I used the extreme segregation strategy on this week's challenge, and it *really, really worked* ... the key was not to connect too many houses to a shop. There were a few times when I only survived by the skin of my teeth, but I got through to about 4,000 journeys and every single shop had a timer going ... *but then it reached equilibrium.* Every shop had just enough houses connected to it to hold steady with the demand, the map was largely full (and no more space for shops) ... and it just ran and ran. At that point, I just sat back and then every week hit a button to get the next week's road tiles. OK, I did a little bit of tweaking, in particular disconnecting a few houses that were connected to the wrong road network to avoid crossroads, _reducing_ the number of houses connected to a few shops where they were suffering from congestion, but apart from that, nothing. The weeks went by, the journeys clocked up. I had about 60 houses that were not connected to a shop of their own colour, but that was fine. Every shop was constantly pinging timers, but the red dial was never going above the three-quarter mark on any of them. At Week 139, I stopped getting offered roundabouts and bridges (I had used all 9 motorways, I had 29 roundabouts in the bank and one on the map, 25 bridges in the bank and 6 on the map, and 60 traffic lights all of which were in the bank) and just got a stack of road tiles every week ... but annoyingly, I still had to keep clicking to accept so I couldn't just leave it to its own devices. At Week 225, I was getting bored so I connected about 8 more houses into one double-shop and sure enough, within 3 weeks the extra traffic had caused gridlock and those shops blew up. My final score was *172,418* and that didn't involve any trickery, just extreme segregation and supply management ... and if I hadn't got fed up of pressing 'next' every couple of minutes and had found a way to just let it run without my intervention then it would have continued racking up 950 journeys a week _forever._
Yesterday I saw some fan art of the game where those "supermarkets" were sky scrapers... And now: look at the shadows of the supermarkets and you see they are actually tall as f !! o_o` I just cant unsee it now and i kinda hate it. Tho it makes sense since these cities are like metropolies
I’d love to see you re-hash your setup, reorganizing in Mini Motorways is so interesting and extremely unique to this game. Even just sped up I think it would be cool to see an engineer do it ;)
The benefit of the traffic light is that all the cars obey the 4-way stop rules of coming to a stop before advancing. Traffic light makes them keep going at speed when they have the green light. It can help speed up high traffic intersections.
If you're going for extreme segregation then you don't really need traffic lights _or_ roundabouts, because you have so few intersections and they are only dealing with a low volume of traffic, that they can cope with standard priority rules.
@@stevieinselby I have started using any roundabouts I end up with where a lot of houses spawn. Helps make their traffic flow smoother as they all leave to go to shops or get on a motorway. Takes up some space but much smoother traffic flow near the houses.
Each time you reconnect a motorway, you interrupt the traffic on it (cars can't start to use the new route until others stop using the old one). Don't do it when it leads to a critical Imax which is almost dying. (If you have a spare motorway, you can first build the new one and then delete the old one.)
#Tip 1. Make the turns as smooth as possible .90° turns slows up . So a diagonal 45° connection will make cars come and go faster . And a circular smooth turn makes them go faster more distance . So a round smooth turn is equal to a sharp 45° or 135° turn . But faster than a 90 ° turn . Use round abouts at sharp turns if you have spare enough of them . 2. Do not let an intersection open up to 4 ways . Keep it at max 3 ( 45 * 3 = Y shape or 180 + 45 = y shape . ) . Best is 2 . For house that spawn behind another one make a trapezium type connection . Dont make a < or > or ^ or v shape connection Rather try to make it \__/ such shape . Dont open a intersection just infront of a house . They will come out slow . 3. If the home clusters of the same color are in radial arrangement , Use a round about to connect the houses at the entrance of a motorway road or bridge . Use all 8 inputs to a round about if possible . Giving every house a independent entry . If more houses then make pairs of homes connect to the inputs so that we dont break the max-3 intersection rule. If LINEAR arrangement . Go with a straight line with houses connecting the road at 45 ° ( no perpendiculars . Avoid them as much as possible .) 4. Towards the end of the game . Every IMAX cinema will need 4 homes if close enough and 6 homes if far away . 5 . In the beginning if possible try not to use bridges and tunnels specifically . Make as long roads as possible . During the end you can make long connections using single tunnel or bridges Since a bridge is just road tiles , they can be as long as you want as long as they are in water but they dont intersect . If your waters are not much busy or clustered with small little bridges . You can make a bridge behave as a railway line or expressway . And that's all . Have a great day ❤️❤️
and also pretty unlucky with what he got of choices at end of weeks as well xD. The game really wasn't helping him here, and yet he still managed to get his personal best score
I’ve been messing around with traffic lights, and have been trying to use them at housing/neighborhood intersections. Basically they slow down traffic a little bit so that everything in the center like roundabouts and intersections don’t get deadlocked as quickly. I haven’t broken 2K points yet, but have gotten multiple in the high teens. May be worth a try. Love the vids!
