I recreated a REAL CITY to prove Cities Skylines 2 isn't broken!

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  • čas přidán 16. 04. 2024
  • We're checking out Cities Skylines 2 (City Skyline 2) today, and what better way to do it than to recreate a real city?
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  • @SnowGaming...
    @SnowGaming... Před 14 dny +2022

    use the tree brush to remove the trees

    • @devileh
      @devileh Před 14 dny +126

      Sssssh, don't tell him!

    • @user-yx5su6lf3v
      @user-yx5su6lf3v Před 14 dny +11

      Yeah

    • @marcrubin9359
      @marcrubin9359 Před 13 dny +38

      He should use mods. There are many that would help with engineering. There's even a full water management mod

    • @MonkeyBurrito
      @MonkeyBurrito Před 13 dny +14

      he's such a noob lol

    • @TheOneCity1
      @TheOneCity1 Před 13 dny +7

      He hearted he knows now

  • @jcbcran55
    @jcbcran55 Před 14 dny +1112

    Living quite close to bath i can say matt did a good job at replicating it. Hard city to do with so many alleyways

    • @JinThong
      @JinThong Před 13 dny +19

      a Roman city after all

    • @Fasty8Gaming
      @Fasty8Gaming Před 11 dny +13

      could tell it was bath by looking at just the thumbnail! it was the river shape that was the clue

    • @sindhuahuja5230
      @sindhuahuja5230 Před 9 dny +2

      Closest cities to Bath: Bristol, Keynsham, and Nailsea

    • @kegal
      @kegal Před 9 dny +8

      @@sindhuahuja5230 that's pretty generous calling Keynsham a city

    • @Sof1a510
      @Sof1a510 Před 8 dny

      ​@@kegaland Nailsea..

  • @wintermath3173
    @wintermath3173 Před 14 dny +749

    7:40 I remember hearing about an interview with the creator of Sim City where he said that they initially aimed for a realistic amount of parking, until they realized that cities with so much parking look terrible!

    • @SubjectiveObserver
      @SubjectiveObserver Před 14 dny +149

      When I hear about that stuff, I wonder how many of their decisions were influenced by a strong bias for modern american cities. Like what do they consider a "realistic" amount of parking? Would realistic parking still be ugly if they allowed you to build a more walkable city?
      Every time I played SimCity, it felt like they hard-coded specific outcomes instead of letting a neutral simulation play out. It was so hard to maintain farmland because they wanted every city to become Manhattan.

    • @LycanFerret
      @LycanFerret Před 14 dny +44

      ​@@SubjectiveObserver I swear some people just want their cities to be nonfunctional decorations. You either build parking lots - not garages, garages are for walkable cities - or you make a walkable city. You can't have neither, neither makes everyone's lives awful. It's how I feel about people trying to make unwalkable cities not car friendly. Basically forcing everyone to walk 2 hours just to get somewhere. I wouldn't mind parking in a garage, if I didn't have to walk 30 blocks to get to something. And have more winter options, because walking in -10°F iced roads is not good either. But people just don't think about this. People live and work in the cities, you're just making the city not friendly to people. No people city is what they are.

    • @James27Simko
      @James27Simko Před 14 dny +39

      only USA style parking though where its just painted on the ground in huge square. multistory carparking buildings like everywhere else would work fine because thats what is used IRL

    • @Nicholas-ze5vv
      @Nicholas-ze5vv Před 14 dny +8

      @@SubjectiveObserver Bath is a good example of what they were talking about. It's not American either.

    • @Bikerbarrie
      @Bikerbarrie Před 14 dny

      Great video

  • @Streaky100001
    @Streaky100001 Před 14 dny +608

    Actually Matt, trains can go around roads. There was an incident in Canada many years ago where a small, fairly isolated town lost power after a storm. They drove a locomotive, or maybe 2, I forget, off the train tracks and down the road to get it to a position where they could connect the generator into the towns power grid and use it as effectively a big emergency generator. A diesel electric locomotive is effectively just a diesel generator on wheels.
    Now, I don't advise running a train on the road..... it dug groves into the tarmac, and the wheel sets on the locomotive needed an overhaul before it could go back on the rails, but it CAN be done.

    • @jirid.4058
      @jirid.4058 Před 14 dny

      in Russia is everything possible.
      They made a train with road wheels. Just seach "MAZ-547/M62"

    • @kelleroid
      @kelleroid Před 13 dny +41

      Now that's metal 🤘🤘🚆

    • @welcomeblack
      @welcomeblack Před 13 dny +17

      Trains don't have steering wheels, how did they keep it on the road?

    • @kelleroid
      @kelleroid Před 13 dny +70

      @@welcomeblack clearly you haven't seen that one The Polar Express scene

    • @Streaky100001
      @Streaky100001 Před 13 dny +30

      To be honest, I don't actually know.
      My guess is it was probably a straight line run from where it was lifted off the tracks to where it came to rest and was connected. Provided they were very careful about placing it on the road pointing in the right direction, the flanged wheels digging into the road would've helped keep it running pretty straight.
      If they did need to make any major course changes, such as turning onto another street, well they had a crane they initially used to lift it off the tracks and place it on the road, I'd guess they would've just lifted it with the crane again, carefully turned it while suspended, and then placed it back down again and continued in the new direction.
      *Edit as I missed an interesting point: That engine only travelled about 1,000ft to get to where it was to be used. They weren't actually connecting them direct to the towns power grid as I originally suggested, they were connecting them to some of the town municipal buildings so they could at least have power to help them organize emergency response. They were planning to take a second locomotive much further, to get power into a school that was being used as an emergency shelter, but that would've meant driving the locomotive over an overpass, and there was a lot of concern that the overpass would collapse under the weight of the locomotive, so in the end they didn't do that, and instead, kept the second nearby as a backup for the first.

