The region size?

[lasselk 0]

How big is the region size (square kilometers)? I need to know since I will create a new map based on the topology of Torino.

[IronDogg 0]

Cool! I have been wanting to do this as well for a region, but so far have been unsuccessful with the tutorials around here on how to actually get the greyscale map created and then into sim city. I will be interested in watching your progress with this project.

A small city is 64 squares by 64 squares. A region has 16 cities by 16 cities. Therefore a region has 1024 squares by 1024 squares. A square is 16 meters by 16 meters. Therefore a small city is 1024 by 1024 meters. Therefore a region is 16384 by 16384 meters (or 16.384 kilometers squared).

[SC4BOY 20]

Your region can be any size up to the ability of your computer, cpu, memory, etc to handle it. I don't know if there is an absolute limit to the biggest region you can make, but I know some have made some very large ones (for example the 3RR region by Dedgren). Making excessively large regions will make a big load on your pc and make game play annoyingly slow. Of course you can do tricks like keeping a BIG region but importing only a few city tiles at a time to play at a given time in a "working region". Developing a large region can literally take you years of game play. And yes to calculate you actual size (given that you have already made one) can be done by simply adding the distance across each direction.

[tungston 19]

Originally posted by: lasselk

How big is the region size (square kilometers)? I need to know since I will create a new map based on the topology of Torino.quote>

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