This is why Highway Engineers like ROUNDABOUTS... Mini Motorways!

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  • čas přidán 23. 07. 2021
  • Fixing gridlocked traffic by using roundabouts in Mini Motorways will help you get high scores in Mini Motorways! From the makers of Mini Metro comes Mini Motorways! A highway engineering puzzle game and in this video I, a highway designer of 10 years, see if my real life engineering skills help me become better at the Mini Motorways puzzle game by using the power of roundabouts to fix bad traffic! Can I beat @BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines at his own game?
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    About Mini Motorways:
    Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could do something to fix it?
    In Mini Motorways, the city’s traffic problems are in your hands.
    From the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city. Build a road network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades to meet the changing demands. How long can you keep the cities of the world moving?
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    - Draw roads in dynamic cities that grow and change - every game is unique!
    - Explore stunning maps inspired by cities all around the world.
    - Choose from a variety of upgrades to meet the demands of your ever-expanding road network: highways, roundabouts, and more!
    - Select different colour palettes on every map including colourblind and night modes.
    - Relax to a responsive soundtrack from Disasterpeace that grows along with your city.
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    - Export GIFs of your city layouts to share with your friends.
    - Compete against other players in Daily and Weekly Challenges.
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Komentáře • 1,6K

  • @117johnpar
    @117johnpar Před 2 lety +4851

    I love when the construction crew redoes my driveway to my house 3 times in one month and ends by putting it at the back of my house, and looping all the way around the back of my neighborhood.

    • @Dutch_fellow
      @Dutch_fellow Před 2 lety +30

      whahahahaha xD genius comment

    • @danoobalt3172
      @danoobalt3172 Před 2 lety +7

      I love it too

    • @pandalla114
      @pandalla114 Před 2 lety +31

      How about they redo 10 times then return it to the original place?

    • @pLacepartay
      @pLacepartay Před 2 lety +1

      @@Dutch_fellow rr

    • @ZinoAmare
      @ZinoAmare Před 2 lety +2

      They only do their job xD boss says this they make it like this it sucks though

  • @pro-11-brawlstars68
    @pro-11-brawlstars68 Před 2 lety +1361

    I love how mad he got when the guy didn’t properly use the roundabout

    • @andrewkoster6506
      @andrewkoster6506 Před 2 lety +99

      In order to avoid an accident, the car already on the roundabout had to concede to the idiot who drove into the roundabout incorrectly. Just like in real life!

    • @civilbabavlogs8778
      @civilbabavlogs8778 Před 2 lety +4

      @@andrewkoster6506 Hello friends, this is the foundation topic of civil engineering, on which I am uploading and making videos, if you like it, then please like share subscribe, if not then please do not.

    • @Patrioticification
      @Patrioticification Před 2 lety +4

      In Poland, rarely but anyways, you can use roundabout like this. Typically though, we get the standard ones (you need to let others pass before entering roundabout).

    • @entitypolyhedron
      @entitypolyhedron Před 2 lety +9

      @@civilbabavlogs8778 no

    • @fanhanyan607
      @fanhanyan607 Před rokem +1

      As an Australian, their use of roundabouts displeases us

  • @xavisk8pro
    @xavisk8pro Před 2 lety +2184

    The main strategy of the game is to understand how many houses you need to fulfill the demand of the buildings. You can leave houses unconnected and avoid mixing colours in the same roads to avoid unnecessary congestion.

    • @spamburger222
      @spamburger222 Před 2 lety +113

      @@EricDMMiller its a strategy game. Finding out the best strategy is kind of the point i think...

    • @mugzbe.8374
      @mugzbe.8374 Před 2 lety +153

      a nice update for this game would be destinations that are a mix of colours, so a place for red and white, blue and green and so on, late game has building with every colour

    • @hieatus1039
      @hieatus1039 Před 2 lety +26

      @@EricDMMiller it makes it more satisfying from a gameplay perspective and is easier to manage than by house.

    • @ritchiedee6210
      @ritchiedee6210 Před 2 lety +31

      @@EricDMMiller yeah, and even more, best strategy is to put down unconnected wasteful roads.. because you realize it helps to save prime real estate. any real civil engineer would puke...

    • @ywills7890
      @ywills7890 Před 2 lety +8

      @@EricDMMiller Can't really disagree with that comment - you have hit the nail on the head

  • @kirara4953
    @kirara4953 Před 2 lety +1663

    "Roundabouts are the best!"
    Little did you know, the drivers were American.

    • @mdsk7623
      @mdsk7623 Před 2 lety +47

      Chinese because he was in Beijing

    • @LyraTyrell
      @LyraTyrell Před 2 lety +22

      We have rotaries here in America too bud.

    • @kirara4953
      @kirara4953 Před 2 lety +97

      @@LyraTyrell that doesn't mean they know how to use them, plus most seem to be against them.

