Overengineering the LONDON UNDERGROUND in Mini Metro!
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- The prequel to Mini Motorways, Mini Metro is a fantastic minimalist puzzle game where you design and manage train networks in the style of underground subway maps. I looks fantastic, but will my professional engineer skills help me in Mini Metro?
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About Mini Metro:
Mini Metro is a minimalistic subway layout puzzle game. Your small city starts with only three unconnected stations. Your task is to connect them with subway lines. Everything but the line layout is handled automatically; trains run along the lines as quickly as they can, and the commuters decide which trains to board and where to make transfers.
However the city is constantly growing, along with the transport needs of its population. How long can you keep the subway system running before it grinds to a halt?
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You’d think for a man in love with roundabouts, he would have discovered the incredible efficiency of the circle line by now
True
Also making it at large angles allows for the train to express through the station without stopping. If it is empty
I think I'm more obsessed with roundabouts than him, I ended up over using them in mini motorways and made the trafic much much worse
Truly I do my best to make the olympics rings with every level.
I don't think he knew he could do that
It would be cool if you could combine mini metro and mini motorways into one game where you need to make a road network but also a metro network that can take some of the stress of the roads
Mmmmmmmm yes
Mini Movement
Mini motion
Mini on the Move
@@Malachi_M mini mouse
tip: if a new station appears you don't have to drag it from the end, you can just drag the piece of a line near the station and add it to the line
was going to say that
I was about to comment it…
That's what I was thinking
The passengers in this game are weird. "I want to travel to a station with a specific symbol. It doesn't matter where it actually is. The station is the goal, not going to, or home from, anything like work or school or visiting someone."
Think of the shapes as public works/conveniences....i need to go to a square (library), a circle (store), a triangle (pub) etc....
@@KSPRAYDAD That makes sense. Thanks!
I've always looked at it as the three essential zones residential, industrial, and commercial (the houses, work places, and shops) with certain individual symbols being entertainment landmarks like a game stadium or a zoo. travelers just keep moving between these sectors.
@@vladak3038 You're right on the money. I thought of the special symbols as like monuments or special zones etc because some tend to form in the same area every repetition.
I assume it's a matter of the symbols representing a certain service.
If you're going out for shopping, odds are you're going to the closest mall, not a particular one.
Same for hospital, bar, etc.
There are of course exceptions, but in general, ESPECIALLY when you're having to take public transport, that's true.
Here a few tips: try to make the lines with the same length, try to avoid having 2 or more circles, triangles, squares… stations in a row and when a line has the shape of an U it’s better to make it a circle
yeah that he didn't at least make the yellow line loop around was really annoying me
@@GummieI brother, if you want to see maximum efficiency in a game watch a tutorial, or a speedrun, not a playthru. Same goes of the original guy who commented.
@@jacobbau8328 they aren‘t complaining it wasn‘t „maximum efficiency“
They‘re just saying what could have been done better, as this was his first game i‘m sure he wants to hear ways to improve
I know the London Underground is confusing and all, but I never knew that if you went down the steps at St Paul's, you end up on a Highgate platform. That's next level complex!
Yeah, some crazy engineering feat that!
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming btw when it says week 3 its the start of week 3 not the end
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming if I may ask, (I don’t know much about engineering but want to get into it) how is that an engineering feat?
@@maverickbeagle817 the image he showed of the underground station is St Paul's but the underground tunnel he showed is at High gate - based on the images they look like the same place but they're actually about five and a half miles apart so making steps that would be from high gate to St Paul's would be impressive
But only if you are a square that is otherwise it will just work normally
It is sad that he wasted tunnels because he didn’t know how to move a line.
that's a first playthrough for you 😂
@@btCharlie_ people who read all the tips not just the tutorial: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you
Its ages since I played this but dont you get the tunnel back if you remove it?
@@chris86simon You do!
@@ValMephora Oh ok then. I thought so. So why all the upvotes on that guy?
You can make circular lines, the yellow line would have benefited from that
U mean connect the both ends?
