There are twi things that are guaranteed to happen: The sun rising every morning and RCE finding a way to create the strongest shape in the world in EVERY game he plays.

6:24 I think that circle (the most common one) is residential area, triangle is shopping area and rare squares are industrial zones. Crosses are major hospitals, diamonds jewelry stores as you told, pentagons might be government buildings and rhombus are major rail stations. Rare rugby balls are stadiums. I have no idea for other shapes tho Edit: official trailer shows that squares are actually offices

It is better to have trains in both directions on a circle line. If all trains run in the same direction and a unique shape passangers spawns after the specific sation this pasanger has to travel the whole loop and therefor blocks a space in a train for a whole tour

Loop lines should probably have at least have 2 trains on them, both facing opposite ways. It'd be weird to only be able to go one way around a loop.

I'm pretty sure the insane top scores are the result of extreme micro managing. I've tried it myself a few times and it really improved my scores, but completely ruined the flow of the game, and made me feel that I was cheating. The idea is, that you always keep a spare locomotive in stock, run the game for 5 seconds, pause, place the spare loco so that it arrives at whatever station is the most crowded, wait for it to pick up pax and unload them, then remove the loco, pause, check the map and find the new top-crowded station, place loco there and repeat over and over. Of course, you also build lines the normal way, but the main key is that spare loco and constant pausing. After doing this for a few games, I decided that it completely removed the fun and created some personal high scores that I'd never be able to beat later, unless playing the same way, much like the unbeatable, still standing world records in athletics set in the 1980s and 1990s set with heavy use of doping, so I decided to stop playing that way.

I love the level of detail in the game, where the lines are colored in the same order as they are irl in Barcelona.

Highlight of my day. RCE being happy he inadvertently made a knob

Never played this game but it would probably be smart to rethink the specialty districts. All of those unique districts put a strain on your system. Unidirectional lines mean that any passenger that enters after the district has to sit in the train for an entire round and having those districts only reachable through a single line puts strain on that line. Basically you'd either want to connect all the neighboring lines to those districts or create a shuttle line with the sole purpose of increasing connectivity between distant lines and those specialty districts.

You want those special stations to become the crosspoints of two lines, because if one line has special shapes, they wouldn’t have to transfer them to another line that way

6:40 yellow: strongest shape green: dog purple: mountain range red: a gun from splitgate

Near the end, you didn't need to connect every station to the line like the circle and triangles. You can skip them since they already have a line through them.

Heyyy advice for this game: It's okay to have 2 or 3 circles in a row. There is only one or very few squares, but lots of square passengers. That needs to be your interchange and all of your lines should be connected to it. Circles lines are not that good, so don't sacrifice tunnels just to make it a circle

the osaka map is nice because of the bullet train. creates a different dynamic that other maps don't have

The unique shapes require two strategies. First, they should become transit centers, fed by three or more lines. This way, passengers do not have to transfer, which means your stations do not trigger the timer as often. Second, create a small circle line without any duplication which includes as many unique stations as possible, and which crosses as many other lines. Passengers will transfer, but this short speedy circle will clear more passengers.

Wow, after so long. I still remember that my first video that I watched on your channel was Mini Motorways, and have followed every night at 9:45 since then. Love the content, just keep it going❤️

idk if this happens in every city with a metro system, but being from Barcelona i love the fact the color of the lines follow the same order of the lines in the real life metro in here :D

"I'm quite a fan of going all out on lines" Finally I know how this guy keeps motivation for videos

I think that it’s better to have trains going in opposite directions on a circle line because then, passengers can choose which route to take and can avoid going all the way around the line to go one stop backwards

What i like to do when i play mini metro is to make some lines radiating out from the square, it being the main hub of the system, and have outer ring lines providing connectivity so passengers don't have to go all the way into the city center (the square) to change trains

Great video! It’s nice to see you playing mini metro again. As I was watching the video I thought of a few ideas that you could try. Keeping in mind that I’ve never actually played this game I came up with these ideas just from what I’ve learned about the game watching you play. 1) Maybe you could try making as many intersections as you can. That way the game can come up with the best route on its own? 2) What if you tried making a grid of sorts? Grids seem to work in city skylines so maybe it will work for mini metro? 3) Maybe you could prioritize making sure you have no repeating shapes, even if it forces you to take a longer route? 4) This one could also work with any other strategies, and I think I’ve occasionally seen you do this in other mini metro videos. But what if you periodically wipe the map so that you can basically remap the lines once it gets too hectic?

