August 29th, 2018 at 7:05 AM
Brian, this is a belated reply to your post of August 19th about ESURE / U - Rail series.
I'll repeat what I remember having said a long time ago about the ESURE project. The concept was brillant, but it wasn't sufficiently developed, because of Steve's incipient illness. The result is that there are too few pieces, severely limiting the scope of its use. Sofar I was able to implement it only in one single city, in a situation where the layout of the roads and of the subway network allowed placing ESURE pieces in a convenient way.
In the example that you showed in your pictures, the visible portion of u-rail entails 3 tiles of unconnected road, something that is a no-no in my cities. I assume that the same occurs on the other side of the highway that is crossed by a portion of subway. This was set up in that way to have an occurence of the use of ESURE, but of course the same purpose (the railway crossing the highway) could have been achieved with 2 ramps and a portion of elevated railway over the highway.
I regret that ESURE wasn't developed more fully, because it would have been very handy, in particular, to overcome the limitations of the subway implementation, about which I'll post very shortly in my Talaran CJ.
I'll repeat what I remember having said a long time ago about the ESURE project. The concept was brillant, but it wasn't sufficiently developed, because of Steve's incipient illness. The result is that there are too few pieces, severely limiting the scope of its use. Sofar I was able to implement it only in one single city, in a situation where the layout of the roads and of the subway network allowed placing ESURE pieces in a convenient way.
In the example that you showed in your pictures, the visible portion of u-rail entails 3 tiles of unconnected road, something that is a no-no in my cities. I assume that the same occurs on the other side of the highway that is crossed by a portion of subway. This was set up in that way to have an occurence of the use of ESURE, but of course the same purpose (the railway crossing the highway) could have been achieved with 2 ramps and a portion of elevated railway over the highway.
I regret that ESURE wasn't developed more fully, because it would have been very handy, in particular, to overcome the limitations of the subway implementation, about which I'll post very shortly in my Talaran CJ.
