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What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance

42 points · 29 comments · rustoo

  1. 3stacks · · focus · HN ↗
    Excellent. I am looking for better strategies for Cities Skylines
    1. monster_truck · · focus · HN ↗
      Cities Skylines is not a game that rewards strategy, because of how it works it is primarily about defending against and exploiting the simulation's deficiencies
      1. 3stacks · · focus · HN ↗
        It's definitely a drag battling cars most of the time. The path optimisation that forces them to all choose 1 lane when 3 lanes are available and go to the same direction is so annoying.

        I would like a better alternative but eh, it's just spare time fun thing

        1. monster_truck · · focus · HN ↗
          I&#x27;ve been working on such an alternative for about 9 months now :) Here&#x27;s a peek of one of the utilities for evaluating the building gen and a very small slice of the (~DOT compliant) roads, I&#x27;m still messing with the clouds <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;gtmdj4D.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;gtmdj4D.png
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