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PavedRoads

The tile set the fifteen tiles counted as paved road are counted from.

Specification
Applies to
tile controls
File
theater control file
Section
[General]
Value
integer
When omitted
-1No tile set is bound to the role.

The role has one consequence away from the map generator: a paved road counts as pavement when the blend between pavement and clear ground is worked out. A cell showing PaveTile or one of the ClearToPaveLat pieces looks at its four orthogonal neighbors and edges away from each one that is not pavement, and the first eight pieces of this set are pavement for that purpose, as the MiscPaveTile and Medians pieces are. Laying pavement against a road therefore leaves a clean join rather than a shoreline of transition pieces. The test is guarded, so a role that no tile set answered simply stops roads counting as pavement.

The random map generator reads the set more heavily. It lays its urban roads out of numbered pieces counted from this role, and its placement test admits road and end caps already on the ground only when the caller allows them to be built over, refusing anything else that is not clear ground or pavement.