  • @brettmaddux9243
    @brettmaddux9243 Před 14 dny +335

    Hmmm... If the size of the paths was more important, footpaths might have been the way to handle some or even all of the pedestrian streets? Depends on what you wanted from them I suppose.

    • @altimatum
      @altimatum Před 14 dny +36

      Yeah after he put in the foot paths my thought was "why not use these instead of the pedestrian walkways?" but I guess it does create some conflict with the zoning in the game.

    • @T3mp0_tv
      @T3mp0_tv Před 14 dny +36

      think the only disadvantage of the footpaths is that you cant do any zoning on them, whereas the pedestrian streets you can

    • @brettmaddux9243
      @brettmaddux9243 Před 14 dny +6

      @@T3mp0_tv Yeah. Not sure if the city would have had better building spread using the smaller footpaths off the main roads than using the larger pedestrian streets. At a few points it looked like he was ending up with more roads than space for buildings, but it did look pretty good in the end.

  • @swoshy29
    @swoshy29 Před 14 dny +227

    Omg I’ve lived in bath my whole life I can’t believe he’s managed this because there’s so many little lanes and paths everywhere

    • @camerona_
      @camerona_ Před 9 dny +5

      Beautiful city, unfortunately it aged me 10 years driving through the city center during rush hour on my second day visiting the UK lmao

    • @drekfletch
      @drekfletch Před 5 dny +2

      Visited from the US in summer '99. I was astonished by all the side streets. Just down from the Cathedral we found a tiny courtyard with a big tree in the center. It was just so magical.

    • @shinodamasaru7945
      @shinodamasaru7945 Před 2 dny

      So, Bath is real city? Idk until I Google it

  • @SKy_the_Thunder
    @SKy_the_Thunder Před 13 dny +105

    The secret is mixed zoning. If you have a bit of everything everywhere, people don't need to go as far to do/get stuff, so you effectively take them off the road. And for necessary commute you can add targeted public transit as an option, cutting that down by a large part as well.
    And keeping the road capacity limited will encourage the population to actually make use of those alternatives as well.

    • @LegoDork
      @LegoDork Před 13 dny +9

      r/FuckCars

    • @SKy_the_Thunder
      @SKy_the_Thunder Před 13 dny +19

      @@LegoDork It's really more about poor urban planning than the cars themselves. If you over-regulate what can go where and force people to constantly shuffle from sector to sector, you end up generating tons of unnecessary traffic.

    • @realdragon
      @realdragon Před 10 dny +1

      Yep, it takes me 7 minutes on foot to get to the shop where I buy grocery. There's another shop closer but it's more expensive

    • @ShizuruNakatsu
      @ShizuruNakatsu Před 10 dny +6

      ​@realdragon Walking distances from my house (approximately):
      Small groceries: 3 minutes
      Large supermarket: 3 minutes
      Public library: 3 - 4 minutes
      Community centre: 2 - 3 minutes
      Primary school: 4 - 5 minutes
      Secondary school: 8 - 10 minutes
      Church: 7 - 8 minutes
      Post office: 10 minutes
      Hair salon: 3 - 4 minutes
      Domino's Pizza: 2 minutes
      Grass/recreation areas: 10 - 20 seconds
      Bus stop: 30 seconds to 1 minute
      Beach: 30 minutes
      Mountain: 20 minutes
      McDonald's: 17 - 18 minutes
      Town, with large variety of shops, services, and restaurants: 18 - 20 minutes
      Electrical store: 10 minutes
      DIY/hardware/garden supplies: 10 - 12 minutes
      Graveyard: 11 minutes
      Pharmacy: 2 - 3 minutes
      Vet: 18 minutes
      Doctor/GP: 20 minutes
      Mental health clinic: 2 minutes, or another at 15 minutes
      Dentist: 25 minutes
      Optician: 20 minutes
      Travel agent: 20 minutes
      Government/Council offices: 18 minutes
      Estate agents: 18 - 20 minutes
      Theatre: 19 - 20 minutes
      Fire station: 3 minutes
      Police station: 25 - 30 minutes
      Honestly, the only thing I can think of that's not in walking distance, is a hospital. But ambulances are free anyway, and it's an 8 or 9 minute drive by car.

  • @theroadstopshere
    @theroadstopshere Před 14 dny +688

    Using a British town layout as the template to test whether City Skylines 2 is functional? That's just adding an additional difficulty handicap, innit?

    • @curtislevey7639
      @curtislevey7639 Před 14 dny +43

      My thought was it wouldn't matter if the traffic is terrible because that's what Britain's known for 🤣

    • @agilemind6241
      @agilemind6241 Před 14 dny +45

      @@curtislevey7639 lol, British traffic is miles better than North America because they have viable alternatives to sitting on the motorway for 2+ hours in stop-and-go traffic.

