Facilities 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...
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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
