Successful City

What Makes A Successful City -------------------Reddit Post 16 Jan 2015 Author: Not Known

Now, we have to realize that civcraft and the real world are two different things, even if we try to balance them. In the real world, the success of state or city is often related to its past history, resources, and geopolitical or physical position.

In civcraft, we have a few differences. First, physical position is important, but travel by boat isn't the most viable source of transportation as it once was. Port cities don't necessarily succeed in civcraft. Freshwater isn't necessary.

That being said, places with strong trade are those which are close together, because players want to move shorter distances to move. This means that most cities will be built where others are, and in a central position so that they are easily accessible.

We see this in the map. Most successful towns are located in the center. How do we gauge a town's success? You could say that a high population indicates a high standard of living due to people's willingness to live there, as opposed to the real world -

where people have less ability to migrate. Wealth, of course, indicates resources, and creates trade. Trade is a good indicator of success because it accounts for the town's high demand and output of resources aswell as a substantial population, which is-

necessary for trade. So population, wealth, and physical or geopolitical positions all matter when creating a town. That being said, what is the best list of characteristics for a town to succeed? The location.

We need: -proximity to transportation and other cities -diverse biomes to offer many potential resources (plains/forest, jungle, desert)

So, place a town in this spot and we have our next empire, right? No. That's not right. Civcraft is more than just that. With a radius of 15 km and therefore area of about 707 km2, it's is fucking massive, but that doesn't mean everything is in a macro -

scale. The world map is about the same size as Singapore, and the population is much less. Everything happening is at a micro-scale. It's less easy to predict things when personal relations impact the world more than most things.

That is what creates a successful city. A group of people all pledged to each other.

Fuck, well I've just been procrastinating on an AP Human essay. Am I good at bullshitting?