Creating a mega city, or maybe 2.

[DiscoDave]

Apologies if this has touched on before.
Is it possible to build a really massive city, or would I need at least 2 to start with?

I want to build a big city that has transport links to various outlying areas and also connected to the centre of the map, if that makes sense?

Regards.

[RadiKyle]

Hi, yes just plop multiple towns near each other to represent different parts of the city and they will grow into each other over time. And melt yer PC. Win

[Tsubame ⭐]

Without plopping towns together, you would have to supply all its cargo needs as well as creating as many passenger destinations with other cities. This is a fairly slow process, and even then there is a limit on how much a single town will grow.

As pointed above, it is much easier just to plop multiple towns side by side. I recommend the Advanced Town Builder as opposed to the vanilla Town Plopper mod. This also makes it easier to plan things as well as easily make metro areas more morphologically interesting - i.e. not just roughly spherical small blobs of buildings.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3041467832

To avoid issues due to large populations, use a population reducing mod such as the Population Factor mod, this will allow you to significantly stretch your playthrough.

You can also use ploppable assets, but that takes a lot of time.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2538066706