I just started playing this game 2 days ago and my score was stuck around 1K. This video really helped me understand the game mechanics and helped me hit my high score of 2700 on the LA Map today. Really appreciate the content you put out!
One other interesting tidbit that I realized when I was playing: distance is a factor, but there is also a maximum number of pips that can be on a structure, based on its size! So the square green that you had going cross-map was doomed to always be angry, but there was no way to fix it because there was "never" going to be a max number of cars that it wanted. Rejigging could only make them get onto the motorway a little faster, so the bottleneck was distance! For a full-map distance like that, I'd say 6 cars is as many as you need, maybe 7 at 10K+ :)
Unfortunately the August update has effectively increased distance, square dests seem to blow up much earlier game. They say they reduced junction delay for balance but I think road needs higher speed too as 1 or 2 Y's now add significant delay without traffic congestion. Some games you just cannot supply the demand with local housing, so you lose without an opportunity to solve the problem.
Something I don’t often see discussed with this game is how much left turns across traffic can hurt you late in the game. For instance, The issue with congestion at yellow on highway 2 could likely have been alleviated earlier by disconnecting the single yellow down below much sooner as it had to make a left turn across traffic on the way to the business and back in the span of one cell
That was my thinking. He's dead set against four-way intersections but he ignores cars making left hand turns. A road with two colors that don't cross lanes will remain uncongested.
The only thing, that kept you from going infinite, was to reduce the number of greens on that double location, so the parking lot cannot be that crowded. Too many greens connected. Also in general you want to try to keep the entrances of double-location for 2-3 tiles free from crossing, so the leaving traffic does not cause congestion inside the parking lots, but on those 2-3 tiles outside... it's easy worth the additional distance. This single green house, intersecting right before the green entrance could due to its short distance travel so many journeys more than others, that it all alone caused leaving traffic to slow-down inside the parking lot, blocking yellow off from the other side. If you would have shifted that single green up to the circle, it would have been so much smoother. And on the other side, the two yellow houses could have been bridge-connected to one tile before the entrance... to give at least a little bit more space for leaving the parking lot.
One thing I've noticed about job priority is that motorways seem to only "count" for a single road. So when you moved M4 to support the skyscraper, those actually became the primary responders instead of the houses that were more road tiles away, even if the ones attached by the motorway were physically further.
love that yellow-blue traffic light, the way the blues stop to let the caterpillar of yellows through is so nice to see, instead of the two colours constantly interrupting each other
I've got to play this game now! I was hoping the whole time where the yellow and green shared the same parking lot that you would route the yellow road around the right side to the south entrance and run the green road around the left side to the north entrance so they wouldn't be gridlocked in the parking lot. Or car park i believe you call it. There is so much stuff to watch in this game, i love the fast paced problem solving. I can only imagine how many times i'm going to slap myself for missing something simple.
That Green and Yellow scenario is a double edged sword. When cars come into that double parking lot they will park, and then always turn left to get out of their parking spot. So if you have cars coming in from the north and south they can get in each others way. So its a choice of if you want congestion on the roads outside, or congestion in the parking lot. Real tricky balancing act
I picked the game up yesterday and got 7000 in the weekly challenge (which was my third round overall). I am quite proud and also think that it came from watching you the last three weeks :)
Hello! Just another youtuber here lol, But genuinely wanted to comment saying that I really enjoy watching your videos, one day the TH-cam algorithm will take you and you will grow to be massive!! :)
Just chiming in to say thanks for posting! I love playing this game but its hard because i have to be looking and using both hands to do it, and watching you play instead totally solved that for me, now i can do my embroidery work and feel like i'm playing :) Also I think you have the perfect amount of commentary, you explain whats going on without overdoing it and don't feel like you have to fill every second. Thanks!
A few booster fixes you made ended up becoming permanent. The dark blue had a yellow house cross it, also the motorway caused constant congestion. A frequent problem is suburbs becoming 4ways. Like the green you tried to fix near the end. A new problem I noticed was the yellow on the coast. Seems 2 T intersections was creating minor traffic. It had enough houses but the cars kept bumping at this turn. My guess is a traffic light could be a solution. It was quite a busy corner despite avoiding a 4... I'm still experimenting with mixing colors using roundabouts. Only results I have so far is that input and output must be equal. One red input for red output. Seems obvious but I kept making mixed color input which worked early 3k but was catastrophe at 4k+ due to so many skyscrapers. Funny enough the congestion was before input and in the mixed suburbs. The roundabout seems to be underperforming on single colors and I'm testing new approaches.