@@arya7095 O not U
@@BenjaminKlahn from "U" I mean "you" lol
@@arya7095 Yes, but what I said is also true :p
London has a yellow line called the Circle Line, which is in a loop
some tips:
•**Do closed lines(it's more efficient)**
•If you have a lot of station on both sides of the river connect them using another line
•Try having maximally 8 station per line
•Make some sort of hub where all lines connect (looks like a flower)
•If possible Try to avoid having more of the same shape right after eachother on lines (if you have no choice, adding a wagon usually helps)
•When you see that a station gets often overcrowded Try adding another wagon/locomotive or redesign your lines
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A tip: It helps a lot if you make each line a loop, so the train doesn't have to go all the way to each end.
I recommend using circular lines. They're more efficient... Also: They're the closest you get to roundabouts :)
Circular lines often benefit from having trains running in opposite directions.
It was painful watching that red line have no squares, but you should play this again for sure!
I wish he made a line that looped around, it can save a train having to travel the whole way around just to a go to the station right next to it
I don't think the game allows a single line to be a complete loop.
@@MrDannyDetail I play this regularly it does
@@MrDannyDetail it does
Couple of pointers - loops are a thing (and you can have trains going in opposite directions on them), and you shouldn't be afraid of a) entirely reengineering the entire network and b) making sure you have plenty of interchanges between lines, especially when they're right next to each other.
Just found this channel, now I stumble upon a video just 3 minutes old after binge watching your videos? Awesome.
Same!
join his discord, we get notified as its uploaded
Haha same
"So it's the end of week two"
Uhm, noooo....the *start* of week two :D
Yeah I got confused too at some point... if you have trains leftover it gets automatically added to new line, but if you are at 0 you will build a line with no trains...
What I really like about this game is how you can easily pause and redo the entire setup you have.
One thing to consider is not having the same shape next to eachother on a line, because a circle will never want to go to a circle, so the train fills up quickly with passengers! And will have to miss stations if full!
Pays to keep 2 or 3 lines, along with 4 or more trains, as emergency systems. Load up a train, and once it leaves the station, delete the line, and use it somewhere else... and use loop lines, with a couple of trains going in each direction
Advanced Strat: keep one line and train in reserve, and then when a station overcrowds, you can draw a line from there to somewhere that would relieve the pressure. Once the train is on its way and the pressure is lifted, remove the line to put it back in reserve.
Even more advanced strat: make only one line with one of each shape, and keep all other lines as "taxi line", currently at 2500 in london, have pretty much zero pressure all around the map, the only downside is that you will pause a lot, and game will become less fun but hey, that's a downside i can take, in exchange of probably infinite run and top 1 in the world
"Our square has boarded the train" Your british always cracks me up. Thank you for making videos. You made me buy mini motorways!
Looking forward to the 300, 350 and 400K subscriber specials!
I haven’t seen anyone else mention that you can move locomotives and carriages. Just pick them up and put them wherever you want on any line!
pro tip,if you have a station where alot of lines go,use the interchange,it will make the station not overcroud
6:57 its cos you have a limit of trains, and you used your last train on the dark blue line. Excellent video, I love this game
1. You can pull from the middle of a line to add a station in.
2. If you make the corners 90deg or bigger the train will speed past if there's no passengers getting on/off.
3. You can make lines loops!
4. Don't be afraid to delete all lines and setup again. A centrally located hub is ideal.
5. Interchange can be used as a last minute game saver.
That circle station has been upgraded to an imax cinema.
1:35 A lot of subway systems just use covered trenches that are under roads. Maybe the tunnel refers to actual boring that must be done. And, the line likely has to go deeper there, as to not obstruct the river.
I enjoy this game.
Tip, any turn 90 degrees or more causes your trains to slow down regardless of if they need to stop or not.
Edit tip- you can also just drag the line from the middle of any line, instead of undoing half a line to add a middle station! :)
London was real fun, but the game very quickly gets much harder. Hopefully I can learn more from you so I can do better on those later levels. XD
Here's a tip for ya, when a line goes to a station, try making the angle at which the line meets the station 90 degrees or higher, so if that station has no passengers in it, the train can just keep going without stopping
i dont understand
wat
Jiggery pokery is a phenomenal phrase and Im glad you know it.
You can drag the middle of lines to change their shape and add a station to the line. You can also drag carrages and trains from one line to another for ultimate micro-management and cheesing.
