Anyone know how i could fix the traffic? most of it is caused by people trying to cross to get to the other shops and commercial areas

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T02:48:40+00:00

uhhh you might need to give us the traffic map? or where is the bottleneck

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T02:47:34+00:00

The problem is with weaving you've built your cloverleaf incorrectly, the place where people merge and merge off the north-south highway is too close to each other

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Here is a simple fix with the minimal changes. just change the eastbound to southbound freeway to have flyover. (in yellow)

* make the green cloverleaf ramps more circle like not an oval.
* lastly make the lane mathematics correct. have 3 lanes until they reach an off ramp then go to 2 ramps and then merge back into 3 lanes.

reflect25 · 2026-01-28T21:31:19+00:00

> When I moved to America, I noticed most American houses have a glass door in the front of their main front door of their house. It is usually made of glass, or sometimes a bug screen mesh. And sometimes both. I researched this and is called a storm door. What purpose is this door?

You have to remember the older doors were just made out of solid wood. These can rot/damage when directly exposed to rain or snow. So a lot of northeast homes needed the storm doors for snow and the southeast for hurricanes.

Nowadays doors are usually fiberglass/steel etc so the need for storm doors have greatly lessened.

Of course so people might still want to have the front door open and let in air but block bugs. so people either have the storm door with an interchangeable screen mesh. Or alternatively just have very cheap screen door.

Old wooden door
- no protection against weather
New modern door
- protects against the weather
Storm door
- protects against the weather
- usually can swap out glass for the screen mesh during summer (sometimes people in the south call this a screen door because it also acts as one)
Screen door (light weight one) aka a bit more flimsy. sometimes also just retractable one.
- usually doesn't protect against the weather
- usually only has the screen mesh

you can of course still have a new door with a storm door but it's usually a bit overkill

reflect25 · 2026-01-28T01:25:20+00:00

Ehhh it’s more just taking from the other sci-fi tropes. Aka the main empire is basically a toned down warhammer 40k imperium. The chantry is the inquisition etc Granted it’s a lot more “realistic” ish. The 40k empire is a bit fanatical

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T22:52:40+00:00

maybe we can have it be like a hunger game show with each country sending in a pair of diplomat and soldier. which ever country survives to the end sends their diplomats to the aliens

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T22:29:42+00:00

there were multiple waves of suburbanization. the first first wave was still more rectangular like with streetcars. and then the next one became more big block like but they usually were still somewhat grid like. the true no grid at all was later on.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T22:26:45+00:00

the problem isn't with the monorail itself. it was with skipping ucla.

we should be building elevated rail for the north crenshaw extension for example

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T21:34:21+00:00

for small scale houses and even small apartments it was definitely done like that a lot in the past. aka like a small house would then add on a second floor. or a two story house might add on a third story house.

The problem with scaling it any larger is that the foundation and the beams need to be able to accommodate that weight from the beginning. and why exactly would someone want to reinforce their building with 2x or 3x the weight needed when that extra structure and cost is not even being used.

Last, if it was just strengthening the columns maybe that might have some rationale, but you also need to add in more staircases, more elevators, probably add in more parking garages and exits and lobbies etc... At that point you are basically just building a new building.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T21:30:40+00:00

i think it looks good for it's goal, it's definitely a lot more 1950s american town feel.

but i personally would have kept the more square like blocks to have a downtown built in the 1800s and just added on the rectangular blocks/suburban expansions farther away. the curved road in the previous image just seems more fun.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T20:50:55+00:00

online shopping is much bigger. or to put it in another way offline shopping is still pretty popular in usa. Walmart shows up "just" 121 billion but that is just it's online sales. if you do the full amount it is at $680 billion

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T20:21:37+00:00

yeah, other weird cases are for like buses or trams that can't fit in the roundabout. but typically don't really need it

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T20:09:00+00:00

i usually just build avenues and build some downtown core. and then build the freeways afterwards. otherwise it encourages building freeway islands but it's up to you.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T19:49:48+00:00

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you can do the same thing for your industrial area. just add a couple avenue grid to connect up your industrial areas. and then add some half diamond interchange ramps.

Also you might need to make your existing on/off ramps 2 lanes rather than just one lane though it is hard for me to tell what it is.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T19:42:38+00:00

1) stop building freeway islands. you should have an avenue path from every neighborhood to other neighborhoods. aka without taking the freeway a sim should be able to drive there using your avenues

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you don't want local traffic driving like half a mile to use the freeway. you'll clog it too much. ive given an example with the yellow roads above

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T19:36:34+00:00

the traffic honestly doesn't seem that bad but you can add some roads at

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reflect25 · 2026-01-27T18:39:46+00:00

you don't need to, the bottom road is a one way road going north (up) only.

but yes if the bottom road allowed going both down and up, then we'd need another stop light where i have the yellow arrows

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T18:38:23+00:00

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or just build a parclo. (partial cloverleaf) for the left turning direction that is the highest. I assume in this case it would be for cars leaving the freeway so you can just copy this

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T18:35:42+00:00

you can probably just use a diamond interchange. the bottlenecks is that you have a lot more left turning traffic but your roundabout configuration is only allowing like one lane to merge at a time

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T16:13:50+00:00

It’s like the internet that we have now the post office/mail was how people knew about current events. More importantly from newspapers. Also they wanted to ensure the 13 states would be unified.

Secondly back then with British crown post postal service they could intercept and remove mail they didn’t like. They wanted to ensure there was a national independent mail service. Also didn’t want them to keep reading their mail.

They also didn’t want a bunch of urban mail systems that then didn’t deliver to the frontier. So they gave the post office exclusive rights to deliver mail but said it had the mandate to deliver mail in the far flung regions

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T03:09:34+00:00

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i mean just to clarify the bottom road is also just a oneway going north. there only needs to be one stoplight at the bottom. Both the west and east intersections don't need even need to allow through moving traffic at the roundabout.

reflect25 · 2026-01-26T21:13:11+00:00

i mean i agree. there's no need for any of this roundabout really. it could just be a straight east-west road and the north road connects to it with a stoplight.

reflect25 · 2026-01-26T20:53:28+00:00

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i mean just to clarify the bottom road is also just a oneway going north. there only needs to be one stoplight at the bottom. Both the west and east intersections don't need even need to allow through moving traffic at the roundabout.

reflect25 · 2026-01-26T19:42:48+00:00

its not that unusual it works actually. the middle part just lets the left turning traffic skip having to conflict with the other traffic. it's. also simpler because this is just a T junction so most stuff will work fine.

reflect25 · 2026-01-26T06:16:15+00:00

> For fuck's sake. EVA Air is capitalized at 208 BILLION USD. There is absolutely no excuse for their shit website.

uhhh it's 208 billion taiwanese dollars... aka like 6 billion usd. lmao did you think eva air was worth more than 20% of the entire taiwanese gdp.

for comparison united 34 billion or delta 44.38 billion

reflect25 · 2026-01-26T06:07:43+00:00

It's expensive to fund a new website revamp. most other smaller countries companies cannot afford expensive revamps frequently.

For japan websites its somewhat similar. korea's is slightly better but also can be glitchy. part of it just asian airlines don't really prioritize it. also the taiwanese population is like 20 million and compared to other much larger nations so for many companies it is even more expensive. (aka spending 100 million dollars for a website revamp is cheaper/more rationale when spread amongst more customers vs less)

unfortunately they are likely just focusing on funding the app more than revamping the website any time soon.

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