Your method of connecting cities

[highlander_llama 0]

So I was trying to find a topic that accurately described what I was looking for but, alas, no luck.  I am curious as to how many road/rail connections you all use between cities.  I prefer the highways/avenues only connections for road and at least one rail in each direction but I've seen others cities with every road connecting to the next city.  So just give me your opinions and experiences with different layouts!

[masochist 111]

It depends, really. If my region is supposed to represent one large metropolis as opposed to many smaller cities, then I'll build it as one single urban area, city tile borders notwithstanding. In that case, it won't matter how many connections to the next city I have.

But sometimes it's simply easier to go with only one or two connections. If the only thing you want to do is trade utilities, then you only need one single road/pipe/powerline connection. That's how I do, anyways.

[tahill79 13]

I agree with what masochist says. It just really depends on your building style. My current region has just 1 metropolis with a few little towns around it. So in the CBD I have severa street and avenue connections going to the next tile and just a few going to the berbs that lay around it.

[RedImperator 16]

For major cities, I try to have as few interruptions in the grid as possible, which means dozens of road connections for big city tiles, with at least ten GLR-in-road or GLR-in-avenue connections among them. I like to have at least two highway and heavy rail connections per city as well, though I can live without the highway (since my region is supposed to be a built-up urban area on the East Coast, the rails are non-optional; every town and city around here has a rail connection, because the ones that got skipped by the railroads in the 19th century faded into tiny hamlets or outright ghost towns).

[highlander_llama 0]

Very nice! I've gotta try to use more connections, I got in the habit of just using highways to connect large city tiles even when building large metro areas, not really sure why. I've only within the past 6 months really started using rail and now I don't know how I went without it, the amount of traffic I have crossing city lines is intense on rail alone is intense.