#endless mode

[chenxisolos]

IN HONOR OF SOUP UPDATE COMING SOON so there will no longer be only 5 unknowns

[satriaproto]

Only in TDX, Endless Mode is pure chaos!

[trolldecai]

freddy fazbear

[radio-on-a-motorway]

tokyo, classic to endless

21 July 2023

one thing that i have not tried is to play a map in classic mode then pick up where I left off in endless. the removal of time pressure surprised me: with a few road network fixes, the one that i built with the restraints of classic mode works, and it works well. the limitations of classic would just render some ideas for the network unfit, as I have ran out of road tiles as early as week 4.

take a look at this first snapshot of Tokyo under Milestone 29: most of the network was from classic mode, except the presence of all motorways. Especially with the reroute that Motorways 5 and 6 added, I cruised through multiple milestones, as the bulk of yellow traffic has caused major backups in the middle/lower-left side of the map.

GIF Replay

and there comes the mistake that led to me being stuck at milestone 36, where I stopped playing. to stop the road network that connects to the red center on the middle island from backing up the bulk of blue traffic, i added a bypass to the bridge on the island. and along with other minor changes, it shifted all blue traffic to the bypass, creating heavy traffic along the region. it dragged the journey completion rate down, hence the need to stop at milestone 36.

stopped at: milestone 36

GIF Replay

[cesium-sheep]

mystery solved: in order to unlock eternal mode for a level in we love katamari reroll, you have to complete the other versions of that level first, and it's only certain levels. (so far I've got elephant and bird which is labeled as endless 3, I haven't finished going through them all.)

[tampire]

Orochi obliterates Omega Rugal

[magicmalcolm]

Okay, this is the best ending to a quest ever.

[radio-on-a-motorway]

warsaw, endless

18 July 2023

in honor of Lovejoy's Warsaw from wu&io, i played the Mini Motorways map of Warsaw!

with the complexity of Warsaw coming from its abundance of rivers but not as cut off as lisbon, the challenge comes down to road network efficiency, i.e. ensuring that different colored cars can reach their destination without being backed up.

while ensuring that certain colors are separate from the road network (in the case of green, and to some level, orange) remain the key to peak efficiency, it becomes a challenge when the game naturally combines different colors.

we come from this: GIF replay of a pre-Milestone 20 Warsaw

to eventually, this:

stopped at: milestone 29

GIF replay

see the Os and Ps? While playing, I noticed that having dummy roads on empty areas do not spawn random colors, so to control the game from being crazy, some Os and Ps were added to keep crucially separated parts separate.