    • @griffinbastion
      @griffinbastion Před 14 dny +18

      @@agilemind6241 "viable alternatives" I sure loved my daily commute consisting of waiting 1-2 hours on a bus stuck in traffic, or paying a day of food's worth in train tickets and having to walk half an hour to the station because all the buses going to it arrived AFTER the train left, but also on the way back arrived before the train came back, after moving more into the city and with new price increases now I forgone paying the "Minor" amount of 3 quid per tram ride, deciding that walking 1 hour somewhere is better than taking the tram for 20 minutes

    • @user-wr7kx1ye4r
      @user-wr7kx1ye4r Před 13 dny +7

      Being to London as a Moscow guy I can confirm that traffic management in there is just horrible. I was genuinely terrified by it. It has some similar problems with historical center of Moscow but even there all roads were widened as far as it was possible to keep up with traffic increase.

    • @Brinton_Callahan
      @Brinton_Callahan Před 13 dny

      @@agilemind6241the majority of the US doesn’t have to deal with traffic jams. It is more common in bigger cities

  • @markbuhler4733
    @markbuhler4733 Před 12 dny +23

    I don't understand why Cities doesn't include the "snap to road" buildings. Many other city builders have it, so that everything next to the road gets built without those gigantic holes in between at an angle.

    • @schrodingerskatze4308
      @schrodingerskatze4308 Před 12 dny +7

      Add that and maybe make the European theme actually look European and you'd actually have a good game. It would also help a lot to have all road types in different sizes because it's pretty weird that a pedestrian street is always the same size and you can't make it smaller. Or maybe just have different road sizes and you specify if it's one way or pedestrian or even a bycicle road yourself after building it, just as if you put up some signs. There are so many ways this game could be improved and it's honestly really sad that it's never going to happen.

    • @markbuhler4733
      @markbuhler4733 Před 11 dny +2

      @@schrodingerskatze4308 Yes. Cities 1 was GREAT. Cities 2 should have just polished it up a bit. Instead. It broke.

  • @mute_ed984
    @mute_ed984 Před 14 dny +169

    Matt - for that project a little free Software like "Nomacs Image Lounge" could come in handy. It basically can be used as an additional semitransparent layer over the running program. E.g. Screenshot of Bath the right scale you want to use. And you can work underneath in Cities Skylines. I used it to design my car liveries in Forza Horizon but I'm quite confident it works here too.

    • @SubjectiveObserver
      @SubjectiveObserver Před 14 dny +6

      I was just thinking they could mod the game to add reference images. I could probably use that software for my own projects, thanks

    • @flamingoLake
      @flamingoLake Před 14 dny +11

      even easier is the image overlay mod for cities skylines

    • @arashai
      @arashai Před 14 dny +3

      I was going to suggest tracing paper and scotch tape 🤣

    • @SubjectiveObserver
      @SubjectiveObserver Před 14 dny +1

      @@arashai Paper? Does anybody own paper anymore? lol

    • @HenryLoenwind
      @HenryLoenwind Před 13 dny +1

      @@SubjectiveObserver The first game had multiple image overlay mods. Sadly none of them got maintained for more than a couple of months. This really needs to be a functionality of the base game...

  • @tdyerwestfield
    @tdyerwestfield Před 14 dny +35

    One thing not mentioned often about Bath is that it is insanely hilly. Get this, Bath is one of the biggest rugby teams in the UK, they can't build a stadium the size of the club's stature because there isn't a large enough flat space near the city. No flat space big enough just for a rugby pitch and some stands.

    • @vacuumdiagram
      @vacuumdiagram Před 14 dny +2

      And yet, cracking cycle path running to it, and through it! Bristol and Bath, and the 2 tunnels paths are some of the best urban cycling in the country, lovely rides.

    • @abbcc5996
      @abbcc5996 Před 10 dny

      hilly by british standards is flat for most of the world

    • @tdyerwestfield
      @tdyerwestfield Před 10 dny

      @@abbcc5996 It can be steep without being tall. But in general, Britain, particularly England, is very flat. Although, parts of Bath are over 100 metres above sea level despite being near the coast.

    • @antonycharnock2993
      @antonycharnock2993 Před 8 dny

      @@abbcc5996 Mountainous yes. Steep and hilly no. From someone who lives near Sheffield where all the industry was built on the flat valley floor of the River Don(no problems with flooding at all) and all the big posh victorian villas were built in the steep hilly west of the city because of the prevailing wind blowing all the smog and grime Eastwards.

    • @Ylyrra
      @Ylyrra Před 8 dny +2

      @@abbcc5996 Don't confuse hilly with high. Bath is hilly. There's seven hills within 15 minutes walk of each other that the city is built across, and the valleys between them. It's very compressed. Sure it isn't built on the side of a mountain, but when having "to walk uphill both ways" isn't a joke on every single journey you make, your legs feel it.

  • @DeviousDumplin
    @DeviousDumplin Před 14 dny +39

    The second I saw your thumbnail I knew exactly what city you were building. I lived in Bath for around 6 months, and it's remarkable how recognizable the city is on a map. The Avon river's giant belly is so distinct. It was honor having my former flat rendered in city skylines by yours truly.

