Town design tips

4junk3000 wrote:

evrod20 wrote:
Just to not make any more new threads about this... but, when you design your town just do it randomly or based on some criteria?

At the beggining I was just putting stuffs everywhere and expanding lands such a crazy and desorganized person, but few days ago I started to redesign the whole town and if you have the chance to visit me you'll see (at least what I tried) to make a part of the town residential, other part industrial, other part commercial and so on and on.

How do you do it?

I prefer the more realistic, "city zoned" method as well.

So as i add new properties to town, i shuffle things to stay "in code".

The latest addition was the bowling alley, which i wanted on the divided highway along the outskirts of town. Also in that area is the strip club, drive-in, and giant castle-themed restaurant (something i made to utilize all the bonus wailing walls).

The launch pad is being built on the most expensive squares of real estate out in the really rural area.

I've also got industrial zone, waterfront zone, old town square zone, mountain zone, residential zones, medical zone, and of course SH. So factories, higher-end houses, lower-end houses, commercial buildings, govt buildings, each are in appropriate zones.

I prefer to integrate new stuff into their zones, rather than have items grouped by when they were released in-game. Looks much more realistic, which is my primary design goal. I want things to look like they "FIT". You have to feel it.

That's exactly what I'm trying to do with my town. I think it really looks beautiful and also help me to find stuffs pretty easy.