It looks like the land ownership in the American West. All along the original transcontinental railroad, every other square mile was given to the Railroad companies. So today there are still large swaths of land that are checkerboarded areas of private/public lands. (Public lands, another very American thing)
13:46 The word "soccer" is a British invention that British people stopped using only around 40 years ago, according to a 2014 paper by University of Michigan professor Stefan Szymanski. The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain, and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" - a medieval game - and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules. To standardize things across the country, these games were categorized under different organizations with different names. One variant of the game you played with your hands became "rugby football." Another variant came to be known as "association football" after the Football Association formed to promote the game in 1863, 15 years after the rules were made at Cambridge. "Rugby football" became "rugger" for short, then "rugby". "Association football" became "soccer."
They’re also the reason we don’t use the metric system. Our president wanted to convert to the metric system, but the ship carrying the weights was robbed by British pirates
Matt, I was wondering what is the steepest gradient you can build a fully functioning city on, maybe a micro city on a cliff edge could be fun but a full size city would be awesome to see
This is his job. He probably plays between 5 and 8 hours a day. Pretty easy to progress in a single edited video in that amount of time. I get about an hour or maybe two a day to game. So it would take me probably 4 days to get to this point if I played the same game every day, so it makes sense. You can progress incredibly quick when this is your full time job.
Yeah it's in the edit. Also, and I'm not hating because his style is just to have fun, but he puts very minimal thought into actually designing a city (unless it's for the meme lol.) He just plops stuff down wherever. Pretty quick to fly through the progressions like that.
I wonder if they're ever gonna add civil/natural features like creeks, floodplains, reservoirs, retention ponds, wetlands, grassland, forest preserves, etc. A lot of these are natural but react differently to different disasters. Minor disasters would be nice too. Water main breaks, transformer failures, vandalism that actually does something, etc.
This is literally how the land between Seligman and Williams Arizona is laid out. It’s just a checkerboard of 250 acre squares between private land and state trust land. No cities, just cabins. But it exists in the world.
You know, funny enough, it was the brits that first called soccer "soccer." We kept saying it the same when we became a nation and in typical brit fashion, you had to be different so you changed the name to football. Little history of the word there for ya lol
"There are no shortcuts in engineering" Jesus fuck I wish every engineer thought like you Matt. I had an engineer at work tell me that the part they needed MUST exist, because it was on a blueprint. That part did not in fact exist and it was the most obscure fucking thing ever. They drew and created that blueprint.
Imagine your brand new house that you have been saving for your whole life gets demolished just because the city planner says it's "off the checkerboard grid"
I really enjoyed this one; it helps me get over trying to make a "perfect" city. There are loads of pros and cons to different designs, and it'll be fun to find out what they are.
OK, you just wing down some grids, practically willy-nilly, add stuff WHEREVER, and you easily upgrade your city just like that! Here I am trying to follow tutorials and be precise and pretty and plan stuff out... Dang. I'm going to try your way. Looks like a load of fun! Thanks for this, I needed a good giggle today!
Yeah, perfect world, roads don't have to jank around an electric pillar. But I've also seen some that went around a tree, so I know others that exist than your example at the college. :)
Thanks for another very entertaining video. The sizes of buildings in Cities Skylines 2 is baffling. From my North American experience elementary and high schools are larger than football (soccer) pitches and the waterpark would be larger than than any of those. Yet in the game the water park is the smallest by quite a bit.
12:25 i can tell you from personal experience, you need university AND your residents must find some way to work at an office for at least 2 years before they are ever allowed to start working at an office.
Boy are you in for a shock when you find out what engineering really is 😂 Especially civil or structural engineering, it's like being in maths class forever except you never get to do the good maths.
I recently saw a video describing a hexagonal grid for city planning. Pretty much never used in real life. I wonder how it would work for City Skylines 2. A future challenge, perhaps?
game dev student- that skatepark is a good example of the dangers of mixing references when creating assets/artwork. those black panels shouldnt have a wood gloss map on them like that. loll municipalities don't like to replace plywood every year, let alone every month when a BMXer puts a peg through it.
