There's some places online that had the save file for the city in case you own the game and ever want to explore it for yourself. The original design is pretty interesting, so I recommend it: community.simtropolis.com/files/file/31772-magnasantisc3/

*Can't riot if there is no road to riot on!*

I think the thing that makes it most feel like an SCP is the fact that the city's entire economy runs on parking garages even though there are no roads or cars.

That original Magnasanti City is actually really impressive, cant even begin to guess how they even figured out the strategies used in it.

“No roads, only subways” Hey this doesn’t sound so bad “Duplicate libraries, maximum police state” Oh

I once made a city in SC3K where everybody lived in Gazebos. It turns out that the 1x1 filler tiles around tall buildings actually have nearly the same density as the apartments themselves. If you place little holes in your zones (I used small parks) to prevent the existence of any 2x2 squares, then you can get a zone made of NOTHING but filler. I had thousands of people living densely in English Gardens and Gazebos.

I figured out there’s no traffic animation on a railroad crossing in the original sim city. No traffic animation meant no traffic. So every straight piece of road had a railroad crossing and my traffic problems were solved.

Magnasanti sounds like a Yu-Gi-Oh card. "Coalescing hopes and dreams crushed under force of law, and lack of knowledge. Come forth, Magnasanti!"

someone studying urban planning and government and politics could write a hell of a thesis on magnasanti

Magnasanti reminds me of mega-city-one from the Dredd universe. Glorious madness... good watch as always mang. Hoping you pass 1 mil by the end of the summer! Your content has grown and expanded a lot in the past few years, it's cool to have seen it evolve in real time. Cheers m8!

This is like the Backrooms but for cities. An unfathomable stretch of city blocks repeating the same pattern, yet no roads. Buildings connecting to buildings and fields of never-ending rooftops. A maze that has nigh perfect similarities around every corner & crevice but leads to a different local. There's a lot of Backrooms beneath this Backrooms of a city. A sprawl of basements & subway lines, connecting pipes & electrical infrastructure underground. - I can only imagine what the libraries look like, spiraling downwards for what seems to be endless. What cursed knowledge lies at the abyssal layers of such athenaeums?

The original Magnasanti is like a video game creepypasta, but it's all real. It's awe inspiring and I'm happy that even in TYOOL 2022 people still remember it.

I have so randomly stumbled onto this channel and find it unexpectedly addictive.

It's scary that this oppressive urban sprawl is still two million people short of New York City and THIRTY ONE MILLION short of Tokyo.

Well, i guess if there are no roads, you can never take your car out of the parking lot. Sounds like a very good business model.

God. I remember the start of your Zomboid all negative traits playthrough. It feels like it's been so much longer than just three years. You've come so far, and I'm proud to have been here so long. Your content is great dude. Keep it up.

With the 6 billion S of Magnasanti, there is a way of building parks, hospitals, schools etc. and putting the budgets to maximum. There will be a small loss of population because of parks, hospitals, schools etc. but every block will transform into super-rich appartments.

You’re easily my favorite content creator on this platform. So consistent with quality, thank you for everything you create brother!

This game was my first exposure to jazz as a young man.

I was kinda hoping the city would be an excellently planned and organized city, with amazing traffic management, some jankiness in the zoning, and extensive use of above and below ground transit. I'm not gonna lie; learning that it's really just a nonsensical land of severe strife held together by incomprehensible logic cash flow was somewhat disappointing lmao.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

I’d love to try and make a similar megalopolis like this one, but simultaneously try to ensure a maximum quality of life; a utopian version of Magnasanti, with a highly educated, long-living, and happy populace. You’d probably have to sacrifice a lot of what makes magnasanti work, but I’m curious to see how population density and quality of life work together/against each other.

A video about Magnasanti was one of the first videos I watched on UKposts. Its crazy how much planning went on and showed the graph papers with the calculations done by hand. Absolute insanity to attempt such a feat of city infrastructure.

It is weird to imagine a setting where most of the city services are utter crap like crumbling, unused libraries, but the subways are showered with cash to keep them clean, maintained, pretty, and state-of-the-art. And it’s not like the subways are reserved for the elite or anything, it is literally the only form of transport available besides attempting to walk or bike through the narrow streets choked with people.

I couldn't tell if you had actually achieved it or by the end of the video. The results were... Ambiguous.

The Urbz: Sims in The City soundtrack is giving me some serious nostalgia.

