Topic: Steep roads

I have a question about steep (red and yellow marker) roads. The help says that the speed down is faster and up slower. Do they cancel out? Are all grades equal speed when traffic goes equally both ways? In other words does it take as much time to go back and forth over a green road as it does a red road?

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If I'm not mistaken this effect also occurs in real physics : )

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Nordfriese wrote:

I've always wondered about this as well

According to the code, the walking-time along a slope (positive means up, negative means down) is calculated as cost = BASE_COST_PER_FIELD * f with ``` f = 1.0 + d(Slope) - d(0) d = (Slope + SLOPE_COST_STEPS) * (Slope + SLOPE_COST_STEPS - 1) / (2 * SLOPE_COST_DIVISOR)

BASE_COST_PER_FIELD = 1800 ms SLOPE_COST_DIVISOR = 50 SLOPE_COST_STEPS = 8 ```

This gives the following results (in milliseconds):

-5	-4	-3	-2	-1	0	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5
900	1008	1152	1332	1548	1800	2088	2412	2772	3168	3600

And the accumulated sums (ms):

0	1	2	3	4	5
3600	3636	3744	3924	4176	4500

Meaning that steeper roads are less efficient.

(The red slope indicator is used to indicate slopes of 4 and greater; green for 1 and less; yellow in-between.)

We can extend such interesting logical things. I like them very much and it gives a good gamneplay though its very easy change but moving speed.

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