building

just a thought whats the point of haveing a city with out any shops or a shopping mall or a nice church

 

you havent been playing to long have you?
you can find the shops here: https://board-en.risingcities.com/threads/commercial-buildings.826/

 

you have not got to level 6 have you?

but we don't have a shopping mall or a church.

 

since shops dont bring that great of a revenue, i have reserves towards shoppin mall being any better.
and about church im even more reserved, since they never share any profit with authorities!

 

Profits are not everything and a Church, Temple, Mosque could yield mega mood points (we could hope). They would in most cities int the real world. I would like to add a nice vignette of a religious plot, maybe a court yard with a Church, Temple, Mosque etc.

But I do understand the reluctance of the developers to enter this mine field of issues. Which style, religion, sect to choose not to offend any one. I can see why they would prefer not to get into this area.

Regarding the Mall idea. I would like to have one, it would reflect reality. It should be linked to a minimum level 35 or 40, or population of six or seven thousand. By then the city could support the expense. Make it large maybe 6 x 6 or 7 x 7 give it an effective range of maybe 20 x 20 to start and make it upgradeable. Allow the player to choose any three or four available building permit commercial buildings to include in the mall. Each upgrade add two more commercial buildings, increase the effective range by 2 or 3. That way the mall could replace several commercial buildings in our cities. The price should be substantial because the effective area is so large and the comparison to a completely built out commercial buildings.

For example:

Level	Cost in CC's	Commercial Building permits	Effective Range	Mood	Energy
1	2,000,000	4	20 x 20	+1000	-1500
2	500,000	2	22 x 22	+500	-700
3	600,000	2	25 x 25	+450	-750
4	800,000	2	30 x 30	+400	-850