Can you beat Cities Skylines 2 WITHOUT building a city? 

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I have built a rural town with only gravel roads, low density houses, industry only farming and logging. The town was in deep forest and looked stunning

After the economic update, it's far easier to dig yourself into a hole and go bankrupt. You can play with villages, but in general you need to slow down and address needs as they arise, keeping budgets low as things grow up. You want to stay cash positive at all times, and that often means waiting a while for existing buildings to level up so they can pay more taxes.

Here in The Netherlands there are villages inside of cities; most of the times when cities keep growing they surround small villages who are close by and they just absorb them. But sometimes the villages want to stay independent and then you have enclaves of villages inside city’s. One instance of this is ‘Oostendorp’ inside of ‘Elburg’ a city in the province Gelderland.

I wish there were more rural build options. We have septic tanks and wells out here. The only thing we need to get from the road come over wires!

10:30 matt did not notice the nearly done strongest shape

You could've just done a sneaky and build a normal city. Then say "Its a village, it doesn't have city rights". Works for the other European villages making fun of nearby smaller cities.

I think youre using roads that are way too wide for a European style village. Ud rarely see 4 lane roads and highways being the main village infrastructure. Also, town squares are a thing. You need some central feature that the village sprawls out from.

Hamlet->village->town->city->metropolis-> mega city->megalopolis

What killed it for you was Tile upkeep. Install the 529 tiles mod and turn down the tile upkeep till youre happy, mine is set at 40% but i have all tiles unlocked.

if you want inspiration, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina is classified as a village. not a single 4 lane road in sight, and only 960 people live there.

A tip is to use the zoning mod! Then you can choose where you want to zone without using paths.

City Skylines II: Unique Building exist RCE : Oooh! It's a new village theme.

As a new englander who lives in a village, we have villages everywhere! A lot of the time multiple villages make up one town! 0:28

01:15: "Sorry, I'm like, real engineer nerding out" Real Civil EngiNerd

0:41 "Imagine All The Bridges" this remind me of a song on spotify

12:14 Matt : They could sell Tables and chairs ❌ Sticks for dogs ✅

Village skylines? Villages have skylines?

Revisit this premise but play it differently... you CAN NOT play CS2 like CS1, so you cant have a district of shops 6 miles away from where people live and expect the shops to do well... you need to start out with a little town center and save space for future buildings. A main street with shops, a major road near the highway or railway for industrial and shopping and side streets for residental neighborhoods with shops closer to the major intersections. Go walk around where you live, look at how homes, shops and industry is actually laid out and attempt to recreate a realistic layout for your villages. Then focus on one villagenor maybe 2 until they both level up and become prosperous before expanding and adding things like a Highschool for when you ACTUALLY need "Highly skilled laborers". Expand each village slowly as you come across new demands and necessities instead of well before thus wasting money. Im not gonna lie, id actually love to see you take on a more serious and realistically laid out city for a youtube series where you still do some silly things and have fun. I just think altering the way you layout zoning to be more realistic will take your cities much further and much more easily than trying to play it like CS1. Id binge the crap outta that series man!

RCE should play Theo Town

you need to look at the revenue tab and see what you're exporting and importing. Build specialized industry and become a net exporter. special farms like cotton and carrot don't need to be on fertile land, only base farms. excited for this series.

I'm a german who lives in a village. I can say that there are lots of villages in germany

The tile upkeep update really ruined playing like this. They need a middle ground system. It was so fun when the game launched to make small areas around the map that supported each other- but now it's way too expensive to do it.

Thanks for your unique takes on the game! You sound like you'd be good company in a pub (once we're drunk enough to stand each other).

This video is how every single yorkshire town was formed

I think if you had one central town then have villages surrounding it it might work better

I think there should be a collaboration between yourself, Overcharged Egg or Real City Planner or Biffa to build a city, but you don't take it seriously while they have too, and you each take turns building the city. So, you do poop mountains and they don't.

I love you cities skyline videos!

This is how I usually play tho 😭 I usually make one medium sized town, and then loads of outlying hamlets, villages and small towns. I feel like it’s a much more fun and varied way to play as you get to explore different terrain, scenery, transport options, juggle the logistics of it all, it’s so fun!

0:41 You wouldn't really have bridges for that, you'd prolly go with a single ferry that goes once every week.

In the original cities skylines 2 pre economy update you could unlock every milestone without ever having a single citizen. People took to the spreadsheets to min/max both the fastest way to do it and the cheapest way to do it.

