Guiding or seeding town growth in OpenTDD

Question

Is there a way I can assist the AI in being better about its town/city expansion? Currently the cities look a bit disjointed in terms of road connectivity.

Answer

Here's how I do it, basically just make sure you build and own all roads in the city.

• Catch the town while it is still tiny.
• Delete all roads and replace them with your own organized grid of roads. Build the grid so that it extends beyond the current size of the city.
• When the city expands it will follow your grid of roads. Occasionally they will also try to construct their own roads, just delete them.

The point of constructing the road grid yourself is that the AI have a tendency to waste a lot of space, putting roads where it instead could put buildings that generate traffic/profit.

Also buy any land where you plan to build roads when the city expands even further. To limit the expantion of the town you can surround it with bought land that you sell off when you are ready to expand.

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