How would you boost player retention?

[the-moebius]

all i want is a cure for this syndrome

Old City Syndrome(lets make it more interactive)

its something ive been noticing for a while now and it needs a cure atm you build a city people come cool stuff gets build but then after a halfyear some go on breaks and the active players at the moment get pushed further and further away from the center this can be solved by running a nice metro style hub to get people around but what cant be solved is the city center activity beyond the hub the towncenter foottrafic drops and keeps dropping i think to solve this is to let us have tools …