2:18 Matt, you absolute architect, people _should_ be able to go up, how do you expect the mansions of the rich to be cleaned? They need service people! So instead on a single one way road, there should be two, but the one going up should have very expensive tolls, that way only the rich or the people working for them could go up 😂

'Looking down at the people that make it all work' Goes ahead and puts the architects down there

I love the fact he doesn't notice that nobody is going up to the higher levels as *they physically can't because its a one way down road*

New Title suggestion: "RCE Reinvents The Caste System"

Between building underground ghettos for the working class, and implementing a health plan of exiling sick beavers to a remote camp that he doesn't fund, Matt has really been embracing his inner Tory lately.

"You need a place to store the poo before you build the crazy middle east projects" someone should've told the architects behind the Burj Khalifa

Giving new meaning to the term Highborn. Waiting for an intro song for his new series: Highborners. We need that bouncy musical head.

You should build a city on mount Everest (not actually) but basically pick/make a map with a huge mountain range going down the middle and you have to build your city with only two rules: The first is you must maintain as much of mountain's natural structure as possible, so no flattening large sections of it until it makes sense. The second is no floating roads, basically meaning if you want to connect two levels you have to use tunnels from one side of mountain to the other. No strict dimension limitations like you have here, but you have to figure out good spots to put things like hospitals and trash when flat terrain is at a premium.

Should've had one-way roads that go up each level but has to pass through a toll. Pay to go up, but going down is free.

Instead of making the cork-screw roads for each level, make each step the right 'depth' to allow for one continuous road from the top to the bottom that touches each level at the edge and just make an intersection at each level.

8:28 "Only rich people have access to healthcare". Nice to see RCE finally making an USA themed city

Day 1 of asking Matt for his credit card number

You should redo this concept but in a full circle. Like Dante's Inferno, the deeper you go, the worst is your fate.

Now I wonder how a pyramid or conical city would work... Taking the same principles essentially but developing it further. Having slopes rather than the spiral roads monstrosity we all love xD

RCE made a Hive City, just needs some Chaos cults running around the sump, and throw in some Geanstealers for good measure

The top should’ve just been a single dog park

he did it. he actually did it.. he built the best replica of the town in Kill la Kill.. everyone ruled by the highschool that sits above them.

Nice to see RCE once again applying real-world principles to his gameplay!

That bottom area is perfect for engineers. Only the architects have enough prestige to live in the higher areas

And for todays installment of Insane Engineers, we peek in on RCE as he starts building Coruscant for his new empire.

As he starts working that first retaining wall in, I realized he's just making the bunker city from Stray 😂

Speaking of megastructures. How about a beaver city that looks like a pyramid that takes up like a third of the map? Basically it starts with one layer in a perfect square. Then you build another slightly smaller layer on top with down-ramps in the middle and at the edges; covering roads and such with platforms. Then another layer, and another, and another. Each layer being progressively more advanced than the last as you unlock more tech. You don't remove things like the wheels of pain from the lower layers. You just leave them there for the beavers to keep toiling away. For they are the lower class. It's good for the upper class to have a backup plan in-case their main sources of power goes out.

"Perfectly straight, you don't want a bent one"- Real Civil Engineer. 0:43

00:17 You just described a hive city in 40k 😂

I know its basically just for the video, but this layout wouldn't really be that bad if you did proper poo management. I think I might try this, separating the different zoning with a step structure. I think it'll look really cool on a large scale.

this place reminds me of the city in Oblongs. Hill Valley I think is what it was called. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a family living down in the valley where the chemicals spill. Came from the people living up on a hill

You know what I think would be a fun challenge (and im kind of inspired on this from Lets Game it Out) but could you make a city with infrastructure COMPLETELY underground? Like all roads, pipes, power, etc underground and the city is all on top of it.

6:32 Fun fact: The Burj Khalifa has no connection to the sewing system. Every day an army of trucks has to come by, to collect the poop.

New cuty layout idea: Name: "Wedding Cake" Description: basically a reverse of the pokeball layout you did back in Engitopia 1 so that the end result is basically looking like a big wedding stack cake.

I assume (because other games are) they might add the ability to add floating islands to create a sci-fi skyline simultion. IF THAT HAPPENS, I want to see an attempt on making a planet shaped island filled with everything possible to create a sustainable city. Please.

This would be a more fun build in CS1 with stuff like cable cars and the like.

6:40 "Places to store poo" and all the stuff.. was imported and then moved back to the cheap spots out of the Dubai and such cities :D even water is delivered every day.. they did not prepare anything, just abusing the raw money power..

Reminds me of an old show called the oblongs. Rich people lived on a hill and poor people were living in smog

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

It would probably be more functional if the steps were two-way roads. Ems cant traverse the map

Why does dystopian mega cities so organised and uniform also awesome. That doesn’t make me not want it rather the opposite.

I like the staircase idea. It's a nice unique twist on some of your older videos. You should revisit it with a custom map and do it on a much larger scale!

i love the idea of being able to shid on those below you... it just really brings out the class separation aspect of the city, similar to how birds shid on those below them because they are not as good as those at the top

Realistically this city is a big pit with like 10 houses on a kilometer tall pillar.

