Just going to put it here so it is clearly visible: I got the advertisement for the line on this video, however this was just a 5 second one, which shows they are running out of budget!
Oh yeah smart so basically a jail where you can’t leave because if you tried you would die 😂and a.I robots all around you being able to misfunction and kill you or a.I cops that take you to jail for no reason … and I’m guessing you have to take the mark of the beast to be able to get in there subscribe to rawnn channel He expose this garbage
But now rce has proven it is possible, something you need an engineer for. But the rce city has huge error, the tip should not be submerged or filled with pooh water. It's called a golden spring, not a brown spring
Fun fact: you can just ban cars in this game without using any mods, simply just zone the city region, or make it city wide and you too can make a more realistic line!
They should've first tried to build the whole thing in Minecraft creative mode and they would've seen that even given the ability to instantly place 1x1 meter squared portions of it and with the power of flight it'd still take them a very very long time to do, will look cool abandoned
You know that it would take just a couple of weeks to build in minecraft because that thing is being built by tens of thousands of workers with giant machinery.
Architect : "I've got a great idea, why don't we build a city out of glass in the desert that's the shape of a line" Engineer : "Ah shit, here we go again"
@@TPixelAdventures exactly, it definitely won’t get filled with sand after a few years, the glass will also stay perfectly clean and won’t get shattered.
A 170km long glass wall in the desert. So I guess architects don't know what a sandblaster is or does huh? Cause that's literally what this building would be sitting inside. A giant permanent sandblaster, constantly bombarding the exterior with that fine desert sand.
I'm guessing there will be two large 170km long banks of sand, that will gather at the bottom of both those mirrored walls. Those banks of sand, will also likely be topped with a covering of thousands of well cooked dead birds and insects, that have inadvertently flow to their deaths, into those half a kilometre high mirrored walls.
@@fafski1199 Thank you, I am not the only one who thought about birds, insects or other animals crashing into this stupid mirrors. I don't know if the base of it will be cleared of any constructions but what about the natural dispersal of seeds. Seems to me it's going to be a huge flop
@@dom1abc1mbc for some, but in this particular version it’s just a solid wall lol, and also rooftops don’t matter, what I’m saying is everything is in between two walls, if you’re on a rooftop you’re outside but still between two walls unable to see the sun when it’s not in the gap showing the sky
The single line design has a major flaw: if there is a failure anywhere along the line, the entire city is split in half. Also the reason why cities aren't a straight line is geometry- with a traditional city, you are closer to everything but with a line, everything's much further apart.
@@dawntreader1247 Sphere city. More dimensions equals more volume within a fixed radius, equals more efficiency $$. Though also relatively less surface area through which to transport people, goods, water, heat, poop, etc.
The city's concept and design looks so dystopian. Levels with people living up above near the sun, trees, and possibly where the water and food will go through first (which will definitely not encourage some greed) and people squabbling in the tight, dark, cramped, and industrialized lower levels wondering why there's less water than yesterday. It's in a desert too so water will be a very tough issue, possibly being rationed out (probably in the most profitable way possible aka the richest gets the mostest).
More likely you won't be allowed to live there unless you're a millionaire, and the staff necessary to keep it running will live in shanty towns outside the walls
@@blackoak4978 yeah these sorts of ideas/projects rarely stop to consider that our society is currently built on a backbone of service workers that require the same standards of living and human rights as anyone else. This one at least made mention of "high automation" but that still requires maintenance personnel, supervisors and operators, and any other areas that are difficult or unsafe to automatize.
The mirrored walls , if they were solar panels, could be used to generate drinkable water from the ocean as well as producing power for the whole city.
Creating fresh water from ocean water usually use both heat and electricity by concentrated solar instead of solar panel. To create drinking water by electricity alone, you usually use reverse osmosis on pee, which is what Singapore and California is doing.
Level the terrain, draw two roads at the distance apart that you want, then raise the terrain outside the two parallel roads to the level you want. You now have two parallel raised elevations forming the outside of the linear city.
Was thinking the same. He could even have shaped the whole outline of the two walls with street, raise in between and then he'd have aesthetic and symmetrical walls.
I cannot even begin to fathom the effect on the weather having a 500 metre tall and 170 kilometre long wall of glass will have. How long would it take to clean the entire wall? Who has the unfortunate job of clearing away the probably hundreds of tons of sand that will collect against the side of the wall, probably every day?
Also, any issues with any part of the train line and it'd be at a complete standstill long range travel-wise. Seriously, 2 trains, one each way, so if there's an error with either, you get massive roadblocks which would completely freeze the economy and industry at least in that area.
We are in the bad city, and NEOM was built in order to give up competition in a global way. A city in a far place, and the West, especially America, will love me. We must draw the attention of America
13:56 thats really clever to put all the pollution & fumes low down.. cos as we know... fumes like to stay low, im sure people crossing the bridges wont go unconscious or fall into comas or anything
6:40 you don't have to use floodwalls for this, any road built on flat terrain will keep it's height, allowing you to make straight dirt cliffs at much lower cost and space efficiency
Oh, it's actually even better - consider that 510 kph is only the AVERAGE speed - even if the transit is nonstop from one end to the other, it has to accelerate to a much higher speed, and then slow down for a similar amount of time at the end. So if we assume constant acceleration until the midpoint, then constant deceleration until the end, that transit will have to reach 1020 kph to make that transit time...
And then one day, someone accidentally drops something on the track around the midpoint, causing massive damage (if not a partial/total derailment) at top speed...
Bro. I hit 140 to 160 kph (90 to 100 mph) in my RAV4 and I feel like my fucking car is going to fall apart, I'll die if I hit even a small bump, and my steering wheel is going to fucking fly off if I let go of it.
They really went for the whole "Last Bastion of Humanity" theme that you'd find in sci-fic YA novel, even the name of the project, The Line, sounds like it came out of the Maze Runner or Hunger Games series.
@@airplanes_aren.t_real All the slaves they can abduct , er , recruit... yeah that's it ... recruit. And about 1/3 to 1/2 way through they'll see what a joke it really is and abandon it to the desert ''I am Ozymandias ,King of Kings. Look upon my works ye mighty , and Despair''.
@@eviniusmuffin5202 How will this time be any different than the building of dubai... I believe some the slaves are still stuck there... II could be wrong.
The tiered living style seems so dystopian to me, kind of like the sand hills you were talking about at the beginning for the rich people to feel important. The planet Coruscant is entirely a tiered system, with the top layers being beautiful and wealthy while the lower levels are dark and full of crime.
@@nicwatkins1737 No, it is not. Have you ever been in a city which has multiple layers on top of each other, structured inside an extremely narrow space? If you're trying to hint at the existence of class systems in our societies, then yes, you are right, but I would still call that dystopian, lol.
fun thing is unless they're stopping at every stop, you're going to have to try and pass on the Line's train system which means putting passing sidings in as well
If you ever do something like this again or try to make a car free city, you can use pedestrian boardwalks and paths from Next2 (or even better, a Next2 Replacement road set that won’t cause issues like the mod does.) and just ban everything but emergency vehicles on them with TMPE. They’re zoneable and look good as they’re thinner than roads and people can walk in the middles of them.
I like how I got the ad for The Line project. Truly makes this video all the better. Great vid! One of the issues I see with the idea is the inevitable claustrophobia people will experience. Like the dystopian cities you see in Sci-fi movies. Peasants crammed in the lower levels and the wealthy in the higher levels.
Claustrophobia would be the least of their problems. Slavery, hunger, disease, a totalitarian government, total exploitation and a complete lack of human rights up to and including the right to life would be the larger issue. Then again, that's already Saudi Arabia even if they don't cram everyone into a line. I'm sure the line will come with more novel and inventive human rights violations all its own.
