Underground Option

[Wardaor]

Pleased consider an underground only option, with perhaps a surface entrance level and a second floor garden level.

[CaptainGeoluread]

That might be an interesting focus for my next play. The game starts off with floors 0 and -1 built. I'll look into it for you but I think a lot of the later tier stuff demands upper floors.

[Legion, Duke of Rockford]

interesting idea.

Speaking of underground, I have to honestly admit that I was rather disappointed to see that metro station shown in a YouTube gameplay video did not extend into like two or three floors and also show the rail tracks with tunnel on both ends of building's footprint like it was in SimTower. I would say tunnels only at both ends of building, unlike SimTower where it took up the ENTIRE floor for the tunnel. I dunno.

[oldeguy]

Subway and store would be cool like Sim Tower

[Vae_Victo]

lolz, plus nuclear shelter and water purification and food growing/processing?:)

might me a nice sequel

[Abalister]

Underground, 4-5 floors below, would be realistic. Some towers have parking garages, stores, paths to other nearby towers, paths to subway entrances, paths to staircases, electrical rooms, storage, delivery area, kitchens, restaurants, garbage disposals, etc.

[Wardaor]

Originally posted by Abalister:

Underground, 4-5 floors below, would be realistic. Some towers have parking garages, stores, paths to other nearby towers, paths to subway entrances, paths to staircases, electrical rooms, storage, delivery area, kitchens, restaurants, garbage disposals, etc.

The game already allows 20 floors underground in one mode.

I am talking about a scenario where you have to build nearly your entire tower in reverse. A couple of floors above ground with a garden roof, and the rest of the tower diving down 40 to 100 floors or something like that.

In my opinion, at a certain point in our future there will be a paradigm shift in how we view nature that will shift how we build our cities. I believe that we will begin to create massive underground stuctures in the center of our major cities and place parks on their top floors. This movement has already begun in a minor way in New York city, and I believe it will eventually snowball.

[Legion, Duke of Rockford]

Originally posted by Wardaor:

Originally posted by Abalister:

Underground, 4-5 floors below, would be realistic. Some towers have parking garages, stores, paths to other nearby towers, paths to subway entrances, paths to staircases, electrical rooms, storage, delivery area, kitchens, restaurants, garbage disposals, etc.

The game already allows 20 floors underground in one mode.

I am talking about a scenario where you have to build nearly your entire tower in reverse. A couple of floors above ground with a garden roof, and the rest of the tower diving down 40 to 100 floors or something like that.

In my opinion, at a certain point in our future there will be a paradigm shift in how we view nature that will shift how we build our cities. I believe that we will begin to create massive underground stuctures in the center of our major cities and place parks on their top floors. This movement has already begun in a minor way in New York city, and I believe it will eventually snowball.

Why would you want to build homes underground? It can only go so far and I doubt anyone would want windowless home deep under. I think that it can only go down so far and I think it will simply be a waste of valuable space. No, I think, we will continue to go up and up. At least you can better appreciate nature from having exposure through windows and balconies as well the street level. I think skyscrapers has more advantages to offer.

[Legion, Duke of Rockford]

Not that I'm against building underground for Project Highrise, though... I would support inclusion of a scenario in the game or at least its future expansion.

[MrAltF4]

I can see it now... the visions have come to me, yes yes, this is the new highrise! http://prntscr.com/bw1kvg


wouldn't it be more of a "lowrise", when building underground, right?

[Wardaor]

An interesting trend in urban development.
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/trendy-urby-waterfront-community-boasts-its-own-farm-bodega-and-urban-beehive/

[warped]

It would be nice if one could build even further downward, for those secret government experiment tenants.

[hunt45]

need some help. i am just starting and was wondering why i suddenly cant build underground homes anymore. i started a new game thinking it was a bug but still it happened. first i was able to build the tiny houses under ground no problem but now the homes cant be filled anymore since all tenants are properly placed above ground. can i change this or why did this happen ? in the other build i needed to go back to small since i made a mistake costing me most of my shops and homes when i noticed this. the most basic appartment is now a basic studio appartment

[Halsivon]

20 floors underground? i only has 10! and im unable to build more

[NetPCDoc]

Originally posted by hunt45:

need some help. i am just starting and was wondering why i suddenly cant build underground homes anymore.

FYI: the tiny apartment, with a communal bath requirement, has a Student Apartment option that can be built underground; as far as I know this is the only apartment that the game allows one to place underground.

[SomaSim]

Originally posted by halsivon:

20 floors underground? i only has 10! and im unable to build more

Some scenarios go deeper than 10 and people mod the setup for larger buildings.