A nice feature for this game would be a way for better visibility. An example i came up with is if you click on a building. It would black-and-white out everything that is not that colour. Also perhaps extra highlight the houses that are connected.
I had a ssimilar idea where you could make all highways invisible. They can be quite obstructing. And removing them while reconstructing rodes can be very useful
Your strrategies are on point and I like how you clearly and logically explain your moves. I got one quick tip that's helped me jump up my scores (though not nearly to your level). Every destination has a one tile wide 'no build donut' surrounding it, including on the diagonals. That forbidden building zone applies to both houses and businesses but _not_ to driveways for houses or businesses, which is why you 'll see two business spawning one tile from eachother but will never see them spawning touching back to back. Except in the crazy free-zoning challenge. Takeaway is you never need to spend tiles blocking anything within one tile of a business. You can plan around relying that one tile buffer (although new driveways sometimes ruin that), and you usually end up with space for an emergency road right next to a business. For that reason I usually build roads one tile away from them so I have that extra corridor to build in if I need it later.
This isn't the first time I've been told that I make time disappear LOL, glad you enjoyed it either way! :) I try to keep the videos shorter, but the attempts for an ultra-long round forces a lot longer of a video :( At least it was an enjoyable hour, it was a pleasure to entertain you!
Congrats on the 11k. One thing I noticed is that you still have a bunch of 4 way intersections in residential areas. Some of them are unavoidable, but there might be some potential to make things a bit more efficient.
Everytime one thing spawns you need to pause and re-assess things before unpausing. Long start game but helps get things built right the first time which prolongs your run.
some tips I've found. instead of a continuous road when blocking spawns if you only do 2 tile segments it will only use up 1 road, in a big enough area this can save lots of roads, also from my experience building will not spawn touching another building or house (exception is the 2 unit building it appears it does the fittest with the small building then can be increased next to somthing) using this you can further your spawn blocking by knowing what is already blocked.
Saints come to me to learn patience, though I was definitely running out in this one haha... listening to the recording while editing hearing myself lowkey dying was rough. Eight dead runs in a row is demoralizing to say the least haha
Imagine moving into a city, you get a job at a struggling pizza place and the day you move in the city builds a motorway straight to the pizza place to makes sure it doesn’t close down for a bit only to demolish it like a week later
Funnily enough my first 3K score was done was using no blocking at all, just leaving alternative routes to escape tight situations especially edge of map and having plenty of spare road tiles
One thing is avoid cross roads and use T junctions for faster speed. Another thing is leave some space when motorway connects straight to a destination when there is a junction. It will work as a buffer.
So it seems at super late game, there are things the game does that the player has less than ideal control over - new houses spawning already connected that the player doesn't spot in time, and car park AI. I'm sure we've all lost games because a destination just gets sardined in the car park and not a lot the player can do. Unless putting a fake T junction outside with a traffic light on might regulate the flow into the car park somewhat, but who has the space for that, and even then I don't trust the AI to use it properly. Fixes for the first one might include force unconnected spawns, louder/more visible pings on spawn, pause on spawn. Great runthrough, added a few more ways for me to think about the problem, awesome job.
I wonder sometimes if less cars is better. The more cars are waiting in front of the mall the more they are blocking each other. Sometimes disconnecting one or two houses can actually improve throughput. It seems counter intutive but I had two situations by now where it actually improved the situation. So maybe disconnecting one or two green/red houses would have improved the situation at the end there.
Yes, it's always a distance-cost solution! Can you send one car twice as often as a further car? Disconnect the further car and reduce congestion. Or even crazier, can you LENGTHEN a trip for one or two houses to make interruptions for the rest less frequent?
The 2x3 dests don't have spawns within 1 sq without the high density challenge option. I have had 3x4 double dests spawning next to each other in a challenge.
You take the time to make good edits on your videos even this long, It's admirable, and your commentary is really enjoyable too, I'm glad for discovered your channel I want to say that the run was a hell, i only felt pain from the beginning for all those spawns xD
It might take a couple hours, but every minute of it is important to my viewers. It's gonna be edited well all the way through, from now until the end of the channel - that's my promise to all my viewers
I think if you could fit a roundabout in the bottom right under the yellow business... you could have maybe saved the double green/red spawn at the end. That's assuming it even fits there.