Fahrenheit 451 isn't the best alagory for Magnasanti, as that book took place mostly in suburbs, with individual houses that very specifically had lawns. They also had actual roads. Now Brazil on the other hand, that would have been a pretty safe comparison.

I actually had the idea to have a subway-only city in Simcity 2000. I just never took it to the absurd length that they did here. If memory serves, buildings would only build three squares from the transportation unit, so you would get these odd diamonds around the map if you used nothing but subways. The A.I. did some pretty funky stuff on HOW things were built, so if you didn't have the appropriate configuration of residential, commercial, and industrial, the game would just straight up not build on certain tiles, usually on the fringes. I never got far enough to terraform the map, so I mostly built on the large open areas naturally present on the map. I'm sure much of the oddities of the A.I. would have been rounded out had I leveled the terrain and enveloped the entire play area.

The nostalgia is strong in this one

the speed run for sim city is pretty amazing too. you create this insane circular city that you just have to see unfold

I only found this video by diving down a nostalgia trip. For some reason, I was first introduced to this game in 8th grade woodshop class. I kid you not, part of our class was literally building a city that didn't fail and that was our grade for that section. What an amazing time to live.

This was such a fantastic video, as a huge Sim City fan, playing it for like 20 years now, this was so so enjoyable lol. More sim city content!!

Urban planners trying to do this in real life should be sent to the underworld

It's horrifying and beautiful at the same time

I’ve never seen a video by this guy before he’s quite poetic

A more videoessay style feels really fitting to you, I like this kinda of experimenting you're doing. Edit: Also, you're editing on this feels very fluent, especially the interaction of audio and transitions.

@3:00 when you were talking about systemic analysis on how to build out the city quicker... my thought was to use fractals and the application of the Mandlebrot Set (more specifically the application of it's principals when it comes to zoning and tax brackets on more central and outlying districts). Edit: at the end of the video I realized that's exactly what was done here. Neat!

Really loving both your sims and sim city videos. Refreshing still to see fresh game related video ideas in 2022

You’re playing ALL the games I spent my childhood on, this is so nostalgic. Please don’t stop!

The most impressive part is not the end result of that megacity, but how challenging it is to get there

I remember playing this gem on Windows 98 using my grandma's computer, those were the good old days.

One of your best so far. Beautiful and evocative.

I can't get enough of your storytelling style.

Sabotaging suburban areas and small towns to force people to live in large cities sounds like something just around the bend irl.

I love simcity 3k so much. It has that perfect pre 9/11 - 2008 crisis aesthetic of neo-liberal optimisim. Everything; thr music, graphics, people, humour... Its so nostalgic

Found your channel about a week or so ago. Cannot stop watching my guy.

Thank you for another strangely interesting video about classic video games that I may have heard of. You have the most interesting voice and deadpan humour. I like it. 🙂

I was just thinking about this city design the other day... life really is strange, isn't it.

Ahh back when the series had this quirky sense of humor, down to the advisor portraits

I've been wanting a video like this for ages. thank you for making it real

Your commentary and choices of vocabulary are absolutely astounding

"7 seconds ago" lol

This is really impressive. I played Sim City 3000 briefly when it came out, but it always crashed. I moved on to Sim City 4. The design is interesting however. It reminds me of a strategy I often used in Sim city 2000. I once had a guide book to SC2k that described the optimum distances of roads to other attractions, the precise ratios of R to C to I to create ideal growth. In the center of the book was a glossy image of a sim city someone had built that was perfectly flat and perfectly symmetrical from each corner. I then spent probably the next 8 years of my life trying to replicate that city with every game I played. I had small square districts surrounded by moats and water pumps, a power plant on every corner. and the correct ratio of each zone in the square. the center intersection had a police station, fire station and hospital and either a library or museum. I mitigated traffic with an intricate web of subway stations across the street from bus stops at every 3 way intersection, my precise city formula had as few 4 way intersections as possible. I had to cheat heavily to build it but my city's people were always very happy.

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only Magnasanti.

I recently found this channel via one of your PJ:Z video's (namely the most difficult start) and stuck with it because I thought you were Sseth.. (I bet you got that a lot back in the day) so glad I did. The way you narrate your videos is spellbinding. I am hooked. great content and great production quality mate, definitely worth a patreon sub.

An endless city sounds like a nightmare or like Ravnica from Magic The Gathering.