'Story time with Matt' was hilarious, instantly subbed. Love a fellow Brit just doing his thing, hope you're enjoying the game. Looking forward to more CS2 content Matt 👍🏻
I'd like to see proper city planning in the next video. Can you do a circular city, with roads like cogs on a wheel, or a giant round-a-bout, with dense commercial in the city center, dense residential in the next layer out, medium and low residential as you go out further, and industrial on the outer-most layer, not forgetting to keep most of the map pristine for nature? In America we're so used to sprawling suburbs that our city planners have forgotten that we need forests and open plains.
i imagine a checkerboard city in real life would just have massive problems with wildlife. like in the middle squares where wildlife is surrounded by either suburb or city, crossing into another wildlife square would just cause chaos in the livable areas between the squares. in america we still have mountain lions and bears, as well as deer, opossums, racoons and other wildlife that come into residential areas so i cant imagine this would be any better.
Grids work really well when you have very flat land and use four-way stops. The Great Plains are *full* of cities aligned on a grid, generally with a major road every mile. It's part of the reason we probably will never switch to metric. Measuring the distance between arterial roads would involve too many decimal spaces.
Nice dig at private water! 😂😉 Also nice shout out to Biffa, he talked about you on his recent episode. Nice to see such comradery from the community! Thanks for another great episode! 😊
What's funny about the football-soccer debate is that the word "soccer" was coined by a Brit. As a Canadian, I grew up watching the CFL and calling the North American game football... but I call it all football now since starting to watch the EPL and Bundesliga regularly, and I think most North Americans are unaware of the origins of the game we call football having its roots in rugby... but that's a rant for another time and place.
fun fact, the british came up with the name Soccer as a shortening for Association Football and the name football originally was just a generic pejorative to mock any "filthy peasant sport" played on your own feet and not from horseback. so basically all poor people sports were called soccer until relatively recently in history.
I really do love a side track to google street view to see garbage roads 😂 (my old job involed staring at ground imagery so I really do get a kick out of it)
The unused blank plots of land could be used for farming and other livestock uses and the allowed plots can be used for buildings and industries etc, it would still keep it checkboard but with a mix of rural and urban areas.
I like how Matt is worried about how the arm is near the highway, and not about how the.... blade? Is probably big enough to park a hundred cars on the side of it....
If the people living in that house were happy when the house caught on fire and walked out like they did it was definitely Arson and I bet they made that kid do it!
The British actually used to call Soccer "Soccer" first. It is short for "Association Football" (Assoc'er -> socc'er) to distinguish it from any other variant from the island, especially "Rugby Football". This artificial "don't call it soccer" trope is absurd, since this is what YOU used to call it.
There is a highway roundabout exit mod for Cities Skyline 1 or OG or whatever. It is upgradeable and a massive patience saver when it comes to arguing with road heights and making bridges happen over other roads.
I watch your videos from my recommendations so often that I never even realised I wasn't actually subscribed to you. "If I get 2m subs before Christmas" was a good reminder. 😅
From trying to get a skatepark in my hometown Matt, I can tell you that almost every skatepark is "architectually designed" - where we could do with alot more engineers! But going to Swansea University, did you ever go down to the Skatepark down by the Leisure Centre in Swansea? Might very well have skated together and not known it! :D Cariad fawr - Much love!
This is basically a half finished game released in its beta stage. The devs basically save a ton of money by just having people who buy it this state and just report bugs back to the devs for free, which they later might or might not repair and might just leave it to that hands of modders. I mean mods are pretty much what brings the lifeblood of the last game. They really half-asseed this...
Fun fact: "soccer" is still a British name for the sport. It comes from distinguishing between "rugby football" and "association football". A "soccer" was someone who played "asSOCciation football" - SOC-cer.
The football pitch thing made me laugh! If you're gonna call it soccer then call American football just football, but if you're gonna call it American football then call normal football just football 😆
13:51 Ummm, actually, the British came up with the name soccer as part of a fad where they were obsessed with adding -er to the end of words(or something). The Americans decided to use it, but the British later decided they didn't like it and the Americans chose not to join them. I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that, but that's all the etymological history related to this topic I know, so there.
