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From: billlund@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Bill Lund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimCity Realism
Message-ID: <57050007@hpindwa.cup.hp.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 21:24:14 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino CA
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Without knowing the details of how they actually route traffic, it seems
that there is some degree of "randomness" in how the routes are established.
Further since anytime you put a road next to a road, you need up with an
intersection instead of a "limited access freeway" you end up with a lot
of possibilities.  

One thing I tried, which seemed to work was to "cover" a road with 
power wires and then place another road next to it.  What you end
up with is two roads going from one place to another without the
continuous intersections and cross traffic.  It actually seemed
to work.

In my opinion, this is one of the things that Maxis needs to fix in
the next release (will there be one?) of Simcity.  They were asking
in America Online for ideas and "limited access freeways" was one
thing I suggested.

Bill Lund
HP-Cupertino