I always try make sure i have a 1 solo road at each end of a motorway (treat it like an on off ramp), means i can connect roundabouts to motorways and it means i can readjust an area without killing my game by rebuilding motorways.
Yes, the traffic backs up when it has to turn tight or a motorway with a T junction, a Y is much faster and works to take 2 colours to a distant dest, even without space for roundabouts.
Soo. I watched the fifty minutes without skip any time, sincerely I enjoy each sequence especially with the way how you explain each one its realy amazing, congratulations. And thank u very much, hope to see you celebrating 100k very soon. ❤🙏
You can use the bridges as kinda motorways by bypassing huge amounts of distance over water. Don't have to be straight or short. Can even do long curves through the ocean
Thanks. This helped me improve some scores, although I already had 2000+ on all maps. Being religious about T-intersections (get thee behind me, crossroads) really makes a difference when the going gets tough.
Agreed! The 40 hours I put into the game after this one proved that to me. Check out the more recent full playthroughs for a bit more of a nuanced look into the game. Dubai 7.5K score is coming soon!
So it’s possible to reach a point where your factories reach their limit and as long as you have enough houses feeding into them the game will run forever without adjustment. At that point it’s just waiting to rack up score, about 25k points per hour of waiting around. I found that about 13 factories is the optimal number to sustain. I have gotten 44,444 points on the Los Angeles map and 20,000 points on the Beijing map. I’m on the Tokyo map right now and I have a game going. I’m planning to stop at 9,999 since scores higher than that don’t show up on the leaderboards? Anyways I found out that if a double factory appears, your basically eventually going to die since those clog up no matter what you do or how efficiently. Plan efficiently and and try to control the area where factories spawn and you can do it too! This is only my third day playing :)
Part of the problems near the end was caused hy X junctions and acute turns at the dests which need smooth flow. Notice motorway traffic which gently curves at end maintains good speed, filtering in other traffic at the end point results in reduced capacity. Just hooking it up changing direction often has the cars turning back on themselves so they nearly stop. Adding single houses to mix traffic roads is OK so long as it's a Y junction before not at the dest entrance. I suspect cutting the road between green & yellow dest would have improved traffic by forcing greater use if 2nd bridge, someone commented on the "inefficient roundabout". Again the entrances should be simple T or Y so cars enter/leave efficiently without stalling flow.
I have learned of the dangers of X junctions and sharp corners, they are the bane of my existence now lol... Wish TH-cam would start showing off my other more recent content - my playstyle has changed a lot since this one!
@@Retroflux Don't worry I found it searching for Beijing MM vids, as it's my Bogey, it always makes a nightmare. Current game I've had to tear ½ the roads down and redevelop to get mixed colours across the map. It loves to torture me, perhaps I'm doing something that suits other maps better but goes bad on this one.
Glad you think so! I try and keep my volume lower for this game because it's got that nice chill atmosphere for falling asleep to, in case that's your thing to do!
Glad you enjoyed it! The rest of my videos are way shorter and cover the specifics of the maps a little better. Once I get through all of the maps and have a good sense for the game, I'll be releasing an advanced guide, so stay tuned!
You should try too better hook up your roundabouts. the one on the bottom right would have been much more efficient if you conntected the green shop directly to it
But he had 2 bridges, most yellow took the green bridge because of the complicated connection between them, with 3 roads meeting at the entrance. Cutting it would have been even better.
I feel like everyone watches my content for that reason, but if I were to get angry at something, people would like it a lot more LOL. Glad to hear you're enjoying the content, there's lots to skim through if you're looking for something to put on in the background!
Is... is that a polandball character as your profile picture? I LOVE IT! Thanks for your comment, hope you enjoy the rest of the content in this series too!
Just started playing this and its pretty addictive. I've noticed some global scores are up and over 60k, is that even possible or do they use cheats or something?
I've been dabbling, but there is a way to eventually go infinite. It's tough, but possible to basically set your final score at this point. It requires patience and perfect execution though, I'll probably try it after my full course playthrough!
@@Retroflux I guess this game is based on engineering experience and experiment. So that if we build the traffic flow from the very very beginning of a level with an engineer perspective, the flow will do just fine when the city gets crowded. But again, the random spawns will ruin everything. Need more clever zoning with spare road tiles and a big bag full of luck I guess 🤣
Once I've finished the series of maps, I'm definitely going to be making a much more involved strategy guide, and dealing with spawns is definitely going to be in there. Stay tuned! :)
@@ahmadnurislah2006 Finding a balance of space, early on helps, then you have room for roundabouts, motorways for distant house groups and backlogs won't block other junctions behind them.