I really think you should make a new series of another consistent play through of city skylines! I following throughs city growing not as much a new one every time.
Just a fun note of pedantry: You Brits invented the term "soccer", and you'll just have to live with it despite abandoning it. Just like Imperial measurements.
Seeing the need for retaining walls in Matt's cemetery, I think I'll hold off on Cities Skylines II until I have a mod for free and efficient large-area terraforming. I'm very OCD about having my cities on level ground. Altitude changes are fine, but single altitudes for building surfaces need to be completely level. Yes, I'm weird.
Matt, you can build diagonal bridges, just hop the corner gaps and you don't need the tiles you don't want, alternatively you could do it with tunnels too.
Matt did you hear of the university of south Wales building in Newport that's roof flew off in high winds TWICE. Architects really messed up with that one
Matt: "there are no shortcuts in engineering"
Autocad:
you goofy lol
1:59 fudges 20m
Lol
unless you're using solid doesnt work
CAD: Cardboard Aided Design
He wasn’t banned for exposing himself, it was because he just jumped and didn’t do a required dive or flip
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I accidentally viewed this comment before watching the story portion, was very confusing out of context
@@SickoBytesame lol
@@SickoByteMy first thought would have been that it was a sim who did that. 😂 😂
I accidentally saw this comment before the video even started, I was very confused. Now that I’ve watched the video I understand.
It looks like the land ownership in the American West. All along the original transcontinental railroad, every other square mile was given to the Railroad companies. So today there are still large swaths of land that are checkerboarded areas of private/public lands. (Public lands, another very American thing)
How the fuck is public fans an American thing 🤦🏻♂️
Biffa showed how you can activate dev mode, to build outside the city borders, to cross that span in the corners.
oooh good intel. making me glad i read the comments out here
finally i found a use for my literacy.@@1brocktune
How to get dev mode
13:46 The word "soccer" is a British invention that British people stopped using only around 40 years ago, according to a 2014 paper by University of Michigan professor Stefan Szymanski.
The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain, and goes back 200 years.
In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" - a medieval game - and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules. To standardize things across the country, these games were categorized under different organizations with different names.
One variant of the game you played with your hands became "rugby football." Another variant came to be known as "association football" after the Football Association formed to promote the game in 1863, 15 years after the rules were made at Cambridge.
"Rugby football" became "rugger" for short, then "rugby". "Association football" became "soccer."
But it's not called soccer in England
@@Mroziukz🤦♂️
@@Mroziukzliterally the first sentence explained wet that comment is stupid
Classic England, forgetting they invented something, and getting mad at America for using it.
They’re also the reason we don’t use the metric system. Our president wanted to convert to the metric system, but the ship carrying the weights was robbed by British pirates
Hey Matt, do you think you could do an all bridge city??
If anyone can do it, an engineer can.
"This reminds me of a terrible road in Cardiff!"
Man has a grudge 😂
46°07'00.1"S 169°57'50.1"E Reminded me of this road in Milton NZ, started building the road from both ends on the right hand side of the line.
Matt, I was wondering what is the steepest gradient you can build a fully functioning city on, maybe a micro city on a cliff edge could be fun but a full size city would be awesome to see
How does he build this stuff so quick I haven’t even left the first tile after 4 days lmao
the magic of editing
This is his job. He probably plays between 5 and 8 hours a day. Pretty easy to progress in a single edited video in that amount of time. I get about an hour or maybe two a day to game. So it would take me probably 4 days to get to this point if I played the same game every day, so it makes sense. You can progress incredibly quick when this is your full time job.
@@skylinelibertarian3835no its because he’s a real civil engineer
the magic of edit... oh someone already commented that.
Yeah it's in the edit. Also, and I'm not hating because his style is just to have fun, but he puts very minimal thought into actually designing a city (unless it's for the meme lol.) He just plops stuff down wherever. Pretty quick to fly through the progressions like that.
I'm in Cardiff, and the example you showed is quite hilarious. I might check it out if I'm in town tomorrow!
Would love to see a hexagon city
I think he's done that.
And there are still many more patterns waiting to be explored
I think we know which pattern he’ll do next, and it’s very efficient.
bro predicted the future
A cliff city, there every tile is on the highest and lowest altitude.