Starting to creep into my late 20’s and I was watching this video without pausing completely entertained… I use to watch CoD highlights and clips, now I’m watching someone create a functioning motorway in a game for enjoyment. I think I’m getting old..
why do people becomming 30 always say this? youre just on one third of your life. you can do double the time you have already had. when youre 60 and have pain in your body just from waking up i think then is when you are getting old. late 20's is nothing. get excited for buying a new washing machine, stay in and play mini motorways :)
A very strong score, just you wait DD, I'll be coming for you and your rank this Saturday ;) I agree with your blocking ideology, it's just not a good thing.
My two favorite Mini Motorway players know about each other!!! I got 5000+ in LA first try after watching a few of y'alls videos. Of course both of you are significantly more calm than I am when I play haha. I love the community y'all are building here on YT. Catch ya later! :)
I have Islanders and Oxygen Not Included videos going at the moment too. with Orcs Must Die 3 and 7 Billion Humans Videos also made. But for new games, i was eager to jump into 12 Minutes when it comes out in a few days
I think that you would have been able to run the greens in through the top, and yellows at the bottom (talking about the eastern car park that caused trouble). That would have sorted things out a bit I reckon
So what I was looking at and why the right side failed with green and yellow were the sort of T junction intersections. Adding the green and yellow house down to the round about should have alleviated the issue. (In fact adding the bridge added to the congestion for yellow.) The same thing was happening on the far left with the yellow market. Basically what I've seen is that T intersections are bad and Y intersections are great. And avoid sharp bends as much as possible.
I’m wondering whether it’s better, if possible at the time, to have the two colours in a shared parking area enter from the same entrance as the traffic would never go against each other and flow better through it. Not sure exactly, would like to hear from someone who knows.
I've had 2 round dests in a double dest served by motorways late game and both were happy. You cannot get that volume of traffic through one entrance, the 9 bay car park handles it so long as traffic doesn't back up from junctions outside. Feeding from just one end makes that more not less likely as you join traffic outside.
Definitely could have hit 10,000 if you put a road behind the orange and green building for the orange traffic and a road in front for the green traffic
I know a car will slow down going into a 4 way intersection, so if i have a 4 way that is majorly used one way and not the other its a green line (pun intended) for the main road to be told they dont need to slow down and the other way can wait their turn. In a 3 way they won’t automatically slow so i dont know if that same appeal is there. Thats just the way i approach them in my head - you could well be right
I had this channel recommended after I watched Xisumavoid (Minecraft let's player) play this game a couple weeks back. Been here everyday since! I absolutely love it as a chill end to my day.
I was playing this game, everything was going smoothly then suddenly the demand surges and i was in like week 17 and only had 4 motorways, feels kinda low, coz like if only i had 2 more motorways i could have scored mich higher my current pr in los Angeles is 3,689, i know its not much.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Watching all MM viss on TH-cam. Everyone will get at least the double amount of motorways that I do. I buggers me because i always loose because I don't have enough of them.
No real reason, its my default i guess. In some videos i have referred to some as females and immediately noticed. Interestingly in my work i deal with a lot of not-alive entities that i refer to as she/her, but i guess not enough to use it when talking about cars and buildings
"We want a little bit more efficiency" he says as he makes a 5-way intersection chokepoint to get onto motorway 2.
and refused to use the 4 traffic lights XD
traffic lights will only make 1 at a time faster he wants both
This is such a mature yet entertaining and relaxing commentary. Such a fresh change from the high energy commentary that across TH-cam now 😊😊
I just started playing this game 2 days ago and my score was stuck around 1K. This video really helped me understand the game mechanics and helped me hit my high score of 2700 on the LA Map today. Really appreciate the content you put out!