One thing I notice you keep doing is the way you block off areas. What consumes a road tile is connecting two squares, so you can use one road tile to cover two squares on the map. It's way more efficient to use many single roads rather than a few very long roads. (Also you don't need to add roads right next to businesses because houses can't spawn adjacent to them anyways)
I'm trying to augment my playstyle to avoid blocking as much as possible, so using a non-efficient number of roads for blocking is not something I worry about too much :)
Came back to say thank you for those tips - I just got 66.000 with Mexico City on the second try - I got bored after 2 hours and put some traffic lights down :-D
ah you made it! i'm so glad. well done. amazing that you found that single green spawn *under a motorway* right at the end, i rewound the video to see it, and i said aloud "oh my god, he's never going to spot that" right before you spotted it :D
wants the motorway for dark blue at 42;55, can disconnect 1 red from MW1 and bring it into MW2, can then use the reclaimed MW1 for dark blue, lol 44:21 "still no motorway " after you just connected the red into the surplus one , 30 seconds later gets the motorway omgg
This is just me, but isn't having HWY 1 AND 6 basically going to and from same place redundant? I feel like you could have fixed some of congestion congestion the red/green shop if you used the HWYs for color specific and not let both green and red share both. They could have been attached with 3-4 roads in the north. Not trying to be mean or backseat but wanted to know your thoughts on your thinking on why you did what you did, and how you did it.
I was able to pull off 22k (then made a small mistake) but the game didnt let me post the score to the leaderboard because of internet outage :c I guess thats a reason to try for an even higher score again :P
You could have gone way further ..!! At 42:02, you made the mistake of adding motorway #6, while you already had motorway #1 just next to it doing the same job. And those motorways were mainly bringing red cars. The this is you connected Motorway#1 at the bottom..! It at this exact moment, you did not put M.#6, and just linked the houses to M.#1 + moved it to the top entry instead of bottom entry, the congestion on this 2-building-thing would have been less congested, and you would have an additional motorway by the end to tweak a few things. All in all, congrats.. !!
Love the vid but why late game do you take roundabouts over traffic lights? With no space to put roundabouts a traffic light although not as good could potentially help traffic? Or am I wrong
The ONLY thing traffic lights have over roundabouts is space, everything else about it can just make traffic worse because of how inconsistent traffic flow can be, traffic lights could prevent a bunch of cars saving a building, just because of timing
The placement of I-4 was triggering me. Seems you could've taken it straight across to that grouping of reds on the right instead of slightly down and to the right, which was forcing the lone car connected around the other side of the green business to go like 30% further. Also, I've never played, so I may not be aware of some strategy involved, regardless, congrats on the successful run!
Why put up barricades this way? Nothing can spawn on squares directly in contact with a destination, anyway. No criticism, just an observation. Every YT'er playing Mini Motorways tries to block spawns right next to destinations and I don't understand why.
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A nice feature for this game would be a way for better visibility. An example i came up with is if you click on a building. It would black-and-white out everything that is not that colour. Also perhaps extra highlight the houses that are connected.
Yeah, also a way to highlight all roads on the same network, would make it way nicer to troubleshoot accidental connections.
I had a ssimilar idea where you could make all highways invisible. They can be quite obstructing. And removing them while reconstructing rodes can be very useful
44:44 "Dark blue is doing weird things, really unscrupulous dangerous things..." Listening to you slowly devolve as the panic hits is just hilarious.
So much panic, and then I see the light: I need a motorway to fix this hot mess
Your strrategies are on point and I like how you clearly and logically explain your moves. I got one quick tip that's helped me jump up my scores (though not nearly to your level). Every destination has a one tile wide 'no build donut' surrounding it, including on the diagonals. That forbidden building zone applies to both houses and businesses but _not_ to driveways for houses or businesses, which is why you 'll see two business spawning one tile from eachother but will never see them spawning touching back to back. Except in the crazy free-zoning challenge.
Takeaway is you never need to spend tiles blocking anything within one tile of a business. You can plan around relying that one tile buffer (although new driveways sometimes ruin that), and you usually end up with space for an emergency road right next to a business. For that reason I usually build roads one tile away from them so I have that extra corridor to build in if I need it later.
Thank you stranger, I will definitely be using the no build donut strat moving forward! ☺️
The pacing and commentary of this video made it a very entertaining 54 minutes. Idk how you did it but you made me watch an hour of mini motorways
This isn't the first time I've been told that I make time disappear LOL, glad you enjoyed it either way! :) I try to keep the videos shorter, but the attempts for an ultra-long round forces a lot longer of a video :( At least it was an enjoyable hour, it was a pleasure to entertain you!
@@Retroflux for sure man. You got a sub from me, definitely gonna stay around.
Congrats on the 11k. One thing I noticed is that you still have a bunch of 4 way intersections in residential areas. Some of them are unavoidable, but there might be some potential to make things a bit more efficient.
That’s normal. Local roads supposed to have more intersections than the Main Street.
@@alohatigers1199 the traffic optimization in this game is not "normal"
Everytime one thing spawns you need to pause and re-assess things before unpausing. Long start game but helps get things built right the first time which prolongs your run.
“We are great property managers.” *2 greens spawn immediately*
there's something so satifying about this all running efficiently.
some tips I've found. instead of a continuous road when blocking spawns if you only do 2 tile segments it will only use up 1 road, in a big enough area this can save lots of roads, also from my experience building will not spawn touching another building or house (exception is the 2 unit building it appears it does the fittest with the small building then can be increased next to somthing) using this you can further your spawn blocking by knowing what is already blocked.