    • @gemyellow
      @gemyellow Před 2 lety +20

      idk, lived in US and Canada. You guys know how to use roundabouts. We, however, built roundabouts, then add traffic lights and eventually add pathways in the middle (back to intersections) because no one knows how to use them and way too many scooters

    • @TheDJLionman
      @TheDJLionman Před 2 lety +30

      @@kirara4953 thats because our fuckin genious traffic planners do shit like slap a round about in the middle of an ACTUAL CROSS STATE highway just because theres a town the size of a wood shed on either side of the dang thing.

  • @wolfy704
    @wolfy704 Před 2 lety +6117

    Pls make this a series

  • @deviligor13
    @deviligor13 Před 2 lety +888

    You can connect roundabouts and motorways using a road tile

  • @artemkatelnytskyi
    @artemkatelnytskyi Před 2 lety +471

    Didn't realise it was a let's play. I thought it was going to be an educational video, lol.

  • @gaithswafta9571
    @gaithswafta9571 Před 2 lety +749

    "that just look cooler and that's all what we care about" he said
    isn't that the architects job

    • @shadowcween7890
      @shadowcween7890 Před 2 lety +3

      oh no

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 Před 2 lety +29

      Oh no ! They got to him and replaced him with an architect, there weren't any knob related jokes either, this can't be a coincidence !

    • @lewisbamford337
      @lewisbamford337 Před 2 lety +7

      Real civil architect

    • @bastipohl4489
      @bastipohl4489 Před 2 lety

      @@shadowcween7890 uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujuuuuuuuuuk8 8 mi/MI mk

    • @bastipohl4489
      @bastipohl4489 Před 2 lety

      Naja

  • @toasterhavingabath6980
    @toasterhavingabath6980 Před 2 lety +1947

    You're the one person that I don't mind using that thumbnail format

    • @Karim_Moh
      @Karim_Moh Před 2 lety +12

      Agreed

    • @AFKnaHSama
      @AFKnaHSama Před 2 lety +33

      LoL DF is overdoing it in every Video
      He goes Like
      Noob
      Pro
      ???

    • @teathesilkwing7616
      @teathesilkwing7616 Před 2 lety +20

      @@AFKnaHSama yeah but df’s videos are good so I personally let it slide

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 Před 2 lety +41

      @@AFKnaHSama Yea, but his clickbait BS is part of his charm.
      Ironic clickbait goes all the way past annoying and comes back around to funny.

    • @comicsans5812
      @comicsans5812 Před 2 lety +29

      @@Nevir202 and plus its not really clickbaity since hes doing what we see in the thumbnail

  • @martinlehtonen
    @martinlehtonen Před 2 lety +536

    you shouldn't do driveways straight on to arterials. Try to group as many houses you can into cul-de-sacs. It will make traffic flow better

  • @justinwhite2725
    @justinwhite2725 Před 2 lety +51

    2:48 there is a difference doing that. Cars slow down at intersections. I find it's better to pair houses up to have fewer intersections on 'main roads'

  • @ZealeotR
    @ZealeotR Před 2 lety +630

    Real Civil Engineer: Where overhauling your road design isn't an option.

    • @TheTokkin
      @TheTokkin Před 2 lety +42

      Ban cars. Make room for bicycles.

    • @ur_boyfriend8612
      @ur_boyfriend8612 Před 2 lety +6

      @@TheTokkin motorcycles are way better tho, much faster and less tiring

    • @nothereforit.605
      @nothereforit.605 Před 2 lety +31

      @@ur_boyfriend8612 yeah and they’re great for donor organ industry too. Arizona doesn’t require helmets (don’t know if they’ve changed this) and because of that you have a lot of people who get horrendous head injuries bur the rest of their organs are fine so hospitals make the big bucks here. Apparently, states with huge motorcycle riders that require the proper safety gear still have a good influx of viable organs.

    • @nothereforit.605
      @nothereforit.605 Před 2 lety +8

      @@TheTokkin are you from Europe? Or Japan? A-lot of countries in Europe and japan have great public transportation. America on the other hand….. and when you do try to get funding you have people saying taxes are evil and public transport is socialist or communist or fascist. Depends which flavor of ignorant you like. Although the one defense is that America is huge with huge differences in terrain. You can be in forest, dessert and rugged mountain terrain all in one state.

    • @ur_boyfriend8612
      @ur_boyfriend8612 Před 2 lety +8

      @@nothereforit.605 tbh most motorcycle accidents happen because people are idiots and ride like maniacs without wearing proper gear, so it’ll just be natural selection, I went to vietnam before the outbreak and even though their cities are extremely crowded, I didnt encounter a single traffic jam because most of the population over there ride motorcycles.

  • @mistercrumples9727
    @mistercrumples9727 Před 2 lety +2762

    "these white people no longer have to negotiate this roundabout" 7:10 Segregation is key.

    • @XerxesPrinceOfPersia
      @XerxesPrinceOfPersia Před 2 lety +116

      #RoadillionaireGrindset

    • @jonawesome1191
      @jonawesome1191 Před 2 lety +10

      Lol

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 Před 2 lety +72

      Ya, had the same thought.
      Though I've seen some early game where they literally segregated all the colors, so they never interacted at all lol

    • @starcluster2593
      @starcluster2593 Před 2 lety +1

      lol

    • @wofls2713
      @wofls2713 Před 2 lety +50

      the damn whites are taking up space on the main road!!