They aren’t too great when they are connected with a driveway, they are good for a cross road early game, but late game it should be a roundabout. If there is a crossroad very close to the supermarket, a traffic light is your only option
Start blocking early game to make sure you dont get bad spawns. RCE isn't doing that either and its why he hasnt gone over 2K. I suck, but even with blocking I can get over 2K on most maps.
@@GoblinUrNuts lol it's not an exploit. It's just good strategy to make sure that you don't get fucked with 2 shop entrances spawning right next to each other
I love it how everytime you rehash/change the layout of the roads and screen shows the city again it just gets more and more confusing each time you do it love the series, keep it up!
Fun fact: no matter the length of the bridge, it only uses one bridge tile. so you can run bridges along the axis of a river and it will only cost one bridge tile (and whatever road tiles its length is)
I'm colorblind but I love watching these because it helps me understand what shades go where and I can differ between shades like blues and greens easier with watching these ^^
You should avoid connecting 4 roads/houses together at a single point as the cars slow down (it is a game mechanic). You can see the yellow cars going very slow as they leave the houses.
Tips: You don't need to connect all the houses to a road. Try to only connect one house to one building Change motorways frequently to help with high priority structures Idk if it will help, but this is what i use
I recently found your channel because of this game and I have been absolutely loving every video you've posted! Edit: Also wanted to mention I got a score of 2000+ on my first playthrough of this game by using some strategies I saw in your videos.
If the devs add a give way sign it’s could lead to some nice stats. You can prioritise certain routes, so a cut through road won’t affect traffic on the main road, if used right.
I would have used a single bridge for the yellows in the beginning. The bridge would have run the entire length of the river heading towards the yellow store. Slight adjustment to the red road to move it out of the way so the bridge can connect to the land and than connect the yellow store. I don't care if the citizens want to see the waterfront! I'm going to use it as needed. :D
A good tip for this game is to try and avoid right angles, always aim for diagonals if you can when connecting to roads, the cars slow down more when there is a right angle
I stopped worrying early game apart from avoiding bad spawns by claiming space. The thing is as you collect upgrades, the road system will be totally revamped anyway soon enough.
Nobody mentioned it yet but I’m pretty sure that the “upside down bags” are supposed to be pins. You know, like the ones on Google Maps meant to emulate putting pins in destinations on actual maps.
I've seen some people essentially build whole streets on the river with one single bridge rather than just crossing. Might be something fun to try out to save road tiles
dont be afraid of optimising roadways to make the journey as short as possible as its travel time that will kill you. like the gray imax at 10:14 the top building could have a diagonal straight to it and have the other gray sliproad into it meaning it would be able to handle the imax itself for a bit longer.
2:55 for such close reds 1 house is sufficient for market and 2 for "imax" (3 in later stages). 3:44 someone already said he would make a bridge going with the river for yellows. Also, when you have a road which have few options to be moved, the good idea is to prevent spawning markets right next to it by building parallel road or few road pieces. And avoid junctions right in front of market entrance. 3:56 try to make T-junctions whenever you can, places where 4 or more roads meet slow cars a lot. Even when I want to scream "WTF RCE?! How you made this road setup so illogical?!" I really enjoy Mini Motorways series. ;)
I'm surprised you didn't block new shopping centres from spawning, since the mountains and the river make it so there's very little room for them to spawn to begin with.
just an idea since a bunch of markets spawn directly next to your roads. Try using the spawn prevention from the last video, but only by the roads. this way you always have at least 1 space of separation for each of the colors.
the biggest problem for sure with your cities are the house-cells. When there is 20 yellow houses sharing a motorway, they will get stuck right before even entering it. Eventhough yellow houses spawn together, you should eventually consider connecting them to diffrent roads if they are supposed to go to different locations.
