Periodically, have a stretch of road out of town and start a new development there. Makes the streets and roads follow local geography for a more organic layout. Then, when building, place streets and roads first, and add the zones to them. When zoomed out, look at the geography of the city - in real life planners build in the cheapest method (roads avoid hills and follow the terrain).īuilding your primary roads first is a good step - for example, draw an avenue through your city in an 'organic' path, bearing in mind where your main traffic flows will be. You need to periodically zoom right out to take an overview of your city - when you work on a low zoom level you tend to just expand in an orthogonal manner.
I guess the root of the problem is how do I create a nice organic city? How best to make use of the light, medium, dense zones? Whats a natural placement of farms, trains?
Mine are just badly placed squares of yellow, blue and green that makes no sense. Farmlands connected to small downtowns of brownstones and small business, with large highways exchanges running down the landscape to the metropolis in the distance, with a realistic subway system running through that exchanges through their commerce systems, urban dwellings, slums and everything else that exists in a realistic city. Especially compared to cities I've seen from veteran players who have these beautifully defined cities. Its easy to throw down some crap, let the game run, recoup money, throw down more crap and repeat process but the city just looks so ugly. Ugly blocky cities, with no rhyme or reason to the layout. More used to the more simplified feel of 2k and 3) but I run into the same problem every time I do play. So i'm about to boot up my copy of simcity 4 (I still get a bit overwhelmed by it.
Its been a while since I played a simcity game, and lately been getting a city planning urge.
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