  • @mokmokfish2910
    @mokmokfish2910 Před 2 lety +738

    PLEASE make this a series. in return we will all like for the youtube algorithm gods :)

  • @preeatt7909
    @preeatt7909 Před 2 lety +177

    Imagine your drive in to your house exiting directly onto a roundabout.

    • @finnrex3871
      @finnrex3871 Před 2 lety +22

      A brit‘s wet dream

    • @lukewoolner
      @lukewoolner Před 2 lety +7

      That's actually a thing in the UK

    • @evremn
      @evremn Před 2 lety +5

      There's a house like that around the corner from me. Specifically 299 Church St, London N9 9JA

    • @googiegress7459
      @googiegress7459 Před 2 lety +2

      Almost a cul-de-sac

    • @oranges7706
      @oranges7706 Před 2 lety +10

      @@evremn probably shouldn't put that on the internet lol

  • @copioustime7029
    @copioustime7029 Před 2 lety +387

    Is there a reason you’re not connecting those houses diagonally to the houses next to them? Saves a lot on roads, and personally think it looks cleaner

    • @derpyoreo2611
      @derpyoreo2611 Před 2 lety +2

      I was going to say the same thing

    • @waltwhitman7545
      @waltwhitman7545 Před 2 lety +2

      what do you mean by that

    • @jordandraws4212
      @jordandraws4212 Před 2 lety +22

      @@waltwhitman7545 driveways of these houses can go diagonally, they dont have to go up, left, right, or down. CopiousTime is saying that he only makes the driveways go in 1 of 4 directions, when he could save road tiles by making them go diagonally instead.

    • @635574
      @635574 Před 2 lety

      I'm not even sure if houses can be chained through

    • @pi_xi
      @pi_xi Před 2 lety

      Braess Paradox

  • @InSaneSmc
    @InSaneSmc Před 2 lety +569

    My town literally has 3 roundabouts in a row and the distance from first roundabout to last one is 260 meters...

    • @deeznoots6241
      @deeznoots6241 Před 2 lety +158

      Pathetic, Swindon has the magic roundabout, which is a roundabout made up of 5 smaller roundabouts

    • @teathesilkwing7616
      @teathesilkwing7616 Před 2 lety +37

      @@deeznoots6241 that’s… beautiful… :,)

    • @lawsonmoskal7363
      @lawsonmoskal7363 Před 2 lety

      Sounds like south Lyon lol

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před 2 lety +34

      my town has roundabouts, but I hate them, because whotever designed them can't get the radius correct, so half a car can pass in a two-lane roundabout, which strangle the traffic and makes things worse actually.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před 2 lety +5

      @@deeznoots6241 I never saw a sungear roundabout, I would get lost and get stuck forever there until my dinosaur juice ran out

  • @joeniW
    @joeniW Před 2 lety +87

    A tip: You can hit the spacebar for pausing instead of having to go through the menu at the top, might make it easier to switch between thinking & letting things play out

    • @Hypohamish
      @Hypohamish Před 2 lety +7

      You can also use the number keys (1, 2 and 3) for pause and the two speeds.

    • @Muskar2
      @Muskar2 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Hypohamish Thank you! I looked it up, spammed most other keys and could not find the speed keys anywhere.

    • @Muskar2
      @Muskar2 Před 2 lety +4

      @@osu4006 How presumptuous of you. I play with three

  • @icarusgaming6269
    @icarusgaming6269 Před 2 lety +20

    If you take the time to fiddle with those longer roads you can make them straighter, which will save you road tiles and make things less convoluted in the long run. You also had like, five intersections that needed reworked, a special tile, or both by the end there. This isn't like Mini Metro where you hold onto your special tiles until you need them. Everything needs to be running as smoothly as soon as possible to avoid little problems turning into big problems later down the line. You definitely have a mind for this, though

  • @dinopoloclub
    @dinopoloclub Před 2 lety +23

    "Everything is moving too fast" 😅 we know the feeling! Awesome stream, thanks for sharing!

  • @danielxia1701
    @danielxia1701 Před 2 lety +287

    you can connect houses diagonally even if it's in a corner

    • @TheWizardGamez
      @TheWizardGamez Před 2 lety +22

      @Matteo Dolcin more importantly road rules, but taking up a ton of wasted space stops business’s from spawning

    • @aamd8485
      @aamd8485 Před 2 lety +8

      @@TheWizardGamez but by removing the corners you can use the extra roads more freely to block buildings spawning elsewhere

    • @aliteralsnakewithatophat3247
      @aliteralsnakewithatophat3247 Před 2 lety +4

      That sounds like such a cursed design

  • @darshaningale2608
    @darshaningale2608 Před 2 lety +93

    Le:
    Circular shaped building exists
    This guy:
    IMAX 😂😂😂

    • @unclesam8862
      @unclesam8862 Před 2 lety +2

      😂✌😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁😁😊😊😊😂😂😂😂

    • @unclesam8862
      @unclesam8862 Před 2 lety

      @ilikeminecraft6753 🤔🤔🤔😔😔😔

  • @jonkf7548
    @jonkf7548 Před 2 lety +48

    Forget L.A. and Beijing this game needs a Swindon town map where all the road tiles are roundabouts.

