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Originally Posted by worth
Nehkara, were you able to find an optimal plot size for your zones? I watched a lot of youtube videos over the weekend and it seems like a lot of people are making really tiny boxes for zones and then when they go to upgrade buildings, there is no room. I am also thinking this will affect medium and high density buildings. If there is not enough room for these buildings, their not going to be able to be built.
It seems to be kind of hard to judge. You want to use all the land available, but it's hard to tell how much land you need.
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Yeah, the road guides are the key. So, let's say you have a main medium density avenue in your town, and a medium density cross street you are using to create rectangular or square road sections for zoning. If you hold the mouse over the existing intersection (before you have built out), it will show you what you need in terms of zoning for medium density buildings to be allowed to grow.
Now, if those roads are high density roads they will show you zone sizes needed for high density, etc.
This needs to be tutorialized better in the full game and I believe Ocean mentioned they are working on that.
Also, since Beta 1 they have improved zoning and the road guides so that should help.
It is a little hard because if you zone enough room for high density (or even medium density), then things look sparse when everything is still low density.
Patience is the key there.
Here is an example right from Mr. Quigley himself:
