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This looks a lot like a {{w|stressed ribbon bridge}}.  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.64.132|172.69.64.132]] 22:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
 
This looks a lot like a {{w|stressed ribbon bridge}}.  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.64.132|172.69.64.132]] 22:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
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This ''exact'' proposal, the [https://poly-bridge-2.fandom.com/wiki/Dangling_Road 'dangling road'], is actually The Meta in Poly Bridge 2. Poly Bridge 3 tried to tweak the numbers to make this strat less effective, but a variant of it continues to persist to this day. (This probably goes in the trivia section, because it seems like Randall came to this concept from first principles.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.151.65|172.71.151.65]] 01:07, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

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What if a car doing one of the fun jumps lands on a car that didn't do a fun jump? Should we mandate that every car does a fun jump for this reason (and yay, fun jump!)? 198.41.227.115 22:08, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Radar speed management, vehicles are only let on the bridge if their expected land point is between the vehicles around them. 172.68.55.80 22:48, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Do suspension bridges still work when built this way? Those pilings look much easier to sway to me. Maybe they are just buried a little more securely. 172.68.55.80 22:48, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

This looks a lot like a stressed ribbon bridge. 172.69.64.132 22:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

This exact proposal, the 'dangling road', is actually The Meta in Poly Bridge 2. Poly Bridge 3 tried to tweak the numbers to make this strat less effective, but a variant of it continues to persist to this day. (This probably goes in the trivia section, because it seems like Randall came to this concept from first principles.) 172.71.151.65 01:07, 8 February 2025 (UTC)