dcujerbil

Actually I would consider the Pennsylvania Turnpike a rural road (its two lanes each direction the entire length of the state) and it is a toll road. I think most of the toll roads in this northeastern area (outside of I-95) are more like rural roads than highways. The main reason they are used as toll roads is because it offsets the cost of building them though places that have no income to pay for the maintenence of the road (instead of making it entirely subsidized but state taxes). Anyway that is just a little information since you may be from across the pond and unaware of some of the different road uses in the US.

well i might as well use this as my first post since I haven't seen anyone bring this up yet. I was playing sc4 a week or so back and i saw one of those "nonsense" messages in the news ticker thing that was kind of interesting. It said something to the effect of "'s weather deemed boring. Rain and thunder to be imported". I can't remember exactly what it said but that's basically what it said. So I would say these tools would most likely be in another EP that does import things like rain and other weather. Combine that with the different terrains and you got a logical EP.