Mini-Metro is a very fun game to play and I found is good to speedrun. The speedrun leaderboard for it consits of a rather small community though.
Ah yes, good ‘ol mini metro…
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**Intense Vietnam flashbacks of circles, triangles, and various simple polygons shaking in pure rage and fury.**
*GEOMETRY WARS*
The shape of the line matters. For example your red line had a sharp turn in it that slows down all the trains that pass through. The more you can have the line be straight or a slight curve the more the train can maintain speed through the station (especially if there are no passengers waiting). Also, if a line crosses another line it seems the trains will slow down a little at the point where the lines cross.
Backkkk to the old days eh.
Also I love the animation of the square
Although I love mini motorways, because I don’t have either of these games because I’m poor, this one is much more fun to watch you play
"There is circle a triangle and a square"
Me who realized when you connect them they turn into a triangle:
I'd have made the yellow a complete loop, gets back to the start faster, and also sent the trains round opposite directions..
Also, you don't need to remove/pull back a line to add a station - just click/drag the line to the new station.. (same to remove it from a station)
This is my new favorite series from you!
I think that you sholud know that you can build closed "circular" lines, like the Koltsevaya line in Moscow
I would love to see you play factorio!! if you were to have time for that i think a lot of people would enjoy watching an engineer play it
Yay, I just got into this game myself! Happy to see you play it
I suppose you could assume that the weekly updates signify the end of week 1, 2, 3, etc, or it could be the start of a new week (as in Mini Motorways) 😎
I actually played Mini Metro first, a few years ago. Well actually, I haven't played Mini Motorways yet, but this channel makes it look like fun, so I'm gonna check it out now.
You're good at this stuff, you should become an engineer!
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A few tips:
Circular lines are more efficient because the stations at the end of the line receive tranes as freguently as the ones in the middle
Try to avoid stacking the same shapes in a row, the best way of putting down paths is to make them with a reasonable ratio of different shapes getting the train
Make your paths meet in a square as its the rarest among triangles and the circles, and then put you interchange in the place that the paths meet together
Little tips; Circular lines are generally better -- You can drag the middle of a line out to connect to a new station -- Its never good to have too many stations of the same shape consecutively
"It is quite a sensible game* he says in total shock
If the angles in and out of the station are greater then 90 degrees then the train can express the station( if it doesn’t need to stop it won’t) otherwise if the angle is less then 90 degrees the train has to stop making the line less efficient overall. You can change the angle based on which side you drag the line into the station on
Tip: you can click on the line and drag it to add awkward stations instead of deleting the line and re-drawing it all the time
Just so you know, if you click in the middle of an existing line, you can adjust it, it doesn't have to be at the end. This is helpful for lines that have sharp turns, as sharp turns slow down your trains and are inefficient.
You can also delete entire lines, which is helpful for when you have a bunch of new stations and need to make everything more organized
Good work though!
EDIT: every line comes with a train *if* you have a train available, otherwise there's no trains for the line to use
What you said is true, the bit about alternating shapes. As you saw, when there were a bunch of circles in a row the train filled up and no one was getting off. Gotta keep the circles separate as much as possible, which can get rather difficult.
I was kinda hoping you'd played this before and actually could do well at it, as I've only once beaten 2000 on London, and was looking for tips other than micromanaging and moving every train at every stop.
Me and my gf really enjoy your Mini Metro series, and we were hoping that you would play Mini Metro, so it was exciting to see this video! :)
Heey, how r u?
I'm looking forward to lots of future Mini Motorways/Mini Metro content!
The key in this game is to cut down travel distance. Because your trains have only 6 spaces without carriages you cannot afford to have a passenger block a seat for long stretches of track since it will make your throughput plummet. Circular lines with trains going in both directions are very good because of that.
5:27 In Spain they teach us some British TV shows that's how I got that reference to that soap opera that has been going for the same time as Queen Elizabeth II.
7:00 Every line comes with a train if there's a train available 😅
I discovered Mini Metro many years ago via Humble Bundle. Love it. I was excited to learn of Mini Motorways from you. Yay Dinosaur Polo Club!
"it's a nice little U-shaped line, if you rotate it" bro it's a C lol
This was fun/weird.. I’m completely new to MiniMotorways, starting after seeing your videos, so I feel like I’m learning from you and together with you...
