Love the game - why is my city expansion capped

[RumSpringaHQ]

So I love coming home when I'm sick or feeling like ♥♥♥♥ and spending hours building out portions of cities and expanding everything.

However I just hit the max level you can get per city and it looks like I can no longer buy more squares. This is just gunna be how it is for now or is this some sort of DLC thing?

[Asguard]

If you play on the pc there is a 81 square mod

[Simon]

Originally posted by RumSpringaHQ:

So I love coming home when I'm sick or feeling like ♥♥♥♥ and spending hours building out portions of cities and expanding everything.

However I just hit the max level you can get per city and it looks like I can no longer buy more squares. This is just gunna be how it is for now or is this some sort of DLC thing?

If you want to expand past 9 squares, then you need a mod.

[RumSpringaHQ]

Ahhhhh I didn't even think about that. thanks guys!

[RumSpringaHQ]

Originally posted by Asguard:

If you play on the pc there is a 81 square mod

what where's the mod on workshop, I search square and nothing related.

[Firefinch]

You will need this Mod as well as the Harmony Mod that allows it to run

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=576327847

[Imhotep]

81-tile mod can cause problems with metro.

Alternatively, there are 25-tile mods, such as this one:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=405810376

[timstim_x]

Originally posted by Imhotep:

81-tile mod can cause problems with metro.

Alternatively, there are 25-tile mods, such as this one:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=405810376

The only problem 81 tiles causes can be mostly avoided by purchasing all remaining tiles at once. You have to rebuild underground tracks and underground stations once, but it won't happen after you've finished purchasing all tiles.

[MaxFX]

The 9 tile limit isn't the only game limit. Read this guide to learn more about them: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2712549268&searchtext=break+the+limits

[Tsubame ⭐]

For contiguous expansion on a flat map with little terrain, 25 tiles worth of roads is the most you will be able to build with the current hard limits, due to segment and node limits.

Of course, you will hit the vehicle limit long time before that, though this can be bypassed through the More Vehicles mod. Depending on how you develop your city, you will hit the building limit of 48k long time before too - i.e. lots of small lots.

81 tiles is best for maps with lots of farms, forests, and/or unbuildable terrain.

[Ripp]

25 tiles will give you all you need to build anything you want or can use and it's a lot easier on your systems resources. The game won't let you fully occupy an 81 tile map any way.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by RumSpringaHQ:

why is my city expansion capped

Because the game's AI is designed for only 9-tiles.

You can expand the tiles with Steam, but I'd recommend using only the 25-tile unlockers.

The 81-tile unlocks tiles that weren't meant to be unlocked, so you will always need the 81-tile mod for it to function properly at the outer two rows of the map. Plus it has a high impact on performance using the 81-tiles.

But the inner 25-tiles are meant to be unlocked, and they will stay unlocked if you remove the 25-tile unlocker. So, no extra performance being used other than filling the tiles themselves.

Trying to fill 25-tiles will be hard as the game has other limits on building inside your city, so you likely won't be able to fill all 25-tiles completely.

But there will be times when you want to use all 81-tiles to build your city sporadically and not be so full, in that case, then 81-tiles is great, just be aware it has some issues when building in those outer two rows. plus the performance loss when using the 81-tile unlocker. It isn't game breaking slow by itself, but combined with other workshop, can prove to bog you down a bit.

You also may need some mods past 9-tiles as the AI isn't as efficient the larger the city gets. You can usually avoid these mods, by building in certain ways to prevent overloading the AI.

Just be prepared to ask lots of questions as you exceed the 9-tiles. Luckily there are lots of users experienced in exceeding 9-tiles ready to help.