Thanks, I think it will end up being pretty inaccurate but parts of it could be pretty close to reality. We'll have to see.flight50 wrote: ↑15 Aug 2022 01:56 After looking everything over, not bad. I'd be content with that road layout. The only road that I see missing that I hope makes the game is US-75 from Dallas to McAlester. At least North of town center Dallas to US-70 to a scenic Durant. Then go East or West from there. I like the overall density in both states though. Nicely done. If you got 85% or better accuracy, that would be sweet. Try discovering all that in a weekend, lol. I'm sure someone will but that's rushing thru the map big time.
I have no idea how I will discover Texas. Hard to do it in parts because of its shape and vastness. I think I'll discover all cities along the major interstates first. I wanna see the 6 mega cities asap. Then I'll branch out. First trip will be coming from Helena to Austin. That trip I know for sure. I think I'll take the lonnnng way in though.
I-15 to I-90 to I-25 and go t thru El Paso so that I can stick to interstates only. Then I'll try to knock out the Texas Triangle first.
I'm sure my plan will change many times between now and Texas' release, but I'm thinking a good plan might be to park the night before in Las Cruces, then take I-10 through El Paso to US-90. Then take that all the way to San Antonio if possible and then I-10 to Houston where my HQ will most likely be. Once I'm in Houston, who knows, probably either head up to DFW or take jobs in east Texas.
Houston is the only city in Texas that I've actually been to, but that was over 10 years ago so should be fun seeing how much/little I recognize. I am thinking about maybe taking a weekend trip to San Antonio this fall however, so I might make that my HQ instead if that happens.
The way I do garages in ATS, is the following criteria:
a) one garage in each state capital
b) one garage in each state's largest city, if it is not the capital
c) one garage in each city that I have either been to IRL, passed by on the closest major road, or been in the airport
So for Texas I'll get garages in:
Austin - capital
Houston - visited there + largest city
Dallas - airport
Fort Worth - airport
At the moment, for Oklahoma I'll only be able to put a garage in Oklahoma City So Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana (3 garages each) and Texas (at least 4 garages assuming they don't leave Fort Worth out of the garage party) will have to make up for states in the future where I'll only be able to get 1 or 2 garages based on my criteria.
Thank you, I could see them ending I-40 at US-83 too, it just depends on how they want to handle it. It would definitely be nice to get more of I-40 past Amarillo. Having to wait until Oklahoma for that segment after having to wait so long for I-40 from Tucumcari to Amarillo would be a big tease.hangman005 wrote: ↑15 Aug 2022 13:53 @oldmanclippy Quite like that concept and the points @flight50 mentioned aswell. Probably the only change I'd make is shift OK/TX border and make I-40 and US83 the border. East of 83 and North of 40 can come with OK.