As a glazer this would be horrible build the scale and the glass is for reflection purposes to keep heat out but good luck to people installing are gonna fry with anything near it
Very nice video. Usually, I am not looking at English videos because my English isn't so good, but you speak very well, and I did understand most of the things you have said. I wish you all the best and do in the future more videos like this, I really enjoy them.
Ultra dense three dimensional city development? Sounds weird, but familiar... oh well. I wonder what would happen if you put a few lines close to each other and running parallels, and while you're at it, throw a few lines on top of the other lines till you have a cube that makes Kowloon Walled City look like a hamster house.
Yeah I was going to say! Like non-stop end-to-end, something like a bullet train / maglev could theoretically do it, but in practice that would never happen. Of course, this whole "project" in practice will probably never happen.
I think the line is horrible terrible idea but the trains were somewhat believable, it was gonna be 2 tunnels, one for a high speed maglev bullet train which would zoom down the tunnels in 20 minutes with just a couple of stops down the length, then in the second tunnel it would be like the London Underground with stops less often. But I do still think it’s a terrible idea, 20 minutes is just too tight of a target and it would be horrifically inefficient.
This seems like what happens when you give a king/ruler an essentially unlimited amount of money but the dude is cognitively like a teenager and is like "wouldn't it be cool....make it happen"
@@waltissussybakka my dad's an architect, and I'm an architectural student. It is usually the client's decision on how the project would look like and the architect follows, and the engineers follow the architect's plans. That's how the project works. If you see structures that look ridiculous or look funny, it is what the client wanted and what they approved, because it's their money, and not the architect.
I will simply say this: When he was still alive, Walt Disney's idea for EPCOT still incorporated cars; they were just all driving on a subterranean levels so that the entire surface could be reserved for pedestrians, and everything _was_ able to be within a 5 minute walk from any residence because nothing was limited by the need for non-pedestrian traffic. It also wasn't built with tiers, so it didn't create the appearance of a hierarchy, but hey, what do I know about anything?
What I heard from one guy working for a company involved in planning that abomination, they know full well that the whole concept is ridiculously impractical, don't ever expect anything to be built and just deliver shiny brochures to part a certain fool from his money.
Tbh, it wasn't that impractical - it's the width of regular city, so it's just a line of small cities connected in straight line. That's just Northeast Megalopolis built from scratch. And it directly makes sense that they now are only building the coast part of it, making it just a regular city.
I'm an architect, but not "world-leading" - and this flashed alarms in my head when I saw this first. I don't think it is sustainable like it was advertised. It will damage existing desert eco-systems where it crosses. It looks claustrophobic to me, and I wouldn't want to live in it.
@@MrNote-lz7lh how about you build one, with all of the dystopia associated with forced living conditions and a tyrannical government who publically executes people for wanting to be people.. then tell us the answer yourself.
I just saw that they want hot air and cool air to come in through the top slit. Of course this could work but it is sure gonna create turbolenzes that cool the hot air and heat up the fresh cold air, it's also meaking the fresh air not so fresh air. The further down you live the less actual fresh air you'll get if you don't actively force air to go a certain way. even in PC building you can prove that having just one opening for both hot and cold air exchange is a terrible idea for pc performance and seeing as humans don't operate well under hot co2 rich and oxigen poor air makes me think that this mega project will end as a dystopian hell where all the poor hard workers will live in the bottom parts and the rich elite will have their apartments near the top
I bet it’ll only get somewhere between 10k and 100k people, because the rich won’t want to live there, and the poor probably won’t be able to afford it. Then there’s the problem of sand storms and the glass exterior. In the end, people will only live on the end, and urban explorers will be the only ones who enjoy going to the interior.
If you wanna be successful, you most take responsibility for your emotions, not place the blame on others. In addition to make you feel more guilty about your faults, pointing the finger at others will only serve to increase your sense of personal accountability. There's always a risk in every investment, yet people still invest and succeed. You most look outward if you wanna be successful in life.
Three engineers were arguing. The mechanical engineer said "Clearly God is a mechanical engineer, look at the human body" The electrical engineer said "Clearly God is an electrical engineer, just look at the nervous system" The civil engineer said "No, no, no. Clearly God is a civil engineer. Who else would put a waste pipeline through such a great recreational area?!?" Can't believe I've never thought to post this joke on an RCE video before... ;)
If you’ve ever been in a room with a one way mirror, I can tell you it’s freezing. So the heat of the desert and the cool inside will draw in moisture. So this physics are spot on for an idealistic city. 😊
Oh, it's not a realistic idea but if it was completed one day (something I could imagine for Saudi Arabia) it would surely be a good idea. There might be some flaws like firefighters, police and transport reliability but I don't feel like those are unsolvable problems.
The intro is the most true thing I have heard... willing to bet the project will never finish or if it does it will be less than a tenth of what was promissed
I’d be very interested in seeing this revisited using the Plazas & Promenades dlc. Pedestrian areas can only be accessed by police, fire, ambulance, and hearses.
I had to look it up again but it really is amazing how the land speed record for a conventional rail train was set by a TGV under testing conditions at 574 km/h. That is an insanely fast train.
It's a great design because you can just make a unit with everything you need and copy-paste it sideways. It saves design time and keystrokes like no other design. Everything else about it might be terrible but hey, it saves hours on the PC making the design. Seriously its like a design made by people who GREW UP with sim city, the same way The Simpsons turrned terrible when it was being made by people who grew up watching The Simpsons.
Also the fate of comic books that got old enough to be created by people who grew up reading them. I think comics are old enough at this point that this has happened for multiple generations now
I was already losing hope when the video is almost over but luckily he added the engineer's touch at the starting point of the structure by adding the trademark "balls". I mean the water reservoirs. Yes. Very important.
I really thought this thing had been quietly dropped years ago until recently. It used to be touted years ago then they went silent. Though building an arcology is an interesting idea thats barely possible with current tech. But a line is not the best design better off something like that one from japan or the floating city concept “though current tech would have issues with both particularly in lifespan”.
Honestly if you're making a line you might as well make it into a loop instead. Just seems more practical for logistics, transport, and usage of space. Inside the loop can be utilities, green space, etc. Not much better, but it's something.
You remember correctly, but it was less stupid before. The previous version was essentially a city planning idea with industries, housing, services and more segregated to individual parallel streets which you could continue building indefinitely into the distance to accommodate population growth (e.g. all housing is on 5th through 10th street, restaurants and grocery stores on 4th, medical services on 3rd, et cetera). Essentially making it so everyone is a short distance from a given type of business regardless of where they might live and you have a city built as a small line continuing into the distance.
Far better to build a circular design - and given Saudi is an authoritarian State, have the authorities located at the centre, so they can easily check out everyone. Think of a giant panopticon...
Making an archology is an excellent idea as long as you do it PROPERLY. This is about as far away from proper as you can get. Nuclear power (as many reactors as it takes) which can power indoor farming (especially vegetables, but also fish and livestock). The heat from the reactors can be used to trigenerate electricity, heat of all kinds (including keeping the farms at the perfect temperature and industrial process heat), AND refrigeration. Then you put in all the industry, commercial and residential needed, trying to keep it as dense as possible while also providing for lots of parks and recreation. The perfect design would basically be a cube (though for efficiency, above ground we can't really build taller than 100-200m because otherwise your building becomes more structure than habitable space). The industry would probably be relegated to the lower levels (close to the nuclear reactors and below the farms) and any fumes can get treated before being vented away outside of the complex. None of this is science fiction, it's all doable with current technology. The only real problem is that we still haven't really figured out a way to efficiently transport people along the Z axis, elevators are TERRIBLE at moving large amounts of people.
@@demoniack81 For the Z axis, perhaps have a hybrid between a conventional lift design and a paternoster lift, so you have separate 'up' and 'down' lifts that stop at floors (rather than being continually moving) - plus, with a lift cubicle at each floor, while it may be slower than conventional lifts, you wouldn't have to wait around. For tall buildings, maybe combine a 'slow' lift that stops at every floor with a 'fast' lift that only stops every x floors; so if you wanted to go to floor 47, take the fast 'up' lift to 50, then the slow 'down' lift to 47.
