DeletedUser6172
If you click on your building menu, and select a piece of roadway, you'll be able to see the scope of your entire city.
Your city will be far more VISITOR FRIENDLY if you reserve the PRIME REAL ESTATE on your initial load screen for your "best visitor clicks."
- The dark green grid is 40x40 and, on the initial load screen all cities are centered edge to edge horizontally (without consideration of the Action popup) and are centered vertically between the top edge of the profile bar and the top of the screen. You can easily look at the chopped off corners of your own city, to verify this positioning.
- The bright green grid is initially 16x16, and it's offset 8 squares toward the upper left of the 40x40 grid. The lower corner of the Town Hall, for a brand new city, is exactly in the center of the 40x40 grid.
- Your Town Hall cannot be motivated nor polished, so there's NO NEED for it to occupy valuable real estate on your initial load screen. Immediately drag it up into the top corner of your 16x16 grid, and then add your first several sectors above the Town Hall so that you can rather quickly get your Town Hall either mostly or entirely off of the initial load screen.
- Military buildings and Goods buildings can't be motivated nor polished either, so parking them up against the two exposed sides of your Town Hall makes really good sense.
- Burying your Great Buildings under the action menu makes a lot of sense.
- Placing your Cultural buildings along to lower right edge of the 16x16 grid also makes sense, as you'll probably need some polishes for a while, but you can gradually shift your Cultural buildings off the rightmost side of your screen once you're able to lock in the 120% productivity bonus, and no longer need the polishes.
Your city will be far more VISITOR FRIENDLY if you reserve the PRIME REAL ESTATE on your initial load screen for your "best visitor clicks."
- Immediately move your Town Hall to the top corner of the initial 16x16 grid, and build upwards until it doesn't occupy any of your prime real estate. Likewise for Military buildings and Goods buildings.
- Let the Action Menu popup cover your Great Buildings.
- Place large Cultural Buildings along the right edge of your city where they'll be handy to polish for a while, but will eventually disappear off to the right of your screen.
- Finally - don't piss off your visitors by hiding decorations, with FAKE STARS, behind your large Cultural buildings.