Traffic Lights Are Incredibly Powerful Now! - Mini Motorways

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  • čas přidán 3. 09. 2021
  • Mini Motorways Part 13 - traffic lights have been buffed! There was a balance update not too long ago that affected the lights, but also brought a greater necessity to them with 3-way intersections getting nerfed. They now may be the most powerful item in the game.
    Edited by: Tyler
    #aliensrock #mini #motorways
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Komentáře • 358

  • @Aliensrock
    @Aliensrock  Před 2 lety +915

    Well I never thought I'd see the day.

  • @GermaphobeMusic
    @GermaphobeMusic Před 2 lety +1526

    They should buff traffic lights in real life too

    • @Sam-fz4rx
      @Sam-fz4rx Před 2 lety +22

      Underrated comment

    • @NStripleseven
      @NStripleseven Před 2 lety +42

      Make ‘em give you +1 speed

    • @ery
      @ery Před 2 lety +131

      @@NStripleseven they already do it’s called a yellow light

    • @thiccityd9773
      @thiccityd9773 Před 2 lety +31

      We just need more roundabouts. Surprisingly, I think we have a good amount of motorways.

    • @emnersonn
      @emnersonn Před 2 lety +12

      they actually do try to make them better so they don’t have to make roundabouts

  • @ColonoIsBest
    @ColonoIsBest Před 2 lety +1031

    “I like three ways” - Tyler out of context

  • @butterlordmr.o
    @butterlordmr.o Před 2 lety +1156

    "Segregation is fine sometimes"
    -Aliensrock 2021

    • @Ridinglawnmower145
      @Ridinglawnmower145 Před 2 lety +56

      Look up real civil engineer playing those game he’s all about the segregation life

    • @the_vba5384
      @the_vba5384 Před 2 lety +4

      Was just about to comment the same thing lol

    • @ShadowPhoenix4798
      @ShadowPhoenix4798 Před 2 lety +2

      *SOMETIMES*

    • @johnathanrichardson
      @johnathanrichardson Před 2 lety +5

      such as the men and womens bathrooms and sports teams

    • @owenrudy8291
      @owenrudy8291 Před 2 lety +6

      As soon as I heard him say this is the video I scrolled down to the comments to see if anyone else noticed LMAO.

  • @Amodh1257
    @Amodh1257 Před 2 lety +300

    Always take a motorway over a bridge. A motorway can act as a proxy bridge and you can only have 9 per level, so it's better to get all 9 and then take all the bridges you want in the end game

    • @sheepy403
      @sheepy403 Před 2 lety +36

      Always take a motorway over a bridge unless you are, or expect to be, low enough on roads that the extra 10 are likely to matter. Depending on city and luck they can sometimes be a very limited resource.

    • @RobBCactive
      @RobBCactive Před 2 lety +6

      Everyone knows motorways are usually a better choice, but ALWAYS is not right.
      You may not save sufficient tiles deploying it and be unable to reserve the later bridge route, then find it blocked.
      Maps can have limits

    • @DerGully
      @DerGully Před 2 lety +4

      The limit of 9 is not there anymore. I got... dunno exactly, 16 or 18 lately.

    • @Shabazza84
      @Shabazza84 Před 2 lety +3

      Ya. You should always have 1 Motorway stocked for emergencies.

  • @Torrentail
    @Torrentail Před 2 lety +192

    "As much as I like three-ways" - Tyler

  • @noramikagenori8883
    @noramikagenori8883 Před 2 lety +913

    If only the city just integrated public transportation like buses, the traffic issue would never exist to begin with.

    • @thefunbunns
      @thefunbunns Před 2 lety +72

      depends on how many buses there are...maybe the cars in the game are buses just taking a group of people to work....each house is a bus stop....who knows

    • @Azurade
      @Azurade Před 2 lety +252

      Public transportation? Like… a metro? A mini metro?