One big import thing about the line is that -it's literally wide as regular city. So it's not actually a line city, but a conglomerate of dozens of small cities next to each other. It's almost homogeneous with the New York Megalopolis area.
It's easy to accelerate and decelerate people to such speeds - kinda hard to keep them breathing afterwards. Maybe they use it against anyone who questions the architect.
I hope the leaders of Saudi Arabia actually go through with trying to build that line and ruin their economy and bankrupt their country and make it so bad for their people that the people overthrow those horrible dictators. I know this isn't a political Channel but I'm so sick of leaders of any country including the United States doing things that don't make sense and everyone warns them that it's a terrible idea but they convince enough people in the case of our country or in the case of a dictatorship they just do but then none of the citizens ever seem to stand up and do anything about it including our country.
Alright. I'll bite. Haven't had a good debate in a while. What, exactly, is going on in the US that no one is doing anything about? What horrible decisions have been made in the last 2 years that the people aren't standing against?
@@aezir1018S foreign policy which is disastrous, constant deployment of US troops abroad to enforce their democracy. Sending foreign aid for the same reason to incentivize these countries to enforce their democracy. The US should stay within its border and not meddle with other country’s affairs, but that is just on foreign policy. Domestically, gun laws and constant school shootings. Honestly I don’t understand why American are so fascinated with guns, the right to bear arms should be completely abolished. Also you have rising interest rates, making healthcare more affordable, increased homeless people which is quite the sight to see if you travel to certain states in the US. How could you even say that there is nothing to protest in the US?
@@youssefhamdy6008 You should reread my comment. We have two political parties in the US, at least two that actually matter, and they currently stand at polar opposites on almost every issue. Just about every issue you listed falls into the platform of the Republican party, also known as the Right or Conservative party, and they have not been in power for the last two years. Instead the Democratic party, also referred to as the Left or Progressive party, has been in charge and has passed comprehensive new gun safety laws, worked to bring down rising costs of oil and inflation despite Russia's best efforts to hurt us in those departments, have introduced new legislation capping insulin costs and made significant strides in the arena of affordable medicine. The last two years have seen progress. Not enough, of course, but when 48% of your nation are bigots, fools, and racist/xenophobic trash you have to take it one step at a time.
@@aezir1018 Also regarding gun laws, I think the Republican party has a firm stance on the importance of right to bear arms and the second amendment protection of that law, so I wouldn't say abolishing that law falls under any current political party really since guns have become an integral party of US society that even when a school shooting or a gay bar shooting happens people debate gun control rather than the real issue which is that people can own guns in the first place. It's sickening when I see a 12 year old or younger shoot up a school and what's more sickening is Trump (Speaking at the behest of the Republican party) saying there should be a glass-encased gun cabinet in schools and if more guns were available, the problem with shootings would be dealt with. He said something along those lines, I'm not saying either party are saints but guns should be made completely illegal to own.
I do love environmentally friendly desert cities. Where any non-native(anything but livestock) food has to be shipped by air or ship, all non-local(leather, hide, wool) fiber has to be shipped in, and fresh water has to be shipped in from the same distances as everything else. Every day. Because deserts don't provide any natural life giving sources of sustenance. Not including the needed materials to create a good internal climate. Extensive filtration, pipes pushing air running off power, etc. The original arabs who lived in the desert were much like the mongolians. Nomadic herding tribes who wandered with their camels using them and trading as a source of food, fiber, and milk. Then they struck oil and devolved. At least I believe it to be devolving.
I literally did a comment questioning about down the line ramifications and ripples after watching about 10 seconds of the ad, then heard the designed by architects and instantly thought of you lol Things look pretty and sound good, but that doesnt solve the root problem...
Me: "Sorry boss, there was a car accident in front of me...." Boss: "There are no cars here! And everything is within 5 minutes walking distance!" * *Sigh* *
“Sorry I’m late boss” Boss “where did you go? Your door is guarded 24/7 and you aren’t allowed to do anything but work” “also because you’re late, you’ve been reported, and you’re next in line for public execution”
Watching some of your gaming fails, I was skeptical about your qualifications as an engineer. BUT after your 100% correct description of architects in the real World, I'm convinced you are a proper engineer!
We are in the bad city, and NEOM was built in order to give up competition in a global way. A city in a far place and the West will love me, especially America. We must draw the attention of the Father of the United States 😂احمد ربكم على النعمه الي انتم فييها
When I first saw the ad for 'The Line', I honestly thought it was a DLC for a city-managing game. I was kind of horrified to find out that it's actually a real thing. It just feels so much like the design for a dystopian city.
😂 We are powerless, we can't make only 3 regions in Saudi Arabia compete, so they don't want to waste money for us, just for the sake of America We are in the bad city, and NEOM was built in order to give up competition in a global way. A city in a far place and the West will love me, especially America. We must draw the attention of the Father of the United States 😂احمد ربكم على النعمه الي انتم فييها
So at my dad's company one of the directors had a daughter or something who needed four tries to get her architect's license. He let her build some sort of zen room or whatever in the building. Apparently it started off as a nice enough indoor garden sort of room but she neglected to include drainage in the design. The whole thing had to be condemned and her dad wrote a check to the company to get rid of it.
A single long line seems incredibly inefficient. What happens if you live at one end and need to go to the other end? 6 hour road trip to the opposing end of the city? Definitely something architects would come up with
@@flighttrain71 Correct, and as someone in another commenter put it (here and in other videos), you'd have to be traveling at just under half the speed of sound to get from one end to the other (170km, or 110 miles) and that isn't accounting for acceleration or deceleration. So basically, we'd have to create a super sonic train system that runs the length of The Line and is able to make frequent stops to let people off, but then the train would have to pull several G's of acceleration to start and stop, it'd be impossible to do.
I like the concept. In reality it’ll be a dystopian nightmare, basically Night City on acid, but the concept is nice and it could be done well if it was planned differently, built differently, and they scrapped the business sectors in favour of more farms and local dispensaries (because who needs to use currency when everyone is cramped together?).
@@digheanurag yeah, but would you rather live in a cramped city, forced to do potentially-unspeakable things to make a living wage, or out in the wilderness with a group of your closest friends, living off the land and being truly free?
@@commanderfoxtrot Unless Earth was tidally-locked with extremely limited living space then the trench would be a very nice idea. But nope, architects just have to do acid and rails of coke before coming up with another dumb idea.
Looks like something architect would design. I mean, there’s a tower city concept that’s 1km tall floating around about 2 decades ago. Haven’t built that yet have we.
From the road, as you are driving along, that's what it will look like. Isn't that lovely?" And then you remember the finished concept will be glass and that side of the road will likely be completely blinding from the sun's reflection.
Matt, you should try and create Atlantropa in Cities Skylines, it was a project that in theory would use a system of dams to partially drain the Mediterranean, creating more living and farming space and unite Europe and Asia into a mega continent, and since the Mediterranean is naturally evaporative, they wouldn't even have to use pumps, I'd say that would be some top tier engineering, (look it up for more info)
Oh yeah we got the tree elves cuz they live in contact with nature, the dwarves living in mountains, they're strong cuz they mine and forge a lot, and the sunburn cuz they made a glass city in the middle of a desert and now have resistance to fire .. and probably some skin cancer
i am pretty sure they hired some graphic studio rather than actual architects. Because even they would be having an headache right now on how to actually make this line work after seeing the graphic concept.
5:05. Still quite a bit farther than I'd ever expect it to be completed in the real world before the marketers inevitably run off with the money and the investors go bankrupt.
