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.
3·5 days ago- Ring roads that go around the city to take as much traffic out of it as possible,
- many public transport lines that were designed some time ago and were never updated to more efficiently cover whatever was added after them
- smaller, detached villages / small cities away from the main city that sometimes grow full of skyscrapers for some reason