Bowser wrote: all you will do is make it a punishment for those that thought big and made a Van.
I continue to second this, and his priorly expressed sentiments. If anything, these ambitious projects with vast investments to boost Cantr's economies based on valid information (i.e. how operable a vehicle is on a certain road) should be rewarded, not stolen from.... I can understand cantrians getting hungrier and eating more, but the impact of my characters not being able to drive their vehicles on the same roads would merely be absurd. I think a little laissez-faire on the part of the RD would be better than doing harm by stifling Cantr's economical bit of the game's society simulating function.
The simulation is provided not necessarily through realism, and I quote the creator, Jos Elkink, in the recent Webzine interview saying, "The current total mix in Cantr, with some societies looking like the Stone Age and others having modern institutions I actually find the most interesting, and I am not really bothered with the fact that it is not very historically accurate. It's rather irrelevant." Not only that, but I don't see how the game is made more 'realistic' by having vans that have long used certain roads no longer be able to use them anymore.
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This compromise here is the only acceptable one I see in the topic, if the need really is there to change the impact on vehicles. However, I still don't see the need necessarily having played for 3 odd real life years and having played it fine without these changes. And the only reason I find this compromise acceptable is because of how long it will be until weather is implemented.How about we hold off on this till weather gets implemented, then restrict the road used further in less than ideal conditions. Leave the current rules in place to represent a clear dry road/path. Most any motor vehicle should have no problem with a clean dry dirt(sand) road. If there was any significant rain or snow in the last couple days, that all changes. The roads could have discriptors added to them such as Wet, Washed Out, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Ice, and travel for vehicles would be reduced based on type of vehicle. Also new vehicles could be introduced like the snowmobile that could only be used on snow.