What a weird concept. You'd think they'd have made the houses the things that are required to be connected. In real life buildings only are there for people to come and use them right?
What's even more weird is that some people will shut down an entire city because they can't get ther loaf of bread from their specific store in time. It's a very odd community, I must admit. Granted, 20 seconds in game is like 3 days to get bread, so I can understand why they are upset!
What do you do when you've played 60+ games and it has never given you four motorways? What do you do when it has only given you one bridge (that you need where it is) and it then randomly spawns your first store of a new color, on a Tuesday, in a position where you need two more bridges to connect it to the one/two house(s) of that color?
If you made it through 60+ games without a motorway, you should have bought a lottery ticket, that's a 0.00000319% chance. If the second thing happens, restart lmao
Note to self: don't read comments right when you wake up lol. You're still in the bottom 0.0005% if you've never gotten four or more motorways in 60 games (assuming a binomial distribution with ~1/4 chance to get a motorway), that's crazy!
Along the bottom side? I tend to try and attach motorways to level 2 structures because they are faster than normal bridges... that would have saved me a motorway though... you might be right that it was the correct solution!
am i the only one that kept yelling at him to replace the south highway for the light blue houses with a road and bridge then move it elsewhere?? hahahayha
If this game was 80% luck, it'd be impossible for me to have top 5% runs for every map on my first try. You need skill and luck to make it onto the leaderboard, yes, but it's certainly not 80% luck.
Once the map maxes out, if you can sustain the pip growth you're going infinite. Once you cross ~20K, the traffic demand can't go higher and you just go until you don't want to go anymore, honestly.
It's all about making the best of your map, fam! Some seeds suck yeah, but most are extremely playable - that's why I release blind runs, so you can see how I adapt to a new map without practice! Hopefully they can help you 😊
![[Blind 3.5K Trips] Wellington First Attempt! - Mini Motorways](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yG1GGzqRqZg/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Top 500] The Path to 10K Wellington - Progress Update 1](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/l-Euq5RclJc/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Top 0.1%] Making a Mockery of This Challenge - Dubai Rapid Growth Mini Motorways](/img/n.gif)
The quality and just chill attitude. Really enjoyed it!
Keeping a calm head has only served me well, I'm glad you enjoy it too! Cheers mate!
Me too
I always try make sure i have a 1 solo road at each end of a motorway (treat it like an on off ramp), means i can connect roundabouts to motorways and it means i can readjust an area without killing my game by rebuilding motorways.
Yes, the traffic backs up when it has to turn tight or a motorway with a T junction, a Y is much faster and works to take 2 colours to a distant dest, even without space for roundabouts.
This is one of the best videos with less than 100 views I have ever seen. Good stuff
This is the motivation I need, thank you stranger. Share me around, I'd love to be one of the best videos with less than 1000 views lol!
@@Retroflux I feel cheated. This video has more than 100 views. What is happening.
This is the motivation I need, thank you stranger. Share me around, I'd love to be one of the best videos with less than 100,000* views lol!
Soo. I watched the fifty minutes without skip any time, sincerely I enjoy each sequence especially with the way how you explain each one its realy amazing, congratulations. And thank u very much, hope to see you celebrating 100k very soon. ❤🙏
Glad you enjoyed it! 100K seems very far away right now, but every little bit counts! :)
You can use the bridges as kinda motorways by bypassing huge amounts of distance over water. Don't have to be straight or short. Can even do long curves through the ocean
I have definitely maybe kind of sort of been doing that, Moscow is a great candidate for that one!
Thanks. This helped me improve some scores, although I already had 2000+ on all maps. Being religious about T-intersections (get thee behind me, crossroads) really makes a difference when the going gets tough.
Agreed! The 40 hours I put into the game after this one proved that to me. Check out the more recent full playthroughs for a bit more of a nuanced look into the game. Dubai 7.5K score is coming soon!
