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_Is it possible to make a city with only the smallest possible lot size?_ Planners in Hong Kong would answer with an emphatic yes.

I love that it took him 4 seconds to realize modern suburban sprawl is unmaintainable

If AA thinks the 1-Tile city is challenging, wait until he tries the Negative 1-Tile challenge.

The best part of the Cities Skylines 2 announcement was imagining what AA is gonna do with that game when it comes out.

I wonder if its possible to have a city that's all industrial wasteland, but you have enough hospitals that people can survive the cancer city and have a semi normal life span.

AA being so confused by the challenge city doing well & getting on without a hitch, that he nukes it with meteors to achieve the suffering he's used to, is comedy gold. 😂

Ayyy today AA asks the real questions: How much DOES size matter? Great video good sir. 🐸

AA: I created a utopia also AA: i strategically closed schools to make it harder for the inhabitants to get jobs that require higher education, forcing them to work in my factories.

We can all appreciate that amphibian actually shouted out the person he got this idea from. He didn't just throw them in the description. Props for being a good person!

AA: moves away from unmaintainable suburban sprawl and actually develops infrastructure The city: prospers AA: surprised Pikachu

The way you said "who do not eat garbage!" sounded quite defensive, as though you're covering up for them.

My favorite thing avout AA is how even though he's a well spoken man who often goes on long philosophical ramblings, every now and then theres a fart noise here and there.

The fact I cant tell the difference between the new editor and your editing style means you must've picked the perfect editor who suits you just right

AA discovers the wonders mixed-use zoning by accident and wonders why his city just works.

Congratulations! You recreated Tokyo, Japan

Me: that first city looks like a nightmare.. Wait.. those remind me of cities in the USA ._.

Astounding angelfish, Ambiguous Amphibian(man)! An awfully accomplished achievement abiding alongside almost adequate and aesthetically appealing allotments. (Finally, UKposts notifications know when I should be getting AA notifications. Not several days after, not a month after, but when they're hot off the press.)

I like to use the checkerboard technique on residential zones in my regular cities to create one-tile lots for a Chicago-esque dense single-family dwellings. If you wait for the one tile lot to develop, then you can put another one-tile residential zone next to it, and they won't join up.

We love seein more city skylines content! Now we just need you to have a competition against Real Civil Engineer on who can make a more memier but successful city!

I love your videos but the City Skylines series has a special place in my heart

This video appeared in my recommended. I’ve never even heard of this game before, but with this video as my first impression, it seems like the most complicated thing ever. I looked up more info about it, and found a beginner’s guide that’s 27 parts, each around an hour long. How is that only for beginners!? Man, if this is how cities are managed in a video game, then I can’t fathom how hard it must be in real life. Now that I’m thinking about it, I realize I don’t know much about how the real world works; I only know what I’ve seen in movies. I’d make a terrible mayor or president. It’s amazing that they’re able to take care of millions of people, when I can barely take care of myself.

In the end, Nipplopolis got turned into West Virginia.

I did something similar in Sim CIty 2013. A Town with no specialised industry of any kind. And it was PERFECT. it made money and everyone had everything they needed. Baffling.

With this challenge AA accidentally just made a hell-scape known as a "walkable city" a true nightmare to us north americans

My first thought was a city that is only 1 building, yet I had complete expectation that he could make it entertaining

yes, another city skylines video, my favorite content from you amphibian, thanks.

6:50-ish.. . Art imitates life.

Seeing the destroyed city made me think that playing a city builder in a post apocalyptic setting like fallout would be really cool to experience.

> Urban sprawl makes you go bankrupt > Only successful build ever use mixed-use zoning (at least approximated it) You are absolutely right, and you should look at Strongtowns and Not Just Bikes or City Beautiful or Citynerd or ...

I was nervous about the new editor but it seems they are totally killing it. Loved the style of this video- been watching a while and I can say confidently this is a change for the better. Cheers

1:37 is just a description of US urban infrastructure as is

“Nuclear bomb of happiness” as a wave of green smileys flow across the city lolol I’m ded

Always look forward to your new videos! Keep it up Amphibian ☺️💪✨

just booted my pc as i got back from work and this was uploaded 24 seconds ago. I say thats perfect timing

i am always stunned by the narration of your videos. i enjoy this very much!

