Losing money while under funding everything and increasing taxes, this man is about to be the next prime minister

RCE: Why are people walking on the highway?! Me: Ah, I see you've accidentally created Houston, Texas.

*Builds giant highway* "Why am I losing so much money?" Just like a real city lol

Thank God this channel is called "Real Civil Engineer" and not "Real Local Mayor" Lol.

Guys - he said right at the start that he didn't read the update notes. Just saying if you give him a hard time for not knowing, I mean, he TOLD you.

Just so you know, industrial zoned buildings (NOT the plopped buildings like the coal plant or oil fields) do not create nearly as much pollution as they seem. You need hardly any separation between them and residential. This is completely different for the plopped buildings like the ones i mentioned earlier. These buildings have heavy pollution so they are the buildings you have to worry about. EDIT: Upkeep is killer in the new update. You need to be very careful early game, watching what the upkeep costs of all buildings.

With this update, high taxes doesn't work, it will make people move away. 12% from cs1 is back.

In Oregon (US) they have straight roads. Coming out of Crater Lake - 15 miles straight. Some of the highways are just a straight shot with a bend then another straight shot and the scenery is nothing but pine trees. My dad almost fell asleep driving on those roads when we were kids and on vacation.

Allow me to be real for a moment: your videos are some of the few things keeping me sane at this moment. I'm suffering from depression, dysthymia, and for some reason my seasonal depression has decided to pay me a visit early this year. With all that going on, your inane videos and bizarre decisions greatly contribute to my wellbeing. Thank you, Matt.

Part of the economy change is the game severely punishes you for having taxes above 12%...I imagine 30% makes it even worse. It is probably a good idea to build up quickly with low taxes while your service expenses are low then set them up to that 12% threshold or so.

WHAT NO BRIDGE REVIEW??? I’m sitting in disbelief I’m going to have a chat with paddy about this!

I've found that the new update has a sort of "dead zone" between 1,500 & 3,500 people. You have a negative balance and may go into debt, but I've found that the best way to deal with this is to lower taxes, which is sorta counter intuitive. At 11% people start to complain about taxes, so i keep residential at 10%. Industrial, commercial, & offices have no obvious negatives ( like happiness), but raising them will lower demand and slow progression. If you keep your taxes low, your city will grow rapidly and before you know it, you will be making all your money back. Hope this helps into the future, it kinda hurt me seeing your taxes at 30% across the board.

You said it was hot in the UK when you made this video. Given the weather here, we can narrow that down to one of three days.

"Just like London" I like the "Unfinished London" series by Jay Foreman

watching him do everything that sends a city into a death spiral in this new patch is wild.

The real challenge is the 1 tile (truly 1 instead of the starting 9). Thats COMPACT

On straight vs curvy roads, this is very much a thing, from a driver's perspective. I have a friend who lives about ten miles from me. The first half of the drive has hills, curves, and a lot of buildings. The second half is a long straight road with nothing but cornfields. Both stretches of road are about five miles long, but the part feels like it takes ages to drive down, and i find myself zoning out whenever i drive there.

The reason that you kept having to drop the tax down to 0% is because when you heighten the tax, the businesses don't have enough money to grow and *they* start losing money. If you find the sweet spot, they will make massive amounts of money. It is also worth opening the drop downs and seeing what specific industries make more or less money and adjust the taxes accordingly. I have found this out over quite some time of trial and error.

That bird is definitely in a phase! He says he's all about the metal, but you know he's going to end up in a cover band called "The Tweetles"

ya the new economy definitely hits pretty hard. but the newest update now has smaller service buildings to cut down on costs. that should offset alot of the problems we're seeing in expenses

So you know, that’s not one tile, that’s the starting area which is 9 tiles (3 tiles wide on each side)

I finally figured out how to go positive right after getting the police and fire station with only going to 12% tax lol! The new update was hard!!!

Yeah, a few prominent players complained about the game being to easy. So CO made it so hard that regular old joe has to study for a couple of day's and micro manage everything for 60% of the play time to build a profitable city.

Matt builds 250m bridge just for the pumping station. Genius Economist.

I have to say, it’s a pleasant reminder when we hear tales of your time as an engineer. Different stories and what even feel like tips, is great and actually makes me feel connected. Allowing me to associate you as a person, as weird as that sounds.

18:22 bros being an architect

"People will just have to suffer so I can have my roads;" literally Robert Moses and we've been paying for it for a century.

