Parks should be zoned

[landstander248 8]

One of my minor criticisms of the beta is the difficulty in placing parks. The sizes are odd, they never fit where you hope, and they align poorly with offset grids. Why can't these be zoned? Wouldn't that be a nice solution?

Anyone else have comments on parks - or suggestions on how to place them more effectively? Someone mentioned using dirt roads, but then I just end up using even more of my very limited space to build.

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

So it sounds like SC2013 suffers from free-grid placement problems similar to CitiesXL.......interesting......

[Ocram's Razr 963]

At least in Cities XL, you can "zone" parks as filler areas. I wish that feature was in SimCity 2013.

--Ocram

[l_rubbo 34]

A simple solution and a very good idea indeed.

[LillySatou 117]

i was going to give parks another go and try to master their placement but then the beta ended. LOL. now i guess i'll never know. it was certainly not as easy as it should be though.

[Fornix 4]

What I personally did was not to regard the parks as a park, but just as an element within it. In several cities I created that way I created park simply as follows:

• Regular street and avenue pieces forming the outer border.
  
• Dirt streets used as a form of paths within my park.
  
• Trees used as filled to fill in the gaps.
  

Is it perfect? No, you'll get bloody cars going through your park! But it allowed me to do more with creating parks than just trying to plop a few of those pieces somewhere on a grid and never really fitting in.

If they'll introduce pedestrian only roads at some points, I'm settled tbh. The park elements can easily be connected to it, and you can lay down your roads in such a fashion to angle the park elements in the way you desire anyway.

Some more variation in trees, and addition of plants and flowers to plop would be nice as well of course, but let's hope we'll be able to see the community add such things sooner than later.

[Vampirovibrio 43]

Part of the issue is that the ability to rotate parks and ploppables seems to not be available in this Simcity. I don't know why. When I was trying the beta, I try to find a way to rotate the parks so it can fit in the space I left especially for parks but for some reason it would only allow me to place in a certain orientation. Yes, I place it next to a road so unless there is only one entrance/exit for the park I don't see why the ability to rotate parks and ploppables is not available.

Maxis? Any comments?