So it’s possible to reach a point where your factories reach their limit and as long as you have enough houses feeding into them the game will run forever without adjustment. At that point it’s just waiting to rack up score, about 25k points per hour of waiting around. I found that about 13 factories is the optimal number to sustain. I have gotten 44,444 points on the Los Angeles map and 20,000 points on the Beijing map. I’m on the Tokyo map right now and I have a game going. I’m planning to stop at 9,999 since scores higher than that don’t show up on the leaderboards? Anyways I found out that if a double factory appears, your basically eventually going to die since those clog up no matter what you do or how efficiently. Plan efficiently and and try to control the area where factories spawn and you can do it too! This is only my third day playing :)
How do you go about keeping 13 factories?
@@professoremu2076 roads everywhere to prevent spawning
@@daluven do you just block off 2 by 3 gaps?
My next set of videos will feature some of this, but yep! Structures can't spawn on roads, so you can force spawns that way.
You commented the exact same thing on another video
Love your commentary on what's going on and what's the next step. I enjoyed watching the entire video. Gamer love from Taiwan.
Ah! I've never met someone from Taiwan, sending love back from Canada!
I got this on Switch after it dropped on the indie world showcase. I suck but I'm enjoying it a lot. Great video.
Thanks! Hopefully you get better quickly - I'm going to be releasing an updated guide soon!
Part of the problems near the end was caused hy X junctions and acute turns at the dests which need smooth flow. Notice motorway traffic which gently curves at end maintains good speed, filtering in other traffic at the end point results in reduced capacity. Just hooking it up changing direction often has the cars turning back on themselves so they nearly stop.
Adding single houses to mix traffic roads is OK so long as it's a Y junction before not at the dest entrance.
I suspect cutting the road between green & yellow dest would have improved traffic by forcing greater use if 2nd bridge, someone commented on the "inefficient roundabout". Again the entrances should be simple T or Y so cars enter/leave efficiently without stalling flow.
I have learned of the dangers of X junctions and sharp corners, they are the bane of my existence now lol... Wish TH-cam would start showing off my other more recent content - my playstyle has changed a lot since this one!
@@Retroflux Don't worry I found it searching for Beijing MM vids, as it's my Bogey, it always makes a nightmare. Current game I've had to tear ½ the roads down and redevelop to get mixed colours across the map.
It loves to torture me, perhaps I'm doing something that suits other maps better but goes bad on this one.
Your channel is gonna boom
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Still a long way to go, make sure to tell your friends :^)
👍🏼 chillest guide thus far.
Very informative. ☺️
very relaxing and quiet
Glad you think so! I try and keep my volume lower for this game because it's got that nice chill atmosphere for falling asleep to, in case that's your thing to do!
Great video! nice work!
Yooo got to 1200 (previous best being 500) for the first time after watching this🔥🔥
Now that's what I call results!
Great video, also love the chill attitude but I also learned a lot from you! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! The rest of my videos are way shorter and cover the specifics of the maps a little better. Once I get through all of the maps and have a good sense for the game, I'll be releasing an advanced guide, so stay tuned!
You should try too better hook up your roundabouts. the one on the bottom right would have been much more efficient if you conntected the green shop directly to it
But he had 2 bridges, most yellow took the green bridge because of the complicated connection between them, with 3 roads meeting at the entrance. Cutting it would have been even better.
21:57 the greens could’ve come through at the top of the roundabout
I love your content and this is quite calming to watch
I feel like everyone watches my content for that reason, but if I were to get angry at something, people would like it a lot more LOL. Glad to hear you're enjoying the content, there's lots to skim through if you're looking for something to put on in the background!
Absolutely Nicely explained....thankyou very much.
I hyper focused like crazy on that road that had a bridge and wasn’t used for a few mins omg my ocd was screaming
got over 2k on my 3rd game after watching this!!
YAY
Great content. Really relaxing, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by!
Listened to this while doing the weekly challenge and managed to get 2295 yay me!
Well done!!! Awesome run! I’m definitely doing this. I need to get beyond 1000 or 2000 or yeah 3000 whooo
Thanks! I'm working on an update to this video, this is very out of date! I'm surprised TH-cam is still suggesting it!
I enjoyed this very much
Is... is that a polandball character as your profile picture? I LOVE IT! Thanks for your comment, hope you enjoy the rest of the content in this series too!
quality love to see it from a small youtuber
the blue motorways make me feel itchy, you can changed it with bridges
haha
Love your relaxing voice, thanks!
I'll keep talking if you keep listening!
very underrated channel
Just started playing this and its pretty addictive. I've noticed some global scores are up and over 60k, is that even possible or do they use cheats or something?