"pure chance alone" that's an interesting way to say "finally attempting a different playstyle than what i always do" akjdhasjdkad im glad u finally made a good city

the placement on those fart noises was so subtle I thought there was something making a farting noise outside my window. Bravo.

your videos are always a joy to watch. thanks for making them

Amphibian I really appreciate the new editor, think he’s a perfect fit on the channel!

1:30 you are just describing an averege american city

4:31 I have the mental age of a 15 year old I swear

IRL Civil Engineers: “It’s Impossible to Build The Perfect Square Angle-Block Cit-“ “I Stand Corrected.” I Love You

Congratulations! You’ve built early-mid 20 century Tokyo! Edit: 9:14 Oh god… 😰 Didn’t see this coming

We need more city skylines

actually, Bangkok's city layout is more or less like this. a bunch of long parallel roads for max land utilisation. unfortunately the thai government allows private developers to decide on road layouts with absolutely no requirements, so the city ended up with massive condominiums lining up tiny 2-lane 2-way roads with dead ends. needless to say, it causes massive traffic jams even in the residential areas

I did not know what the name of the serpinski triangle was until this video, thank you AA

By coincidence, I recently started doing something like this. I'm going for 100%'ing the game, there's yet another scenario that has a 250,000+ pop requirement for victory for no reason related to the scenario's theme of tsunami (also compares to Amb's island start video because that's what you do here, just with a few more islands, but you have to start with 1 and wall it off like Age of Empires against the initial tsunami assault), so yeah, givin' it a shot. Probably not gonna watch this yet but I'll check it some time later to compare. I've done some initial research in some previous 250k scenarios, I'm sure people who scrub the wiki know all of this, but different zones have different variable population based on the size of the lot. There's a lot of multiples and math and not a TON of difference overall (with Industry literally being the same 2-workers-per-1-tile no matter what size), but basically, 1-tile High Residential actually benefits in comparison to any other size, with a potential max of 2 families, where for instance a 4x4 has a maximum of 30. That's just 2 more families of value, and in theory you need more road to account for 1-tile lots so they should be just bad, but I'm trying some funky thin dirt road layouts to try and pack as many in as possible. A cul-de-sac system like many use in SimCity 4 might be the best here, I'm not going for that but I'd recommend that for anyone curious to try it out, helps you shrink block size without actually shrinking block size. Another factor I've been considering is what I like to call 'door count', this is especially important for the aforementioned Industry as well as Commercial to a lesser extent, smaller buildings with a higher door count means trucks will make smaller deliveries and thus need to make more stops to empty their load. This is very bad. I'm not 'purely' in the challenge so I'm just building 4x4 Industry. I've also got rather early issues of workplaces finding workers, but that's possibly because I'm still just bad at this game. Extra note as it's something that a less-than-great PC user like me is concerned about, this has some chance of tanking performance due to so many more routes to calculate. Skylines already has trouble for me at 6 or more City tiles unlocked (which you basically need for 250k pop), so I expect this to be hell, hope Amb and his PC fared better, and due warning to anyone else trying a build like this. I should probably just build a straightforward city and beat this dang scenario, but I get too bored, I gotta gimmick at least a little.

You should do a one road city Not just a line Maybe a grand spiral But the real spirit of AA would be Dystopian overpasses haphazardly placed as willy nilly spaghetti as urban needs he neglected early being a cheapskate come up later on

I love how he instantly created houston

Excellent work amphib, your work always gives me a sense of ennui and existential dread

Its even more cute to do this when you use smaller roads also realistic pop mod makes it work better

Yo I found your channel recently and this is my first early arrival Banger

Perfect way to de-stress after work. Thanks bro

The person who opens a Land Rover dealership in that city must be rich

pls upload a vod of this love city skylines .. more vods !!!

Worked surprisingly well!

7:00, or, amphibian discovers redlining

If you use realistic population, this is actually an optimal strat if you go against their instructions and don't unlock everything from the start. The hell of trying to increase land value when the grids are so tiny, messing up the order of the roads is a nightmare. Not to mention the checkerboard clicking, I eventually adopted a pattern where I'd checkerboard the first set then once they're all build just allocate them all. Probably would have been easier just to make a mod that lets me specifically zone in a checkerboard pattern but that would have required effort Another thing to note is 1*1 houses seem to not be worth much even with optimal land value, so there really is not much point in building above dirt/gravel roads. Funny how city skylines creates convenient excuses for the city not maintaining roads in low income residential neighborhoods

As a non channel memeber/patron i can confim i exclusively eat garabage.