I introduced mini motorways to my cousin sister yesterday and she literally got 3000+ on her first try! (Los Angeles). I was speechless as i could hardly cross 1500!
Imagine living in a city where the streets change completely every few weeks
That would be better than what most of us have now where construction drags on for years.
Welcome to France :)
or imagine a city, where the colour of your car determines which road you re allowed to take :D
@@Koellenburg and the shops you can go to
@@Koellenburg that’s called the past
I’m probably speaking for all of us: Never stop doing these!
Yup
Yeah, and honestly also for mini metro, I love that game!
Unless he gets bored of it at least!
Yes!
He is the messiah!
I used the extreme segregation strategy on this week's challenge, and it *really, really worked* ... the key was not to connect too many houses to a shop. There were a few times when I only survived by the skin of my teeth, but I got through to about 4,000 journeys and every single shop had a timer going ... *but then it reached equilibrium.* Every shop had just enough houses connected to it to hold steady with the demand, the map was largely full (and no more space for shops) ... and it just ran and ran. At that point, I just sat back and then every week hit a button to get the next week's road tiles. OK, I did a little bit of tweaking, in particular disconnecting a few houses that were connected to the wrong road network to avoid crossroads, _reducing_ the number of houses connected to a few shops where they were suffering from congestion, but apart from that, nothing. The weeks went by, the journeys clocked up. I had about 60 houses that were not connected to a shop of their own colour, but that was fine. Every shop was constantly pinging timers, but the red dial was never going above the three-quarter mark on any of them.
At Week 139, I stopped getting offered roundabouts and bridges (I had used all 9 motorways, I had 29 roundabouts in the bank and one on the map, 25 bridges in the bank and 6 on the map, and 60 traffic lights all of which were in the bank) and just got a stack of road tiles every week ... but annoyingly, I still had to keep clicking to accept so I couldn't just leave it to its own devices.
At Week 225, I was getting bored so I connected about 8 more houses into one double-shop and sure enough, within 3 weeks the extra traffic had caused gridlock and those shops blew up. My final score was *172,418* and that didn't involve any trickery, just extreme segregation and supply management ... and if I hadn't got fed up of pressing 'next' every couple of minutes and had found a way to just let it run without my intervention then it would have continued racking up 950 journeys a week _forever._
@@stevieinselby what a chad
There is a lot of luck in the placements on there but that doesn't detract from the skill to keep it going for that long. Well done.
impressive
This man deserves an award
@@stevieinselby I give you 900 steam points because you are absolutely legend in this game
"you can't put motorways over mountains"
*Confused Colorado noises*
arizona too
*Confused Virginia noises*
Time stamp please
@@PrimordialTheAvali when he does the second motorway
Are those motorways or just interstates and highways?
I’m gonna be honest, because of this series, I now really want a shirt or hoodie that says “This is not ideal”
I would buy this merch 100%
I would but that
Yesssssss I want one!
Next episode:
Destroying everyone's lives is the way to go in Mini Motorways!
Real Uncivil Engineer
Lol
@@bullet4346 Underrated
"today we will be using *extreme* segregation"
"your staying segregated, mate"
-Real Civil Engineer, out of context
You're
@@taijmohabeer4515 based
I love how every youtuber has a different way to explain what the houses and buildings are
Its simple. Its Tomato, Salad, Mayo, Mustard, Blueberry and Orange jucie shop
IMAX cinemas and ham colored houses
@@garcipat ahh yes i too go to the white shops to buy Mayo juice
I just realized i misread that juice part so i thought you were saying all of them are juice shops
Yesterday I saw some fan art of the game where those "supermarkets" were sky scrapers... And now: look at the shadows of the supermarkets and you see they are actually tall as f !! o_o`
I just cant unsee it now and i kinda hate it. Tho it makes sense since these cities are like metropolies
I’d love to see you re-hash your setup, reorganizing in Mini Motorways is so interesting and extremely unique to this game. Even just sped up I think it would be cool to see an engineer do it ;)
RCE is incredible at making us addicted to his videos
RCE is incredible. Full stop.