    • @catdisc5304
      @catdisc5304 Před 2 lety +83

      @@Azurade mini metro? What kind of fever dream hallucinations are you having?

    • @amal-_-8360
      @amal-_-8360 Před 2 lety +17

      @@catdisc5304 it's a game by the same dev... unless I miss your joke...

    • @catdisc5304
      @catdisc5304 Před 2 lety +47

      @@amal-_-8360 no shit

  • @KingstonReloaded
    @KingstonReloaded Před 2 lety +104

    "Let me just block off the spawns here" "Honestly I'm surprised I'm not getting more spawns!" -Aliensrock, basically

  • @chronus9083
    @chronus9083 Před 2 lety +432

    It'd be cool if they added interchanges, and/or larger roads with more lanes

    • @NStripleseven
      @NStripleseven Před 2 lety +8

      Ooo yea like a special road type that you could toggle to with 4 lanes

    • @donlasagnotelamangia
      @donlasagnotelamangia Před 2 lety +27

      I feel like with the most recent update we do kinda need a wide road variant now, a lot of the time houses just can't keep up with demand when using segregation-related detours, but then using mixed roads inevitably leads to congestion.
      On second thought increasing the motorway softcap could be an alternative

    • @id01_01
      @id01_01 Před 2 lety +15

      Would be cool if they added a metro

    • @justacryptid4687
      @justacryptid4687 Před 2 lety +12

      @@id01_01 wrong game

    • @Isometrix116
      @Isometrix116 Před 2 lety +38

      @@id01_01 they could probably make that into its own game! I’d love to see a mini metro game :)

  • @LunaWitcher
    @LunaWitcher Před 2 lety +228

    The fact that he had like THE PERFECT SPAWNS and he left so many houses disconnected when he needed more cars makes me upset. This could have been a 7k run.

    • @wades2132
      @wades2132 Před 2 lety +6

      This is what I was thinking too. Not to mention how he even lasted to 4K.

    • @jawad13kh
      @jawad13kh Před 2 lety +3

      Aggree with you

  • @mr.familiar1136
    @mr.familiar1136 Před 2 lety +89

    Mini motorways is basically: "this sounds so bad out of context" the game

  • @Lexie13579
    @Lexie13579 Před 2 lety +133

    I think it helps to connect the double building spawns together with correct colored houses at the closest entrance to the business. like at 6:00 I think it would be better to connect that motorway to the other entrance

    • @nothingnothing1799
      @nothingnothing1799 Před 2 lety +7

      I've been waiting for someone to notice this optimization since I watched the first episode, he did the same thing

    • @deViant14
      @deViant14 Před 2 lety +4

      I think it's just one big parking lot. It can help when you want the traffic to avoid cutting each other off though

    • @bftjoe
      @bftjoe Před 2 lety +3

      The parking spots are all shared, it doesn't matter.

    • @RobBCactive
      @RobBCactive Před 2 lety +2

      It's a small difference, feeding from the correct end shortens journeys by a slight amount early game. But cars stop anywhere in the 9 bays and collect the pin, so late game you can feed 2 round dests if the houses / motorway are short enough to keep journey times reasonable.
      There's a one way circular flow in the car park so cars minimise conflicts

    • @deViant14
      @deViant14 Před 2 lety

      @@RobBCactive the biggest difference would be like if red left the mall on the right side and turned left and blue left the mall going straight...red's left turn would block blue sometimes. Segregating still helps but it doesn't really matter which side is which.

  • @justacryptid4687
    @justacryptid4687 Před 2 lety +44

    "If I could have made the highway 5 change sooner I would have been fine."
    Every building is panic.

  • @TheBlackBeltPanda
    @TheBlackBeltPanda Před 2 lety +25

    When a building fills with pips, it starts sending pips to other buildings of the same color. Causes a chain reaction, so sometimes have to find the source and optimize that to save the other buildings. =)

    • @char1211
      @char1211 Před 2 lety +1

      How do you know which building is the source? Like, what do you look for? I've just started playing so I'm still figuring things out 😅

    • @Dieterbe
      @Dieterbe Před 2 lety +1

      Ooohh....