Nice one! :D
One other interesting tidbit that I realized when I was playing: distance is a factor, but there is also a maximum number of pips that can be on a structure, based on its size! So the square green that you had going cross-map was doomed to always be angry, but there was no way to fix it because there was "never" going to be a max number of cars that it wanted. Rejigging could only make them get onto the motorway a little faster, so the bottleneck was distance! For a full-map distance like that, I'd say 6 cars is as many as you need, maybe 7 at 10K+ :)
Unfortunately the August update has effectively increased distance, square dests seem to blow up much earlier game. They say they reduced junction delay for balance but I think road needs higher speed too as 1 or 2 Y's now add significant delay without traffic congestion. Some games you just cannot supply the demand with local housing, so you lose without an opportunity to solve the problem.
Keep up the relaxed, Aussie commentary. It's such a nice change from the high-energy knobheads usually doing these playthroughs. Love the video
Hey mate, you've inspired me to record my playthrough of this game! Love your work, reppin' extremely relaxed Aussie vibes
Something I don’t often see discussed with this game is how much left turns across traffic can hurt you late in the game. For instance, The issue with congestion at yellow on highway 2 could likely have been alleviated earlier by disconnecting the single yellow down below much sooner as it had to make a left turn across traffic on the way to the business and back in the span of one cell
That was my thinking. He's dead set against four-way intersections but he ignores cars making left hand turns. A road with two colors that don't cross lanes will remain uncongested.
@@TrismegistusMx is it the case that right hand turns survive longer without the need for a traffic light or roundabout?
The only thing, that kept you from going infinite, was to reduce the number of greens on that double location, so the parking lot cannot be that crowded. Too many greens connected.
Also in general you want to try to keep the entrances of double-location for 2-3 tiles free from crossing, so the leaving traffic does not cause congestion inside the parking lots, but on those 2-3 tiles outside... it's easy worth the additional distance.
This single green house, intersecting right before the green entrance could due to its short distance travel so many journeys more than others, that it all alone caused leaving traffic to slow-down inside the parking lot, blocking yellow off from the other side.
If you would have shifted that single green up to the circle, it would have been so much smoother.
And on the other side, the two yellow houses could have been bridge-connected to one tile before the entrance... to give at least a little bit more space for leaving the parking lot.
One thing I've noticed about job priority is that motorways seem to only "count" for a single road. So when you moved M4 to support the skyscraper, those actually became the primary responders instead of the houses that were more road tiles away, even if the ones attached by the motorway were physically further.
love that yellow-blue traffic light, the way the blues stop to let the caterpillar of yellows through is so nice to see, instead of the two colours constantly interrupting each other
also love the 1/6 of the map the greens are taking, really making a neighbourhood for themselves haha
I am so happy right now. Its 1am here and this is the perfect thing to watch to relax me enough to sleep. You are amazing!!
Watching this makes you want to sleep? It's the exact opposite for me. I can't fall asleep because my brain is thinking logistics.. :)
just achieved this score myself, well done. it is really enjoyable watching you play and to hear your line of thinking, keep it up
Hubby shared your channel and I started playing last night, you’re super talented and so soothing to watch ☺️
I've got to play this game now! I was hoping the whole time where the yellow and green shared the same parking lot that you would route the yellow road around the right side to the south entrance and run the green road around the left side to the north entrance so they wouldn't be gridlocked in the parking lot. Or car park i believe you call it.
There is so much stuff to watch in this game, i love the fast paced problem solving. I can only imagine how many times i'm going to slap myself for missing something simple.
That Green and Yellow scenario is a double edged sword. When cars come into that double parking lot they will park, and then always turn left to get out of their parking spot. So if you have cars coming in from the north and south they can get in each others way. So its a choice of if you want congestion on the roads outside, or congestion in the parking lot. Real tricky balancing act
Those double lots really are just ticking time bombs.
the whole time I was hoping you would had switched the roads for the green / yellow 2 block building on the left side. great build.
Everytime i check TH-cam you have a new video out. I love it!
I don't comment with every video, but thanks again! Your videos are so relaxing after a stressful day.
I was feeling a bit restless myself! So i made one of my islanders videos. Those things are equally relaxing to make, haha
I picked the game up yesterday and got 7000 in the weekly challenge (which was my third round overall). I am quite proud and also think that it came from watching you the last three weeks :)
Your my new favorite youtuber, so relaxing
the most controlled chaos Ive ever seen
This is so relaxing and chill 😌
That on-ramp to M2, from the store side, for yellow being so long is making me aggressive. But your soothing voice makes it all better. Much love.
Amazing video!! Keep up the fantastic work!!
