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Originally Posted by photon
Right, so weighting should be by capacity, most people know the general layout of major roads around them and that taking the shortest route to a major road and then taking that major road is better than snaking through residential roads all the way to your destination. Most of the time anyway.
And maybe only some congestion goes into it (i.e. some sims have their radio on in the car and hear about a clogged road).
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This was posted on the SimCity website yesterday:
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/ar...mcity-update-8
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We understand that when cars always take the shortest route between point A and point B there will be unavoidable (and illogical) traffic jams, so we are retuning these values to make the traffic flow more realistically. Guillaume Pierre (our lead scripter) talked a bit about the improvements that we are making to the traffic system in the game here. To dig a little deeper our roads will have a weighting system based on 25%, 50% and 75% capacity. As a road hits those marks it will become less and less appealing for other cars, increasing the likelihood of them taking an alternate path if one exists.
We are working on additional fixes with the pathing of our Agents and these changes will streamline the way that the simulation unfolds in your city. For instance, emergency vehicles will not get blocked in their garages and will move into empty lanes to get around traffic jams. We’re also working on preventing service vehicles from clumping up (for instance, only one fire truck will respond to a fire instead of two) and improving the way that Public Transportation operates in the city. We are currently testing a patch internally and hope to have it out to you soon.
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For me, I don't even think it's the regular flow of traffic that's an issue. But when tehre's an accident, and there are 4 firetrucks trying to get to the same spot, but all stuck in traffic with no way out, that's when things get out of hand. So if they can at least fix that for now, I'll be much happier.