Lol. Darn it you are right!
It’s weird I think of the tv show as based on the books but I think with the board game borrowing heavily from the aesthetic of the video game (horse on a roof mini) I jumped straight past the books.
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The Oath that was supposed to arrive Friday made it one state over on Wednesday then sat there. It just now arrived. So much for busting it open over the weekend. sigh Should have known not to count my chickens before FedEx delivered the eggs.
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Squaring the Circle this looks interesting. Is this bit of history yet mined by any other game for it’s setting?
Also what didn’t the residents like about radial streets?
Navigating in radial street layouts is difficult when we, USians, tend to number addresses Cartesianally.
(Of course, a nice Distance@Angle / vector address system would work, but that may be more complicated than a casual layperson would accept).
I’ve never been, but I’ve been told that the radial street layout of Atlanta, GA is particularly painful.
Additionally, the Midwest United States is fairly prone to annexing new areas. When things are grid-based, it’s easy enough to just engulf an existing grid into your own. However, if two neighboring communities both have their own radial layout, then to combine the two into a single system would be maddening.
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Living in a place where streets are rarely straight and not named with numbers nor any logical guiding force I’m struggling to feel this being a big deal. However if I existed in a different paradigm that might have more resonance.
Thanks for the cultural insights.
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You get spoiled by planned cities. Here in Overland Park, I can tell you 8700 Antioch Blvd is approximately 6 miles (Manhattan distance) from 11100 Pflumm, because we have 8 blocks per mile (but the named streets take some time to learn)
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Hello and welcome to England. Let’s play a game called “Does this street have a straight numerical order (e.g. 1, 2, 3) or is it on a even/odds split (e.g. 2, 4, 6)?”
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@Benkyo: you win this one, unless we have another member in Japan. 
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See also , “Does this street have a 13?”
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My best experience in 16 years in the UK was in Milton Keynes, where I was given these directions:
" On the 17th roundabout, turn left"
That, and my first go at the Magic Roundabout in Swindon. Although, after a few years of negotiating it, I think it is an amazing idea, and it works great to deal with a 5 way intersection, always the first time you have to face it, you sort of pray you make it out alive.
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Thread split time?
I think it works if you’re reasonably happy with roundabouts already – certainly the first time I met one unexpectedly (in Hemel Hempstead) I just treated it as a series of roundabouts and everything worked as it should. But if you’re not fully confident, it’s an extra layer of confusion.
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I’m looking for the spider in the center of the web there, and just not seeing it.
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Not sure whether you are referring to the grid layout or the radial house numbering… but I guess the latter because it’s a bit more unique.
So yeah, houses seem to be numbered radially or randomly or by some other arcane method, perhaps based on order of building. Google maps is often the only way to find the right house number!
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What I was told by another resident, if I remember correctly, is that it’s the order in which the lots were sold, and if a lot gets subdivided it may get two new numbers or one of the lots may keep the old one.
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Yeah, London isn’t really like any city that got actual planning.
For example, we have buildings that literally end in a point because that’s how the streets went.
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That street corner looks really familiar but is just slightly too blurred to confirm the street name on the road sign, or the bus route number.
I think it was King’s Cross! It’s a photo I took about 12 years ago… so it might look different on google now.
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Yup, here’s a Google street view link.
But, you know, New York has the Flatiron…
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