Early game: fun, lighthearted
Late game: STRESS
Thanks for not blocking roads like the others... I feel like it's not the way thee game should be played :p
how do you block roads?
@@codefeenix he meant blocking spawn using roads
Id disagree but hey. Play as you want. I do it coz ive always been unluck with stupid spawns and now it's a habit.
This game looked so much fun that I had to buy it after watching.
Hello! Just another youtuber here lol,
But genuinely wanted to comment saying that I really enjoy watching your videos, one day the TH-cam algorithm will take you and you will grow to be massive!! :)
Thank you! May a thousand algorithm blessings be upon you and your home 🙏
Just chiming in to say thanks for posting! I love playing this game but its hard because i have to be looking and using both hands to do it, and watching you play instead totally solved that for me, now i can do my embroidery work and feel like i'm playing :) Also I think you have the perfect amount of commentary, you explain whats going on without overdoing it and don't feel like you have to fill every second. Thanks!
Glad to help :D hope the embroidery is coming along nicely
A few booster fixes you made ended up becoming permanent. The dark blue had a yellow house cross it, also the motorway caused constant congestion.
A frequent problem is suburbs becoming 4ways. Like the green you tried to fix near the end.
A new problem I noticed was the yellow on the coast. Seems 2 T intersections was creating minor traffic. It had enough houses but the cars kept bumping at this turn. My guess is a traffic light could be a solution. It was quite a busy corner despite avoiding a 4...
I'm still experimenting with mixing colors using roundabouts. Only results I have so far is that input and output must be equal. One red input for red output. Seems obvious but I kept making mixed color input which worked early 3k but was catastrophe at 4k+ due to so many skyscrapers. Funny enough the congestion was before input and in the mixed suburbs. The roundabout seems to be underperforming on single colors and I'm testing new approaches.
Love it! It does feel like a game that has so many angles to come at it, even though the premise seems so simple
Damn dude that was freaking good.
Starting to creep into my late 20’s and I was watching this video without pausing completely entertained… I use to watch CoD highlights and clips, now I’m watching someone create a functioning motorway in a game for enjoyment. I think I’m getting old..
why do people becomming 30 always say this? youre just on one third of your life. you can do double the time you have already had. when youre 60 and have pain in your body just from waking up i think then is when you are getting old. late 20's is nothing. get excited for buying a new washing machine, stay in and play mini motorways :)
A very strong score, just you wait DD, I'll be coming for you and your rank this Saturday ;)
I agree with your blocking ideology, it's just not a good thing.
My two favorite Mini Motorway players know about each other!!! I got 5000+ in LA first try after watching a few of y'alls videos. Of course both of you are significantly more calm than I am when I play haha. I love the community y'all are building here on YT. Catch ya later! :)
@@crysargot7022
You: "My two favourite MM players know about each other!"
Also You, probably: "Now kith"
@Retro Thank you for making me laugh. I ship "friendly competition" :)
Wow good game sir
Well done !
You started in the South Bay (Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes) then goes towards Long Beach.
What are some other games that you are thinking of playing on this channel? I really love the commentary!
Timberborn would be fun
I have Islanders and Oxygen Not Included videos going at the moment too. with Orcs Must Die 3 and 7 Billion Humans Videos also made. But for new games, i was eager to jump into 12 Minutes when it comes out in a few days
This guy sounds like he regularly commentates Wimbledon
as always - clean and logical!
Super underrated channel
Interesting. You have a similar playstyle as me.. but almost double the score. :)
I think that you would have been able to run the greens in through the top, and yellows at the bottom (talking about the eastern car park that caused trouble). That would have sorted things out a bit I reckon
18:50 has to be the worst place a mall could spawn at!
love ur commentary
Motorway Matt (Real Civil Engineer) needs to go back to school! This way a great play.
So what I was looking at and why the right side failed with green and yellow were the sort of T junction intersections.
Adding the green and yellow house down to the round about should have alleviated the issue. (In fact adding the bridge added to the congestion for yellow.)
The same thing was happening on the far left with the yellow market.
Basically what I've seen is that T intersections are bad and Y intersections are great.
And avoid sharp bends as much as possible.
27:31 Two red cars go into a yellow house on the very left hand side.
Light mode is a crime
Nice a new vid
Yu have a very mellow speaking rythm and not a lot of spikes in tone, it reminds me of a commentator for snooker. Its almost asmr. :)
Nice!
