Chino Kafuu
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I used to do it. Now I just fit as much as possible together. Got rid of 200+ roads and freed up about 300 squares.
Looks really good. You've also done a pretty good job balancing the heights of buildings which is something I struggle with. Looks like a very clear layout!Being in a field closely related to actual city planning in real life, I just cannot help enacting a zoning ordinance every time I reorganize my FoE city. Here's my current layout. I hope you all can sense the thematic provisions in this version of the city's General Plan (e.g., the civic center plaza, the downtown commercial district, the entertainment district, the industrial district and, of course, the Little Tokyo Special Cultural Zone, etc.).
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Thanks! Yeah, the height of buildings is indeed one of the things I try to balance out across the map in my zoning scheme. Over-concentration of tall buildings tends to be depressing to our hardworking citizens.Looks really good. You've also done a pretty good job balancing the heights of buildings which is something I struggle with. Looks like a very clear layout!
Yep! I used to do that. I probably still do, just because I didn't bother moving them since.Way back when defense actually mattered, it was fun to hide Watchfires behind tall buildings to lure plunderers into thinking you were an easy mark.
I'm hiding a winner's plaza behind the Ferris wheels and a magnum opus behind the Chateau. Too many of the same buildings don't look good to my picky eyes.I guess I never really thought about the heights of buildings, except for the consideration of blocking buildings behind them. I try to keep tall buildings - especially GBs, at the back edge of the city, so they don't block the view of other buildings. OTOH, I'm perfectly happy to block views of buildings I don't need to see - ones that never need to be clicked on. I also think about this with regard to which side of a road a building is on. If there's a road between two buildings, that's an extra space to let the building behind be seen.
Makes perfect sense.I try to put the Magnum Opus in front of something that an artist would want to paint a picture of.
No one is telling you how to play, but I can't help but wonder why you don't upgrade your housing to something beyond the Middle Ages. You could have the same population for much less space. Even if only to make room for more Golden Crops.
And yeah, I guess it really does count. It's weird, but it counts!