Trucks queuing for the port were starting to block the highway

"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer) 04/28/2018 at 00:50 • Filed to: None

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Yes, it’s lazy, not exactly realistic, but.... it works?

jasmits > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 01:03

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I mean it won’t speed trucks up but it really improves safety and general traffic flow if they were impeding on the roadway. Sometimes good engineering is so simple it looks lazy and poor engineering looks thoughtful but introduces too much complexity.

Spanfeller is a twat > jasmits 04/28/2018 at 01:11

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Solution to trafic: make roads look like karting circuitsml.

Well the trucks don’t stop trafic as much anymore... But it’s pretty much Cities Skylines having simple coding that doesn’t allow for complex traffic interactions.

But it works! Now the trucks don’t stop as long, flow improved a bit since they take longer to arrive and they don’t need to qeue as long.

jasmits > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 01:31

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I mean in almost any case it wouldn’t work but if trucks are in the way and there is no way to offload them faster giving them more space to wait is a good solution

BoulderZ > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 01:33

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Is it wrong that I looked at that and thought, “Where are the hot pits and staging? I’d like to do a half-day of lapping there.”?

Spanfeller is a twat > BoulderZ 04/28/2018 at 01:37

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Cities skylines TT

BoulderZ > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 01:51

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Not a gamer, so I Googled that... that’s pretty damn cool. Would still gladly pay to hot lap it IRL. I wonder if there are any actual amateur-accessible tracks that have any coastal/water features of any real note?

Spanfeller is a twat > BoulderZ 04/28/2018 at 02:23

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Water features... Not that I know of... Maybe Laguna Seca?

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 02:35

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Needs the traffic mod to control lane changes though.

TheJWT > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 09:39

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I never knew you could connect train lines to ports- is that a mod?

Spanfeller is a twat > TheJWT 04/28/2018 at 09:43

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Ever since I bought the game it came with it, it’s called a cargo hub

But then I made a new industrial area to the north that only conects by train/car and the cargo hub’s traffic declined significantly

TheJWT > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 09:45

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Hmm, must be from one of the DLCs.

My industrial area is a complete wasteland which I have zero chance of ever sorting out...

Spanfeller is a twat > TheJWT 04/28/2018 at 09:51

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What I do is that I make islands connected by train and metro with trolleys inside and then chose the “old town” option that bans all foreign vehicles... Less traffic. Then, you can make industrial areas have good outside connections.

I play in free mode, so all this development is pretty much artificial and it wouldn’t follow a city’s tipical development

BoulderZ > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 10:04

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Oh yeah, that at least has a view of the water at points, I think.

IFTNFS > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 10:04

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What game is that? A version of Sim City? Haven’t played something like that in a long time but I’d love to get back into it...

Spanfeller is a twat > IFTNFS 04/28/2018 at 10:08

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Cities Skylines.... It’s not an EA game, but EA pretty much ruined sim city...

IFTNFS > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 10:12

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That’s awesome... can’t wait to check it out when I get home from work. Can you play against/with friends/randos or is it strictly solo?

I can’t remember the last version of Sim City that I played, but it’s probably been at least ten years. I liked the premise of the latest version but heard it had a lot of problems and I haven’t seen it in person...

Spanfeller is a twat > IFTNFS 04/28/2018 at 10:22

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I think it’s solo....

Sim City 4 was pretty good, but the latest sim city isn’t as flexible. Cities Skylines on the other hand is a bit difficult to get used to at first,but it’s a great game. It’s been out for a long time now, so I don’t know if a new version might be coming out.. Right now it has a lot of DLCs and Steam has a lot of mods for it.

djmt1 > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 10:23

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Glad to see I’m not the only one who adopts the “add more roads until it works school of knowledge” when it comes to Cities.

IFTNFS > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 10:33

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I just read a little about it, and I didn’t realize that it was created by the same people that did Cities in Motion, which I’ve played before with mixed success...

Spanfeller is a twat > djmt1 04/28/2018 at 10:33

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I’m still working out some issues...

Spanfeller is a twat > TheJWT 04/28/2018 at 10:35

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djmt1 > Spanfeller is a twat 04/28/2018 at 10:41

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Argh, the sharp angled grids. My European sensibility can’t handle them.

Spanfeller is a twat > djmt1 04/28/2018 at 10:45

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It’s more space efficient...

I am using the very European roundabouts... I wonder if there’s a mod that adds ramp meters