Anonymous
11 years agoFacilities placement
What is the best strategy for placing all the facilities in order to maximize the influence range at the cheapest cost? I currently havê unlock all the way to medical facilities but i find is prety di...
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.