  • @4stokesuck
    @4stokesuck Před 14 dny +53

    Petition for RCE to make this a Series with citys of his viewers

    • @EmeryKatz
      @EmeryKatz Před 13 dny +4

      OMG that’s such a good idea! Everyone try to make this the top comment so RCE sees it

    • @QueenMonny
      @QueenMonny Před 10 dny +4

      Patrons, maybe. Viewers? There's far too many.

  • @FrankieBoiledEgg
    @FrankieBoiledEgg Před 14 dny +42

    I actually live just outside of where you built here so I love that you've shown the little city that could some love! Fun fact, the circus and royal crescent were designed by a father and then later his son. The father designed the circus and in heavily inspired by druidic lore and masonic symbology, the circle of the circus actually forms a key with Queen's square just to the south of it. Also, the circus and royal crescent are said to represent the sun and a crescent moon.

    • @MrYotosun
      @MrYotosun Před 13 dny +1

      "little" city? 😐

    • @spinecho609
      @spinecho609 Před 10 dny +1

      @@MrYotosun yeah Bath is tiny, lives in the shadow of Bristol

    • @georges1991
      @georges1991 Před 9 dny +2

      @@spinecho609 but when the trains are packed to standing it's because everyone's going to and getting off at bath. it suddenly empties out if you're staying on to bristol

    • @MrYotosun
      @MrYotosun Před 9 dny

      @@spinecho609 my town has a population of 2000 always surprises me when cities like this are considered small lol

  • @sigh_bold8192
    @sigh_bold8192 Před 14 dny +98

    The reason he choose Bath over any other city is that strong connection between Royal Cresent and the Circus.😂 12:22

  • @draconightfury9946
    @draconightfury9946 Před 14 dny +157

    “Whilst the theme is European, we are actually going to be in Britain..” uhhh idk how to tell you this Matt, but Great Britain is a European country 😂

    • @paradoxalpl5666
      @paradoxalpl5666 Před 14 dny +94

      Naaah bro, havent you heard? UK has left the Europe.
      Disclaimer: UK has left EU, not the Europe as continent nor as culture group. The comment is a joke, but Im sure that without disclaimer some people would take it seriously

    • @mithulsaju1824
      @mithulsaju1824 Před 14 dny +9

      Brexitttt

    • @Ben_B_Artist
      @Ben_B_Artist Před 14 dny +48

      @@paradoxalpl5666 what you don't know is that there are currently teams of men on the bottom of the channel with excavation equipment chipping us away from the continent as we speak

    • @Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist
      @Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist Před 13 dny +1

      No, no. Hear him out.

    • @Banana_Fusion
      @Banana_Fusion Před 12 dny +4

      @@Ben_B_Artist Baha wouldn't be surprised; patriotic 'independence' is powerful (in a bad way)

  • @IllicitWallace
    @IllicitWallace Před 14 dny +36

    Dang, replicating local bridges in Polybridge, and now my hometown! Nice work RCE.

    • @VitalEwe
      @VitalEwe Před 14 dny

      did rce build your road?

    • @IllicitWallace
      @IllicitWallace Před 14 dny +4

      Not quite, 😢The oval roundabout leads off to where I used to live.

  • @punma5
    @punma5 Před 14 dny +29

    13:52: I love how the big forest fire wasn't acknowledged

  • @jaredg9898
    @jaredg9898 Před 14 dny +26

    I built my home town of Marietta, Oh some years ago in the first game and placed individual buildings to be as accurate as possible. Had over 11,000 assets downloaded😂 took me several weeks to complete

  • @michaelanderson2166
    @michaelanderson2166 Před 14 dny +19

    I love cities that are older than cars and have had to attempt to adapt to allow them. That is how you get the odd one way to two way transitions.

    • @antonycharnock2993
      @antonycharnock2993 Před 8 dny

      One way systems were a thing in European cities way before the car. Best example was probably ancient Rome.

    • @Ylyrra
      @Ylyrra Před 8 dny +1

      Nah, in the case of Bath it's more a result of a very long running number of attempts to solve the chronic congestion in the city centre and try to convince people to just not drive through the city if at all possible. I lived there for 5 years and they changed the one way system almost as many times, along with pedestrianising and unpedestrianising roads and bus lanes.

  • @rempanda
    @rempanda Před 14 dny +96

    You were almost right on the lack of coal power plants in the UK. There's one left in Nottinghamshire and that's it, but it's due for closure later this year. Currently a measly 5% of our energy comes from wind, solar and hydro (most of that being wind) with the bulk coming from gas (40%) and oil (36%).
    There's a goal set for all energy to come from "clean" sources by 2035, I'm fairly skeptical of that time frame, one of the major roadblocks currently is that we have nowhere near enough energy storage in the UK (either through batteries or other storage methods like thermal storage or liquid air) and the UK hasn't exactly been known for investing in infrastructure for a long time now but these investments are necessary if we want to actually achieve the 2035 deadline.

    • @KingJohnMichael
      @KingJohnMichael Před 14 dny +1

      Same problem on the continent
      At least they are investing in atomic energy too...... Unless you are stupid like Germany....

    • @KingJohnMichael
      @KingJohnMichael Před 14 dny +7

      Same problem on the continent

    • @MarkWebster404
      @MarkWebster404 Před 14 dny +10

      Wind accounts for around 30% of the UK's power. The national grid publishes the figures every month. 24% gas. They don't list oil.

