City Tiles, how large would they be in real life?

[tkuelker 2]

How large is a large, medium, and small tile in real life?  Please respond in Kilometers.

[TekindusT 3,809]

A small city measures exactly 1x1 kilometers, medium city 2x2 and large city 4x4; because each game tile size is 16x16 meters.

[Evillions 552]

About 2.4 miles. That's small, isn't it?

[diva613 0]

Are you sure? Coz that is uhm kinda redicolously small to fit in 795000 sims in 4 square KM's..

[TekindusT 3,809]

You're right, but think that squeezing 13 people in a single house like the game does is ridiculous too...

[endamc 0]

my sims complain that a journey across town in a mmedium square with perfect transit links qualifies as a 'long commute'!

[bluespottedhorse 49]

yes 4x4 is a very small city

[coachmcguirck 0]

If you've ever been to Manhattan in the daytime, or any large Southeast Asian city (e.g. Hong Kong) you would see how it is possible for 100,000+ people to live in 0.3844 square miles (that is the size of the small city)

A single tile within the city is about 51.15 feet on each side, 2616.3225 square feet, 0.0600625 acres

[coachmcguirck 0]

So a city like NYC would encompass several large simcity spaces

[Timmons92 0]

Originally posted by: coachmcguirck

So a city like NYC would encompass several large simcity spacesquote>

Yes, it takes up a lot of square spaces, several versions of the New York Area map with manhattan included are available on the STEX if you are interested

[harvz 0]

Originally posted by: diva613

Are you sure? Coz that is uhm kinda redicolously small to fit in 795000 sims in 4 square KM's..quote>

just to clarify

a 1x1 city is 1 sq km

a 2x2 city is 4 sq km

and a 4x4 city is 16 sq km

surely you havent built a city with 795'000 sims in a 2x2 grid?#

is this possible?

[Raysfan16 5]

Well, it probably isn't a perfect scale, but I think it's pretty good. Consider SC3k where just a few blocks gives you 20,000 sims.

[MachinaeCity 0]

64x64 an good city.