City Plans?

[Ionic-Elm 13]

Does anyone draw out their city road plans before starting a city? Cause I just made one and was wondering what you think of it.

[Titanicbuff 1,262]

I like the layout. Mine get to be experimental. Then again I don't preplan- I just think as I go where things should go. I like the idea, but I end up steering from plans anyway.

"I have struck an iceburg and sank"

Titanicbuff.

PS- Keep up the good work. The grid layout you have is more normal.Mine are a little crazy

[x493x 446]

I always make a layout and yours looks great, just make sure your diagonal roads are on 45 degree angles or you are going to run into problems when translating your map into SC4. For example, I see that your "Park Road" isn't at 45 degrees so you wouldn't be able to make your SC4 city exactly as shown in the map.

[Jack³ 291]

I usually don't "draw out" the plans. But I have sort of an idea while in the game. Sometimes when you try to build according to an image, it doesn't look right because it may be out of scale. Especially when you try to make real-world places. Usually I put an avenue near the waterfront in the downtown area. And then another avenue in the center, that will eventually "T" intersect the waterfront avenue. But I do like that layout.

And like x493x said, the roads cant go on those exact angles. So it won't be able to look that way in the game.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Not a bad idea. I don't make plans of any kind other than to do some additional terraforming of a canned map and lay in trees carefully to reflect the amount of water in the terrain. I then pick a city tile and start from what would be a natural starting point, like a river mouth or a land feature that would attract settlers like a plain for farming. My cities are like Topsy, they 'jest growed'.

[whiteywhite 15]

heres a small planned city with all of the most basic municipal services

  Edited November 26, 2011 by whiteywhite  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You have expensive taste. Why the 1 x 3 lots?

Also, why pay for those services before you need them?

[whiteywhite 15]

You have expensive taste. Why the 1 x 3 lots?

Also, why pay for those services before you need them?

The zones are jsut what I got when i clicked and held to make them... I like to look it at as the sims that live there telling me exactly what they want in a house or place of business...

My thinking for placing all of the services at the beginning is that I had all these small empty spaces in the city and I figured if I covered all the bases right from the start I wouldn't need to worry about adding in many municipal strucures later on... I am still getting stuck with having to place the High School College and University jsut so I can begin to get any real nice types of development (HT CO$$$)

Also when should I add some new zones , of what type, and where? I have ran with the city not adding any new zones, it fillls with nice large mansions but they all become dilapidated evantually...

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You have expensive taste. Why the 1 x 3 lots?

Also, why pay for those services before you need them?

The zones are jsut what I got when i clicked and held to make them... I like to look it at as the sims that live there telling me exactly what they want in a house or place of business...

My thinking for placing all of the services at the beginning is that I had all these small empty spaces in the city and I figured if I covered all the bases right from the start I wouldn't need to worry about adding in many municipal strucures later on... I am still getting stuck with having to place the High School College and University jsut so I can begin to get any real nice types of development (HT CO$$)

Also when should I add some new zones , of what type, and where? I have ran with the city not adding any new zones, it fillls with nice large mansions but they all become dilapidated evantually...

The clue to starting small is to create a minimal village surrounded by expendable farms. Power only, nothing else, and use a wind tower. Sit on that until it turns profitable.

[XV infinity VX 18]

With money mods, you don't need a profit, you just need the mod

[Cobraroll 138]

You could also just get a mod that replaces the game with text saying "You have won SimCity 4", so you don't have to play it at all....

The challenge is some of the fun, you know!