    • @mancunioner
      @mancunioner Před 14 dny +9

      yeah no chance. This is a country that's not built a reservoir since about 1992. Population has increased by about 10m in that time and then the government have the bollocks to tell us there's droughts. How about building some new infrastructure

    • @rempanda
      @rempanda Před 14 dny +8

      @@MarkWebster404 Wind accounts for just under 30% of energy generated in the UK - it doesn't include energy imported. You can find more comprehensive breakdowns in reports produced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

  • @owlhatch3812
    @owlhatch3812 Před 14 dny +31

    Maybe they're trying to make the cities too Americanised? It would be interesting to see a comparison between bath and another American city.

    • @LegoDork
      @LegoDork Před 13 dny +4

      Bath Maine?

    • @henryglennon3864
      @henryglennon3864 Před 10 dny +1

      @@LegoDork Bath, Maine is pretty atypical for an American city. It's built in a steep... fjord... carved by the Kennebec river, and is dominated by the route 1 highway bridge which passes over everything.

  • @benjorgensen93
    @benjorgensen93 Před 14 dny +16

    I live in Bath and RCE replicated it well but just need to add a few major traffic jams around the centre lol

    • @brotheroni6233
      @brotheroni6233 Před 14 dny +5

      Especially the car park that is rush hour London Road...

    • @FrankieBoiledEgg
      @FrankieBoiledEgg Před 14 dny +3

      @@brotheroni6233 don't forget Queen's square, especially now with the roadworks making all the traffic come from two directions.

    • @BillinhoBamford
      @BillinhoBamford Před 8 dny

      Just add a tourist coach or two (& their associated hordes of pedestrians) and I'm sure normal Bath traffic will be resumed!

  • @VestleKS
    @VestleKS Před 14 dny +15

    Is this paid content, because there is no point buying CS2 when CS1 has everything CS1 has that is actually important and more with the years of Mods instead of the fresh new mods you got to wait for CS2. Also love watching the cs2 videos though! 🙌

  • @MFBloosh
    @MFBloosh Před 14 dny +127

    Bath is the most French looking British city I've ever seen in my life.

    • @scottdebrestian9875
      @scottdebrestian9875 Před 14 dny +10

      Well, it was founded by the Romans, the OG French. 🤣

    • @KingJohnMichael
      @KingJohnMichael Před 14 dny +11

      ​@@scottdebrestian9875uuuuh what

    • @brokeandtired
      @brokeandtired Před 14 dny +6

      @@scottdebrestian9875 Romans were OG Italian.

    • @Dynasty954
      @Dynasty954 Před 14 dny +3

      France looks like Bath not the other way round.

    • @j.myhre_16
      @j.myhre_16 Před 14 dny +1

      @@brokeandtired ,French, Spanish and Romanians at least on a language prospective

  • @datoneweirdo2524
    @datoneweirdo2524 Před 13 dny +6

    yooo i live in bath ‼️‼️‼️

  • @OtherwiseUknownMonkey
    @OtherwiseUknownMonkey Před 14 dny +16

    6:48 an American highway engineer possesed you

  • @Jack93885
    @Jack93885 Před 14 dny +8

    12:30 It's a shame Matt didn't put in any of the features of Royal Victroria Park. There's a skatepark there and even, in years long past now, a carousel and a bouncy castle. Not sure if there's anything like that still there but I know the old one isn't there anymore. My family used to manage the park before they were outbid on the tender for it. My grandad has the sign and an old horse from it.

    • @Jack93885
      @Jack93885 Před 14 dny +1

      Just been on google maps, you can see a circle on the ground where the old carousel stood, the kiosk is gone too. Makes me kinda sad

  • @512TheWolf512
    @512TheWolf512 Před 14 dny +13

    a real engineer would actually measure everything before building anything, especially the river

    • @PoPoRybnik
      @PoPoRybnik Před 14 dny +10

      We all know Matt's secretly an architect

    • @manny4707
      @manny4707 Před 10 dny +2

      It hurt my heart when he made the river, places the train station, and thennnnn thought about scale

  • @TheIconsofsin
    @TheIconsofsin Před 14 dny +16

    i love Bath, I'm only a couple miles away in Bristol

    • @LordMonkeyBoy2K
      @LordMonkeyBoy2K Před 12 dny +1

      Still annoyed he chose Bath over Bristol, did pan over my house in Google earth though so not all bad 😂

    • @antonycharnock2993
      @antonycharnock2993 Před 8 dny

      @@LordMonkeyBoy2K Time and scale might have something to do with it. I once tried to create an approximation of Sheffield in Sim City. Imagine just zoning the east of a city heavy industry yellow. It did recreate some very accurate pollution problems. In real life the main coal power station was actually at the eastern edge of the city(now a renewable energy plant)

  • @littlebill1991
    @littlebill1991 Před 14 dny +4

    Bath has the worst traffic ever!! It can take 30 minutes just to drive through the centre 😂 great video btw!!

    • @antonycharnock2993
      @antonycharnock2993 Před 8 dny +1

      Everything from the North has to go around that square just outside the city centre and I was just passing through trying to get to Glastonbury Festival. It never got a proper ring road like most places. Even York & Chester have ring roads.

