I have many ideas to improve this game. But I have only ONE HEARTWISH:

Please allow the demolition of houses!

It would be a small change for both the players and the developers, but it could be a total game changer in terms of flexibility for the players, especially in the endgame.

This game has a very poor endgame. It's over far too quickly, which I think is due to too few strategic endgame options for the player: Traffic lights are almost useless, roundabouts are sometimes helpful but in most situations not possible at all as they consume too much space.

Destroying houses would give players the opportunity to rethink, rebuild and restructure their street layout.

Removing houses would also reduce the very large influence of chance in this game. Randomness is fine to a certain extent, but in MM maximum high scores are only possible if the random generator allows for a perfect traffic flow. But in the endgame, traffic often cannot be optimised at all if, for example, a bypass is not possible at all because rows of houses block a theorectical bypass.

Demolishing houses would solve the problem.
P-L-E-A-S-E!
;-)

That is also good. Yes, i agree, the endgame is FAR too hard.

I don't think that's great enough.
Make houses to be able to move from one place to another but only [number] times!

Originally posted by TheLearjet85:

I don't think that's great enough.
Make houses to be able to move from one place to another but only [number] times!

I like that!

i'd say,
connections are your weapon
the weapon of the RNG is buildings

your task is to outsmart the RNG with connections, while RNG is trying to throw as many impossible places for buildings as only there is space for & the devs set limits in general & for a map

your task is to find out where RNG will spawn on which map, under which conditions & to bring the game to a state, where you can have at least options to act in your favour

the game is your opponent, the RNG is your opponent
you are asking for RNG to go easier on you, well ... 5% the devs will listen, sorry ...

they have not even a solution so far for the motorway/roundabout scrap delay, which is still within the options of re/moving connections

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

your task is to outsmart the RNG with connections, while RNG is trying to throw as many impossible places for buildings as only there is space for & the devs set limits in general & for a map

your task is to find out where RNG will spawn on which map, under which conditions & to bring the game to a state, where you can have at least options to act in your favour

the game is your opponent, the RNG is your opponent

"Outsmart the RNG"?
Your assumption is that this RNG is intelligent, which I doubt VERY much. I think it is highly irratic and 90% random. Random is the opposite of intelligence. A totally randomized locating of house (areas) can't be predicted and worked against. I think you overestimated this game's logic.

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

you are asking for RNG to go easier on you, well ... 5% the devs will listen, sorry ...

Easier? That is exactly NOT what I am asking for.
I want MORE options to react to the totally randomized and sometimes irratic placing of houses. I am asking for more weapons to fight a LONGER endgame.

Originally posted by III:

"Outsmart the RNG"?
Your assumption is that this RNG is intelligent, which I doubt VERY much. I think it is highly irratic and 90% random. Random is the opposite of intelligence. A totally randomized locating of house (areas) can't be predicted and worked against. I think you overestimated this game's logic.

between "intelligent" & "erratic" there is also the option of "programmed along a pattern"
it's difficult to programm an erratic RNG & it's even harder to programm an intelligent, but it's not that hard to programm a pattern a RNG can move along
no RNG is "totally randomized", there is not even a working theory what "totally randomized" might mean, at best you could get a hardware based RNG but a game has only a software aka algorithm based RNG, which is predictable, thus you can outsmart it, not because it's intelligent but because it's predictable, it has limits
& i think you're giving the devs more credit regarding intelligence than they deserve, this game is not the work of geniuses

also
depending on the map there are different RNG programmed
there are sometimes daily/weekly challenges where houses appear not clustered but spread thus more randomly than usually

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

you are asking for RNG to go easier on you, well ... 5% the devs will listen, sorry ...

Easier? That is exactly NOT what I am asking for.
I want MORE options to react to the totally randomized and sometimes irratic placing of houses. I am asking for more weapons to fight a LONGER endgame.

more options for you = less RNG = RNG goes easier on you

the weapons to fight in the endgame are :
PAUSE + THINK + PATIENCE + NO PANIC + ATTENTION + FIND OPTIONS

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

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the weapons to fight in the endgame are :
PAUSE + THINK + PATIENCE + NO PANIC + ATTENTION + FIND OPTIONS

That's right. I would call these things GENERAL PRINCIPLES for playing. These are not unique to this game, Mini Motorways.

The TOOLS (a.k.a. weapons) the player has in this particular game, are building / removing ROADS, placing TRAFFIC LIGHTS, ROUNDABOUTS, TUNNELS/BRIDGES. No more.

Removing houses would be another tool how the player could more actively intervene in the events.

But I very much doubt, the devs will change such basic concept. They don't even delete obviously hacked high scores...

Peace! Have a nice weekend!

Agreed, but in ranked games only if the house instantly re-appears nearby. Somtimes you get those houses that are simply unconnectable, especially in the endgame, and that can cause a gameover really quick since they do produce their markers. Lets say if they released a casual mode/creative mode, then yes, i would love to play without any points pressure and just make the city pretty and effecient.

Originally posted by Glyph:

Agreed, but in ranked games only if the house instantly re-appears nearby.

Yes like this.

Or you are offered 3 (or 5 whatever) random locations where you have to re-build the demolished house.

Or you lose some of your points, maybe 10% of your current score for each demolished house.

There are so many options for giving the game a greater depth without losing the main game philosophy/idea. If only the devs would want it...

And the problem of "infinitely long running games" could be easily avoided if the output of packages rises a certain percentage per week, like 2% or 5% maybe. At some point it would become simply impossible to handle that amount as the numbers of houses = cars are limited on a limited map.