seriousmods wrote: ↑26 Jun 2022 01:20
Getting it right should have been a high priority, but SCS likes to pack in lots of decorative details which make the map pretty but often crowd things with filler. There should be a better balance.
You wanna do this again? Let’s go!
Wyoming has 10 cities, half of which is along I-80. I-80 is fairly straight. This is as compared with I-70 in Colorado which has almost the same end-to-end distance but has less cities and way too twisty. Twisty roads can be easily manipulated compared to straight one and hence either a lot of content could be packed and/or the important ones can be shown in a much better scale. Just see how many things SCS managed to include in I-80:
Echo-Evanston ports of entry
Evanston
Exit to Alpine
Highway to heaven
Twin tunnels
Little America truck stop
Exit to US-191
Rock Springs
A little breathing room because Rawlins is far anyway
Rawlins
Sinclair+Little breathing room
Laramie
Lincoln Memorial
Cheyenne
It’s the same distance/area they managed to include these:
Long road-CO point of entry
Fruita
Grand Junction
Long road with some scenic views
Glenwood Springs
Glenwood Canyon-hanging dam
Exit to Alamosa
A sufficiently long uphill
Eisenhower-Johnson tunnel
Exit to I-76
Exit to I-25
Denver-Aurora
Some breathing room
Limon
Some breathing room
Burlington
They did not miss the key features of I-80 in Wyoming. I-70 did not have a lot of cities but did have noteworthy scenery that cannot be underrepresented, so they did justice to both the cases here. Mapping is not a ‘one approach fits all’ problem. Density of content matters.
That said, the rest of the state is vast; very vast. And to answer someone else’s question, I think Wyoming is the best DLC so far. Now that Cody will also be in, hopefully if Beartooth also makes into Montana, it’s a masterpiece.