For me it's 2 steps forward...1 step back, and I keep chugging along. It is the experimenting and watching the results that I like.
How do you plan a city for future growth?
- Thread starter NiftyDolphin
- Start date
-
We have updated our Community Code of Conduct. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement.
I understand how you feel. I feel the same when I start a city, but once you have some growth, you don't really worry about the future anymore. You don't really need to plan much. I just think of a general idea of what I want my city to look like. I think of where I want my highways in the future, where industry and stuff goes and how I want the style of the city to be. I don't even plan where I want my downtown area, it just grows naturally from demand.
I don't put wide avenues for every street to "prepare" for high density (if I ever decide to put it, that is). I do put avenues, but not everywhere, just for areas I know I would have to do it in for the future. The challenge of the game is to work around problems that you've created from the past. Planning everything just takes the fun of that away. Over-planning also takes the flexibility of your city away. If you come up with a new idea of something to add to the city, and have already planned everything, it would make it hard to add it in.
This is especially good if you want an organic look and growth to your city.
So basically, don't plan. Build how you want when you want it.
I don't put wide avenues for every street to "prepare" for high density (if I ever decide to put it, that is). I do put avenues, but not everywhere, just for areas I know I would have to do it in for the future. The challenge of the game is to work around problems that you've created from the past. Planning everything just takes the fun of that away. Over-planning also takes the flexibility of your city away. If you come up with a new idea of something to add to the city, and have already planned everything, it would make it hard to add it in.
This is especially good if you want an organic look and growth to your city.
So basically, don't plan. Build how you want when you want it.
- 2
This is a subject that I think will change over time as CSL grows, and of course the mod scene.
As we get more variety (and hopefully control) over what is built then design will be more important.
At the moment I find it's build to survive at the start (not fantastically difficult) and then working towards a pleasing layout with minimal traffic issues.
If CO can balance the way Tourism works it would be nice to be able to work towards building "Tourist" cities. At that point I'd love to see a Tourism DLC that expands Leisure options beyond Park/Monument placement, e.g. Fairgrounds, Zoos, Casinos etc.
If CO can improve on Agriculture so that we can create "realistic" looking Farming districts that's another direction I'd like to go.
If CO can give us a Rail/Sea infrastructure that doesn't appear to bork out then I'd love to see larger docks and freight rail yards so that I can look at building Cities based on Industry.
At the moment though I'm still having a lot of fun with Vanilla CSL.
As we get more variety (and hopefully control) over what is built then design will be more important.
At the moment I find it's build to survive at the start (not fantastically difficult) and then working towards a pleasing layout with minimal traffic issues.
If CO can balance the way Tourism works it would be nice to be able to work towards building "Tourist" cities. At that point I'd love to see a Tourism DLC that expands Leisure options beyond Park/Monument placement, e.g. Fairgrounds, Zoos, Casinos etc.
If CO can improve on Agriculture so that we can create "realistic" looking Farming districts that's another direction I'd like to go.
If CO can give us a Rail/Sea infrastructure that doesn't appear to bork out then I'd love to see larger docks and freight rail yards so that I can look at building Cities based on Industry.
At the moment though I'm still having a lot of fun with Vanilla CSL.
Have you shared any of your early cities on the Workshop. I love a challenge of trying to "Fix" a city
That's about my favourite part of the workshop. Take some guys city, open it, cringe at the sicking malaise that is someone else's town, fix it up good and proper, and post the fixed version back, along with a link to the new save politely pointing out how it *should* be done.
It also means I deliberately ignore future growth when starting my own new city... and then have a great time tinkering with my tortured road networks to fix it. Obviously constrained by a minimum of demolition, because lets face it you can't just go smashing over people's houses now days.
- 1
Man this sure sounds like another game most of us played back in 2013!
IF
IF
IF
How about we start with: IF we had the ability to place enough roads to reach the 1million cims CO claims we can have? How about CO starting there?
- 1
It is now down to 66?k cims. It was at 680 then I thought "hey I know what I will do with all that open green space on my map with nothing built on it yet. I will place more roads, build a school/sports type complex, then add a whole religious area with all those neat houses of worship the asset makers release, then I will make yet another section with this huge tall building downtown type area that others build. But alas, I can't place any more roads! So kinda hard to grow without the ability to you know, place roads!
So your doubting my population total? Laughable. Coming from someone who just asked that question as their very first post that sure sounds suspect.............
Tell me how to take a screen shot and post it. But lets put something to this. If I'm incorrect I will never post on the message board again. However if I'm correct tell me who you really are not just this first time poster you are posing as!
F12 takes a screen shot, then you get prompted with what to do with them when you quit Cities. I collected a few pictures as I was developing a new district to try it out.
I'm not saying that you're a liar. I am just curious to see how is planned the biggest city built with this game. I don't know how to reach so much population and I can't even image how is work and I want to learn somethings. Simply this
- 1