  • @strangegaybeing
    @strangegaybeing Před 14 dny +3

    Yay! I recommended this to him some time ago and I'm so happy he actually did it because I'm so interested in how this turns out

  • @alpetterson9452
    @alpetterson9452 Před 7 dny +4

    As understand it the developers just admitted that they themselves believe the game was released in a shoddy state. That being the case, it would seem a wiser/fairer course of action not to entice others to buy the game. But you can do as you please. I suppose.

  • @theeutecticpoint
    @theeutecticpoint Před 14 dny +3

    Royal Crescent in Bath predates the Royal Crescent in London, the one in Bath predates the regency, while the one in London was built when Victoria was still a brand new Queen.

  • @jamiebrind1642
    @jamiebrind1642 Před 13 dny +4

    Matt recreating my house is something I’d never thought I’d see but here we are

  • @aaronbrown4390
    @aaronbrown4390 Před 14 dny +13

    RCE the pond's in the industrial area we're formerly Bath's gas works and the ponds were the gas tanks holding the supply of gas for Bath

    • @Aycion
      @Aycion Před 14 dny +1

      Were they just...open???

    • @aaronbrown4390
      @aaronbrown4390 Před 14 dny +1

      @@Aycion no they used to have a giant steel cage around the outside holding a silo style inside which used to move up or down depending on how full it was

    • @Pootgaming
      @Pootgaming Před 14 dny

      I thought they designed to look like lilli pads lol or pacman cause of shape

    • @Aycion
      @Aycion Před 14 dny +1

      @@aaronbrown4390 neat 📸

    • @aaronbrown4390
      @aaronbrown4390 Před 13 dny

      @@Pootgaming well thats what happens when they are removed and architect's get hold of it 🤣

  • @roaling2
    @roaling2 Před 14 dny +3

    Please do more of these, the final city actually looks insane

  • @sdawg6005
    @sdawg6005 Před 14 dny +3

    0:18 Brought back some childhood memories

  • @AndronFIRE
    @AndronFIRE Před 14 dny +2

    They should add thinner alleyways and curved buildings

  • @Man-qt7jg
    @Man-qt7jg Před 9 dny +1

    I studied civil engineering at Bath a couple years ago, this video brings back so many memories.. thank you for the amazing content :)

  • @VatticTV
    @VatticTV Před 14 dny +3

    Grew up in Bath. The traffic is a lot worse in real life xD.
    The "industrial area" is the site of the old gasworks.

  • @SSZaris
    @SSZaris Před 12 dny +3

    How much they pay you to do this PR for them? Guess the CEO was right and we're all just toxic because we don't want to spend $10 on DLC for a broken game.

  • @PokeNobody
    @PokeNobody Před 14 dny +2

    One of the best episodes of this series! Loved this.

  • @dangerface300
    @dangerface300 Před 14 dny +1

    Oh, I visited Bath last November when I was attending my brother's wedding. Very nice little place. We stayed at the YMCA and it was the cheapest rooms we booked for the whole trip.

  • @duncanchin
    @duncanchin Před 14 dny +3

    I’ve tried to do this a couple of times. I’m going to follow your steps

  • @loganbarnhouse3214
    @loganbarnhouse3214 Před 13 dny +4

    the circus had uhm 6 trees in it. the real one had 5. this place is falling apart

  • @samuelgrant8732
    @samuelgrant8732 Před 13 dny

    That's mad, I live in Bath and you've got it on point the traffic is usually okay too besides near Churchill bridge and The Forum which can be a nightmare especially for buses. Love seeing Bath represented

  • @zachbrady8013
    @zachbrady8013 Před 14 dny +1

    This video was really interesting to watch. Would love a series like this

  • @Jockles
    @Jockles Před 14 dny +11

    I used to live in Bath, and I vbriefly dated an architectural Historian, and I hate to be the one to say it, but the interesting bits of bath were desgigned by a guy obsessed with the Free Masons and Mysicism... so the Circus is the exact size of Stonehenge, and is on the same ley line (apparrently??) And then there's all sorts of magical numbers and sacred geometry nonsense going on all over the place.
    Best avoided. Sounds like Architecture.
    Also, I can see my house from here! (you built the road that I used to live on :D )

  • @Alan.Taylor.8334
    @Alan.Taylor.8334 Před 14 dny +11

    I've been waiting for more city skylines

  • @chnet968
    @chnet968 Před 14 dny +2

    Interesting.
    There was someone else told me it's easy to remember the shape of Bath City Centre because the river and part of A367 made it shaped like a human heart.
    Also, I think you should also add the Oldfield Park station because it's within the scope of the map.

    • @datoneweirdo2524
      @datoneweirdo2524 Před 13 dny +1

      i love oldfield park ‼️‼️
      my favourite train station

  • @josephharrison5639
    @josephharrison5639 Před 13 dny +2

    10:49 watching college students be oblivious to those around them taking up half the sideway with two walking side way side, that’s why

  • @Dhim27
    @Dhim27 Před 14 dny +7

    Yay! Finally a city skylines

  • @robinwidi6328
    @robinwidi6328 Před 14 dny +4

    Yo RCE, I love your videos

  • @Jockles
    @Jockles Před 14 dny +2

    you also mananged to put the Gas Power Plant on the old Gas storage site, so nice work :D

  • @benlees3213
    @benlees3213 Před 13 dny +2

    As a person who lives in bath I see this as an absolute win. Good job Matt

  • @gaysarahk
    @gaysarahk Před 14 dny +13

    Day 64 of notifying people that the Discord server's Suggestions forum is a better place to suggest new games to Matt. (Just don't ping him!)

