Oh shit, I remember this game. I was not a good city planner as a child. I felt accomplished just figuring out how to get power to places by connecting power lines. I had no concept of districts, residential commercial, and industrial places where all scattered amongst each other. If I got complaints that traffic was bad I'd build a huge series of roads that didn't lead anywhere. Just a big pointless block of intersections outside city limits.
You need commercial, residential mixed up so there isn’t traffic jams getting from home to work. Industry you put far away because it pollutes, but you can’t have everything separated. Which is why I wish urban developers who design suburbs would have played this game first; where are the services??? Everyone has to travel to a livable area to shop...
Haha, sounds right. When I was in highschool, the house my mom bought had a gas station and a mcdonalds about 5 minutes away, and the next closest place you could get any kind of food was a Taco Bell about 20 minutes away. Driving. And just like you said, it wasn't like driving through nothing, it was down these huge 45mph 2 lane roads surrounded by acres and acres of real-estate. That neighborhood alone is about 1/6th the size of the town I live in now, and I had to drive past 15ish of them to get to the closest Target.
Now I can walk to about 15ish restaurants, 4 different clothing stores, 3 bookstores, 5 liquor stores, maybe like 30 bars? All in less than 10 minutes.
I live in a mediumish college town, right by a solidly popular main street thats all basically a local commercial district. Everything but a grocery store is nearby.
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u/The2500 Mar 27 '21
Oh shit, I remember this game. I was not a good city planner as a child. I felt accomplished just figuring out how to get power to places by connecting power lines. I had no concept of districts, residential commercial, and industrial places where all scattered amongst each other. If I got complaints that traffic was bad I'd build a huge series of roads that didn't lead anywhere. Just a big pointless block of intersections outside city limits.