Yeh I'm trying to leave space for expansion/road changes. Built a big retail park in the middle of town and it caused traffic mayhem. A bit of pedestrian access and messing with a one way system in and out and it's solved the issues perfectly.
I'm hooked.
I can see the argument for a boring grid layout but fuck me it'd be dull. I'd much rather try and solve issues on the fly and have it look like a real city that's grown over time.
Lost my whole evening to this last night, hit 40k and my road network went to shit. Expanded out to the waterfront to build a port only to find out my map has no water freight routes. I'm going to have to heavily invest in trains to keep things moving.
You mentioned a few pages back about drug legislation and a seedy part of town. Have you legalised drugs in the whole city or is there a way of specifying polices per district?
Yup sorted now thanks. Does the smoke detector one cost money? Some of the others show an upkeep cost but that one doesn't seem to, which makes it seem a no brainier.
I've noticed that i keep getting commercial areas saying there's not enough educated workers, yet my elementary and high school demand are both in the green. It's like i have the schools but still not educating. IDGI.
There is a nice editor on the PC version that allows you to make your own maps. I've been sculpting and tweaking my own creation on and off over the last few months, going to actually start playing it soon.
Bought it. My god it's addictive. Started again about three times just getting to grips with it, built my city up to a few thousand, but feel like I need to start again and be much more careful about road placement and zoning.
How you finding the controls Iain? I'm really impressed with how streamlined it is.
I bought some extra areas last night. Man, it gets quite overwhelming when you're spread out and building in one place but trying to keep an eye on older areas.
Just reached another milestone and unlocked a ton of new stuff to play with as i logged off.
There's always something to do, it really is addictive as hell.