Have you done a street-less city? Basically everything is pedestrian/public transportation, but everyone will move in, park their cars in $50 a day parking, only to -never use their car again-. Tons of free tax dollars. I put underground alleys up to Large Parking lots, as people wanted close parking for the cars that they -will never use again-.

I think you build a small town, normal vilage in europe (Czechia) have onli some houses around one road

12:58 All these "villages" aren't even the size of one Village in game.

I was so rooting for this to work! Mainly because I grew up in an area like this I suppose? But a lot of the economy relied on the giant nearby industry zones where everyone's dad had a decent paying job at Shell, Philip Morris, etc. However in the Netherlands there were many rural area's that thrived on local fishery and farms. Too bad they're now marginalized by stupid laws that incriminate them of being not environemental friendly, while those huge polluting factories have no issues at all. So I guess CS2 is pretty realistic at that.

i think another consideration is that CS2 is very car centric, and villages are sorta meant to be the opposite... small and close together.

In real life, you generally have a bigger town where you'll find a high school, a clinic, some offices, a big commercial center on the side, etc. And connected to that town, you'll have villages that are mostly houses, some small proximity shops, their own elementary school if they are big enough, and loads of agricultural areas. If you have industry, it will be closer to the bigger town, but not directly stuck to it (no one wants to live near industry, somehow), same for a power plant. Of course, in real life villages are farther appart from each other and look less artificial since they "grew up naturally" during centuries (well, you also have new ones popping out, but they look like square tumors growing from main roads connecting old villages to the bigger town) - but you do what you can with what City Skyline gives you.

You should return to Engi2pia and perhaps make a district that has a nice amount oof bridges (either 69 or 420, depending on what you can afford)

Curious to see how it would play out if all small roads were one way roads with a dead end, maybe add a car park at the end of every road

that sponsor segment was so perfect

Can’t wait for RCE to have his own flavor for GamerSupps. Can’t wait to try out Architect Tears. 😂

I actually watch a youtuber called Seniactwo who made a series entirely on villages called Farmtown. (Then again, it was more like towns (maybe even cities) scattered with a few villages dotted here and there.)

That shit with using the paths to fix the zoning in CS2? Why the hell is that a thing? Every time I play CS2 (it makes me want to play CS1 instead) and this zoning issue happens! Even when using the dedicated grid tool, if it's off by like .001% of a single pixel, the zoning is never right. I end up redrawing roads over and over and building and destroying paths over and over just to get it right.

Only ever frequented one corner shop that overcharged me every time, and only charged me the listed price of pop once... other times was 4-8 dollars over (for a 12 pack). Shopped only a half dozen times before walking a ways further to buy knockoff pop and oros (knockoff oreos you can buy at 66 cents a pack).

this guy can boost anything into existence, he can boosh some brilliant gamer supps he can boosh some Village Skylines into exsistance. and he can Boosh a Good ol' truss bridge.

It is the return of our favourite Village Skylines architect. Sets out with a completely unrealistic idea and then creates the worst city in history.

You didn't pick the best flavor, grandpa's ashes

i haven't even watched it yet, but gosh darn it, village skylines is such a good idea. :)

Suburban Sprawl Simulator

and now we are one step closer to a ShylillyxRCE crossover and thats not something i ever thought would be possible.

i like this concept. ive tried adding villages to the side of my city *swiss style* up in the mountains n shizz hell yeah

I live in somerset & pretty much every village that exists is way bigger than any you put in here. Coat the smallest village in the area I grew up has about 40 houses & 0 amenities. It is however close to Martock which is what you might call a small market town. I'd say its just a very big village though with population of slightly less than 5k. Villages come in a vast array of shapes & sizes. You could certainly get away with beginning your build with a Martockesque type large village followed by the smaller satellite villages that surround it.

HGTV homebuyers be like "I sell sticks for dogs. Our budget is 2.5 million."

What's next? Barn Skylines? Outhouse Skylines?! BACKYARD SHACK SKYLINES?!

How about a reverse city, where everything you should do to make a successful city do the opposite. Multilane highways as residential roads small residential roads as main thoroughfares. Industry intermingled into residential etc.

"Let's Rub Noses Like the Eskimoses" but RCE Style: "All Good Villages are Built Around Bridges" Coming to Spotify and Now That's What I Call Engineering Vol 68. Notice to Train Enthusiasts: "That's What I Call Engineering" does not involve trains...unless they are going over a bridge.

this is how i usually managed to progress into the first game without crashing every 5 minutes on my potato laptop

I've built a village/town map on the most recent update. You just have to be super budget conscious. You have to make decisions based on what your budget can afford, not what you have unlocked.

