I recreated a REAL CITY to prove Cities Skylines 2 isn't broken!

use the tree brush to remove the trees

Living quite close to bath i can say matt did a good job at replicating it. Hard city to do with so many alleyways

7:40 I remember hearing about an interview with the creator of Sim City where he said that they initially aimed for a realistic amount of parking, until they realized that cities with so much parking look terrible!

Actually Matt, trains can go around roads. There was an incident in Canada many years ago where a small, fairly isolated town lost power after a storm. They drove a locomotive, or maybe 2, I forget, off the train tracks and down the road to get it to a position where they could connect the generator into the towns power grid and use it as effectively a big emergency generator. A diesel electric locomotive is effectively just a diesel generator on wheels. Now, I don't advise running a train on the road..... it dug groves into the tarmac, and the wheel sets on the locomotive needed an overhaul before it could go back on the rails, but it CAN be done.

The secret is mixed zoning. If you have a bit of everything everywhere, people don't need to go as far to do/get stuff, so you effectively take them off the road. And for necessary commute you can add targeted public transit as an option, cutting that down by a large part as well. And keeping the road capacity limited will encourage the population to actually make use of those alternatives as well.

Matt - for that project a little free Software like "Nomacs Image Lounge" could come in handy. It basically can be used as an additional semitransparent layer over the running program. E.g. Screenshot of Bath the right scale you want to use. And you can work underneath in Cities Skylines. I used it to design my car liveries in Forza Horizon but I'm quite confident it works here too.

I don't understand why Cities doesn't include the "snap to road" buildings. Many other city builders have it, so that everything next to the road gets built without those gigantic holes in between at an angle.

Hmmm... If the size of the paths was more important, footpaths might have been the way to handle some or even all of the pedestrian streets? Depends on what you wanted from them I suppose.

Omg I’ve lived in bath my whole life I can’t believe he’s managed this because there’s so many little lanes and paths everywhere

The second I saw your thumbnail I knew exactly what city you were building. I lived in Bath for around 6 months, and it's remarkable how recognizable the city is on a map. The Avon river's giant belly is so distinct. It was honor having my former flat rendered in city skylines by yours truly.

Using a British town layout as the template to test whether City Skylines 2 is functional? That's just adding an additional difficulty handicap, innit?

I actually live just outside of where you built here so I love that you've shown the little city that could some love! Fun fact, the circus and royal crescent were designed by a father and then later his son. The father designed the circus and in heavily inspired by druidic lore and masonic symbology, the circle of the circus actually forms a key with Queen's square just to the south of it. Also, the circus and royal crescent are said to represent the sun and a crescent moon.

Dang, replicating local bridges in Polybridge, and now my hometown! Nice work RCE.

You were almost right on the lack of coal power plants in the UK. There's one left in Nottinghamshire and that's it, but it's due for closure later this year. Currently a measly 5% of our energy comes from wind, solar and hydro (most of that being wind) with the bulk coming from gas (40%) and oil (36%). There's a goal set for all energy to come from "clean" sources by 2035, I'm fairly skeptical of that time frame, one of the major roadblocks currently is that we have nowhere near enough energy storage in the UK (either through batteries or other storage methods like thermal storage or liquid air) and the UK hasn't exactly been known for investing in infrastructure for a long time now but these investments are necessary if we want to actually achieve the 2035 deadline.

One thing not mentioned often about Bath is that it is insanely hilly. Get this, Bath is one of the biggest rugby teams in the UK, they can't build a stadium the size of the club's stature because there isn't a large enough flat space near the city. No flat space big enough just for a rugby pitch and some stands.

yooo i live in bath ‼️‼️‼️

13:52: I love how the big forest fire wasn't acknowledged

I built my home town of Marietta, Oh some years ago in the first game and placed individual buildings to be as accurate as possible. Had over 11,000 assets downloaded😂 took me several weeks to complete

I love cities that are older than cars and have had to attempt to adapt to allow them. That is how you get the odd one way to two way transitions.

The reason he choose Bath over any other city is that strong connection between Royal Cresent and the Circus.😂 12:22