Do town grow by themselves?

[Dioskouroi]

Do I need to build road so new houses pop up or does the road network expand by itself?

[Saint Landwalker]

Towns will build road on their own in order to grow. You can build some roads yourself to "guide them."

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Town will grow by itself.
However, by experience, they will spread faster if you build roads.
In Train Fever, What I was doing is the following.
1) Set a tram line with the city start you get.
2) Build a big square around the city. with some roads to join the square to the center of city
3) Once the city has 500 pop, I build a bus line following the square (somehow). to catch the new resident and to make some appeal in new spot where I place bus stops. ==> this line will start not being profitable but in less than 10 years, you will begin to have some income and city grow...

So it's up to you

[Dioskouroi]

They really need to tweak and work on their tutorial. So many things left out

[killakanz]

Towns will grow very very slightly if you do nothing with them. It wont be noticeable early game, but later when people buy cars and are able to move between cities themselves, that's when they start growing by themselves.

To make a town grow, it needs any of the following (having more than 1 of the following accelerates growth):
1) Passenger links to other cities (this is where their cars can cause growth if you do nothing)
2) Goods for commercial zones (food, tools and manufactured goods)
3) Goods for industry zones (machines, fuel and construction material)

[saggo]

Originally posted by Nexrema:

They really need to tweak and work on their tutorial. So many things left out

there is a tutorial? xD

[webbie33]

Exactly,... there is a tutorial? Ha, ha, ha. Say it again, that gave me a good laugh.

[Dioskouroi]

Originally posted by saggo:

Originally posted by Nexrema:

They really need to tweak and work on their tutorial. So many things left out

there is a tutorial? xD

Originally posted by dwebster73:

Exactly,... there is a tutorial? Ha, ha, ha. Say it again, that gave me a good laugh.

The question was asked over a year ago when the tutorial was ♥♥♥♥...lol morons