0:42 yeah imagine all the bridges that got your mouth drooling didn't it.

RCE discovered the problems of North America with urban sprawl and a lack of efficient infrastructure

I loved this video, I think we should try it again maybe in a different way if you can think of it. Also could you build an island village community where ships are a major method of travel rather than cars

Its so nice seeing other be able to play a 50€ game I also have but cant play beacuse of an error

I live in a north american village next to a few other ones as they are not big enough to be towns.

Regarding your early exclamation of "Island Village Skylines!": The breaking of the Barges Mod marked the end of my CS1 play, as that isolated all the island and riverside villages without road/rail which I'd been building for many months. I'm saddened there's no ferry/barge transit yet in the game. Everything requires a road or rail. And I've just given up on Tile Upkeep, checking Unlock Map Tiles in the Map Options. Lacking the tiny modded services assets like CS1 makes it a difficult play style (fingers crossed for asset modding). Thanks for your amusing takes on the game!

I mean, this is what i do in this game, so it's a completely normal video for me lol

Pls make this a series

To be fair these villages are pretty small. With a compact center built around row housing, developping with single family low density, going up to 1k ppl per community, using crap roads as much as possible, delaying and rationing some services as long as possible and relying on mass transit for some of them like schools, it may be possible.

While i dont own or play this game, unfortunately, i gotta say that Economics Update and the additional SIZES of some buildings is AMAZING! now if only they could add either new sizes for a Cemetary or a way to hand-craft your own Cemetaries, Parks and Shopping Centers (strip malls and malls in general), that would be fantastic!

Not Badger getting a free sponsor deal for his Guacamole Gamer Fart flavour from the most Realistic Civil Engineer 😂

And that is why Engineers are not urban planners. (two different jobs :p )

The terms podunk and Podunk Hollow in American English denote or describe an insignificant, out-of-the-way, or even completely fictitious town. These terms are often used in the upper case as a placeholder name, to indicate "insignificance" and "lack of importance" But at the density, close to one another, of the villages we refer to them as neighborhoods.

4:16 Gotta watch out for Steve Wallis in that thing

This should be good fun to watch 😁

4:56 You don't have to wait for buildings to appear to take away the paths, the zoning shouldn't change if it's colored in

i started to have flashbacks of when @Let'sgameitout played on this map.

14:27 top 5 messi acoustic moments

I'm enjoying this playthough of Skylines 2!

19:15 Strong Towns proven right

This is how I normally play CS. I grew up in an area that wasn’t super populated.

14:28 Welcome to Washington State. You get used to it.

Love this idea. Good editing as well!

Im curious if you'd do a video on Sim City 4, you can even drive vehicles

Cld do a map with loads of islands, that would require loads of bridges… island skylines?

Man invented suburbs and realized why they sucks in one short video

You ever tried the sowjet republic City builder? Seems the most realistic and hard one ever

What village has underground power lines?

The more this video went on, the more this area just became Hampshire, even down to screwing people over with surprise tax rises even as service expenditure is cut.

This is your first crazy idea that didn't work way better than it should.

"I feel like Villages are more of a European thing" Over here in the USA in Michigan theres quite a few "villages" i have to drive past/through on my way to a scout camp i used to work at.

In America we define a town or city or whatever by how many Walmarts it has for example the place I live has none because less than 500 people live here

"I think villages are really a European thing not American." You should travel to the midwest at some point, there are tons of "villages" all over the place. Oftentimes along railways every 7 miles you will find small 250-1000 people towns where the gain from the rural farms are transported to. The reason for every 7 miles is that the location of the water station for locomotives needed to be so they could refill.

I never thought you’d incorporate that King of the Hill meme.

You should try this again but with a supporting functional city surrounded by small villages. I think that would be awesome

Everytime RCE uses an unnecessary bridge, he is a Archineer (Architect Engineer) Using engineering for Architect purposes

Part 2 on this please

Can you tell your editor to let go of the annoying memes all the time? Or is it just me? That''s really not what I'm here for. I'm here for YOUR humour and commentary. I watch these videos DESPITE the bad editing...

That moment when Pre-k now teaches architecture so now Architects are gonna start flooding from age 5 O

For your next video, attempt to create Derby, UK. And add Hilton, not the hotel, the village.

0:39 i think you are playing on the thousand island timborborn map

"Villages are more of a European thing" clearly you've never been to wisconsin