    • @aaahhelp8766
      @aaahhelp8766 Před 2 lety +5

      Yeah and the option to put roundabouts in roundabouts

    • @tibbakoi
      @tibbakoi Před 2 lety

      YES.

    • @giant3dorangutanmodel89
      @giant3dorangutanmodel89 Před 2 lety

      Swindon is literally hell on Earth
      Satan himself designed the road system

    • @Mike-rx5uu
      @Mike-rx5uu Před 2 lety +1

      I don't know if the game supports a magic roundabout... but it should.

  • @dr.riversong6228
    @dr.riversong6228 Před 2 lety +18

    "I don't even know what's going on" --sums up the last minute of every single game I play. At this point getting 1K points is such a huge achievement for me lol

  • @luthfikun6601
    @luthfikun6601 Před 2 lety +391

    "I could actually get rid of all the whites" -RCE 2021

    • @onyxrafle8066
      @onyxrafle8066 Před 2 lety +13

      How can there be racism when all my neighbors look the same? Finally racism solved.

    • @GunkedUpGoober
      @GunkedUpGoober Před 2 lety +1

      Based

    • @melangalade
      @melangalade Před 2 lety +2

      by giving them their own road ... :D

    • @onyxrafle8066
      @onyxrafle8066 Před 2 lety +2

      @@civilbabavlogs8778 racism is the foundation of your videos?

  • @BrunoFornataro
    @BrunoFornataro Před 2 lety +8

    Pro tip: you can use diagonals to connect some houses and crossroads, you save a road since the diagonal counts as one unit and not as two. I love this game, please continue the series ♥

  • @mindblown9
    @mindblown9 Před rokem +3

    15:40 "This imax doesn't get enough business, so we'll shut down your whole city"

  • @Todbrecher
    @Todbrecher Před 2 lety +13

    as a German I immediately thought: "Try putting a Roundabout on an Autobahn..."

  • @mokmokfish2910
    @mokmokfish2910 Před 2 lety +37

    quick tip: you can rotate the houses so the road comes out the direction you want

    • @genus577
      @genus577 Před 2 lety +6

      He accidentally did that already without realizing

    • @mokmokfish2910
      @mokmokfish2910 Před 2 lety +1

      @@genus577 oh yeah lol

    • @NutchapolSal
      @NutchapolSal Před 2 lety +1

      he knows about this since the first episode

  • @Beregorn88
    @Beregorn88 Před 2 lety +72

    "Who is the roundabout master now, Biffa?" 😂

  • @The_Flamekeepers
    @The_Flamekeepers Před rokem +1

    I love connecting motorways to roundabouts via a one road-tile spur. It really helps though when you build the roads before the houses and businesses pop in.

  • @BlakeAStoffel
    @BlakeAStoffel Před 2 lety +5

    One technique I’ve found is to add roads early to keep things from spawning where I don’t want them. Prevent’s things like the random green up to the top.

  • @valvesofvalvino
    @valvesofvalvino Před 2 lety +15

    I love how the round buildings are officially all IMAX cinemas now!

  • @The_Foxymew
    @The_Foxymew Před 2 lety +19

    When I first learned to drive, roundabouts kind of scared me, I was more looking forwards to traffic lights. But now I'm almost the opposite. I always worry so much about driving to a light crossing, and then entering when it's red, because the speed's too high, and the yellow's too short. While roundabouts are SO easy to navigate.
    Man, roundabouts are fantastic, truly fantastic.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před 2 lety

      when I see yellow, pedal to the metal !

    • @blauesserpiroyal2887
      @blauesserpiroyal2887 Před 2 lety +2

      We actually have a solution here for that: The green light blinks a few times before it changes to yellow

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 Před 2 lety

      We were literally never told the rules for roundabouts. I just have to wing it whenever I find one, which is really damned rare in North america

    • @The_Foxymew
      @The_Foxymew Před 2 lety +1

      @@tsm688 They're pretty simple: If you're in the roundabout, you yield for no one (Unless you're changing lane) if you're trying to get into the roundabout, you yield for everyone.
      And because of their nature they're self regulating, so they don't have the same kind of congestion issue! Unless one of the exits is like, NEVER entered from, I guess.
      Gosh roundabouts are swell! (Take up so much space though.)