I wonder if they're ever gonna add civil/natural features like creeks, floodplains, reservoirs, retention ponds, wetlands, grassland, forest preserves, etc. A lot of these are natural but react differently to different disasters. Minor disasters would be nice too. Water main breaks, transformer failures, vandalism that actually does something, etc.
The grain farms are doing really well on non-fertile land 😂
This is literally how the land between Seligman and Williams Arizona is laid out. It’s just a checkerboard of 250 acre squares between private land and state trust land. No cities, just cabins. But it exists in the world.
You know, funny enough, it was the brits that first called soccer "soccer." We kept saying it the same when we became a nation and in typical brit fashion, you had to be different so you changed the name to football. Little history of the word there for ya lol
"There are no shortcuts in engineering"
Jesus fuck I wish every engineer thought like you Matt. I had an engineer at work tell me that the part they needed MUST exist, because it was on a blueprint. That part did not in fact exist and it was the most obscure fucking thing ever. They drew and created that blueprint.
The water industry bit was good😂
privatized water sounds problematic as fuck lmao
@@reecedoggg I mean, you're not wrong...
New series idea, see if you can recreate popular cities in this game. Bring the wheel of bridge-tune over to city skylines!
Imagine your brand new house that you have been saving for your whole life gets demolished just because the city planner says it's "off the checkerboard grid"
9:26 SUCH IRONIC TALK MATT
I really enjoyed this one; it helps me get over trying to make a "perfect" city. There are loads of pros and cons to different designs, and it'll be fun to find out what they are.
I was not expecting that type of story time 😂😂😂
OK, you just wing down some grids, practically willy-nilly, add stuff WHEREVER, and you easily upgrade your city just like that! Here I am trying to follow tutorials and be precise and pretty and plan stuff out... Dang. I'm going to try your way. Looks like a load of fun! Thanks for this, I needed a good giggle today!
Yeah, perfect world, roads don't have to jank around an electric pillar. But I've also seen some that went around a tree, so I know others that exist than your example at the college. :)
loving your content
can you please make a perfect city series
like which is perfect in all ways?
He did but you have to be a patreon.
The Engitopia isn't perfect?
So a city full of strong shapes? :D
@@fishermastergrWAY too much knobs
@@fishermastergr Yes Engitopia is perfect but from not all angles
14:07 its called a chicane mate in track language, a left followed by a right or the other way around🤠
I wonder what playing chess on this looks like, like what happens when you take out a tower? Or, 2 towers?
😐 .... 🦗🦗🦗🦗
🛩️➡️🗼🗼➡️💥💥
@@Hungary_0987 and I will drive there in my Porch 911
did u really say that...
A forever war.
Thanks for another very entertaining video. The sizes of buildings in Cities Skylines 2 is baffling. From my North American experience elementary and high schools are larger than football (soccer) pitches and the waterpark would be larger than than any of those. Yet in the game the water park is the smallest by quite a bit.
3:35 “People need lungs to live”- Matt 2023
You must embrace the architectural engineer inside you. Build only in circles and roundabouts.
3:33 I never knew that thanks so much!!
12:25 i can tell you from personal experience, you need university AND your residents must find some way to work at an office for at least 2 years before they are ever allowed to start working at an office.
Love your vids, fun and, educating and because of you I am thinking about getting an engineering degree!
SAME!!!
Boy are you in for a shock when you find out what engineering really is 😂 Especially civil or structural engineering, it's like being in maths class forever except you never get to do the good maths.
I was really good at math and still am so@@kunimitsune177
you can also have tunnels to connect the tiles
I always enjoy Cities Skylines Videos. Keep doing that streams Matt. 👍
18:35 Matt, horses have a great taste, and tatars or Kazakhs can agree.
I recently saw a video describing a hexagonal grid for city planning. Pretty much never used in real life. I wonder how it would work for City Skylines 2. A future challenge, perhaps?
game dev student- that skatepark is a good example of the dangers of mixing references when creating assets/artwork. those black panels shouldnt have a wood gloss map on them like that. loll municipalities don't like to replace plywood every year, let alone every month when a BMXer puts a peg through it.
