August 31st, 2018 at 6:28 AM
Brian, if you read my previous post attentively you can see that I made the following reference to ESURE:
"The ESURE project, which is currently being discussed in Brian's Transit Mania CJ, was started to overcome this 'one-level' limitation. Unfortunately it wasn't developed sufficiently to allow a wide-scale usage. I found extremely few situations in my cities where I could implement it in a 'natural' way."
In his documentation Steve mentioned a possible implementation of ESURE to creare "express subways", but this was only an example. ESURE can indeed be used to have 2 intersecting subway lines cross each other with an 'two-levels effect', in that one of the lines is transformed from subway to underground rail and back to subway, so that at the intersection you have a subway line crossing an underground railway, with no interference between both. I am entirely aware of this possibility, and as I wrote previously, I managed to use it in one city, where the layout of the roads and of the subway lines allowed it.
My point is that there are only a few pieces in ESURE, which make it difficult to implement such crossings, at least in the cities that I build. If I remember correctly it was Steve's intent to develop ESURE with more pieces, but this never happened, so that we are left with only a very partial implementation of what could have been a very useful add-on in the game.
"The ESURE project, which is currently being discussed in Brian's Transit Mania CJ, was started to overcome this 'one-level' limitation. Unfortunately it wasn't developed sufficiently to allow a wide-scale usage. I found extremely few situations in my cities where I could implement it in a 'natural' way."
In his documentation Steve mentioned a possible implementation of ESURE to creare "express subways", but this was only an example. ESURE can indeed be used to have 2 intersecting subway lines cross each other with an 'two-levels effect', in that one of the lines is transformed from subway to underground rail and back to subway, so that at the intersection you have a subway line crossing an underground railway, with no interference between both. I am entirely aware of this possibility, and as I wrote previously, I managed to use it in one city, where the layout of the roads and of the subway lines allowed it.
My point is that there are only a few pieces in ESURE, which make it difficult to implement such crossings, at least in the cities that I build. If I remember correctly it was Steve's intent to develop ESURE with more pieces, but this never happened, so that we are left with only a very partial implementation of what could have been a very useful add-on in the game.
