Creating an accurate(ish) Springfield
I've been building mine as a roughly accurate duplicate of the original Springfield, too. It's going we'll so far but I need more space. I've been using this image as a reference http://images.w...
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I've been recently watching old Simpsons DVD box sets in order (I'm up to Season 4 now) and I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with that map (it was from one of the old Simpsons books wasn't it?).
...I'm increasingly minded to ignore the map and focus solely on what's in the episodes - and then whenever things contradict just pick my favourite option.
As others have said the 'zoning' seems like a no brainer - the nice houses aren't going to be next to the industrial buildings, the farm is going to be out in the sticks etc.
One thing that bugs me when visiting other people's towns is a lack of access to buildings, or having to walk over grass to get to a fancy restaurant like the gilded truffle - madness!
(I say this but I currently have a bunch of buildings unatractively bunched up in a corner waiting for me to buy more land so I can't really complain about other people's towns).
...I'm increasingly minded to ignore the map and focus solely on what's in the episodes - and then whenever things contradict just pick my favourite option.
As others have said the 'zoning' seems like a no brainer - the nice houses aren't going to be next to the industrial buildings, the farm is going to be out in the sticks etc.
One thing that bugs me when visiting other people's towns is a lack of access to buildings, or having to walk over grass to get to a fancy restaurant like the gilded truffle - madness!
(I say this but I currently have a bunch of buildings unatractively bunched up in a corner waiting for me to buy more land so I can't really complain about other people's towns).
