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From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimCity
Message-ID: <11814@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 90 06:12:47 GMT
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In article <1990Nov27.025729.11249@midway.uchicago.edu> francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:

>                 ...in my rail-only cities (yeah, it's expensive; but
>it does wonders for my pollution levels! I've never had pollution in a
>residential district.), even when I've got huge rail lines all over the
>place, and there is no conceivable way they could be overflowing, when the
>traffic map shows no measurable activity at all, I get demands for roads.

>Kinda silly.

     I wondered about this myself; the same thing was happening in my rail-
only cities.  (I mean, *really*, Sims; every one of you has at least six
squares' worth of access to rail lines.  What more do you want from me? :) ).
I think I finally figured out the connection, though.  If you have rail spurs
(rail lines that don't form closed loops), when the little on-screen train
reaches the end of a spur and has to turn around, a "More roads needed"
message is generated.
     This may not be the only reason, but it happened four times while I was
watching.



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