2 mods to get 1 the terrforming tool it give lets u build faster and bigger and 2 u should get the pedestrian roads only allows zoning and city services
I like to play with some line-based design in my CS cities. It works really well on a small scale where people can actually live within 5 minutes of everything, but once the city starts getting big enough (or before!), you have to consider what it's going to take for the guy who lives on one end and picked up a job all the way on the other end. I want to make a couple of videos myself; one would discuss a vanilla waste treatment plant (I think I actually found an unexpected bug in this research) and another would address some commercial-industrial-residential ratios I worked out.
You could change the name of "The Line" to "The Shaft", because after all you've improved the initial design by leaps and bounds.
You mean the strongest shape?
Oh the jokes that will come from a city called “The Shaft”
I realized why he put the chanal at the end of the damn after he set the balls
Improved by lumps and balls
Oh absolutely! A far more efficient and strong design than the original. Proof that it takes an engineer to make these things happen, not architects
Never understood the "landscaping and disasters" menu but the more videos Matt makes, the more it makes sense
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First name basis... you guys going out later too
Matt's landscaping is a disaster
ETA: I'm not an engineer, but I'm not an architect either
Just going to put it here so it is clearly visible: I got the advertisement for the line on this video, however this was just a 5 second one, which shows they are running out of budget!
Oh yeah smart so basically a jail where you can’t leave because if you tried you would die 😂and a.I robots all around you being able to misfunction and kill you or a.I cops that take you to jail for no reason … and I’m guessing you have to take the mark of the beast to be able to get in there subscribe to rawnn channel He expose this garbage
I cried when i heard it was designed by world-leading architects.
"World leading architects"
Architects leading the world? That explains a lot.
But now rce has proven it is possible, something you need an engineer for. But the rce city has huge error, the tip should not be submerged or filled with pooh water. It's called a golden spring, not a brown spring
I cried when RCE decided to love it.
Ikr 😂😂😂😂😂🤫
the final bosses of RCE
Fun fact: you can just ban cars in this game without using any mods, simply just zone the city region, or make it city wide and you too can make a more realistic line!
That's impossible
They should've first tried to build the whole thing in Minecraft creative mode and they would've seen that even given the ability to instantly place 1x1 meter squared portions of it and with the power of flight it'd still take them a very very long time to do, will look cool abandoned
You know that it would take just a couple of weeks to build in minecraft because that thing is being built by tens of thousands of workers with giant machinery.
Here me out airsoft in the abandoned line
Give this man a PhD in urban planning
@@Gravy_seal-r3l No a bit more than air soft you could potentially have teams go in and hunger games it out in the city give them weapons.. 🤷🏻♂️
World edit could speed it up tho
still would take awhile
That glass structure would probably make more glass out of the sand around it
Oh it 100% will if they're not smart about what tints and angles to put on it.
Just like the building that would melt cars around it lol
they may need to get the glass from somewhere else due to desert sand having too much silica
@@mcjavabelike8320 yup. And there's already an international sand shortage.
@@mcjavabelike8320 isn't silica what glass is made of?
@@burakbalcioglu mostly, but desert sand is to pure
Architect : "I've got a great idea, why don't we build a city out of glass in the desert that's the shape of a line"
Engineer : "Ah shit, here we go again"
Real Civil Engineer: I can do it but for it to work it have to resemble a penis.
Again?
@@jens_le_benz A dumb idea again.
No self respecting architect wants anything to do with this line. Its a PR stunt
@@flyveto457 Big Buck Investor: Let's do it. What was it again?
2:52 Curved shape gives it the strength to withstand a tsunami. Brilliant engineering decision.
@Hankus Fredward In the documentary movie 2012, tsunami hit Mt.Everest. So we may never know.
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@Hankus Fredward There has never been a tsunami in the desert. They're clearly overdue for one.
Expect the unexpected.
it's obviously the perfect shape to weather through sandstorms.
very aerodynamic!
And provide heat to surounding area, enough to melt plastic if you are lucky enough !
@@TPixelAdventures exactly, it definitely won’t get filled with sand after a few years, the glass will also stay perfectly clean and won’t get shattered.
A 170km long glass wall in the desert. So I guess architects don't know what a sandblaster is or does huh? Cause that's literally what this building would be sitting inside. A giant permanent sandblaster, constantly bombarding the exterior with that fine desert sand.
With it being so long and so tall it literally will change the local environment, wind patterns, etc. So who knows what it would cause?
I'm guessing there will be two large 170km long banks of sand, that will gather at the bottom of both those mirrored walls. Those banks of sand, will also likely be topped with a covering of thousands of well cooked dead birds and insects, that have inadvertently flow to their deaths, into those half a kilometre high mirrored walls.
@@effervescentrelief Everyone with even half an education knows what would happen... So i guess not many people actually.
@@fafski1199 Thank you, I am not the only one who thought about birds, insects or other animals crashing into this stupid mirrors. I don't know if the base of it will be cleared of any constructions but what about the natural dispersal of seeds. Seems to me it's going to be a huge flop
Very generous of you to assume it will actually be built
What’s crazy is the only natural sunlight you ever get inside the line is the direct kind, making sunrise and sunset like 45 minutes apart😂
no there are windows u know lol
and rooftops
We live ina world where qe are inside most the time anyway with lighting on till late at night
And I live beyond the artic circle where the next sunrise is over 30 days away
@@dom1abc1mbc for some, but in this particular version it’s just a solid wall lol, and also rooftops don’t matter, what I’m saying is everything is in between two walls, if you’re on a rooftop you’re outside but still between two walls unable to see the sun when it’s not in the gap showing the sky
The single line design has a major flaw: if there is a failure anywhere along the line, the entire city is split in half. Also the reason why cities aren't a straight line is geometry- with a traditional city, you are closer to everything but with a line, everything's much further apart.
I suppose the idea is that everyone stays in their little neighbourhood and never leaves.
touch grass
There’s a train that’s take you from first of the city to the end of it in 20 minutes I guess
@@bluebag7187 But that's a single point failure. The transportation fails? The entire city is cut in half.
The most optimal shape is a circle
@@dawntreader1247 Sphere city. More dimensions equals more volume within a fixed radius, equals more efficiency $$. Though also relatively less surface area through which to transport people, goods, water, heat, poop, etc.
I remain convinced that this city in Saudi Arabia is inspired by RTGame's one road city.
100%
Which video, i donr remeber watching that vid
You are a genius
it did solve traffic so...
Country road
Take me home
To the place where I belong
The city's concept and design looks so dystopian.
Levels with people living up above near the sun, trees, and possibly where the water and food will go through first (which will definitely not encourage some greed) and people squabbling in the tight, dark, cramped, and industrialized lower levels wondering why there's less water than yesterday. It's in a desert too so water will be a very tough issue, possibly being rationed out (probably in the most profitable way possible aka the richest gets the mostest).
More likely you won't be allowed to live there unless you're a millionaire, and the staff necessary to keep it running will live in shanty towns outside the walls
The Line? More like, _Spec Ops: The Line_
@@blackoak4978 yeah these sorts of ideas/projects rarely stop to consider that our society is currently built on a backbone of service workers that require the same standards of living and human rights as anyone else.
This one at least made mention of "high automation" but that still requires maintenance personnel, supervisors and operators, and any other areas that are difficult or unsafe to automatize.
@@blackoak4978
Lol^^ "Outside the walls"
They could escape, so they would have to live underground.
The richest get... the moistest?
The mirrored walls , if they were solar panels, could be used to generate drinkable water from the ocean as well as producing power for the whole city.
Creating fresh water from ocean water usually use both heat and electricity by concentrated solar instead of solar panel.
To create drinking water by electricity alone, you usually use reverse osmosis on pee, which is what Singapore and California is doing.
@@ronaldlee2139 Cool to know!
@@ronaldlee2139 i am never going to singapore or california
Aheh heh heh... oh wait, you were serious. Let me laugh even harder. AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
@@Imperial-Blox These deionised water is much cleaner than rain water, so most of them is used in semiconductors manufacturing instead.
