boefmans

I noticed this park effect. One of my city layouts to get a million+ city is to grid 9x9 zones and place parks or plaza's in the middle. WHen u do some math u still save room (less road tiles) and have a lot of parks and plaza's, which destroy caps. When hitting around 700.000 people, i earned more then 100.000 a year with all good ordinances on and a tax (for the $$$) of 1%!

great gridding, i did it almost the same in my biggest area's. One main difference: i found out that gridding 9x9 works best. If u do the math on area waste: 6x6: 36 tiles to build on, 28 tiles road 9x9: 72 tiles to build on, 40 tiles road, 9 tiles 'empty' (not reachable by car) In comparison, you save tiles when using 9x9, and, assuming you use only avenues and build a good transportation network (also with a few highways, i tend to build a highway every 3 or 4 9x9 blocks), its no problem at all. The empty tile, 3x3, in the middle, can be used for large parks or large plazas, also good for destroying those demand caps ;-) THis way, i build quite a large city....