  • @radiationpony8449
    @radiationpony8449 Před 2 lety +66

    you didnt leave any space for businesses so the game increased blips to prevent explotation

    • @sreezonpanchbibi9932
      @sreezonpanchbibi9932 Před 2 lety +7

      Is that how it actually works?

    • @michaelwatkins4155
      @michaelwatkins4155 Před 2 lety +34

      @@sreezonpanchbibi9932 It's more there is a fixed amount of pips per week. If you block business spawns, then the businesses you have have to take on more. Also, if a business is "full" and can't spawn any more pips, it'll "give" that pip to another of the same business color. This is why small businesses seemingly out of nowhere will kill you endgame, it's because a big business has to start pip-dumping on it.

    • @sreezonpanchbibi9932
      @sreezonpanchbibi9932 Před 2 lety +4

      @@michaelwatkins4155 i forgot to check your reply. Finally came back to check and thanks for that information. Helps me understand it more ☺

  • @boomannotjeff
    @boomannotjeff Před 2 lety +75

    "Segregation is fine, sometimes."
    - Tyler 5:07

  • @KingWut
    @KingWut Před 2 lety +8

    Thank you for helping me realize I don’t actually want to get this far in the game. This is so stressful

  • @hannahlistento100EAT
    @hannahlistento100EAT Před 2 lety +7

    2:51 lmao imagine if the circle of houses at the end of your block just became a busy intersection

  • @neffacus202
    @neffacus202 Před 2 lety +24

    I love love love watching you play this game. The way that you commentate, it’s just awesome

  • @re2pect470
    @re2pect470 Před 2 lety +34

    I feel like it’s a good idea to keep a motorway and only use it in emergencies or to edit a current motorway

    • @RobBCactive
      @RobBCactive Před 2 lety +2

      The game can force deployment, but using motorways unnecessarily is indeed a waste. Houses/bridges/tunnels can block the alternative road routes.

  • @dragovian
    @dragovian Před 2 lety +7

    Tip: In the start, with the 2 Red businesses, if you place the road passing directly from the 1st one(1 road to the left), there will be less slowing down for the cars going to the 2nd business

  • @MegaGullas
    @MegaGullas Před 2 lety +5

    "As much as I like threeways..."
    -Aliensrock 2021

  • @thewarmedic2330
    @thewarmedic2330 Před 2 lety +8

    Keep it up; Love your content! Would love to see some more Mini Metro and Mini Motorway content!

  • @Fatalshot642
    @Fatalshot642 Před 2 lety +3

    In my mind I was like “connect the houses to the roads”

  • @SunDry_Marchy
    @SunDry_Marchy Před 2 lety +1

    Tyler pulling through 16th minute is incredible beautiful

  • @axolotl1237
    @axolotl1237 Před 2 lety +20

    Well well well if it isn't Tyler "segregation is fine" Aliensrock

  • @RobBCactive
    @RobBCactive Před 2 lety +1

    The lights are somewhat more useful now, but they still help most where heavy fast traffic passes a quiet side road. It can reduce the pins then from a dest.
    They don't solve problems caused by junctions being too close or having to mix colours and house sources

  • @KingQwertzlbrmpf
    @KingQwertzlbrmpf Před 2 lety +4

    Yes, Traffic lights have become stronger but you woefully underestimated the worth of roundabouts. A roundabout in that upper right corner yellow neighborhood probably would've cleared out the traffic jam in that area very fast. Granted, at that point in the game it was pretty much over anyway, but still.

  • @kirillvoloshin2065
    @kirillvoloshin2065 Před 2 lety +1

    as always - a nice video! just got a 3772 on Tokio yesterday!