Level the terrain, draw two roads at the distance apart that you want, then raise the terrain outside the two parallel roads to the level you want. You now have two parallel raised elevations forming the outside of the linear city.
Was thinking the same. He could even have shaped the whole outline of the two walls with street, raise in between and then he'd have aesthetic and symmetrical walls.
I cannot even begin to fathom the effect on the weather having a 500 metre tall and 170 kilometre long wall of glass will have.
How long would it take to clean the entire wall?
Who has the unfortunate job of clearing away the probably hundreds of tons of sand that will collect against the side of the wall, probably every day?
Wouldnt the glass break as well
Oh my god I hadn’t even considered that, this terrible idea is never gonna work is it?
Dont wory poeple from india and pakistan will be kidn4ped by arabian oil sultan to clean all those mess, like they do with world cup.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel you can't clean it, it will melt you because it reflects light
probably that job will be given to the undesirables
It's really funny how if there happens any problem in the middle of the line, you lose half the city
Love your pfp
No ones gonna want to live in the middle anyway. I give it a population of 10,000 at most. Like, who’s the population supposed to be made of?
@@themightyeagle21 !ATTENTION CITIZEN! You have been randomly selected to permanently live in the LINE. For your safety, do NOT resist.
@@themightyeagle21 it won’t be by choice.........
Also, any issues with any part of the train line and it'd be at a complete standstill long range travel-wise. Seriously, 2 trains, one each way, so if there's an error with either, you get massive roadblocks which would completely freeze the economy and industry at least in that area.
Glad I wasn't the only one that was like "why in glass in the desert?!" I was thinking to stop sandstorms or something to do with heat.
Maybe heat reflectors? Dunno
Glass doesn't help with either..... its made by architects for sure all for looks and buzz words
Cuz everyone wants to live in a desert
More reflective = Less heat
@@jeka1030 I can't tell if you're joking or not
I could see the real line having a massive sewage dam too
underrated
We are in the bad city, and NEOM was built in order to give up competition in a global way. A city in a far place, and the West, especially America, will love me. We must draw the attention of America
13:56 thats really clever to put all the pollution & fumes low down.. cos as we know... fumes like to stay low, im sure people crossing the bridges wont go unconscious or fall into comas or anything
6:40 you don't have to use floodwalls for this, any road built on flat terrain will keep it's height, allowing you to make straight dirt cliffs at much lower cost and space efficiency
yes
That's always been my dream. To live in a soulless dystopia that is also a line
Matt's made it more of a shaft though...so there's a bright side to it!
Then you would be glad to hear that in the future the majority of people will be living in similar structures. Called o'neill cylinders.
I've always wanted to live in an abstract mathematical concept.
Yoo look concrete hell but it's a "futuristic" line
@@MrNote-lz7lh Which can be dropped onto the Earth by salty separatists who have the foresight to gas the inhabitants.
Oh, it's actually even better - consider that 510 kph is only the AVERAGE speed - even if the transit is nonstop from one end to the other, it has to accelerate to a much higher speed, and then slow down for a similar amount of time at the end. So if we assume constant acceleration until the midpoint, then constant deceleration until the end, that transit will have to reach 1020 kph to make that transit time...
And then one day, someone accidentally drops something on the track around the midpoint, causing massive damage (if not a partial/total derailment) at top speed...
that's almost supersonic 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Also have to remember it'll probably have stops at points in between too :) (Adam Something did a video roasting the line if you want to watch it)
Bro. I hit 140 to 160 kph (90 to 100 mph) in my RAV4 and I feel like my fucking car is going to fall apart, I'll die if I hit even a small bump, and my steering wheel is going to fucking fly off if I let go of it.
@@joefer5360 that's pretty slow though. I usually drive bike at that speed. And it feels like flying. For a car, that speed isn't an issue.
Matt: *adds bridges*
Also Matt, 5 seconds after: “I’m starting to come round to this idea”
imagine you got a job at the head of the city
and the only apartment you can afford is at end
With the transportation they claim to be building, it would take 20 mins to get there so..
@@BaldHeadedManc only if it worked
They really went for the whole "Last Bastion of Humanity" theme that you'd find in sci-fic YA novel, even the name of the project, The Line, sounds like it came out of the Maze Runner or Hunger Games series.
Ever played _Spec Ops: The Line_ ?
Yes?
@@homunculi0408 I can imagine The Line ending up like Dubai in SOTL. Covered in sand, low on water, cut off from the rest of the world.
@@rickswordfire4774 Also walls of glass breaking everywhere letting in literal tons of sand
It'll be like the Dubai... lots of giant grand constructs , and totally surrounded by the squalor of the slave labour.
Who do you think is gonna build the line?
Yes except this time the Saudi-Arabic civilians are goining to suffer because all the money os going to be put into it
@@airplanes_aren.t_real All the slaves they can abduct , er , recruit... yeah that's it ... recruit. And about 1/3 to 1/2 way through they'll see what a joke it really is and abandon it to the desert
''I am Ozymandias ,King of Kings. Look upon my works ye mighty , and Despair''.
@@airplanes_aren.t_real millennials on their laptops working from home
@@eviniusmuffin5202 How will this time be any different than the building of dubai... I believe some the slaves are still stuck there... II could be wrong.
The tiered living style seems so dystopian to me, kind of like the sand hills you were talking about at the beginning for the rich people to feel important. The planet Coruscant is entirely a tiered system, with the top layers being beautiful and wealthy while the lower levels are dark and full of crime.
What if they make it the opposite.
Poor people are at the top, but rich people get their huge mansions down the bottom.
@@Snoop_Dugg there was a vault in fallout 4 far harbor that was like that.
Dystopia? Dude this is modern reality
@@nicwatkins1737 No, it is not. Have you ever been in a city which has multiple layers on top of each other, structured inside an extremely narrow space? If you're trying to hint at the existence of class systems in our societies, then yes, you are right, but I would still call that dystopian, lol.
Tiered living is based, traditional, and extremely aesthetic. 40k hive cities are peak aesthetics.
fun thing is unless they're stopping at every stop, you're going to have to try and pass on the Line's train system which means putting passing sidings in as well
At least you will have a high point to jump off of when u realize ur trapped in the line when it's on fire...
😂
If you ever do something like this again or try to make a car free city, you can use pedestrian boardwalks and paths from Next2 (or even better, a Next2 Replacement road set that won’t cause issues like the mod does.) and just ban everything but emergency vehicles on them with TMPE. They’re zoneable and look good as they’re thinner than roads and people can walk in the middles of them.
Better yet, the upcoming dlc 'Plazas and Promenades' would be perfect for this experiment
@@darkglasses87 Even the new assets kinda of reminds The Line
You can also exploit magic metros as they don't do height the same way. Removing cars would probably fix a lot of the fire problem.
Love these videos. Everytime I see an inefficient building I think “damn architects” and remember the best real civil engineer I know.
Every time I need to remove an engine to replace one small wear item I blame engineers
@@dylanzrim3635 TRAITOR!!!!!!!!
No self respecting architect wants anything to do with this line. Its a PR stunt
I like how I got the ad for The Line project. Truly makes this video all the better. Great vid!
One of the issues I see with the idea is the inevitable claustrophobia people will experience. Like the dystopian cities you see in Sci-fi movies. Peasants crammed in the lower levels and the wealthy in the higher levels.
Plus in the desert, just imagine the sand piles, place is gonna start looking like spec ops the line
Claustrophobia would be the least of their problems. Slavery, hunger, disease, a totalitarian government, total exploitation and a complete lack of human rights up to and including the right to life would be the larger issue.
Then again, that's already Saudi Arabia even if they don't cram everyone into a line. I'm sure the line will come with more novel and inventive human rights violations all its own.
