Map scale calculator for two scales

[richpd7]

Back in the days when I went to school, there were hardly any schools that were fully open to those with disabilities or special needs students. And I wold have had to go to a public school to learn how maps are scaled down to like what the game is. Someone told me that at 1:30 scale like on the open road, that there is a number of miles on Google maps that would be equal to one scale mile at 1:30 scale. In the cities, I learned that it is 1:20 scale. But how on earth can a 1:20 scale in a city eat up more space road wise than it would be in the country?

[Maya-Neko]

The scale in google maps depend on your zoom level and is displayed on the bottom right corner. There's no difference between cities and countrysides though, so i don't really know, what that someone was even refering to. The only thing i could think of is, that some less important areas have pictures of lower quality (at least back in the day), but that doesn't really matter to the way, how google maps would need to stick the pieces together

As for this game, it uses different scales for the countryside and cities, so that cities can be bigger, while the time you need to traverse the countrysides doesn't get unbearably long. That is done by not scaling everything, but concentrating more on recreating the famous parts of a specific area, but keeping the roads in a 1:1 scale to keep it playable (which yeah, ultimately means, that roads in cities would take up more space on a true 1:1 map, but that doesn't matter to the fun we have with the game^^)

[Madkine]

The game scale is consistent over the entire map at 1:20.

Within cities the time scale is dropped to 1:3, but the map scale remains at 1:20.

[richpd7]

I am glad that we have someone that knows the scale. When I was growing up, video games were more like just shoddy cartoon like stuff with beeps and buzzers and no true-to-life engine sound. As 18 Wheels of Steel came out, by looking at the trucks they had back then, I like the trucks we have in ATS vs. 18 Wheels of Steel. What I have been doing is using a few roads I know very well and have been practicing on calculating the Google mileage and learning how to convert it to the SCS scale. But then as we approach the northeastern corridor states like New Hampshire, we may be slapped with no choice but to shift so we can squeeze more businesses into those cities like in Vermont or in Massachusetts such as Boston.

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by richpd7:

I am glad that we have someone that knows the scale. When I was growing up, video games were more like just shoddy cartoon like stuff with beeps and buzzers and no true-to-life engine sound. As 18 Wheels of Steel came out, by looking at the trucks they had back then, I like the trucks we have in ATS vs. 18 Wheels of Steel. What I have been doing is using a few roads I know very well and have been practicing on calculating the Google mileage and learning how to convert it to the SCS scale. But then as we approach the northeastern corridor states like New Hampshire, we may be slapped with no choice but to shift so we can squeeze more businesses into those cities like in Vermont or in Massachusetts such as Boston.

I would personally not expect that SCS will have a different scale for smaller states. You will simply not have much to drive through for those specific states.