So about a week ago I posted on here after I joined, saying I was making my first town. I decided to give a little update.

First of all, I came up with a name idea. I was thinking of calling the town Furstrade. It’s a play on words, since it’s my first town, and it was built there as sort of a trade center (see my first post). You could also think of it being a town where furs were traded a lot.

My thinking for the layout of the town is to have a commercial area over in between the river and highway. (see map) I’ve already got that mapped out, aside from the actual buildings. Historically, this used to be an area where people would do a lot of trading between the other towns that were along the same river, and over time, it was slowly replaced with modern commercial buildings.

To the right of the motorway, is the residential area. I’m currently in the process of mapping this. Historically (I really like the idea of this having a somewhat detailed history, if you can’t tell :P) people who were dealing with a lot of the trade here decided to build houses over here, so they wouldn’t have to travel so far every day. These houses were kind of built somewhat randomly, though. When this was being modernized, the local government was on a bit of a tight budget, and so they decided to keep it relatively random. So the streets will be a bit nonuniform.

Finally, below the residential area on the other side of the river, will be the government area. This will be relatively small, and have things like the town hall and such, and maybe a small park.

Let me know what you think of this so far. If you have any tips or suggestions on things I should maybe do a bit differently (since I’m new here) feel free to tell me.

Wow, I spent way longer writing this than I should have…