Challenge for RCE: No circle lines, no straight lines ... only knob shaped lines (once you get to around 5-6 stations ie enough to create a knob line)

I've been waiting for this! I've been getting back into mini motorways again lately, I'd love to see you try out the challenges again or something! Also not sure if you've ever played Wellington but that could be fun too

What I learned after living in Barcelona for 3 months now: they say Barna as a short form instead of Barça. Don't know why though (someone once told me that it might be because of the football club...?). That aside I really love the levels of cities that I actually know the metro lines of, it's kinda fun because it's always different. :D

Not surprised the final level is Auckland... Having lived there, all the harbours and estuaries must make that city a right pain to rail in a game like this.

Very happy to see this series again!!!! Your mini metro and mini motorway series got me through covid!

Good sir, afaik, you can also pick up any train at any time and put then in any line over any station in any direction, only thing is it needs to stop at a station before repositioning.

Challenge idea : No consecutives symbols. So no "Circle-Circle" or "Triangle-Triangle" back to back

Barcelona *REALLY* needs a refreshement of its metro system!!

10:37 the entire left side is just circles. RCE, I think the circles are the architect firms, since they seem to always be a pain in the arse Also at 12:41 I heard "we sold to Craigslist" and for a moment I thought you had sold the passengers on Craigslist...

Probably they're industrial, commercial and residential. Although you'd be going to any random person's house and going to work wherever you like. The rest I assumed were tourist attractions but hospital and high end shopping works.

Interesting that you didn't draw any line that crosses both rivers (IRL the red line, L1 and the orange one, L9, do that) Also, I was thinking about which station represents what: the cross one could be Hospital Clínic (which is nowhere as crowded as in here), the star one is probably Plaça Catalunya (really crowded one) and the circle one that almost gets you in the end (with the yellow and purple lines) could be Sants, the main train station of the city. Anyway, pretty cool to finally see BCN in Mini Metro! Greetings from Barcelona!

13:50 RCE: Stadium Me: Lemon Store!!

Mqn, I was just thinking today it's been a while since you uploaded a mini motorways video, this is just as good!

having just gotten back from barcelona, looks like camp nou is in on the blue line which may be related to the intense crowding on that line 🤔 and red and purple both go to big tourist areas. but this was super fun and makes me want to play this game again :)

The feeling of a two-carriage train pulling up to a station with a timer is so satisfying :-)

I’m glad there’s a new video on this game! :)

I think a general idea is to locate which shapes are the rarest, and make every line pass through that rare shape, start with many small loops in multiple directions, with the rare shape as the center an expand from there. Once the rare shape has a twin, then the lines closest to it will reroute to the new rare duplicate. I think that will generally be a good strategy. Anyways, I miss Timberborners, when we getting back to Shameville AKA Happyville

This is amazing, never seen anything like it!

i love your videos.. honestly, after work ill watch new one before passing out and i let your videos play on auto play. you help me sleep lol

"Is it better to have circle lines all going the same direction?" That's always my question. I usually have one going each direction, if I can. I don't think it makes much of a difference for the simple stops, the squares, circles, and triangles - but when you start getting the rarer shapes, the diamonds, crosses... I *_feel_* like it's helped. But I haven't done any hard maths on it, though.

hit that thumbnail like the target it is

Love this game, been playing periodically for years, i allways come back to this game

I don't know whether it's just due to British summer time, but I miss your 5pm uploads. Now rather than watching during my last 1/2 hour at work, I have to watch in installments every time I go to the loo.

I Only Just Saw Your Mini Metro Series. And Now Coincidently... You Have Another Mini Metro Video

I love mini motorway videos please keep making them!

Wouldn't be a RCE Vid without a knob

It's best to not use circles as your line connections; very few passengers want to go to a circle and those that do will find one on their main route. At 4:20 when you add the green line to cross the red on a circle thats bad; passengers will get off at the circle and wait for the different line just because their destination shape is closer. Best to let them only get off where they want to be

I found circle lines are significantly powerful with the assistance of the bullet train in the Osaka map. Maybe you can try that next time.

When making circle lines, try to keep each line as short as possible. So, grab as many lines as you can, as fast as you can, and try to keep them all the same length.

I just imagine baby jesus playin with his trains and humans in trains just getting picked up to another place

There are alternative maps for London, Paris and NYC in this game. Just click on the upper right corner of the respective levels.

