Idea for a new city

[Thorpie 0]

Hi guys, new to this place as have had simcity for ages since buying a new pc but have only just installed and have been instantly addicted!!

Sat here in work drawing designs that may or may not work and thought of one I wanted to share to stop me before trying or to urge me on...

It would consist of one large streetcar loop around the outside and a smaller streetcar loop inside it, not connected to one another, these two would be connected by evenly spaced high density avenues or roads with res on the outside 3/4 and industrial on the last 1/4 downwind, then between the two loops a mix of res and commercial at a ratio or about 1 in 4 blocks commercial... Pol stations and fire etc between loops with the centre kept for specialisation, probably gambling or tech?

I haven't played too much so haven't had time to play with streetcars much but will be trying this at some point, thoughts or help would be much appreciated!

Cheers

[Griffon 19]

If you have the expansion just replace the streetcars with MagLev and you don't have to worry about the streetcar rail taking up space or connecting it to the center with avenues and you can also have buildings under them too.

Other advantages of MagLevs is they can be built on top of any kind of road, they are so much faster, and each ststion comes with one train so you don't have to build anything extra to hold them.

I kinda do this already with MagLevs but instead of circles its squares following the roads.

Interresting idea though.

[Thorpie 0]

Thanks for the reply

I haven't got the expansion pack currently still getting to grips with the game as a whole before getting even more stuff to confuse me!

Just the map size bugging me, played CitiesXL on steam but lag issues for no reason put me off that game! Have a decent computer that can handle almost anything on high detail so confused!

Is there anything in the pipeline regarding map size anybody is aware of? Sucks that I can't have a totally complete city with everything in it!

[Griffon 19]

this is the city size discussion on here: 

and just so you know EA has said they aren't going to make the maps bigger because our computers couldn't handle larger maps with all the agents in the city.

 

The difference between CitiesXL and SimCity5 is, CitiesXL has hardly no agents in it but bigger maps and better graphics,  SimCity5 has an extreme amount of agents, but graphics and map sizes suffer for it (if you didn't, agents are the people, cars, police, power, water, etc.)

 

Also I've found that the expansion fixes a lot of the base game problems (like traffic) and you have access to some expansion technology (like futuristic mines and the wind/solar amplifiers) if other people with the expansion unlock them in your region.