They made powering a city x1000 more complicated 

This game is best described as "taking the role of utilities engineer working for a clinically insane city planner."

Hello, I'm the developer of this game. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for playing this!

Matt, unable to realize the overpowered nature of the pipes as they allow you to cross your wires over the void.

"It's all about the pipework" Truer words have never been spoken Matt. Truly a Scholar you are.

We really need rce to play mini motorway again. I always loved that.

Just imagine someone building their house on a Trafo station and blaming the city. Top tier trolling.

Hamster-powered generators? I was led to believe that they usually are beaver-powered. Heresy!!

We all know that there is no hamsters in those wheels. Its beavers being shamed

This game is like hanging Christmas lights and trying to figure out where to plug them all in.

I did the trig, diagonal wires are actually the square root of 2, which is around 1.4.

I've designed a lot of single-layer circuit boards and this game brings back unpleasant memories.

I think instead of scoring based on using special tools, it'd be neat for it to score on shortest routes. At least make it an alternative scoring system. I suppose it depends on what's considered "efficient."

If you'd clear away rocks, the game would stop spawning houses on the connections 😂 Plowing on without reading what the game's telling you as always!

Man I could watch Matt laying pipe all day long

Imagine if he would be better than Aliensrock in this game

the square root of 2 is 1.5... yeah, this game was made by engineers.

0:49 "you can do the trigonometry if you don't believe me." Ok then, this is really simple. Assuming one line's length to be 1 unit, then a diagonal bisecting that tile (assumed to be perfectly square) corner to corner forms a 45-45-90 isosceles triangle. Sides A and B are 1 unit long each, and the diagonal line is the longest, called the hypotenuse. Using the Pythagorean Theorem, we can determine the length of the diagonal, line c. The theorem states that a^2 + b^2 = c^2. If a and b are both one unit long, then we get 1+1=c^2. Therefore c^2=2. If we take the square root of both sides, we get c is approximately equal to 1.44 units long, which is indeed longer than one unit long. You're welcome :P

Hi RCE! Nice to see another video. Thanks for amazing content!

this looks about right for a engineer , all a mess and not worried about the guy who has to fix it or make it rational . lol

I think the South African government needs to give this game a try

I got recommended this video 47 seconds after it was uploaded!

I really liked this game! Would be fun to see more.

You can have the same experience with drawing PCBs. This is basically Altium with cats😅

Can’t wait for a resource game like this making a diagonal actually cost exactly the square root of 2 units (which is how far a perfect 45° diagonal is for those who didn’t know)

Yes to this project. pls more

Purple lines go snakin' 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside.

I haven't watch the full video, so might delete, but you are using a lot of diagonal wires, where you could use straight ones. From counting at 7:19 you are using 4 diagonals, where you could use straights, which would amount to 2 full wires!!!!

Ooh this sounds fun!!

the blue bridge!! why havent you already seen that!.. aaahh. good video! enjoyed it

I'd like to see a continuation of this

very neat little game

This is a great game, and it's inexpensive, too!

Great video found new videos to look out for

me being colorblind and taking longer than I'm comfortable to realize the plants are color coded

If I did trigonometry, If each block was of lenght L Then the half diagonal would be of lenght L/2 + L/√2 And full of L√2 There is no 1.5L in lenght so the calculation is wrong...

Mat using constantly diagonals instead of straight cable on block next to makes me anxious, as they cost more.

This is actually how BT built their original infrastructure

It do be looking like mini motorways^^

The orientation of the map should motivate to build in an angle to spare cables. But also we are so used to vuild horzontal and vertical. Its funny to see

Amazing content! Please can you play wandering village again, I miss onbu 🥺

Who-who-Who's the Real Civil Engee? two elevated motorways 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside

3:32 "ME-thane"?!

They can’t build on hammer tiles. You can manipulate late game spawn by freeing up specific flat tiles

i love the first level and i love cats but paddy is the best

Love you RCE

0:50 "you can do the trigonometry if you dont believe me" if you do the trigonometry, you get 1.4142... (root 2)

Didn't mat already play some power management game some time ago? he set his electrical wires ablaze before explaning how to paraller plug your powerstations.