  • @worldpeace6322
    @worldpeace6322 Před 2 lety

    Omg Tyler, I used to watch you for BTD stuff... It's been like 6-7-8 years... The nostalgia 😭 you and Chris aka SJB were the best

  • @HardwareLust
    @HardwareLust Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks Tyler. A lot of old 'tips and tricks' videos tell you that traffic lights should be avoided.

  • @AlexWilson-mn1ud
    @AlexWilson-mn1ud Před 2 lety +3

    with the tiny island on tokyo, i always add a line of road in the middle of it all the way along so that houses don’t spawn in the middle, making connecting houses harder.

  • @lukamilosevic3191
    @lukamilosevic3191 Před 2 lety +1

    Him: complains about blue
    The 1 million unconnected blue houses in the corner: am i a joke to yoj

  • @erwumbo
    @erwumbo Před 2 lety +10

    Tokyo is such a hard map! I think I'm still sub 2k on that one.

    • @TheBlueGirl18
      @TheBlueGirl18 Před 2 lety

      I can’t even get past 900 😭 that’s the only one I can’t get to 1k

  • @Dark_Slayer3000
    @Dark_Slayer3000 Před 2 lety +4

    THE RETURN OF THE 🚥🚦
    "Finally, a worthy opponent" -roundabout

  • @spirk3144
    @spirk3144 Před 2 lety +1

    7:12 "cream is doing me a mad solid"

  • @Veronica-qk1ss
    @Veronica-qk1ss Před 2 lety +3

    The fact that every business had a red timer-

  • @lknight1266
    @lknight1266 Před 2 lety +1

    Where the 2 pink businesses had the 3 way intersection in the middle, you could’ve put in a traffic light because it would’ve just kept all traffic from slowing down. This would be because the bottom left, up right roads would’ve had green light 24/7 since the up left road would’ve only had people turning right on red which is allowed

  • @col.choros3966
    @col.choros3966 Před 2 lety

    1:42 "As much as I like three ways"
    -Aliensrock 2021

  • @jimmybarr9411
    @jimmybarr9411 Před 2 lety +3

    I think part of the downfall was not connecting many of the houses and concentrating on only one problem for too long. Otherwise, great game, I want to try it out myself one of these days…

  • @RHKO
    @RHKO Před 2 lety

    “The light blues are struggling, how is this happening” quarter on light blue houses unconnected

  • @dirtytowel6741
    @dirtytowel6741 Před 2 lety +2

    Real life patch notes:
    *Traffic lights have been massively buffed*
    *Rio De Janeiro can no longer be broken*

  • @theraginggamer3712
    @theraginggamer3712 Před 2 lety

    Tyler: as much as i like threeways...
    People:make jokes
    Me: *ROOKIE NUMBERS*

  • @kingstonvlach7835
    @kingstonvlach7835 Před 2 lety +1

    "The cream is doing me a mad solid"
    -tyler 2021

  • @jhh-jiynks6568
    @jhh-jiynks6568 Před 2 lety +7

    Heya tyler.
    Thanks for the great vids.
    Oddly enough watching others do puzzles is entertaining.
    I personally am a big fan of game theory and puzzles aswell, so much so that my choice of entertainment while relaxing from the day is watching your vids.
    Super cool you're playing myst.
    I uhh, wasn't as connected with the story line.
    I naturally was drawn to the unique and without context opportunities within the game as I just used my general desire of figuring things without the answer of why

  • @asiainwood1891
    @asiainwood1891 Před 2 lety +1

    These traffic light actually not worst than not having traffic light anymore. They are actually letting car in one direction go then immediately let the other car go in a different direction. Before they were just stopping car which just make it so much worst than not having it

