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By the way, I recently laid out all the S6 Engineering roads and tiles I have to see how much area I could cover:



This is the small-scale roads and plates.

My only real 'issue' is that the plates and roads make a grid so there's going to be a lot of big, wide fire-lanes. I've been considering how to do a 'traffic circle' style tile without much success (as it would need to be compatible and fit within S6's manufacturing capabilities. So far my best idea is a single plate roughly 'square't hat has a dimension equal to two short tiles and a road width. The tile is rounded in a sort of 'clover leaf' design to mate with neighboring junctions.


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Here's some bad ASCII art to demonstrate:

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The corner tiles would actually be 'l' shapes as the inside would be a roundabout/traffic circle arrangement.

By my math this piece would be about 25cm square, or 10 inches. Possibly too big for the machines.

My other options to block some lines of fire would be to model some roads with debris ont hem... Possibly combine a road and tile such that it has a collapsed building that has spilled over to the adjoining road, blocking the road.




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Still, these roads are very neat and I can cover a pretty impressive area. Other neat widgets would be some sort of freeway/raised road kit (even just the ramp pieces) and anything that (as above) helps sneakily break up the 'grid' a bit.