Do Liberty City's Power Lines Connect To Anything?

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Electrician here It is VERY common for poles to not be connected to anything. upgrades, houses demolished, new lines, there will be poles that "dead end", and they just leave it there for future use for the case where you figure they could have jumped to a building from a closer pole, that is also realistic. it has everything to do with the load characteristics of the building. the circuit which is closer to the building is likely not sufficiently large to supply the whole building, or the incorrect voltage the only thing that doesn't happen frequently, is buildings connecting electricity from one to the next. this is almost never done, so i would assume the overhead connected apartments are actually low voltage or fiber optic/internet. finally, your overhead service example is 50 years old. its called open bus system to have 3 or 4 racks connected to the building. nowadays they use 1 rack and use a twisted set of wires for 3x less work and the same outcome. sick vid thanks

eventually austin will have enough city planning, engineering, and socioeconomics knowledge to build his own town. and they say video games aren't educational

They connect to my heart

As someone who builds powerlines what stands out is all poles with a single wire that's not really a thing. And not every single pole needs transformer cans.

This might be a weird compliment, but I love so much how you don't use these sorts of videos as a way to criticize. The most important thing is that the game feel right, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy spending too much time examining them.

Did I give a shit about the wires in Liberty City this morning? No. Am I very concerned about them now? Yes.

Substations are actually often disguised as regular buildings, so a substation could be any house in the game connected to the grid.

The thing with Rusty Schit is painfully realistic. it's the kind of thing that happens when a place like Rusty's was built 20 years ago and was the only thing that needed power there. Then the area grows and more industrial buildings pop up so they decide to run another line straight down the middle to service all the new places. Nobody thinks it's good and it's certainly not designed that way from the start, it's just legacy situations being patched over because it's easier and cheaper than doing it properly.

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This is exactly why I think YouTube is a pretty special source of content these days. Highly specific, niche content that can be so unbelievably right up one individual person's alley that it's almost incomprehensible how the premise was even concepted to begin with. No reality show slop, no boring lowest common denominator mass-appeal drivel... I spend 45 minutes looking at a Netflix home screen and turn it off, completely disheartened, after finding nothing worthwhile. I open my YouTube subs and immediately am presented with a 25 minute long video called "Do Liberty City's Power Lines Connect to Anything?" and I am so overwhelmingly fulfilled with a highly specific sense of satisfaction and joy. Appreciate it, and keep up the good, weird, and CIA-secret-spy-satellite-hyper-focused-laser-targeted content that got me subbed in the first place.

I'm an electrical engineer, the building with inefficient wiring could happen in real life if the city redeveloped and just left the old wiring when they added a new power line branch

I love these connection videos- first unemployment surveys, then hydrological surveys, now electrical, Austin is out to become the ultimate Video Game Department of Community Development employee ❤

electrical engineer here! electricity is scary. to be more real for a sec, high voltage travels further because at a power plant power P is produced, and P = R * I² where R is the resistance of the line. And the loss of power over the distance of the line is P_Loss = R * (P / U)² where U is the voltage of the line. R goes up the longer of a power line we measure this drop over, and P is constant because it's the power output of our plant, so if we make U bigger, since it's in the denominator of the fraction, it reduces the amount of power lost over the line. which matters alot on long lines since that increases R. hope that was comprehensible to some people thank you for reading

7:05 just want to note that if you look near by you can actually see a cable spool on the ground which implies to me it’s one of those real slow construction efforts

You know, I adore video gaming with diagrams. Proves the continued value of real and direct surveying methods.

0:42 it's crazy you know the sound scape better than the devs that did the remake

6:35 I remember some big kids tried daring me to touch a utility pole anchor as a kid. But I was too scared.