City grow guide

In some games it is needed to let a city grow to suite your needs. This is mostly done to drop goods or food, but in some games it is needed to let cities grow to transport passengers. There are a few things to think about when making a city grow. The following will make sure that your city will grow happily.

1) Check your Patch settings. Set the road layout option to "better roads" this will let the city develope a 5x3 grid, where the empty spaces will be filled up with buildings. Patch settings

2) Build 2 to 4 station and place these stations "inside" the gray paved road area of the city-center. This can be road vehicle or train station, whatever you prefer. Stations placed inside paved area

3) Service these stations frequently and growth is encouraged. Frequently servicing doesn't necessarily mean long trains, just that on a regular basis a pickup occurs.

Other things to keep in mind:
- Building the road grid yourself speeds up growth a bit.
- Helicopters give an extra impuls to city growth and can be very useful doing so.
- You might want to extend the station spread (later in the game). When extending a station, make sure that the tile with the station name remains in the city center.