'Story time with Matt' was hilarious, instantly subbed. Love a fellow Brit just doing his thing, hope you're enjoying the game.
Looking forward to more CS2 content Matt 👍🏻
the way he built this city is dystopian, the cole mine next to the only recreation😭😭
I love going out to play tennis and developing my lungs so they can better inhale that coal dust!
I was not expecting to hear a Sk8er Boi referance in a RCE video... you surprise me everyday, Matt.
I WAS THINKING THE SAMEEE
"The checkered city is the perfect city, it runs perfectly"
Checkered City: Running at a 16k loss PER HOUR.
I'd like to see proper city planning in the next video. Can you do a circular city, with roads like cogs on a wheel, or a giant round-a-bout, with dense commercial in the city center, dense residential in the next layer out, medium and low residential as you go out further, and industrial on the outer-most layer, not forgetting to keep most of the map pristine for nature?
In America we're so used to sprawling suburbs that our city planners have forgotten that we need forests and open plains.
i imagine a checkerboard city in real life would just have massive problems with wildlife. like in the middle squares where wildlife is surrounded by either suburb or city, crossing into another wildlife square would just cause chaos in the livable areas between the squares. in america we still have mountain lions and bears, as well as deer, opossums, racoons and other wildlife that come into residential areas so i cant imagine this would be any better.
15:55 *attempted cowboy*
Grids work really well when you have very flat land and use four-way stops. The Great Plains are *full* of cities aligned on a grid, generally with a major road every mile. It's part of the reason we probably will never switch to metric. Measuring the distance between arterial roads would involve too many decimal spaces.
Nice dig at private water! 😂😉 Also nice shout out to Biffa, he talked about you on his recent episode. Nice to see such comradery from the community! Thanks for another great episode! 😊
6:32 Matt: Now no one will ever know
The Viewers: I literally saw your whole city
I somehow perfected the time 6:32 😂
What's funny about the football-soccer debate is that the word "soccer" was coined by a Brit. As a Canadian, I grew up watching the CFL and calling the North American game football... but I call it all football now since starting to watch the EPL and Bundesliga regularly, and I think most North Americans are unaware of the origins of the game we call football having its roots in rugby... but that's a rant for another time and place.
fun fact, the british came up with the name Soccer as a shortening for Association Football and the name football originally was just a generic pejorative to mock any "filthy peasant sport" played on your own feet and not from horseback. so basically all poor people sports were called soccer until relatively recently in history.
Can we get a part two of just building a checkerboard city or a series
I really do love a side track to google street view to see garbage roads 😂 (my old job involed staring at ground imagery so I really do get a kick out of it)
The unused blank plots of land could be used for farming and other livestock uses and the allowed plots can be used for buildings and industries etc, it would still keep it checkboard but with a mix of rural and urban areas.
I’m certain that I’m not the only person that when RCE uploads run to the kitchen get drink and food and relax (especially on city skyline vids)
You’re not
I loved the American accent when you were placing the SOCCER FIELD
Grids are good 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I like how Matt is worried about how the arm is near the highway, and not about how the.... blade? Is probably big enough to park a hundred cars on the side of it....
If the people living in that house were happy when the house caught on fire and walked out like they did it was definitely Arson and I bet they made that kid do it!
The British actually used to call Soccer "Soccer" first. It is short for "Association Football" (Assoc'er -> socc'er) to distinguish it from any other variant from the island, especially "Rugby Football". This artificial "don't call it soccer" trope is absurd, since this is what YOU used to call it.
14:23 how random to let us know where you studied XD
18:34 b-but they are a good way to supplement iron if your body is lacking!
There is a highway roundabout exit mod for Cities Skyline 1 or OG or whatever. It is upgradeable and a massive patience saver when it comes to arguing with road heights and making bridges happen over other roads.
It's all downhill to the cemetery? Sounds like life, mate :P
Paradox Interactive is literally from Sweden where it is called football and they still called it soccer in the game
And Colossal Order is Finnish and it's also called Football. Very weird they chose Soccer.
