City building concept.

[Kujbyszew1990 0]

Hi,

What is the secret of building this huge beautiful cities? 

The way Im doing, it's pretty difficult to establish such a impressive city. My concept is building the city gradually.  I mean step by step starting from small village then transforming it into bigger and bigger ones. Finally I have fully sufficient community but it's not as nice as it looks on some of pics I can find in this forum.

Ive checked some movies on youtube.com ect. and the way they are doing those cities is building at the beginning everything like dividing all map into spheres and placing particular zones. For me, it seems boring and pointless cuz U can do something like that in 20min with no fun at all . 

Is that thesis right? How do u create and plan your city.

[LastTrueChamp 196]

What I do is build a large chunk of my suburbs first to get income levels to about 10,000 $ every month. While I am doing this I am maintaining a main street with some of the more serious developments built along this road or avenue. When I have enough funds I usually start to build higher densities moving outward until I have a wall of building moving towards the coast where my CBD is located.

It is important to build up income levels early on because once you start zoning in higher densities expenses tend to rise very quickly.

As for making cities look beautiful, download some custom cotent of the STEX. Find a Skyscraper that would define your cities skyline and architecture. Then use other custom content to compliment the centre peice tower. Try some of the Wall to Wall (W2W) buildings on the stex aswell for added realism to your cities.

[Raceman95 2]

i do both ways, i have made cities to try to plan to be big and i have small farm towns that i expand on to medium towns

[Kujbyszew1990 0]

I don't say that planning the big city is wrong. Cuz everytime before I start I draw some scetch of the city. But building a huge city instantly leaves any fun later? What to do with already built huge and developed community?