I don’t know if you could do this. Do something like the one line challenge but use all the lines overlapping each other. And then set the trains and intervals all around the line and just start adding extra carriages.

I’ve been waiting for this for ages

Ooo, make a flower. Like one main loop with carriages, and loops off that loop connecting the outer stops to the main loop.

I think you should delete all lines after every week, and make new routes. That way you can observe better and engineer better. And making circles are compulsory in this game, as they rotate all the items. Lines are full after 5th week. So, after that you can add more carriages to locomotives.

cant wait for the singapore one would like to see how rce butchers the train system of my country

how can a simple game like this feel like so mutch carnage

6:20 THE YELLOW NOB HAS ARIVED!

Not official but my guess, O = residential stop, square = commercial, triangle = industrial, cross hosptial, other shapes various other unique stops like airports, train stations, event centers

Yay, I've been waiting for this

I love your videos, man! You never fail to make me laugh some way, ya big goofball. I always thought, and I know you won't because it's not really your type of content, that it would be hilarious to watch you attempt to play ARK: Survival Evolved.

“Did that spawn on my shaft!?“ lmao

Amazing vid

So... just a nitpick: "Barça" is not the short name of the city, just the football club. For the city it's "Barna".

I've always thought of circles as residential. Squares are business districts. Triangles are shopping areas.

I went from watching a man talk about radioactive products to a man being chased by police to a man drawing phallic objects in a video game. UKposts is a wonderful place

I've missed mini metro videos. And mini motorways.

I am now addicted to this game thanks to this channel! 😂

RCE's acting was so good when he pretended to be surprised about making the knob

Btw, Barça is the short version for the football team, the short for the city is Barna.

I don't know if anybody noticed, but the line colour matches the one in real life, I mean, the colours you received were red, purple, green, yellow and blue. In Barcelona, the Line 1 is red, 2 is purple, 3 green, 4 yellow and 5 blue and that is a wonderful detail😍😍😍😍

I love watching this fella while eating, anyone else?

The RCE dictionary: Carnidge-A word used in situations where cars are not in an ideal situation. Trainidge-A word used in situations where trains are not in an ideal situation. Knob-A name of a shape Strongest shape-Knob Idiots-A word to describe architects Arsey-eeee-Real Civil Engineering in short terms Bridge review-Matt reviews a bridge. Comment additional words in a reply.

Game: exists RCE: makes a strongest shape

6:24 the green line looks like a dog's head, the yellow thing (the balls i guess) being the dogs's ear!

10:46 I was screaming "just extend the yellow line to include the triangle"

5:37 local bridge boy finds Square interesting

0:06 oh my Matt, but we only barely know eachother :o

The shape of the orange line 😆

I'm truly surprised that you didn't notice drawing the strongest shape at 15:10

Hi bro :) Absolutely love your videos... Les go for 5 mil subs!!!!!!!

I wish you all a great day!

My metro's split nile is named saburtalo line and is in Tbilisi metro

good as always

it's also better than old-school CBD centric design

of course! concentric circles, the aliens were like 40 years ahead of us!

So arcade super casual games have a meta, amazinf

"Has that star just spawned on my shaft" yes, yes it has

Yellow line doesn't contain triangle station, so transitional stations are overwhelmed. On red line is only one train.

Nice

Every time Matt says "purple train" i can't help but think of Geoff Marshall.

Fun fact, The blue line was kinda accurate to the L5 (Blue Line) in real life.

The way to make massive highscores is to micro every thing to the brink of madness. So you see how you link up everything ? Don't do that. What you need to do, is to have multiple lines available. And then you link the shapes required from the passengers at the stations with your lines. Once he delivered the passengers. Unlink the line from the now empty stations. And link it to the other ones. And you rinse and repeat for 10 hours straight. Then boom. You've got yourself a crazy highscore. And you're probably clinically insane

You have inspired me to become an Engineer - cheers for being a being a legend 🫡

Bro be exited for Copenhagen

Circular lines are actually the best irl too

I'm not sure why the trains slow down when there's a sharp angle in this game. It's a MAP, in the HARRY BECK style.

it would have been interesting if you went into creative or endless after you lost and wiped all the lines and rebuilt into more ideal circle lines

Ok now I'm curious of how you did the image for the thumbnail🤔

15:16 orange track is the strongest shape