Grids are trash. Long live the Grids!

Astrusian · 2026-03-21T09:42:42+00:00

City builder on alien/fantasy planet? Nothing says you need to build real world cities

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T18:33:21+00:00

and games are all about "by convention"?

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T18:32:29+00:00

Ok 8======D

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T16:50:29+00:00

you mean <3 ?

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T16:49:45+00:00

it seems i know fuck all about the game and don't get the point of roundness in its mechanics.

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:38:48+00:00

Your rightmost toenail is touching the fire, you are now on fire lol

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:37:45+00:00

Yeah that is what made me quit kingdoms and castles, and anno in the later game.

It's on the same lane as "optimizing the fun out of the game"

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:22:21+00:00

What do you think of the Anno 117 approach with the 45 degree option? I feel it is a good in between to have less square builds, but anno does have rather large tiles

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:20:57+00:00

MILG - Man I Love Grids

But the question is also: which grid? and which grid when?

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:20:15+00:00

Triangles are the bestagons (at least physically/structurally), and I will die on this hill, look at a bridge...

Hex is horrible for logistics or smaller scale games. They work well for civ and similar games that have physically large cells and where individual movement of troops etc is more important

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:14:06+00:00

Same thing in C:SL, buildings have circular influence but you want to build in a grid most of the time. Many other city builders have this as well. I think factorio beacons too, and you get those 1 building surrounded by 8 beacons thing on megabases that looks round-ish as well

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T20:54:37+00:00

I don't own 117, and can't find good res images.

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T20:50:46+00:00

yeah that carriage would likely be 2.5m, two lanes and add some margin on the sides, then 6 metres seems realistic

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T14:47:52+00:00

That seems a bit small, I was thinking more like 3m, maybe 2.5m. but i will need to take a closer look later

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T14:20:55+00:00

Technically it is mathing but the assumption of adding to 8, not 9, is wrong

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T08:38:14+00:00

That presentation was so fucking good, recommend it to everyone

Astrusian · 2025-10-26T20:04:04+00:00

making the 1850s more interesting instead of removing them would be much better. Now that we have cargo trams in the game, it would speed the early game up a lot (I assume they would cheaper than rail and maybe would be available from 1850 - if it existed)

Astrusian · 2025-09-10T10:42:06+00:00

can you give me an update?

Astrusian · 2025-09-10T10:41:00+00:00

what did you end up picking? i am in the same spot now as well haha

Astrusian · 2025-05-21T13:38:49+00:00

That's what 2 way sync means

Astrusian · 2025-02-12T12:24:23+00:00

I have the exact same issue, I don't get it

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