Ikr but that doesn't change the fact that he's garbage.
He's not using the best technique
@@hydroblobber hes just having fun
As a swiss person who knows Zurich I have to say: that traffic chaos matches the real thing.
Yeah Zurich traffic can get right nasty, good thing the öV is absolutely amazing (I usually just use trams instead)
The benefit of the traffic light is that all the cars obey the 4-way stop rules of coming to a stop before advancing. Traffic light makes them keep going at speed when they have the green light. It can help speed up high traffic intersections.
If you're going for extreme segregation then you don't really need traffic lights _or_ roundabouts, because you have so few intersections and they are only dealing with a low volume of traffic, that they can cope with standard priority rules.
@@stevieinselby I have started using any roundabouts I end up with where a lot of houses spawn. Helps make their traffic flow smoother as they all leave to go to shops or get on a motorway. Takes up some space but much smoother traffic flow near the houses.
Each time you reconnect a motorway, you interrupt the traffic on it (cars can't start to use the new route until others stop using the old one). Don't do it when it leads to a critical Imax which is almost dying. (If you have a spare motorway, you can first build the new one and then delete the old one.)
#Tip
1.
Make the turns as smooth as possible .90° turns slows up . So a diagonal 45° connection will make cars come and go faster . And a circular smooth turn makes them go faster more distance . So a round smooth turn is equal to a sharp 45° or 135° turn . But faster than a 90 ° turn .
Use round abouts at sharp turns if you have spare enough of them .
2.
Do not let an intersection open up to 4 ways .
Keep it at max 3
( 45 * 3 = Y shape or 180 + 45 = y shape . ) . Best is 2 .
For house that spawn behind another one make a trapezium type connection .
Dont make a < or > or ^ or v shape connection
Rather try to make it \__/ such shape .
Dont open a intersection just infront of a house . They will come out slow .
3.
If the home clusters of the same color are in radial arrangement , Use a round about to connect the houses at the entrance of a motorway road or bridge . Use all 8 inputs to a round about if possible . Giving every house a independent entry . If more houses then make pairs of homes connect to the inputs so that we dont break the max-3 intersection rule.
If LINEAR arrangement . Go with a straight line with houses connecting the road at 45 ° ( no perpendiculars . Avoid them as much as possible .)
4.
Towards the end of the game . Every IMAX cinema will need 4 homes if close enough and 6 homes if far away .
5 .
In the beginning if possible try not to use bridges and tunnels specifically . Make as long roads as possible . During the end you can make long connections using single tunnel or bridges
Since a bridge is just road tiles , they can be as long as you want as long as they are in water but they dont intersect .
If your waters are not much busy or clustered with small little bridges . You can make a bridge behave as a railway line or expressway .
And that's all . Have a great day ❤️❤️
car go broombroom
As an engineering student, the way you start your videos with “hello fellow engineers” feels really great!
I randomly found your channel and now I'm addicted
Same here
agreed
same here
I can’t count how many times moving a motorway late game has cost me
Always. Feel you mate.
You had the unluckiest spawns in Zurich I've ever seen.
and also pretty unlucky with what he got of choices at end of weeks as well xD. The game really wasn't helping him here, and yet he still managed to get his personal best score
I’ve been messing around with traffic lights, and have been trying to use them at housing/neighborhood intersections. Basically they slow down traffic a little bit so that everything in the center like roundabouts and intersections don’t get deadlocked as quickly. I haven’t broken 2K points yet, but have gotten multiple in the high teens. May be worth a try. Love the vids!
They aren’t too great when they are connected with a driveway, they are good for a cross road early game, but late game it should be a roundabout. If there is a crossroad very close to the supermarket, a traffic light is your only option
Start blocking early game to make sure you dont get bad spawns. RCE isn't doing that either and its why he hasnt gone over 2K. I suck, but even with blocking I can get over 2K on most maps.
@@GoblinUrNuts lol it's not an exploit. It's just good strategy to make sure that you don't get fucked with 2 shop entrances spawning right next to each other
"Hello guys! Welcome back to another gameplay of Mini Motorways, and the first thing we're gonna do this episode is *MAXIMIZE SEGREGATION!* "
Just remember, houses typically spawn in 'neighbourhoods', clumps of the same coloured houses (unless denied with road spam)
An easy way to tell if a store has enough houses on it is to look at the houses. If there's cars idling, there's sufficient houses connected.