Building roads in this game is so much easier than CS1 and yet Matt still can't make smooth sloping spirals lol

3:25 when the artist in the civil engineer finally gets to unleash years of anger about architecture onto the world.

Going to work down the one way rood "doo di do di doo", going home " Time to break a law up the one way food the wrong way!"

I'm not sure, but is it possible, that the high crime is because there are ONE WAY ROADS and the police can't get to the houses???

Kill la kill reference?

Standing on one's head at job interviews forms a lasting impression.

Yo, RCE! Is it possible to manipulate the land to create a cave or something similar? And if so, can you create a hidden underground city?! Somewhere for the Architects maybe?

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Alternate title: RCE builds a hive city

Peer pressure back at it again! Still no Frost Punk gameplay. This Engineer is truly a traitor to the people.

Challenge: build a cliff city. Maybe make a grand canyon and have steep slopes which are just shallow enough to zone and build upon. Have a thriving city of 1000 residents or more, with net income in the positive, and have at least 1 industry functioning along with production of all your own resources (i.e. power, water, garbage...)

You could make a pyramid out of it, and the road stairs in the middle under th terrain

This city reminds me of a dream I once had. I was driving all over in a hot pink muscle car trying to get away from someone.

The “poor people crematorium” and “rich people cemetery” has big “millionaire estates vs countryside acres” energy

14:40 People accidentally falling to death due to a lack of railings would likely get the Cemetery more business, especially if only the rich can afford a proper burial in this city.

Day 39 of me politely asking RCE to play Theotown.

What if you did it in the reverse order?

Matt, Matt, Matt. It's precisely that hope that you *could* advance and rise up that keeps this kind of system running. The actual barriers that keep the income equality extant and rising are much harder to see than just not having a road.

City name: The staircase💀💀💀

You basically created the setting for that obscure adult swim show "The Oblongs" that theme song forever lives in my head rent free

Boss: Why are you late for work? Me: I had to go in for a quick clutch change, for the 3rd time this month after all that riding uphill Boss: Fair enough

You've seen "The Line" now prepare for... "The Step"

When building your roads, turn off snapping and you'll find you can do it perfectly just by using the consistency of numbers

You would think the devs would have implemented a depth setting for the raise and lower tools, like a decade ago.

There aren't enough towels in the world to stop the sewage flowing from his mouth.

Btw, did you try to build a spiral shaped city like Mont-Saint-Michel? IMO that's the way you should go if you want to build a city with levels

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.

4:34 Matt's step-level getting stuck

This reminds me of the movie "The Platform" - a truly horrific movie for sure!

Next video idea “drainage engineer fixes dystopian poo-cano” where it’s the same thumbnail but a big triangle.

Have you seen the 1920's silent film metropolis?

the ad was well worth it

Watching Matt creating a Hive City from Warhammer 40k ... worth it

With how things are going nowadays, this could *actually* be the city of the future.

It's a good thing that you called it dystopian. 😹😹 This design is crazy impractical. It'd only be done out of a sense of sadism.

See, this is why you never give an engineer power, this is the kind of society they try to build. Atrocious.

To know your purpose is to live a life of direction, and in that direction is found peace and tranquillity.

17:54 I actually thought the top would be just bridges, like engineers' heaven.

Matt could've just made a sloped hill all the way down the side of the steps for easy roads, but I'm no engineer so idk...Pretty sure the "rich people" at the top will be the first to get hit with acid rain from the pollution too

The thumbnail makes you think it's a stairway to heaven but the one way roads immediately make you realize it's a highway to hell

this idea reminds me of the anime kill la kill

Would a pyramid style city be feasible, with the same idea of who lives at the top? A stepped pyramid would be interesting

2:01 that’s what she said

2:00 I'm surprised there was no "that's what she said" joke.

He didn’t want to go to the dentist, yet he went anyway.

You should try and build a city like Minas Tirith in Lord of the Rings or other cities in movies

I understand that the DEVs do not understand the difference between a coal operated power plant, and a coal processing plant. What is shown there is close enough to a coal processing plant.

this would be a dope idea for a movie but the top is just the surface

15:10 lol the ball ache engie

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

Matt should've named the cemetery "Heavenly Rest" and the crematorium "Sinner's Last Stop"

Trickle down economics in action

this MIGHT be kill la kill

Next to recreate the Hunger Games 12 districts (13th district just burning trees?)

In which Matt accidentally recreates the world of Kill La Kill

Rich people at the top of the hill looking down on everyone else... Did you intend to make Kentucky?

Saw the thumbnail and was like “ah yes, classism, very futuristic”

What you really should have had on the highest level is super expensive housing only accessible by air. Build an airport and a helipad and houses with 0 road access. The peasants at all levels below would never be able to get up there.

And now we wait for some movie maker to make this dystopian movie

I know you don’t put tooooo much thought into this but having a very few super rich on the top and then making the next poorer area twice as big as the one before would make sense. So the rich 1% kids on top and the last place is as big as all other combined

Matt explaining trickle down economics. The only thing that truly trickles down is piss