Challenge 1

[mattb325]

Bordertown Challenge No 1: Road and Rail

"Never play with your food" was a mantra my mothers generation used often.

Either my Road Engineer was not of that generation or simply didn't listen... for when I charged him with the design of Route 10, he put half of his spaghetti lunch all over the map and gesticulated incoherently flicking bolognese sauce all over the edges of each of the city borders....



All I had asked for was to ensure that enough room was left for a small town/suburban area at Tile B and space for an industrial area at Tile I.

He of course, reminded me that I had waved my hands around wildly when instructing the forest regeneration program in the first challenge, so, as he smugly pointed out - why couldn't he use spaghetti to work out transport?

Luckily the rail engineer, being the train-spotting type, had witnessed none of this (he was busy photographing some H series at the time) and ensured that I received a basic, no-nonsense railway line to transport sims from A to B (or "A to M" as it were) with the minimal amount of twists and turns.



As you can see, Tile E shows both rail and road bridges as they cross the two main rivers of what will be the heart of the new Capital.

[mightygoose]

nice forward thinking on your layout, i still cannot get over how good your tree planting is....

[mrbisonm]

Now that you posted your pictures, you are not allowed to change anything anymore. We made copies and judge the originals only.

We also will not make any comments in this thread besides the judging once it is finished by Wednesday next week, but we will make useful and friendly comments in your regular thread of GRV. Points will be given 3 to 4 days after the challenge is finished and will be posted in the Pointage Sheet.
Also your points only together with an explanation and comments why we gave you these points, will be posted here at the end of this challenge.

mrb/lynncanox

[jmyers2043]

Hey Matt!

The antics of your road engineer gave me good chuckle.

Good Luck

[Rayden]

Nice work Matt!  I can see the spaghetti, but where is all the bolognese flickered?

[quackmofro]

Well Matt, I can't argue with the fact that your road engie has good taste in cuisine.

His competency in his actual field of work is questionable, though.

Nice work, by the way.

[newsimaddict]

I like your road winding up into tile B - I can see it as being very picturesque as time passes by. Great job!

[mrbisonm]

First of all let us congratulate You. You have made it through the first Mayor's test.
On the picture below, circles with letters will indicate what was importantin your region for this challenge. If we say we don't like or we like, it doesn't mean that it's the same for others. We are judging to our lknowledge and what would be the most logical thing to do in our opinion, remember this.

A.  Excellent choice for a rivercrossing.
B.  You have been a little egoistic here, thinking of your advantage than the budget to have made a big detour like this with your road. Although it will give the mayor and the citizens an advantage later, it was done with little respect for the Governors budget.
C.  This isn't too bad because you didn't use three bridges to cross the river, but still a double bridge is a little more expensive than a single one.
D.  Good choice for both bridges.

Quite good mayoring, even with some minor errors and miscalculations concerning the budget. Congratulations, very good job and good luck with challenge 2.

Lynn and Fred