Suggestion : make CBD in a new city easier to find.

[eleaza]

I think I'll try an even higher difficulty level than 510% and see if I survive, and this time the game generated a very interesting map for me, a map divided by a river in the middle. Before I started to plan the future city layout, I had to know where's the CBD is, and it took me a while to guess where it might be. I have to hover the ghost image of a building (like a store or commercial building) all over the map, and check which region has the highest land value and traffic index. I suggest a simple land value map showing where the CBD area (comparably high price value area) is before the first building is placed, will be much helpful and save a lot of time.

BTW, by hovering a building all over the place, I find that it leaves a mark on the land value minimap on the top right. I don't think it's a bug, but quite interesting feature, like drawing a logo as a watermark for myself

[eleaza]

And here is a screen shot of the ghost writing

[David]

The ghost writing is in fact a bug and will be fixed in the next patch v4.2.05.

The new patch will also make it possible to view the location of the CBD. For details, please see this web page: http://www.capitalismlab.com/new-minimap-modes.html
(scroll down on the page to see the section titled "Central Business District (CBD)")

[eleaza]

A couple things to note:

When you are building a city from the group up and there aren't any commercial buildings in the city yet, the CBD is not yet available at this point and thus you won't see a red dot on the mini-map.

The location of the CBD is not permanent. A new district may emerge as the new CBD if it has a larger number of commercial buildings and the district is prosperous as reflected by its land value.

So CBD doesn't exist when the city is still empty, or will there be a default spot? And it will be near the first commercial building? And it will move to high land value area?

[Spac3y]

Looks like the more commercial buildings together will denote where the CBD is ? (Which logically would make sense given we can place the stockmarket/bank).

[eleaza]

Looks like the more commercial buildings together will denote where the CBD is ? (Which logically would make sense given we can place the stockmarket/bank).

I was wondering though, what would happen if the commercial buildings are spread out, and we build many "town center" in dispersed locations far apart? The CBD will jump around the map depending on the highest land value point? What if two separate locations have the same value?