@@Poldovico imagine a war occurred and the line was carpet bombed single file
@@Vercur yeah no matter how I look at this it’s doomed, shoulda just did a giant collosuem/hanging gardens
As a glazer this would be horrible build the scale and the glass is for reflection purposes to keep heat out but good luck to people installing are gonna fry with anything near it
Very nice video. Usually, I am not looking at English videos because my English isn't so good, but you speak very well, and I did understand most of the things you have said. I wish you all the best and do in the future more videos like this, I really enjoy them.
Ultra dense three dimensional city development? Sounds weird, but familiar... oh well. I wonder what would happen if you put a few lines close to each other and running parallels, and while you're at it, throw a few lines on top of the other lines till you have a cube that makes Kowloon Walled City look like a hamster house.
Add in the "high automation" drones and you'll ended up in Shadowrun
the borg
510km/hr or 317mi/hr if you never stop. If they ever stop to let people on or off they need to be going twice as fast to meet their 20 minute goal.
Maybe put a net contraption at the ends of every stop so that people are caught by the web and the train don't need to stop
Yeah I was going to say! Like non-stop end-to-end, something like a bullet train / maglev could theoretically do it, but in practice that would never happen.
Of course, this whole "project" in practice will probably never happen.
I think the line is horrible terrible idea but the trains were somewhat believable, it was gonna be 2 tunnels, one for a high speed maglev bullet train which would zoom down the tunnels in 20 minutes with just a couple of stops down the length, then in the second tunnel it would be like the London Underground with stops less often. But I do still think it’s a terrible idea, 20 minutes is just too tight of a target and it would be horrifically inefficient.
Do not forget acceleration and decelleration times. They can not be too shurt if you want a train without forced seating and seatbelts.
@@zafranorbian757 unless you want human jelly instead of human beings
Mat. Please make it easy on your self and download the "Extra landscaping tools"
Anyway keep up the good work
sound like an architect tool
Shame on you!
Trust me even architects hate this project 😂, it's so berserk
This seems like what happens when you give a king/ruler an essentially unlimited amount of money but the dude is cognitively like a teenager and is like "wouldn't it be cool....make it happen"
I'm actually disappointed that he thinks that architects do stupid stuff like this.
@@kuwa333 some architects want the guacamole, all green 💸.... unfortunately mostly others will be either broke or getting very little pay
@@Rileynjudkins if they finish this project, it will be the funniest shit ever 🤣
@@waltissussybakka my dad's an architect, and I'm an architectural student. It is usually the client's decision on how the project would look like and the architect follows, and the engineers follow the architect's plans. That's how the project works. If you see structures that look ridiculous or look funny, it is what the client wanted and what they approved, because it's their money, and not the architect.
I will simply say this: When he was still alive, Walt Disney's idea for EPCOT still incorporated cars; they were just all driving on a subterranean levels so that the entire surface could be reserved for pedestrians, and everything _was_ able to be within a 5 minute walk from any residence because nothing was limited by the need for non-pedestrian traffic.
It also wasn't built with tiers, so it didn't create the appearance of a hierarchy, but hey, what do I know about anything?
What I heard from one guy working for a company involved in planning that abomination, they know full well that the whole concept is ridiculously impractical, don't ever expect anything to be built and just deliver shiny brochures to part a certain fool from his money.
🤣😂😅
Tbh, it wasn't that impractical - it's the width of regular city, so it's just a line of small cities connected in straight line. That's just Northeast Megalopolis built from scratch. And it directly makes sense that they now are only building the coast part of it, making it just a regular city.
@@mjm3091 I've never heard of a city that is only 500 meters wide
I'm an architect, but not "world-leading" - and this flashed alarms in my head when I saw this first. I don't think it is sustainable like it was advertised. It will damage existing desert eco-systems where it crosses. It looks claustrophobic to me, and I wouldn't want to live in it.
Yeah, I think it will manage to hurt humans even more.
What do you think of O'Neill cylinders and other giant self-contained habitats?
@@MrNote-lz7lh how about you build one, with all of the dystopia associated with forced living conditions and a tyrannical government who publically executes people for wanting to be people.. then tell us the answer yourself.
Architect not like socialist dystopia? You'll get your badge revoked!
@@mandowarrior123 Ah, yes. The Saudi Arabian monarchy. That famously socialist institution.
I just saw that they want hot air and cool air to come in through the top slit. Of course this could work but it is sure gonna create turbolenzes that cool the hot air and heat up the fresh cold air, it's also meaking the fresh air not so fresh air. The further down you live the less actual fresh air you'll get if you don't actively force air to go a certain way. even in PC building you can prove that having just one opening for both hot and cold air exchange is a terrible idea for pc performance and seeing as humans don't operate well under hot co2 rich and oxigen poor air makes me think that this mega project will end as a dystopian hell where all the poor hard workers will live in the bottom parts and the rich elite will have their apartments near the top
Also: the desert, where the cool air is.
@@TerribleResults at night yes, during the day, weeelllllll, let's call it cool-er than what's inside the line
Sounds like normal capitalism to me
its like snow piercer but in the desert and as a city
I bet it’ll only get somewhere between 10k and 100k people, because the rich won’t want to live there, and the poor probably won’t be able to afford it. Then there’s the problem of sand storms and the glass exterior. In the end, people will only live on the end, and urban explorers will be the only ones who enjoy going to the interior.
When I saw that ad, I legitimately thought it was some dystopian game or movie
If you wanna be successful, you most take responsibility for your emotions, not place the blame on others. In addition to make you feel more guilty about your faults, pointing the finger at others will only serve to increase your sense of personal accountability. There's always a risk in every investment, yet people still invest and succeed. You most look outward if you wanna be successful in life.
Sure! Is a better way to counter this foreseen inflation, because all this wars everywhere are politics.
Living in one's "comfort zone" is a contributing cause to the plight of young people.
Fear is a total failure when you give up Ambitiousness; and Success is a game of dice, you throw your $coin while your investment decides your goal.
@@samiraabubakar2963 they said when you invest little money you earn big,
Can't even imagine how it is possible
Three engineers were arguing.
The mechanical engineer said "Clearly God is a mechanical engineer, look at the human body"
The electrical engineer said "Clearly God is an electrical engineer, just look at the nervous system"
The civil engineer said "No, no, no. Clearly God is a civil engineer. Who else would put a waste pipeline through such a great recreational area?!?"
Can't believe I've never thought to post this joke on an RCE video before... ;)
Civil Engineers are gay?
i dont get the waste pipeline thing, can someone explain?
@@directorwinter5419 A (nal)
@@samuelkdu What does it have to do with being a civil engineer?
@@samuelkdu No it's a reference to the 'strongest shape'.
It's genuinely incredible how RCE does something that there's a specific tool for, and he just goes and does it the strangest/toughest way possible.
This seems like a practice for building the death star trenches. Will it have one weak point that is not nearly protected enough?
Even better! It will have several!
This is actually more like how I imagined the city in the book "Thin Air". You should try for that too.
If you’ve ever been in a room with a one way mirror, I can tell you it’s freezing. So the heat of the desert and the cool inside will draw in moisture. So this physics are spot on for an idealistic city. 😊
The glass will be destroyed in a few years due to the sand…
I know you dont want to hear it but please use "extra landscaping tools" it helps a lot with terraforming in general
Anybody who thought the line is
1. not a scam
2. a good idea
deserve to live there
humans evolve with time..we think that the future is dump at first but all of a sudden we get used to it real quick
@@khalilsubahi1310 and as many times someone said this is the future it usually and often enough wasn't.
Oh, it's not a realistic idea but if it was completed one day (something I could imagine for Saudi Arabia) it would surely be a good idea.
There might be some flaws like firefighters, police and transport reliability but I don't feel like those are unsolvable problems.