9 attempts! Gosh I wonder how long it would take me when I try this haha! Congrats on the 10k! Your patience is amazing. Can't wait for more vids! 🥰
Saints come to me to learn patience, though I was definitely running out in this one haha... listening to the recording while editing hearing myself lowkey dying was rough. Eight dead runs in a row is demoralizing to say the least haha
I noticed that too haha! Still very rewarding! Maybe take a break before you move on to the next one? hahaha!
Next one is already done 😂
Sheeeeeesh you are a god!
I must say, I love your editing style. Great content!
Glad you enjoy it! It's a lot of work, but I really like producing quality content for people to enjoy :)
Nice score! I wonder if traffic lights could've made a difference at some of the busier intersections / T-intersections.
Imagine moving into a city, you get a job at a struggling pizza place and the day you move in the city builds a motorway straight to the pizza place to makes sure it doesn’t close down for a bit only to demolish it like a week later
I've been trying to beat 4k on Tokyo ... man it's another map where the game can just hate you on.
Nice video!
Beijing is an absolute monster as well, I'm finding
The schadenfreude I have watching the beginning of this is unparelleled only because this map is the bain of my existence.
My gracious. So glad I’m not the only one who struggled a lot to get a decent score. I’ll take my 4.5k and be satisfied :)
Struggled before, yes, but now I have ascended. Come, join the cult in worship tomorrow, at 7AM PST >:)
congrats and respect for the patience and dedication
First time watcher of your chanel. Commentary is choice 👌 Super informative, plus several actual lol moments. Well done, good sir.
Well... I'll just sit here waiting, then.
For 2 entire days.
While I sit at 2300.
Menacingly.
I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR TWO DAYS ALREADY.
It was eating me alive, now you will all share in my pain
@@Retroflux Well then. Waiting game time?
@@aquavision5836 what did you have in mind? Sleeping? 💤
@@Retroflux who knows.
Funnily enough my first 3K score was done was using no blocking at all, just leaving alternative routes to escape tight situations especially edge of map and having plenty of spare road tiles
One thing is avoid cross roads and use T junctions for faster speed. Another thing is leave some space when motorway connects straight to a destination when there is a junction. It will work as a buffer.
Man these videos are fantastic O_O keep up da good work!
Glad you like them!
I'm not sure if you know this or not but When you pause the houses which are blinking means they are not connected to any stores.
Yes, though I've found it to be a little buggy in the past so I always check the routes just in case
Ah! the fabled 10k LA run, I have heard so much about it
You could have merged #1 and #6. They were bringing the same red and green cars from the same area to the same mixed red and green destination.
Weirdly I find that my best runs happen when I don't block
So it seems at super late game, there are things the game does that the player has less than ideal control over - new houses spawning already connected that the player doesn't spot in time, and car park AI.
I'm sure we've all lost games because a destination just gets sardined in the car park and not a lot the player can do. Unless putting a fake T junction outside with a traffic light on might regulate the flow into the car park somewhat, but who has the space for that, and even then I don't trust the AI to use it properly.
Fixes for the first one might include force unconnected spawns, louder/more visible pings on spawn, pause on spawn.
Great runthrough, added a few more ways for me to think about the problem, awesome job.
Congrats on 10k dude, when you're at 1M remember us plebs.
1M is a bit of a stretch, even for my optimistic self - but 100K? I'll remember you the ;)
Dude that solo yellow spawn towards endgame next to the green business is what killed the run. Unlucky.
Grats on 10k dude!
I wonder sometimes if less cars is better. The more cars are waiting in front of the mall the more they are blocking each other. Sometimes disconnecting one or two houses can actually improve throughput. It seems counter intutive but I had two situations by now where it actually improved the situation. So maybe disconnecting one or two green/red houses would have improved the situation at the end there.
Yes, it's always a distance-cost solution! Can you send one car twice as often as a further car? Disconnect the further car and reduce congestion. Or even crazier, can you LENGTHEN a trip for one or two houses to make interruptions for the rest less frequent?
@@Retroflux oh yeah good ideas! Didnt think about it in that way yet.
The 2x3 dests don't have spawns within 1 sq without the high density challenge option. I have had 3x4 double dests spawning next to each other in a challenge.
You take the time to make good edits on your videos even this long, It's admirable, and your commentary is really enjoyable too, I'm glad for discovered your channel
I want to say that the run was a hell, i only felt pain from the beginning for all those spawns xD
It might take a couple hours, but every minute of it is important to my viewers. It's gonna be edited well all the way through, from now until the end of the channel - that's my promise to all my viewers
"motorways are so powerful on this map"
accurate to real life.
