It’s a city builder

[Lord Lakely]

No YOU don't understand! *marching my armies into your beautiful build cities* Its about winning the game, no?!

Joke's on you, I'm playing Charlemagne on my 7th celebration. Say hello to my horses trampling down on your uncultured empire.

 

[Sagax]

To be fair, as city sprawl gets increasingly more visible on the map with each game iteration, I wouldn’t mind us actually getting some features from traditional city builders. I suspect one of the reasons many folks find the sprawls ugly is because zero urban planning went into them - we just randomly plop districts and improvements based on yield efficiency, and that ultimately results in chaos. Some small-scale features to tweak the way a city looks could go a long way.

 

[Lord Lakely]

Districts should be more compact yeah, and they should be able to house more buildings than just two. That would reduce the sprawl a bit, while keeping districts as a whole.

 

[Gen.Washington]

To be fair, as city sprawl gets increasingly more visible on the map with each game iteration, I wouldn’t mind us actually getting some features from traditional city builders. I suspect one of the reasons many folks find the sprawls ugly is because zero urban planning went into them - we just randomly plop districts and improvements based on yield efficiency, and that ultimately results in chaos. Some small-scale features to tweak the way a city looks could go a long way.

I think 7 is a noticeable decrease in city sprawl from 6. At the very least cities can’t expand to tiles that are nowhere near a city center and the addition of rural towns means you can have lots of farmland between cities.

 

[Smellincoffee]

To be fair, as city sprawl gets increasingly more visible on the map with each game iteration, I wouldn’t mind us actually getting some features from traditional city builders. I suspect one of the reasons many folks find the sprawls ugly is because zero urban planning went into them - we just randomly plop districts and improvements based on yield efficiency, and that ultimately results in chaos. Some small-scale features to tweak the way a city looks could go a long way.

Definitely. I remember thinking the map looked cluttered when Civ 4 introduced cottages and the like.

 

[TheGrayFox]

OP's recent three threads:



The absolute spiraling.

This made me laugh way harder than it should've