Are we not gonna talk about the 2 greens at the top connected to nothing but each other
9:53 : spawns a blue house
11:24 : finally connects it
I’m wondering whether it’s better, if possible at the time, to have the two colours in a shared parking area enter from the same entrance as the traffic would never go against each other and flow better through it. Not sure exactly, would like to hear from someone who knows.
I've had 2 round dests in a double dest served by motorways late game and both were happy.
You cannot get that volume of traffic through one entrance, the 9 bay car park handles it so long as traffic doesn't back up from junctions outside. Feeding from just one end makes that more not less likely as you join traffic outside.
thats a lotta trips
Urban Sprawl: The Game
Definitely could have hit 10,000 if you put a road behind the orange and green building for the orange traffic and a road in front for the green traffic
Motorway 3 should’ve been attached to the roundabout
The thumbnail looks like Los Angeles IRL
I wonder if you inserted more traffic lights into some 3 way intersections would it make it better or worse in the long run?
I know a car will slow down going into a 4 way intersection, so if i have a 4 way that is majorly used one way and not the other its a green line (pun intended) for the main road to be told they dont need to slow down and the other way can wait their turn. In a 3 way they won’t automatically slow so i dont know if that same appeal is there.
Thats just the way i approach them in my head - you could well be right
Do houses spawn the same by city if you don't block? I had a practically identical game of los angelos minus not making it quite as far
I believe they are sort of zoned. so the chance you will get houses in the same area, is very likely.
I'm pretty sure you can just grab one end of a motorway and just move it without needing another motorway ( 25:10 )
27:33
Uhhhhh look at the left most clump of yellow houses… two reds just went into them lmao
31:00 I'm screaming TRAFFIC LIGHTSSSSS!!!!!!
31:50 "Intersection- thats all right"
me: ... you know what would help that??? A GOD FORSAKIN TRAFFIC LIGHTTTT
just raname this "motorways, but i never use my traffic lights" lol
I think your sub count really blew up after the comeback from your hiatus?
The algorithm gods briefly shined upon me 🙏
Yeah I was there before it
@@S2isDrawingDead Keep the momentum going. You're definitely going to be huge
I had this channel recommended after I watched Xisumavoid (Minecraft let's player) play this game a couple weeks back. Been here everyday since! I absolutely love it as a chill end to my day.
The 1 Highway looks like the 405 honestly.
I haven't tried playing the actual game so I'm curious if you can also remove the motorways and rearrange it like the roads?
You can. Usually because of how bad the situation is that warrants their use I dont move them much
I thought this would help me with the game but now after watching this I’ll just quit … 😂
I was playing this game, everything was going smoothly then suddenly the demand surges and i was in like week 17 and only had 4 motorways, feels kinda low, coz like if only i had 2 more motorways i could have scored mich higher my current pr in los Angeles is 3,689, i know its not much.
Yeah, sometimes luck with getting motorways can be all it takes
Hi drawing dead would you consider playing tropico?
I played one of them a long time ago and it didnt draw me in. I can certainly consider it though :)
Hey DD, just one or two too many greens on that double park in this vid. Otherwise you'd have been Golden
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Watching all MM viss on TH-cam. Everyone will get at least the double amount of motorways that I do. I buggers me because i always loose because I don't have enough of them.
27:34 wtf are those red cars doing inside of that yellow house on the left of the map
Their road was deleted so they were using it to turn around in order to get to the motorway that was just placed.
Updated game ... so easy now
He forgot the houses in the top right..
8:13 I can hear the pain in your voice...
Cutie
I’m starting to believe it. You ever seen Good Will Hunting? Youre like Robin Williams saying “its not your fault”, haha
damn im pretty bad at this game
One thing, segregation isn't the best efficient way to get high scores
Please record with no game audio. A lot of people watch at 1.5X and the game audio/music becomes annoying
Really like your videos, cheers
double crossed lots seems not good thing. I have seen many players lose because of this crossed feeding
Out of interest, why do you refer to all the game entities as males?
No real reason, its my default i guess. In some videos i have referred to some as females and immediately noticed. Interestingly in my work i deal with a lot of not-alive entities that i refer to as she/her, but i guess not enough to use it when talking about cars and buildings