Most frustrating playthrough of CDDA ever

If you don’t set city space at least equal to city size you’ll run out of road long LONG before you find the next city. They way I understand the code is the city size (say 4) spawns roads out to 4 city sizes in a given direction, which should meet up with the roads from the next city. If the road spawns don’t equal up, you end up with isolated pockets of towns with no road network to connect them.