Favorite RUclips series at the moment!
Same :)
For whatever reason, that part at the end where you moved around the white roadways had me so hype, I loved it
I love it how everytime you rehash/change the layout of the roads and screen shows the city again it just gets more and more confusing each time you do it
love the series, keep it up!
“Segregation for the win”
History of the US.
US: Write that down, write that down!
@@CookieTheSmolFox
*Angry underachieving german noises*
I love watching/hearing you play. Your memes are on point, and your voice is so soothing. Plus the way you connect houses so much satisfying
Fun fact: no matter the length of the bridge, it only uses one bridge tile. so you can run bridges along the axis of a river and it will only cost one bridge tile (and whatever road tiles its length is)
Brioche, IMAX, Supermarkets, Moldy Bread, Milk Cartons, Shopping Bags… it’s like a whole other game watching you. 🚗😝
I'm colorblind but I love watching these because it helps me understand what shades go where and I can differ between shades like blues and greens easier with watching these ^^
You should avoid connecting 4 roads/houses together at a single point as the cars slow down (it is a game mechanic). You can see the yellow cars going very slow as they leave the houses.
Even though I watch all of the episodes, can I just say how much I appreciate you explaining the basics of the game before you start playing
Ayyyyy it’s always good to see a new upload after spending yesterday binging pretty much every other series 😂
i love how the game did everything in it’s power to prevent the segregation
One of the best series on your channel :D
Tips:
You don't need to connect all the houses to a road. Try to only connect one house to one building
Change motorways frequently to help with high priority structures
Idk if it will help, but this is what i use
I recently found your channel because of this game and I have been absolutely loving every video you've posted!
Edit: Also wanted to mention I got a score of 2000+ on my first playthrough of this game by using some strategies I saw in your videos.
I love how from the moment the second color appeared, the game was dead set on making this strategy as hard as possible this time round
RCE: "upside down supermarket bags"
Everyone else: They're map destination pins you heathen
Thank you for saying it outloud!!!
I love the editing on these videos.
"Alls going well"
GAP..
"AH BOLLOCKS!"
God I love your videos. They get progressively more and more funny as you are more and more comfortable being yourself. Love your videos Matt!
I actually got the game because I enjoyed watching you play it so much, and I have got to say it was a great decision.
i like that he says "fellow engineers," as if i am also an engineer (spoiler alert i am not). it makes me feel included lol
I just got this game today after your videos of it were recommended to me, and I LOVE IT. I'm so glad RUclips realized I'd like this.
You are really incredible! I started watching ur vids since 2 weeks I really love it bro Love from India
RCE is so good at this game, maybe he built the real world motorways that would explain a few things LOL, JK great work :)
Well he did build some of the irl ones
I love his mini motorways videos
If the devs add a give way sign it’s could lead to some nice stats.
You can prioritise certain routes, so a cut through road won’t affect traffic on the main road, if used right.
I would have used a single bridge for the yellows in the beginning. The bridge would have run the entire length of the river heading towards the yellow store. Slight adjustment to the red road to move it out of the way so the bridge can connect to the land and than connect the yellow store. I don't care if the citizens want to see the waterfront! I'm going to use it as needed. :D
I was about to comment the same thing. 1 bridge can stretch as long as it wants lol
@@Isai314 well as long as you have road pieces and river for at least :P
I saw that too. I don't even play the game yet and I've picked up so many things from watching these videos.
It's great to see how much you improve every episode! Now try this strat with controlling the spawn and you'll skyrocket to the moon!
Hello man love your videos, please don’t stop
Also congrats on the new high score
I swear every night when i fall asleep i watch your videos and i absolutely love the "HELLLOOOOO FELLOW ENGINEERS" super calm voice 👌
A good tip for this game is to try and avoid right angles, always aim for diagonals if you can when connecting to roads, the cars slow down more when there is a right angle
Been waiting forever for the next episode to come out. Thank you!
I stopped worrying early game apart from avoiding bad spawns by claiming space.