  • @siepkotack2864
    @siepkotack2864 Před 14 dny +3

    Day 6 of asking RCE to play Planet Crafter again

  • @AndysAdventures89
    @AndysAdventures89 Před 14 dny +2

    Great job, i also cant believe how amazing google maps is. All that 3D stuff awesome

  • @oskarbarahona7605
    @oskarbarahona7605 Před 13 dny +1

    -Mom can we have Bath, UK?
    -No, we have Bath, UK at home.
    *Bath, UK at home:

  • @BuildinWings
    @BuildinWings Před 14 dny +4

    Can you use the water physics of this game to reverse the flow of a river, like Chicago did?

  • @EpicMoments21
    @EpicMoments21 Před 14 dny +6

    He should play Minecraft Create

  • @RobinDuckett
    @RobinDuckett Před 13 dny +1

    Driven all around bath, never knew the road layouts were shaped like this. I’ve even been to that crescent and not even realised.

  • @Morfik45
    @Morfik45 Před 14 dny +2

    Id like to see you trying to recreate more real cities
    , it was fun

  • @Mlizuul
    @Mlizuul Před 14 dny +25

    Day 375 of asking Matt to play Minecraft

  • @convexrelic7647
    @convexrelic7647 Před 14 dny +219

    Day 96 of asking matt to play minecraft

  • @dontdissdave
    @dontdissdave Před 13 dny +1

    Cool video. I think you should build other British cities and have them all connected. Bath-Newcastle-Norwich-Cardiff-Edinburgh etc

  • @MrBankthug
    @MrBankthug Před 13 dny +1

    There is a Move It mod in the store, there is also another mod that lets you overlay a picture over your game for assisting in re-creations such as this, it's called Image Overlay. There is also another mod that lets you design custom car parks!

  • @user-rl2vd4zv4h
    @user-rl2vd4zv4h Před 13 dny +1

    Great job. I don’t think I would have the patience but I enjoyed the video. Thank you for spending the time.

  • @Franimus
    @Franimus Před 14 dny +2

    I think there's a way to import the heightmap of the area as your map so you don't have to manually build the river

  • @nymphangeloid1460
    @nymphangeloid1460 Před 14 dny +2

    Video Idea: i know it would be a lot of work to do but what about a series where you make some real world citys (either big or small ones or just a part of it) and we as the community have to guess which one it was or you make a youtube poll with some answer choices and you reveal it in the next video

    • @QueenMonny
      @QueenMonny Před 10 dny

      That's not bad. But if he only made cities in the UK, a lot of us would have a hard time guessing. Maybe if he gave a general region in the description.

  • @QALibrary
    @QALibrary Před 11 dny

    15:00 The UK has 2 working coal power stations left - apart from a few that have been or changed over to gas or to burn bio-wates eg wood pellets they have all been closed the last ones were closed in 2022 to 2023 before the 2024 deadline (UK) and 2025 (EU deadline) - one is based in Northern Ireland while the other is privately owned and only supplies power to a company they have a contract for to supply them power - they sometimes supply power to the national grid as an extra free service (even though it does not exist because it owned and run by a private company).
    Scotland just in wind power has about 100 to 300% as a base load and that is still growing the UK can run up to 100% on zero emission power if you include Nuclear Power in the summer - just this week 80 to 90% of power was produced that way

  • @motornaut
    @motornaut Před 11 dny

    As a uni student in Bath, it's pretty awesome that you chose it as the city for this

  • @krisbradbury5087
    @krisbradbury5087 Před 8 dny +1

    I’ve always wanted since sim city 2 the ability to import a top down texture of real cities to perfectly layout a replica.
    I think it would be a great mod.

  • @Potatoincanada201Unknow-bv1yy

    Hey Matt, can you create this random town in Australia called Kyabram? I kind of want to see what you can do with this town, maybe do something with the traffic because the mayor forgot to add some traffic lights. The traffic is fine though, although the pedestrians are having kind of a problem without the traffic lights. Yeah. Lots of cows there 😂😂😂

  • @aryonnrawol3594
    @aryonnrawol3594 Před 13 dny +1

    Please do more of these, they're great

  • @gothblin
    @gothblin Před 10 dny

    I grew up near Bath and used to visit a lot. The city centre's changed quite a bit since. I was sad your recreation didn't make it out as far as the RUH where I was born, and where my dad worked, and confused about how you ended up with better traffic than the real think. But I still enjoyed this video.

  • @jacklovell3170
    @jacklovell3170 Před 14 dny +2

    This was an emotional rollercoaster. BATH!! A black hole of traffic management on the surface our country.
    IM ONLY 50 SECONDS IN!!!

  • @TheMusicJunkieChannel

    Great job!! Just forgot to put it all on a hill, bath is very steep in many places. I loved this one great work!!