Those are wheels of shame!!!

guess its time to rewatch it already

I believe the purple plant is geothermal. The cooling towers and coming from the ground is a stylized wind turbine. But poo power if funnier run with it.

The diagnal measurement of a square is 1.414x the length of one side

Turn 2 more wires and hammers were used than needed. If he went from the 2 next to the plant he'd of used 1 less tile and therefore less wires

Will you do more of Engitopia, kinda miss you messing around there in Cities Skylines. 🙂

The planning officer needs dragging out in to the car park...

Good vid like always

matt, why do you go diagonal to connect a house when you can also just go straight and connect to the wire which would save you 2 pieces of wire over the whole board

I think you should do a revisit of "Power of the People"

if you did the trigonometry, the 1.5 would actually be 1.42 something, as it's actually sqrt(2) long, not 1.5. I guess it's a reasonable aproximation tho

Op big fan of paddy

I believe the purple plant is ground heat source generator.

i can use the shapes to do a pixelart

This reminds me of city skylines

Looks like of mathematical unaccuracies (also known as rounding), diagonals are less efficient.

Hexagon grid please

If you saved a jumper at the end you could have used it to get rid of the plant at the end😉

8:05 i got so frustrated at that part bc of how u didnt see that you could easily sort that out

Civil Engineer tries Electrical Engineering! *** GONE WRONG ***

as an electrician,cat lover and gamer this is a big W

They're stealing 0.086 wires every diagonal! It's larceny.

RCE: Each diagonal cost 1,5 (do the math) RCE: Uses mostly diagonals

I bet you could learn some good strategy from this game if you watched Aliensrock's videos on it, perhaps you've heard of him. XD

Tyler: its orange, not red Matt: PINK

This reminds me of mini metro but with electricity

That looks like I face when I do PCB designs

Was that, "around the outside" x3 a Chef John reference?

You didn't do a bridge review :((( P.S. love the game

Does his voice change in the middle of the video or am I just getting insane?

Has anyone ever imagined matt saying, "OMG it shat on a turtle?" just wondering

Too good to use syndrome is silly in a game where you can undo anything at any time... lol

This game reminds me of PCB design

Day fourteen of asking Matt to add the Second Narrows Bridge, Ironworkers Memorial to the Wheel of Bridgetune It is a cantilevered truss bridge, carrying 6 lanes of traffic from Vancouver to North Vancouver in B.C. across the second narrowing of the Burrard Inlet. It's name comes from the fact that it collapsed twice during construction, which unalived 23 people in total (Hence the name, ironworkers memorial).

Power plant 3 is probably geo-thermal

the diagonals are actually the length of root 2

watchin rce use diagonals when he couldve used a straight and saved wires is so sad

What?! No Bridge review?? The outrage!!

Oi. Don’ be a lazy architect. That erase all button is there for a reason. Allows you to optimize for a better score.

Do power to the people again!

is there a beaver in the blue powerpant getting shamed?

Wait...are you telling me there was bridges in this video but no BRIDGE REVIEW???

0:46 A diagonal of a one-unit-sided square is √2 units. It's not 1.5, it's 1.41... >:(

Please play Hello Engineer.

Lisa! In this house we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics!

OMG Nikolas Tesla’s dream finally came true

I did the trigonometry and i found that going diagonal is actually 1.41421356237309504880168872420969807856967187537694807317667973799 times the size of a straight (rounded to 100d.p (im a mathematician so i need to be very accurate))

Pretty disappointed by all the jumper usage, imagine the material costs. Got to engineer some cleaner solutions.

Could just say: Shaming wheel

“You can do the trigonometry if you don’t believe me” I don’t. I did. It’s sqrt(2) not 1.5, but honestly it’s a good approximation compared to the correct value of ≈1.414213562 Which means that there is theoretically a scenario in which a slightly more circuitous path is actually cheaper

This game looks frustrating lol

I assume different colours mean different power frequency.

Come to South Africa you'll learn how to learn how to live without electricity. Fact.