The thing is as you collect upgrades, the road system will be totally revamped anyway soon enough.
"upside down supermarket bags" is the best description of a map pin i have ever heard.
I love this series. Keep up the good work man!
I love how you call 2k high scores =) but I really like your attitude and commentary so even those low score games are really interesting to watch.
Your videos are relaxing, thanks for another good one.
Nobody mentioned it yet but I’m pretty sure that the “upside down bags” are supposed to be pins. You know, like the ones on Google Maps meant to emulate putting pins in destinations on actual maps.
I love your Mini motorways videoes! Can you make one where you try to not use motorways?
the video we've all been waiting for ALL WEEK
Heck yes - more Mini time with Motorways Matt!
recommendation, you can make a bridge extremely long and all it costs is the extra road tiles and 1 bridge
you got your highest score yet on the map that seems to give me the most trouble. good job!
I've seen some people essentially build whole streets on the river with one single bridge rather than just crossing. Might be something fun to try out to save road tiles
Used "hello there" voice clip this man has my heart.
Glad YT recommended me this! Game looks cool and it kinda looks like it might scratch that OpenTTD itch
A bit of a cheesy way to play is to use spare road tiles to block areas you don't want things to spawn.
so excited for the next vid since you'll be able to play manila!! much love from the philippines! ♡
dont be afraid of optimising roadways to make the journey as short as possible as its travel time that will kill you. like the gray imax at 10:14 the top building could have a diagonal straight to it and have the other gray sliproad into it meaning it would be able to handle the imax itself for a bit longer.
I love this series!
Thanks to your videos, I have a new time sink in MM; possibly the most relaxing *and* annoying game I’ve played!
I'm addicted to watching you play this game!
The combination of his commentary and the video editor *chef kiss
2:55 for such close reds 1 house is sufficient for market and 2 for "imax" (3 in later stages).
3:44 someone already said he would make a bridge going with the river for yellows. Also, when you have a road which have few options to be moved, the good idea is to prevent spawning markets right next to it by building parallel road or few road pieces. And avoid junctions right in front of market entrance.
3:56 try to make T-junctions whenever you can, places where 4 or more roads meet slow cars a lot.
Even when I want to scream "WTF RCE?! How you made this road setup so illogical?!" I really enjoy Mini Motorways series. ;)
It's so relaxing to watch those videos
Don’t know why but when I watch these videos … I start feeling hungry.
I genuinely LIVE for this series
Thank you Matt for uploading these series, I really enioy timberborn and these! 3
Oh regular segregation didn't work? Time to go EXTREME!!!!!!!
Have you ever tried Mini Metro?
Its somehow more simple but manages to be more complicated at the same time.
Its from the same developers of course
Bro honestly this is the first time I watched you and I already like you
I'm surprised you didn't block new shopping centres from spawning, since the mountains and the river make it so there's very little room for them to spawn to begin with.
just an idea since a bunch of markets spawn directly next to your roads.
Try using the spawn prevention from the last video, but only by the roads. this way you always have at least 1 space of separation for each of the colors.
Glad to see more Mini Motoways love this game - but also waiting for the next lawnmower simulator, I'm hooked! 🤣
Glad you listened to the redo roads advice. Chaos!
mini motorways on my birthday fucking fantastic, probably my favourite series rn
Love how you always introduce the game
Amazing video! Pps make a lot of these, they are the best!
the biggest problem for sure with your cities are the house-cells. When there is 20 yellow houses sharing a motorway, they will get stuck right before even entering it. Eventhough yellow houses spawn together, you should eventually consider connecting them to diffrent roads if they are supposed to go to different locations.
“I feel like I know what I’m doing.”
Famous last words. Haha
These videos bring meaning to my life
YEAAAAH Zürich!!! I'm having my exams here right now lol...
I love watching you play mini motorways
I introduced mini motorways to my cousin sister yesterday and she literally got 3000+ on her first try! (Los Angeles). I was speechless as i could hardly cross 1500!
I would honestly be perfectly happy if he just did mini motorways and no other series from now on
not the first time a german city has had *EXTREME SEGREGATION*
your despair (in game only) makes me chuckle.
You can prevent most mayhem by pre-planing streets. Just draw roads next to existing roads, and thus create corridor-reservations.