Auckland & Greater Region - NZ (Classic)

 Author's Commentary:

This update is a very good example of one made 'on the fly'...    One evening while crusing around ST, (as you do..)  I had an exchange of PMs with my fellow kiwi friend Wackojak.    The result was that I logged out of ST and whipped up this update in just over an hour...  that is...  cranking up the game, making some developments, taking some screenshots, uploading to photobucket, and finally making the update in my CJ.

Well if Jackowacko wants a house at the top of the crater then we are gonna need a road...  and a bit of a flat space to actually build something... not that it really stops us in NZ.. we will build a house just about anywhere... flat is a relative term, as we have well established at the very beginning.. of this masterful piece of binary brilliance... but I am digressing into painful territory...  

OK, there are a couple of things here.   The first thing is that I have now obviously realised the value and benefit of flattening out building sites with single road tiles before zoning.   Flattening out building sites is the key to avoiding those huge block foundations.

Of course this hand terraformed region was particularly hilly, and was the frequent point of disccussion and comment in the early part of my CJ.   As a new player I had no idea about building on flat areas, and it was pretty much 'grid and go' regardless of any hills that might be in the way.

Of course the real life reality of Auckland is that it is most definately not a flat city, and building up, down and around hills is very much part of development in this city.

Also the idea of building on a completely flat terrain tile, even as a new player did not really grab my interest.   To me building on hills is all part of the challenge of the game.

I still very much prefer to build on hilly and undulating tiles, however these days I do have a much better idea on how to build on hills without all those ugly foundation blocks everywhere.