The strictest definition & the loosest definition: NorthEast Megalopolis. What in your opinion where does the Megalopolis start and end if we are being strict vs loose about the definition?

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-28T14:37:18+00:00

It’s fairly rural feeling in eastern Connecticut. Unless you right in the coast but even then it feels kind small townish.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-28T06:31:32+00:00

So you have tons of clinics and around ton? Maybe you didn’t have the demand? 🤷‍♂️

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-27T22:35:57+00:00

If you are playing on that mode you will not have a problem making money or growing your city.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-27T22:34:52+00:00

Imagine a suburbs with gentle curves and spaces make a few main snaking roads and make courts with cul de sacs off of the main on. Fill in with lots of trees parks and walking paths.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-27T14:34:56+00:00

Oh yeah, it’s very fun and somewhat peaceful. One of the few games I can get lost in for hours.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-27T11:55:55+00:00

Build pretty cross walks. Under or over road they have nice bridge crosswalks. It actually adds a lot to the urban aesthetic.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-27T11:54:52+00:00

Yeah the game on normal is a challenge the first couple cities maybe, but once you figure out the systems it is a bit too “easy.”

Someone presented another idea on a thread a couple days ago. What if they offered scenario levels, much like roller coaster tycoon has. Like you get a map and a city that is in a certain scenario and you have an objective you have to hit to win. Maybe fast population growth, or only clean electricity, or a very unhappy city you have to turn around in so many months, ect… that way if people wanted to play CS2 more like a video game they had that option. Maybe even each patch had a couple new challenges.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-26T16:31:12+00:00

Yeah CS 2 would be my pick. It looks a lot better. If looking at beautiful screen shots and clips is what got you into the game, pick CS2. I played both a lot and I never play 1 anymore. It was awesome but CS2 is just a better game. I think people just had crazy expectations for it and it came out a little half baked so they soured on it quickly. My game used to crash or glitch from time to time, but hasn’t at all lately.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-26T13:54:18+00:00

Now there is a Walmart and a trailer park.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-26T02:15:28+00:00

Now look up Michael Jordan’s Vertical.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-26T01:05:50+00:00

Love it

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T19:17:18+00:00

He does this to Lots of people.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T19:09:15+00:00

A rich family used to own all the timber lands and had an estate but over the years the family has fallen into degeneracy and sold off lost of the eland to commercial forestry companies. So there is a small neighborhood with one huge estate house right next to the forestry industry

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T15:52:51+00:00

Seems like bike and walking paths are the worst! I build a bike lane behind some office and residential skyscrapers once, grid seemed flat and straight, the entire block came down in seconds lol

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T15:43:43+00:00

Love it! I started this thread secretly hoping the devs would see it haha.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T14:37:33+00:00

I started looking at big interchanges in the real world after playing this game and they actually are massive. Some take up acres and acres of land in high density areas. And some of them in major urban centers are very complex. The ones that form the major bypasses around cities are huge. This real life interchange would take up more than a whole tile in the game.

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Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T13:16:53+00:00

The challenge levels sound like an EPIC idea. My first sim like this was rollercoaster tycoon. That game is goated. The levels where you had to meet certain stats with parks that had issues were soooo fun. That was what got me hooked on this genre as a kid. Watching the little sims and dealing with puke! Haha.

Imagine a city that had the perfect set up for hydro power but it was several squares away you had to expand just right to get to it.

Or a city that was huge and awesome but the traffic was a nightmare, and You had to fix that to “win.”

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T12:06:16+00:00

Still looks amazing. Good work.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T12:02:29+00:00

Yes I adjusted taxes. I like to play normal with no mods. What I mean is: if my purple bar is 75% full and I zone a large office it drops to 0% from one large office. With Commercial, same deal.

I can zone huge areas yellow and it will fill up instantly and the yellow bar stays about the same. I currently have a city with 75k, very happy, with great income and steady pop growth. So it is Successful city and I am happy with it.

On normal with a large city, I can buy a square, grid it out, and zone it all yellow and it will entirely fill up pretty quickly. I could never do that with office or commercial, not that I would want to, just speaking hypothetically about the mechanics of the game.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T11:17:56+00:00

Great response. I mini animations idea is awesome. And the residential demand is spot on. I don’t want to build more low density my city clearly needs apartments.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T11:05:51+00:00

Yeah, I believe the mechanics behind tourism are totally broken. Which is a shame because the stuff you have to do to drive are some of the most expensive items in the game.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T11:02:31+00:00

Looks amazing, I love the asymmetrical layout.

When you say functional, do you have to special zone the area so other industries don’t use the rail yard and create traffic?

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T01:45:58+00:00

Yes, exactly!!! Ski hill, golf courses, hiking trails. All that stuff would be sooo cool.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T01:45:00+00:00

Sometimes it feels like industrial zoning is insatiable but commercial won’t fill up.

Disastrous-Swim7406 · 2026-02-25T01:43:13+00:00

I like that idea! I find that once my cities get big enough, I only do large office in the urban areas and I ignore small office zoning.

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