Massively raising taxes while taking away funding to libraries kind of reminds me of Sweden in a way. Despite having some of the highest taxes in the world everything from healthcare to schools to libraries to the police to roads, infrastructure and anything else funded by tax money is massively underfunded somehow.

“Immortal emperor, mayor forever” Beautiful!

This is my favourite video of yours yet. You're actually so sick.

Calling the city "New City" is clearly a beautiful and poetic callback to the founding of Carthage (𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, Qart-ḥadašt, lit. "New City") and the sacrifice and genius of its founder the beautiful Queen Dido who had agreed with the locals to found a city only on what a single oxhide could cover, but cut it into thin strips to cover as much land as possible.

ничего не понимаю, но досматриваю до конца, залипалово красивых кадров и построек

Time for another surreal urban simulator experience.

glad to see your content growing as well as your channel, seems like it was forever ago that I found your vids on kenshi

Your narration is balm to my ears, both in content as well as delivery.

SO THRILLED TO HEAR YOU TALK ABOUT MAGNASANTI!! none of my friends care about it

Magnasanti could be a great starting point to either tune the mechanics so that they encourage building more utopian cities, or to find a way to create a better city DESPITE the mechanics, with at least 3 million people.

I wasn't expecting a video about SimCity 3000 to be on My Subscriptions page today, let alone one to end with such poetry! Thank you

I watch you from when you were a sprout and now you are a bloomed tree. Nice to see you getting reccommended everywhere

I know someone did a sim city 4 city with 107,000,000 people. The cool thing is modern urban planners know we can do sustainable cities in the tens of millions while still being livable and enjoyable. I wish there was a game with modern graphics and unlimited building area. But CPUs are flammable soooo....

What annoys me about this city is that it is held up as an example of how the citybuider genre ''promotes a totalitarian view in which making money is the only goal.'' When in fact this couldnt be further from the truth, it was the creator of the city, not the creator of the game that that is responsible for the result. Becuase it all boils down to what goals you set for yourself, and the creator of the city made it clear that money was the only goal. But that was the creators choice, and as a matter of fact the game tracks far more then income, namely it tracks the happiness of the citizens, the length of their lives and your effect on the surrounding environment. If a player were to truly make the perfect city, the game allows you to do that, and the city will still be successful. Judging a city only by its profitability is like judging a country based on the ammount of crosaints they make, it is hardly the sole contributor to what we deem success.

My favourite SC soundtrack by far, I still listen to it today.

Yoooo background music from URBZ sims in the city. Your BG music always rocks.

Ay yoo

The choice of music in this video is *exceptional* 👏

Awesome video to show up in my feed on a day like today. Thanks!

Incredible. Truly telling about our human desires for both order and knowledge, our undying thirst for progress that supercedes our care for our own wellbeing, and the infinite search for the mathematical formulas that, ultimately, make green line go up.

FINALLY YES!! COMMENTARY ON SOMETHING I LOVE BUT CANT UNDERSTAND. THANNK YOU

This is some next-level shenanigans. I love it.

Really appreciated the Sim City 4 music in the background

I remember Magnusanti. Great effort taking a shot at it.

Your artsy fartsy explanation of what's going on is harder to follow than Magnasanti itself

Damn, I can't get enough of this. How were this games so captivating?

More videos like this please, I loved this!

It took me 15 years to build the megalopolis in the SNES version. IIRC it was map 62 or something, but sometimes it was an island. LOTS of zone cutting and stacking, but I was able to make it. I later found out that you can get a freedom (or something like that) map that was basically a blank canvas scenario.

More sims content please; simcity, the sims, etc. All sim, every sim.

I love your montage. Especially with monkey try to figure out (2:48)

This was beautiful. Thank you.

The urbz sims in the city electro music hit me hard

This made me chuckle. Good shit bro

you are really great at narration!

God: Uploads to MultiverseTube "Ultimate Earth 3000"

no idea what i was watching but i couldn't stop

I love this game. I still remember when my dad got it for his birthday from his best friend, I must've been 3-4 years old.

Outstanding work AA.

The amount of high school book references you said in this video astonishes me

0:42 Glad to see my country's capital made its place in your video man... truly a marvel. :3

YOO SIMS URBZ MUSIC, Thats goated!!!

It will be an honor to get stoned to this nostalgic classic. I'm hitting the bong and then watching.

Ah, Sim City 3K, the bane of my childhood dreams of becoming a city planner.

I love that one of the maps is Madison, WI. I lived in that city for 14 years!