Creating large cities

jvassie · Post by **jvassie** » 04 Jan 2005 10:58

Hi!

I am experimenting with the scenario editor in OpenTTD and i cant make any cities bigger than about 8,000 pop. Does anyone know how i can step by step get a bigger city?

Cheers

James

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 04 Jan 2005 11:07

Lay some extra roads, remove some small buildings in the center of the town, and expand it again... this works in TTD(Patch)... don't know if it works in OTTD too

fire87 · Post by **fire87** » 04 Jan 2005 11:11

It worked in TTO so why shouldn't it work in OpenTTD?

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 04 Jan 2005 11:16

It should work IMO, but you never knows what those guys did with the code

mike[F] · Post by **mike[F]** » 04 Jan 2005 14:58

Yep it does. Lay roads in a fashion similar to how I've done it here.

Also, you will find that once you run the game for a little while, the population will expand a lot as smaller buildings get replaced by the town council anyway. So if you make a 50,000 town in the editor, it will go to about 120,000 after 10 years of play - especially if you put some bus stops in the town.

Doing it in a later year also causes buildings that have higher populations to be built, which is again useful.

jvassie · Post by **jvassie** » 04 Jan 2005 15:48

i already do what mike says, it works well for a good layout. Your method works Purno! im slowly increasing the population!

james

Sionide · Post by **Sionide** » 04 Jan 2005 16:48

jvassie · Post by **jvassie** » 04 Jan 2005 17:21

yeh thats good sionide!

i meant though that for one city to have more than 20,000 or whatever population! Not a sprawling lump of cities, thats pretty easy.

cheers

james

jvassie · Post by **jvassie** » 04 Jan 2005 17:50

At the moment i am creating:- Metramegalopolis

This is only the first version though, one of the islands has been coated in roads ready for towns to be put in.

Sionide · Post by **Sionide** » 04 Jan 2005 21:33

yeah i know, i was just joking - sort of

look forward to seeing yours when it's done!!

edit: wow, that's amazing, with the grid system i just created a city with population 125,000 in about 5 mins!

you quite into buses then?

Roo · Post by **Roo** » 04 Jan 2005 21:57

Grid system is not the best solution. I'm creating a city using different (much more efficient) system. It's slow, but the results will be fantastic. My current population is 82K - it's realy not the end.

Sionide · Post by **Sionide** » 04 Jan 2005 22:08

strange, using the grid system i'm making a city, current population 245,000

edit: how can your method be much "more efficient" if it's slower?!?

edit 2: hmm something appears to have gone wrong... have a look at attached screenie

mike[F] · Post by **mike[F]** » 04 Jan 2005 23:03

Roo wrote:Grid system is not the best solution. I'm creating a city using different (much more efficient) system. It's slow, but the results will be fantastic. My current population is 82K - it's realy not the end.

I've got to 150k with a grid system without much trouble..

Sionide · Post by **Sionide** » 05 Jan 2005 14:44

grid system using: got to around 280,000 last night before i got bored... pretty amazing still!!

Roo · Post by **Roo** » 05 Jan 2005 16:20

My current city population is 323K, and it's realy not the end.

Hey, lets make a test: Try to create a city using original TTD editor (no Open TTD or TTDpatch) I want to see, how large will be your city using your grid system

I think it will not exceed 25K

Observer · Post by **Observer** » 05 Jan 2005 17:17

Today I have started to create a huge town myself... using a modified gridsystem ... now its at 109.000 because I got bored... maybe Ill expand it again tomorrow

mike[F] · Post by **mike[F]** » 05 Jan 2005 19:33

Roo wrote:My current city population is 323K, and it's realy not the end.

Hey, lets make a test: Try to create a city using original TTD editor (no Open TTD or TTDpatch) I want to see, how large will be your city using your grid system I think it will not exceed 25K

Oh, I thought you were talking about in OpenTTD. In TTD I could never get very big towns.

Roo · Post by **Roo** » 05 Jan 2005 21:03

Yes, we are talking about Open TTD. I only mentioned an idea of creating cities in original TTD to show, how grid system is inefficient (becouse original TTD cities are very size-limited) My original TTD largest city had a population of 35 000. Try to reach it

My current Open TTD city has a population of 502 000. I'll try to reach 1 milion

Sionide · Post by **Sionide** » 05 Jan 2005 22:21

so what's your genius way then? let's see some screenshots...

John · Post by **John** » 05 Jan 2005 22:21

TTDPatch city with 2 mil...

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=130719#130719

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