, L9, do that) Also, I was thinking about which station represents what: the cross one could be Hospital Clínic (which is nowhere as crowded as in here), the star one is probably Plaça Catalunya (really crowded one) and the circle one that almost gets you in the end (with the yellow and purple lines) could be Sants, the main train station of the city. Anyway, pretty cool to finally see BCN in Mini Metro! Greetings from Barcelona!

I Only Just Saw Your Mini Metro Series. And Now Coincidently... You Have Another Mini Metro Video

I love mini motorway videos please keep making them!

i love your videos.. honestly, after work ill watch new one before passing out and i let your videos play on auto play. you help me sleep lol

Mqn, I was just thinking today it's been a while since you uploaded a mini motorways video, this is just as good!

I think a general idea is to locate which shapes are the rarest, and make every line pass through that rare shape, start with many small loops in multiple directions, with the rare shape as the center an expand from there. Once the rare shape has a twin, then the lines closest to it will reroute to the new rare duplicate. I think that will generally be a good strategy. Anyways, I miss Timberborners, when we getting back to Shameville AKA Happyville

Love this game, been playing periodically for years, i allways come back to this game

how can a simple game like this feel like so mutch carnage

cant wait for the singapore one would like to see how rce butchers the train system of my country

“Did that spawn on my shaft!?“ lmao

I found circle lines are significantly powerful with the assistance of the bullet train in the Osaka map. Maybe you can try that next time.

I think you should delete all lines after every week, and make new routes. That way you can observe better and engineer better. And making circles are compulsory in this game, as they rotate all the items. Lines are full after 5th week. So, after that you can add more carriages to locomotives.

6:20 THE YELLOW NOB HAS ARIVED!

I don’t know if you could do this. Do something like the one line challenge but use all the lines overlapping each other. And then set the trains and intervals all around the line and just start adding extra carriages.

So... just a nitpick: "Barça" is not the short name of the city, just the football club. For the city it's "Barna".

I went from watching a man talk about radioactive products to a man being chased by police to a man drawing phallic objects in a video game. KZfaq is a wonderful place

I’ve been waiting for this for ages

I don't know whether it's just due to British summer time, but I miss your 5pm uploads. Now rather than watching during my last 1/2 hour at work, I have to watch in installments every time I go to the loo.

It's best to not use circles as your line connections; very few passengers want to go to a circle and those that do will find one on their main route. At 4:20 when you add the green line to cross the red on a circle thats bad; passengers will get off at the circle and wait for the different line just because their destination shape is closer. Best to let them only get off where they want to be

I've missed mini metro videos. And mini motorways.

I love watching this fella while eating, anyone else?

There are alternative maps for London, Paris and NYC in this game. Just click on the upper right corner of the respective levels.

"Is it better to have circle lines all going the same direction?" That's always my question. I usually have one going each direction, if I can. I don't think it makes much of a difference for the simple stops, the squares, circles, and triangles - but when you start getting the rarer shapes, the diamonds, crosses... I *_feel_* like it's helped. But I haven't done any hard maths on it, though.

6:24 the green line looks like a dog's head, the yellow thing (the balls i guess) being the dogs's ear!

I am now addicted to this game thanks to this channel! 😂

Ooo, make a flower. Like one main loop with carriages, and loops off that loop connecting the outer stops to the main loop.

You have inspired me to become an Engineer - cheers for being a being a legend 🫡

I wish you all a great day!

I just imagine baby jesus playin with his trains and humans in trains just getting picked up to another place

When making circle lines, try to keep each line as short as possible. So, grab as many lines as you can, as fast as you can, and try to keep them all the same length.

5:37 local bridge boy finds Square interesting

Amazing vid

Not official but my guess, O = residential stop, square = commercial, triangle = industrial, cross hosptial, other shapes various other unique stops like airports, train stations, event centers

it's also better than old-school CBD centric design

I love your videos, man! You never fail to make me laugh some way, ya big goofball. I always thought, and I know you won't because it's not really your type of content, that it would be hilarious to watch you attempt to play ARK: Survival Evolved.

Btw, Barça is the short version for the football team, the short for the city is Barna.

I don't know if anybody noticed, but the line colour matches the one in real life, I mean, the colours you received were red, purple, green, yellow and blue. In Barcelona, the Line 1 is red, 2 is purple, 3 green, 4 yellow and 5 blue and that is a wonderful detail😍😍😍😍

The shape of the orange line 😆

Nice

0:06 oh my Matt, but we only barely know eachother :o

I've always thought of circles as residential. Squares are business districts. Triangles are shopping areas.

We want more infraspace like so he can see

10:46 I was screaming "just extend the yellow line to include the triangle"

Yay, I've been waiting for this

RCE's acting was so good when he pretended to be surprised about making the knob

I'm truly surprised that you didn't notice drawing the strongest shape at 15:10

good as always

Game: exists RCE: makes a strongest shape

I missed this game!

RCE: let's add another line over here My mum: is he taking drugs or something? Me: MUM NO HES MAKING TRAIN LINES

So arcade super casual games have a meta, amazinf

Try playing Space engineers!

Round and Round and Round we go…

15:16 orange track is the strongest shape

My metro's split nile is named saburtalo line and is in Tbilisi metro

Hi bro :) Absolutely love your videos... Les go for 5 mil subs!!!!!!!

finally mini metro again!!

"Has that star just spawned on my shaft" yes, yes it has

it would have been interesting if you went into creative or endless after you lost and wiped all the lines and rebuilt into more ideal circle lines

how does youtube recommended know i've been playing mini metro :o

Every time Matt says "purple train" i can't help but think of Geoff Marshall.

Question: have you ever met an uncivil engineer?

They should add the Channel Tunnel in London. It would make for interesting gameplay. My fellow Brits will understand.