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I'm Trying to compare my city with others. Could some of you take a radar picture of your city?

Also include some of the eye candy spots of the city.

What does your city look like?

Sh!t - lol

But hey, we're moving stuff around. Before we HAD to be crammed in. Now with the large radius, we're moving everything we can.

Most people's first thought will be "mess."

We prefer "home" and "sprawl."

This is Temenos Island, as laid out by our very kind and neurotic cantina owner. Bless his heart, he's an asset to our community and a GREAT guy!

http://www.tyger.org/~tiger/SWG/TIMapGrid.png

We started out as a mess to get people in close to city hall and now have begun our "Urban Renewal" phase..

So far, so good... but the terrain makes the placement of structures difficult still (Eastern Dune Sea on Tatooine, very close to the Krayt Graveyard).

Our Civic Structures (Shuttle, Cloner, City Hall and Bank) are all stretched out in a nice line that runs from East to West forming a "Main Street" which will be populated also with Gardens and other relaxing displays. Our Primary Hospital is in this path and our Primary Cantina is just off to the side in line with the houses which line either side of Main Streetleaving areas easily wide enough to drive vehicles down without having to worry about running over other people or buildings.

The renewal has also spawned a "cross-street" of Main Street right near the Shuttleport - so we have another avenue to enjoy as well as we stretch things North/South (as far as the city radius will allow at that distance from City Hall.

Unfortunately, my "map" doesn't show far enough to give a better visual for how this is all working, but it's shaping up nicely =)

--Mikka
Mayor, Krayt's End - Tatooine.Lowca

Well, here is our city design, though we havent gotten all homes and parks in place yet. And our city designer, Denier, has been very busy so he hasnt had the time to update it.

http://www.knology.net/~howard/NB-SWG-UrbanPlanningCommittee/District_Addresses.htm

How would I take a radial picture like that?

Rightclick and SaveAs, then open the file in your Paint program (I guarantee, if you're running Windows anything, you've got Paint in there somewhere.) and change the view to large.

Each 'pixel' equates to one block. You can see that small and medium houses are 3x4, Large Houses are 5x7, and so forth. Black dots indicate where the door faces, and grey squares without black dots are planned house spots. The big pink area is the factory zone.

http://www.mrnelsongroup.com/hp/CityPlanWIP.bmp

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Kairo wrote:

Well, here is our city design, though we havent gotten all homes and parks in place yet. And our city designer, Denier, has been very busy so he hasnt had the time to update it.

http://www.knology.net/~howard/NB-SWG-UrbanPlanningCommittee/District_Addresses.htm

How would I take a radial picture like that?

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Holy Crap! What program did he use to create those maps?

wowzers!!! that is one sweet way to plan out a city.. I have them in my head and try to do the best we can (due to landscape issues) luckily almost all my civic buildings are near the city hall but wowzer!!!

HOLY COW!!! Super nice layout! I am going to have to create a character there just to go visit North Beach!

Without using any planning tools, I believe my city of LokNLoad on Naritus has turned out quite nicely. The main attraction is a large North/South avenue which makes a great race track. There is also an east/west avenue. The housing is a mix of tatooine style and generic and the overall feel of the suburbs is one of "Organized Sprawl". The city center is lovely and looks fantastic at night. We are located in a circular valley and as it fills in, the whole place is just feeling more and more "Star Warsy" to me.

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SunLao wrote:

Holy Crap! What program did he use to create those maps?

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He uses a CAD program, dont ask me what CAD is, he's the computer genuis, I just use it

He also made an alias program where all is needed is a /(lot letter and number) and the waypoints are created automaticlly. Great guy he is, yes indeedy.

Oh and thanks for the kind words about the city, its gonna look great.

Hello. Here is the current and planned layout of Confluentes, Dantooine on Naritus (1300 -2156).

http://www.wowway.com/~blackrs/City3.htm

It's two weeks old tonight (got in before the second expansion when another city collapsed). Current houses are labeled in red. The rest is planned. It has gone through many iterations and changes , but each change is made on the layout before it is implemented. As you can see, the city is built between two converging rivers.

I've worked really hard getting this from plan to something real and it's coming along great. Let me know what you all think.

-Aero'bio

http://pity.us/img/swg/city/cityplan.gif

Be warned - the image is about 1200x800, and we're still in the infancy of planning it, but everything is to scale (2px per meter). I'm pretty proud of it

I don't know how to explain it...compact sprawl is the closest but that is sort of an oxymoron. We just started out so we have to cram 20 homes in the first radius. All well and good if your on flat land but we are on top of a plateau so it turns out that we're gonna have to squeeze in as much as we can and probably bribe merchants. Yay. Although when we hit the larger ranks it is gonna look beautiful I garuntee that. Even if I get kicked out of office I"ll bug the current mayor with my ideas enough that he'll just stand down and do things my way...or ignore me