@@Hoch134 looks like we have our first prisoner/customer
@@Hoch134 look at all the empty islands they made in Dubai. If it's not practical at some point they stop.
The intro is the most true thing I have heard... willing to bet the project will never finish or if it does it will be less than a tenth of what was promissed
I’d be very interested in seeing this revisited using the Plazas & Promenades dlc. Pedestrian areas can only be accessed by police, fire, ambulance, and hearses.
I had to look it up again but it really is amazing how the land speed record for a conventional rail train was set by a TGV under testing conditions at 574 km/h. That is an insanely fast train.
It's a great design because you can just make a unit with everything you need and copy-paste it sideways. It saves design time and keystrokes like no other design. Everything else about it might be terrible but hey, it saves hours on the PC making the design.
Seriously its like a design made by people who GREW UP with sim city, the same way The Simpsons turrned terrible when it was being made by people who grew up watching The Simpsons.
Also the fate of comic books that got old enough to be created by people who grew up reading them. I think comics are old enough at this point that this has happened for multiple generations now
Can't tell you how miserable I've been ever since meals started getting cooked by people who grew up eating meals.
I was already losing hope when the video is almost over but luckily he added the engineer's touch at the starting point of the structure by adding the trademark "balls". I mean the water reservoirs. Yes. Very important.
So, the water is stored in the balls?
Well, the tip has poo water, but we all know pee is stored in the balls
Well, look at the sewer thingy…
I really thought this thing had been quietly dropped years ago until recently.
It used to be touted years ago then they went silent.
Though building an arcology is an interesting idea thats barely possible with current tech.
But a line is not the best design better off something like that one from japan or the floating city concept “though current tech would have issues with both particularly in lifespan”.
Honestly if you're making a line you might as well make it into a loop instead. Just seems more practical for logistics, transport, and usage of space. Inside the loop can be utilities, green space, etc. Not much better, but it's something.
You remember correctly, but it was less stupid before. The previous version was essentially a city planning idea with industries, housing, services and more segregated to individual parallel streets which you could continue building indefinitely into the distance to accommodate population growth (e.g. all housing is on 5th through 10th street, restaurants and grocery stores on 4th, medical services on 3rd, et cetera). Essentially making it so everyone is a short distance from a given type of business regardless of where they might live and you have a city built as a small line continuing into the distance.
Far better to build a circular design - and given Saudi is an authoritarian State, have the authorities located at the centre, so they can easily check out everyone. Think of a giant panopticon...
Making an archology is an excellent idea as long as you do it PROPERLY. This is about as far away from proper as you can get.
Nuclear power (as many reactors as it takes) which can power indoor farming (especially vegetables, but also fish and livestock). The heat from the reactors can be used to trigenerate electricity, heat of all kinds (including keeping the farms at the perfect temperature and industrial process heat), AND refrigeration.
Then you put in all the industry, commercial and residential needed, trying to keep it as dense as possible while also providing for lots of parks and recreation. The perfect design would basically be a cube (though for efficiency, above ground we can't really build taller than 100-200m because otherwise your building becomes more structure than habitable space). The industry would probably be relegated to the lower levels (close to the nuclear reactors and below the farms) and any fumes can get treated before being vented away outside of the complex.
None of this is science fiction, it's all doable with current technology. The only real problem is that we still haven't really figured out a way to efficiently transport people along the Z axis, elevators are TERRIBLE at moving large amounts of people.
@@demoniack81 For the Z axis, perhaps have a hybrid between a conventional lift design and a paternoster lift, so you have separate 'up' and 'down' lifts that stop at floors (rather than being continually moving) - plus, with a lift cubicle at each floor, while it may be slower than conventional lifts, you wouldn't have to wait around. For tall buildings, maybe combine a 'slow' lift that stops at every floor with a 'fast' lift that only stops every x floors; so if you wanted to go to floor 47, take the fast 'up' lift to 50, then the slow 'down' lift to 47.
As an architect myself, I hate that thing and genuinely thought is was a joke
One big import thing about the line is that -it's literally wide as regular city. So it's not actually a line city, but a conglomerate of dozens of small cities next to each other. It's almost homogeneous with the New York Megalopolis area.
Eh? It's 600ft wide. Parts of Venice, maybe?
Started watching your videos yesterday.
As an aspiring engineer I will make your designs become a reality.
I wonder what the line will do about desert winds pushing against it?
@Ban Me yeah concrete is so fragile that can be blown by wind big brain logic
"its a treefall! its a feature!"
thats an architect move, matt.
Ridiculous plan/idea : Just make it work.
Engineer: *Pounds desk* Ever fucking time!
It's easy to accelerate and decelerate people to such speeds - kinda hard to keep them breathing afterwards. Maybe they use it against anyone who questions the architect.
"The Line" as a concept is clearly a thing that can ONLY work in a video game!
I see it as some sort of operation that's very special.
A Spec Op, if you will.
@@lordrork5884 "welcome to Dubai"
I see you're not familiar with the Kowloon Walled City. Same principle, different shape, same expected outcome.
Meh. We're going to have to get used to building megastructures like that if we want to colonize space.
@@MrNote-lz7lh Yeah sure but we also need to not make them unsustainable, inefficient shit
I hope the leaders of Saudi Arabia actually go through with trying to build that line and ruin their economy and bankrupt their country and make it so bad for their people that the people overthrow those horrible dictators. I know this isn't a political Channel but I'm so sick of leaders of any country including the United States doing things that don't make sense and everyone warns them that it's a terrible idea but they convince enough people in the case of our country or in the case of a dictatorship they just do but then none of the citizens ever seem to stand up and do anything about it including our country.
Alright. I'll bite. Haven't had a good debate in a while. What, exactly, is going on in the US that no one is doing anything about? What horrible decisions have been made in the last 2 years that the people aren't standing against?
@@aezir1018 They never specified a timeframe.
@@aezir1018S foreign policy which is disastrous, constant deployment of US troops abroad to enforce their democracy. Sending foreign aid for the same reason to incentivize these countries to enforce their democracy. The US should stay within its border and not meddle with other country’s affairs, but that is just on foreign policy. Domestically, gun laws and constant school shootings. Honestly I don’t understand why American are so fascinated with guns, the right to bear arms should be completely abolished. Also you have rising interest rates, making healthcare more affordable, increased homeless people which is quite the sight to see if you travel to certain states in the US. How could you even say that there is nothing to protest in the US?
@@youssefhamdy6008 You should reread my comment. We have two political parties in the US, at least two that actually matter, and they currently stand at polar opposites on almost every issue. Just about every issue you listed falls into the platform of the Republican party, also known as the Right or Conservative party, and they have not been in power for the last two years. Instead the Democratic party, also referred to as the Left or Progressive party, has been in charge and has passed comprehensive new gun safety laws, worked to bring down rising costs of oil and inflation despite Russia's best efforts to hurt us in those departments, have introduced new legislation capping insulin costs and made significant strides in the arena of affordable medicine. The last two years have seen progress. Not enough, of course, but when 48% of your nation are bigots, fools, and racist/xenophobic trash you have to take it one step at a time.
@@aezir1018 Also regarding gun laws, I think the Republican party has a firm stance on the importance of right to bear arms and the second amendment protection of that law, so I wouldn't say abolishing that law falls under any current political party really since guns have become an integral party of US society that even when a school shooting or a gay bar shooting happens people debate gun control rather than the real issue which is that people can own guns in the first place. It's sickening when I see a 12 year old or younger shoot up a school and what's more sickening is Trump (Speaking at the behest of the Republican party) saying there should be a glass-encased gun cabinet in schools and if more guns were available, the problem with shootings would be dealt with. He said something along those lines, I'm not saying either party are saints but guns should be made completely illegal to own.
