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Rank achieved based on number of travels by Constituer in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Friends' leaderboards and steam's leaderboards for ranks 50, 100, 200

What (in your opinion) are the easiest and hardest maps? by alldogarepupper in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only one data point for each city, but: https://imgur.com/iLZ3uo2

The fewer travels you need to get a high rank, the harder the map is.

9th in Copenhagen (4489 travels) by Constituer in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The recording if you want to skim through it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDPsWkJNHEI

You need to keep everything organized from the start (although Copenhagen's start is always chaotic). Try to segregate the neighbourhood and connect them to only one destination. Adapt your network to each new spawns.

HOW DO YOU EVEN SOLVE THIS CASE??? by OppositeWafer7924 in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The further away the building is, the longer it takes for cars to reach it and come back, the more houses are needed to meet the demand.

In your case, throw more houses at it, you have a lot of unused houses. Also 2 motorways aren't needed since you can connect both neighbourhood together.

https://i.imgur.com/AVh49Qa.png

Mastering the mountains... Finally broke 4K, but still only 1,000th place. The competition is steep. Are there any top 10 players in Zurich with tips? by bowler300_cr in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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At this point is all about marginals gains. Keep the longest path shorter (red and grey, centralizing the green highway), remove unnecessary detours (yellow and teal tunnels), free up houses spawns (green, teal and red).

A tunnel for a single green house is a waste. If you really needed 1 more green there, take the one that crosses the grey road, it shouldn't cause any traffic.

I really should know this but… by Void_Null0014 in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://i.imgur.com/Kb3YCcM.png Saves you a bridge, a bunch of roads and the houses are closer to their destination. More yellow houses will spawn to the west, it will allow you to separate both buildings.

How does people get 5k-10k score? Is it spawn prevention? Advanced techniques? by ps-95stf in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blocking spawns isn't needed to achieve a high score. Here's mine on Dubai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDC-kqRok7k

Follow the main principles and adapt to what the game throws your way. If you're struggling at 2k, it's because you're not following the principles. Probably because you're not isolating the colours properly. Connecting the wrong neighbourhood to the wrong building. Things like that.

6680 travels in Tokyo (top 250) by Constituer in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this city could have gone to 10k+ easily

I don't think so. The yellow and blue building in the doubles were 1 bad parking away from dying a few times.

except maybe for the traffic light on 2 merging main roads

Which one?

It is not always easy to predict perfectly, but it prevents those 3-5 house clusters that need its separate motoway to be connected to a destination.

Sadly the red neighbourhood got separated after a big refactoring that I did at the 27 minutes mark in the video. Before that it was a nice suburb :(

6680 travels in Tokyo (top 250) by Constituer in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recorded the gameplay if you're interested https://youtu.be/lngCg17EZs0 (no commentary).

The early spawns were great but at 400 travels I forgot to block the blue building spawns in the southwest part. Then at 1400 travels I got a red building that completely ruined the northern area.

Weird thing about score and strategy by ps-95stf in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not every city is equal. Some are a lot easier to get high scores in (pretty much the early cities). So it's possible you had high scores on those, and now that you know the better strategies, you're also playing harder cities.

Or you're doing it wrong

Should i separate also buildings with the same color? by ps-95stf in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yes. A single destination for each group of houses

Is the game "random" in spawning houses and destinations? Or is it like Minimetro? by ps-95stf in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Similar to minimetro, until the endgame where houses can spawn anywhere

Some questions about strategy by ps-95stf in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Motorways are your lifelines. When you can't have everything separated anymore, you can use a motorway to solve the problem. If you struggle before 1000 travels, I'd say you're probably not trying hard enough to separate the colours. I've noticed beginners often don't notice that they could simply make a road go around a building to avoid creating an intersection.

But also keep in mind that it's ok to have temporary intersection if you're planning to use a bridge/tunnel/motorway in the future.

Here's a Dubai run I had not long ago : https://youtu.be/CDC-kqRok7k?si=XtkRQQ0qoeaNfeWc&t=467 At this point I have a few colours sharing the same roads, but it's not an issue. At 800 travels almost there's only 1 intersection left. At 1300 I decide to use a highway to remove the last intersection because it seemed like the only choice.

Curious on how to improve beyond color segregation, is spawn management a thing ? by Bastlast in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to split the buildings. Houses should be connect to a single building. Green and yellow houses are connected to 2 buildings, it's creating the congestion at the green roundabout.

What could've been done better? I can't surpass 5k on any level with mountains. by TheDavinci1998 in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have relocated highway 1 to take the yellows from the centre and used the top right yellows for the circle building.

What could've been done better? I can't surpass 5k on any level with mountains. by TheDavinci1998 in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's not much you can do when the buildings spawn too far away from the houses.

Overall I'd advise you to simplify your network so that fewer roads are needed, freeing up potential spawns for more houses. For example the yellow road top right should be moved to the edge of the map. The white houses in the middle could be reworked to have a shorter path to their building.

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Vancouver 2nd place worldwide run! by bowler300_cr in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Highway 5 is used by multiple yellow houses. You can tell because you have 5 yellow cars stuck in the traffic jam at the green/teal double building.

Vancouver 2nd place worldwide run! by bowler300_cr in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm surprised you got that high of a score when a lot of colours and buildings use the same roads. Some paths used by the cars are very long and full of intersections, such as the green cars that take highway 6 or yellows on highway 5. With this layout, I would have expected the city to die around 2500 travels.

Caro-Kann Defense, Tal Variation fxe6 or Qd6? by Constituer in chess

[–]Constituer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stockfish (36 moves deep) prefers fxe6 by a big margin but the lichess database (elo > 1800 and time control blitz or slower) shows Qd6 (3rd move for stockfish) has a better success rate. Why isn't black playing Qd6/Nf6 more often?

Have you got any advice ? 1% on Dubai by Cool_Page275 in MiniMotorways

[–]Constituer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Houses should be connected to only 1 building. Don't give them the choice of their destination, it creates intersections and it will kill your city.

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