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 Před 2 lety

      @@The_Foxymew THANK YOU :D I've been asking years but everyone is all just "ha ha he doesn't know the three shells"

  • @tropicalvikingcreations
    @tropicalvikingcreations Před 2 lety +3

    Here's some tips from watching others.
    - You may want to focus highways on middle ground areas and a little less direct as stuff gets added they become less useful and will need to be moved around.
    - When connecting a Highway to a well used main road, you should add a little turn off before connecting it in case you need to add lights, A roundabout or another highway to that area later. Just better for the long run of dense neighborhoods.
    - you can actually pre plan an area by filing out the roads so certain stuff only spawns in the general area you want it to but be careful about using too many roads and run out when you need them. This is more for when you're used to it.
    - Sometimes you really need to make the visual sacrifice and just attach the neighborhood diagonally to save space and tiles.
    In this round you should have made a central left vertical highway as well as made a horizontal highway across the map from left central to upper right across the small river.
    Gg, this was fun and kinda intense to watch, don't forget to plan to add your bypasses earlier, when it gets faster, you're gonna need them.

  • @uarmyhope613
    @uarmyhope613 Před 2 lety +19

    You can do diagonal roads in the nooks of the intersections, that way the people coming from the sides won’t get so mixed up with the people going up/down (same applies for the entries to the malls)

  • @ChemicalCrash
    @ChemicalCrash Před 2 lety +24

    You definitely seem to have an aversion to diagonal roads in subdivisions/estates threading between houses. (Right angles are the right way to go?) Interesting. Loving the gameplay, though! 😊👍

    • @limbridk
      @limbridk Před 2 lety +3

      I noticed this as well. Not how I would play, but I like that different people have different styles.

  • @DasGuntLord01
    @DasGuntLord01 Před 2 lety +44

    "when you're on the roundabout you never give way."
    Strangely enough, the Greeks did not learn from the British, and this is *exactly* how they do roundabouts, and it's awful.

    • @AristotelisMitsiou
      @AristotelisMitsiou Před 2 lety +7

      Indeed, if there's no give way markings anywhere the default behaviour is for those in the roundabout to give way to those entering. As a Greek I can't understand we don't do it the other way round

    • @8Hshan
      @8Hshan Před 2 lety +7

      @@AristotelisMitsiou Wow, that sounds like the quickest way to completely block the roundabout. Weird that your road planners came up with such idea.

    • @tanguy_
      @tanguy_ Před 2 lety +1

      Originally the roundabouts were designed this way to respect the priority to the right. But it quickly became clear that this was a bad idea

  • @superleetninja
    @superleetninja Před 2 lety +17

    I like your content a lot, it would be really interesting if the developers for this game upped the AI so that they wouldnt always try to take the shortest path. Then distributor roads and the like would actually help immensely. Unfortunately though the best way to play this game seems to just segregate as much as possible so that there just isnt any chance for traffic to build up

  • @ZeroUm_
    @ZeroUm_ Před 2 lety +1

    I was thinking "Biffa would trounce this guy with his superior roundab... Oh it's Biffa..."

  • @Rosa-ch2rs
    @Rosa-ch2rs Před 2 lety +3

    hahahaha you beating and noticing biffa on the score board is so funny! I love it when youtubers i watch recognize eachother. Makes this whole thing feel like some kind of community :)

  • @tomsterbg8130
    @tomsterbg8130 Před 2 lety +4

    I just love how quickly you got to apply your everyday tricks to this game. I myself found out that separating big roads from suburban areas is much better, but I can't apply it really well yet as I got about 70 days into Bejing.

  • @pointlagrange4823
    @pointlagrange4823 Před 2 lety +1

    Screw traffic circles (roundabouts). Cause lots of accidents even while slowing traffic. Build it right with high-speed access ramps

  • @gamerman7276
    @gamerman7276 Před 2 lety +16

    Alternative title: Real Civil Engineer learns what we all knew about roundabouts

  • @republicofgamers9842
    @republicofgamers9842 Před 2 lety +16

    Yes there is more! I hope this becomes a regular sieries.

  • @DrexYiii
    @DrexYiii Před 2 lety +6

    "I'm british"
    *grabs cup of tea in happiness*

  • @robbasgaming7044
    @robbasgaming7044 Před 2 lety

    The battle of roundabouts. In the red corner RCE, in the blue corner Biffa. I like it!

  • @raith3700
    @raith3700 Před 2 lety

    "The blue and the red crashed right there, not ideal"
    Mate, perfect level of concern

  • @Mikedeela
    @Mikedeela Před 2 lety +7

    I just retired from the State transportation department, and I installed some of the first roundabouts in the State. It was an uphill battle to break through the resistance, but we managed and we have a fair number in the field now. Most of mine are on local streets, although there are several on larger scale roadways as well. Unfortunately too many of the older engineers do not understand the importance of the specific design features and making sure they didn't cut corners, so to speak, was a major struggle.