MiniMetro on the other hand, I’ve been playing for years! I’m just sitting here screaming and making stressed noises to everything from the acute angles, to unnecessary tunnel usage, to station order, to lines crossing, to “hub-building”, and simply just to how you draw and rearrange your lines.. Wow this sounds harsh.. I can’t wait to follow your journey from this point! Good luck
You can connect a line to make a circle so it doesn’t go end to end. Also you can drag the area of the line between 2 stations to extend it if the is a station near.
Mini motorways isn't on the switch yet so I've been playing this and I'm so happy you started!
I played this game so much in high school and I never knew you could pause. I can't tell you how many times I panic and accidentally delete a line and have to rebuild it while 5 stations max out. hahaha
Circles man, use the Power of circular lines
I’m really looking forward for your videos about this game cuz my very best is 1469 on Paris and I would love to see a real engineer beating it!
0:23
Anyone watching in October will know that they're not 'any old shape' but the squid game staff shapes
Literally just came to your channel about an hour ago and I’m addict to your videos! Keep up the good work
Longer the line/track, the more carriages you want. More popular a stop is, the more trains you need. Loops are very confident
Tip: If you press the clock, you can get the game to progress faster. Another tip: press the line color at the bottom to delete the entire line and redraw from scratch.
Pro tip: combine those 2 tips to get past the boring early game.
Golden tip: The trains slow down on a line crossing. You can actually pick up a line and move it (to avoid obstacles, to shorten the distance or to untie the lines).
I Bsolutely love how ll of the stations on the engineer side where almost to the point of overcrowding
I got one mini motorways video recommended to me and now im subscribed and watching a bunch of your videos
I've been waiting on you to make this video!!! pls make this into a series and do every city
2000+ tips, get only max 6 lines, get carriages, MAKE ALL CIRCLE LINES!!!, reserve 1-2 lines and 2-3 locomotives to put them in an emergency and get rid of them, IT DOESN'T COST A THING!!! and extend the time and increase the number of passengers!!!
People have probably already pointed this out, but you can grab a line in between two stations to add new stations and unselect already present stations all along the line without having to grab the T and move the end station every time. Stations are added to the point where you first grabbed the line, so if you want to add a station in between two already existing stations, you need to grab the line in between those stations, or you might get some really wonky-looking lines.
You can also move and remove trains from lines at any time. They will travel to their next station and drop off whatever passengers they are carrying, and then teleport to wherever you dropped it. Carriages work the same, and are also transferred to the train/line you dropped it onto once they reach the next station.
This is useful, because you can micromanage and juggle overcrowded stations by at any time moving trains from less stressed lines to pick up passengers from ones with a timer. I'm not great at this game, but I've survived weeks longer than I normally would by doing this.
Ghost-lining is a good idea: drag a line from a crowding station to a relevant destination and delete the line as soon as the train departs, then you can draw another one and another as long as you have trains on your inventory. The deleted lines become transparent like ghosts and disappear as soon as the train arrives at the nearest station and unloads people. Then the train goes either back to the inventory or your next pending line. There can be quite a few ghost lines at the same time depending on your locomotive park.
This way helps unload crowded stations on the go. I always keep the last line for this purpose.
There's another hack with ghost-lining. Say, there's 5 round-guys and 1 plus-guy on a station. I drag a line from that station to the round-station nearest to the plus-station, so that the train picks up all 5+1 passengers. But keep in mind the direction of your locomotives if you drag a ghost-line to a circle line. Make sure that the plus-guy has the shortest distance left to travel to the plus-station after it gets off with its 5 round fellow passengers. If the departure station and the plus-station are on the same line, then just draw your ghost-line to the round-station and continue to the plus-station. Otherwise, the plus-guy will think it useless to get on your ghost-line and the locomotive will depart with one vacant seat.
As has been said in the comments, loop lines are more effective than non-loops. They're more effective if you give them two trains moving in opposite directions.
You're legit the reason I'm going to buy both these games, I would've never bought them otherwise tbh
Same, I bought them both after seeing one of his mini motorways video. I didn't even know until afterwards that mini motorways was a literally just released game either.