I've been dabbling, but there is a way to eventually go infinite. It's tough, but possible to basically set your final score at this point. It requires patience and perfect execution though, I'll probably try it after my full course playthrough!
@@Retroflux I guess this game is based on engineering experience and experiment. So that if we build the traffic flow from the very very beginning of a level with an engineer perspective, the flow will do just fine when the city gets crowded.
But again, the random spawns will ruin everything. Need more clever zoning with spare road tiles and a big bag full of luck I guess 🤣
Once I've finished the series of maps, I'm definitely going to be making a much more involved strategy guide, and dealing with spawns is definitely going to be in there. Stay tuned! :)
@@ahmadnurislah2006 Finding a balance of space, early on helps, then you have room for roundabouts, motorways for distant house groups and backlogs won't block other junctions behind them.
Great voice, love it. Nice dude :)
14:00 could have gotten a motorway and segregated green and yellow right rather than making an easier join.
are there going to be any level 3 buildings? or are there already level 3 buildings?
I truly hope that we are never cursed with such a thing, that'd be horrible LOL. No, there's no plans for level 3 buildings, at least at this point.
What a weird concept. You'd think they'd have made the houses the things that are required to be connected. In real life buildings only are there for people to come and use them right?
What's even more weird is that some people will shut down an entire city because they can't get ther loaf of bread from their specific store in time. It's a very odd community, I must admit.
Granted, 20 seconds in game is like 3 days to get bread, so I can understand why they are upset!
@@Retroflux lol those are some ridiculously long commutes then, and the slowest cars I've ever seen to boot
What do you do when you've played 60+ games and it has never given you four motorways?
What do you do when it has only given you one bridge (that you need where it is) and it then randomly spawns your first store of a new color, on a Tuesday, in a position where you need two more bridges to connect it to the one/two house(s) of that color?
If you made it through 60+ games without a motorway, you should have bought a lottery ticket, that's a 0.00000319% chance.
If the second thing happens, restart lmao
@@Retroflux Um, not one motorway, four motorways.
Note to self: don't read comments right when you wake up lol.
You're still in the bottom 0.0005% if you've never gotten four or more motorways in 60 games (assuming a binomial distribution with ~1/4 chance to get a motorway), that's crazy!
Why not put a bridge for the light blue instead of the motor way??
Along the bottom side? I tend to try and attach motorways to level 2 structures because they are faster than normal bridges... that would have saved me a motorway though... you might be right that it was the correct solution!
@@Retroflux even cut the blue bridge off so it all goes down to that motorway
Nice chill video. If you made your cursor a bit bigger it'd be easy to see on mobile.
As I was editing, this was something I was thinking about doing. Definitely gonna look into it!
14:07 round about right about here… that’ll let yellow get in and out
The rhymes 😌👍
Fantastic!!
am i the only one that kept yelling at him to replace the south highway for the light blue houses with a road and bridge then move it elsewhere?? hahahayha
If it makes you feel good, you're probably the only Caitlyn yelling at me ;P
This game is 20% skill and 80% luck. Which then makes the leaderboard equivalent to seeing who is better at rolling a dice.
If this game was 80% luck, it'd be impossible for me to have top 5% runs for every map on my first try. You need skill and luck to make it onto the leaderboard, yes, but it's certainly not 80% luck.
This game blow my brain😂
Every spawn in this game is like its traying to hurt you so hard
You gotta roll with the punches, that's what makes the game good!
The top score for this city is 213.000 . There has to be some way to blow past 100.000. Cause we in the trenches
Once the map maxes out, if you can sustain the pip growth you're going infinite. Once you cross ~20K, the traffic demand can't go higher and you just go until you don't want to go anymore, honestly.
Very cool!
I hope he realized moving route 1 and 2 would have helped a lot.
Therapeutic
The RNG seeds people are getting are just stupid XD I've only gotten like one good seed out of 10 i've played currently. Makes me soo mad haha
It's all about making the best of your map, fam! Some seeds suck yeah, but most are extremely playable - that's why I release blind runs, so you can see how I adapt to a new map without practice! Hopefully they can help you 😊
I love ur accent
.... I have an accent? What does it sound like?
@@Retroflux canadian?
Huh, neat. LOL
Those squiggly roads don’t look nice man :/
Squiggly gang rise up
Cute game! Small nitpick: The tiny little mouse pointer is hard to track when the author starts saying things like "going from here..."
This has been fixed in every video posted after ~August 20th! :)