The only thing i really dislike

[hi]

is the way you have to do oil.

My Island is built, why the ♥♥♥♥ do you come now with your Train....

[XceptOne]

You'll probably get used to it and just plan for it by leaving some space for future rails (basically just a two or three tile wide stripe cutting through your city, or somewhere at the islands edge).
It helps when your engineers are located at the towns periphery, instead of directly in the middle, so there is space to put down a power plant. But that's actually true for all population upgrades and the buildings they require.

Well, but then, often enough I forget about that too.

[Mr. Wiggles]

Yeah it sucks but it's kinda realistic if you ask me

[hi]

Okay so i found stamps....
Stamps ruined it for me, all im doing now is throwing down templates, there's no real reason not to do it this way.

[lauruswolfe]

Publicado originalmente por hi:

Okay so i found stamps....
Stamps ruined it for me, all im doing now is throwing down templates, there's no real reason not to do it this way.

I use stamps for some stuff a lot of people swear by the 10x10 design for housing but I think it wastes a ton of space. If i want to create space for something new i just use the move tool you can shift things around fairly easily with that just click and drag and you can move all your housing over a few tiles to make room if you need it.

[Smokerbait]

This is how it was for everyone. I've been playing since Day One, and yeah that first city I built, I was like "are you serious?" But you have the ability to move buildings and it's not too terrible to shift stuff over at least one tile to create a corridor and place down a track.

And the thing is when you start a new sandbox or campaign, you now know and plan ahead. I actually never use stamps/templates. Of course, they weren't there when I first started playing, so I kind of learned without them, but it really is very easy once you get the hang of it, and you can create sprawling, beautiful cities with or without premades, AND while compensating for future land use due to tracks or monuments or whatever.

[Humble]

Publicado originalmente por lauruswolfe:

Publicado originalmente por hi:

Okay so i found stamps....
Stamps ruined it for me, all im doing now is throwing down templates, there's no real reason not to do it this way.

I use stamps for some stuff a lot of people swear by the 10x10 design for housing but I think it wastes a ton of space. If i want to create space for something new i just use the move tool you can shift things around fairly easily with that just click and drag and you can move all your housing over a few tiles to make room if you need it.

10x10 design is not only leave more space for train if need to be, but beautiful park to make city mix with nature more beautiful rather than row after row of house/building, so it's never waste space, yes downside it's less population but city would be more beautiful and more realistic, 10x10 is petty popular as some player don't want bored same old design row after row,

This guy are good showing why 10X10 is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqtn6HPRDk

[Hundinger]

Publicado originalmente por Humble:

Publicado originalmente por lauruswolfe:

I use stamps for some stuff a lot of people swear by the 10x10 design for housing but I think it wastes a ton of space. If i want to create space for something new i just use the move tool you can shift things around fairly easily with that just click and drag and you can move all your housing over a few tiles to make room if you need it.

10x10 design is not only leave more space for train if need to be, but beautiful park to make city mix with nature more beautiful rather than row after row of house/building, so it's never waste space, yes downside it's less population but city would be more beautiful and more realistic, 10x10 is petty popular as some player don't want bored same old design row after row,

This guy are good showing why 10X10 is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqtn6HPRDk

I love it too. It's super flexible and it makes for nicer looking cities than hyper efficient grid builds. But some people don't care about beauty, they like not "wasting" any space. So it's not for everybody.

[lauruswolfe]

Publicado originalmente por Humble:

Publicado originalmente por lauruswolfe:

I use stamps for some stuff a lot of people swear by the 10x10 design for housing but I think it wastes a ton of space. If i want to create space for something new i just use the move tool you can shift things around fairly easily with that just click and drag and you can move all your housing over a few tiles to make room if you need it.

10x10 design is not only leave more space for train if need to be, but beautiful park to make city mix with nature more beautiful rather than row after row of house/building, so it's never waste space, yes downside it's less population but city would be more beautiful and more realistic, 10x10 is petty popular as some player don't want bored same old design row after row,

This guy are good showing why 10X10 is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqtn6HPRDk

I know that's part of the argument for it I just disagree that it's worth the trade off. I'd rather just make larger parks in some areas i can get creative with or add some roads with trees/grass as a median and still be able to get more efficient coverage of boosts from the town hall etc. But I mentioned it because i know people like it so it's an option.

[Primigenia]

the ability to build oil pipelines would be so cool, they would fit too since the first one was built in 1860

[Sarsgamer]

When it's time for oil It's time to build my production only islands. I remember my first game and my main island really had no space to add trains and tracks so started production only islands and built up production on it and then destroyed production on my main island giving me more space to work with. Then eventually your next islands you plan with tracks.