- pwnyXpress
- Mar 28, 2007
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Cross posting since a traffic model discussion is super relevant for page 1.
The most basic traffic conceit is at first glance kind of limiting but arguably realistic: cars get in the lane they need for the next intersection after the previous intersection. This leads to all the reactionary screenshots of 6 lane one way roads with miles of traffic backup because there is only 1 way to go at the end of that road. That basic conceit leads to needing to create some realistic traffic networks. It is neither Sim City 13 at release (traffic backed up because the AI didn't actually know how to turn in different directions), and importantly not the model from SimCity 4 where bigger roads solved everything by just providing a literal bucket for traffic to sit in out of the way.
The actual issues where the game stands to improve are getting into slightly gamey stuff you may never actually get into if you build your networks otherwise realistically. Basically, merged intersections are far superior to lighted intersections due to a Google car sort prescience that allows anarchy merges to be incredibly efficient. There's some cool opportunities for the devs to address this with slowing down the insane merges and making lighted intersections faster, either with an AI tweak or lighted intersection design tools since a lot of the lighted intersection issues are with cars doing crazy turning stuff but not wanting to do it unless the intersection is completely deserted.
Hey thanks for this. That makes a lot of sense. I'll probably pick this up once school winds down since I don't want to lose my funding.
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- pwnyXpress
- Mar 28, 2007
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Gonna make some more city billboard textures tonight, anyone wanna see some parodies of a certain thing?
Need some "just across the border in another state we've got CASINOS" billboards like we have all over Utah.
Also, some of those stupid inspirational ones where they have a word ("genius") and a pic of some famous person ("Abe Lincoln"), but aren't really advertising something.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:20
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- pwnyXpress
- Mar 28, 2007
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Got my crime rate to 41%, now I just gotta keep it there for TWO YEARS FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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