Roads over water but no bridges

forgottenl33 wrote:
Don't know if this was discovered but when you put the dirt road over water and then put the regular road you get roads with no bridges

Neat. Thanks for reporting.

I was actually disappointed when placing my dirt roads over water building my Wild West town to realise that they don't have bridges on them. Dirt bridges would be cool, right? :mrgreen:

I don't know what you're describing here... You built a road. It only becomes a bridge if you put the water under it. This is not a road over water, there's land under it still.

Maybe you're describing what to me has been obvious since day one? And you just noticed it now? If so, hey glad you figured something out, i hope it helps with your town designing!

Incidentally, they're called causeways, in real life. Used a lot in swampy areas, like Louisiana and Florida in the US.

Happy tapping!

forgottenl33 wrote:
Don't know if this was discovered but when you put the dirt road over water and then put the regular road you get roads with no bridges

Interesting find. O: That would help me a lot. Because I found out that bridges are counted as an "item" on the limit cap I had to get rid of my bridges.

Maybe it's just that when you put a dirt road on water, it takes away the water underneath and replaces it with land plus dirt road. Then when you put the paved road on top, it's just road on land rather than road on water (=bridge).

HappyGamer73 wrote:
Maybe it's just that when you put a dirt road on water, it takes away the water underneath and replaces it with land plus dirt road. Then when you put the paved road on top, it's just road on land rather than road on water (=bridge).

Huh?

It's land first. Add water, it's water.

Add road, it's land again, with road on it.

Put water on THAT, and then it becomes bridge.

This used to seem more obvious before the concrete glitch which has been ongoing forever. Certain places you can't just put down concrete now. But that wasn't always the case.

This is literally no different from just removing the water and building a road over it.

4junk3000 wrote:
I don't know what you're describing here... You built a road. It only becomes a bridge if you put the water under it. This is not a road over water, there's land under it still.

Maybe you're describing what to me has been obvious since day one? And you just noticed it now? If so, hey glad you figured something out, i hope it helps with your town designing!

Incidentally, they're called causeways, in real life. Used a lot in swampy areas, like Louisiana and Florida in the US.

Happy tapping!

I think I know where is the confusion. If you create water and then add a road it will immediately create a bridge/causeway.
Same way if you have a road and add water it will create a bridge/causeway.

It doesn't used to be that easy. I remember before that to have bridges you had to create water, then add the road, and then add water again.

jofre_nash wrote:

4junk3000 wrote:
I don't know what you're describing here... You built a road. It only becomes a bridge if you put the water under it. This is not a road over water, there's land under it still.

Maybe you're describing what to me has been obvious since day one? And you just noticed it now? If so, hey glad you figured something out, i hope it helps with your town designing!

Incidentally, they're called causeways, in real life. Used a lot in swampy areas, like Louisiana and Florida in the US.

Happy tapping!

I think I know where is the confusion. If you create water and then add a road it will immediately create a bridge/causeway.
Same way if you have a road and add water it will create a bridge/causeway.

It doesn't used to be that easy. I remember before that to have bridges you had to create water, then add the road, and then add water again.

AHA! I see now, thanks, ex-neighbor.

JN is right, they've made a change. In the pic below, i made each of these roads by starting at the pavement where Patty is standing, and dragged straight out.
http://i.imgur.com/2i3epvg.jpg
It used to be, they all behaved the same, creating a CAUSEWAY into the water. Now it appears the roadway automatically creates a BRIDGE. THIS IS NEW.

I appreciate this change, it is easier. But it's ironic, before we had people posting they're surprised they could make a bridge. Now they're surprised they can make the causeway with road.

I sent you a friend req, JN. Glad to see you back on the forum. If you have space, be glad to join your neighborhood again too!

Thanks for posting those demos, Annette. I'm on the same page now.

But my eyes popped out when i made that middle strip and saw instant bridge!

That's definitely not how it was before. Used to be, I'D have to go back and "force the water under" the road to make the causeway into the bridge.

This is definitely a better way.