Savings = (ShortOutside - UsedOutside - LongInside) * RoadWidth / 2 (if negative the corner is actually wasting a bit of space compared to normal).Įvery good road has an end (loops are incredibly wasteful because they deprive you of termination points). Combined the corner has saved 0.5 squares over the normal amount of road for the buildings involved. The outside of the corner is a 5圆 that would normally take 2.5 squares of road, but in this case is only taking 1 square of road. In the above example the inside corner building is an 'ideal' 2x2 wasting 1 square of space (2 extra spaces of one side of a road at 0.5 each). The nominal space for a building is Short * (Long + RoadWidth / 2).Ī corner has an inside (where it creates waste because a building has road on two sides) and an outside (where it may save space by allowing a building to take less road than it otherwise would need). This is of course impossible for the most part, but it does serve to create a good median state to compare layouts. All buildings are placed on either side of the road where their short side would touch and all expansions wrap tight around them creating no dead space. This could be a nightmare if you have city design OCD as creating a 'perfect' city is nigh-impossible You still have to decide what's good enough for youįor the purpose of the model, we'll be evaluating the space a building takes up by comparing it to an imaginary city in which your townhall has two roads going out from it in the two perpendicular directions. There will be some general advice along the way but primarily it's going to be focused on evaluating individual features of a layout such that you can look at your city and have an idea how much there is to potentially gain by changing things. This guide is going to put together some basics about designing your city layout in an abstract manner so that it can be applied to a multitude of layout strategies.

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