"Why are you walking on the highway??" Actually pretty common here. Used to do it all the time when I was a kid. But we stayed off the hard shoulder and in the shade. But the straight road thing is true. Used to live in West Texas, and they have perfectly straight roads out there that just go on. Found myself getting tired many times.

"Aw, why's it so large" RCE, talking about a cemetary Confirmed, he would rather have people buried vertically lmao

Here in the states the curve roads aren't used because pot holes are good Awakening devices

I love the editors so much. The facepalm from Naked Gun gets me every time. lol

From an engineering standpoint: Impressive road network But as an urban planner I gotta say that that's so much space for flyovers and stuff.

I actually came back to the game recently too and failed 2 cities before I noticed that I need Coal mining to run the power plant with my own coal to be positive.

The reason the coal plant was costing so much is because it ran out of coal so you're importing it. Coal mining is needed to keep them affordable which is why my first few development points go towards getting geothermal power. Yes it's expensive, but it's like wind and solar; it doesn't have the hidden up upkeep cost of keeping it fueled. Plus since hardly anyone ever uses groundwater pumps for water needs you don't have to worry about the pollution it'll give to whatever aquifer it's placed on.

You didn't even visit the Production tab. If you look in there, you'll find that you are importing a lot of materials/goods that's costing you a lot of money. It's a lot cheaper if you're generating the materials/goods in your city instead of importing them. The more residence you have, the more demand for commercial goods, which leads to more demand for industrial to make those goods, which then leads to more demands for raw materials. Another factor you need to balance is employment which demands more residence the more commercial and industrial you have. You have to actually manage your population more with this Econ 2.0.

Would love to see this challenge at the purchasable 1 tile size instead of starting tile size (9 tiles). Fun video!!!

"people are going to have to go thrua little bit of hardship for my roads" don't let this man build a city

19:42 and now we are going to play this sensibly..... ahaha. love it, i thought it was just a "me thing" that did silly things when building in cities skylines 2!

Smaller cities are easier now that there's the smaller and cheaper service buildings. Edith: Matt must have recorded this in the week between the economy patch and the detailing patch that added the much cheaper service buildings.

Challenge build it like an architect would.

5:52 we've got one of these where I live. For years it was an open flow roundabout system where you gave way to on coming traffic. Then some tosser from state gov who's never been in the area and was unfamiliar with local traffic, decided that we needed traffic lights at all of the entrances. Their solution to fixing peek hour traffic, has only increased traffic congestion throughout the day and has done little to nothing to improve peek hour traffic. Infact, it's actually made it worse. Got to love it when edumacated people fix things for the better.

Paused buildings do not pause their upkeep. Btw lol (yes you dont have to pay as much cause wages are paused but its not a 0 line item)

This is what happens when you don't read the patch notes and assume that the old demand structure hasn't actually changed when they told you they reworked the entire economy of the game.

In california we got a place that got 125 deg

Dont set the Taxes for Ind, Com or Offices. The buildings will stay but the companies will leave and will just completely ruin your tax rev.

With the new changes, you can't overbuild or your services will explode your budget... just like what happened to you. Start with Turbines and develop up. You can still play single tile by building a "ring city" and then working your way to the interior favoring higher density projects in the grid. Once the urban core supports it, flip the original ring to a high speed orbital and convert the exterior to industrial.

Couldn’t be me enjoying conditioned air and not sweating

I wonder if you can supply coal (or other) power plants with railroads. They should add a feature for this

Oh looks he's building out Las Vegas.... They need to stop expanding out here, it's too hot and not enough resources

Started so well with this city, then panic mode kicked in, for half of it i had my head in my hands ahaha. Great video though, really enjoyed, and me feel better about my cities 😂😂

I found that relying on putting in a lot of the special industry will help you make a lot of money. Without the special industries I honestly think growing your population to extreme portions before putting down a lot of what your city needs is best bet but not sure. Wish you luck RCE.

Road building simulator

I actually want to hear more about your civil engineering job/work because when you talk about how the road safety works in your career, I really enjoy your insight and true passion!

WE NEED MORE CITY SKYLINES 2!!!

The thing about boring roads is pretty spot on. On my home country there was a highway that crossed a hugeeeeeee steppe and it was like a straight road it would take you like 6 hours to go through if you're going like at 100km/h (~62miles/h). It was known as a very dangerous road as drivers would fall asleep at high speeds and crash in a very far awa rural area.

