barnacleboy

After reading the next blog entry concerning some guy from IGN I think this is a April fool's blog...

Love the last video. Can't wait for tomorrow! Is it possible to build the rail overpass over roads or avenues in the city too or is this region exclusive?

Yeah, it's the same old issue that bothers me since the first screenshots were released and the new zoning system was introduced. I would prefer to have the same road types like in SC4 RH: street, road, avenue, highway. Now we have the nice but rural dirt roads, the streets from SC4 without an option of traffic lights, a bunch of different avenues and no highways...

I wasn't really excited about the game until Dirk mentioned this feature in the Simtropolis review. But as everyone from the devs is ignoring questions about overpasses lately you can bet that they've cancelled them silently...

That regional freeway is horrible. Why is there no direct link between the city in the center to its neighbouring city?! A single freeway exit means that your main road to the freeway is 24/7 congested...

Is there any news concerning the overpasses? I've seen the devs answered a lot of questions on the forums these days, but no one commented on the "no overpasses without hills" issue that was raised a few days before christmas... I guess Maxis still doesn't know if they get the feature into the game until March and hope they haven't cancelled it already...

Have you read Guillaume's post in the "New screenshots" thread ()? Seems there are no elevated roads as long as you are not starting the dragging of the road not from a hill... So I guess the so called three level overpasses Dirk has told about have been cancelled...

That's something I wanted to do but it doesn't looks like it's going to happen Wow, that's a bummer. Since Simtropolis mentioned the possibility to build three level overpasses I was very excited for the game. So the only progress from the SC4 RH road tool is the curved roads mode?!

Ha ha, I had a feeling you'd be asking that. I'll try to capture a viaduct with networks crossing it, how about that? Yes! We can not wait. Here you go: https://twitter.com/...0623488/photo/1 Is it possible to connect ramps with each other so that you can make elevated intersections?

Source: http://www.reddit.co..._dev_team_amaa/ (Kip) So is there a real European style one-way-roundabout or just the avenue roundabout depicted in Guillaume's screenshot from last week (https://twitter.com/...3801984/photo/1)?

The default train station looks a lot like the Amtrak one in Emeryville, just a block away from our office. Does "default" mean that there are a bunch of different train stations or does it mean you will be able to create your own train stations in a BAT-like tool in the future? Or is the train station another upgradable ploppable? I also would like to see interchanges, overpasses or tunnels for rails or streets!

I would like to see some train screenshots. Are there any huge train stations in the game like NY central or London's St Pancras?

There's also a highway running through one of the city tiles, which means we'll need to build an on/off ramp I wish we could, but I don't think so. When you look at the video closely, you can see that the highway is downgraded to an avenue right after the highway enters the city limits (1:57)...

I've seen no streets in the gameplay video (only roads, avenues and two types still to be revealed), but I remember this quote from some Maxis guy...

It's looks kinda stupid that you only have one major road connection into your city. Any city or even a tiny village has more than one road connection to the rest of the world.