If LA in real life was a mini metro game they would have lost 40 years ago
I think if you could fit a roundabout in the bottom right under the yellow business... you could have maybe saved the double green/red spawn at the end. That's assuming it even fits there.
Congrats on your 11k!
Thank you so much 😀
Great job!
One thing I notice you keep doing is the way you block off areas. What consumes a road tile is connecting two squares, so you can use one road tile to cover two squares on the map. It's way more efficient to use many single roads rather than a few very long roads. (Also you don't need to add roads right next to businesses because houses can't spawn adjacent to them anyways)
I'm trying to augment my playstyle to avoid blocking as much as possible, so using a non-efficient number of roads for blocking is not something I worry about too much :)
@@Retroflux oh thanks for the clarification! i was actually thinking this too when watching :)
Came back to say thank you for those tips - I just got 66.000 with Mexico City on the second try - I got bored after 2 hours and put some traffic lights down :-D
I got this game and because I watched you I got over 2500 on my first LA attempt!
ah you made it! i'm so glad. well done. amazing that you found that single green spawn *under a motorway* right at the end, i rewound the video to see it, and i said aloud "oh my god, he's never going to spot that" right before you spotted it :D
EYES LIKE A HAWK 😂 yeah, I felt pretty good about that one too tbh! Glad someone else saw it too, it makes me feel less weird lol
I'll subscribe hahaha, your talking about it in your videos made me laugh. Have an awesome day.
wants the motorway for dark blue at 42;55, can disconnect 1 red from MW1 and bring it into MW2, can then use the reclaimed MW1 for dark blue, lol
44:21 "still no motorway " after you just connected the red into the surplus one , 30 seconds later gets the motorway omgg
this game literally tries to kill all of us lol.
The game has clearly moved to one of the poles as the days now change at midday rather than midnight. 😆
CONGRATS!!!!!
Just found your channel. Really liked this! Have you got any videos on mini metro?
I wish I had time to dive into Mini Metro, maybe in the future but no nothing so far 😞
YES UR SO GOOD CONGRATULATIONS I LOVE U 😭😭
This is just me, but isn't having HWY 1 AND 6 basically going to and from same place redundant? I feel like you could have fixed some of congestion congestion the red/green shop if you used the HWYs for color specific and not let both green and red share both. They could have been attached with 3-4 roads in the north.
Not trying to be mean or backseat but wanted to know your thoughts on your thinking on why you did what you did, and how you did it.
I noticed that as well. Could have used one of the motorways elsewhere. Also no backseating either... I've never managed a 10k myself!
@@davidcj32 I don't know the developers intent but blocking the map is lame
just 29hours left....nice
What needs help, what needs help. Help what needs what needs help
I was able to pull off 22k (then made a small mistake) but the game didnt let me post the score to the leaderboard because of internet outage :c
I guess thats a reason to try for an even higher score again :P
Does it not automatically post it when you reload the leaderboard?
@@eel9 nope didnt work
I always saw scores like these and passed them off as cheating or exploitive... this was an inspiring eye-opener. thanks for posting.
nice
You could have gone way further ..!!
At 42:02, you made the mistake of adding motorway #6, while you already had motorway #1 just next to it doing the same job.
And those motorways were mainly bringing red cars. The this is you connected Motorway#1 at the bottom..!
It at this exact moment, you did not put M.#6, and just linked the houses to M.#1 + moved it to the top entry instead of bottom entry, the congestion on this 2-building-thing would have been less congested, and you would have an additional motorway by the end to tweak a few things.
All in all, congrats.. !!
Highway 1 was redundant and could have merged with highway 6, but thats alright
This game seem unique
I'm happy when I reach 1k. This vwas INSANE!
“I could kiss my mother” 👀 dude
👀
Nice! :)
Love the vid but why late game do you take roundabouts over traffic lights? With no space to put roundabouts a traffic light although not as good could potentially help traffic? Or am I wrong
The ONLY thing traffic lights have over roundabouts is space, everything else about it can just make traffic worse because of how inconsistent traffic flow can be, traffic lights could prevent a bunch of cars saving a building, just because of timing
But not one traffic light.
The placement of I-4 was triggering me. Seems you could've taken it straight across to that grouping of reds on the right instead of slightly down and to the right, which was forcing the lone car connected around the other side of the green business to go like 30% further. Also, I've never played, so I may not be aware of some strategy involved, regardless, congrats on the successful run!
Was the other Ep's on a live stream?
No it was not, you didn't miss any content don't worry ☺️
gg
wow
Why put up barricades this way? Nothing can spawn on squares directly in contact with a destination, anyway.
No criticism, just an observation. Every YT'er playing Mini Motorways tries to block spawns right next to destinations and I don't understand why.
What’s 10 more hours…
It used to say 78 😂 hype up fam!
I love this game, but how well you do is based luck too much :/