Facilities placement

This is a good question and something I am still trying to work out. I am hopeful that the pattern will hold. For police and fire I have found I can place them 10 squares apart in the one direction and 12 squares apart in the other direction. This is both fire and police buildings right next to each other so that the fire station is inside 2 of the 12 coverage of the police. Hopefully that makes sense. Then I work parks into this however they fit to get full coverage. So far this appears to be in a grid pattern at rows between the fire and police stations. And hopefully as the city grows outwards this will not conflict with where the police and fire need to be placed. I don't have medical services yet. But small clinics give the best coverage to cost ratio. Seeing that they have 8x8 coverage and the best park cost to boost ratio is 8x6 they could probably be placed next to the park in the side of the 6 coverage direction. I hope I'm making sense. Someone would have to test that to see if coverage can be most efficient that way or some other staggard pattern. Bus terminals have 16x12 coverage area. So they should be easy to place so that the 16 coverage direction is the same direction as the 12 coverage of the police and fire so that they are 4 squares away from them. As for the department of tranportation and department of education buildings you could place them anywhere you like really I would think. In reality those are central hub kind of public buildings where business related to their respective facilities is taken care of. Kind of like city hall. I haven't even looked at the schools yet to see info on them.

That is a good point of view. Thanks for sharing.

I think for maximize time and cash i will start saving money to build the big buildings and cover more area at a lowest cost. Then i will use the small building that i already have when i need to expand the city. 

But maybe i'll just end up with same problem but in a greater area :D

It was just pointed out to me that it is probably in our best interest to get buildings that have the best ratio of capacity to space taken up and coverage to space taken up. This of course changes things unless one goes for incremental development with things that have a coverage area. Thus I am now reconcidering my whole design to go for the best capacity and coverage ratios and implement them as available and reserve space for those buildings as I grow outwards.

medium facilities are better then small because of the larger coverage, in my opinion they are also better then large ones because they dont take so much space and dont need to be placed in the middle of the city all 3.

a nice little trick i';ve learned is that if you cover just 1 square of a 2x2 house, it is considered covered by that facility,

also facilities that have iregular coverage like 6x8 8x10 so on, can be rotated, if you provide them the right road.

so consider these when planning your layout.

I have Dept of Ed and Public Library on the edge of town where I had room, and I am getting complaints that the Sims kids can't get to school. When I moved the library to the centre of town, Sims happiness levels went waaaaaay up. Same with Dept of Transportation.

Now they want Entertainment services. Soon it will be gambling and landmarks. It never ends!

With all the services Sims are demanding, I think I am going to run out of room for residential buildings!

:-P