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Re: City blocks
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lugnet.town
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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:29:02 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Kevin Wilson writes:
> Chris Leach wrote in message ...
> > In lugnet.town, Kevin Wilson writes:
> > > It seems to me better to have a small module which can be joined and
> > > arranged in many different ways, than a large monolithic module. If your
> > > basic module is 32x32 you can make an arrangement as large as you like
> > > (including 2x3 baseplates with roads all round :-) ), but the reverse is
> > > not true.
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> > Hmmmm that's true....I was just tring come up with a stadard "block size"
> > which is still possible if you build modules that are able to go
> > together.Let's just say then the max could be the 2x3 32x32 plate size and
> > no bigger which will allow for a row of "blocks" that are symmetrical.
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> Do we need a max size? Provided a large size module has connections in the
> right place, or is self-contained inside road plates, I think it could be as
> large as desired. The city block I built for last year's club layout was 2x4
> baseplates. Now, if I had built that of 32x32 modules, I could shrink it
> down to 2x3 baseplates if necessary, or plug more modules into teh middle to
> make it fill more space.
I was thinking a max size so that the cross roads would work and so there is
a "standard" to work with.(my whole point of this)and we get a more block feel.
> > Now
> > we need to settle on some standards for conections.that should be easy:-)
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> LOL!
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> Let's take Bill Ward's post as a starting point...
> http://news.lugnet.com/town/?n=5231
Yes he has alot of good ideas.
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| Chris Leach wrote in message ... (...) is (...) feel. I like towns where the blocks are not all the same size, personally, and it's often necessary to fit into a given table area. If there was no max size, there would be nothing stopping you (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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| Chris Leach wrote in message ... (...) Do we need a max size? Provided a large size module has connections in the right place, or is self-contained inside road plates, I think it could be as large as desired. The city block I built for last year's (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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