

If you zoom out it seems like a spaghetti, but it's efficient to connect islands. Pick and use as many motorways as the game gives you. It just makes things slower, and you won't ever need it (see why below) The game is random, not every seed is equally easy, why waste your time?ĭon't ever pick the traffic light at the end of the week. There are no in-app purchases for Mini Motorways (or any Arcade game).In my experience, following these steps I consistently achieve 2000+ scores, often in the order of 5000.ĭon't be afraid to hit restart at the early stages (even around 300 points) if you see it won't sustain the long run. Arcade requires a $4.99 per month subscription. Mini Motorways is available in Arcade in the Strategy section. The game very intelligently chooses the closest available car to respond to a new pin. The closest available car fills demand first. They won’t be returned to your inventory until any cars that were already planning to use them has completed its journey. You can delete road tiles whenever you want. Sometimes you’ll make a road you don’t need, or new roads will obviate old ones. Use the delete feature to remove unwanted roads. If it makes sense to change a house’s driveway, just draw a new one. As noted above, you can change which side of a house a driveway is on any time, but you can never change the entrances to building parking lots. You can change the driveway directions on houses. Nothing is more annoying than planning a road and having a new building appear right where you planned-and needed-to go. Pause the game when you’re ready to build a new road. New buildings and houses appear every minute or so, sometimes faster. So, keep a close eye on buildings before they get build up too many pins.īuild roads when the game is paused. When a building starts chirping at you, it’s probably too late to fix the problem. Play accordingly.īy the time you see the problem, it might be too late. Unlike the real world, there are no traffic accidents. Building and destroying roads costs nothing, but you have a limited number of road units, so build wisely and tear down as soon as you realize you want to change something.Ĭars don’t crash. You place them by dragging them from your inventory to the spot you want, but they don’t seem to improve my traffic hotspots.
MINI MOTORWAYS HOUSES PER BUILDING HOW TO
I haven’t figured out how to effectively use stoplights yet. I suspect there is no one perfect way to play, and that every player will find a strategy that works best for their brain. Learning how to use them will take experimentation. They allow you to connect one part of your city to another, going over all buildings and roads in their way. It’s in the name, Motorways are a key element. This is a few minutes into a new game on the same Beijing map.īridges, Stoplights, and Motorways (highways): these special tools are available in limited supplies, and you’ll be given periodic opportunities to get them, but you’ll have to choose between two when you do get them. I’ve experienced that several times, and the only thing you can do is play a new game. Sometimes they will even appear and places where you simply can’t connect them to a road. Building placement and orientation is random. Here are some tips for playing Mini Motorways:īuildings appear random. It’s hard to get high scores, which is a great combo. Your score is simply the number of pins you complete. You can change driveway placement on houses just by drawing a new one, but you can’t change when or where the houses appear. You can’t move them or control which direction they go. That’s kind of like real people in real cities in real life! The same is true for parking lot entrances on the buildings. Oh, building and home placements are random and without reason. It’s almost like some train routing games I have loved in the past, but this game takes it up a few notches. Your job is to draw roads that connect and facilitate all that traffic. Each car needed is represented by a pin on the big building, and if too many pins build up, you lose. Only, red houses send red cars to red buildings and nowhere else, and the same is true for the other colors. Houses, the little blocks, provide those cars. There are buildings, the large blocks in the screenshots above and below. I thought it was a racing game from the name, but a friend of mine said she couldn’t put it down, and now here we are.
