Hello to everyone, but especially to the experienced citybuilders.
I would like to get a overwiev about everything which is important got grow your city as fast as possible.
I'm playing mostly on server 12 and 12A so I concentrate on 8k temperate cities but I think the most mechanics are the same on all CB servers.
Here what I know:
-start with a well placed town with as many houses as you can find.
-provide to your city passengers and mail as soon as possible.
-get maximum rating for your city as soon as possible. (by having at least ?5 active stations, no inactive stations, planting trees)
-know what comes next -> goods at 1500 people and provide it already before you reach it in order to not miss a month or more.
-check the real inhibitants on BTpro-client and stop providing things once you reach 8000.
Now the point is that I had some games where I followed the above rules perfectly but someone else who started later reached the goal faster than me. And not only a few seconds, a lot, and actually with much less buildings but I may be wrong on the last point.
This brings me to the conclusion that I still miss some very important things but I have no idea what it is.
One thing is maybe the used street grid. I did read some things about it didn't fnd out what really matters. One pretty obvious thing is to use 2 tiles distances. And I did read something about dead ends but don't know if it matters or not.
An other thing may be to destroy non-people buldings like fountains but I never did that. As far as i know town rating depends apart fromother things on the number of buildings you have. So destroying fountains would create space for other buildings but decrease the number of houses. And it doesen't looks like you haven't enough space for buildingd on 8k servers.
So, what else, what do I miss? Please help me.
PS: Obviously you could say, check what the faster guys are doing but 1st I tried and 2nd when I see that there is a fast guy the game is already over