Could someone possibly make me a diagram on how to set up the patterns? I've done the 16x16 grid thing but it won't work for me for some odd reason. Help would be appreciated!
Thanks.
EDIT: When you make the grids, I know you need two sets of vertical rows, do you also need two sets of horizontal rows to make it almost like a box?
Yes it's 2 rows vertically and 2 rows horizontally. You count the spaces and the corners of your acres are on spaces 1 and space 16. Then you start the next acre by putting down another pattern and that would be space 1 of the next acre.
Here is a picture of an intersection so you will see there should be 4 patterns in a square at every intersection.
I currently have two successful acres on the left side of my town. I began to make another acre, but somehow, the right vertical row came up short. The right vertical row intersects with another acre. So, in the right vertical row, I have 15 instead of 16. I counted the rows in that acre at least five time already and each row, except the right vertical one, has 16 patterns. Any buddy have a clue of what I did wrong? Do you count the other acres 16th square as another acres 16th square?
No, you never count a square as belonging to two acres.
Did you go up or down a hill, or across a river? Sometimes that will make the counting tougher to keep straight, especially when the cliff runs north/south and the pattern looks way offset running across it horizontally.
Here is where I started the third acre, aka the one that went wrong.
Here is where the two go off the cliff.
The bad acre's bottom goes off the cliff here.
Here is the end of the bottom row of the acre and the start of the row that ended up short.
And we meet back up again with one of the completed acres. The bottom row is the bad acre. Yes, the bad acre looks completed but the right row came up with 15 patterns instead of 16 which I really don't understand.
Maybe, if these don't help you understand what happened, you could come to my town and maybe take a look.
I see where the problem is. The cracks along the cliff wall are straight up and down, so I can see that you just need to move the bottom row of your patterns down a space and add the pattern to the 16th space along the right.
Oh boy, sorry for the double post but it happened again T_T I didn't go off any ledges or come across rivers this time. Just flat ground... and I came up with 15 on the top row this time. =\
I found it was easiest to create the whole row horizontally (both rows at once), then work on the columns vertically. It's harder to do it acre by acre because you end up running around a lot and losing your place. Once you have a row going across the whole town, you can be sure all the acres above it will be the correct height, so you can start on the next set of rows and be sure all those new acres will be the correct height. Just be sure you count very carefully where that first row goes!
