Well that was frustrating. It marked me down for taking a realistic route from Canada to Argentina, following the main road that I’ve actually taken in real life.
It’s “ideal” solution cut through a bunch of windy jungle to bypass El Salvador, then took a quick detour across the Amazon from Colombia into Brazil to avoid the 3000 miles of straight multi lane highway along the west coast. Because that went through more countries.
They either need to fix their thing to favour realistic routes or give much clearer instructions that this a game that treats countries as puzzle pieces with absolutely no other context.
I imagine it would have dinged you for going through Kuwait, where there is a road, instead of heading straight across the desert of Iraq.
The game is literally named "Travel". So it's annoying that it penalizes you for your knowledge of traveling between places. It would have been much cooler if they had leaned in to that and prioritized routes that you could actually do on public land/sea transport.
That's way more interesting to me than being able to look at a map and notice that Brazil does in fact have borders with both Colombia and Argentina (one of which is non-navigable).
Just saying that most people don't know international traveling routes at all, and so for most people, this is a fun little game that makes total sense.
It’s “ideal” solution cut through a bunch of windy jungle to bypass El Salvador, then took a quick detour across the Amazon from Colombia into Brazil to avoid the 3000 miles of straight multi lane highway along the west coast. Because that went through more countries.
They either need to fix their thing to favour realistic routes or give much clearer instructions that this a game that treats countries as puzzle pieces with absolutely no other context.