17:36 storytime with Matt gave me a therapy ad, it listens and knows
loving the new series!
there are enough tiles to make the strongest shape city lay out now
15:56 As an American I love Matt's American impression
"Maybe i wanna get into american football"💀
Woo, shout out to Biffa! The Best city engineer, toast a cuppa tea to him! 💜
16:29 “Oh my goodness, what are they? Maybe I do want to get into American football”
Lmao
I applaud this man for managing to squeeze 5 minutes worth of gameplay into a 22 minute video.
Day 138 of asking Matt to play Mindustry.
Yes!
Day 22 of me asking matt to play Minecraft.
I just feel bad for you
I can confirm that
Come on, don't give up!!!!
I watch your videos from my recommendations so often that I never even realised I wasn't actually subscribed to you. "If I get 2m subs before Christmas" was a good reminder. 😅
From trying to get a skatepark in my hometown Matt, I can tell you that almost every skatepark is "architectually designed" - where we could do with alot more engineers! But going to Swansea University, did you ever go down to the Skatepark down by the Leisure Centre in Swansea? Might very well have skated together and not known it! :D Cariad fawr - Much love!
Bro has the most random ideas but they entertain us! 😂😂
This is basically a half finished game released in its beta stage. The devs basically save a ton of money by just having people who buy it this state and just report bugs back to the devs for free, which they later might or might not repair and might just leave it to that hands of modders.
I mean mods are pretty much what brings the lifeblood of the last game.
They really half-asseed this...
I loved the part of your video where you said, "It's bridge time," and bridged all over your city. Truly one of the cities of all time.
I think unlocking the additional tiles to build your road without paying for them is in the spirit of the rules.
If the checkerboard layout is strong, the strongest shape layout must be unstoppable.
16:28 "Maybe I *do* wanna get into American football..." LMFAO
Fun fact: "soccer" is still a British name for the sport. It comes from distinguishing between "rugby football" and "association football". A "soccer" was someone who played "asSOCciation football" - SOC-cer.
The football pitch thing made me laugh! If you're gonna call it soccer then call American football just football, but if you're gonna call it American football then call normal football just football 😆
Obsessive Compulsive District.
Your house can no longer be there because our city is not properly checkered.
I’m happy I subscribed because there was such a long break that I forgot about the series and I was pleasantly surprised to see another ep
Wow, almost two million subscribers, It feels like you released the "Truss me i'm an Engineer" song yesterday!
13:51 Ummm, actually, the British came up with the name soccer as part of a fad where they were obsessed with adding -er to the end of words(or something). The Americans decided to use it, but the British later decided they didn't like it and the Americans chose not to join them. I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that, but that's all the etymological history related to this topic I know, so there.
I really think you should make a new series of another consistent play through of city skylines! I following throughs city growing not as much a new one every time.
This was a very good video, honestly would love to see multiple videos of this city type!!
gotta love when im already rewatching old cities skylines videos then i get this notification… yay!
Didn’t expect the random reference and Google map lesson of my old university bendy road!
Just a fun note of pedantry: You Brits invented the term "soccer", and you'll just have to live with it despite abandoning it.
Just like Imperial measurements.
Seeing the need for retaining walls in Matt's cemetery, I think I'll hold off on Cities Skylines II until I have a mod for free and efficient large-area terraforming. I'm very OCD about having my cities on level ground. Altitude changes are fine, but single altitudes for building surfaces need to be completely level. Yes, I'm weird.
Yes!!! Story time with matt! It's back!
This ended up looking pretty neat. I may have to try this on CS1.
14:08 To be honest, it's just like a normal residential road here in Australia(never really travelled out of QLD by car btw)
You can upgrade a lot of your buildings (schools, police, hospitals) instead of adding new ones. Saves space and money
14:54 - you should name that road the "Cardiff bend road" :)
Matt, you can build diagonal bridges, just hop the corner gaps and you don't need the tiles you don't want, alternatively you could do it with tunnels too.
Fractal citylines next !! Sierpiński Triangle and all that good stuff ^^ thanks to yoour ingenuity and civility. Love from MTL
Matt did you hear of the university of south Wales building in Newport that's roof flew off in high winds TWICE. Architects really messed up with that one