Space Saving Tips.

PonyDx · July 13, 2014 8:21PM

Not really. Lol
Not sure what you were trying to show. Looked like a lot of wasted space. Hum

JimJ321 · July 13, 2014 8:52PM

LOL...be nice. The OP has their own way if playing.
Happy tapping!

bren1960 · July 13, 2014 9:04PM

Oh, wasn't trying to be rude. My apologies

casinolyrics · July 13, 2014 9:19PM

Good job on the wax museum & egg nog bar. Thanks for the ideas.

LPNintendoITA · July 13, 2014 9:24PM

he meant for example that other buildings can be seen as extension of one other.
1st for example the wax museum seems like an extension with a secondary door to I&S and KL studios. and the crashed ufos and debris looks like a garbage dump.
2nd Fat Tony's Compound behind calmwood looks like a building inside of the park of CW.
3rd look like a prison and the entrance control point (egg nog bar) on the right of it.
4th the sun sphere is part of the lab and behind it like a research lab (El chemistry) with the laser gun near it

welshee6779 · July 13, 2014 9:30PM

Take it from one that has little or no artistic flare, these tips and pics. are interesting to see if nothing else. Nice work Op.

Linkwick · July 13, 2014 9:51PM

Some nice blending, OP - like the Wax Museum/I&S Studios one.

My space-saving tip? Don't overuse roads. Especially, don't encircle individual buildings with roads. If you want more space, make larger blocks of buildings.
Case in point is "Other Springfield" - almost every building is on it's own city block!!
If you have a 2x2 squares block of land, you use 12(!!!) squares of road to surround that block. a 3x3 square block would use 16(!!!) squares for it.

neuroheart · July 13, 2014 9:56PM

Im_Homeralone · July 13, 2014 10:03PM

What people lack is the ability to judge scale.

Scale people, SCALE!

meinaz · July 13, 2014 10:22PM

neuroheart wrote:

I like your mall setup. I have tried combining stores with the mall but mine have just looked messy.

OP, I like your first picture. I think blending buildings together is a great idea. I just am not very good at it.

jraffa50 · July 13, 2014 10:24PM

What's the second picture of? The one with Calmwood?

jukan00 · July 13, 2014 11:19PM

Im_Homeralone wrote:

What people lack is the ability to judge scale.

Scale people, SCALE!

EA makes it pretty hard to keep to scale when they release restaurants and other things that are as big as a baseball stadium.

epolng · July 14, 2014 12:31AM

I would second the notion that you can save a lot of space by either combining buildings (a little experimentation will get you a mall) or just not thinking each house needs to be on it's own separate block. Look at the real world and use it as inspiration. Downtown Springfield shouldn't be all spread out. Land is at a premium and they building close because it saves money as well as makes things more convenient for foot traffic. Remember, these folks walk everywhere. Your best design is going to take that into account and make it easy for them.

ink19810 · July 14, 2014 3:26AM

Or you could ditch all of those parking spaces and pavement areas

lee67628 · July 14, 2014 6:19AM

My town is modeled after the first version Other Springfield... So a lot of land are wasted on Road.

I like OP's idea, but I'd never do that. I like each of my buildings visible and stand alone, and not hidden or overlapped.

NMayo · July 14, 2014 6:42AM

lee67628 wrote:

My town is modeled after the first version Other Springfield... So a lot of land are wasted on Road.

I like OP's idea, but I'd never do that. I like each of my buildings visible and stand alone, and not hidden or overlapped.

same here (as far as the not having buildings crammed together.) I prefer to let them each have their own space and be decorated separately.

kenalbon89 · July 14, 2014 7:16AM

I don't have my SF modelled after the original but I do pay very close attention to the layout of my town, changing the layout of some of my newer sections to make way for new buildings and decorations... I am only at the tender level 30 and even though I am always running out of space I don't think I have it in me to go to those extremes just to save space. If I can't properly see the building it just wouldn't make sense for me to even have it out, hence the constant remodeling!

Kudos to the OP for his originality, though, and although a lot of it isn't my cup of tea I do like your geeky Frink section!

JimJ321 · July 14, 2014 8:13AM

If you put all the buildings together you wouldn't need roads!

chippers29775 · July 14, 2014 8:19AM

I love the creative prison yard area! Especially with Bart locked inside. The tetherball and barbed wire fences are a nice touch too!

4junk3000 · July 14, 2014 2:19PM

Linkwick wrote:

Some nice blending, OP - like the Wax Museum/I&S Studios one.

My space-saving tip? Don't overuse roads. Especially, don't encircle individual buildings with roads.

THIS!!!

i don't understand why so many towns have road around every bldg. And without stop signs? What a traffic nightmare it would be... If there were cars. Haha

My town has an abundance of parking, but is intentional and will become new development as new buildings become available. Kinda like real life malls do. Even though I'd like more land to expand the backyards in my SF Heights district, i have plenty of room for new releases, throughout the town.

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