City Design

*Holds up a sword and shield to defend self*

Oh wait, that was in the other EA game I was playing. My mistake. ;)

My design is based on putting stuff in the game in what makes sense the most. So, I have neighborhoods, more or less. Stores over here, houses over there and there, run down stuff here, event stuff grouped into areas from that event, and that's basically it. :)

I don't think you have to worry too much. I say put things where and how you think they look good, and after a while, you'll start to get new ideas, you'll see things others have done, and will create you own ideal for the perfect Springfield.

My main shopping area was pedestrianised.

I currently have left a gap for the Bachelor Appartments despite being nowhere near ready for them yet.

There is asection which I am planning o making into a commercial area ie office blocks and factories plus a sports section mingled with the larger supermarkets.

my original springfield is mostly a pig sti, althugh there are meany nice places on it theres way too much crap to just nuke, need mini nukes and other oprions. my alternate springfield is comming out nice but far from complete, it was nuked on xmas btw. after thats done ill eaither just play or make a 3rd alternate springfield. oh and alternate springfield will feature, almost if not all buidings, no house farms, every char, 2 rivers that nicly flow into each other and some brigers (rivers cause lag). a colvisact, i acualy based it on grove street kind of, moes tavern is located where the green bar (forgot acual name) from gta sa. lots of other "special" features that are to be secret exept the few who can see :twisted: .

90 % of my towns are just 'there's a spot, stick it there'. Of the parts I deliberately designed:

I have brown house farm in my landing zone for neighbors to tap, with all the fast regenerating builds nearby.

The West(ish) side of my town has the Squidport and all the buildings where 4 hour tasks take place. 4 hours is my most common task time, so it just makes sense. I don't have to scroll back and forth all over town to tap my thumbs-ups.

The Easternmost edge is my Blue House farm. I'll move them out farther or purchase more farms to house as I buy more land. To the West of that I've dumped all my buildings and decorations.

The central area is for new buildings as they become available and I find out more about them.

My plan to 'evolve' the town is long term and will need a lot more land and Squidport tiles. I'm still dealing with Level 49 (level 47 in my secondary town), so It's gonna be a while...

For the most part, no rhyme or reason.

I put the Krustyland bus stop right next to the school because that's what Krusty would do. All day long the kids stare out the windows at the big Krustyland sign, and at night they bug their parents to take them there.

But other than putting similar buildings near each other -- restaurants with restaurants, castles with castles -- it's a free-for-all.

Before Halloween 2013, I started reorganizing my town from high ground at the top of the screen to low ground at the bottom. To save space, I don't decorate individual shops but try to arrange them in interesting ways. I found after a while that I was simply placing them tallest to shortest. In short, high to low, tall to short.

In essence, my town is arranged like a grade school class photo.

I'd like to rearrange a few areas but am scared to Nuke. Part of my town completely vanished recently and I had to contact EA to have it restored - which they did.

I aim to make my town reasonably authentic as a model of Springfield - but it's a game so I like to have fun with it too. The last thing I would ever want is for it to look like Other Springfield. Actually that is not strictly true: I WISH I could nuke my town and then have the patience to re-assemble it as an exact replica of Other Springfield just to freak my neighbours out. :shock: :wink:

Barry, sorry if I misspoke. I simply meant that I didn't want anybody coming on and apologising for what they'd done or hadn't done in their towns.

Thanks everybody who has explained about your towns.

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Barry, sorry if I misspoke. I simply meant that I didn't want anybody coming on and apologising for what they'd done or hadn't done in their towns.

Thanks everybody who has explained about your towns.

You're perfectly fine. My apologies for being silly.

My town is organized into themed "blocks." I have a poor neighborhood, a regular neighborhood, an apartment block, and a mansion district. I have a block that's basically a strip mall, and I have a slightly more "upscale" shopping area. I have a cheap restaurant block and a nice restaurant block. I have an entertainment district with the arcade, wax museum, bowling alley, etc. I also have a red-light district with the strip clubs, bars, casino and race track. I also have a Christmas area, an industrial park, and a big forest off on one edge.

There are a few blocks that were just sort of tossed together for the moment. I'll probably work on them more when I get a chance. I'm probably going to do some major reorganization after I get the last strip of land.