Isla De Loopa - 1980

A major breakthrough in the behavior of tropicans has been discovered. Details:

 

-Tropicans will attempt to take the closest garage to where they live or work. Always. They do not consider the pathing of the cars.

- If the closest garage is not connected to the network of where they need to go... they will EMERGE FROM THE GARAGE ON FOOT AND WALK TO WHERE THEY ARE GOING, EVEN IF ANOTHER GARAGE IS ON THE WAY.

- Tropicans will NOT change garages, the AI is not programmed to do so.

 

These discoveries render the idea of an inner loop used as a small taxi service halfway useless. The initial thought was that the tropicans could travel along an inner loop to get to all their services as well as get them close to a garage on the outer loop to take them to work. While they did indeed use the inner loop garages to get to services, any tropican not living close to an outer loop garage instead would attempt to WALK all the way to work instead of walk to a garage with an accessible outer loop connection, and take it from there.

 

This is why the inner loop is still connected to the outer loop. It has to be. The current AI will not allow it to operate in the other manner.

Done