Going from top 20 to top 100 overnight is rough, and it's all the patch's fault! We spend this episode reclaiming our ranks and achieving a new personal best on Rio de Janeiro!
I appreciate the retro you did at the end. I hadn’t thought to take time after and analyze what happened, but I totally see the learning opportunity. Thank you for sharing with us!
You using my name as a short-name for retrospective threw me for a loop, but I figured it out! Always do a retrospective, it's 100% the best way to learn from your mistakes! :)
Voids are scary, I'm glad I can help plug some of it up for you! And as much as I like your attention, I hope you find lots of healthy ways to fill those holes up in your life! Cheers mate, enjoy your stay, for as long as it is :)
You probably noticed this later on, but the cars don't need to go all the way to their colored side of the dual spawns. Immediately after you saw the two going to their opposite sides I kept watching and it is pretty random where they pull in.
Yeah... not my brighest moment. I'd like to spend some time watching the cars (whenever I actually have time to do that), because I'd wager that there is a pattern of some sort that favours the left or right, but it definitely just becomes pseudo-random once 20 cars are all trying to get a parking spot.
Every time I check your channel, your subs are going up! Keep up the great content and congrats on the PB...so close to getting one of those ridiculous scores!!!
It's surreal how fast the growth is right now, if it keeps at the current exponential growth pace, I'll double my subs every week LOL It's def gonna slow down eventually though... r-right?
Interesting, ironic how distant connectivity can kill. Perhaps a little more flexibility in routes within housing, rather than absolute segregation would help? Many houses can feed directly onto 1 road without issue, as dest car demand queues automatically. So maybe collector road design linking first roads to 2 exits (allowing local emergency flexibility) won't clog up, and maximise the total regional pool of cars serving the close dests. I really like seeing your slip way, with feeder roundabouts for round dests, it orders the traffic before entering so max flow is achievable. It confirmed an idea I worked out about maxing flow into them, so much better than cramped connection with space used at the housing feeder end. At about 14:20, the junction with a blue 3 house minor side road, joining a stream of faster main road red traffic, is where traffic lights can speed traffic a little. But as a motorway fed in at the other end, the benefit is moot. Unlike real roads, side road traffic doesn't get stuck unable to join the main road. You've really demonstrated and explained very well, extremely rational. I just watched the same challenge with someone that likes roundabouts near houses with several feeder roads. The score was high, but it seemed to rely on good fortune, with a red colour shortage addressed more by luck than judgement, no way was it going infinite.
I'm fairly certain that the weekly and daily challenges always use the same RNG seed, meaning everybody gets the exact same challenge, and the only reasons spawns would differ between playthroughs is if you place roads in different places. So theoretically, I should be able to get this exact same score or very similar (not sure if the pips spawning is always the same) by following what you did in the video.
I'd have to guess that as well, just based off of what they intend to do with the leaderboards: it'd be silly to have a different seed for each player. Theoretically someone could follow this video and just not connect the road that I did and score a higher point total than me!
From my observati9ons of the game it appears to be totally random where the cars will park in the double car parks. It seems to not be governed by their point of entry nor the colour of the building they are associated with.
Is a score of 2k to 3k good? I just discovered the game this week and played a bit. It's amazing. :) I've seen scores in the +10k, so I assume there is a ton to still learn.
Based on the Steam achievements, I'd say you're doing pretty good if you can get to 2K+. After that, there's a bit of a learning curve to get about ~4K, and then another one to get past ~7-8K. After that, you're going infinite and just kind of wait until the game can't keep up with itself anymore or you make a mistake! Edit: Weeklies and dailies are much harder though, so I'd aim closer to 2-4K as a top tier score... but you can always check leaderboards to gauge the week :)
@@Retroflux Yeah I checked my scores and it seems 2k to 4k is a hard cap for me at the moment and it really goes to show that the very start of the game has to be as close to perfect as possible if you want to achieve a +4k score. And yes, daily and weekly is far more hard! (except when you get 9 motorways right at the start though^^)
You are correct that maps have data on each tile, saying which colour houses can spawn. Dests have I believe another mask, creating the zoning. This is explained in the developer video and explains how say Beijing plays so different to LA. The patch might explain how I was able to have v. close housing, I'd not seen before, probably when there's limited possiblities the map rules are relaxed, shown by the singletons popping up in crowded maps
Happen to have a link to that video on masks/seed data? That sounds like a very interesting watch! I didn't see anything in the patch notes about allowing close spawns, but it could just be a byproduct of other changes. Will be interesting to see if it starts happening more and more!
I think it's just random where the cars park at in the double shop thing. Actually lost a game because I got super unlucky for a few seconds and it got clogged up.
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