Yes! It's Possible!

[Cob92 360]

not that realistic...

Your town looks like a small village...

In real life, how many small villages of that size have you seen with an avenue? or even with more than 2 lanes roads ?

And how many small villages like that have you seen connected to the highway irl ?

And how many are ONLY connected to the highway and has no other exit to another town ?

just sayin...

 

Welcome to America. In the state where I live we have hundreds, if not thousands, of such villages. The government spends millions of dollars to connect all of them together with highways. Usually the highways are only 4 lanes that far out into the country, but there are plenty of towns for whom that passing highway is their only link to the outside world. In other cases, the highway runs through the town as a street and then transitions back to a full highway after leaving the city limits. 

 

Here's an example that I drive through on my way to and from university: http://goo.gl/maps/vfSBN

And another that lies off of Interstate 10, west of Houston: http://goo.gl/maps/jGgvm

And another off of U.S. 59 (Future I-69):http://goo.gl/maps/YL4jC

[Phenom Anon 3]

Catchin, 

I ran into a little snag with this, which, sucked the life out of me.  :kitty:

 

I started off by building dirt roads for a basic layout. I followed a very natural looking treeline on the edge of a forest. I moved in a few mobile homes, to give it that rustic, pioneer feeling. On the other end of the map, I plopped a single factory lot. Utilities etc were all imported from other cities. I was progressing along quite nicely, with a few commercial places opening up to give it a community feel.

All was well, until about 3 hours later, I noticed that my forest had shrunk beyond 50% of its original size. So I ran a test and laid a couple more zones down and noticed they consmed the forest as they built. Ok, no problem. Over time, I went from a lush forest area to a barren mid-central plain, and from the looks of it, even the hedge hogs moved out. It was desolate and completely devoid of trees.

​Ok, no problem, or so I thought. I plopped a bunch of trees around my sparsely developed, 300 pop community. It was very pretty looking, again. About an hour later, without building a single thing, no upgrades, nothing (I let the game run), again, the forest I laid had begun to disappear! 

 

So now I'm at a loss for what to do to continue the backwoods living. I'm guessing its coded into the game, but from what I saw, it's deforestation at an alarming rate and near impossible to maintain over the long haul.

I should have capped a screen sooner, but here's a before and after of the small area I built showing the reduced tree-line over time. The large curved road (on the right) is where the original forest line was. It stretched across the map to the factory.

 

 

 

 

I'm going to continue building. I still love the idea of small town play. I've noticed (hence the edit) the trees around developed area degrade at a slower pace, so maybe once things are built up a bit more, it won't be so bad.

Sorry, you'll have to excuse me, I have to administrate grief counselling to 300 citizens who are coping with a small town murder. Sad times. 

[RodFlanders 4]

Yup I also noticed the trees disappearing, it really stinks.