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Silock · 03-12-2013, 03:15 AM

If you run out of space after 3 hours, you're going to have one seriously ****ed up city. There's no way you can adequately plan out a workable city that will scale in that time frame.

Yes, the AI needs a lot of work, particularly traffic.

I've been trying a city on my own, without anyone else in the region to see if I can get a handle on the traffic and employment.

I laid down a medium avenue in the shape of a D. It extends along the city's borders on one half of the map, with the vertical part running straight down the middle. Inside, I've got zero cross streets, just 4 north/south roads running from top to bottom. The only way to switch streets is to hit an outside avenue and run down it. Someone posted this as a solution to traffic problems on the EA forums, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. So far, I've got 25k pop and I'm getting by with a single fire engine from the crappy cheap firehouse with no other upgrades. I'm impressed so far, but will have to see how it goes when things get bigger.

As for employment, I've still got a TON of unfilled jobs, but they are mainly in the middle and upper class, so I should be able to plant some new areas of high and medium wealth, as I still have 1/4 of the map open (the other 1/4 is taken up by utilities, garbage dump, sewage, water and solar plant).

I only have 12 industrial buildings, and they're at the top, with the wind blowing away from the residential zones. I put 12 little blocks of residential zoning to 4 blocks of commercial zoning in most cases, and when I ran out of space to keep that pattern, I just built residential. It's working well enough to keep me from having a ton of unfilled jobs. Unemployment is a non-issue.

I've been going super super slow, upgrading the infrastructure well in advance of upgrading the streets. I still have a lot of dirt roads in my city, although a little over half are up to medium roads for the population density increase. I have no doubt I'll hit 30k soon, and then I'll reassess where I'm at. Might let it run for a few hours at that to get a bunch of cash before I upgrade to high density roads.

I still have no buses or streetcars and no traffic problems as of yet.

03-12-2013, 03:15 AM	#124
Silock MVP Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Overland Park Casino cash: $10020882	If you run out of space after 3 hours, you're going to have one seriously ****ed up city. There's no way you can adequately plan out a workable city that will scale in that time frame. Yes, the AI needs a lot of work, particularly traffic. I've been trying a city on my own, without anyone else in the region to see if I can get a handle on the traffic and employment. I laid down a medium avenue in the shape of a D. It extends along the city's borders on one half of the map, with the vertical part running straight down the middle. Inside, I've got zero cross streets, just 4 north/south roads running from top to bottom. The only way to switch streets is to hit an outside avenue and run down it. Someone posted this as a solution to traffic problems on the EA forums, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. So far, I've got 25k pop and I'm getting by with a single fire engine from the crappy cheap firehouse with no other upgrades. I'm impressed so far, but will have to see how it goes when things get bigger. As for employment, I've still got a TON of unfilled jobs, but they are mainly in the middle and upper class, so I should be able to plant some new areas of high and medium wealth, as I still have 1/4 of the map open (the other 1/4 is taken up by utilities, garbage dump, sewage, water and solar plant). I only have 12 industrial buildings, and they're at the top, with the wind blowing away from the residential zones. I put 12 little blocks of residential zoning to 4 blocks of commercial zoning in most cases, and when I ran out of space to keep that pattern, I just built residential. It's working well enough to keep me from having a ton of unfilled jobs. Unemployment is a non-issue. I've been going super super slow, upgrading the infrastructure well in advance of upgrading the streets. I still have a lot of dirt roads in my city, although a little over half are up to medium roads for the population density increase. I have no doubt I'll hit 30k soon, and then I'll reassess where I'm at. Might let it run for a few hours at that to get a bunch of cash before I upgrade to high density roads. I still have no buses or streetcars and no traffic problems as of yet.
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