planning idea help

[Aardvark1313 5]

I'm currently working the 5 city region of Whitewater Valley and could use some help ideas regarding 1 of the 5 city plots in particular. Whitewater Valley I find that each plot has it's own challenges but this one drives me nuts. Working on the really bad terrain that is Whitewater Crossing is bad enough, but that little elevated area has me stumped and I wondered how people coped with it(screenies would be great so I could study them). It's where I wanted to put my mayor's mansion for the high wealth land value increase, my high wealth housing/commerce obviously and once the coal patch there runs dry, after I've squeezed some cash from it obviously, I can  tear it all down and add increase my high wealth housing even more. But I confess, I've tried all sorts of ways in sandbox and just can't find a happy medium(parks to increase the land value is 1 definite killer) though parklets may solve some of  that problem.(I'm just playing with it  in my new city for the 1st time and find that coverage seems to be high without the large footprint the normal parks would).  So I'm looking for ideas. though i dumped project orion as it was causing some major issues with pollution and land values, I kept the regional roads udon? so I can maybe connect to that are from the highway just to the right of it instead of being forced to try and plop a ton of roads up a steep incline(I'd need 1 for sure for power/water etc). I'd appreciate any ideas on that.

 

    Apologies as this isn't the right section to post this. I wouldn't mind if a mod moved it to general chat. I had just posted on a topic here and just had a sudden question and never thought to switch. sowwy.

[TheCraftKid 52]

To begin my statements, I just hope you know how Orion really works. Yayie updated the description to make sure people understand how the data values and maps work. If you didn't know that all of the resources are actually scaled 4:1 in the original city plot. I'm only saying this because Orion opens up some major city-planning opportunities.

 

For the city planning, you should try to plop a MegaTower as a focal point, if you have the CoT expansion pack, but if that looks too garish, try making a small commerce block where one commercial building is the centerpiece and you have high-wealth (including the high-density commerical) high-density residential around that. I like the outcome when I face situations like that.

 

I hope this helped you with your city-planning!

 

 

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