Zoning Overlay

[piosue]

Pretty cool game I am really enjoying it so far.

I love city building types of games but they all seem to stick with the old SimCity zoning colors. This really drives me crazy. Proper land use colors are yellows for residential, reds for commercial and purples for industrial. Greens are for parks and open spaces, and blues are for institutional.

Yes, you can use whatever colors you want on a map there isn't a law or anything. But land use colors are pretty standard for consistency. At least in the US they are.

I don't know very much about very many things. But I do know quite a lot about zoning.

[GlobalGenocide]

The original sim city used light green for low density residential, dark green for high density. Light blue for low commercial, dark blue for high. Light yellow for industry and dark for high. Every game I have played since then has followed the same scheme.

Your memory isn't serving you well my friend.

[MagnusA]

I think OP is talking about colour use on maps from the real world, not the de facto standard in games developed since many years.

[piosue]

i'm kinda old but my memory isn't that bad. Yes you are correct that every game uses that same color scheme. That is exactly my point. What i am saying is that color scheme is NOT consistent with standard land use colors used on virtually every land use and zoning map in the real world.

MagnusA - yes thank you

[SlimNasty™]

Originally posted by piosue:

i'm kinda old but my memory isn't that bad. Yes you are correct that every game uses that same color scheme. That is exactly my point. What i am saying is that color scheme is NOT consistent with standard land use colors used on virtually every land use and zoning map in the real world.

MagnusA - yes thank you

I think it depends where you go in the world, I've seen a few in my years (don't ask me to remember, I'm too old).

This is the standard in most game types, but it was different in Train Fever originally and was changed to the standard colours due to popular requests in the community for it to be so.

[Vimpster]

As it happens in the first game, Train Fever, the colors were Green for Residential, Red for Commercial, Blue for Industrial, and Yellow for Leisure. They changed it to what we see now presumably to conform to the standard set by the Sim City series, since that is what so many players were more accustomed to.

[piosue]

Thank you for your replies.

I play lots of city-building-type games they are my favorite. I get why the developers would stick with the SimCity colors as that's what people who play these games would probably expect. I'm just trying to do my little part to encourage the developers to stick with the planning community standard (yes there really is a standard but no it is not always followed). Not a big deal.

Anyway, great game i'm really enjoying it so far.