[CS2] Proper size growable farms - death to the 4x4 max footprint

[metatoaster]

a.k.a. "please liberate us from the dreaded 4x4 building maximum size for growables"

SimCity 4 has had large growable farms and much larger buildings from the start, and the Cities: Skylines community has been yearning for those forever. It's about time to review the design and lift the limitations.

I saw this item in a lot of wishlists but it deserves its own thread.

 

[jccali1214]

Yeah, for real! I recently started playing SC4 again and almost felt spoiled that farms, industries, and commercial buildings grow on larger than 4 tiles deep & wide. What technical limitations was CO so afraid of last decade?? lol

 

[metatoaster]

Yeah, for real! I recently started playing SC4 again and almost felt spoiled that farms, industries, and commercial buildings grow on larger than 4 tiles deep & wide. What technical limitations was CO so afraid of last decade?? lol

More than a technical limitation, I think it's tied to the way Cities Skylines grows zones off roads. It's a pretty clever way to support roads of any shape and zoning grids that can be placed at any angle.
But yeah, it's high time they find some way of allowing larger buildings and realistically-sized farms within their system. They need some way to designate which space the farm can grow into.

Maybe they'll have us paint zones again for that, Parklife and Industries-style (oh gods please no).