That eastenders bit was gold
You can redraw lines, you can grab them from anywhere not just from the ends and move them around
Mate you managed to show me some cool new ways to play this game. For example, I never actually connected the stations via a demand/supply rule akin to how you did.
Hmmm. Mini airports next where you make air transit routes...and then make a Mini Transit, where you can have motorways, trains, airplanes, and ships/ferries
Subways usually aren't far enough underground to safely clear rivers and ravines without additional structural infrastructure. Therefore, tunnel for the tunnel.
1:55 yeah the train sometimes do that to in the phone or mobile version too bc i have tried it
6:57 - You get a new train every week whether you get a line or not. You got one at the same time as you got the light blue line, but you placed it onto the yellow line.
its more efficient if you loop the lines and make them a circle so the train dose not have to go to the end of the U from the start of the U and make 90 degree turn so the train dose not stop at the station when there are no passengers and it will pick up the other stations passengers
Quite enjoyed; hope you make more of these (and Mini-Motorways).
A couple of tips,try to have every shape on every line and try to have the start on one side of the river and the end on the other.
When I played this regularly I liked making circular lines that had at least two trains running in opposite directions.
I’m glad it’s not just me that struggles with this game, I got it while it was free on some sale thing and I was so confused.
RCE is the first person i saw that takes working at home seriously
A proven strat for me is to:
-connect every line with every basic shape (at least one square, one triangle, one circle)
-try not to build a line with to many same shapes in a row. Try to build your line with triangles and circles alternately and with one square somewhere in that line.
-and try to build a line that connects all the special stations, with every other line having access to this line somehow.
There is also no penalty in the game for stopping the game and completely redrawing the map, you should definitely do this from time to time, so your network gets more efficient.
Also: only cross Lines on stations, otherwise the trains will be slower every time they drive over a crossed line.
Not sure if anyone mentioned, but you can pull at the middle of an existing line and drag it to a new station to add a station in the middle of that line. This also works to remove a station. To delete an entire line, click the corresponding colored dot at the bottom of the screen, then click the “X” that pops up. You can pull trains off of a line and move them to another line if you wish; just click, drag, and drop. Also, harsh angles in the line reduces acceleration speed, including at stations. Try to avoid them, or use the grab and pull maneuver to remove and then re-add a station. The game will try to give the optimal angle when it can. Finally, yes, as others have said, loops are your friend in this game. You can actually put two trains on a loop going in opposite directions to provide optimal passenger flow. (Clockwise + Anti-Clockwise…isn’t that how our British friends say it?)
Loving your content! 😊
“Oy! I wanna get to square!” Why was that my favorite thing haha
I literally just started playing mini metro, and right as I was playing I got the notification for this video lmao.
a Few tips
Use Circular lines when needed
interchange stations, don't put more than two stations of the same type in a Row even if you have to zigzag the line
if Square passengers get on a train from a Circle station and there's 3 circle and 2 triangle stations ahead, That passenger won't get off quickly and the Train might be full for too long.
If you have a Square station only triangle and circle and special passengers will pop in it.
passengers will choose the shortest route to their destination
sometimes you have to pause and delete everything and start over.
New Lines mean efficiency
More Carriage means capacity
you have to find the perfect balance.
only 4 Locomotives can be on the same line
each game has preferred destination sometimes it's the Circle or Square .... etcetera.
most new stations are circles i don't know why.
Shorter lines are the best lines.
Sequences of the same stations are bad. It means passengers will get stuck in the middle stations as trains are filled.
Interchanges are interchanges. Use them as (rare) focal points in your transport system.
Unlike in Mini Motorways, you can a lot more rapidly restructureyiur entire system (a train only needs to reach its next station to be available for redistribution).
Each week gives you another train, putting down a line without an available train means it won't have any (or you could generate trains from nothing).
Personally I've had good experiences with making one or two lines specifically for the more unique stations and pushing those passengers through some core stations (that could serve well for interchanges).
Have fun with the 5+ chains of circles on one half of the map. Its frustratingly common 😁
Highway designer in real life? That's amazing here in the us we havent built a highway in decades
5:23 I love Eastenders
Wenn you have a red line with only circles an connect it to your main line they will go out at the station and wait for another train to pick them up to the location they want
You also can take the line between two stations an connect it to another
It is better when you don't have 3 same stations in row