  • @LowkeyBuns
    @LowkeyBuns Před 14 dny +1

    I really really wish you continued the universim play through. Your first episode was so so so funny

  • @duncanchin
    @duncanchin Před 14 dny +2

    I feel like our dear Matt didn’t do such a great job in Dubai after all.

  • @TyinAlaska
    @TyinAlaska Před 12 dny

    In 2022, the UK's power generation mix was approximately:
    - Natural gas: Around 40%
    - Renewables: Approximately 45%
    - Nuclear: Roughly 15%
    - Imports and other sources: The remaining fraction.
    These percentages can fluctuate slightly depending on various factors.

  • @MTTT1234
    @MTTT1234 Před 14 dny +2

    Soon the tourist agency of Bath will contact him, asking if they can use this video to promote their town.

    • @datoneweirdo2524
      @datoneweirdo2524 Před 13 dny +3

      nooooo, the traffic will be even worse if more tourists come 😭

  • @ScienceMouse
    @ScienceMouse Před 6 dny

    The most broken thing about this game is the road designs. Some of them makes no sense and they are mostly way to big. All I could ask for is a normal 2 lane road with a normal walk-path on each side. I want a mod where I'm able to adjust the width of all types of lanes including walk-paths. And not to mention the zoning chaos. I hope to return to this game one day.
    Anyway, nice episode!

  • @robmartin525
    @robmartin525 Před 3 dny

    I had to drive through Bath once. It was when there were roadworks on one side of the free (no toll) bridge. On the T junction side.
    It was HORRENDOUS! We had about 5 seconds of green light our side and at least a minute of waiting on red!
    And to top it all off, we had some bloody do-gooder thinking it was some sort of charity letting everybody in the queue from the side road and I was stuck in the same place for about 20 minutes, no movement at all!!!

  • @quoniam426
    @quoniam426 Před 11 dny

    14:33 Those used to be the gasometers. They seem to have been demolished.
    You should have added busses because the city has a bus station and about 15 bus lines.

  • @CJGriesmeyer
    @CJGriesmeyer Před 14 dny +1

    I'm visiting Bath from NY for the first time next week and this video has me HYPED

    • @ElementalWhispers
      @ElementalWhispers Před 13 dny

      Pay a visit to Sugarcane Studio cafe. A hidden treasure and the best cakes in Bath!

  • @user-zb2ce5ey8f
    @user-zb2ce5ey8f Před 14 dny +1

    I was waiting the entire episode for Bridge Review™ on Google Maps 😂

  • @imperatoriacustodum4667

    In all my life I've honestly never seen the houses that CS2 calls low density housing. Even in my village, the newest housing on the outskirts still looks normal. One or two storey houses with a slanted roof as expected, detached or semi-detached with larger driveways compared to the older row housing from 100-150 years back.
    I even checked Germany, Czechia and Poland for any sign of these houses in or around cities and villages and couldn't find anything that didn't look like that.

  • @MikeD1101a
    @MikeD1101a Před 12 dny

    Love this video. Would love to see you recreate some other cities, maybe some mid-sized American Cities (Boston is always a favorite because its kinda half-American/half-European in style).

  • @Maverick_Gaming
    @Maverick_Gaming Před 10 dny

    I'd love a series of making well known and even less well known cities in City Skyline, and keeping a leaderboard of which ones are the best!

  • @Piranhamatt
    @Piranhamatt Před 10 dny

    Literally gave a lift to Bath yesterday. Sooooo much traffffic (only live 15 mins away) - I did a drop off on that section on the right, left of the straight bridge then follow the road south to loop back east around the bus station area

  • @vocaeien
    @vocaeien Před 8 dny

    your passing comment about whether Britain uses coal power anymore sent me down a rabbit hole 🤔 here to share my findings: apparently the government pledged in 2016 to ban coal-fired power by 2025. only 1 coal plant is left and currently being decommissioned, scheduled to shut down by October 2024. it's the last of ~12 of the largest coal plants in the UK.
    i work in the renewables industry in Australia, where there is a huge emphasis on the "clean energy transition", so thank you for inspiring me to do some random research relevant to my field that i would not have otherwise known 😌💀

  • @shukhratergashov9289
    @shukhratergashov9289 Před 11 dny

    Wow 🤩 Please make more of this kind of real cities 👏👏

  • @Austrocylindropuntia
    @Austrocylindropuntia Před 13 dny

    Now that would be a helluva thing to create, a car park that you can treat like a tip or mine! Just put a gate somewhere then drag the line around whatever shape you want and bam! Strongest shaped car parks for days!

  • @QALibrary
    @QALibrary Před 11 dny

    14:36 They are what reminds of gas tank holders - would have stored town gas before changing over to natural gas - most gas tank holders have now been removed or changed into flats

  • @henrydaniel6420
    @henrydaniel6420 Před 9 dny +1

    @21:07 as someone who grew up in bath , the traffic is actually chaotic and the whole city is basically a giant one way system so this is not accurate unfortunately 😂

  • @mundzine
    @mundzine Před 14 dny +1

    Pretty impressive getting the city layout by just alt tabbing, i would have no patience for all that lol

  • @Matthews_Benjamin
    @Matthews_Benjamin Před 14 dny +1

    Well done for not bothering with Twerton Matt

  • @oppositelock4356
    @oppositelock4356 Před 14 dny +1

    Missing out on the Paradox mods. Would have been super helpful when building this project!