I've done this. I didn't find any merger problems except at the end of roads (junctions/turns) at the time.

Dayum I like this video, I also like that city skylines free!

Every time i hear the trumpet victory sound in AA's videos, i get a tiny dopamine rush, conditioned by Entropia Universe.. Damn you :3

cant wait for this new rousing rendition of crimes against humanity as presented by evil kermit

1:45 so San Francisco?

Wow, that's awesome! Super cool to see.

Have you ever played Workers & Resources? It seems right up your alley

as always: good on you for getting paradox's money. however, no amount of ads will convince me to give paradox another red cent so long as they force you to agree to allow your personal data to be sold. this would not be an issue but for the fact that paradox reps have sworn up and down that no data is sold. thing is, why do we have to agree to allow it if they are not doing it?

This was uploaded on my birthday, how could I’ve missed it?

Honestly curious if you could like, make a functional city from space-filling curve streets.

The... the issues starting at 10 minutes in felt a bit... uhm... close to home.

So, you can do the checkerboard thing with empty space, and then once everything is built, you can fill in the empty space of the checkerboards and at least residences don't merge, so you can have 2-wide spaces between roads. this gets you a higher population density per tile, because a 1 tile house holds about half as many people as a 4x4 tile house, which means 8x the population density, which means more people being taxed, which means you can have lower taxes for them and still make money, which keeps them happy. also, on a grid system of sorts, you can vastly improve traffic by using 1-way streets in selective places.

You can checkerboard the zones without mixing them, you just checkerboard half of it, let them get built, then fill in the rest.

0:44 What if we haven't enjoyed your videos on Cities: Skylines? Is it still free-to-play this weekend? Anyways, great video as always!

With some 1U roads you could really pack them in

@ambiguousamphibian , I live with an elderly woman, as her carer full time. I was laying in bed, watching this delightful video, enjoying the masterpiece before me, when at 2:33 that fart sound effect played through my apple airpod pro max’s and it legitimately sounded like it came from across the hall, and that I had just heard the stomach curdling back end rumble of the elderly person I care for shat-ing themselves in bed. It took me to rewind, and hear it again to realise it was in the video. Thanks AA, you have traumatised me in the very bed I sleep. xD

Missed opportunity sending a tidal wave through the finely crafted rows of Nipplopolis. Imagine several thousand metric tons of water combing through the city, washing it out in perfection.

Yes. This is what I need.

My mother just discovered your channel. God help us all. Good content!

I feel like the end result is a pastel authoritarian hellscape. But the mixed housing/commercial is a great tactic, and just smart city building.

Another sponsorship for AA! And another perfect fit. Congrats!

When getting Cs for real: Mass transit Trainstations Bridges and piers Snowfall Vehicles of the world Parklife Housing styles and simolour In my opinion as the first few, yes kinda also industries, but this makes the industrial truck-traffic more unmanageble than it already is, since trains arent veiwed as indivitual cars on rail and more like cargo-ified passenger lines

I don't know what is so hard to say Sierpiński XD. Seriously, it's a good episode.

Congrats on the working city! Too bad about the freak meteor shower.

6:40 my country already created this problem. I'm actually afraid the low to not educated people are going to have better pay just because there's less supply of them

This was so fun to watch

04:21 ... is that... is that The Fifth Element soundtrack playing in the background...?

I love the subtle dystopian undertones.

A nuclear bomb of happiness that completly killed me hahaha. Even the nuke got to me.

Frog man makes Tokyo in city skylines.

"One tile city? I mean, that seems pretty normal for AA honestly, it's basically just Sim City 2013 haha amiright??" "...ohh, THAT kind of one-tile..."

I love your content. It's awesome

never disappointed by this channel

Between this and zoo tycoon, maybe singular tiles are the most effective money making strategy in every game?

One tile residential and dirt roads is great if you want to make a slum

I'm a bit late, but all you have to do is place a single tile, let construction begin, then place the next tile. this stops homes from combining.

Something in my brain is deeply pleased by the aesthetic of city attempt 2

A blessed day. Amphibian uploaded tormenting a city

The labyrinth of dirt roads next to sewage processing plants reminds me of Hernando County Florida.

"I built a prison to keep out the bad people." I feel like that's the opposite of how a prison is supposed to work.