Do cities have to start from a motorway junction?

[poshbakerloo 186]

Do cities have to start from a motorway junction?

 

I don't have the game, but I have been following various city journals. I noticed that each city starts as a spur of a motorway...can you build cities around existing surface roads? Or does it always have to be a cul-de-sac city?

 

In real life, cities are based on an old through route, or a cross roads etc. I just worry that starting off with motorways is very unrealistic.

[iviaarten 533]

Currently, the highway connection is a requirement. The map editor currently doesn't have the tools to provide any other road connection. They might change this for the future though.

[BorisS1990 27]

It doesn't have to be a highway spur that splits off from the regular highway. That's just how all the maps that come with the game are designed.

 

The map editor lets you make your own maps and place down a starter highway any way you want. I made a map where the starting tile has the highway run straight through from one side to the other with just a simple on and off ramp connecting to a road off of which the town is built.

 

The idea being that the town simply sprung up along an existing route.

[poshbakerloo 186]

 

 

The idea being that the town simply sprung up along an existing route.

But, I wish the existing route could just be a small road, so the town could be on the road rather then next to it on a road to nowhere.

[TG707 1]

 

 

 

The idea being that the town simply sprung up along an existing route.

But, I wish the existing route could just be a small road, so the town could be on the road rather then next to it on a road to nowhere.

 

 

If you did that your traffic problems would like blow up before you even hit a few thousand people. The way the game is made with the default highway entry/exit is really the best way to go about it.

[iviaarten 533]

Yep. Especially if you build your first industries the traffic would be horrible if it was just a random road. I still hope we get the option to do that in the future though, regardless of the problems it might bring (would add to the 'fun' in my opinion if you want the challenge. Maybe have the highway 2 or 3 tiles away, so you have to achieve something before you can connect ).

 

For now I've opted this initial highway connection on my custom made map. Doesn't look too unrealistic ( I didn't like the look of a 3 lane highway right into a starter town, so I used the ramps to get something more realistic.

 

[MINIggy03 227]

Your best bet is probably using the map editor.  Just make sure the junction is built on the tile you own in the beginning so you don't have to wait to upgrade it when traffic gets rough.