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How would you describe your average city build? What are the key signs that a city was built by you?
Like may people, I enjoy watching other people play online and before streaming I used to do mayor's diaries (basically a city blog) with the Sim City 4 community. When I look at my cities over time a few trends emerge.
I'm curious what characterizes your cities? What are the giveaway brush-strokes showing a city was painted by you?
- Full city trail systems. It's amazing how far cims will walk.
- Colliding grids, I build urban and big, but I like to let smaller towns grow together over time. This resulting in misaligned grids and some "signature" streets with cool intersections.
- Promenades, as an Urbanist, I'm almost always playing with the goal of maximizing transit/bike/ped travel while getting rid of cars and keeping trucks out of residential areas. There's almost always some grand pedestrian oval or linear park in my cities.
University or Tech Cluster?
I ended up with a dense mostly pedestrianized, tram-centric core which is just off to the right. It looks great on ground level, but I still have some detailing to do before I share. The low-density neighborhoods out of frame in the north are currently getting some well-deserved detailing. I'm not sure what to put to the left of the station, the area is a bit of a dead end but has an excellent train, tram, and bus connections. I imagine I could fit either a small university or a tech cluster with a park. What do you reserve your best-connected areas for?