  • @mr.randomperson6239
    @mr.randomperson6239 Před 2 lety

    Your content is always the best chefs kiss to you

  • @ALiteralGoose
    @ALiteralGoose Před rokem

    7:03 That pastel pink car ran a red light on the left

  • @ZoraHimself
    @ZoraHimself Před 2 lety

    "As much as I love threeways" - Tyler, 2021

  • @PrivateMcPrivate
    @PrivateMcPrivate Před 2 lety

    Haha the traffic light finally triumphs over the roundabout

  • @sultinhernandes8814
    @sultinhernandes8814 Před 2 lety +1

    The traffic lights were never bad, you were

  • @richardbullick7827
    @richardbullick7827 Před 2 lety

    I got the notification over a full day after this video came out

  • @jenniferglenis9250
    @jenniferglenis9250 Před rokem

    16:25 "cut off one head, 2 more appear".

  • @skeletonwar5376
    @skeletonwar5376 Před 2 lety +2

    I always knew you were the one giving me red lights

  • @darlingbones
    @darlingbones Před rokem

    I'm screaming at my screen for him to connect all the cream houses

  • @ImmortalAbsol
    @ImmortalAbsol Před 2 lety +1

    I'd like to see bridges be able to go over other roads.

  • @gr.4380
    @gr.4380 Před 5 měsíci

    "Segregation is fine sometimes"
    "I like three ways"

  • @pepdog1
    @pepdog1 Před rokem

    17:03 oh my god look at the yellows to the left of highway 4 going into a pink house... absolutely broke them by removing their bridge, it seems. That's probably why that particular yellow ended up ending the run lmao

  • @Ungrilled_Cheese
    @Ungrilled_Cheese Před rokem

    mini moterway becomes massive monstrosity with tyler around

  • @vreference
    @vreference Před 2 lety +1

    I'd love to see a game mode that made it so businesses needed to collect other color traffic but to a lesser extent. Obvious next step would be business that requires all colors.

  • @HoundNL
    @HoundNL Před 2 lety +5

    "Segregation is fine sometimes"

  • @SmolSir
    @SmolSir Před 2 lety +1

    4:40 roundabout is not a 3x3, it's a plus sign template!

  • @islammohamed1441
    @islammohamed1441 Před 2 lety

    "Normally I wouldn't do this. I'd normally do as many three ways as possible."
    Word

  • @ju-yuanchueh8444
    @ju-yuanchueh8444 Před 2 lety +4

    Isn't it always better to connect roads to houses because you get more points?

  • @tyukogames
    @tyukogames Před 2 lety

    At the start: TRAFIC LIGHT ARE TRASH
    Now:LAST HOUR NEWS trafic lights are good

  • @lwolfer5170
    @lwolfer5170 Před 2 lety +1

    Mini Motorways is the @Road Guy Rob of video games. Mino Metro is the @RMTransit

  • @okadesign
    @okadesign Před 2 lety

    They should add a tram that can connect factory to factory in a straight line that cuts through rivers, mountains and roads

  • @jlco
    @jlco Před 2 lety +6

    It looks like they made businesses ramp up after new businesses stop spawning.
    That's pretty clever. It fixes infinite runs and discourages spawn blocking at the same time.
    Spawn blocking effectively forces you into the late-game ramping earlier. And no matter how efficient you are, there's a limit on traffic flow through a business itself; ramp demand past that, and it becomes impossible to set up an infinite run.

  • @nif4345
    @nif4345 Před 2 lety

    This video: *about Mini Motorways*
    The advertisement: *about Potion Craft*
    Me: Not really related, but I *guess* that makes sense...

  • @mayatheworld
    @mayatheworld Před 2 lety

    One thing i think could help is closing off areas to prevent more houses! The more houses, the more denand

    • @hamizannaruto
      @hamizannaruto Před 2 lety

      Unfortunately, house only take 1 space, so it's not really possible due to limited roads.

