in this week's challenge
where is the error ?
or what do you think is the error ?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2722564949

Originally posted by III:

Yes, that's right. But as I remember, I was out of roads as well...

that's why playing in pause is then the only option, more thinking than actually playing

& in a case of lack of roads you have to canibalise the roads you have layed out & scrap those where no car is driving or sometimes even where a destination has quite a lot cars so it can survive till sunday with not enough

here some suggestions how i would have maybe canibalised your case
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2727893423
the questionsmark is where it depends how urgent such a change was, since maybe just the shorter route would have been enough
you have in any case to remember, the shorter & straighter the route the less cars you need for the same number of pings

Originally posted by III:

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So good, that I had infinite bridges! Ha! Two puny bridges did I build.
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there was once a many motorways challenge, where i had only one or two appear as weekly upgrade, that was helpful

Originally posted by III:

My LA game:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725015114

what i noticed lately is that i have to connect all available houses, if i only somehow can, unless there is an oversupply of a color, but usually there is rather not enough houses, so i have to connect even one singular house to survive a destination uptick
in your case, you have there 3 black unconnected houses which would have helped you to survive till next sunday

Originally posted by spielerinchen:

Originally posted by III:

My LA game:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725015114

what i noticed lately is that i have to connect all available houses, if i only somehow can, unless there is an oversupply of a color, but usually there is rather not enough houses, so i have to connect even one singular house to survive a destination uptick
in your case, you have there 3 black unconnected houses which would have helped you to survive till next sunday

Yes, that's right. But as I remember, I was out of roads as well...

I would not have connected the three green houses on the far right. They inevitably cause heavy traffic at the yellow shop and the green shop.

I also find the 4-way X intersection with green and blue very risky.

Also worth noting:
I think, there are too many blue cars heading north from the green shop towards the roundabout. I see at least seven (!) blue cars that shouldn't be going there the super long way at all. They can only drive along there because at the top of the blue-green roundabout there is a connection of circles to the right.

Besides that, nicely connected!

How do you manage to get the same coloured house line up so perfectly straight in lines? (yellow houses at top right, yellow and blue houses in the centre) Do you do that with blocking around a store?

Originally posted by III:

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I think, there are too many blue cars heading north from the green shop towards the roundabout. I see at least seven (!) blue cars that shouldn't be going there the super long way at all. They can only drive along there because at the top of the blue-green roundabout there is a connection of circles to the right.

congrats !
you've spotted it
i didn't notice that exact interconnection until it was over

in a case of an interconnection the cars always drive like crazy where the next call is, even the longest way, as in this case, clog up the roads, the intersections, the roundabouts & in the end abandon what's necessary - so - segregation even per destination, not only color

Besides that, nicely connected!

How do you manage to get the same coloured house line up so perfectly straight in lines? (yellow houses at top right, yellow and blue houses in the centre) Do you do that with blocking around a store?

i spawnblock behind two houses which spawn next to each other
if i direct the houses diagonal into a road, they quite often start to spawn along the road

i am not very good with how houses spawn, some players are way better to predict how & where houses spawn & can tweak higher cluster efficiency than me. i have often problems with houses spawned on two sides of a road connecting a different destination

I played it today as well. Boy, that was a messy game.

So good, that I had infinite bridges! Ha! Two puny bridges did I build.

I had to remove a highway twice in order to rescue three stores (the blue megastore and the top centre brown megastore and the orange store on the left) before killing the game.

I think my main mistake was too long distances with the highways, that might have killed it.

And too many fractured spawn locations of the houses. No friendly AI for me today...

I really hate it when one single house between the store make it impossible to place a roundabout. Maybe I should block 3x3 locations for roundabouts sooner.

Yours was far better!

Do you know how I can add a screen shot?

Originally posted by III:

Do you know how I can add a screen shot?

Steam client / upper UI View / in the pop up View Online Library / click the screenshot you wanna add / mark & copy the screenshot address above the screenshot / paste to your post

Originally posted by III:

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I really hate it when one single house between the store make it impossible to place a roundabout. Maybe I should block 3x3 locations for roundabouts sooner. ...

yeah, i often spawnblock the area where i think a roundabout would help, if you have the roads, do it asap

My LA game:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725015114