Maybe not the best category to make this thread in.

They will still expand a bit but not nearly as much. Every time you level your city you will be able to place a district that provides a bonus, instead of placing every building.

From Beta 1 to beta 3 they did a great job. I have big confidence in Derek and the whole team. Lets wait for beta 4 before we make judgments.

I know i´m boring.

1-tile city is a bit of a misnomer. Think of it as reduced tiles cities. 

I think it will be a better system because choosing districts will make cities look unique instead of now where you just build everything and there are so many buildings all cities look and act the same.

I would love to see the city graphics expand into the surrounding tiles, but functionally be exist on one tile. Perhaps two if it is simply massive.

Yea pretty much, though it gave a big thumps down to FE in my notebook...

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~ Kongdej

Derek will have more on this soon.

But after much back and forth, it was decided that we're not going to have 1 tile cities. Instead, they'll be just a few tiles (much much smaller than what we have currently).  The objective being to let players see at a glance what the city does.

Improvement categories will upgrade into better versions. 

For example, right now, you would have a study and a school and a library and a college and a university and on and on.

Not only does this use a lot of physical space in the world, it also makes it hard to tell what that city is specializing in (not to mention that the old city system doesn't lend itself to specialization so you just end up having a bunch of generic cities).

A typical late game city might be using 24 tiles. Now, it'll be more like 4 to 5.

Having the smaller cities has also let us decrease the # of tiles between cities from 8 to 6.

Big thumbs up to the improve a building option - that will have a dramatic impact on the game and will allow more meaningful choices as to how to specialize a city - for example: do i want to upgrade my lumbermill to improve material production or gold production or weapon production building time

Oh good news. This actually makes me look forward to beta 4 again and not be afraid that you're not treating the player feedback with the WoM route.

Oh wow, that's the best news I've heard on that topic in a long while... I'm glad we still get some ability for placement. Even if reduced, it'll still be enough to choke things that need choking. Though I'm not sure all those people who were crying about the world city scape would be too happy with that 6 tile limit, heh.

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All sounds good to me, very exciting.

I'm very happy to hear this!  I had also resigned myself to 1-tile cities, and am happy to hear that cities will grow and have their own personality in Beta 4.