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Is this the most efficient way to store 17 houses?
It’s called being optimal sweaty.
Sweety.
Optional sweaty is the perfect amount of perspiration to have upon one's person.
The misuse of the word is intentional and part of the joke. An artifact from reddit.
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The kinda shit I do in cities skylines when I get bored
Or cities skylines 2 because the grid system is shit and breaks if you sneezed in the last decade.
Is it still shit?
I was hoping it was going to do a No Man's Sky.
It’s getting much better. It’s not perfect yet. It’s not even as good as cities 1. But it’s much better than launch.
actually tho, flowing windy streets and roads are so much better.
- more interesting
- less of a drag track
- not depressing stroadie strips
- keeps people on main roads rather than just trying to cut through residential streets
- naturally manages driver attention
Less intersections where cars can crash into pedestrians or other vehicles
I wish, just check Atlanta - winding stroads as far as the eye can see
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Then there's Pittsburgh. It's like Boston but when you take a wrong turn you end up on the wrong side of a mighty river or two.
This guy yinzez
Welcome to everywhere else in the world that's not a fucking grid lol.
This isnt a computer where traces are made in 90 and 45° angles.
Reminds me of this place:
(I remember just walking to school and it felt weird walking on a "slanted" street lol)
Downtown Denver:
This is the part in Sim City where I restart.
Aw, now I miss Sim City 2000
Sim City 4 is the best version of the Sim City games, and is 75% off on GOG right now, $5 / £4.
Cities Skylines 1 is the best modern city builder, 3D and a lot of fun plus well designed. But only really worth it when it's on sale; lots of DLC and overpriced as a package when not on sale. Avoid Cities Skylines 2 - it's just not fun and hasn't been fixed - maybe they will one day fix but I doubt it 2.5 years in..
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At least with places like Denver and other western cities it's pretty straightforward how it happened - everything built along the river. Access to the river was key.
Being a boom/bust city means that a much later boom they adjusted.
Then even older cities (think Boston) grew before any opportunity at planning could happen.
Denver was two cities - Auraria (correction from Aurora thanks to @negativenull) and Denver. One was built to align with the river, the other with compass points and then they grew big enough to smush into each other and neither was willing to concede to the other.
Also Denver’s namesake, a Kansas politician, never even visited. It was a failed attempt to lure him here.
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How about a grid system that changes direction at every single avenue?
Still a better system than Boston, having navigated both MANY times. To call Boston's streets a "system" is an insult to the very concept of order.
Speaking as someone who has been living in towns with rivers for most of my life:
This is the way.
My experience clearly says that you will loose orientation and get confused the moment you go to a district that is not alligned with the riverbank.
Looks like everyone started a new road perpendicular to the shore line, and the mess occurred when the roads got long enough to meet.
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Idk why, but this is oddly satisfying to me.
Lol get fucking rotated
Where is this?
Edit: Found it! Jacksonville Beach, FL
30.280765 N 81.393002 W
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Someone followed true north, and someone followed magnetic?
Someone followed north and someone followed the coast line. This is in Jacksonville Beach, FL
Indianapolis built the central mile square of streets aligned with magnetic north, but then the rest of downtown aligned with true north. It’s almost aligned, which causes problems at that border.
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Ugh that grid pattern. Imagine living somewhere so uninspired.
Have you considered maybe it’s easier to navigate and plan a grid pattern? I wouldn’t mind uninspired street names like 1st, 2nd, 3rd St, crossways with N, O, P, Q Ave so you at least know which direction is which. Give me that chess board layout so I don’t need to pull up a map to navigate your city please. Car C1 takes Bar G5
Sure but you'll never encounter the magic of a crooked alley snaking its way through a maze of medieval building.
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Yes! I can get up so much speed on those straight roads! Blow through a few stop signs and I can easily drive all the way through a house!
Easy navigation isn’t relevant in a neighborhood of nothing but houses and play space, roads with curves are incredibly important to slow the flow of traffic
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There has to be some interesting history here.
A few other examples have been posted, but this is easily the wildest. It's not even the same aspect ratio of grid, or at a normal angle to the rest, or over a very significant area. (And they've still managed to tie it in reasonably well)
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I kinda like it. It's just neat enough.
A lot of old city plats follow the exact pattern of that square, so I'd be curious what the sequence of development was.
It's a Moiré!
Unrelated but,
Theres a section of Prince George Canada that all of a sudden does a big U. The story i was told is that back in the day there were two competing railway companies, and one of them bought enough influence that when the city was making roads to the other company, they instead made the roads bend back. 
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If anything a perfect grid would be mildly infuriating, it's more interesting this way
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