    • @DaftPunkSkittle
      @DaftPunkSkittle Před 2 lety

      roundabouts are so dangerous its ridicules

    • @Mikedeela
      @Mikedeela Před 2 lety +2

      @@DaftPunkSkittle Absolutely not. They are the safest intersection control concept available. www.nh.gov/dot/org/projectdevelopment/highwaydesign/roundabouts/documents/FHWARoundaboutBrochure.pdf

    • @DaftPunkSkittle
      @DaftPunkSkittle Před 2 lety +2

      @@Mikedeela been 3 weeks so you might of forgotten that I'm talking about the United States where our driving test are way easier then that of Europe. Allows alot of Bad US drivers on the road plus the fact that we aren't taught from a younger age or even tested in our driver test about roundabouts is a recipe of disaster here in the US. I know because every time I have to use the roundabout here I always encounter bad damn drivers

    • @Mikedeela
      @Mikedeela Před 2 lety +1

      @@DaftPunkSkittle I don't know the we to which you refer, but in Delaware there is a roundabout on both sides of the DMV, so yes people are tested on them. In Maryland, there are roundabouts everywhere. They are required as first consideration when the State installs new traffic control measures. Florida has a lot of them as well, as does Seattle. Don't confuse roundabouts with old style traffic circles, or rotaries. They are not the same.

    • @DaftPunkSkittle
      @DaftPunkSkittle Před 2 lety +1

      @@Mikedeela Oh wow states that dont matter, literally the big 3 dont care, even a simple 2 lane highway we struggle with. Youre mentioning states the size of my neighborhood and whats up with that "we comment" being all condescending, I'm not American because of what? Be careful what you respond

  • @TwiliPaladin
    @TwiliPaladin Před 2 lety +3

    Matt talking about Biffa being #36 on the leaderboard while he’s literally 16 points behind Zedaph.

  • @JIKwood
    @JIKwood Před 2 lety +1

    I like the pausing to get a hold on everything
    The only thing I'd do differently is to tear out everything and redesign it to make it more efficient. Cause designing for something when you know what you have to fix is a lot easier than trying to preplan your designs.

  • @LittleFoxyKat
    @LittleFoxyKat Před 2 lety

    I downloaded this game because of you!!!
    Here’s a tip in case you haven’t noticed it yet: nothing will spawn in the tiles directly touching the shops.
    Can’t wait for more Mini Motorways content!!!

  • @wasup8264
    @wasup8264 Před 2 lety +16

    love this game, please make it a series

  • @mokmokfish2910
    @mokmokfish2910 Před 2 lety +38

    "bejing probably doesent have roundabouts"
    - RCE, 2021

    • @that1unfunnyguy332
      @that1unfunnyguy332 Před 2 lety +1

      Omg you made this so funny you deserve all the subs and you should be a comedian

    • @mokmokfish2910
      @mokmokfish2910 Před 2 lety +2

      @@that1unfunnyguy332 didn't ask
      - MokMokFish, 2021

    • @e.knutsson
      @e.knutsson Před 2 lety +1

      @@mokmokfish2910 i have aids
      -Sun Tzu, Art of War

    • @that1unfunnyguy332
      @that1unfunnyguy332 Před 2 lety

      @@mokmokfish2910 didnt ask for u to use an overused response
      -me

    • @themaster4121
      @themaster4121 Před 2 lety

      @@that1unfunnyguy332 A hypocrite is worse than a person who uses overused responses
      - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • @RobertMorgan
    @RobertMorgan Před 2 lety

    Local town replaced a busy 4 way intersection with a roundabout several years ago. My friend is a police officer there. I asked him if it's cut down on accidents, he says yes, accidents were at least cut in half...but calls to that intersection have doubled or more, because at least once every DAY someone enters the roundabout the wrong way and almost causes a head-on collision, or gets scared and just stops, snarling traffic in all directions. I know people who've lived in this area for decades and they call it the worst thing the transportation dept has ever imposed on people.
    The Diverging Diamond intersections were a huge deal in this region when they were proposed and built, and sure they look great in studies and on paper, but in real life practice unless you have well trained drivers used to them it can be a harrowing experience.

  • @puritan7473
    @puritan7473 Před 2 lety +1

    Why do I feel this video perfectly resembles the IRL road planning meetings :)

  • @jafhi9904
    @jafhi9904 Před 2 lety +9

    found this channel yesterday, already watched 7 of your videos.

  • @DEMEMZEA
    @DEMEMZEA Před 2 lety +18

    For me, the roundabouts are used to the "to be continued" meme

    • @shadowcween7890
      @shadowcween7890 Před 2 lety +5

      context for those who don't understand: Roundabout is the name of a song commonly known for being the "to be continued" meme.

  • @Niconotfunny
    @Niconotfunny Před 2 lety

    Real Civil Engineer is the type of guy that you still understand if you watch his videos without volume

  • @timehunter9467
    @timehunter9467 Před 2 lety

    Watching Biffa fix cities with roundabouts and traffic manager in cities skylines proves they’re better.