Do you like the line they say its "environmentally friendly" with its "mirrors"
I do love environmentally friendly desert cities. Where any non-native(anything but livestock) food has to be shipped by air or ship, all non-local(leather, hide, wool) fiber has to be shipped in, and fresh water has to be shipped in from the same distances as everything else. Every day. Because deserts don't provide any natural life giving sources of sustenance. Not including the needed materials to create a good internal climate. Extensive filtration, pipes pushing air running off power, etc.
The original arabs who lived in the desert were much like the mongolians. Nomadic herding tribes who wandered with their camels using them and trading as a source of food, fiber, and milk. Then they struck oil and devolved. At least I believe it to be devolving.
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Why doesn't he just use the tree brush mod (distinct from random tree brush)
I literally did a comment questioning about down the line ramifications and ripples after watching about 10 seconds of the ad, then heard the designed by architects and instantly thought of you lol Things look pretty and sound good, but that doesnt solve the root problem...
Me: "Sorry boss, there was a car accident in front of me...."
Boss: "There are no cars here! And everything is within 5 minutes walking distance!"
* *Sigh* *
There was a fire! XD
“Sorry I’m late boss”
Boss “where did you go? Your door is guarded 24/7 and you aren’t allowed to do anything but work” “also because you’re late, you’ve been reported, and you’re next in line for public execution”
@@dylanzrim3635
Public execution?
That has to be a mistake! I'm sure I've got 12 social scoring points leftover.
Imagine how much window cleaners they must need for this
That will be half the population's job, forever, because they're in prison.
@@noobandfriends2420 yep they will bring slaves from around the world.
Watching some of your gaming fails, I was skeptical about your qualifications as an engineer. BUT after your 100% correct description of architects in the real World, I'm convinced you are a proper engineer!
No self respecting architect wants anything to do with this line. Its a PR stunt
We are in the bad city, and NEOM was built in order to give up competition in a global way. A city in a far place and the West will love me, especially America. We must draw the attention
of the Father of the United States
😂احمد ربكم على النعمه الي انتم فييها
@@Abraham2-9 no
@@Abraham2-9 أنت شراك تڨول معندها حتى معنا دروك شاكنت كاتب باش تجبد الإنباه تع للأب مريكان 😂
When I first saw the ad for 'The Line', I honestly thought it was a DLC for a city-managing game. I was kind of horrified to find out that it's actually a real thing. It just feels so much like the design for a dystopian city.
good thing the Arabian plate is solid huh other wise one big earth quake and there goes the line :)
Imagine driving 170km along a road and the whole time the sun is being reflected into your face because of the mirrored glass shell
You will prob go blind Ngl
😂 We are powerless, we can't make only 3 regions in Saudi Arabia compete, so they don't want to waste money for us, just for the sake of America
We are in the bad city, and NEOM was built in order to give up competition in a global way. A city in a far place and the West will love me, especially America. We must draw the attention
of the Father of the United States
😂احمد ربكم على النعمه الي انتم فييها
I wonder what would happen, would the lake be over flooded then spill in the shaft and then drown the lower city?
everyone knows what the strongest city layout is... especially rce lol
Gotta love that CGI mega projects. It's so amazing that 90% of the structure is wasted empty space!
I’m going to tell my future kids that this is a documentary for the making of The Line.
So at my dad's company one of the directors had a daughter or something who needed four tries to get her architect's license. He let her build some sort of zen room or whatever in the building. Apparently it started off as a nice enough indoor garden sort of room but she neglected to include drainage in the design. The whole thing had to be condemned and her dad wrote a check to the company to get rid of it.
The dam itself (21:12) is in the strongest shape format.
A single long line seems incredibly inefficient. What happens if you live at one end and need to go to the other end? 6 hour road trip to the opposing end of the city? Definitely something architects would come up with
The trailer says, that you need 20min to get to the other end...
@@flighttrain71 Correct, and as someone in another commenter put it (here and in other videos), you'd have to be traveling at just under half the speed of sound to get from one end to the other (170km, or 110 miles) and that isn't accounting for acceleration or deceleration.
So basically, we'd have to create a super sonic train system that runs the length of The Line and is able to make frequent stops to let people off, but then the train would have to pull several G's of acceleration to start and stop, it'd be impossible to do.
No self respecting architect wants anything to do with this line. Its a PR stunt
Need to redo this with the new pedestrian zone DLC
I was so confused when you said "I think it's missing something"...should've known 😂😂😂
I like the concept. In reality it’ll be a dystopian nightmare, basically Night City on acid, but the concept is nice and it could be done well if it was planned differently, built differently, and they scrapped the business sectors in favour of more farms and local dispensaries (because who needs to use currency when everyone is cramped together?).
Night City kinda works, at least? This is a massive planned disaster
@@digheanurag yeah, but would you rather live in a cramped city, forced to do potentially-unspeakable things to make a living wage, or out in the wilderness with a group of your closest friends, living off the land and being truly free?
@@commanderfoxtrot Unless Earth was tidally-locked with extremely limited living space then the trench would be a very nice idea. But nope, architects just have to do acid and rails of coke before coming up with another dumb idea.
Looks like something architect would design. I mean, there’s a tower city concept that’s 1km tall floating around about 2 decades ago. Haven’t built that yet have we.
There was a concept of 500km „apartments building” in communist Poland. It was also supposed to have highway on the roof xD
There was a concept for hanging a reverse skyscraper from a captured asteroid. Really.
@@Poldovico that sounds like a really weird satellite
@@KajtekBeary Yeah. One that would poke into the atmosphere, to be specific.
Turns out, with paper and a pencil you truly can draw anything.
But can you build The Line in Timberborn?
I’d love to see that!
From the road, as you are driving along, that's what it will look like. Isn't that lovely?"
And then you remember the finished concept will be glass and that side of the road will likely be completely blinding from the sun's reflection.
The fact he didn't wait for it to fill is cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore a war crime
Matt, you should try and create Atlantropa in Cities Skylines, it was a project that in theory would use a system of dams to partially drain the Mediterranean, creating more living and farming space and unite Europe and Asia into a mega continent, and since the Mediterranean is naturally evaporative, they wouldn't even have to use pumps, I'd say that would be some top tier engineering, (look it up for more info)
Removing the Mediterranean as a source of rain fall, sounds like a fast track to turning that entire area into a massive desert.
It's a stupid fucking idea and it was already tried with the Aral Sea (or y'know, DESERT now)
Sounds like a plan to expand the Sahara Desert.
If The Line is the future of city design, ‘sunburn’ is going to become a new race.
Then I say that regular cities are preferable.
Oh yeah we got the tree elves cuz they live in contact with nature, the dwarves living in mountains, they're strong cuz they mine and forge a lot, and the sunburn cuz they made a glass city in the middle of a desert and now have resistance to fire
.. and probably some skin cancer
But there are already hundreds of cities in deserts…
Maybe you could try using mods for more options while building
i am pretty sure they hired some graphic studio rather than actual architects. Because even they would be having an headache right now on how to actually make this line work after seeing the graphic concept.
I don't understand why engineering isn't an integral part of an architect's job. It seems like a bit of an oversight to separate the two like that.
11:08 oh no. I have a feeling this will be a very efficient city 21:00 I thought he forgot
5:05.
Still quite a bit farther than I'd ever expect it to be completed in the real world before the marketers inevitably run off with the money and the investors go bankrupt.
2 mods to get 1 the terrforming tool it give lets u build faster and bigger and 2 u should get the pedestrian roads only allows zoning and city services
14:25 - should have put those windmills up by the "dancing trees" (i.e,. crazy wind that high up!)
I like to play with some line-based design in my CS cities. It works really well on a small scale where people can actually live within 5 minutes of everything, but once the city starts getting big enough (or before!), you have to consider what it's going to take for the guy who lives on one end and picked up a job all the way on the other end. I want to make a couple of videos myself; one would discuss a vanilla waste treatment plant (I think I actually found an unexpected bug in this research) and another would address some commercial-industrial-residential ratios I worked out.