I wanted to improve the experience of playing Surburbia, so I
designed some organisational aids.
The first was a tile stack holder, to make it easier to draw
tiles without knocking over the stacks:
![](tn_tilestack60.png)
One might trim back the base a little to save material, but I rather
like having it as a full hexagon. This is tall enough to take all the
tiles for a full Suburbia Inc. game, or 5★ up to four players, while
still fitting comfortably in the box; if you have a 5-player game of
5★, the 66mm version will take everything.
![](tn_tilestack66.png)
The "standard" tiles (Suburb, Heavy Factory, Community Park) are only
used in stacks of four, and it doesn't matter if lower tiles are
exposed, so I haven't made a shorter version for them.
![](tn_2840.jpg)
The other accessory, in a more unusual visual style, is a coin holder,
to try to manage the huge pile of cardboard money. Originally I was
planning to use three stacks:
![](tn_moneyholder3_autogen.png)
but there are many more of the smaller-denomination coins than there
are of the large ones. I tried an arrangement like a five-spot domino,
but I didn't like the way it looked, so I ended up with a more
conventional linear coin-holder design, as seen here:
![](tn_moneyholder5b.png)
I'm quite fond of those curved insets at the top. They're not quite a
usual shape, and they help one drop the coin into the column.
![](tn_2804.jpg)
I printed this version and used it for a couple of plays, but it's not
quite tall enough to take all the 1-value coins. It's already fairly
tall and narrow, though, and I think it might fall over too easily if
it got much taller. On the other hand it does fit into a zip-lock
bag with the coins in it, and doesn't take up much room in the box.
So I bent it into something a bit more stable:
![](tn_moneyholder5f.png)
That'll hold all the coins, which is great, but now it's too tall to
fit comfortably in the box!
So I had to give up the symmetry, and this is the final version:
![](tn_moneyholder6a.png)
![](tn_2841.jpg)
These use a bit more material than the smaller accessories I've been
making; if you want a hardcopy of this, I'll have to charge you £4.12
for the coin holder, and £5.80/£6.17 for the 60mm/66mm tile stack
holder (plus postage).
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