  • @pokey5509
    @pokey5509 Před 2 lety +19

    I have 500+ hours on Cities Skylines, and 50% of that time is just me making roads

    • @pws354_8
      @pws354_8 Před 2 lety +1

      TBH, City Skylines feels more like 50% road making, 45% traffic decongestion/optimization, and 5% actual city building. However, I still think it is fun lol

  • @marcusc6588
    @marcusc6588 Před 2 lety +4

    First time seeing this game and it is so beautiful I went out and got it for myself to try 2 hours later I am having meltdowns while traffic gets insanely high

  • @PDTechGuy
    @PDTechGuy Před 2 lety +2

    "Who's the roundabout master now, Biffa?" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @gaysarahk
    @gaysarahk Před 4 měsíci

    "It just looks cooler, and that's all we care about."
    I trusted you. 😭

  • @baumholderh8425
    @baumholderh8425 Před 2 lety +7

    7:04 “I could actually get rid of all the whites”
    -real civil engineer

  •  Před 2 lety +43

    I almost beat my monitor while shouting: "Use those friggin motorways to move across the map, not just two junction, but the whole system! Until finally you use some. :D
    But at least we finally know why the road systems are ... such as.... that.

  • @bruhbruh-uv5fl
    @bruhbruh-uv5fl Před 2 lety

    Civil eng student here, fun fact in traffic engineering we have principle arterial (motorways), minor arterial (main roads), collectors (to main roads and houses) and local streets (to houses). Each with decreasing car speed and increasing access to property.
    In the game, motorways are connected to local streets, the sudden decrease in speed lead to congestion. That's why green still ticks even with a motorway. Normally we increase lanes to accommodate traffic flow but since the game locks at a 2-lane 2-way street, alternative arterial roads and collectors should be made instead. In the game, the roundabout(collector) was way too saturated. Separating and segregating it to simulate a 4 lane 2 way road would've been my approach.

  • @zenvoidd
    @zenvoidd Před 2 lety

    this is the only channel that I can't criticize for putting "noob vs engineer" on the thumbnail because it literally isn't clickbait lol

  • @TisNano
    @TisNano Před 2 lety +13

    Never watched you. Only came upon this vid Cus I enjoy the game. You’re pretty epic. Dropped a sub and excited to watch content you make

  • @calebmaddox8979
    @calebmaddox8979 Před 2 lety +18

    "get rid of all the whites" ummm... Anywaaays, I really did like this. Please keep this series!

  • @japes7
    @japes7 Před 2 lety

    I've never watched your videos before but since Mini Motorways came out it got suggested. And now I love watching your videos about these. So fun.

  • @hcblue
    @hcblue Před 2 lety

    The intro is hilarious to me, because I live in LA and a block from my place is like the only roundabout that I know of in LA.

  • @duffmanohno1446
    @duffmanohno1446 Před 2 lety +3

    Dont tell michigan DOT about this magic. "Michigan lefts" where they took out the left turn lanes onto roads. You have to turn right with traffic and jump 2 lanes, usually one being a fast lane, within ~300m into a u-turn lane. Which the u-turn lane merges with the opposite directions fast lane. I think they figured cars are a safer, better form of speed deterrent than a roundabout 😂

    • @alecia5360
      @alecia5360 Před 2 lety

      Omg yeah, right after I got my permit a few years ago I went to visit my mom and I had to exit the freeway, cross 2 lanes to get to the u-turn and then immediately cross another 2 lanes to turn into her neighborhood and legit had a panic attack. It was horrible

  • @gamerjosh5686
    @gamerjosh5686 Před 2 lety +22

    Soo I saw the last vidio and thought "that looks like a cool game I think I'll get it" and now Ive completed the game
    I need to get a life

    • @flowgangsemaudamartoz7062
      @flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 Před 2 lety

      Play Cities: Skylines if you havent already. Lets see if you can beat it >:)

    • @Manofthebaca
      @Manofthebaca Před 2 lety +1

      I did the same thing and the game annoys me because it doesn’t have stop signs or way to make some roads have right of wau

    • @flowgangsemaudamartoz7062
      @flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 Před 2 lety

      @@Manofthebaca Mods, my friend.

    • @rtyyyyb
      @rtyyyyb Před 2 lety

      I play it on ps4 and it hasn't been updated in 7 months... (my laptop crashed when i tried to open it)

    • @gamerjosh5686
      @gamerjosh5686 Před 2 lety

      @@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 I have but eventually everything is jut gone horribly wrong

  • @floofthefox887
    @floofthefox887 Před 2 lety +1

    Something I want, MINI MOTORWAYS CREATIVE MODE, Kindof like mini metro.

  • @mojosbigsticks
    @mojosbigsticks Před 2 lety

    In Reading, where the A327 meets the B3031, there's a whole slew of houses that drive straight onto a busy roundabout.

  • @fiyahh13
    @fiyahh13 Před 2 lety +8

    Omg I was longing for a 2nd part to the first video! More plsss

  • @dqmir8706
    @dqmir8706 Před 2 lety +4

    You should connect houses diagonally more often, there are a lot of road tiles you could've saved

  • @McVeyRob001
    @McVeyRob001 Před 2 lety

    I got a quality engineering job yesterday and now I’m celebrating with a new RCE video, perfect.

