How to...Build a city

[hyolee123]

Okay so you want to make a urban city, town place but you're at a loss for what it would be like?

Need ideas, what to include and what not?

Here we'll compile a master list of ideas that might just cater for your city creating needs.

Will your city be on the coast, at the edge of a desert, near a mountain? Your city has to have those kinds of attributes too. Can't just be a urban area with nothing around it it needs a common scenery.

What's the main business that isn't your average office stuff. What works with the kinds of villains you have there. Are there gonna be hidden laboratories just outside the city limits in a forest or mountain. Is the main trade at the docks smuggled drugs or illegal weapons? Think villainy here what dirty things are gonna be happening in the under growth.

Is the city gonna be shiny and new or run down with old styled sky scrapers and such? Is there gonna be a million billboards, bustling with people or are the streets gonna be empty with bums and blanket men living in the alleys? Of course you can mix these all together as such.

What is going to be some of the favourite activities? Clubbing, Restaurants, Art galleries, Theme parks. The list is endless, what will your city be known for that isn't crime?

More suggestions are welcome. Think about your Local police department are they accepting of your heroes or do they not like the vigilantes? Also the town mayor are they gonna depend on the hero or despise him?

Again this is just a few suggestions. Feel free to say stuff expand your cities. Make them take over the world!!!! BWAHAHAHA...uh HAH

[Lowkey (Ithy)]

Concept dump?

AU- Tokyo Sprawling megalopolis; it's never dark here, even the narrowest streets lit up with neon or strings of lanterns. The lights never go out. Crowded, socio-economic scale goes from morbid poverty to extreme excess, crime rate rising, economic hub, culture and counter-culture in equal parts, still relatively mistrusting of supers but starting to employ them in specialized police units, drawing Good-minded supers away from hero-vigilante behavior. Skyrails and powerful public transport systems reduce clogging of city streets although they are usually full of cars anyway, headlights adding to the bright lights.

Starsite Epsilon One of many shallow meteor craters said to be sites of 'starfalls' where magically-charged particles from space impacted with the earth. Mighty corporate, Algol Development & Research Group, owns the land almost all of these starsites are on... sprawling, rapidly-growing cities spring up around them, starting with research facilities and security buildings, then housing for those involved and their family, then suddenly most explode into full-blown corporate, privately-owned cities-centers... hyper-policed.... high incident of 'stellar mutants' possibly side-effect of the fallen 'stars'... high-tech, modern centers, utilitarian... low nationalism and high corporate-loyalty.

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