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The in-game interface of placing buildings isn't nearly as bad as the home decorating interface is, but it isn't easy at all to plan out a city without having every building already constructed and ready to place.

What I'd LOVE to see is a small "out of game" utility that follows the same placement rules as in the game, contains the shape and footprint of every building (including harvesters), and will show the radius of the varying stages of cities.

This would really help in constructing a town plan / city map that could be saved and posted on the web.

Just a thought,

Cheers,

Alya Benere (Starsider)

Try SmartDraw. It (along with a patient guildmate who extracted all the structure pictures from the overhead map) helped me create this:

http://www.everygamesucks.com/swg/citysmall.png

You mean something like this?

http://www.vector-inc.com/images/grid.jpg


That was created in about 10 minutes with a tool I developed in PHP for use in developing the city I'm associated with. I currently host it on my server, but I will not open it up for use to anyone else due to the bandwidth usage and server load it incurs. I may eventually provide the source code once I'm satisfied with it, however.

Just designate one person to be the only individual to place structures. With the new structure rules its almost impossible to find a bad house placement.

Get the footprint sizes and make it on excel. It's quite easy that way, just resize the cells to a square and you're set =)

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Leviticus_Maximus wrote:

Just designate one person to be the only individual to place structures. With the new structure rules its almost impossible to find a bad house placement.

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Boy I wish this were true. In my 150m radius, seven house spots are unplacable out of 60. So it IS VERY POSSIBLE to find bad terrain. The restrictios are relaxed, but NOT NEARLY ENOUGH.

RbT

well.. I have hilly country.. I found out small houses have more slack than any other houses

One house "ramp" was so far.. it turns in the middle like a stair well it was kinda cool (I was using Generic and tatooine)

You be surprise how much slacks you get

This is how I did it and atm My city looks exactly like this ..... exept there are may more houses now

http://www.northstar-alliance.net/img/screenshots/152_newcity2.gif

I'm actually working on something exactly like this.. It will even have a web interface. I already have all the Naboo and generic structures.. Not sure I have the patience to get the Tat structures though.