  • @lisahenry20
    @lisahenry20 Před 2 lety

    I think the worst roundabout I've had the absolute pleasure of driving on is on Lee Green in Mirfield. It's where Lee Green, a side road, joins onto Greenside (on the left)/Dunbottle (on the right) and used to be a junction but was changed when I lived around there. They also changed the junction that was further down Dunbottle but changed it back fairly recently, although they still haven't changed the Lee Green one yet. The reason it's so bad is because of the angle that Lee Green is at. You give away to the right so someone on Greenside would wait for whoever is on Lee Green, and whoever is on Lee Green would wait for someone on Dunbottle. However, since people on Lee Green can see a lot of Dunbottle for quite a distance away from the roundabout, they tend to not really slow down that much. And since people on Greenside can't see that much of Lee Green, they can't see someone who isn't planning on slowing down, so they'll go into the roundabout (like they normally would as they do have right of way at that point, as the car on Lee Green isn't close enough to the roundabout for them to have to wait for them, and the car on Lee Green will also try to go on the roundabout, as they see Dunbottle is empty and don't check for someone already on the roundabout from Greenside. I will never forget that roundabout because someone almost crashed into me while on a driving lesson just before an a level exam.

  • @mariacalabrese1330
    @mariacalabrese1330 Před 2 lety +4

    This is a game with such a dumb simple concept but it’s so interesting for some reason

  • @zer0neverer098
    @zer0neverer098 Před 2 lety +3

    After this series,perhaps You could compete for world records on these maps?

  • @joaopedroalmeidacaetano1619

    Roundabout is indeed the best "Sets volume to maximum while listening to Yes"

  • @weedcat1683
    @weedcat1683 Před rokem

    I've learned that in this game the most important part is the pathing of roads, Make sure no one has to turn unless they have too.

  • @breadbeard6722
    @breadbeard6722 Před 2 lety +41

    "These white guys build their houses pretty quick"
    Someone in past America

    • @x340x
      @x340x Před 2 lety +3

      lmao

    • @Wichita0
      @Wichita0 Před 2 lety

      And sadly, someone in present-day America.

  • @bungercolumbus
    @bungercolumbus Před 2 lety +6

    Now imagine adding crosswalks in this game.

  • @varkboys9999
    @varkboys9999 Před 2 lety

    Roundabouts are nice when people know how to use them. Here in the US, most people don't. The same goes for zipper merging.

  • @ledionyes__875
    @ledionyes__875 Před 2 lety

    RCE: *is faced with problem*
    RCE: I might be able to use a roundabout...

  • @Gameboy60802
    @Gameboy60802 Před 2 lety +7

    MORE!, MORE!!!, mMMMMOOOOOORRRRREEEEE!!!!!!!!

  • @mokmokfish2910
    @mokmokfish2910 Před 2 lety +4

    try to get number one on the least played map

  • @jkob8245
    @jkob8245 Před 2 lety

    Not an engineer nor interested on that field but I kinda appreciate now how you guys see things.

  • @deanwoodward8026
    @deanwoodward8026 Před 2 lety

    Watching you play this puts a point on the concept of trying to do road planning w/o any other level of urban planning.

  • @thegamingtnt3111
    @thegamingtnt3111 Před 2 lety +3

    If you like liked this game you should play “Freeways”. Trust me you’ll love it.

  • @neonbunnies9596
    @neonbunnies9596 Před 2 lety +2

    5:05 Wouldn't it be better if the second green house connected straight to the main road, instead of adding extra turns?

    • @rtyyyyb
      @rtyyyyb Před 2 lety

      But cross section bad

    • @neonbunnies9596
      @neonbunnies9596 Před 2 lety +1

      @@rtyyyyb I mean, there is another cross section, where the green houses enter the main road

    • @snafu2350
      @snafu2350 Před 2 lety

      Sometimes you need that delay to prevent congestion later in the route..

  • @eskay_mochi
    @eskay_mochi Před 2 lety +1

    If you could plan where the houses and stores get placed, it wouldn't be a problem. But the local government likes deciding placement with a RNG.

  • @jacklarrey8892
    @jacklarrey8892 Před 2 lety

    From Massachusetts here. I can safely say that roundabouts (or rotaries as we call them) are very efficient when people actually know what they are doing. I live near cape cod and the rotary at the bridge gets lots of tourist traffic and can get swamped but if more people understood how to drive through them it would work much better than a regular intersection

  • @cratew2142
    @cratew2142 Před 2 lety +3

    Did anyone's heart skip a beat when he said "the new harry potter movie has been released"?
    Sigh if only it were true.

  • @JulieEmilieM
    @JulieEmilieM Před 2 lety +1

    "Who is the roundabout master now, Biffa"

    • @RealCivilEngineerGaming
      @RealCivilEngineerGaming  Před 2 lety

      I was in the zone, apologies haha

    • @JulieEmilieM
      @JulieEmilieM Před 2 lety

      @@RealCivilEngineerGaming, Don't worry, I found it really funny! I am definitely enjoying the series.

  • @KaiLucasZachary
    @KaiLucasZachary Před 12 dny

    I am very eagerly awaiting the moment in this video when you actually need/want a bridge and finally realize you never had any. lol

  • @TieflingKumasi
    @TieflingKumasi Před 2 lety

    “They should always give way.”
    They SHOULD. But sometimes they don’t.