He demonstrates something that happens in real life as well: Always be suspicious if a city is offering your company significant tax breaks for moving your business there.

I was looking at the grade separated junction and wondering why it looked so weird compared to real ones, and I realised that it was because irl they usually build up the earth round it to raise it rather than using bridges for the corners

Keep the City Skyline 2 Streakkkk

I remember thinking it was dumb that there were barriers on a straight road but not on the turns. So THAT'S why. The more you know. Still dumb to fall asleep while operating a 2 ton motorized box on wheels though.

there is anew patch with smaller scholls and other services, cheaper all around

i love how no one is talking about it but im pretty sure he only made an IN for the industrial zone and no out

12:15 Someone should tell Matt when he makes the roads he can toggle off the building grid 😂

Challenge Idea: Every road crossing is an interchange!

Maybe building a public transportation network with busways and a tram for a one-tile city will allow for more demand to live there and you can make tickets pricey I think.

I “I’m used to having a long and thin one not a short and fat one”-RCE, 2024

It's hot in Texas, USA as well. It's about 100°F/37°C. So fun

You’d think they’d have moveit and node controller as default included tools in the game. I’m still waiting til I see zone controller implemented either in base or as a mod.

think the issue was you need to start small and grow, not plan a giant city right at the start xD

2:54 well that aged well 😂

13:59 So, you're a metal fan? Name every metal.

Very appropriate that your quay road is Coleridge Street. The Ride of the Ancient Mariner?

One good reason to avoid the M4, it’s so bloody boring with its extremely mild curves!

15:01 You must have filmed this before the Detailer's patch. I believe that patch added some smaller school buildings

I have a question: How much transit can you send to a road? That circuit you made at the beginning reminded me of a formula 1 circuit. What if you create a circular route with no exit? How many cars will enter?

I don't know for ss2 but in the first there was a button when building roads to deactivate zoning grid for this road on either side

The Sim City 5 experience

“Hot in the uk” how many weeks ago did you record this Matt?

Yeah it is surprisingly hot

30% taxes, "Let me take a loan out for as much as I can...at 20% interest". Man, forget Civil Engineering, you're well on your way to being a politician!

Ya, the M25 was built by romans and Londinium was built around that freeway.

I got clickbaited, it's not a "one tile city" like in the title, you start the game with a 3x3 tile grid so the space he was working on was a total on 9 tiles 😢

i love watching you make roadigami

With this update, you have to cut down every service expenses to keep a healthy budget in early game and also increase residential taxes to around 15% while maintaining the commercial and industrial close to 10%. At least, that's how it works for the recent cities I built

Assuming ground water remains unaffected by sewer

Lmaooo hearing about straight highways being a safety issue, whilst living in Saskatchewan.

I kinda like it Economy 2.0 is basically a nuzlocke

I FEEL THE HEAT TOO AT ALMOST 40 DEGREE CELCIUS

Imagine living in the innercircle as a kid, literal prison Edit: 25:54 LITTERALLY

This is like SimCity for Dos: you can set 20% tax on Jan-Nov, and 0% tax on Dec. Cheese.

Brah... you have shown clear skill in the ways of the politician!! Go get you that sweet sweet kickback money!

We've fixed our game. Now you need to pump and dump construction areas with taxes to play it.

Literally everything that was ever designed was by engineers 👷

gotta admit. very realistic depiction of uk

When he said he was hot and not used to heat, I looked at the forecast for the next 10 days in the UK (London) and the highest high was 23C, 60% humidity. Here in the midwest during the COOLEST it will be the same time period is 26C and 65% humidity with it reaching 34C 94% humidity at the highest. I know you arent used to heat, but 23C is when people start wearing jackets....

Challenge for next video: NO loans. (This will be a 3 hour video with 20 cities burned to the ground).

Yay more skylines, I don’t even like playing myself I just love watching him play

You don't actually need to worry about anything in this game I have found out. The game adjusts over time to whatever you do, the only thing that doesn't seem to auto-balance itself for you is crime. The balance is still truly awful. Genuinely worried they just don't know how to make the game feedback enjoyable. Constantly feels like: "Am I actually playing, or is the game just doing it's own thing?"

Will Matt say Hello to me if I say Hello? Hello Matt!!!!!!!!

Do a pedestrian only challenge

FINALLY you have uploaded something from this game!!!!!!!!!!! You and this game are a mind blowing combination! Just keep doing unorthodox solutions, that is where you shine! Erm later edit: Well this wasn't one of the most exciting episodes...