After playing for a little while I started thinking about how buildings are placed around the town center and how much it doesn't do to help the game.

Sprawling cities are useless lag fests in the late game when you own about 10 or twelve large cities plus what the computer owns. Why not make cities a single square with a radius, and take a hint from heroes of might and magic? There's really no need to display all those buildings - or since they're useless any way, why not have the option to hide them?

What does every one else think? It's not like you can click on a building and have it actually do anything...it's just there.

One square cities, click on a city and it will display all the buildings in the city inside of a different screen.  Nice and organized, like in civ, or heroes of might and magic.