How Big Is Your Grid?

dougschoemer

I have all the land, it makes the game crash a lot though. x

sonny1618

I've kept my town relatively small, only buying land when I get a new building that I've planned to put there.

As a result my Springfield is more compact but everything has its proper place. I also prefer to have a nice symmetrical rectangle as opposed to having random squares jutting out.

Once Christmas has finished and we've gone on to the next update, I'll concentrate on saving, buying up a lot of land and then doing a complete overhaul and redesign, spacing everything out more. I can't do that while there's snow everywhere though, I need it to get back to normal in order to visualise it properly.

tappedoutdave

I have about 25 squares to go at a cost of 2 million. I have 700k saved.
House farming for me.

Nine9Nines

sonny1618 wrote:

I've kept my town relatively small, only buying land when I get a new building that I've planned to put there.

As a result my Springfield is more compact but everything has its proper place. I also prefer to have a nice symmetrical rectangle as opposed to having random squares jutting out.

Once Christmas has finished and we've gone on to the next update, I'll concentrate on saving, buying up a lot of land and then doing a complete overhaul and redesign, spacing everything out more. I can't do that while there's snow everywhere though, I need it to get back to normal in order to visualise it properly.

That is pretty much word for word how I would describe my land purchasing habits. I always try to keep it a rectangle as well.

arnoutVI

I have still a lot of land to buy.
I buy land when i need It. That is why my Springfield isn't really a designed or planned city.

Azurfale

I've been trying to keep mine square, and trying to get the most expensive ones first. I was happy with my size until the X-mas update and all their oversized buildings.

hgfxf

I have a not too big 8x9 grid. I have very straight streets and tried to be very logical about how it's laid out. I don't have any spaces not planned or zoned and have a border of water touching all of the unbought land & a bridged highway touching the outside edge of the entire paid for artificial island. It's my mini-Manhattan.

The problem lies in if I do expand I usually feel I have to buy the entire row/column to keep my edges straight.

lissarv68

I did the reverse because my OCD wouldn't let me cram my things into a couple of blocks. I bought land and then buildings. It took me a week before I was ready to buy the post office after it came available because I was buying land. I have to buy it in rows because the jutting out pieces drive me bonkers.

Right now I am at 9x8 but I'm in the process of buying the bottom row across to make it 10x8. The Bowl-a-Rama went there and next to it will go a second Kwik-E-Mart along with the Try N Save and some gas pumps to make one of those megaplexes you see off the Interstate that the truckers use. On the same row will go my apartment complex and the retirement castle.

Over on the side I will go down another row to expand to 10x9. I'm putting the prison there and any new buildings that come along like the rumored Burns mansion.

I'm going to post screen shots once I'm done expanding.

I've been able to buy the prison for a couple of days but I've still got another month worth of land to buy. Yes, I will wait that long. I am not in any rush to get done because then what am I going to do? Whine about being bored? LOL

albert2k

mine is 10 x 9

arnoutVI

Nine9Nines wrote:

sonny1618 wrote:

I've kept my town relatively small, only buying land when I get a new building that I've planned to put there.

As a result my Springfield is more compact but everything has its proper place. I also prefer to have a nice symmetrical rectangle as opposed to having random squares jutting out.

Once Christmas has finished and we've gone on to the next update, I'll concentrate on saving, buying up a lot of land and then doing a complete overhaul and redesign, spacing everything out more. I can't do that while there's snow everywhere though, I need it to get back to normal in order to visualise it properly.

That is pretty much word for word how I would describe my land purchasing habits. I always try to keep it a rectangle as well.

That looks logical

I buy land were i deel like. So It is at random.

They only thing what happens most of the time, is the move of Cletus farm to a new square out of the center.
I moord the farm at least 7 times.

winstonrhodes

I'm roughly 10x12... I'm an "organic" builder though... I have a residential zone and a commercial zone which I maintain, but otherwise I try to imagine where a "real-world" location for a new building would be if it were proposed... I think it makes it a bit of fun to fit everything into the "puzzle" rather than re-designing to fit a new structure in. That said I have moved my cemeteries a couple of times... I wish I could pack them away, but they make me $$!

Cheers,
JR

caprici424

Wow, I hadn't realized my Springfield was so small comparatively. Sitting on a 6x7 plot right now, but a few edge plots in the outer rows aren't bought yet. Not having straight lines bugs me too, but I just haven't had money to buy up everything. I have no idea how people are sitting on millions of dollars lol. Thats mind boggling to me! Everything has its place though, and I buy land as I need it. Works for now!

ThomasK323

5 expansions from squaring off to 10x7, so not quite 1/2 bought. By the end of December I expect at least another 15 expansions. I don't know if I'll make it square, probably will buy up the rest of the mountain land first.

mdfriend

11 x 9, but I am going to work it toward a rectngle, should easily get to a 11 x 10 with all that I am collecting money wise on this update.

Ammaterasu

8 x 8

My progress is very slow, due my Springfield is always a square, and I always keep a main park just in the middle.

autographz

I had an 8x8 but decided wasnt enough room once the latest additions hit, so am expanding to 9x9. I dont want to go too big as Im worried about constant crashes.

I want to move some stuff around but its really hard visualising properly with snow everywhere for some reason :?

mattmcshane

Mines 9 x 7 but I'm currently in the process of expanding it to 10 x 8 and ultimately 10 x 10. I have moved my town square centrepiece (with JS statue in the middle and town hall at the north east side) by two entire blocks of land in antcipation of my 10 x 10 finished town. I have it placed so it is exacly in the middle. I am not planning on ever buying land after that point!

mike_bornste

Its not the size of your grid, its what you do with it!

Oh wait, that was a real query, not a double entendre? My bad....
Apropos given Sunday's episode:

Off the top of my head, mine's about 10x12 or so.