  • @huhneat1076
    @huhneat1076 Před 2 lety

    11:00 Little did we know, he did not make it a bridge

  • @NationofFoxes
    @NationofFoxes Před 2 lety

    "Looks like I need to buss in the pinks"

  • @ericramsey3646
    @ericramsey3646 Před 2 lety +2

    Ah very early. Love your content Tyler! Been kinda slackin lately so I might catch up on your vids tonight

  • @dickgraysonvlogs4waddell335

    I love these videos to much

  • @artem_mma
    @artem_mma Před 2 lety

    Nice

  • @seanstuchbery
    @seanstuchbery Před rokem

    if you block off the island with yellow you get much more preferable yellow spawns

  • @jeofthevirtuoussand
    @jeofthevirtuoussand Před 2 lety

    "I want a motorway roundabout here"

  • @skellingtron817
    @skellingtron817 Před 2 lety +7

    ok but how do you buff a traffic light

    • @weeveferrelaine6973
      @weeveferrelaine6973 Před 2 lety +5

      The game developers can code the "AI", although this game's AI is simplistic enough, that it looks like it just works on a few basic principles. The buff looks like they increased how fast the lights switch to green, as well as how little cars slow down for the lights (They look coded to run "yellows")

  • @confuzxion1383
    @confuzxion1383 Před 2 lety

    ‘As much as I like 3 ways’

  • @gpaderx6105
    @gpaderx6105 Před 2 lety

    gonna contact Real Civil Engineer regarding about this

  • @itsmystory5151
    @itsmystory5151 Před 2 lety

    When almost all of the businesses are panicking and the game is lagging because of all the effects but your fine
    =god gamer

  • @Mona-ni6jx
    @Mona-ni6jx Před rokem

    The people of mini motorways when they see 3 flashing lights (they have never seen a traffic light in thier entire 4 week life)

  • @BoulderWraith
    @BoulderWraith Před 2 lety

    Fun fact
    Tyler cleans

  • @chirpdotbat
    @chirpdotbat Před 2 lety

    "As much as I like 3-ways" -Aliensrock, September 2021
    "That's kinda creaming, look, we have creams right in position" -Aliensrock, September 2021

  • @zavalanovakidue
    @zavalanovakidue Před 2 lety +1

    "This is no-torway"

  • @BoWSkittlez
    @BoWSkittlez Před 2 lety

    That other blue house in the very beginning must have been broken. Not a single car left from it even though it was attached

  • @KyrieFortune
    @KyrieFortune Před rokem

    Mini Motorways is like the demonstration Euclidean zoning doesn't work

  • @stabilini
    @stabilini Před 2 lety

    diagonal crossings (45-45 degree) have no delay

  • @quallejellyfish7413
    @quallejellyfish7413 Před 2 lety

    i love dis

  • @bradleywalton970
    @bradleywalton970 Před 2 lety +2

    0:57 what does he mean by it's no longer possible to break?

  • @HeavenlyDemonicKid
    @HeavenlyDemonicKid Před 2 lety

    Holy pog

  • @InfestedChris
    @InfestedChris Před 2 lety

    I feel like hwy 4 and 2 could switch up for better flow too. 15:06

  • @guilhermebaumerconcer1494

    "As much as i like tree-ways"

  • @anothrnoml
    @anothrnoml Před 2 lety

    *traffic lights are the new meta*

  • @carteryesno9364
    @carteryesno9364 Před 2 lety +2

    Finally usingvtjem

  • @jonasbrownell5591
    @jonasbrownell5591 Před 2 lety +1

    I wonder what would happen if they added 1 way roads.

  • @PeachyNanaUK
    @PeachyNanaUK Před 2 lety

    Could you be colourblind? The ‘cream’ is pink. :) Thanks for all the tips. :)

  • @flammablerock8152
    @flammablerock8152 Před 2 lety

    Tyler, post before midnight EST I need the sleep

  • @LimeInDisguise
    @LimeInDisguise Před 2 lety

    Real Civil Engineer: impossible

  • @cousinacademylogan6868

    "Segregation is fine sometimes too